Pile It On - Butterflies, Bugs and Bees

It's another challenge at Pile It On and this week we have the fabulous sponsor by Digital Delights.
We have a great Summer theme and it's really something that buzzes and flies! LOL
We want to see your Butterflies, Bugs and Bees on your projects.

Challenges:

Stamp and Create - Stitching
Anything Goes - Punches
Digi Doodle Shop - Punches or Die Cuts
Crazy Challenge - Birthdays
Ooh La La - Birthday
Partytime Tuesday - Anything Goes Birthdays
Stampin Bees - Birthday Card
Paper Romance - Birthday
Totally Stampalicious - Birthday
PearTree Designs - Birthdays
Caardvarks - Birthdays
Cowgirl Sunday - Bugs or Animals
Paper Pretties - Glitter
Meljens - Sketch
Challenge Up Your Life - Celebrations
One Stop Crafts - Patterns
Creative Inspirations - Animals
Alphabet Challenge - N for Nature




Card Recipe:
Image - Digital Delights
Paper - Target $1 spot (last year or the year before!)and DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed
Punches - Martha Stewart





Hopefully you can see how I colored another basket and popped it on top for dimension.

Lily Boo and a Pirate Too!!

Happy Saturday!
I wanted to showcase another of the cute Lily Boo images as it's now super easy to get Lily Boo images as they have a new home at Cuddly Buddly!
This one will be perfect for an upcoming Boy's Birthday.


Challenges:

Creative Inspirations - Sketch
Cuttlebug Challenge - Easel Card
Creative Card Crew - Easel Card
Paper Playtime - Ahoy Matey
The Crafty Pad - Embossing
Creative Craft Challenges - Stamp It Up
Sisterhood of Crafters - Movie Inspiration (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Wildflower Patch - Black, Violet and Lime
CRAFT - Purple, Green and Gems
Crazy 4 Challenges - 2 more Ribbons
Simon Says Stamp - Check It Out
Digi Doodle Shop - Circles and Dots
Paperplay - Card for A Child
Stamp With Fun - Birthday
Everybody Art - Birthday
Party Time Tuesday - Birthday (anything goes)
Thrilling Thursday - Celebration!
Crafty Sentiments - Birthday



Card Recipe:
Image - Little Shipmate by Lily Boo
Paper - Daisy D's
Medium - Copic Markers
Brads - Spare Parts
Embossing Folder - Tim Holtz for Sizzix
Sentiment - Printed





I hope you think this little guy is as cute as I do and I wish you all a wonderful 4th of July weekend!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #21 - A Little Metal Please :)

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and this week Pam has another super sketch for us!



Along with the sketch we'd love to see a little "Metalwork". This could be metallic paper, brads, eyelets, charms, clips, anything metal at all!
Remember you can chose to do the sketch, the theme or both!


As always I found a few challenges to go with this one:

Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
Secret Crafter - Buttons and Blooms
Quirky Crafts - Girly Girl
One Stitch At a Time - Something New
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
Charisma Cards - Circles
Pixie Dust - Circles
Fun Two Stamp - Metal Accessories
Magical Crafts - Metal
Just Us Girls - Dry Embossing
One Stop Crafts - Swirls and Pearls
Oh Alice - Swirls
Totally Gorjuss - Wings
Gingersnaps - Wings
Ooh La La - Colors of Their Blog (Lilac, Green, Pink and Cream)
Scrap It With A Song - I Hope You Dance
Totally Stampalicious - TV Inspiration - Dancing With The Stars



Card Recipe:
Image - Baby Maisy by Di Carubia
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Martha Stewart Playful Pink
Butterflies - K&Co Grand Adhesions
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Embossing Folders - Sizzix
Flowers - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - K&Co
Swirls - Quickutz







These are the Copic's I used on the image.

So now it's your turn with either the sketch or the technique, just remember to come back to The Pixie Cottage and enter your creation in our challenge!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #19 - 3D/Decoupage/Paper Tole

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday over at The Pixie Cottage and we have another wonderful sketch for you.



We also have the added technique challenge of Paper Tole.

I have a few other challenges to go with that:


Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
Praire Fairy - Flowers
Our Daily Bread - Flowers
Meljens - Flowers and Blooms
Pollycraft - Summer Blooms
Crafty Catz - Petals and Pearls
Paper Take Weekly - Say It With Flowers
Cute Card Thursday - Someone Special
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper
Digi Doodle Best - Ribbon
Twisted Thursday - Ribbon
Pixie Dust - Cut It Out
Your Next Stamp - Cut It Out and Pop It Up
Doodle Palace - Pop It Up
Just For Fun Color Challenge - Lime Green, Turquoise and Yellow
Colour Q - Bermuda Bay, Kiwi Kiss, Summer Sun, Soft Suede and White
KL Stampin Scrappin - Animals
Stamp With Fun - Stripes
Creative Inspirations - Punches or Die Cuts (I used both)
Crafty Cardmakers - Inside Out



Card Recipe:
Image - Puppy Love by Eileen Gutierrez
Paper - DCWV The Citrus Stack
Ribbon - Michaels
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Basic Grey
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and Colorbok
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cuts - Quickutz Nesting





I hope you can see the layers of the Paper Tole technique on this image.
I love how dimensional you can make you card using this and it is quite therapeutic to me to see and cut out tiny pieces! LOL
We'd love to see your take on the sketch or the technique or both over at The Pixie Cottage
Katie

Pile It On - Boyish Colors sponsored by In Style Stamps

It's Pile It On time again and this time we have a wonderful sponsor In Style Stamps!
We had great images to work with and our challenge is to Use Boyish Colors!
It seems that all card makers struggle with male themed cards so maybe this week is your chance to get another one made even if you have been putting it off! LOL

Obviously with Pile It On we want you to add as many other challenges to your card as you can and these are mine this time:


Stampin Royalty - Use Your Punches
Inky Impressions - 3 layers, 2 designer papers, 1 ribbon, and three embellishments
Creative Cottage - Circles
Cards For Men - Monochromatic
Your Next Stamp - Going Dotty
Crafty Catz - Spots
Crafts and Me - Sparkle (the dp is glittered)
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
AI Factory - Buttons
Sophisicats - Card for a Child
Oh Alice - Card for a Child



Card Recipe:
Image - Nathan by In Style Stamps
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - My Minds Eye
Sentiment - Carolees Creations
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Iron Gate
Chipboard buttons - Colorbok
Ribbon - Hobby Lobby





So it's time to grab your greens and blues and maybe some red and yellow too and go and make us a card fit for the Prince in your life :)
Katie