Pixie Cottage #44 - 2 Colors Only

It's time for another super sketch at The Pixie Cottage and this one gives lots of room for embellishing!

We also have the optional challenge of using just 2 colors on your project.


Challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges - Square Cards
Drunken Stampers - Punch Me
One Stop Crafts - Embossing
Paper Pretties - Embossing
Crafty Cardmakers - Embossing
For Fun - Dry Embossing
Fairytale Challenges - Anything Goes
Iris's - Anything Goes
Oh Alice - Ticket
Ellephantastic - Blue
Flourishes - Glitter
Passionately Artistic - Linky Party (link any and all your projects)
Fresh Brewed - 2 of More Patterned Papers
Top Tip Tuesday - Use an Image
Paper Issues - Peer Pressure - Scallops

Card Recipe:
Image - Over The Moon by Tina Akonom
Paper - K and Co Itsy Bitsy
Medium - Copic Markers
Ticket - Sticko
Bow - Martha Stewart
Flowers - Prima
Brads - Spare Parts
Glitter - Frosted Lace Stickles
Paint - Illuminate by Smooch
Border and Corner Punches - Martha Stewart 3 Dot
Embossing Folder - Sizzix

I airbrushed the blue background and added Smooch and Stickles to the moon and stars.
I hope you liked this and we'd love to see you playing with us over at The Pixie Cottage

Katie

Digital Delights - Have a Whale of a Birthday!

It's time for another showcase at Digital Delights and we sure have a wonderful collection of cards for you today!

Challenges:
I Did It! - Sketch
Stamp Something - Something Digital
One Stitch At A Time - Digital
Mami Doodles - Anything Goes
Craftalicious - Birthdays
Pollycraft - Birthdays
Digital Tuesday - Happy Birthday
Prairie Fairy - Card for a Man/Boy
Oh Alice - Under the Sea
Alys - Under The Sea
Daring Cardmakers - The Sea
Scrap Stamp and Doodle - Animals
KL Stampin Scrappin - Ribbon



Card Recipe:
Image - Whale by Digital Delights
Paper - K&Co Poppyseeds
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed
Ribbon - American Crafts





He sure is a cute whale and without the sketch I'd never have thought of printing him 3 times and I'm so glad I found it!
Be sure to check out all the other wonderful work of the team over at Digital Delights

Katie

Guest Designer card for Chi Chi - A New Sketch Challenge

I'm guesting over at Chi Chi Memories for the month of July and today it's a new sketch at the Chi Chi Challenge!
I got to play with another of the fabulously cute images and I hope you love the result as much as I do!




Challenges for this card:

I Love Digi - Emboss It
Allsorts - Embossing
The Crafty Pad - Embossing
Oh Alice - Twinkle, Twinkle
Sunday Stamper - Pearls A Singer (use Pearls)
Speedy the Cats Friends - Flowers
Corrosive - Flowers
Magical Crafts - Flower Power
Bee Crafty - Pink and Girly
Bunny Zoe Crafts - Nice and Girly (and their 1st challenge!)
Pollycraft - Pinkalicious
Totally Stampalicious - Baby
Creative Inspirations - Paper Piecing
Practical Scrapper - Border Punches
Lexi's - Layers



Card Recipe:
Image - Baby Flower
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Basic Grey Lemonade
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Pearls - Queen and Co
Flowers - Martha Stewart
Glitter - Stickles
Sentiment - Carole's Creations





It's a great sketch and we'd love to see you playing along with us at the Chi Chi Challenge!

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

Have you "Mushroom" for any more cards?

Happy Friday!
Earlier in the week I showed you a Ladybug card made from an image I won in a challenge, well today is another one of those fabulous images! I love all the weird and wonderful creations at Busy Beauties and this set of Mushrooms/Toadstools is super sweet!

I used a few challenges to help me finish this card:

Oh Alice - Mushroom Inspiration
Basic Grey - Punch It (and BG)
Lexi's - Sketch
Craft Your Passion - 5 Buttons
Going Grey - Children (and BG)
Doodle Palace - Pop It Up
Charisma - 3D
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper



Card Recipe:
Image - A Happy Day by Busy Beauties
Paper - Basic Grey Infuse
Medium - Copic Markers
Buttons - Unknown
Border and Corner Punch - Martha Stewart
Sentiment - Marcella by K&Co





I did two copies of the image, cut one out and popped it on top.
The buttons are from a grab bag I got years ago and there are some great rustic ones in there so I used jute to help with the rustic, outdoors feel.
I really had fun with this card and hope you like it too.
Katie

Treehouse - Faux Birthday

It's time for another challenge at The Treehouse and this week it's brought to you by Gloria and she wants to something Faux/Fake on a birthday card.
I decided to do faux stitching for my technique.

There are a few other challenges along with that:

Crafty Catz - Stitching
Fussy and Fancy - Birthday with a Sweet Treat
Oh Alice - Queen of Tarts (include food)
365 Cards Day 54 - Joy Fold (my 1st time doing this fold)
No Time To Stamp - Joy Fold
PaperTake - Something Different (never done a Joy fold before)
Cupcake Inspiration - Chocolate Birthday cupcake inspiration



Card Recipe:
Image - Chocoholic
Paper - The Paper Studio
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Studio G





I think I'd like a slice now please :)
We'd love to see your faux techniques over at The Treehouse.
Katie

Mad? Who are You Calling Mad? or Alice in Digi Land!

Happy Friday,
Today is the day you've been waiting for if you are either a Johnny Depp, Tim Burton or simply an Alice in Wonderland fan! The movie opens today and to celebrateDigital Delights have a special release of Alice inspired images! You can find them all on the front page.

Also for our friends over at our groups at Papercraft Planet and SNR Card Universe we have a Freebie for you and it's the cutest grinning cat you'll ever see!



Now you know I was itching to play with the brand new images and so I have a couple of cards to show you how wonderful these images are (and a few challenges too!)


Creative Card Crew wanted a Celebration
Gingersnaps also want you to Celebrate
Sew Many Cards wanted Something For The Boys
Die Cuts R Us had a great sketch
Digital Tuesday wanted Scallops
Flourishes also wanted Scallops
No Time To Stamp wanted Punched Borders



Card Recipe:

Image - Mad Hatter Peyton
Paper - Cafe Mediterranean by DCWV (got it at Joanns but it's not online yet)
Deep border punch - Martha Stewart Garden Trellis
Medium - Copic Markers
Buttons - Jesse James





Oh Alice had a great sketch
Simple Doodles also want Paper Piecing (and a digi)
ABC were at P is for Paper Piecing
Frosted Designs wanted your Favorite Technique and mine is Paper Piecing
Tuesday Taggers wanted Swirls and Curls
Challenge Up Your Life wants Stripes and at least 3 buttons
Dare U2 Digi wanted Pearls (and a digi)



Card Recipe:

Image - Wonderland Briley
Paper - Cafe Mediterranean by DCWV
Border Punch - Martha Stewart Half Daisy
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Buttons - Jesse James
Die Cut - Cuttlebug
Pearls - Queen & Co







So whether you go down the Rabbit Hole, attend the Tea Party or meet the Queen of Hearts you are sure to want these fabulous new images!
Katie

Treehouse Stamps New Challenge- It's Time to Bling It On

Happy Thursday Everyone!
Time for another new challenge at Treehouse Stamps and this week we want you to "Bling It On" with glitter, jewels, pearls or anything else sparkly and shiny!
Also our featured Design Team member is Gloria and you really should spend a few moments on her blog checking out her great creations!

As always I have a few other challenges as well as the Treehouse challenge involved in this card :

Crazy 4 Challenges had a great Sketch
Oh Alice had their 1st challenge and wanted you to get glam using their photo as inspiration
Scrap Stamp and Doodle want Charms
Fussy and Fancy want you to Dazzle Us
Character Cafe had a recipe of 1 Digi Image, 3 papers and 5 embellishments
Crafty Cardmakers had color combos from the Color Wheel and I chose the Split Complimentary of Blue/Green with the Red/Brown tones (you'll have to look at the wheel but it does work :))
Totally Stampalicious want Glitter/Bling
A Spoonfull of Sugar want Ink, Pearls and Glitter
Paper Minutes want Polka Dots/Spots
Crafty Creations want you to Cut It Out and Pop It Up
CRAFT wanted Ribbon and Sparkle
Cute Card Thursday want you to be Ribbon-tastic!



Card Recipe:

Image - Hello Friend
Paper - The Green Stack by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Pearls - Queen & Co






I'd love to see what sparkly, spangly stuff you can add to your cards, come on over to Treehouse Stamps and you could be our winner!
Katie