Magnolia Monday #14 - Get Peachy with Tilda!

It's another Magnolia Monday and today I've gone with a Georgia Peach theme! LOL
It's another birthday here with my oldest son Nathan turning 14, love you sweetie!
Just one more birthday to go this month and that is hubby's!
I'd really love for you to link below with your Magnolia card so I can come over and look!

Challenges:
AI Factory - Anything Goes
One Stitch at A Time - Anything Goes
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Flowers
Papertake Weekly - Grow Your Own (handmade flowers)
Crafty Ann's - Scallops and/or Fancy Borders
Fussy and Fancy - Use A Lot (3 or more of the same embellishment)
Jellypark - Favorite Embellishment
Our Creative Corner - Fun With Fruit
Just Magnolia - Holiday Fun (I have many wonderful childhood memories about fruit picking fun in the Summer)
Magnolia Down Under - Inspired by a Song (I chose "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry, it's still on my playlist today!)
The Crafty Pad - Cute and Girly
Going Grey - Bingo! (I chose Ribbon, Pearls and Punch)
Catered Crop - Recipe (I chose things that grow in a garden, gingham, markers, ribbon/twine, border punch)
Crafty Emma's - Mix and Match (use 2 companies for paper)
Digi Design House - 3 Brads (the pearls are brads), 2 Papers and 1 Ribbon

Card Recipe:
Image - Peaches Tilda
Paper - K and Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Pearls - The Eyelet Outlet
Images and Digital Paper - Bits of Ivory Kitchen Add Ons
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Flower Die - Dayco
Sentiment - Michaels $1 spot
Twine - The Twinery

I made the border of jam jars by layering them over a piece of digital paper from the same accessory set on the computer and printing them out as a single piece. I never thought I'd do anything digital in the crafty world but I'm gradually getting a little more brave :)
I've had this little Peach Tilda for a long while and she needed inking up for a card as she'd only be stamped once into my inventory book! LOL
Be sure to link your Magnolia creation below and I'll come over and have a look!
Katie

Guest at Top Tip Tuesday - All Wrapped Up With Ribbon

EDITED TO ADD - Winner at Creations by Gill M. Thanks so much!!!!

This week at Top Tip Tuesday they are sponsored by Digital Delights and they asked me to be a guest.
When I heard the challenge there was no way I could say no as it is one of my favorites, Ribbon!!!!
I decided to fly by the seat of my pants and make a card with no pattern or template, just make it as I went along, I hope you like it :)

Challenges:
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Stamping With the Dragon - Easel Card
There's Magic In The Air - Any Kind of Easel Card
Sugar Creek Hollow - Shaped Cards
Little Claire's - Shaped Cards
Prairie Fairy - More Than One Fold
AI Factory - Pretty in Pink
Stamp With Sarah Kay - Pink
Creations by Gill M - Pink and Green and Flowers
Crafty Catz - Pink and Green
Totally Papercrafts - Pink and Girlie
Our Creative Corner - Beautiful Baby
Card Cupids - Ribbon

Card Recipe:
Image - Flowerpot Baby from DVD II
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Annalee Paper Pad
Sentiment - Bo Bunny Hush Little Baby
Flower - Bronte Blooms Strawberry
Ribbon - Ribbon Trends
Baby Pin and Buttons - Unknown
Pearls - Recollections

I started with a basic easel style but with the cute flowerpot the baby is in I thought it would cute to make it into a flowerpot card! Once I had the image colored and cut out I planned the rest of the card around it. I used a wide organdy ribbon for the bow and the flower was a perfect match.
This is such a fun little card and I hope you like it.
Be sure to go and link your cards featuring ribbon over at Top Tip Tuesday and you could be the winner!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #64 - Paper Piecing

Chosen in Top 3 at Sentimental Sundays



It's Wednesday so it means another challenge at The Pixie Cottage!
As always there are 2 parts to the challenge and you can choose either or both to play along with.
We have a fabulous sketch and our theme this week is "Paper Piecing"

Challenges:
Digi's With Attitude! - Anything Goes
Crafty Your Passion - Anything Goes
I Did It - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Stamping Vacation Start Here - Nestabilities (used them to make my flower)
My Sheri Crafts - April Showers
Crafty Calendar - April Showers
Crafty Catz - April Showers
The Paper Variety - April Showers
Raise The Bar - April Showers
Sentimental Sunday - Let's Get Wet
Crafty Creations - Rain Showers
Creative Inspirations Paint - Inspired by Spring
Prairie Fairy - Oh So Spring
Tuesday Throwdown - Spring
Crafty Emma - Children
Karen's Doodles - Fancy and Feminine
By The Cute and Girly - Cute and Girly
Kaboodle Doodles -Let's Get Girly
Our Creative Corner - Girly (use ribbon, bling and handmade flower)
Scrappy Frogs - Flowers and Lace
Clear It Out - Handmade Flower
The Crafty Pad - Flowers
Crazy Challenge - Flowers
Magical Monday - Flowers
One Stop Crafts - Spots and Dots
Desert Island Crafts - Pick 3 or more (I chose child image, dots and ribbon)
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Layers
Anything Goes - Pearls
Going Grey - Pick 3 (I picked Ribbon, Flowers and Pearls)

Card Recipe:
Image - Hannah on Stepping Stones by ARTish
Paper - Julianne by Kay and Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Die Cut - Spellbinders (used to make the flower)
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Pearls - Recollections
Lace - Offray
Felt Ribbon - Stash

Remember you can use the sketch or the optional technique or both!

This particular stamp doesn't have the umbrella so I made one from a punch or two and I hope you like it.
The flower is made from 3 die cut flowers that were scored and then cut up one fold to the center and then accordion folded. You attached all three "fans" together to make the flower.
I hope you like this card and will join in with our Paper Piecing challenge.
Katie

Digital Delights - Little Dumpling Train

It's time for more new creations from the team at at Digital Delights!

Challenges:
Our Creative Corner - Cut It Out
Claudia and Co - About a Boy
Desert Island Crafts - Pick Three recipe (I picked buttons, border punch and no flowers)
Paper Pretties - Card for a Child
Lollipop Crafts - Favorite Coloring Medium
Stampin Royalty - Markers
Stamping Vacation No No - No Flowers
Stamping Vacation Pick 3 - Border Punch, Hearts and Blue Ribbon
The Crafty Pad - Hearts

Card Recipe:
Image - Little Dumpling Train
Paper - Oliver by Basic Grey
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Bo Bunny
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Brads - Spare Parts
Ribbon - Michaels

This is such a cute image for a little boy, perfect for birthday's and other celebrations!
Be sure to check out all the teams creations over at the Digital Delights Blog!

Designed 2 Delight - Giving Thanks

We are getting close to Thanksgiving so I'm sure Family and Friends are in the fore front of your thoughts.
So today's card for Designed 2 Delight is a perfect treat for someone special.

Challenges:
Scrap Stamp and Doodle - Fall
Our Creative Corner - Something to be Grateful For
Opus Gluei - Thanks
Twisted Thursday - Thanks with a Pumpkin
Lots To Do - Autumnal Colors
Crafty Emma - Forever Autumn
Digtial Tuesday - Bought But Never Used (had this sentiment on a set of Thanksgiving stickers from at least two years ago)
Passionately Artistic - Linky Party (link any and all your projects)
Fresh Brewed - 2 of More Patterned Papers
Dutch Dare - Clean and Simple
Meljen's - Food
Top Tip Tuesday - Use an Image

Card Recipe:
Image - Harvest Basket by Designed 2 Delight
Paper - DCWV Autumn Splendor
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - 7 Gypsies
Ribbon - Michaels $1 spot

This would be a great image for a Thanksgiving place card on that big dinner table too!
I hope you enjoy it and be sure to drop back again soon as I have something very special to show you very soon!

Guest Designer at Incy Wincy - Pink and Brown

It's time for another guest card for and this week we have a color combo challenge of Pink and Brown.
This combo is one of my favorites as it leads to a vintage, shabby chic feel to a card and it works so well for girl cards.
We are sponsored by the fabulous Di's Digi's and this image I got to work with was so cute!

Challenges:
Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
Copic Creations - Colorless blender tricks (I used burlap soaked in blender and dabbed on the bear for texture)
365 Cards Day 230 - Last but Not Least (a technique you've been putting off trying, see above!)
Our Creative Corner - More Is Better (3 of more types of embellishment) (brads, buttons, punches, sticker)
Speedy the Cat's Friends - Stitching
Totally Gorjuss - Pink
Wee Memories - Celebrate Good Times
Paper Sundaes - For Someone Little
Paper Romance - Buttons

Card Recipe:
Image - Ted's99 by Di's Digi's
Paper - My Minds Eye Loves Nest
Medium - Copic Markers
Brads - Making Memories
Buttons - Stash
Border and Corner punches - Martha Stewart
Sentiment Sticker - KI Memories

How cute is this little bear? It is images like this that remind me of "home" (4500 miles away in England) as a "99" with a Flake was my favorite treat from "Mr Whippy" :)
I hope you like her too.

Cooking It Up #29 - A little Autumn Tilda

It's time for a new recipe at Cooking It Up With Katie!

We are sponsored by Fairy Knoll this week.

The recipe is:

Embossing
Autumn
Fancy Fold


Challenges:

Prairie Fairy - Embossing
Daring Card Makers - Masking
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Real or Faux stitching
365 Cards Day 195 - This or That (a card that can be used for more than one specific occasion)
Our Creative Corner - Fun with Folds
Everybody Art - Other Cardform (presuming that means not a regular shaped/folded card)
Stempeltraume - Inside your Card
Pockerful of Posies - Floral Fantasy
Totally Gorjuss - Flowers
Totally Tilda - Handmade Flowers
Paper Make Up - Autumn
Theme Thursday - Autumn
Paperplay - Autumn Colors
Incy Wincy - Autumn Colors
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Colors of Autumn
Wee Memories - Fall into Autumn
Stempel Magie - Fall Colors
Allsorts - Colors of Autumn
Raise the Bar - Orange, Brown and Green
Delightful Challenges - Colors of Autumn and Ribbons




Card Recipe:
Image - Stylish Tilda and Front Door Steps Background
Paper - Amber Autumn by DCWV
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Flower Punch - EK Success
Flowers - Wild Orchid







I just love this Tilda and thought the background stamp went well.
I hope you like it and we'd love to see you get your "fancy fold on" over at Cooking It Up With Katie!

Cooking It Up #28 - You Can Be My Hero

We have another super challenge at my blog Cooking It Up With Katieand this week we are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps



The recipe is:
3 papers
Something Clear
Music/Song


Challenges:

Charisma - Inspired by a Song
The Stampman - Music
Our Creative Corner Sketch - Sketch
Stampin B's - Use a Charm
ABC Challenge - C is for Charms
Totally Papercrafts - Charming
Just Inspirational - Use a Digi
Meljens - Stripes
Ooh La La - Stripes
Digital Tuesday - Dots and Stripes
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Photo Insporation (I chose the spots, stripes and red)
Paper Playtime - Knights, Castles and Damsels in Distress
Alota Rubber Stamps - Fairytales
Going Grey - Children
Speedy The Cat's Friends - 5 of Something (used 5 dewdrops)
Cowgirl Sunday - Anything Goes
Gingerloft - Anything Goes




Card Recipe:
Image - Knight Connor
Paper - Basic Grey Oliver
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - Printed
Dewdrops - Robins Nest
Charm - Hobby Lobby





This is such a cute little guy, perfect for a birthday card or a Good Luck card.
I hope you like him and that you'll come along and play with me and the team at Cooking It Up With Katie this week!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #31 - Fancy Fold

It's time for another new sketch from Pam at The Pixie Cottage and a new technique challenge to go along with it!



This is a fairly simple sketch as we'd like you to also make the card with a "Fancy Fold"! This can be an easel card, a gatefold, a z- fold, anything other than the regular one fold card. Of course you can just do the sketch but it wouldn't be a challenge without a little thinking would it! LOL
You don't have to use a Pixie Cottage Stamp to enter but if you do have why not try out!
Remember you can use the sketch, the theme or both and can combine our challenge with any others you like!

Challenges:
Digi Doodle Shop - Use Your Favorite Stamp
Craft Your Days Away - Favorite Thing
Sentiment Sundays - Anything Goes
Drunken Stampers - Masking
Pixie Dust - Buttons
Crafty Catz - Buttons and Bows
Curtain Call - Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Early Expresso, Very Vanilla
Cupcake Inspirations - Brown and Orange/Peach cupcakes
Creative Stamp Friends - Friends
Our Creative Corner - Embossing
Penny's - Anything Goes
Rosie Dees = More Than One Fold
Anything Goes - Folds
Crazy Challenge - Forest Friends/Back to Nature



Card Recipe:
Image - Apple Hannah by Sandra Hammer and Orchid Park by ALota Rubber Stamps
Paper - K&Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Flowers - Prima
Border Punch - Martha Stewart and Fiskars



This is the card open.



There is a panel on the back for the message.



Here is a close up of the image. I masked the two images together and love how well they work together.
We'd love to see you over at The Pixie Cottage!

Cooking It Up #23 - Paper Piece A Fruity Circle!

It's time for another challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie and this week we are sponsored by the fabulous Robyn's Fetish!

The recipe for the challenge is:

Get Fruity
Circles
Paper Piecing

And I added a few more to my card too:

Dutch Dare - Anything Goes
Paper Play - Anything Goes
Our Creative Corner - Sketch
Lexi's - Paper Piecing
Bee Crafty - All About The Image (do something other than just color the image)
One Stop Crafts - Patterns
Die Cut Dreams - Gingham
Teddy Stampers - More than 1 shape (square, rectangle and circles (the brads))
Stepel Magie - Circles (the brads)
One Stitch At A Time - Pink
Creative Card Crew - Cute and Girly
Stempeltraeume - Photo Inspiration



Card Recipe:
Image - Cutie Patootie Bear
Paper - K&Co Berry Sweet
Medium - Copic Markers
Brads - Target $1 spot
Flowers - Prima
Sentiment - KI Memories





I paper pieced her dress, pockets and flowers.
I hope you like her and I'd love to see you have a go at the challenge too!
We are starting with weekly challenges so there are many more chances to win!

Ahoy Mateys! - Super Lily Boo News!

Happy Tuesday,
I hope Summer is treating you right, ours is super hot and the only comfortable place is in the pool! LOL
I've been a team member at Lily Boo for almost a year now and seen the site just grow and grow with lots of faithful fans.
Thanks to the growth we have a fabulous announcement to make, we are moving to be part of the Cuddly Buddy family!!!!
You will be able to buy Lily Boo images individually along side your other Cuddly Buddly favorites!
Things will be changing a little at the team so be sure to keep checking back for more exciting news.

Challenges for the card:

Simon Says Stamp - Pirates
Creative Inspirations - One For The Boys
One Stop Crafts - One For The Boys
Crafty Cardmarkers - Cards 4 Men
Magical Crafts - Something For A Male
Get Crafty with Ann - It's a Man's World
Raise The Bar - What A Special Guy!
Die Cut Dreams - Green and Blue for a Teenage Boy
Our Creative Corner Sketch - Sketch (turned on the side)
Going Grey - Anything Goes (with BG paper)



Card Recipe:
Image - Little Pirate
Paper - Basic Grey June Bug
Medium - Copic Markers
Sentiment - The Paper Studio
Border punch - Martha Stewart
Fabric Brads - K&Co
Ribbon - Unknown



Isn't he a cutie?
Be sure to check out all the images over at our new home over 140 there already!

Another new Chi Chi card! - Getting Ready for Summer!

It's time for another guest card for Chi Chi Memories and this time it's for their latest sketch challenge!



Challenges:
Aud Sentiments - Hello Friend
Wee Memories - Stitching
Crafty Creations - It's a Stitch Up
Our Creative Corner - Corners
Just Us Girls - Going Digital
Flourishes - Embossing
Spoonfull of Sugar - Enjoy the Sunshine
Tuesday Throwdown - Celebrate Summer
Sentimental Sundays - Summer
Quirky Crafts - Summer
Stampin For The Weekend - Summer
Shabby Tearoom Summer
Diva Stamper - Photo Inspiration (the strawberries and the shape of the plate)






Card Recipe:
Image - All of my Heart
Paper - Berry Sweet by K&Co
Medium - Copic Markers
Border Punch - Martha Stewart
Die Cut - Spellbinders Labels 9
Glitter - Diamond Stickles
Embossing folder - Sizzix
Butterflies and Flowers - Papermania (I think)
Sentiment - Printed





Here's a close up.
I love how just changing your marker color can change the whole feel of an image.
Hope you liked her!