Swimming for Katie Renz--Special Fundraiser for a Special Crafter

Just Inklined is holding a special Blog Hop to continue the Fund Raising effort for Katie Renz.  Katie is a special crafting friend of many crafters and although I do not know her personally I know her through Just Inklined and took part in the first Fund Raiser when her original diagnosis was made almost a year ago.  I have followed her blog story, oh to have her love and strength. and it breaks my heart to feel so helpless.     You can read Katie's story on her blog here.

On with the Blog Hop and how we can help!!

If you arrived here from Alice's blog you are in the right spot, if not go back to the beginning which is Mina's blog , you won't want miss a single stop along this special Hop.  We are all using the same special image created for the Fundraiser by Becky Oehlers, which was inspired by Katie's blog post,  Keep Swimming.

This would have been fun if I had the SVG file already but I didn't so had to cut it out by hand. but thought it turned out cute.  The images available are available in different formats and there are a couple of different ones as well.  Our own Jak Heath has a wonderful Fish and bubble dp pack available  here:  The link is to the:  I Heart papers website where the Swimming for Katie fundraiser items are being sold.  


The Blog Hop Order is :
Mina
Alice
 Cathy--  That's Me
Debbie
Heidy
Jane
Jeni
Joyce
Julie
Karen
Lori
Tammy
Toni

Thank you so much for stopping by and the next stop along the hop is Debbie and I know she has a cute image created with the Swimming for Katie image to show you.

Keep Swimming Katie, Kevin and your wonderful boys,

Cathy

A Thank you for Supporting the Katie Benefit

Jak Heath is sponsoring a Competition for everyone who has purchased the Katie Benefit images.  These images are only available through this benefit and you get to do two things, help Katie Renz and her family with medical expenses and you get a ton of awesome images to color!!! Everybody wins.

I have been showing you some of my cards created using some of the benefit images. but here they are again:

Rules....

1. The card must be made from the donated Help for Katie images.

2. No back links will be accepted this must be a post made after 24th January

3. you must provide a link to the Help For Katie fundraising

4. You may only enter 1 card or project per blog.

 

You have until Feb. 20, to enter.

 

Check out Jak's  Blog for complete details and to upload your card.  

Thanks to everyone who has supported this wonderful cause. And for everyone who hasn't purchased the package yet, there is still time.

Thanks for stopping by.,

Cathy

Another Super Cute Katie Benefit Image!!!

I thought I would bring you another wonderful image from the Katie Renz Benefit which is still going on.  This super cute image was donated by Just Inklined:

 

Isn't this just the perfect image for someone who is under the weather?    

The image was colored with copic markers and the sentiment tag was created with my Walk in My Garden cricut cartridge using the bread tag and sentiment.  The flower was cut using the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge.  This cartridge has tons of flowers and leaves.  I love that I can make them any size I want, where with a punch I am limited to the punch size.  That's my justification and I'm sticking to it!!!

I sewed the images  and striped dp to the cs. thought it fit the image, and I added 3 I-rock Glam Rocks to the lower left corner of the main image.

Well, winter has hit Omaha this week and we have had 4 inches of snow on Wednesday and tomorrow we are supposed to get another 4-6 inches....so tomorrow I need to go to the grocery store so I don't have to go out after it starts snowing.  

Hope you are all having a wonderful week-end.  Thanks for stopping by and if you haven't checkout out the Benefit for Katie, drop by Jak Heath's blog for complete details.

Cathy

Another wonderful Katie Benefit image--Sprout, Mo's Digital Pencil

How can you not just fall in love with this darling little "Sprout".  This is just another of the wonderful image available when you purchase the benefit bundle for Katie.  I am so proud that all 3 Design Teams I am on have owners who have donated images for this wonderful benefit for a fellow crafter. Here is what I have created with Sprout which was donated by Mo's Digital Pencil:

 

I am so pleased to be moving on from red and green for a little while LOL.  I thought I would use one of my favorite color combinations, pink and brown for this little gardner image. The image was colored with copic markers and after punching the scalloped trellis MS punch at the bottom it was mounted on brown cs.  The pink and floral dp are a new paper pack I got at Archivers last week called Green at Heart.

I used my cricut to cut the flowers and stem for the doile flower.   I created the doile flower by cutting the center circle from a paper doile and gently folding it into a circle.  I mounted it onto a flower punch base and when it was dry I added a shiny pink button center which was tied with pink yarn.

In case you are wondering whicih cricut cart the flowers and stems were from it is the Pagoda cartridge.

The sentiment was computer generated and punched with the SU scalloped circle punch, sponged with distress ink and my Sprout card is complete.

Thanks for stopping and be sure to stop by this week as I have wonderful challenges from Sassy Cheryl's on Tuesday and Thursday I have the Thursday Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge Blog  challenge.  On Thursday there will also be the first ever Design D.I.V.A.'s Blog Hop which will begin at 7:00 am Pacific Time so be sure to stop by and leave the participants some love.  There are designers from many of your favorite online companies and I know it is going to be so much fun to see what the 35+ participants have to show you.  

If you haven't already checked out the Benefit for Katie please to to Jak Heath's blog for all the details and how to get this wonderful bundle.  It's a win win deal!!!

Have a great day.  I am off to work.

Cathy

Another image from the Katie Benefit bundle!!

There are so many companies which were so gracious as to donate images for the Katie Benefit going on this month.  I have always loved swings of all kinds so when I saw this image from Make it Crafty I knew it would be one of the first I colored.  What do you think:

 

I have to admit that I got the new I-rock tool today and had to use it, whether it really fit the image or not is still up for debate.  

This gorgeous swing image was donated by Make it Crafty and as always I colored it with copic markers.  I airbrushed the blue around the edges to soften the white a little.  I did add some flower soft to the flowers under and around the swing legs.

The dp is a new pack I got at Archivers today,  I needed some lighter more spring-like colors and this pack has lots of choices.  

If you have not read the reason for the Katie Benefit you can check out the details on Jak Heath's blog.  Katie was diagnosed just before Christmas with stage 4 stomach cancer and this is a way to help her and her family in whatever little way we can.  

I have 3 more images colored from the images available and as I get the cards made I will show them to you.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great week-end.

Cathy