A birthday hop

Hello lovely people,

We have a new challenge at All Dressed Up combined with a special surprise birthday blog hop!

Today is the very talented Wendy’s birthday; for those who don’t know Wendy is the owner and artist behind All Dressed Up.

All the team would like to wish Wendy a very happy birthday and thank her for her amazing images, and for everything she does.

We normally have our new challenge on the 15^th, but as today is Wendy’s birthday we wanted to do a surprise birthday blog hop, along with our challenge.

Firstly the challenge, where the theme is 'Anything Goes' as long as it features one of our images or digital papers. Here is my card for the challenge;

This was a card that just came together so easily; it helps when you have such gorgeous artwork to play with!

Card recipe;

Image: Little Flower Girl - All Dressed Up

DP:Vintage Autumn and Frost Basics - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Hessian: 68mm natural fine hessian - The Ribbon Girl

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Die cuts: Filigree corner - La La Land Crafts

Tag: set 24, sentiment tags - LOTV

Copic colours;

Skin: E000/00/21/11/04 & R20

Hair: E21/25/29

Hat: E40/41/42/43

Dress / flowers: RV91/93/95

Flower centres: YR30/31

Bows: G40/YG61/63

Bird: E44/47

This is such an easy theme and we cannot wait to see all your fantastic entries, the winner will receive 3 images of their choice from the Store :-)

Onto the blog hop and below is a list of the Dressy Girls for you to hop around….we have a very big team here so you have until  1^st July midnight GMT to hop round them all.

At the end of the hop two random Dressy Girls will pick someone who has visited and commented on their hop card to receive 2 images of their choice from the Store.

Happy hopping!

All Dressed Up Blog

Marilyn

Anne

Nancy

Lyndsey

Viv

Keeley

Mandz

Rita

Kat (you are here!)

Bettina

Stacey

Maritha

Christine R

Tracy

Joey

Sarah

Holly

Deb

  

The challenge and hop will run until Midnight GMT 1^st July and the winners of the hop and challenge will be announced on 3^rd July on the All Dressed Up blog.

**PLEASE NOTE ANY ENTRIES NOT USING AN ALL DRESSED UP IMAGE OR PAPER WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CHALLENGE**

We cannot wait to see all your creations, why not stop by our Facebook Group and share them there too.

I hope you are all enjoying some sunshine and have a lovely weekend whatever you are up to :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Live and Love Crafts (summer garden)
2.  Bunny Zoe's Crafts (layers)

3.  Sweet Stampin' (say it with flowers)

Cheeky monkey

Hello lovely people,

Woohoo, it's new release time at All Dressed Up and we have a fabulous selection of images for you.  Just take a look...

3 Little Summer Girls

Best Teacher Ever

Cheeky Monkey

Prom Princess

I've got a bit of a stationary theme going on with my card; I started with the paperclip... and then the brad seemed like the perfect way to add the tags... and then I wanted to attach the twine without wrapping it round the panel so out came the stapler!

I chose to use Cheeky Monkey to continue with my challenge to myself to make more masculine cards... and because he is super cute!

Card recipe;
Image: Cheeky Monkey - All Dressed Up
DP: By the sea - Maja Design
Tags: set 24 - Sentiment tags - LOTV
Twine: from The Ribbon Girl
Brad: from stash

Copic colours;
Body: E41/42/43 & E43/44/47 for tummy/nose
Inside ears: R000/00/01
Skateboard / hat: W3/R27/46/89 & B34/37 & W5/7/9 for wheels
Ground: W0/1/2/3/4

Do drop in at All Dressed Up to see what the rest of the Dressy Girls have created; they are all stunning! While you're there, check our our current 'Bling it up' challenge and we'd love to see you join in for a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!
Don't forget to swing by our Facebook Group to share your creations and chat to fellow All Dressed Up lovers :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Simon Says Stamp (Father's Day or masculine)
2.  Divas by Design (red, white and blue)

Scrap n' Art with All Dressed Up

Hello lovely people,

Thank you for stopping by and I have a very special project to share today as one of my cards has been published in the latest issue of the Scrap n' Art online magazine.

Scrap n' Art is an electronic magazine packed with articles, tutorials and inspiration all the paper crafter and has a reader base of over 20,000.

Wendy Burns and three brand new, exclusive All Dressed Up images are being featured in the current issue plus several of the design team have submitted projects.

The three exclusive digis are:

Love My Teddy

Princess for a Day

Too Good to Eat

These three digital images are currently available only by subscribing to Scrap n' Art.  Your subscription entitles you to a monthly magazine for $24/year or you can try it for $5 for one month and you can access tutorials, inspiration, editorials and downloads.

For my card, I used another cute image currently available in the All Dressed Up Etsy store called Little Flower Girl.  I went for a taste of summer with this design, choosing bright colours and florals.

I just LOVE this little lady's gorgeous huge sun hat although it was a little bit of a challenge to colour!  I cut out an extra flower for her hat and popped it up on a 3D pad, then added liquid pearls to the middle of the flowers in the basket.

I've used my fave twine and flowers combo to embellish; I'm still loving the 3D flowers right now!

One more shot from the side so you can see the stepper design I used;

Card recipe;

Image: Little Flower Girl - All Dressed Up

DP: Park Bench - Echo Park

Dies: leaf and swirl - Magnolia Doohickey, butterfly set - Impression Obsession

Edge punch: Scallop dot - Martha Stewart

Flowers: all from Wild Orchid Crafts

Twine: ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/50/000/51/21 & R30

Hair: E41/Y21/E42/E43

Dress / hair bows: BG10/11/13

Bag / ground: W0/2/3/4

flowers / hat / bow on bag: Y15/19/YR14

Leaves: G46

Bird: E42/43

I am back from my holiday now and feeling very refreshed but that will probably only last until I get into work on Monday morning and see my inbox!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Not much of a challenge?!

Hello lovely people,

Here is my final card for the day and if you are after my card for In The Pink or A Little Bit Crafty then you need to scroll down a bit!

It's new challenge time at All Dressed Up and this time our theme is...

STITCHING

So, you can see why I said it wasn't much of a challenge for me as all my cards have stitching on them!  I tried out another way to use my large shaped dies and it turned out pretty well.  Oh look, there's that swirl die again!

I have used a new image called Twinkle Toes and given how much I loved the first All Dressed Up image I ever saw which was Abi Ballerina, it's no surprise this was a big hit with me!

Card recipe;
Image: Twinkle Toes - freebie to All Dressed Up Facebook group members
DP: Sofiero - Maja Design
Dies: leaf and swirl - Magnolia, Precious stars & cosmic star set - Memory Box
Lace: Danielle - The Ribbon Girl
Swirl stamp detail: Corners - LOTV

Copic colours;
Skin: E0000/50/000/51/21 & R30
Hair: E41/42/43/44
Dress / shoes: RF32/81/83/85
Bow: G40/YG61/G21
Wings: RV0000/000/32
Flowers: R83/85

Do pop over to All Dressed Up to see what the creations from the rest of the Dressy Girls; they are all stunning! We'd love to see you join in our challenge for a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!
Don't forget to swing by our Facebook Group to share your creations and chat to fellow All Dressed Up lovers :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;

1.  Papertake Weekly (pretty pastels)

Flower girl

Hello lovely people,

Woohoo, it's new release time at All Dressed Up and once again we have an amazing selection of images for you.  Just take a look at these cute wedding themed images...

Just Married

Mirror Mirror

My Little Flower Girl

To Have and to Hold

I know these are all going to be very popular with wedding season coming up but I think the little flower girl also works well for a more generic card, as you can see...

I have had a hard time finding the right Copics for colouring cream but this combo worked quite well and I love the deep red against it.  This feels like a really happy card to me :-)

Card recipe;
Image; My Little Flower Girl - All Dressed Up
DP: Front Porch - Pebbles (from Sarah's Cards)
Edge: Scallop dot edge punch - Martha Stewart
Tag: Sentiment tags (set 24) - LOTV
Twine: The Ribbon Girl

Copic colours;
Skin: E0000/50/000/51/21 & R30
Hair: E34/35/37
Dress: YR30/E81/E41
Ribbon / roses: R46/39/89
Leaves: YG93/95

Do pop over to All Dressed Up to see what the rest of the Dressy Girls have created; they are all stunning! While you're there, check our our current 'It's a guy thing' challenge and we'd love to see you join in for a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!

Don't forget to swing by our Facebook Group to share your creations and chat to fellow All Dressed Up lovers :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;

Read all about it

Hello lovely people,

It's time for a new challenge at In The Pink and our theme this month is...

DIGITAL DELIGHT

So, we want to see you use a digital image and as an extra treat this time we are sponsored by the fabulous All Dressed Up Stamps!

Prize = 2 digi images of the winner's choice

No surprises then that my card features a gorgeous All Dressed Up image :-) I have been delving into my new stash of flowers again as you can see and I think it looks like she is sitting in the garden reading... and well she might with all this lovely sunny weather!

I do enjoy reading especially in the garden in the summer... now I just need to get myself a fabulous pink hat like this little lady!

Card recipe;
Image: Little Bookworm - All Dressed Up
DP: Sofiero - Maja Designs
Label shape: cut with Cricut
Flowers: all from Wild Orchid Crafts
Leaves: Leaf and swirl die - Magnolia Doohickey
Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl
Tag: Sentiment tags (set 24) - LOTV

Copic colours;
Skin: E0000/50/000/51/21 & R30
Hair: E42/43/44
Dress / hat: R81/83/85
Bow: B0000/000/00
Stool: E40/41/42
Book: T0/1/2/3 & YR30/E40
Ground: T0/1/2/3/4

Do pop over to In The Pink and check out the gorgeous creations from the rest of the Pink Ladies.  They have all been showcasing All Dressed Up images so be ready for overload of cuteness!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Wild Orchid Crafts (use 3 different types of flower)

Spring flowers

Hello lovely people,

This is my second post today so if you are looking for my guest DT card for A Little Bit Crafty then please scroll down :-)

It certainly feels to me like Spring is well and truly here with all this lovely sunshine and everything growing away in my garden, so now I have to split my time between gardening and crafting.  What about the housework?  Hmm, best not go there!

Anyhoo,  we have a new challenge for you at All Dressed Up and our theme is...

SPRING

I bet you never would have guessed that with all my waffle about Spring at the start of this post ;-)
I've gone for pretty spring shades and flowers... oooh yes, those flowers are from my newly acquired (and quite enormous!) stash of WOC flowers.  I got all sorts of types, sizes and colours and am having lots of fun using them :-D

Of course, I will just have to share a closer look at this little cutie.  There is a touch of Stickles too but in very small dots so it's mostly invisible in the photos!

Card recipe;
Image: I love my puppy - All Dressed Up
DP: Vintage Spring Basics - Maja Designs
Fancy edge: Martha Stewart edge punch
Seam binding: Lilac - Wild Orchid Crafts
Flowers: all Wild Orchid Crafts
Memo pin: all my own work from some wire!
Sentiment: generated on computer

Copic colours;
Skin: E0000/50/000/51/21 & R30
Hair: E35/37/47
Dress / headband: V20/22/25
Leggings: W00/1/2
Dog: W00/0/2/4/6
Flowers: Y21/23/35/38 & V20/22/25 & YR30/21/23
Leaves: YG61/63
Grass: YG61/63/67

Do pop over to All Dressed Up to see the fabulous creations from the rest of the Dressy Girls and we'd love to see you join in for a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!
Don't forget to swing by our Facebook Group to share your creations and chat to fellow All Dressed Up lovers :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;

1. Divas by Design (Spring/Easter)

2.  As You Like It (fave stitching - real or faux... no contest for me, it has to be real for the texture and the way it makes my layers look 'finished'!)

3.  A Creative Romance (Spring/Easter)

4.  Sweet Stampin' (flowers)

5.  A Gem of a Challenge (Spring is in the air)

Music to my ears

Hello lovely people,

Woohoo, it's new release time at All Dressed Up and once again we have an amazing selection of images for you.  Just feast your eyes on this lot...

Easter Bunny

Just So Cool

Little Flower Girl

On My Farm

I have used Just So Cool and gone ultra-CAS this time.  I used Paint Shop Pro to add a few extra musical notes to the image and merged in a different sentiment.

This cool chick certainly looks lost in the music!

Copic colours;

Hair: E35/37/47

Top / shoes: R0000/000/00/01

Waistcoat: T2/4/6

Jeans: B95/97/99

Belt: E37/47/49

Scarf / heart: R30/32/35

Headphones: T6/8/10/100

Ground: T0/1/2/3/4

Do pop over to All Dressed Up to see what the rest of the Dressy Girls have created; they are all stunning! While you're there, check our our current 'Monochrome' challenge and we'd love to see you join in for a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!
Don't forget to swing by our Facebook Group to share your creations and chat to fellow All Dressed Up lovers :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Buttons!

Hello lovely people,

I hope you are having a lovely weekend and have had good weather; the sun has been shining here all day :-D  After a few busy weekends, I am enjoying a nice quiet weekend at home, just pottering in the garden and my craft room.

Right now though we have a new challenge starting at All Dressed Up and our theme for this is...

BUTTONS

Here is the card I made which is for my littlest nephew's birthday, can you guess how old he'll be?  

I have used the adorable 'Daddy's Little Helper' as he looks so much like my cheeky nephew!

Card recipe;

Image: Daddy's Little Helper - ADU

DP: Vintage Frost Basics - Maja Designs

Tags: Sentiment tags - LOTV

Buttons: from stash

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/000/00/11 & R30

Hat / patch / dog's neckerchief: YG61/63/67/G94

Trousers / patch: B91/93/95/97

T-shirt: T0/2/blender

Boots: T3/5/7/9/100

Spade: E35/37/47 & T0/2/4 & E50/51/YR21

Dog: E57/47/49 & E34/35/37

Bird: E31/33/35 & YR21

Snail: E31/YR21/23/24 & YR0000/T0/2

Bucket: T0/2/4

Worm: YR0000/000/00/01

Carrot: YR16/18

Ground / dirt in  bucket: E40/41/42/43

This challenge will run until 1st April and don't forget you MUST use an All Dressed Up image or paper to qualify for a chance to win 3 images of your choice :-)

If you pop over to All Dressed Up you can check out all the fabulous creations from my teamies who will show you lots of gorgeous ways to use buttons!

Oh and don't forget to stop by our Facebook Group to keep up to date with all the latest All Dressed Up news and chat to fellow crafters. 

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Under my umb-e-rella ella ella...

Hello lovely people,

Are you singing yet?  Sorry if that's stuck in your head now!  I'm back with my second card of the day as it's new release time at All Dressed Up and we have four fantastic images for you this month.  They can all be purchased from the shop.

A Little Me Time

A Time to Share

Looking Gorgeous

We Make a Good Team

As usual I had a hard time deciding which image to use but from my post title I'm sure you have guessed which one I've gone for :-)
I decided on a clean layered design for these little cuties - they just didn't need any embellishment other than a hint of lace and a few pearls.

I paper pieced the umbrella and added a little shading to it with Copics, then coloured the rest of the image with Copics.

Card recipe;

Image: A Time to Share - All Dressed Up

DP: Lost & Found Madison Avenue and Lost & Found 2 Blush - both MME

Lace: Danielle - The Ribbon Girl

Sentiment: Clear mini stamp set - Kaisercraft

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/000/00/11/21

Hair (right hand girl): E35/37/47

Hair (left hand girl): E50/53/43

Blue dress and details: B91/93/95/97

Yellow dress and details: Y21/23 & YR23/24/30/31

Bag: E35/37

Umbrella: R000/RV11

Ground: T0/1/2/3/4

Do pop over to All Dressed Up to see what my teamies have created and check our our current challenge which has the theme 'Clean and Simple.' Any of these new images would be perfect for it, plus you are in with a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!
We would love it if you swung by our Facebook Group to share your creations and chat to fellow ADU lovers :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  Papertake Weekly (anything goes +/- make your own flowers)
2.  ABC (G is for girls)
3.  Sweet Stampin' (cute)

Let's go shopping

Hello lovely people,

I'm all recovered after my hectic weekend and ready for another busy one with more family this weekend :-)  Just two more days of work to go first...

In the meantime, we have a new challenge for you at Crafty Little Fairies and our theme this week is...

SHOPPING

Our lovely sponsor this week with a prize of 4 digis of the winner's choice is...

I fancied another play with my Go Kreate dies and this time I have followed a suggestion from the lovely Christine to draw round the inside of the largest die and cut it out by hand to mat onto the base shape - it works a treat!

I have used one of the fabulous 'Love to Shop' girls from ADU - I do wish I looked this glamorous when shopping but not a chance!

Card recipe;

Image: Love to Shop - ADU

DP: Vintage summer/autumn basics - Maja Design

Sentiment: Happy circular sentiments - LOTV

Dies: Fancy blossoms - Memory Box, Leaf & swirl - Magnolia DooHickey

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/000/00/11 & R30

Hair: E23/25/27

Dress: B91/93/95/97 & B0000/000/blender

Bag: BG90/93/96

Ribbon: RV91/93

Ground: W000/1/2/3

I do hope you will pop over to Crafty Little Fairies to check out the fabulous creations from my teamies - it may just leave you wanting a little retail therapy though!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;

1.  Simon Says Stamp (anything goes with pearls)

Sketch time

Hello lovely people,

This is scheduled to post on the last day of my skiing holiday so I hope I have had a wonderful and most importantly, injury free, holiday!

It's time for a new challenge at All Dressed Up and this time we have this fabulous sketch for you to work with;

I have used the adorable I Love My Puppy image and just played around slightly with the sketch to add in a fishtail (of course!) and turn the bottom panel into some twine with the tag sentiment.

I think this is a really happy image and this inspired me to use some lovely bright colours.  I also had a go at adding some tufts of grass into my usual dotty ground and I am so happy with the end result :-)

Card recipe;
Image: I Love My Puppy

DP: My Girl - American Crafts
Sentiment: Sentiment tags - LOTV
Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts
Twine: Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/000/00/21/11

Hair: E53/35/37/47

Dress: Y32/35/38

Hairband: BG45/07/49

Leggings: W00/0/1

Flowers: BG0000/000 & R81/83/85

Grass: G43/YG63/G46

Dog: E53/35/37

The challenge will run until 2nd March and if you pop over to the All Dressed Up blog you can check out some gorgeous creations from my teamies.  Don't forget that you must use an All Dressed Up image or paper to qualify for the challenge!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Rock on!

Hello lovely people,

I'm back!  It's not often I post 2 cards in one day so if you are looking for my In The Pink card then please scroll down.

I now have my DT card for the All Dressed Up Challenge to share with you and it's about as far from pink as you can get!

I'm not one for New Years Resolutions but I did have a few things in mind that I would like to try more of in 2014 and one of those was male cards.  Regular visitors will know my blog is full of pretty girly cards so I thought I should try to get out of my comfort zone every now and then!

And when I saw the fab new images from All Dressed Up I knew it was a good time to go for it!  We have four fantastic images in this latest release, covering both girls and boys!

Happiness

Love to Dance

Purrrfect Together

Rock My World

How fab are these?  To purchase any of the images please head over to the Shop.

For my design team creation I have used Rock my World and here he is;

I really enjoyed colouring this and the one major difference to all the girly images I usually colour was a lack of hair!

Card recipe;

DP: The Rockstar stack - DCWV

Dies: Precious stars (with the bows cut off!) - Memory Box

Twine - Natural button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Copic colours;

Skin: E0000/000/00/21/11

Green bits: YG93/95/97/23

Blue bits: BG93/95/97/99

White bits of top: B0000/000

Guitar: E57/47/49 & E40/41/42/42

Grey bits: W series

Don't forget our current challenge theme is 'Love is in the Air' and these images would be perfect for this, plus you are in with a chance of winning 3 images of your choice!
You can find the challenge on the All Dressed Up blog and also check out the fabulous creations from my fellow Dressy Girls.
We would love it if you stopped by our Facebook Group to share your All Dressed Up creations and chat to fellow crafters.

I know this was already quite a long post but I just have to tell you that I am going on holiday on Sunday so may not be around too much for the next week.  I am skiing in Andorra with friends and I can't wait :-D

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Hugs,

Kat xx

Challenges I am entering;
1.  A Little Bit Crafty (man up)
2.  Papertake Weekly (anything goes +/- shaped card)