Exciting News! New Pixie Cottage Design Team Member!

                                                                 

Well, Very Good Morning to Everyone,

Today I want to share with you my exciting news! I have been asked to join the Pixie Cottage Design Team! I   have known for quite a while now, but Michelle from the Pixie Cottage asked us very nicely to keep it to ourselves for a bit until she has made the announcement, and today is that day! Yay!

             

                                                      

So we have a new challenge starting today over on the Pixie Cottage Challenge blog.

Michelle -

Owner

Katie

Design Team Leader

Sharon -

Senior Designer

Anne -

Junior Designer

Tanya - Senior

Designer & Sponsor Assistant

Denise - Junior Designer

Davi

- Senior Designer

Sadia-Senior

Designer

Nancy - Senior

Designer

Wendy - Senior

Designer

Kobie - Senior

Designer

Karen- Junior Designer

Amber -Senior Designer

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #70 - Sketch and/or Strawberries & Cream

As always we have 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 Strawberries & Cream, mmmm yummy!

So why don't you pop over and see what the rest of my teamies has got for your inspiration! They work is just absolutely wonderful!

So here's mine:

I used the lovely sketch, even though I think I got a bit carried away...lol bit I still sticked to the theme which is Strawberries and Cream.

                   

I chose this lovely image that is available from Mo's Digital Pencil, isn't she just adorable? And this lovely sentiment is available in rubber from Pixie Cottage!

I coloured her using my Promarkers.

I then used the cricut to cut her out in a circle shape and then layered her onto the scalloped circle.

My background papers is both from the My mind's eye - lime twist paper stack ( I just love these papers soooo much).

I hand made the flowers by cutting them out from matching papers, using a flower template and a circle punch.

I then added the paper lace border and the swirls which I cut out using the cricut as well.

Lastly I added all the little pearls and the Ribbon bow.

Well I hope you like it and that you have found something that inspires you. Thank you for each and everyone who took time to stop by my blog and leave me a lovely comment! They are always very much appreciated!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

1. Crafters Companion - Here comes summer
2. By the cute & girlie - The Garden
3. Mo's Digital Pencil - Flowers
4. Crafty Purple Frog - Swirls & Pearls
5. Craft us crazy - Summer
6. Crafty Pad - Bold & bright
7. Dream Valley Challenges - Ribbon
8. Digital Tuesday - Flower Power
9. The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
10. Creative Inspirations - Summer
11. I Love Promarkers - Include Flowers
12. Divas by Design - 5 Die cuts & Punches

A Bugs Life - Lexi's Creations DT card!

Good Morning Followers & Friends,

How was your weekend? Mine was very relaxing with just some good company and lots of doing nothing....

Anyway lets get down to business....

We have a new challenge that is starting over at Lexi's Creations and the lovely sponsor is Letraset

And the theme for the next two weeks is 'A Bugs Life!' so please come on over and join in the fun.

Here's my card I created for the challenge:

I used the 'Baby Ladybug' image for my card and I just went for a Black, red and white colour combo.

Well I hope you all found something inspiring today...Thank You for taking the time to stop by my blog.
I am entering this into the following challenges:
Craft You Passion - Use Red
Challenge up Your life - Circles
Phindy's Place - Going round in circles
Rainbow Ladies Challenge - Digi Day
Simply Create - Fly with us
Crafty Calender - thing with wings
Digi's with Attitude! - Anything Goes

Gingerloft - Add Beads DT Card

Good Evening Bloggers,

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend so far, I must say this is the laziest Sunday we had in a very long time. Got up very late this morning and just did about nothing for the whole day! Me hubby and little one has been watchings dvd and eating junk for most of the day.....

So I decided to quickly come and do my post, before it is way too late.

The following card I made for the New challenge starting over on Gingerloft today and it is running for two weeks and our theme is to add some beads to your creation.

So here's mine:

The image I used is the French clown and it is available from Gingerloft. I just went for something plain and simple, so I didn't want to add too much embellishments to it. I use the Sketch from the current Sketch and Stash challenge which I just flipped 90º. added the ribbon and bows and the glass beads (sorry if they not showing up very well).

I am entering this into the following challenges:

1. A Spoonful of Sugar - Ribbon & Bows
2. Sketch 'n Stash - Sketch
3. I Love promarkers - Anything Goes
4. Ladybug Crafts - Use Red

OSCC DT Card - Get Well soon....

Good Morning Fellow Bloggers,

How are you all doing this morning, hope you all having a lovely weekend and hope the sun is shining wherever you may be....

Our New challenge is just started over on One Stop Craft Challenge and our theme for this week is to make a Get well soon card. We have a lovely new sponsor this week - A day for daisies and we were lucky enough to choose some lovely images to work with, so please pop over and see what the rest of my DT team has come up with.

For my card I used Dandelion Delivery and it's available here. I coloured the image using my Promarkers,
Black, Cool Greys 1-5 and the blender as I wanted to go for a monochromatic card. I them used a cricut machine to cut the image into oval and layered that onto a sparkly silver oval.
The black rectangle was punched using a Martha Stewart punch round the page punch. All my flowers was hand made out of little scraps of black, silver and white papers I had in my scrap box. The butterflies was punched using a Martha Stewart punch and then glittered using some stickles. Lastly I stamped the sentiment before assembling my whole card. I also added loads of bling which unfortunately only shows up when you click on the picture to enlarge. Well I must say I really liked all the sparkle and bling and I do like the end result of this card.

Challenges I am entering this for:

1. Shopping our Stash - Tools of the Trade (Cricut machine, punches & promarkers)
2. Ces - Anything but square
3. 2 Sisters - Fairies
4. Stampin for the weekend - My Favourite things (Promarkers, punches & promarkers)
5. Crafty Purple frog - Swirls & pearls
6. Crafty sentiments - monochromatic
7. Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes
8. Crafty Creations - Let it shine
9. I love Promarkers - Anything Goes
10. Poodles parlour - Come fly with me
11. Creative Inspirations - the sketch
12. Charisma Cardz - White & 1 other colour

Sweet Stampin - Things with wings DT card!

Good Afternoon Bloggers & Friends....

I so apologise for this post being so late! My original post that was scheduled for Saturday has disappeared....

This card I made for the challenge we have over on the Sweet Stampin blog this week and we have a lovely theme - Things with wings

Our sponsor for this week is Pollycraft and they have so many lovely images to use, and we were lucky enough to receive some lovely images to work with! Who are offering 5 digis to one lucky winner.

I Coloured my image using my Promarkers then I added some stickles to the wings and her top. I added some bling to the swirls which I stamped onto my background papers and to her wings. The rest of the images was stamped onto my background papers just using black ink. I added the lace and the flowers for embellishment and lastly the butterfly charm.

 I am entering this into the following challenges:
Shopping our stash - Stickles
Crafts & me - Bling
Simon Says Stamp - Bingo - Lace, Shape, Flowers
Cardmaking mamas - for a child
Fairy Knoll - Sparkle
Polka Doodles - Things with wings
Simply Create - Wings
Gem of a challenge - Flowers & Charms
Top Tip and Tuesday - Open Challenge
Crafty Purple Frog - Favourite things (Fairy images or things with wings)

Lexi's DT Card - No Sentiment!

Good Morning Everyone,

Firstly I would just like to apologise for my absence and my post not being published! We were away on holiday this week and somehow the post I scheduled never went live, and the mobile reception was extremely bad where we were camping so I didn't have any internet, so I was extremely disappointed when I signed on this morning to find that none of my post I scheduled were published.

But anyhow, here is the DT card I made for Lexi's Creations! Our current challenge that is running over there is to make an project using NO sentiment.

So I made this Oriental themed card. Sorry my picture is not very clear.....

So I am entering this into the following challenges:
Top Tip Tuesday - Open Challenge
Cute Card Thursday - Birthstone (Ruby)
Poodles parlour - Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts - Die cuts & punches

One Stop Craft Challenge - Fathers Day DT card!

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you having a fabulous weekend! I know I am therefore the reason for scheduling this post as I am probably still in my bed as we had loads of friends visiting last night.....and for the rest of the weekend.

So my card for this morning is my DT card for One Stop Craft Challenge and our new challenge this week is to make a Fathers Day card....there is quite a lot of these challenges on at the minute....

Anyway I used one of my digi's I won a few weeks back from Bugaboo stamps, I was really just waiting for an excuse to use this one...lol

I coloured the image using my Promarkers and the lovely Backing papers is from a K&Co paperstack I acquired last weekend at the stampers show in Edinburgh and it is called Hopscotch.... these papers is just so lovely.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

• Crafty Pad - Stripes
• Creative Inspirations - Fathers day
• Creative Cow Girls - Summer 
• Craft your Passion - Anything Goes
• Craft Room Challenge - Anything Goes
• A Spoonful of sugar - Here comes summer
• Papertake weekly - Anything goes
• Creative Inspirations Challenge - Fathers day
• C.R.A.F.T - Fathers day
• Dutch Dare - 3 dp's, 2 embellishments, 1 image
• Delightful Sketchers - Fathers Day
• Fussy & Fancy - Mans card
• Wags 'n Whiskers - One for the Boys
• Sew many Challenges - Fathers day
• Digi's with Attitude! - Fathers Day
• Crafting for all seasons - Fathers Day
• Ladybug crafts - All about the males
• Paperplay - Fathers day

Well I hope you all like it...Thank you for taking time to stop by my blog, I hope you found something that inspired you!

My First Card for Sweet Stampin DT

Good Morning Followers and Fellow Bloggers,

Hope you having a lovely day where you are. Today is my first card as one of the New Design Team members over at Sweet Stampin Challenge, and boy I am so excited, it was so hard to contain all the excitement until after the big announcement...but anyway here I am.

This week we have the theme of Playing in the Sun and we have a wonderful sponsor Lilli of The Valley, so please hop over and come and join us in the fun.

So my card Recipe is as follow:
Image: My image is the adorable Kai playing in the sand from the wonderful Mo Manning. I coloured him using my Promarkers, then I layered him onto light blue and orange card stock ovals which I have cut out using a cricut machine.
Papers: My backing papers is from the Milton & Co paper stack from Wild Rose studios, which I have matted again on the light blue and orange card stock.
Embellishments: All my little die cuts was made using a cricut, then I just added the ribbon and the buttons which was from papermania.

Well I hope you all like it....

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Stamptacular Sundays - Boys
Cupcake Crafts - Use Orange, Yellow, Green and White
Top Tip Tuesday - Use a Ribbon
Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
Do it with Digi's - One for the Boys
Craft Room Challenge - Anything Goes

My Big Announcement!

Good Morning Everyone,

I have some very exciting news to share with everyone! I have know for well over a week and believe me I am bursting with excitement!
I have been chosen as one of the New Design Team Members over on the Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog!

It is just such fab news couldn't wait to share it with you all!