A Piece of Pie

With Thanksgiving tomorrow I know many of you are counting your blessings and so am I.  There is something that has been near and dear to my heart for many years and that is our soldiers who are serving our country. When I saw this image from Meljen's called "pink ribbon teddy" the ideas started running through my head on how to use this cutie. I found this sentiment in my stamps and immediately knew I was pairing these to together, the sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Service & Sacrifice set.

Now the challenge this week at Cooking It Up With Katie is "a piece of the pie"- no we don't mean projects using pies so what is that you may ask?  Our recipe is as follows: "Use a punch, add some ink, and finish with some embossing." I used my Nesties for my punch to feature sentiment, inked all my edges, and used my Cuttlebug hearts embossing folder on my yellow paper.  Come one over and our challenge HERE for your chance to win the prize from our sponsor Meljen's Designs.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Meljen's- fall
Crafty Purple Frog- orange
Forever Friends-something old, something new (old embossing folder, new image)
Rainbow Lady's-Thanksgiving
Sassy Studios- thank you card
Shelly's Images- anything goes
Southern Girls- bingo (ribbon, gems, die cuts)

Tag It

Quick post as I am running late and heading out to help at school today, so I will be back later with all the details.  It's Wednesday so that means another recipe challenge ovet Cooking It Up With Katie and this week we are sponsored by Digital Delights.  Our recipe is as follows:

"Die cut a tag and make it Christmas!"

I started with the sketch over at Sketchbook Saturday, which I thought was from this week but Feline Playful has wrong sketch posted (oh well, still love the sketch). The sentiment is from our fabulous sponsor and is called "A touch of Christmas set" which I have printed on a tag I cut from the Cricut. I have added some stitching and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen. The pp is from Lost & Found Christmas 6 x 6 stack I picked up at Archiver's and the green is Olive from CTMH. The flourish from an Inkadinkado set.

Check out what the rest of team has created and hope you have a great day!

Fancy, Fold, & Flowers Oh My!

Can you tell I am in love with the new CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge? This pillow box, doily shape, and rolled roses were all created using it.  The challenge this week at Cooking It Up With Katie is 

"Add some flowers, use a different fold, and make it fancy!" We are sponsored this week by Robyn's Fetish and our lucky winner of this challenge will get either 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice.

The 3 R's- Red, Ribbon, & Row

Are you ready for another great recipe from our Master chef, Katie Tate over at Cooking It Up With Katie? Well she has come up with another great one, our recipe this week is as follows:

 

"Create a row, add some red, and finish with some ribbon."

I used sketch #162 again over at Clean & Simple Stamping for my card design, I just love this sketch!!! My paper is from Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather 6 x6 Mini Deck. The stocking is a wood stamp from CTMH, which I stamped in tulip ink.  Now I combined my row with my ribbon, creating a row of ribbons-LOL!!! The sentiment is from our spectacular sponsor, Digital Delights and you won't want to miss the chance to win a prize from them!!!  Come on over and check out what rest of team has created and show us your projects here.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp- anything goes

Thrilling Thursday - Anything Goes
Squiggles and Giggles - Christmas Cheer
Sparkles Christmas Card Challenges - Christmas Card (optional recipe)
Alota Rubber Stamps - Christmas

NO Turkey's Around Here

As soon as I saw this hilarious image, I knew I had to work with it! LOL!!!  It is from Digi Doodles Shop and is called "turkey in disguise"- they are our sponsor this week at Cooking It Up With Katie. An added bonus is if you purchase this image, it comes with a set of fun sentiments that compliment the image perfectly.  Our challenge is this week is:

"Use a border, add some buttons, and don't forget the bird!"

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Happy Howloween!

Well it's mid-week and I am headed out on a field trip this am with around 100 first graders, we are going to the Red Barn Farm and of course it's the one day of week they are calling for rain throughout day!  I am hoping it holds off and we get a perfect fall day to enjoy the farm and then get our baseball game in tonight!

It's time for another challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie and we are sponsored this week by 

The Stamping Dragon. Our recipe this week for challenge is as follows:

"Show us some coloring, add a little curling, and a circle or two."

I used a very simple design and the patterned paper is from Fancy Pants Designs Oct. 31st pack. I colored my image using copics and that super cute sentiment is from Stampendous.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

I would like to say a great big Happy Birthday to co-owner of Lollipop Crafts Kim, hope you had a FABULOUS day yesterday!  I created this fun card in honor of her day using "Meljen's Party Penguin"-
this lil' cutie is colored with copics and then I added some bling!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Fun, Fabulous, & F for Flowers

Happy Hump Day, hope your week has started off with a bang!  You may wonder what the title of my post is all about, well it's challenge day again at Cooking It Up With Katie and boy is this one great! First let me tell you who our brand new sponsor is this week, Pink Gem Designs and the prize is 4 digital images from the store!

Our challenge is:

Make it Fun
Make it Fabulous
And add your own "F Word!". You can choose fabric, flowers, Fall, felt, flocking, fur, folding, anything at that is an F and make sure you tell us what it is :)

Card Recipe:

Image: Love Hoot from Pink Gem Designs
Paper: patterned-Cosmo Cricket Earth Love, cardstocks- CTMH sorbet/cocoa/vanilla cream
Ink: CTMH cocoa
Medium: Copics
Punch: Stampin' Up- circle/scalloped circle, leaves- EK Success
Embellies: CTMH cocoa brads
Sentiment: CTMH A Little Buzz

Harvest Blessings

The temps are cooling down here in Kansas City, making for some nice crisp mornings/evenings and although everything is still green Fall will be here in no time.  This week over at Cooking It Up With Katie the team has created some wonderful projects perfect for fall!  We are sponsored this week by Digital Delights and they have some super cute images!

Our challenge this weeks is as follows:

"Use a Punch, Include a Pair (2 of the same thing or 2 ribbons, 2 flowers etc), and Make a Pocket (this can be real or faux, even on the image counts).

 I started by making my card base using the pattern from CTMH Orignials book called "invitation" on 

page 81. I grabbed some scraps and this fun fall paper from Cloud 9 Design paper pad. I cut my tags using my Cricut and Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. I chose to work with the "Harvest Blessings" sentiment from the fall sentiments set and distressed the edges before adding to my tags.  Now the fun part- I added what looks like stitching (in CTMH chocolate ink)  to my cream piece using a tracing wheel (thanks Sue for teaching us this technique)!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Thanks You're The Best!!

 

 It's "Hump Day" so are you ready for another challenge this week at Cooking It Up With Katie?  This week we are sponsored by Gingerloft and our recipe for this week is as follows:

"Use some purple, add a sentiment, and finish with a bow."

I have created a fun new way to use all those little scraps of papers I have been saving and am so excited! I have punched the circles using a 1 inch punch and inked all the edges with CTMH pansy purple ink. I have then placed them on a 2 inch strip of cream cardstock and then mounted again.  Tied up a little bow and added my sentiment from CTMH "Thank You" set.  I have gone through my huge pile of scraps and punched all my little scraps so I can create these quick cards as needed!

Sweet Little One

"Sugar & Spice and Everything Nice, That's What Little Girls Are Made Of!"

Nothing is sweeter than an adorable new baby and I have lots of people I know are having new bundles of joy in next few months, so this card will be perfect for one of them.  This week at Cooking It Up With Katie we are sponsored by Meljen's Designs.  I used this adorable image called "baby bottle" which I have paired with the Claire's sketch this week at Sunday Sketch & Stamp. 

The challenge this week at Cooking It Up with Katie is:

"Use a sticker, some pink, and add a little bling!"

Come on over and check out what our new DT gals have created for the challenge!

Fun in the Sun

 

It's another the challenge day at Cooking it Up With Katie this week and we are sponsored by Stampin Dragon, the winner will receive 4 images from their store. Our challenge recipe this week is

"Use something wet, a brad or two, and add a border."

I have used this summer image called Summer Fun, that is colored with copics. I added a a brad to center of the beach ball, cut image out, and added a nice sunburst border using my scalloped inverted square Nesties. I inked the edges of all my papers using CTMH cocoa and a little ribbon for finishing touch!

Now come over and join the challenge, plus meet our new DT members and be inspired! 

School Days Layout

School starts tomorrow here and I think I am more excited than the kids, lol!  It's not that I don't love spending time with my boys, but with a 15 yo and 6 yo they spend alot of time fighting as oldest doesn't want to play with youngest and all youngest wants is to play with oldest.  So needless to say I have been counting down the days for awhile, although it's bittersweet as I know in a flash school days will be over for my Micah as he is a sophomore this year and has in his mind that he wants to go to college far away from here.  When I look at Lucas, I see Micah all over again and think where did the time go!

This weekend I went to a fun crop and we created a layout for the CTMH club I am in that I knew would be perfect for the challenge at Cooking it Up With Katie this week.  We are sponsored by 2 fabulous sponsors this week, Robyn's Fetish and Gingerloft so make sure to play along!  Our challenge recipe this week is

"Use a die cut, some ribbon, and add a banner."

I decided to play with this adorable back pack image to add to my layout. First I colored the image using a sponge dauber and CTMH ink, next I started to layer it up by starting with a uncolored image. I used the same techniques with all the pockets/straps and then cut them out and added them. I colored all the items in the top of the back pack with copics and added them layer by layer.  For my banner , I used my cricut and Plantin Schoolbook cartridge for letters and cut diamonds using George cartridge which I folded over to create banner.  I added my triangles to a piece of CTMH juniper ribbon and papers are from the new CTMH idea book called "Type Set."

TSB Challenge #12/Cooking it up with Katie- We are back!!!

After taking a little break last month, we are back over at Cooking it up with Katie with a new challenge! I am excited to announce we have a "brand new" sponsor this week, The Stamping Boutique which I happen to also design for.  Up for grabs s 5 digis of winner's choice from the TSB store, how AWESOME it that!!! 

Our recipe this week is:

Something Old, Something New, and One of Your Favorite Things/Techniques

I chose to go digital this week once again, so I started with a quick page from Digi Scrap Depot called Birthday Boy which you can download from here. I have added this pic of my lil' guy Lucas' from his 1st birthday, he will be 7 yo next month.  I chose to color my TSB image called birthday bunny using Paint.net and then added this fun sentiment called "Birthday cake is yummy"
and you can download is from here.

Now I decided to kill to birds with one stone so to speak, as this layout is for the challenge this week over at The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog also. The theme this week is "Happy Birthday for a young male." Come on over and join the fun and see the wonderful inspiration from the rest of design team and enter the challenge!

Cooking It Up With Katie #67

Happy Hump Day everyone!  You know what that means. time for another challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie.  This week our challenge is "use a current sketch from a challenge blog, make it a birthday creation, and add a little yellow." So I chose to work with the sketch at Sketch N Stash and used this wonderful image from our sponsor this week Stamping Dragon. Once again I went digital to create my work of art using Paint.net and elements from Pixel Scrapper.

I am entering this the following challenges:

Cooking It Up With Katie #61

It's challenge day again over at Cooking It Up With Katie and we are excited to be sponsored this week by Sassy Studios. They are offering the winner of this challenge their choice of 4 images from the store, how cool is that!  They have once again provided us with images to work with and I decided on I'm Every Woman- The New Spa Day which happens to be a FREEBIE (so go grab it)!

The challenge is week is:

Start with some Brads, Include some Letters, & Stamp an Image (rubber or digi)

I have used  the sketch from The Pink Elephant this week and I added Sparkly Fluff to her towel (which you can now find at Archiver's as my store had it with glitters). A little faux stitching, computer generated sentiments, and big button with ribbon complete this card!

I am entering this in the following challenges"

The Pink Elephant-sketch



Cooking It Up With Katie #60

Time for another Cooking It Up With Katie challenge and we are so excited this week as we have 2 sponsors, so that means 2 chances to win prizes!!! First we have regular sponsor Gingerloft who were very generous to our team and we hope you love the samples.  And we have the new sponsor 2 Cute Rubber Stamps who also provided us with images so we were spoiled!

This week the ingredients are:

Use Green (a little or a lot), Add some Punching, & Make it a Double (use two of something)

I chose to work with a 2 Cute Stamp and am in love with their adorable images, I see some retail therapy in my future there-LOL!!!  This cute image is called Penguin Wedding and have colored it using my Copics (100, BV00/02/04). I cuted the image out using my Nesties and then inked with CTMH Spring Iris ink. Papers are from my stash of course and I found that cute bling title also in my stash!  I used the sketch from Magical Monday, however forgot you have to use a fantasy image so will not be entering in their challenge.

I am entering in the following challenges:
Cardmadfairy- wedding
ECP Challenges-wedding



Cooking It Up With Katie #59

Another challenge day over at Cooking It Up With Katie and this week we are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish, prize up for grabs this week is 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice. Now isn't that a great reason to play along with us this week!

Our challenge this week is as follows:

Use some Ribbons, Include a Tag (or two!), & Finish with a Bow!

For my card I chose to work with this darling image called Flowers For Mom

which I have colored with Copics.  Now you cannot see in picture, but all the stars are also colored with Gold Lame Smooch to give a little sparkle. Centers of flowers are some bling from $1 section at Michael's, papers and ribbon all from my stash!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Challenge Masters Stamping Challenge-(use flowers on your image) Stamp, Scrap, & Doodle- tagalicious 
Paper Romance-tags 
Going Grey-flowers
C.R.A.F.T.- flowers 
AI Factory- flowers in bloom

Cooking It Up With Katie #58

It's challenge day again over at Cooking It Up With Katie and we are sponsored this week by Stamping Dragon Designs.  Our challenge ingredients this week are: 

Start with Flowers, Make it for a Lady, and Finish with a little(or a lot of) Pink.

I have used all sorts of fun new things on my card this week.  The papers are from CTMH and inked with CTMH desert sand ink.  I have used Kraft cardstock for my card base.  The image is colored using Copics and I have colored the butterflies using my new Taffy Smooch.  I outlined the frame around image with my black Spica.  I added a few flowers I made using my Die-Namics mini rose die and CTMH pearls for centers.

I am entering this card in the following  challenges:  
Everybody Art-pearls (centers of my flowers)
Going Grey with Scrap Creations- use a digital image
Ladybug Crafts Ink- anything goes
Simply Scrapping Crafts- pink, white, green
Top Tip Tuesday- open challenge
Cupcake Craft-lots of layers
Incy Wincy- bright and bold
Karen's Doodles- lots of layers
Make It Monday-anything goes
Nettie G- color your fave digi
My Partner in Crafting Crime-inspiration photo (I chose pink, white, & green)
Crafts and Me- pink & sweet
Flutter By Wednesday- open challenge
Whoopsi Daisy- free & easy

Cooking It Up With Katie #57

 This week at Cooking It Up With Katie we have a recipe challenge and are sponsored by Gingerloft who kindly provided us with images to use.  I chose to work with dragonfly image and immediately thought oriental.  I wish you could see these papers in person as they are much more vibrant, for some reason this card just did not photograph well at all.

The recipe this week is a great one!

Start with 1 image, Add 2 Patterned Papers, &
Finsh with 3 Embellishments (either 3 in total or 3 different types)

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Cooking It Up With Katie #56

Isn't Mr' Crab just simple adorable?  He is a FREEBIE over at Digis With Attitude, who just so happens to be our challenge sponsor this week at Cooking It Up With Katie.  Our challenge recipe this week is " monochromatic, die-cuts, and scallops."

I decided to work with my fave color red and found these great Basci Grey papers in my stash.  I used my Stampin' Up border punch to create the small scalloped strip and then added a little ribbon and button.  The image is triple layered using Nesties- Labels Five set. I inked everything using CTMH Cocoa Ink, sentiment is computer generated.  I printed the image, colored it with Copic R46, and then covered it with sparkly fluff.  I outlined all the lines using my Copic multi-liner.

Come join us on the challenge and see what rest of team has created!