Pixie Cottage Sketch Challenge / Paper Piecing # 25

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday with another gorgeous sketch from our fabulous Pam! Along with the sketch we have the added option of the Paper Piecing technique.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 technique or both and can combine our challenge with any others you like! One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.Winners will be announced on the Friday following the end of the challenge.

For this weeks design card I used a adorable stamp called Give Me A Hug by Alisa Ramirez. I just loved the little girl hugging her puppy. My papers are by basic grey and bazzill. Flowers are by prima.
Challenges for this card :

Creative Inspirations - Paper Piecing
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
Quirky Crafts - Ribbon
Thrilling Thursday - 3's (something 3 times), I did 3 brads and 3 flowers!
365 Cards Day 116 - Cut 3 ways - Die Cut, Punched and Exacto
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenges - Stamp It Up
Other Lovelies - Flowers
Speedy the Cats Friends - Flowers
Corrosive - Flowers
Allsorts - Embossing my spellbinder background ovals
The Crafty Pad - Embossing my spellbinder background ovals
Magical Crafts - Flower Power

Midnight Madness Sketch #60

Hello and welcome to another week at the Midnight Madness blog :) Before we get started, I wanted to invite you to come to this week’s launch of our multiple challenges on CDAC. We will have some fabulous hostesses running these challenges with some great prizes to boot. The first few challenges will run for two weeks an then we will have another wonderful group of hostesses lined up. It is bound to be tons of fun with lots to offer. Stop by for a look-see on July 1st at 8am PST.
Now on to this weeks Midnight Madness Challenge!
Once again, it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"
Enter one style or both this week.
Just have fun and come play with us :)
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Our MMSC59 Gold Star Award goes to...#8 Darlene

Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...#14 An#50 Marsha Sanderlin#58 Iris
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*Our MMSC60 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....
"priscillastyles" store

Priscilla is giving away a gift certificate to her store
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Our Monthly sponsor is..Katstamps

Check out the Grand Prize they are offering.
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For this week's challenge I made a boxed envelope using the sketch. I needed a box to present a DVD to my niece who just got married last week. In addition to the DVD of her wedding I have also included several pictures! We all had so much fun last weekend. She had given me this Prisma butterfly, that she wanted as a centerpiece. The colors of her wedding were also seafoam green, brown and beige with some accents of blue. Thus the inspiration papers from Basic Grey. As my papers were limited I varyed my papers with dry embossing.

The pattern for my envelope is from Priscillastyles store. It is well worth purchasing! I have used that envelope pattern multiple times! They are so easy to use, and you will never buy an envelope again.

I am entering these challenges:

Magical Crafts - Flowers

Other Lovelies - Flowers

Fresh Brewed Coffee - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Embossing

Caardvarks - Embossing

Crafty Ann's - Embossing

Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes

Wink Wink Ink Baby Blossom

I needed a baby card with burgandy and pink. I used a current stamp from Wink Wink Ink called baby blossom.

My papers were from Basic Grey and Bazzill. This is a easel card with lots of room for a personal message. My prisma flowers were colored with my copic markers.

Pixie Cottage Sketch #24 Barnyard Friends

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday and we have another fabulous Special Guest Sketch Artist and this time it's the super talented Jay Jay!She designs card for companies including CC Designs and Stampavie and challenges at Just Magnolia and Simon Says Stamp!What a wonderful sketch for this weeks challenge:

This is my easel design card using Down on The Farm by Tina Akonom. Isn't this just the cutest stamp for a child! My papers are by bazzill and from my stash. I colored my image with copics and then layered them with dimensionals.

On the inside there is more layering of my barnyard cardstock. I also created lots of room for that personal message.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Truly Scrumptious - Sketch (same as ours only with the center turned around)
Fun With Shapes - Flowery
Practical Scrappers - Flowers
Alys - Flower Power
Our Daily Bread - FLOWERS (pick 3 from 7 sections), I chose Flowers, Ribbon and stitching
Cow Girl Sunday - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - Your Favorite Sentiment
Random Amusing Challenge - Photo Inspiration (I used plants: My barnyard stamp has plants on the fence)
Whoopsi Daisy - Ribbons and Bows
Crafty Creations - We Want To See You Shine : I used crystal lacquer in the center of my sunflowers
ABC - X is for Xtra Dimension

Midnight Madness Sketch #59

Once again, it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC58 Gold Star Award goes to...
17. Teri Sherman
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
27. Bonnie O'Clair
36. marsha sanderlin

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Our MMSC58 Weekly Bonus Winner is..
36. Karsha Sanderlin

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*Our MMSC59 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Wags 'n Whiskers will be having a new release and blog hop on friday, June 25th. Hope you join the fun with more chances to win!! Thank you again lacey..we love it when you are our sponsor.

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Our Monthly sponsor is..
Katstamps

Check out the Grand Prize they are offering.

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Here is this weeks Sketch and our Design Team Creations:

For my design card for Midnight Madness this week, I used an adorable little fairy from Mo Manning. My image was colored and shaded with copics. I used those same copic colors to match my flower colors on my assorted Prisma paper flowers.
I am entering this card into these challenges;

Totally Gorjuss - Sugar and Spice
Bunny Zoes Crafts - Nice and Girly
Oh La La Creations - Flourishes and Pearls
Drunken Stampers - Colouring and Bling
Cowgirls Sunday Stampen Challenge - Anything Goes
Wednesday Stamper - I Love......Using dimensionals

Yayyy Again! How cool is this!

How cool is this! I was chosen to help design a TCC custom digi over at the character cafe. After it is finished, my fairy digi will be available for sale over at the character cafe with proceeds for the first 4 months going to my favorite charity. (Which is The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, by the way!). I even get to name it! I gave Kendra my inspiration picture... I am so excited and can hardly wait to see what Kendra comes up with!

WinkWink Ink Design Card Using Grandma's Parlor Stamp Set

This is my design card this week for Wink Wink Ink. I just love the set that Melanie has created called Grandma's Parlor. With this series of wonderful stamps, anyone can create different scenes in the parlor. Go to Wink Wink Ink and check out all of the wonderful creative stamps that Melanie has!
I also really like the fact that you can add any of the many sentiments to the frame. I put Puggles on the sofa! What a wonderful greeter! My papers were by BasicGrey and Bazzill.

I won!!! Yayyyyy!

Yay I just got the word that I won the Father's Day Challenge over at Tellensplace. I won 5 of her cute digis
I am looking forward to using them!
Check out the challenge at the link below!
http://tellensplace.blogspot.com/2010/06/winner-and-top-3_16.html

Midnight Madness Sketch # 58 Gurlee Girl

Once again, it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC57 Gold Star Award goes to...
52. Holly Miller
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
1. Jane Snyder
23. Patricia Rose
38. america
48. Wenche WTE

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Our MMSC57 Weekly Bonus Winner is..
34. Cat Spicer

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Our MMSC58 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Gurlee Girl Craft Store has expanded to include the latest Magnolia Stamps, Prima Flowers, and of course my Gurlee Girl Stamps for your crafting need. Chelsea is looking forward to adding more wonderful craft products we all love to use on our projects. She only stocks a limited number of inventories for each item, and they will not be re-stocked, so please make sure to stop by and check out the latest items available now in her store now. Chelsea is giving our MMSC58 weekly bonus winner a $20 voucher for her store. Thank you Chelsea..we love your products and images.

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Our Monthly sponsor is..
Katstamps

Check out the Grand Prize they are offering.

Here is what I came up with using our sponsor's stamp from Gurlee Girl with this weeks sketch.
I colored my image with copics.
Papers were by Bazzill (Bling)& Sweet Cupcake Shop.
Flowers were by Prima.
Assorted ribbons and brads from my stash.
Stamp Gurlee Girl

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Busy Beauties - Anything Goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Celebrating Children
Crazy Challenge - You're the Star
Hand Full Of Stamps: How Cute is This
Stamp Something: Happy Somethings

Wink Wink Ink Love Seat and Sourpuss Digital Stamps

For my design card for Wink Wink Ink this week, I used the comfy chair stamp and sourpuss the cat stamp for this cute card. I stretched the digital chair stamp into a loveseat on my computer. Then I colored and shaded with copics and stamped the floral print on top of my finished sofa! The pillow stamp is included with the comfy chair set. My papers are by basicgrey and bazzill. My coloring and shading were done with copics. I just loved the sourpuss the cat with this lovely sofa.

Pixie Cottage Challenge Father's Day

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday and another super talented Guest Sketch Designer.
This time we have Donalda from Enjoying The Journey.
Donalda designs card for such fabulous companies as Whiff of Joy and Sugar Nellie and we are so excited that she created this fabulous sketch for us.



For my design card for Pixie Cottage this week, I used this adorable "man" stamp
called:Grillman by CreaSeans. I knew that I just had to use this image for a card for my dad. He has always done the "grilling or BBQing" in our family. I am sure that he will really enjoy this card!

As you can tell I flipped the sketch to the side to accommodate my image. I colored my image with copics. My papers are by Basic Grey (leftovers from an earlier project) and bazzill.

I am linking this card to these challenges this week:
The Shabby Tea Room - Just For Dad
Cards For Men - Fathers Day
Double Dutch - Fathers Day
Tellens Place - Fathers Day
Tanda Stamps - Fathers Day
Simple Doodles - Just for You Dad
Creative Craft Challenges - For The Man in Your Life

Delightful Sketches - Texture

Meljen's Designs - Dry Embossing

Stamp Something - Digi Day Something

The Crazy Challenge - Distress It

Oh Alice - Show us Your Muchness (Style)

The Corrosive Challenge - Die Cuts
Just Add Ink - Just Add Stitching
One Stitch In Time - Boys to Men
Paper Sundaes - Summer Fun
Raise The Bar - Celebrate Summer

Midnight Madness Sketch # 57 and Winner of my #56 Card

Congrats go to Mary Lou! The random generator chose MaryLou as the winner of my Midnight Madness Sketch card from #56. Please contact me at kc242designsbydenise@yahoo.com. Please put Card winner in the post!

Now onto this weeks design card:
Once again, it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Our MMSC56 Gold Star Award goes to...
#9 Beate
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
#29 Guro
#36 Sue Drees
#65 Holly Miller
#67 Iris

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Our MMSC56 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
47. Martha Velasco

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Our MMSC57 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Stop by Sue's shop for all your crafting needs. They sell wonderful wood papers too.

Thank you Sue for your Bonus Prize this week.

http://www.mcmahonfivedesign.com/

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Our Monthly sponsor is..
Katstamps

Check out the Grand Prize they are offering.

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This is the sketch that I used for this weeks design card:

For this week's design card, I used Priscillastyle's teacup and teapot digis that are now available at her shop! My images were colored with copics and then covered with crystal lacquer. I used spellbinders for my square as well as my swirl corners.
My sentiment was also included with my teapot and teacup digi. I just loved that sentiment. My papers were by bazzill and basic grey. I colored my paintable prima flowers with my copics. They were cut in half to go on each side of my image.
I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

Delightful Sketches - Texture

Meljen's Designs - Dry Embossing

Stamp Something - Digi Day Something

The Crazy Challenge - Distress It

Oh Alice - Show us Your Muchness (Style)

The Corrosive Challenge - Die Cuts
Just Add Ink - Just Add Stitching

Wink Wink Ink DT Card Psssst...

For my Design Team card this week at Wink Wink Ink I chose a cute little elephant stamp set called "Secrets". This stamp set is available at Wink Wink Ink, and comes complete with several sentiments. For my easel card I used 3 of the sentiments from this cute stamp set layered together in my all occasion friend card. My elephant was colored with watercolors. My grass and border trims punches are by Martha Stewart. My papers are Bazzill and a DSW travel stack that I purchased some time ago. I added 2 elephant charms along with some jute for a embellishment!

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
One Stitch At a Time - Something New: I have never used jute and my MS punch is new.
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
Charisma Cards - Flowers
Pixie Dust - Punch it out
Fun Two Stamp - Metal Accessories
Magical Crafts - Metal

Midnight Madness Sketch #56

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Thank you to all those that took the time to Vote :)
The Yearly "Priscilla Award" goes to...
5. Karen Lynn

Our MMSC55 Gold Star Award goes to...
#52 Holly Miller
Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
#8 Judi Rose
#24 Christina C
#25 Gry-Beate
#32 Teri Sherman

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Our MMSC55 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
Noreen Yun

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May month end winners are....
1. Vickie Kertz
2. Linda B
3. Julia
4.Sue Dees
5. Denise Clark
Dick over at PB Stamps has very generously offered up a 15% life time discount to 5 of our players….YES, you heard me right, 5 (five)
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*Our MMSC56 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....
Michelle's Scrapbooking

They are the manufacturer and sole distributor of The Pixie Cottage Stamps.

Bonus prize is three NEW stamps from featured artists ArTish and Sandra Hammer
Michelle has a great store, so you must stop in to see all that she offers.
Thanks so much Michelle :)
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**Our June Monthly Sponsor is....
Katstamps

Thank you Kat for your awesome prize package this month..WOW!! KAT is has two blog hops each week
Monday and Tuesday and this coming Wednesday is their new release day.
So, hop on over and check out all that is going on over their :)
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Here is this weeks Sketch

For this weeks sketch I chose a cute little birthday mouse from Mo's Digital Pencil.
I used assorted papers and ribbons from my stash as well as bazzill cardstocks for my base and trims. Buckles were from stampin up. My image was colored with copics.

WANT TO WIN THIS CARD? I WILL BE GIVING AWAY THIS CARD NEXT TUESDAY. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS BE A FOLLOWER AND LEAVE A COMMENT UNDER THIS POST TO BE ENTERED! GOOD LUCK!

Blog Candy Winners!

Thank you for all of the wonderful well wishes for my Anniversary! It is hard to believe that I have been actively blogging for a year now! The winners of my blog candy were selected by the random generator.
The winners are:
Lemonade from the Ukraine
Jane from Paper Affair
and Rosalee from Canada
Please contact me at kc242designsbydenise@yahoo.com. Please put title Blog Candy Winner in your title.
I will get the goodies mailed out to you as soon as I receive your addresses!
Stay tuned for more Blog Candy that will be coming up soon! I just love to give a way goodies for all of my faithful followers! I have found some incredible flowers and goodies!
Please scroll down for the newest Midnight Madness Post! IF YOU LEAVE A COMMENT FOR ME UNDER THE MIDNIGHT MADNESS POST YOU ARE ENTERED INTO THE DRAWING TO WIN MY BIRTHDAY MOUSE CARD!
YES YOU HEARD ME RIGHT... I AM GIVING AWAY MY MO MANNING BIRTHDAY CARD TO ONE OF MY FOLLOWERS. YOU MUST FOLLOW ME AND LEAVE A COMMENT TO BE ENTERED. DRAWING WILL END NEXT TUESDAY! GOOD LUCK!

Pixie Cottage Challenge #21

It's time for another Once Upon A Wednesday and this week Pam has another super sketch for us!


Along with the sketch we'd love to see a little "Metalwork". This could be metallic paper, brads, eyelets, charms, clips, anything metal at all!
Remember you can chose to do the sketch, the theme or both!

One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.
Winners will be announced on the Friday following the end of the challenge.

Welcome to Cabio who is a fabulous guest team member for June! Her wonderful work can be seen at Cabio's Craft Corner

Alisa In Wonderland by Alisa Ramirez


For this weeks challenge at Pixie Cottage I used a stamp called Alisa in Wonderland by Alicia Rameriz. My papers were by basic grey, making memories and bazzill. My image was colored and shaded with copics. For my metal sentiment I cut out my metal with my sizzex. Then embossed my Thanks sentiment and then hi-lighted the embossing with my walnut copic markers. (the alcohol markers will not bubble up and will dry on the metal beautifully) My flowers are by Prima.

I am entering this card in these challenges:
Clearly I Stamp - Flowers
Secret Crafter - Buttons and Blooms
Quirky Crafts - Girly Girl
One Stitch At a Time - Something New
Digi Doodle Shop - Anything Goes
Charisma Cards - Circles
Pixie Dust - Circles
Fun Two Stamp - Metal Accessories - embossed metal sentiment
Magical Crafts - Metal - embossed metal sentiment
Just Us Girls - Dry Embossing - embossed metal sentiment and embossed and colored flowers on small circle
Oh Alice - Swirls - I used swirl embossing envie in my background
Totally Stampalicious - Movie Inspiration - Alice in Wonderland