The Pixie Cottage Challenge #38 Guest Sketch & Orange

For my design card for this week's Pixie Cottage challenge I used Pretty In Pink by Alisa Ramirez. After masking my pretty in pink logo on front of my stamp, she was colored and shaded with my copic markers. I used white trims as my accent pieces. My paper is by DCWV.

It's time for another challenge here at The Pixie Cottage and this week we have a sketch from a very Special Guest Sketch Artist and it's Aud Nordheim!


We have the additional theme of "Orange" so with the Fall Season upon us and Halloween coming soon you have no reason not to join in with us!

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 theme 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.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Stampin For The Weekend - Tag It
Wee Memories - Tags
Corrosive - Masking (I masked the image so I could remove the pretty in pink logo)
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy - Anything Goes
Make It Crafty - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment for me. It is so appreciated!

Midnight Madness Sketch #72

For my Midnight Madness design card for this week, I used a cute fairy image called Nichola. I colored her with my copic artist markers. She was layered several times and dimensionals were used between each layer. My flowers are by Prima and my papers are from a new MindsEye line. My butterflies were made from a MS punch.

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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*Our MMSC72 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Stamp and Create and is offering a $25.00 gift certificate.

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**Our September Monthly Sponsor is....

Sunshine and Giggles

You can check out this AWESOME prize here worth $100
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I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Paper Pretties - Pearls, Rhinestones or Glitter (I have rhinestones in my butterflies)

Copic Creations - Shading around an image
Secret Crafter - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Stitching

Stamp and Create - Pearls and Gems(I have rhinestones in my butterflies)

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave me a comment! It is very much appreciated!

BLOG Candy WINNERS & 3 other bonus winners!

Wow what a lovely response that I had to my blog candy! There were so many wonderful comments. I decided to ask the random generator for 3 more friends names to send a surprise to. So here are the winners:
1. Blog Candy: Denise from LaLas World: USA
2. Patty from Ink it Up: CANADA

My bonus winners who will receive a stamp and some other goodies are:
KarinArtScrap: NETHERLANDS
Dawn: UNITED KINGDOM
and
Jennysplace2: CANADA

PLEASE email me at kc242designsbydenise@yahoo.com
and I will get your goodies out to you right a way!

Also I am putting together a huge Christmas items Blog Candy that will be starting on OCTOBER 1st. You won't want to miss it!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #36 Fruit Mellowness

For my design card for the Pixie Cottage I am using 3 Fall Mice Digital Stamp by ArTish.

I just fell in love with these 3 adorable mice that are playing in the pumpkin patch. I used my copics for coloring and shading and distressed the edges with colorbox chestnut chalk. My cute little mice were cut out and then paper pieced on top of another background image. I didn't add pop dots on this one as I only wanted a slightly raised edge. My papers are my Graphic 45 and Bazzill.

This week we have fabulous sketch from team member Adrina and I'm sure you'll agree it's a great one!We have the additional theme of Mellow Fruitfulness to go with the upcoming Autumn Season.

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 theme or both and can combine our challenge with any others you like!

I am entering the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - Paper Piecing
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Real or Faux stitching
365 Cards Day 196 - Country Charm
Pollycraft - Autumn Colors
Paper Make Up - Autumn
Paper Players - Fall color combo
Creative Card Crew - Autumn
Theme Thursday - Autumn
Paperplay - Autumn Colors
Incy Wincy - Autumn Colors
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Colors of Autumn
Wee Memories - Fall into Autumn
Stempel Magie - Fall Colors
Allsorts - Colors of Autumn
Raise the Bar - Orange, Brown and Green
Timbro Scrapmania - Anything Goes
Chamber Maids - Anything Goes
Gingerloft - Anything Goes
Tellens Place - Anything Goes
365 Cards Day 198 - Busy Background

Midnight Madness Sketch #71

For my Midnight Madness Sketch Card for this week, I used an adorable "Lorelie" stamp. I stamped my image twice, colored it with my copics and then used a little tulle for the skirt and head piece between my sandwiched images. Dimensionals were used to separate the layers.
My flowers were by Prima (they were also colored with my copics) I simply flipped the sketch and it worked wonderfully well!

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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*Our MMSC71 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 MMSC71 weekly bonus winner a $20 voucher for her store. Thank you Chelsea..we love your products and images.

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**Our September Monthly Sponsor is....

Sunshine and Giggles

You can check out this AWESOME prize here worth $100
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I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Lexi's Creations - Flower Power
Creative Inspirations - Lace and Sparkle
Fab'n' Funky - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave me a comment! It is very much appreciated!

Creative Card Crew Challenge Fall Theme!

This is my design card for Creative Card Crew! I had the privilege of using this adorable candy corn pumpkin stamp from Sassy Cheryl! I think that it is soooooo cute!!!!
As I was designing my card, I just had to keep adding sparkle, with my stickles.
This card is a little over the top in the sparkle category but in person it really shines and is one of the favorites of my clients at work! I just received my decorative oval spellbinders (winner of Darlene's Birthday Blog Candy) and thought that it was simply the perfect image to use them with. My pumpkins were colored and shaded with my copics, then they were distressed with chocolate chalks. My pumpkin border came in a package from Bazzill and I added lots of stickles. Last year a friend of mine gave me the Happy Halloween tag from cuttlebug. I thought that it was perfect with my image!

For this week's challenge. Our sponsor this week is the lovely, Sassy Cheryl! She gave us some wonderful images to work with. Our theme for this challenge is fall (can be Halloween, Fall, or Thanksgiving) Why don't you get out your supplies and join us! Make sure that you check out all of the DT's FABULOUS work!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Aly's Sunday: Sparkle and glitter
PaperPlay ~ Autumn
Sassy Cheryl's ~ to use a spellbinders die cut
Crafty Sentiments to use a digi image
Incy Wincy Designs - Autumn Colours
Pollycraft Challenge - Autumn Colours
Allsorts Challenge - Autumn Colours
Drunken Stampers - Use Circles my rhinestones are circles,my background paper has circles.
Marks Finest Papers - Fall Colours
Fairy Fun Fridays - Embossing
The Stamp Man - Distress
Fab'n' Funky - Anything Goes

CHA BLOG CANDY 2 WINNERS!!! Ends Sept 15 ENDING THIS EVENING!

This post will stay close to the top of my blog. Please scroll down for new posts!
I was hopeful that my order of the new CRAFT N DOODLE circle cutters would be in and I could have had them in the picture of my blog candies, but they aren't even going to be shipped until next week! :( It seems as though I wasn't the only one at CHA who loved the CRAFT N DOODLE Booth! I was so impressed at CHA with this new wonderful company. So much so that I bought the entire set that you see on the left of my blog for myself. This system does so many wonderful things like scoring on any card without using a scorpal or a ms scoring system and more! It is certainly going to be a tool system that I will replace all of those others with!
You can check out CRAFT N DOODLE at www.craft-n-doodle.com

Items in Blog Candy #1 : 2 copic markers, official CHA lanyard with CHA summer show collectable metal button, making memories lanyard, 2 sizzex sets, spellbinder bag, ribbon, bottle of flowers, making memories metal glittery frames & brads, tape measure, official slice pocketed apron (great for working on those messy projects and 1 craftndoodle circle cutter tool (new release at CHA and not available in stores for awhile)

Items in Blog Candy # 2: 2 copic markers, official CHA lanyard with CHA metal commemorative pin for Summer CHA show 2010, prima flowers, 1 pkg halloween ribbons, 1 package of glittery metal embellishments, package of fall colors prima flowers,1 package of assorted brads, 1 jillie bean stamp t shirt, 1 tool carrier, 1 Papertrey Ink cloth bag, 1 kc 3-D stickers, 1 package of glittery ribbons, and 1 craftndoodle circle cutter tool (new release at CHA and not available in stores for awhile)

This blog candy will run until September 15. I will use random generator to determine the 2 winners. I will send blog candy internationally. Rules for blog candy: You must be or become a follower, you must post picture and link for candy on your blog, you also must leave a message under this post (If you do not have a blog, you can be entered just leave a comment and send a copy of the email, that you send to 10 of your friends about this blog candy, to me.
I will be checking the links!
Good Luck!

Wink Wink Ink Candy Bar Wrapper

I needed a small gift for a friend. Carmello candybars are her favorite so I covered the original candbar wrapper with this pretty k&company cardstock, & added ribbons and a saying from SU.
My image "Mama" is from Wink Wink Ink . Melanie has some adorable stamps. Pop on over to Wink Wink Ink and get some of her adorable stamps for yourself! Wink Wink Ink has a challenge going on over at their group at the CDAC throughout this month. They are giving away a awesome prize!

Thanks so much for taking the time to leave me a comment. I really appreciate it!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #35 Furry Friends

For my design card for The Pixie Cottage Challenge I used this adorable stamp called Hoo Loves You.

I popped up my adorable owls to give them extra dimension. My card stock was from Mine Eye, & Bazzill. Pearls are by Prima. Trims were in my stash! Why not grab those supplies and show us what you come up with. I would love to stop by and take a look. Pam has created a wonderful sketch for us this week!


Along with the sketch we have the added option of using "Furry Friends" on your cards!
As always you have the choice of the theme or the sketch or do both!
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 theme 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.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Moving Along With The Times - Stitching
Paper Play - In Stitches
Twisted Thursday - Animals
Paper Romance - Furry Friends
Stamping Vacation - Animal with a Beak (my owls qualify!)
365 Cards Day 191 - All Creatures Great and Small
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Animal Crackers
Digi Doodles Shop - Sentiment
Drunken Stampers - Serenity Now (what do you do to relax: Bird watching)
Secret Crafter - Clean and Simple
Paper Players - Clean and Simple
Crafty Cardmakers - Clean and Simple
Little Paper Shop - Clean and Simple
Cowgirl Sunday - Anything Goes
Gingerloft - Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Something Cute

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave me an inspirational comment. It is very much appreciated!

Midnight Madness Sketch #70

For this weeks Midnight Madness Sketch, I used Sunshine and Giggles stamp called "The Good Witch". Isn't she simply the cutest! She was colored with copics. I used bazzill card stocks as well as the new Graphic 45 "Alice in Wonderland", card stocks for my cute Halloween card.

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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*Our MMSC70 weekly Bonus sponsor is.....

Stop by Sues 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 September Monthly Sponsor is....

Sunshine and Giggles

You can check out this AWESOME prize here worth $100
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Here is this weeks Sketch and our Design Team Creations:

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave me a comment! It is very much appreciated!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #34 Family

As I needed a tag for my baby shower gift, I decided to make a candybar wrapper using Crawling Cassie by Lisa Schmidt, for my Pixie Cottage project this week. She is such a sweet baby image! I used cardstocks from DCWV. Cassie was colored with my copic markers. I added a computer generated sentiment and rhinestones from my stash!

A special thank you to our special guest sketch artist, Cindy Haffner!. What a fabulous sketch!
She has an impressive Design Team resume including spots with My Favorite Things, The Greeting Farm, Flourishes, Riley and Company, Paper Romance and more! Her style is varied and gorgeous and we are so happy to have here with us this week!


Why not get those supplies out and enter our challenge. I would love to see what you come up with!
Thanks so much for leaving comments for me! It is so appreciated!