Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Pixie Cottage Challenge #98 Decor No Cards or Card with Sketch




For my Pixie Cottage project for this week, I used the Pixie Cottage exclusive stamp Cupcake Set by ARTish.  My giftbag was created using Bo Bunny and Bazzill cardstocks.  My cupcake image was colored and shaded with copics and popped up for dimension. 
It's Wednesday so that means another super challenge at The Pixie Cottage
This weeks challenge is a little different. We'd like to see your Holiday Decor items such as ornaments, banners, table arrangements etc or we'd like a card using the sketch. If you submit a card instead of the decor item then it must follow the sketch.


This is the sketch should you choose the card option.

Remember you can use the sketch or the optional technique.
The randomly picked winner will win two stamps of their choice from the Pixie Cottage Collection. The winner will be announced on the Friday after the challenge ends.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Midnight Madness Sketch # 132


 Instead of a card for this week's challenge, I did a mini paper bag album.   My niece really loves snowmen and this is the theme throughout the album.  (I am in the process of doing one for each of my nieces for Christmas!.  My image was stamped with momento ink and colored with copics.  Stickles was used for bling and to highlight some of the colors.  My image is from SU called Flakey Friends.  It is one of my favorite older sets. My cardstocks are from DCWV and My Minds Eye Lost and Found 2. 

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 MMSC131 Gold Star Award goes to...
 5. Sarah T 
 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
 3. Gro Tjeltveit  
 19. riliska  
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Our MMSC131 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
 29. Nancy Williams 
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Our MMSC132 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!
Thank you for your sponsorship America. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out there challenges each week. The are wonderful group of crafters :) Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!!

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

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #131


For my Midnight Madness card for this week, I had this adorable House Mouse stamp that I have never used.  My image was stamped with Momento and colored with copics.  My cardstocks are by Bo Bunny and Bazzill.   I really dislike cold weather and am really looking forward to spring and summer and those cold lemonades!     Why not join us this week and enter our challenge.  You could be the lucky winner of new House Mouse stamps!  I would love to see what you come up with!
 
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 MMSC130 Gold Star Award goes to...
  21. Nancy Brown  
 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
 2. An  & 7. An2  
Please grab your award logos from the side bar and display them proudly :)
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Our MMSC130 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
  11. Marlene (cards4u)   
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Our MMSC131 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!

Thank you for your sponsorship America. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out there challenges each week. The are wonderful group of crafters :) Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!!

Creative Card Crew Monocromatic

For my Creative Card Crew card I used this adorable Paper Pretties dog! Isn't he sooooo cute! My cardstocks are by bazzill and my minds eye. I have a hard time doing monocromatic cards because I really LOVE color. My dog image was colored and shaded using Prisma colored pencils.

 We are sponsored by the fabulous Paper Pretties for this challenge.  They have such sweet images and some are quite funny. How can you not laugh with an image called Holy Mackerel!

One lucky crafter will win 6 images of their choice from Paper Pretties.

Why not enter our challenge!  I would love to see your creations!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Pixie Cottage Challenge #96 and or Sketch!

Isn't this just the most adorable Christmas stamp?  For my Pixie card for this week I used,  an exclusive to Pixie Cottage stamp called,Not Even A Mouse by Alisa Ramirez,  as well as the sketch.
My cardstocks were from recollections, rhinestones were from my stash and sentiment was from SU.
Why not join in this weeks challenge!  You don't have to use a Pixie stamp or image, and you could win any 2 pixie stamps of your choice!  There are soooooo many wonderful stamps to choose from!

It's Wednesday so it means another challenge here at The Pixie Cottage!
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 "Family Thankfulness"



Remember you can use the sketch or the optional technique or both!
The randomly picked winner will win two stamps of their choice from the Pixie Cottage Collection. The winner will be announced on the Friday after the challenge ends.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Midnight Madness Sketch #130

For my Midnight Madness card for this week, I used this adorable snow-scene paper piecing. I just fell in love with those cute little faces!  My image was handcut and layered 3-4 times.  My cardstocks are from Recollections.  Flowers are by Prima and rhinestones are from my stash!

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 MMSC129 Gold Star Award goes to...
 8. Sandee 
 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
  7. Gro Tjeltveit 
 15. Sue Drees  
 27. April 
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Our MMSC129 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
 9. Annette 
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Our MMSC130 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!
Thank you for your sponsorship America and a special thank you to Sue Drees for donating these wonderful stamps. It is so cool to see a challenge that has such a warm, giving and family feeling to it. Be sure to stop by and check out there challenges each week. The are wonderful group of crafters :)
Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #129

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 MMSC128 Gold Star Award goes to...
 12. An 
 Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
 28. Merkku 
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Our MMSC128 Weekly Bonus Winner is...
 36. Olga 
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Our MMSC129 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge is a site filled with wonderful projects and techniques using House-Mouse & Friends Stamps that include House-Mouse, Happy Hoppers, and Gruffies Images!.  We are not affiliated with HMD. We are just a super enthusiastic group of Stampers who LOVE creating with these Stamps.  We post a NEW challenge every other week on Mondays. We offer great prizes to those who enter projects into our challenges using these stamps. So come visit us to join the FUN and get inspired by the beautiful samples from the TALENTED Design Team here: http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/
One lucky winner will these brand NEW House-Mouse & Friends Stamps!!!!
Thank you for your sponsorship America :)
Now to our players... break out those House Mouse stamps, dust them off and show us your lovely creations. All images are welcome, but we would love to see these cute  images flood our inlinkz this week!! Have fun with whatever you create for our challenge!!


For my Midnight Madness card for this week I used this Tilda on Christmas Cardstock. Tilda was stamped with stazon and colored with prisma colored pencils.
My rhinestones & ribbons were colored with copic markers.  Glitter was added to parts of Tilda and her packages for sparkle.
Why not enter our challenge!  I would love to see your creations!

Creative Crew Simon Says Stamps

This fortnightly challenge is Thankful and is sponsored by our monthly sponsor Simon Says Stamp. They have the most delightful things in their store. Be sure to visit them and show them how Thankful we are for them sponsoring us, and for stocking the most wonderful crafting supplies.

With over 100,000 items in stock, Simon offers one stop online shopping for the best Rubber Stamp, Scrapbooking, Artist Trading Card, Altered Art, Card Making, and Paper Crafting products on the market today. We offer a complete selection of products from Tim Holtz, Hero Arts, Ranger Industries, Wendy Vecchi, Magnolia Stamps, Copic Markers, Promarkers, Penny Black, Lawn Fawn, and many others!

 For my design card for the Creative Card Crew I made a cute little thank-you card for a good friend.  My Tilda image was stamped with stazon and colored with my prisma colored pencils.  My cardstocks are from My Minds Eye Lost and Found 2.  Sentiments are from SU Many Thanks set.  (I sure have used them a lot over the years!)

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Pixie Cottage Sketch #94 and Get Started on Christmas!!


For my design card for the Pixie Cottage, I used a Pixie exclusive stamp called Hannah with a Candle by Sandra Hammer.  She was stamped with Momento ink and colored and shaded with copics and Prisma colored pencils. My cardstocks are from Mindseye Lost and Found 2 collection.



It's Wednesday so it means another challenge here at The Pixie Cottage!
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 "Get Started, Make a Christmas Card"

Remember you can use the sketch or the optional technique or both!
The randomly picked winner will win two stamps of their choice from the Pixie Cottage Collection. The winner will be announced on the Friday after the challenge ends.
Why not join us and enter!  You could be the lucky winner of some incredible Pixie Stamps!