AWARD

I made the top 3:











My first...award from a challenge. I am so excited. Thank you so much Victoria for awarding me a top 3. I love your stamps and the challenges have been so fun.

Thanks,
Kathy

Just Magnolia #15 - Sketch

Materials:

Stamp: Tilda, Lizzie Anne sentimant
Paper: SU perfect plum, cool caribian, dp SU
Embelishments: SU ribbon, Prima flower, gems, dew drops
copics: E000, Y21, E31, E55, BG05, RV99

Kathy

VC Challenge #9 - Sketch

Great new sketch. I love the way it turned out. I will use this idea again.

Materials:

Stamp: VC Monster
Ink: Ranger Distressed Vintage Photo
Paper: SU Lovely Lilac, MME, Basic Grey
Embellishments: Ribbon, Thread
Copics: E00, E25, E47, YR15, YR07, Y21, BV04, BV04

Kathy

High Hopes Challenge

High Hopes Christmas in July challenge. This was tough I guess I am not in the Christmas mode right now. Living in Minnesota and Christmas makes me think of snow and cold. NOT ready for that. Well, I did buy this stamp last year for this Christmas. I have a family that likes the outdoors and fishing so I thought this was perfect. I think this one turned out great. I am going to do something similar for mine. I will have to change the layout because of postage.

Materials:

Stamps: High hopes fishing santa
Paper: SU Black, Wild wasabi, Real red, Creamy caramel, dp-SU
Embellishments: SU punch, MS punch, bells, ribbon, thread, flocks
Copics: E00, R29, Y21, E31, N01, N03, E33, G24, YG67

Kathy

The Sugar Bowl #15

My first entry for The Sugar Bowl. I love Sugar Nellie and I am so glad I found this so I could join it. This was so much fun.

Materials:

Paper: SU creamy caramel, pumpkin pie, not quite navy, and bashful blue, SU dp
Stamp: Daisy
Ink: black, Distressed ink: faded jean, pine needles
Embellishments: eyelets, ribbon, embroidery thread, dewdrops and charm
Copics: E000, E25, E47, B93, YR07, YR15, G24, YG67

Kathy

Farm Fresh Friday

I have been joining a challenge over on The Greeting Farms call the Farm Fresh Friday challenge. Check it out if you love there stuff it is fun. I thought I would share this week challenge with you...well...because I liked it.

Kathy

Just Magnolia #14 - Buttons

Buttons, buttons.....
I don't have alot of buttons but I found some and they matched my colors.


Stamp: Edwin
Papers: SU always artichoke, creamy caramel, dp SU
Embellishments: BUTTONS (of course), ribbon, nesties, cuttlebug
Copics: E00, E31, E55, E25, E47, YG95, YG99, Y11, Y21

Kathy

VC Challenge #8 - Hot Pink, Orange and White

A new image and a new challenge. She is a cute little digi image I got over at VC. So fun to color and great to create with. I used the required Hot Pink, Orange and White colors. I hope Victoria doesn't mind that I cut off the little puddle on the image but I thought this worked ok without.

Materials:

Image: Just Duckie
Paper: SU whisper white, pixie pink, only orange, dp MME
Embellishments: Flower brads, brads, dewdrops, ribbon
Copics: E000, E25, E447, YG67, RV21, RV34, YR15, YR07

Kathy

Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge - Sketch

This weeks sketch was from Debbie. It was great. I loved how it turned out. I did on thing different and made my image round because I already had her colored and cut out to use sometime but it think it still works.

Materials:

Stamp: C.C. Designs Swiss Pixies Gretel
Paper: SU real red, generic DP
Embellishments: Prima flowers, brads, Nesties, eyelets and gems
copics: N03, N07, R29, E00

Kathy

Just Magnolia Week #13

This weeks Challenge was a sketch by Mina. These sketch challenges are great for giving me ideas. I really like this one.

Materials:

Stamp: Magnolia Tilda (from a friend)
Paper: SU Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, DP from Basic Gray
Embellishments: Dewdrops, prima, jewles, brads, ribon, cuttlebug and punches
Copics: E00, E25, E47, E31, E33, E55, BG72, G21, Y21

Kathy

Wonderful Awards X2

The Lemonade Stand: "Choose seven ladies who according to this award show an attitude of gratitude"

Thank you so much, Siobhan from the-monkey-hut!


Thank you for my first award. I am honored and love that someone likes my "stuff"

I am to pass this on to 7...here are my choices:

Gina, Making and Musing
Kay, Tartan Magnolia
Laura, Whirlpool of Imagination
Caz, A Load of Old Blogocks
Kimmie, Kraftin' Kimmie's Korner
Bev, All the things I love
Brandy, Sparkle Shimmer and Twinkle


Blog Award

Thank you so much for thinking of me Amy, Color Your Imagination

Pass on this Blog Award to appreciate the fellowing bloggers.There a couple of fun "rules" (well, more like guidelines) to this award:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

My 15 awards go to:

Claudia, Pretty Pressings
Lim, The Voice of in my Head
Sparkle, Sparkle Creations
Holly, S.A.H.M., I AM!
Kim, Desperately Seeking Stamps
Katie, katiesniche
Gina, Making and Musing
Jennifer, Cuppy Cake
Moni, Nixe07
Gill, Dollie Dewdrop
Caz, A Load of Old Blogocks
Cheryl, Cottage Creations
Kimmie, Kraftin' Kimmie's Korner
Bev, All the things I love
Brandy, Sparkle Shimmer and Twinkle

Thank you both for picking me and I encourage everyone to visit these blogs they are great.

Hugs,
Kathy

VC Challenge #7 - Sketch

This challenge was so much fun because I got to use my new stamp from VC. I had so much fun coloring this one. She just makes me happy. Hope you all enjoy and if you get a chance check out this great site: www.victoriacaseartdesigns.com for this stamp and a bunch of others.

Materials:

Stamps: VC Grape Fairy, Bella Happy Birthday
Ink: SU Chocolate Chip
Paper: SU Chocolate Chip and DP
Embellishments: Dew Drops, eyelets, Stickles and SU ribbon
Copics: E00, E25, E47, BV02, BV04, BV11, YG91, YG95, YG99, Y11, Y21

Hugs,
Kathy

Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge-Hearts

Here is my entry for the Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge. I missed last week by a day, but this time I made it. I hope you like all the hearts.

Materials:

Stamps: Hanglar and Stanglar, generic sentiment
Inks: Black and SU Chocolate Chip
Papers: SU Purely Pomegranate, Kraft, MME designer paper
Embellishments: pearls, ribbon, charm, Primas, MS punch, nestabilities
Copics: E000, E25, E47, RV21, RV34, RV29


Hugs,
Kathy

High Hopes Challenge #38

High Hopes Challenge this week - Dots and lots of them.
First off I am sorry about the color of the card. My camera didn't do it justice. I chose Huggable Hank because I thought he would look good covering in Dots. I think he looks a bit sick....lol I have dotted paper but I wanted to be different and create my own. I used a stamp from and interior flower on the top and a cuttlebug folder on the bottom with glitter pen to enhance.


Materals:
Stamps: HH Huggable Hank, generic sentiment
Ink: SU Pacific Point, Chocolate Chip, black pen
Paper: SU chocolate chip, Pacific Point, Bashful Blue, kraft
Embellishments: Ribbon, brads
Copics: E31, E33, E55, B93

Copics Challenge - Brunette hair

New image and brunette hair to boot. I saw this image on SCS and I couldn't resist buying it. It is from www.pollycraftdesigns.co.uk. There are some cute ones on there but only digi images are available in the US. Hope you take a look.

Materials:

Stamps: Cherry Kisses - Attitude, generic sentiment
Paper: SU Pixie pink, Pretty in pink, black
Embellishments: ribbon, cuttlebug, Martha Steward punch, brad and eyelets
Copics: RV10, RV21, E25, E47, E00, N01, N03, N07

Hugs,
Kathy

Just Magnolia Challenge #12- So Charming

I simple card for the "so charming" challenge at Just Magnolia. This Image is from a swap and is the first time I am using it.

Stamps: Edwin, Flowers ( I think are Clear stamps), Generic sentiment
Paper: Kraft, SU chocolate chip, wild wasabi
Embellishments: Charm, pearls, embroidery tread
Copics: E00, E25, E47, N1, N3, N7, Y21, B93, B45, G24, YG67

Hugs,
Kathy

VC Challenge #6 - Red/Black/Kraft

This weeks challenge was to use red, black and kraft. I have never used this color combination and really liked these colors together. I will use them again sometime. I used the same Free stamp I got from VC. I have an order in for a few new ones and I can't wait to get them. This worm is really cute though.

Materals:

Stamps: VC: Willy the Worm
Paper: SU really red, black and kraft.
Embellishments: dew drops, ribbon, cuttlebug, embroidery thread, gel pen
Copics: N1, N2, N7, R29, Y21, YR23, YG67, Y40


Hugs,
Kathy

Just Magnolia - Distressed Challenge

Just Magnolia has a new challenge: The Tutorial challenge. Here is my entry.

Materials:

Stamp: Farmer Tilda
Inks for Distressing: SU Whisper White, Chocolate Chip
Paper: SU Taken with Teal, Textured Creamy Carmel, Chocolate Chip
Embellishments: Brads, Prima Flowers, Jewels, Basic Gray ribbon and cuttlebug
Copics: E00, BG15, E31, D33, E55, E25, E47

Hugs,
Kathy