Catered Crop Meets Jelly Park

Illustrator Claire Keay is the owner of Jelly Park, and our sponsor for this week's challenge at Catered Crop. You might have met Claire and her darling little peeps before when she designed for My Favorite Things.

Even her logo is adorable. There's all kinds of cute digital stamps, party and craft supplies and more at her shop. The Catered Crop design team was treated to a couple of Claire's images for use in this challenge, and you can see all of them at the Catered Crop challenge blog in the upcoming days.

The challenge recipe ingredient for this week is buttons... and we've got an inspiration photo for you. Just use a button (or buttons) on your card and link it up at the Catered Crop kitchen. We'd love to see what you create.

I'm always at a loss for card layout ideas as I prefer to keep things a bit on the simple side and not so busy. So, I cased a layout I found on Dawn B's blog, my dear friend who shares similar styles and likes as me (Thanks, Dawn!).  AND... she just joined us at Catered Crop. You will love her creations.

Isn't she adorable? Her little coat and scarf were paper pieced. All designer papers are from DCWV's Nana's Nursery. There's a bit of icy glitter on the ground, and the sentiment is ?? - mounted on a sheet of plastic without a company name. I love the soft, feminine look of this card.

 

I'm often asked about the miniatures that I use in my photos. I guess I'll have to 'fess up and admit that I love miniatures - another very expensive hobby. The little items I use are from the "General Store" that my kids and I put together over 30 years ago. How would you like to have been surprised by this dollhouse for the dollhouse? It was made for me by my oldest son, Thom, when he was about seven years old - and yes, he used an x-acto blade when I wasn't home. It looks pretty beat up now and has seen better days... but I will treasure it forever. 'So creative and thoughtful for a mere seven-year old.

I'll get the General Store cleaned up and share that with you soon. It's definitely going to be passed on to my first granddaughter, someday.

I'm also entering this in these challenges:

Allsorts - Paper Piecing

Catch The Bug - Anything goes
Crafty Emma - Anything goes
Crazy 4 Challenges - New Year, use something new
Di's Digis Designs - Something new
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle -  Winter something
Sweet Stampin - Spots and Dots & use a stamp

Thanks so much for stopping by.. enjoy your day! See you later this week.

Challenge #20 at "Follow The Recipe"

It's time for the challenge at Catered Crop's "Follow The Recipe".. and this week, the chefs and our followers chose the beautiful creation submitted by E. T., a lovely shabby-chic card. You can see all of her lovely creations here. What a talented lady!

E.T. used these ingredients in her recipe...

Colors – Soft pastels
Stamps and Stickers – Butterflies, flowers, sentiment
Color Mediums – crayolas, stamping ink,
Embellishments – ribbon, glitter, lace, rosettes, tag, rhinestones/gems, pearls, ribbon
Techniques – use your own handwriting, embossing, stitching, make a bookmark
Tools –Die cuts, digital stamps
Themes –Shabby Chic

And those in red are the ingredients that I used in my recipe... to create this card for our Quick Fire post.

If you get a chance this week, check out the challenge and join us. We're sponsored by Heartfelt Creations this week...and there's bound to be some goodies for a lucky winner.

I'm also entering this in these challenges...
Secret Crafter - inspired by a song (All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Bros)
Speedy The Cat's Friends - Use a punch
Stamp Challenges - Stamp something
Stampin' For The Weekend - Tickled Pink
Colour Create Challenge - Pink, Cream, Brown, White
Delightful Sketches - Bling it

Bearly Mine - Flowers

Blog a Doodle - anything goes
Catch the Bug – punches

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Crop Stop #36 - Use Spellbinders Dies

Fun with Shapes and More - Anything Goes

Inspire me Friday - Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts Ink - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon - Diecuts

My Mums Craft Shop - Layers

Paper Creations Ink - Vintage or distressed

Pile It On! - Layer It Up!

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel - Anything Goes
Show and Tell - Anything Goes

See you then!  Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic day.

FTR #14 at Catered Crop

Today the chefs at "Follow the Recipe" have selected Hannah Clark's adorable design for our challenge inspiration.

Using Hannah's ingredients, I created this masculine card, perfect for Father's Day.

I used these ingredients from Hannah's card:

* Colors – blue, brown, green
* Stamps - nature, birds
* Color Mediums – Copic markers
* Embellishments – ribbon
* Techniques – distressing
* Theme – nature, birds, shabby chic

Then I added a few of my own ingredients:

• Paper punch for the sentiment
• UTEE to create an enamel look which was cracked and antiqued
• Antique brass brads

Our sponsor this time is a dear friend of Linda McClain, our esteemed Top Chef. You can find Texana Designs at this link at their Etsy shop.

Want to play along with us?  It's easy to do and we give you so much latitude in creating your design. Just check out Catered Crop to see how it's done. I hope to see you there, friends.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a fantastic day and an especially terrific Father's Day.