Follow The Recipe #21

It's time for the "Follow The Recipe" challenge at Catered Crop. Each challenge, the top chefs stir up their own recipe using the ingredients of the winning entry from the last challenge, which was Sara's entry.  In her darling creation, she used these ingredients...


Colors – Vintage tones (sepias, gold, cream, muted greens)
Papers - Design Paper (K&Co), torn book page, doily, paper scraps
Stamps – flowers, leaves, sentiment
Color Mediums – Distress inks, Archival ink, Crackle, Viva Gold, cream paint
Embellishments – ribbon, lace, mini-tag, button, press-studs, thread
Techniques – stamped resist technique (on bird), stitching, Grunge Rose, sewing, distress
Tools – Die cuts - bird, cage, flower
Themes –Vintage, tag, bird cage


And here's what I created using some of Sara's ingredients (my ingredients are listed in red).  It's a perfect Fall/masculine card, but not with the traditional Fall colors you would expect.

If you are so inclined, check out the "Follow The Recipe" challenge at Catered Crop. It's a fun challenge with lots of artistic latitude. Chances are that that card, tag, or 3-D paper project you have in the making meets some of the ingredient criteria. Look and see for yourself. Hopefully, we will see you there.


I'm also linking this up to these challenges.

Anything Goes - Anything Goes

Card Makin' Mamas - Punches

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - Lots of Layers

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenges - Autumn

Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes

Creative Belli - String

Inspire me Fridays - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes
Scrap-Creations - Anything Goes

Simon Say Stamps - Dies/Punches

Southern Girls - Anything Goes

Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle - Fave Color(s)

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

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.

Follow The Recipe #19

One of my favorite challenges kicks off a new one today (alternating Sundays)...it's "Follow The Recipe" at Linda McClain's Catered Crop. Talk about one very talented lady.. sheesh!!

This week, after a nation-wide vote to break a tie, the winning entry selected was created by Dana. Using a bit of wizardry magic, here's the recipe that Dana used to create her lovely card. The items in red are the ingredients I picked from Dana's elements to create my own card with a vintage and masculine twist.

- Colors – jewel tones of pink, violet and blue, gold/yellow and brown

- Stamps and Stickers – gears or clock works, wizards and magic, butterflies, text/script, sentiment
- Color Mediums – stamping/distress ink, markers/Copics (to tint the ribbon), acrylic paint
- Embellishments – ribbon, brads, tags, polymer clay, glitter/Stickles
- Techniques – mixed-media, collage, use and/or layer digital stamps, edge the card with paint
- Theme – just because, Halloween, magic

I added some UTEE to the postmark, some chipboard, twine, lots of pop-dots, and changed my colors to black, tan, kraft and cream papers. That's the beauty of this challenge. You get to use the elements you want and then add your own.

Our sponsor this week is Stampee Crafts One lucky winner will get to pick 4 foils and also get free bonding powder. Turns out, it's a great sponsor for this week's challenge.

I'm also entering this in these challenges...

• Challenge Up Your Life – Something for Men
• Crazy 4 Challenges – Male Themed
• Ellephantastic – Add some layers
• Sugar Creek Hollow – Make It Masculine
• Totally Gorjuss – as you like it (whatever you like)
• Cooking it up with katie - Brads, Embossing, borders

Check out the "Follow The Recipe" challenge and join us.. it's a blast!

Thanks so much for stopping by, friends. See you later this week.

Follow The Recipe - Challenge #18

At Catered Crop's "Follow The Recipe", our challenge theme is made up of the ingredients the designer of the winning card used in his/her creation, and this week we had two winners and you can see their winning cards here.

This is a really fun challenge to try...and I hope you will give it a go. We get to pick recipe ingredients used in the winning entry. With a choice of  two themes, I selected 'gardening' which led me to combine two Mo Manning digital images (The Big Guy Gardening and Potter's Bench) to create a perfect retirement card.

These are all of the ingredients were used in the winning cards, but the ones in red are what I used in my creation.

• Colors – primary colors like red, yellow, blue (and green), and a little brown for dirt
• Stamps and Stickers – anything that grows from a seed, gardening, back to school, worms!
• Patterns – circles, checked/gingham, notebook paper
• Color Mediums – stamping ink, markers (ProMarker, Copics)
• Embellishments – buttons, ribbon, thread/twine
• Tools – border punch, die cut shapes, embossing plates
• Techniques – make a bookmark, mat your panels, tie ribbons through your buttons, machine sewing (I did faux sewing)
• Theme – garden, back to school

Hope to see you at our "Follow The Recipe" challenge at Catered Crop.

I'm also entering this in these challenges...

Cute Card Thursday - Clean and simple

Ellephantastic - Layers

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Straight Edges
AI Factory - Anything Goes
Crafty Ann's - Scallops and/or Fancy Borders
Crafty Sentiments - Punches & Dies
Totally Papercrafts - Food & Drink

FTR #15 at Catered Crop

It's that time again... time for the Quickfire post for the "Follow The Recipe" challenge at Catered Crop.  This week our winner is Crystal and her entry included this mix of great recipe ingredients. 

• Colors – red, yellow green
• Stamps and Stickers – shrooms! (fungi, garden or just anything that grows in the ground)
• Patterns - hearts, polka dots
• Color Mediums – Prisma pencils
• Embellishments – buttons, bakers' twine
• Tools – digital stamps, dimensional adhesives
• Theme – love and friendship

To emulate Crystal's entry, I used:

• Bright, summery colors
• a floral theme
• 'Friendship' for the sentiment
• Prisma pencils
• A digital stamp - this darling image is from Mo's Digital Pencil
• Button and twine
• Dimensionals

Come and join us at the Catered Crop challenge this week.. there's lots of inspiration and it's pretty fun to play along. You get to take your entry just about anywhere you want to go.

Thanks so much for stopping by, friends.

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.

FTR #12 - Something Masculine

Each week at Catered Crop, we get to select one entry that gives us the inspiration for our next "Follow The Recipe" challenge and this week, the selected entry was very masculine...here's the recipe from the winning card.

* Colors – brown, blue, red
* Stamps and Stickers – nautical, light house, sentiment
* Color Mediums – stamp ink, Copic markers
* Embellishments – twine/hemp rope, charm
* Tools – die cuts, air brush system
* Techniques – make a scene, use a creative fold
* Theme – masculine, Father's Day

And, here's my response for the winning recipe.

I created this scene using stamps from Cornish Farms... colored it up with Copic markers, added some white twine with a nautical knot and colored the sky with soft yellow and aqua inks.  The background paper was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. Simple, elegant, and definitely masculine.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Becky Roberts of Inking Idaho. The random winner gets to choose any of her templates. Here's the link: http://inkingidaho.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by, friends.. and have a fantastic day!

FTR #11

It's time for our "Follow the Recipe" at Catered Crop. And this week, the team picked our entry from   Moriah at Fuzzy Slippers Designs.   Following her entry, I created this for the challenge.

I used a digi from Sassy Cheryl's collection, printed designer papers with a Spring/all occasion theme, Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils, and, of course ribbon.

This week, entrants will get a shot at a $25 gift certificate for a Ribbon Carousel from our sponsor, Corinna McGregor. Check it out!! One lucky person will be chosen randomly.

So go cook up something and join us!

Follow The Recipe #10

Want to play along in a really fun challenge?  Check out Catered Crop's "Follow the Recipe".  Each week the design team selects one darling entry and then we follow their recipe... We get to pick out the elements of their project that we'd like to use in ours.

Here's the recipe from our last challenge created by Cheryl.

* Pattern Paper – stripes, miniprints
* Colors – pastels
* Stamps – go digital, bunnies, butterflies, and flowers
* Color Mediums – Copic markers, paint, white pens
* Embellishments – burlap, pinwheels, twine, buttons, eyelets, brads
* Tools – sewing machine, Cropadile, die cuts
* Techniques – sewing, distressing
* Theme – Spring

And here's what I did to create my own interpretation... using one of the darling digis from BugaBoo.

I used striped paper as well as a mini print in my design, stitched around the card, used buttons and twine and this darling little cheerleader from Bugaboo!  I colored my image with Prisma pencils and sponged the background, using a Nesties die cut for my frame.

This week, our sponsor is Bugaboo stamps (http://www.bugaboostamps.com/home.html). And, if you are the lucky entrant that is chosen randomly, you would get to pick 7 (yes, seven!) digis from their huge selection.

See you at Catered Crop!  Thanks so much for stopping by.