Winner Revealed for Challenge #88

Congratulations to the winner of The Pixie Cottage Challenge #88.

Let's hear it for #12 Mary C.

What a wonderful take on the sketch, and your brads buttons and bows were expertly added! Thank you for participating, your card was full of wonderful layers. We hope to see you playing with The Pixie Cottage again this week.

Congratulations Mary C., Please contact Michelle with your details so you can choose your stamps.

Our current challenge #89  Pop It Up  runs until October4th, 2011.Won't you play along?

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #89 - Pop It Up

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 "Pop It Up!"
You can interpret this in lots of ways, you could make a Pop Up Card, use foam dots to pop up areas, make an easel card, anything just as long as it pops!

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.

We have guest designer Jane from Janes Lovely Cards joining us for September
Using Udderly Adorable Boy by Alisa Ramirez

Katie
Using Licorice Digital Stamp by ARTish

Davi
Using Fall Wagon Wheel by Sandra Hammer

Sadia
Using Big Valentine by Faith Skrdla

Denise
Using Hoo Loves You

Tanya
Using Crawling Cassie by Lisa Schmidt

Wendy
Using Come On Up Digital Stamp by ARTish

So now it's your turn to go and create and come back and share with us.
Please add your link to the gadget below so we can come and see your project.
No back links please, if the item was on your blog before Septmeber 28th then it will be removed. Thanks for your understanding on this matter.
The link gadget will close on October 4th at 11.59pm CST.

Winner for Challenge #87

Congratulations goes out to the winner of The Pixie Cottage Challenge #87.

Let's hear it for #3 Michelle

What a wonderful take on the sketch! Thank you for participating, your card was super cute. We hope to see you playing with The Pixie Cottage again this week.

Congratulations Michelle, Please contact Michelle with your details so you can choose your stamps.

Our current challenge #88  Brads Buttons and Bows runs until September 27th, 2011.Won't you play along?

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #88 - Brads, Buttons and Bows

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 "Brads, Buttons and Bows"

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.

We have guest designer Jane from Janes Lovely Cards joining us for September
Using Stealing Hearts by Eileen Gutierrez

We also have a very special guest designer joining us this week, none other than our own Michelle!
Using The Diner by ArTish

Katie
Using Best Hugs by Alisa Ramirez

Anne
Using Everyone Wants Some "Bunny" to Love by Alisa Ramirez

Davi
Using Best Hugs by Alisa Ramirez

Sadia
Using Stump and Bench by Sandra Hammer

Denise
Using Best Hugs by Alisa Ramirez

Karen
Using Spring Friends by Eileen Gutierrez

Tanya
Using Best Hugs by Alisa Ramirez

Wendy
Using Willow Picnic Digital Image by ARTish

So now it's your turn to go and create and come back and share with us.
Please add your link to the gadget below so we can come and see your project.
No back links please, if the item was on your blog before September 21st then it will be removed. Thanks for your understanding on this matter.
The link gadget will close on September 27th at 11.59pm CST.

Blog Candy Winner

The winner for the 3 new rubber stamps from The Pixie Cottage is Ardilla!!

Ardilla please email me at thepixiecottage@aol.com with your snail mail address and I will send out your favorite stamp along with two others!!!

Thanks so much for playing eveyrone.

Michelle

Winner Revealed for Challenge #86

Can you all help us congratulate the winner of The Pixie Cottage Challenge #86.

Congratulations goes out to #13 Kurlygirl

What an amazing Mellow Yellow creation. Thank you for inspiring us, we hope to see you playing with The Pixie Cottage again this week.

Congratulations Kurlygirl, Please contact Michelle with your details so you can choose your stamps.

Our current challenge #87 Fussy and Fancy runs until September 20th, 2011.Won't you play along?

DESIGN TEAM CALL

Are you a creative, do you love rubber stamps that you can color? Do you maintain an active blog? Do you enjoy challenges? We are looking for junior and senior designers to create cards, layouts, and altered art with our rubber stamps and digital images.
How to Apply:

Leave a comment on this post and a link to your blog on The Pixie Cottage Blog. (Please specify if you are applying for a senior or junior position) If you prefer to apply by email confidentially you can email a link to your blog to thepixiecottage@aol.com.


You have until October 1st, 2011 to apply for a design team position. We will announce the new DT on Oct 15th, 2011. Your term will start Nov 1st, 2011.
What to expect:
1. A commitment from November 1, 2011 – April 30, 2012.
You will need to make one project a week for The Pixie Cottage challenge if you are a Senior member. You will need to post it to you blog with a link back to The Pixie Cottage blog, a link to our store would also be welcome.


2. Junior members will be required to post 2 projects per month to the challenge, post your cards via our yahoo group by the Monday prior to the challenge, also posting it on their blog, and linking to the challenge.

 3. TUTORIAL SPECIALIST:
We would also like to find someone who could be committed to doing tutorials once a month--this is a separate position and not a requirement of all design team members. You would be exempt of doing challenges and only required to do one tutorial per month. For your tutorial you will receive 3 stamps per month of your choice from our line. One of which needs to be used in the tutorial. You can use whatever other products you like. You also will qualify for a 25% off discount in our store once a month. You will be required to post the tutorial to our blog, and your blog as well, with a link back to The Pixie Cottage blog. Your tutorials can be video or pictures. If you are applying for this position please email thepixiecottage@aol.com and let me know a little more about your experience with this.

 4. You sometimes will receive stamps that are new and not released, these must be kept confidential. No sharing/swapping/selling/emailing rubber images or digital files please.


5. You will be required to send via snail mail 2 cards to The Pixie Cottage in your six month term, at your leisure. You choose the cards, I will pay 3.50 per card to alleviate the shipping charges and help defray the costs of your supplies used. (I may request additional cards…. But that will be totally optional, and also paid)

6. Challenge cards must use The Pixie Cottage Stamps, you however, may also use other stamps/sentiments with our stamps. Not a problem, in fact we encourage it!

8. You are required to use all stamps that are sent to you, and once you have done that you can request more. (Details will be explained on our group on how to do this)
New releases will be shipped automatically.

9. We reward our designers who get their Pixie Cottage cards and projects published. We also reward you for getting you local rubber stamping and scrap booking stores to carry our stamps.

10. We are easy to work with, friendly and have a wonderfully organized design team leader. In addition, you will receive a 20% off discount to my store for all items in my store, not just our stamps. I carry some of the most sought after products in stamping, and will gladly special order when possible. (No discount on gift certificates, furniture and cutters and Copic Club please) You can use this discount throughout your six month term. Your name will be listed and linked through our Pixie Cottage blog.
Thanks for reading all of this,


Michelle Offenberger, Owner

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #87 - Fussy and Fancy

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 "Fussy and Fancy". It's time to go all out and add embellishments, ribbons, lace, embossing, anything you like, just make it as fussy and fancy as you can!

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.

We have guest designer Jane from Janes Lovely Cards joining us for September
Using The Pixie Cottage by Sandra Hammer

Now here the rest of the Design Team Samples!

Katie
Using I Luv My Blankie by Alisa Ramirez

Davi
Using Tea For Two Digital Image by ARTish

Sadia
Using Simply the Best by ARTish

Tanya
Using Cupcakes Set by ARTish

Karen
Using Ballerina Fairy Taking a Ride Alisa Ramirez

Wendy
Using Tea For Two Digital Image by ARTish

Nancy
Using Feathers Digital Image by ARTish

Amber
Using Let's Go Sledding Digital Image by ARTish

So now it's your turn to go and create and come back and share with us.
Please add your link to the gadget below so we can come and see your project.
No back links please, if the item was on your blog before September 14th then it will be removed. Thanks for your understanding on this matter.
The link gadget will close on September 20th at 11.59pm CST.

Congratulations to our Digi Image Winner

Congratulations to Terri she was chose by random number generator to win her choice of one of our new digital stamps.

Terri (avidreader) can you email me at thepixiecottage@aol.com and let me know your email address.  ( I will see if I can get it off your blog... but just in case)

Thanks everyone for playing, and don't forget about our RUBBER blog candy still going on below~!!

Michelle

Winner Announced for Challenge # 85

Can you all help us congratulate the winner of The Pixie Cottage Challenge #85.

Congratulations goes out to #17 Eve

What a wonderful take on the sketch and the Back to School theme! Thank you for inspiring us by participating, your choice of embellishments were just adorable, and the primary colour scheme was brilliant. We hope to see you playing with The Pixie Cottage again this week.

Congratulations Eve, Please contact Michelle with your details so you can choose your stamps.

Our current challenge #86 Mellow Yellow runs until September 13th, 2011.Won't you play along?

NEW Rubber in the house!!! and More Blog Candy!!

New Rubber in the House!! 

(read through the post for blog candy)

Here I am back as promised with our latest rubber stamps.

We have some adorable new images from Alisa Ramirez as well as couple from ArTish as well!!  For all you Sandra Hammer fans, new stamps to follow soon!

First of all, you are going to love these teddy bears!! Aren't they the cutest ever?!

And another sweet stamp of Buffy the Bunny, in fact a little set.  There is a sentiment included with this image.

and from ArTish we have another wonderful background/scene stamp, perfectly sized to use to build scenes with other stamp brands like Magnolia, TGF and CC Designs.  It also would work well as a stand alone stamp, so nostalgic.  In addition, ArTish brings you some oh so sweet cupcakes, and I have added a couple of sentiments to make this a set!

So there you have it, The Pixie Cottage's five new rubber stamps!!  Oops, wait a minute, I forgot about our a new  Friend sentiment stamp duo!! It is available for only 4.99 and comes on cling foam.

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I also wanted to show you this beautiful projects that my friend  Janiel (From My Little Pieces of Art) has made with these Teddies!  Doesn't she just do the best job?  I can almost feel the fur on these bears she has colored.  Thanks Jan~~ you are a fantastic friend! (and fantastically talented too!!)

BLOG CANDY

Leave a comment here on this blog post and link it back to your blog where you will make a post telling your blog followers which is your favorite new Pixie Cottage stamp and why.  Please make sure this is a post, not a sidebar element and that your post is linked to this post. I will pick one lucky winner who will receive THREE of the new Pixie Cottage stamps. (the stamp she chose as her favorite and two othes of my choosing from the new releases!)

Ends Sept 18th.  Winner will be announced soon thereafter.

So that is it!

Don't miss our challenge that was posted earlier this morning!

Michelle



The Pixie Cottage Challenge #86 - Mellow Yellow

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 "Mellow Yellow"

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 and the Top 3 favorites will be announced on the Friday after the challenge ends.

We have a new guest designer joining us for September and that is Jane from Janes Lovely Cards!
She used Udderely Adorable Girl by Alisa Ramirez

Katie
Using Bunny with Roses by Di Carubia

Davi
Using Stargazer by ARTish

Sadia
Using Beary Tiny by Tina Akonom

Tanya
Using Hannah on a Swing by Sandra Hammer

Karen
Using Puddle Jumper Digital Stamp by ARTish

Kobie
Using Hannah on a Swing by Sandra Hammer

Nancy
Using Hannah on a Bench (out of stock)

So now it's your turn to go and create and come back and share with us.
Please add your link to the gadget below so we can come and see your project.
No back links please, if the item was on your blog before September 7th then it will be removed. Thanks for your understanding on this matter.
The link gadget will close on September 13th at 11.59pm CST.