The Pixie Cottage Challenge #19 - 3D/Decoupage/Paper Tole

It time for another Once Upon a Wednesday Challenge.
This week we have a wonderful sketch for you designed by Senior Design Team Member Pam!


As well as the sketch we have the technique challenge of Paper Tole. Some people call this Decoupage and the technique involves multiple layers of the same initial image. So you stamp more than one of the image and then cut out and pop up parts of the image to form dimension in the layers. It is not cutting out a whole of the image, just the parts that would be at the front/top layer if the image was in 3D. Hopefully you'll be able to see some of the effect on the teams cards.
Remember also that our challenges are "Take Your Pick" and you can choose to do the sketch, the technique or both!

One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.
Winners will be announced on the Friday following the end of the challenge.

We also have another fabulous card by our Special Guest for the month;
Rowena
Using Alisa In Wonderland by Alisa Ramirez



Katie
Using Puppy Love by Eileen Gutierrez



Pam
Using Cookie and Kaboodle with Roses by Di Carubia



Risa
Using Bunny With Roses by Di Carubia



Anne
Using Loves A Lot Lion by Eileen Gutierrez



Peggy
Using Bunny With Roses by Di Carubia



ArTish
Using South End Girl by Andrea T Seiler



Denise
Using Hannah With Butterflies by Sandra Hammer



Tanya
Using Maisy and Matt's Wedding by Di Carubia


Katarina
Using Crawling Cassie by Lisa Schmidt



Denise C
Using Love Bug by Eileen Gutierrez



Davi
Using Sweet Molly by Eileen Gutierrez


Erin
Using Whispering Maisy & Matt by Di Carubia



Cheryl
Using Cookie and Kaboodle with Roses by Di Carubia



I'm sure you'll agree that the Design Team did us proud this week!
Now we'd all love to see your creations, who knows you may be the lucky winner this time!
Please add your link to the gadget below and Good Luck!!
Katie and The Team

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #18 - Vintage/Distressing - Guest Sketch

It's Wish Upon Wednesday time and it's time for another Special Guest Sketch Artist!
This time we have one of the Queen's of the Copic Markers, it's with great pleasure that today our sketch is designed by the very lovely Suzanne Dean from Scrapbitz!
Suzanne is a whizz with Copic's and has done many tutorials showing us mere mortals how she creates her masterpieces. She also has online classes at her Color Me Creative Classroom for those wishing to learn hands on.
As well as designing the sketch



Suzanne has also created this fabulous card showcasing the wonderful Hannah by The Pond by Sandra Hammer



Along with the super sketch for this challenge we'd love to see you get your hands a little inky and add some Vintage or Distressed touches to your creation.
Remember you can use the sketch, the technique or both!
One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.
Winners will be announced on the Friday following the end of the challenge.

We also have another fabulous card by our Special Guest for the month;
Rowena
Using South End Girl by Andrea Seiler



And here are the creations by the rest of our talented team!

Katie
Using Maisy and Matts Wedding by Di Carubia



Pam
Using Whispering Maisy and Matt by Di Carubia



Risa
Using Dancing Maisy by Di Carubia



Anne
Using Maisy and Matts Wedding by Di Carubia



Peggy
Using Simply The Best by ArTish



ArTish
Using Bunny with Roses by Do Carubia



Denise
Using Whispering Maisy and Matt by Di Carubia



Sharon
Using Hannah With Butterflies by Sandra Hammer



Tanya
Using Barnie in Spring by ArTish


Katarina
Using Give Me a Hug by Alisa Ramirez



Denise C
Using Dancing Maisy by Di Carubia



Davi
Using Simply The Best by ArTish



Erin
Using Maisy and Matts Wedding by Di Carubia



Tracey
Using Whispering Maisy and Matt by Di Carubia



Cheryl
Using Hannah With Butterflies by Sandra Hammer



We hope you will join in and play along with the Pixie Pals this week, remember you use the sketch, go a little vintage (or get distressed! LOL) or both!
When you have created your project come back and add it to the gadget below.

Have fun, Katie and the Team.

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #17 - Make Your Own Charms

It's Once Upon Wednesday time and for this challenge we'd love to see you use your skill to "Make Your Own Charm"! This could be out of Polymer clay, Shrink Plastic, Beads and Jewelry findings, anything you can think of!
And along with the technique part we have another fabulous sketch from our very own team member Pam.
Remember our challenges are "take your pick" so you can chose the technique, the sketch or both if you like!



Also for the month of May we have a very special guest designer.
Rowena from Crafty Pagan Designs
If you haven't seen Rowena's work before you are in for a treat. She has a mix of vintage, whimsy and just plain arty wonderfulness! LOL Please visit her and leave her some love.

One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.
Winners will be announced on the Friday following the end of the challenge.


Rowena
Using Hannah With Butterflies by Sandra Hammer



Katie
Using Little Chick and Little Lamb by Alisa Ramirez



Pam
Using Baby Blake by Lisa Schmidt



Risa
Using Waking Up To Spring by ArTish



Anne
Using Baby Blake by Lisa Schmidt



Peggy
Using Hannah on Bench by Sandra Hammer



ArTish
Using Simply the Best by ArTish



Sharon
Using Baby Blake by Lisa Schmidt



Tanya
Using Savannah and Smiles by Alisa Ramirez



Davi
Using Valentines Hannah by Sandra Hammer altered with flowers



Tracey
Using Cassidy from the Girls of the World collection by Lisa Schmidt



Cheryl
Using Stump and Bench by Sandra Hammer



Adrina
Using Hannah With Butterflies by Sandra Hammer



We'd love to see how "Charmingly Creative" you can be and maybe use the sketch too!
Add your link to the gadget below and good luck!



Katie and The Team!

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #13 - Sketch and Embossing (wet or dry)

Hello and welcome to another Wish Upon A Wednesday!
Firstly let's get to the winners of last weeks challenge;
The randomly picked winner of their choice of two fabulous Pixie Cottage stamps is Mary S from Big Mamma's Stampin House! Please email Michelle at casdanben@aol.com with your address, and stamp selections.
Our Top Three picks are (in no particular order)
Cheryl W Sweet Designs by Cheryl
Sheila Doubtfire's Musings
Kim From I'm Living in Paradise
Congratulations and feel free to grab out banner for your blog



At the Pixie Cottage we are changing things up a little and are now going to be offering challenges every week!
Also we are changing to a "Take Your Pick" style challenge. We will give you a sketch and a technique/product/theme and you can chose to do one, the other or both!
This week's sketch comes from Senior Team Member Pam.


Along with the sketch we have the technique of Embossing, wet or dry, so please play along with the sketch, technique or both!
Remember you can use any stamp company you like but if you have some Pixie Cottage stamps we'd love to see what you can do with them.
Please remember also to only link to the direct post of a NEW creation, no linking to posts before the date of the challenge please.
Also note that you must link back to the Pixie Cottage blog to be in with a chance of winning or placing in our Top Three.
As we are moving to weekly challenges the Top Three and winner will now be announced on the Friday of the following week, thanks for your understanding.
One randomly picked winner will get their choice of 2 Pixie Cottage Stamps and the Design Teams Top Three entries will get to display the winners badge on their blog.

This is the first time you will have seen creations from the new team and I hope you can spend a few moments to give them a little love.
You can get to their blogs to see how they created the cards by clicking on their names.

Tracey



Tanya



Anne



Davi



Sharon



Risa



Erin



Denise C



Cheryl



Adrina



Katie



ArTish



Peggy



Pam



Denise L




While we are making changes we thought we'd try a new way of collecting entries too so now you can add your direct link to the gadget below.
Thanks so much for playing along and good luck!

Katie and The Design Team!