Deadbeat Designs

Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
~ William Shakespeare

Well, all I can say, is thank goodness it doesn't take a lot of virtue to eat cake or to join the Catered Crop Follow-the-Recipe party, because, well, I wouldn't be able to even play myself. Ah, but cake is so much fun! and so is Christine's recipe we're following. Christine from Crafting Christine won the last Catered Crop Follow-the-Recipe Party and now we're all playing along with her recipe.

Playing with us at the Catered Crop "Follow-the-Recipe" linking party is easier than boiling water! Here's how it works:

Use any of the ingredients (themes, colors, techniques, shapes, etc.) in Christine's recipe to make your project. You don't have to use all the ingredients or the same brands. Just pick a few ingredients and then add your own spices to cook up something uniquely yours.
Add your project using the InLinz (froggy) button below and join the party.
Be sure to list your recipe or tell us what ingredient you used from the sample recipe.
Don't forget to link back to this post or include the "I Followed the Recipe" button on your blog (see the side bar to the right).

Here's your FTR16 recipe:

Colors – red, white, green, and brown
Stamps and Stickers – cake, flowers, mice, strawberries
Patterns – circles, checked/gingham
Color Mediums – markers (ProMarker, Copics)
Embellishments – banners
Tools – border bunches
Techniques – faux stitching, doodling/drawing
Theme – birthday

Here's what our fabulous chefs, our guest chef, Christine, and our special celebrity chef, Deadbeat Design owner, Mark, dished up with Christine's recipe. Just click on the pictures to go to the Chef's blog and get all the details, including how they used Christine's recipe to make their project.

Dorcas Designs

Peggy Marsh

Jeanie Witmer

Linda McClain
with Deadbeat Design stamps

Guest Chef, Crafting Christine

Celebrity Chef, Mark Jetton
from Deadbeat Designs

Edited to add: Libby Hickson has been in the middle of a huge cross-country move, but she's such
a fan of Deadbeat Design stamps that she took time out to make this and join our Quickfire.
We get to enjoy her inaugural card in new stamping space. Thanks, Libby!

Libby Hickson
with Deadbeat Design stamps

You could be the randomly chosen winner of a prize package from Deadbeat Designs. Deadbeat Designs wood-mounted stamps are sold at lucky stores all across the country and online at DeadbeatDesigns.com. While Mark specializes in Texas imagery, he has a variety of other themes and is adding more all the time! We have an extra special Texas-size prize for our FTR16. One lucky player will win a $25 gift certificate to Deadbeat Designs. Yee Haw!

Just click on the link below to join the Catered Crop party. You have until Thursday, July 21, 8:00 PM EST.

July 17, 2011 | Filed Under: Deadbeat Designs, Dorcas Designs, Follow the Recipe, Jeanie Witmer, Libby Hickson, Peggy Marsh Tagged With: Deadbeat Designs, Follow the Recipe, FTR16, Jeanie Witmer, Libby Hickson, Peggy Marsh | Leave a Comment

Whoopi-ty-aye-oh, Rockin' to and fro . . . Fat in the saddle again
Whoopi-ty-aye-yay. I go my way . . . Fat in the saddle again
~ with apologies to Gene Autry

I can't help it. The whole time I was making this card Gene Autry's song "Back in the Saddle Again" kept running through my mind. And, being the twisted mind that it is "Back in the Saddle" became "Fat in the Saddle" – in my head, you know. I promise, I don't know any fat cowgirls. So, no cowgirls (or overburdened horses) were harmed in the making of this card. And, hey, don't blame me, blame Mark at Deadbeat Design, he started it with this stamp.

If that sentiment hits a little too close to home . . .

Hee Hee Hee! I promise, you I'd be jiggling to and fro so much on a saddle, even a Rodeo Clown pair of suspenders would be working overtime.

I've had these Deadbeat Design stamps forever. In fact, I like them so much, I accidentally bought one of them twice! If you'd like to see some of the other cards I've made with Mark's Deadbeat Design stamps, just click here, Deadbeat Designs.

Since Gene Autry isn't here to defend himself, here's the real version of his signature song (written by him and Ray Whitley in 1939). Try not to giggle about a jiggle.

Well, you know, I never follow the rules completely, even my own rules. Christine's fabulously delicious recipe for the Catered Crop Follow the Recipe #16 (FTR16) includes a cake with strawberries. Well, I didn't have any cake images or strawberries either. So, I thought I'd make my card about what would happen if I ate all that delicious cake – Yep! Fat in the Saddle for Sure! As for the rest of Christine's recipe, I did use some white and brown, flower (as a prop), circles, banners, and stitching.

So, you see, following the recipe at Catered Crop FTR16 is crazy easy – interpret the recipe any way you like, stir it up, and serve it by joining the linking party. It's a blast to see all the literal and not so literal interpretations of the recipes. Get more details and come play with us here, at Follow the Recipe FTR16. Mark's Deadbeat Designs is our sponsor for FTR16. Yee Haw is right!

Here's the rest of my recipe. I went crazy with my Stampin' Up! Copper stash. I guess I'll have to hoard these because they've been discontinued. Or at least I think they've been discontinued. (I don't have the new catalog, yet, hint, hint.)

Stamp – Deadbeat Design D-262 Does This Saddle and F-158 Cowgirl Up
Paper – Creative Imaginations, Stampin' Up! Cardstock (Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze, and Brushed Copper)
Color Mediums – Versamark watermark ink and Stampin' up! Copper Embossing Powder
Fibers – Stampin' Up! Copper Cord
Embellishments – Stampin' Up! Corduroy button, Art-C glitter
Tools – Nestabilities, My Favorite Things Die-namics You Move Me and First Place Ribbon
Sketch/Challenge – Deconstructed Sketch #10 (DC10), Scrappin' Chicks July Challenge (Your Favorite Song – hee, hee – I couldn't resist).

Oh, and those flowers (the prop) were from my darling daughter. She bought them to perk me up from one of the worst weeks ever in the history of, well, worst weeks. Okay, it wasn't really that bad, it just felt like it, and it felt better to be a whiny about it, and it definitely felt better when someone listened to my whine and bought me flowers. Thanks, baby girl. Next time maybe I won't get my saddle in such a cinch.

July 16, 2011 | Filed Under: Deadbeat Designs, Texas Tagged With: Deadbeat Designs, Texas | 6 Comments

Cowboy take me away. Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue.
~ Dixie Chicks, 1999

Every blue moon a cowgirl gets a wild hair. It will be so fun to give this to a sister in crime with a gift card to spend on whatever makes her wild hair blow.

I sure hope you'll join us at the Ribbon Carousel for our next challenge! The talented Laurel has a fun one this week! We get to be inspired by this picture of a very chic gray and pink shopping bag. Of course, always the rebellious, never playing by the rules, I didn't follow the inspiration exactly. I just wasn't in a gray and pink mood, but I was in a purse making mood.

To play, just join us at the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog and let the picture be your muse. Remember to include ribbon, bakers twine, jute twine, lace or basically anything that comes on a spool.

That crazy-fun stamp is one of my all-time favorite stamps. It's from Deadbeat Design, our sponsor for this week's Catered Crop party (FTR16). (Yes, it's a product placement for this week's party.) If you think that's fun, check out some of Mark's other stamps, like "Does this saddle make me look fat?"

The clasp is a BasicGrey Magnetic clasp. With a magnet slipped between the sheets of paper, it closes the clutch purse. If you've ever spent time in Dallas, you know a cowgirl has to have her rhinestones.

The studded ribbon is just ribbon embellished with eyelets. To give the clutch it's embossed leather look, I used a Sizzix embossing folder. Then, I patted the paper with Versamark and embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Stamp – Deadbeat Design J-269 Wild Hair Blows
Paper – Cosmo Cricket Wanted, tea stained paper
Color Mediums – Memento, Versamark watermark ink and Stampin' up! Clear Embossing Powder
Fibers – Grosgrain ribbon
Tools – Nestabilities, EK Success corner rounder punch,
Embellishments – Karen Foster brads, BasicGrey magnetic snaps, Stampin' Up! eyelets

This clutch will join the ensemble of purses I made last May (details here).