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Monday, July 18, 2011

Lazy Summer Day Picnic - Summer Bash Blog Hop

Hello.

I am participating in a blog hop...woo-hoo. The Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog DT are joining the Magnolia-licious Highlites DT in their Summer Bash Blog Hop. Details on how to play and win the fabulous prizes can be found at the Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog HERE.

We were asked to create a summertime card/project with one of the following themes:
Beach Bash, Summer Barbecues/Picnics or Fishing Fun!

I went with the picnic theme and this is my Lazy Summer Day Picnic card. I call this type of card a 3-easel card.

Now, the story behind this card is the Tilda gang have decided to go on a picnic on a lazy summer day and everybody assumed that somebody else will bring the picnic blanket/quilt. Of course nobody did...LOL...so they are having their picnic sitting on the grass underneath the old oak tree.

I think I went a bit too ambitious using all these Magnolia images...LOL. All the images/stamps I used here are available for your purchase at Magnolia-licious on-line store.

- Relaxing Tilda from the Magnolia and Lilac Collection 2008

I've dotted the paper with glue and sprinkled green flocking to make it look like grass. I hardly ever work with flocking, but I thought this might work.

I've altered a couple of Magnolia images here:

- Tilda with Spring Bundle from the Hoppy Easter Collection 2010 -- I replaced the spring flower bundle with a bottle of wine.
- Vintage Tilda from the Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010 -- I replaced the Christmas tree ornament with a watermelon.
- Log from the Autumn and Halloween Collection 2008

- Tilda on Elbows from the Easter & Spring Collection 2007
- Sweetie Tilda from the Sweet Rainbow Collection 2011
- Old Oak Tree from the Summer and Sea Collection 2008

I've altered a couple more images...LOL...can you tell I love doing this!...hee hee.
- Wilma With Rose from the Raising the Ceiling & Right Through My Heart Collection 2010 -- Wilma had to let go of the rose in her mouth because she managed to grab some sausages from someone's picnic.
- Gingerbread Tilda from the Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010 -- I replaced the gingerbread hearts with a couple of baguettes.

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If you are taking part in the blog hop, then you probably came here from Patti Jo's blog, so you are in the right track. If you haven't been following, then you may want to start at the beginning.

Here is the order of the blog hop participants:

Sharon
Cabio
Angie
Linda
Maria
Cheryl
Suzanne
Maureen
Janiel
Tracy
Mindy
Barb
Angela
Patti Jo
Norma (you are here!)
Pat

For you blog-hoppers, you know that you are to collect a letter from each of the participants, so

my letter is: s

Now please hop to the next blog, of the amazingly talented Pat, to see more inspiration and collect another letter! Woo-hoo, she's the last on the list!!!

When you are finished collecting the letters you will put them together to create a 3-word sentence. Find contest details at the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog HERE! Thanks for joining us!

I am also going to use this project as my entry into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Challenge 14 - Fun in the Sun
Magnolia Down Under - Challenge #105 - Make a Scene
Crafts and Me - Challenge 43 - Summertime
Simon Says Stamps - Anything Goes
Fussy and Fancy Friday - Week 41 - Summer
Polka Doodles - Week 28 - Long Hot Summer
Allsorts Challenge - Week 111 - Free and Easy July
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Summer Colours

Thanks for taking the time to drop by. As always, your visit is very much appreciated. Have a wonderful week.

PS. Sorry I have no list of materials, tools and marker colours used on this project. I was in a marathon trying to finish this in time--couldn't be bothered to jot anything down.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sending Birthday Wishes

Hello.
I have a birthday card to show you. I made this for a special blogging friend of mine. I hope she will like this.

This adorable gal is called Tilda with Flower Pot from Magnolia's Butterfly Dreams Collection 2011 and she is available for your purchase from Magnolia-licious on-line store. This image also comes in the mini version.

I have made this an easel card which is my favorite type of card.

I've used a Magnolia mini stamp for the base fo this card. She is called Mini Tilda with Heart, from the Mini You Are So Special Collection 2011.

I am entering the following challenges with this card:

Creatalicious Challenge #23 - sketch. I have used their sketch for my card front.
Paper Sundaes - Challenge #76 - Stictching. I have done some faux stitchings.
Stamptacular Sunday - Challenge #116 - Seeing Double. Two images, two sentiments, two butterflies.
TOMIC - Challenge #5 - Easel Cards
Crafts and Me - Challenge 41 - Birthdays
Simon Says Stamps - Lemon and Lavender
Just Magnolia hAnglar & sTanglar - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 159 - Sewing
Everybody-Art- Challenge - #149 Use Shapes

That's all! Thanks so much for taking the time to drop by. I appreciate your visit. Enjoy your day!

Materials andTools Used

Stamps: sentiments from Just Rite

DP's: Provo Craft Buttercream Basic Checks, Chatterbox Eclerique.

Tools: Spellbinders Labels Eighteen, Martha Stewart Edge Punch, McGill Flowers-Petite Petals punch, Carla Craft Flower Centre punch, EK Success Medium Retro Flower and Leaf punches, Nellie Snellen Leaf punch, Cheery Lynn Designs Exotic Butterfly Mini, Magnolia Doohickey die Swirl.

Misc.: Recollections Pearls, Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pads tea dye and faded jeans

Medium: alcohol-ink markers--combination of Letraset Promarker, ShinHan Touch and Letraset Pantone Tria markers.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Butterfly Garden

Hello. Happy Tuesday...and oh my goodness, it's almost July! Where did June go? It sped right by me...LOL.

I have this to show you. Do you like it?

Today being the 4th Tuesday of the month, it's time for a new challenge at Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog--an inspiration challenge this time. Our very talented Paola is the hostess for June and she has chosen this picture to inspire you.

Of course you can see right away where I got my inspiration, can't you? LOL.

When I first saw this picture, my eyes zeroed in on the that wooden chest of drawers and I knew immediately what I was going to make for this challenge. I've been meaning to make something like this to sort out my stamps--not image stamps...LOL, but postage stamps for mailing out my cards. I've been putting off making it, so this was the push I needed.

I will use this as my entry to the following challenges:

Stampin' For the Weekend - Challenge 11 - My Favorite Things (Magnolia stamps, easel cards, butterflies, hand-made flowers, punches and dies)

All That Scraps Magnolia Challenge - Challenge #11 -In the good ole summer time

Totally Tilda - Challenge #25 - Anything but a card

Just Magnolia and hAnglar & sTanglar - Week 112 - Butterfly theme

Hooked on Craft Challenges - Challenge 2 - Flowers

Scrap-Creations - Anything BUT a Card

I've used quite a few Magnolia images for this project:

In this scene, this is Hello Little Butterfly from the Butterfly Dreams Collection 2011 and

the Shabby Chic Fence from the Shabby Chic Summer Collection 2008. Also the Chasing Butterfly Sign from the Chasing Butterfly Sign Collection 2009.

This is Edwin with Butterfly from the Butterfly Dreams Collection 2011 also and Brick Wall (I'm not sure which collection that is from).

And again from the same butterfly collection, this is Tilda in Lace Jeans and Lazy Summer Days Flowers from the Lazy Summer Days Collection 2009.

All the Magnolia images I've used for this project are available from the Magnolia-licious on-line store. And not to forget that the mini version of these stamps are also available there. Check out the Magnolia Mini-World catalogue.

I've used my collection of Prismacolour Premier, Faber-Castell Polychromos and Derwent Colour Soft coloured pencils to colour these images. But sorry, I didn't keep track of the colours that I used as I was rushing. I admit, with the amount of time I had left to finish this, I was a bit too ambitious...LOL.

I found a little poem in the internet and I've used that as the sentiment here. (LOL...you can blow up the picture if you want to read it.)

That's it for me.

I hope you will join us in our inspiration challenge. There is a prize of $25 Gift Certificate from Magnolia-licious. Also check out the fabulous cards from my DT teammates to inspire you further. Links to their individual blogs are on my side bar, or on the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog.

And woo-hoo, the mail strike is over!!! Canada Post workers are going back to work and I can send out my birthday cards. They are a few belated birthday cards coming to a few people...sorry, can't be help!

Thanks so much for dropping by. Your visits and comments are always very much appreciated.

Have a wonderful week. Now go and create!

Materials and Tools used:

The chest of drawers was made from cardstock and chipboard.

DP's: K&Company Julianne Specialty Paper Pad, me&my BIG ideas value pack paper pad Fashion District

Tools: Go Create dies, Spellbinder Labels Sixteen, Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly punches large and medium, Magnolia Doohickey Swirl and Leaf dies, Nellie Snellen Leaf punch and embosser, EK Success Retro Flower punches, large, medium and small, wooden plugs from Michaels

Misc.: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Stamp Pad Tea Dye

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

You Make Me Smile, Sunshine - Guest DT Card

Hello! Happy Tuesday!

Woo-hoo...I am a Guest DT at Top Tip Tuesday for a couple of their challenges. I am so jazzed about joining the ladies at Top Tip Tuesday because I think I am their very first Guest DT. I feel sooo... honored. I'd like to thank Leanne for giving me this opportunity.

For this week, the theme for their Challenge 37 is: More Than One Fold. I've made a front-panel side step card. I think this is my next favorite type of card, after the easel card.

I would like to use this card as my entry into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Challenge 12 - Lace
Magnolia Stamp Lover Challenge - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Challenge 72 - Let's get sentimental
Crafts and Me - Challenge 37 - Punch it out!
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 167 - Embellish it!
Paper Play Challenges - Week 22 - Summer Citrus Splash
Just Magnolia hAnglar & sTanglar - Week 110 - Anything Goes with the option of adding Lace
Sundays With Chrissy - June challenge - Here comes the sun.
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 155 - Here comes Summer

This adorable Magnolia image that I have used for this card is of Running Tilda and she is from the Butterfly Dreams Collection 2011. This stamp is available from Magnolia-licious on-line store.

I am still in my coloured pencil mode, so I have coloured this with my mixture of Prismacolour, Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils. Up to now, I have been experimenting using odourless solvent(or some people use mineral spirit or gamsol) with my coloured pencils, but this time I wanted to try the colourless blender pencil. I think I find this more to my liking. I will have to practice more to be sure...LOL.

If you're familiar with my work, you know that I luvvv... to decorate the inside of my cards (hee hee...when I have the time, that is). I've added another sentiment and another set of images here.

Both the sentiments on the front and in the inside of my card are computer generated. I've used a mini Magnolia stamp here called Mini Sitting Angel Tilda, also available from Magnolia-licious.
She's just so adorable that she's my favorite from the Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010, or rather the full-size version is...LOL.

That's it for me. Thanks so much for dropping by. I appreciate your visit. Have a wonderful week.

Materials and tools used:

Stamps: Docrafts Clear Stamps Botanical Set Sunflower Burst. The sentiments are computer generated.

DP's: Scenic Route Paper Co. North Shore Stoked Stripe, Making Memories Multicolor Floral Spring

Tools: Go Create Die, Spellbinders Grommet Tags and Classic Ovals, Punch Bunch Daisy Punch Small, Martha Stewart Daisy Dot Edge Punch, EK Success Leaf Punch

Misc.: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Stamp Pad Tea Dye, Lace from my stash

Medium: Coloured pencils (FC - Faber-Castell Polychromos, DC - Derwent Coloursoft, PC - Prismacolour Premier).
Face and skin - FC188, DC550, FC132, DC170, FC131, FC191
Hair and shoes - PC946, PC948, PC941
Dress - PC1033, PC939, PC1010
Sunflowers - PC942, PC1012, PC1011, PC914, PC948, FC179, FC180, FC182
Leave and stalks - FC174, FC 170
Mini Sitting Angel Tilda's dress and flowers in flower basket - PC1025, PC1024

Monday, December 13, 2010

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