Bloom & Grow Tilda

What a busy day... but I can relax now, the house has been de-Christmassed and cleaned through, washing up to date so that leaves me free to craft all weekend :D

I made this card for a very special friend who celebrates her birthday today. I was hoping to enter it into 4 challenges but as I am late posting, I've missed the Magnolia deadline :(



Not sure what this image is called but it was from the Autumn Magnolia kit in 2009. I used MME Bloom & Grow papers, I bought loads of these as I love the colours, so still working my way through them!
The 3 challenges I am entering this card into are
Totally Gorgeous - Someone Special
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes - lace option, hope my raffia ribbon counts!
Create 4 Fun - sketch.

Have a great weekend.

On a roll now....

Posting 4 days in a row... can't remember the last time I managed that. I've made a few cards over the weekend, during the big tidy up.... Clare, I keep thinking of you, and chuckling at your comments on your WOYWW post recently! I am now tidying up mid card - it's working at the moment, although there is still another area on my worktop that I have to tackle - maybe next weekend, but I think its the NEC show and its a long time since I've been there.....

Anyhow, onto my card. I've had this image coloured up on my desk for a while but haven't been able to find papers to put with it but while sorting out one of my paper piles I came across this bee glitter cardstock I bought from Hobbycraft eons ago! It's very glittery and sparkly IRL and I'm glad to have used some of it finally.

The stamp is one I got in a swap with Tasha, thank you, I just adore it, she is so cute, gonna try it in another colourway sometime soon. Coloured with copics and finished off with some glamour dust. Other cardstock is from DCWV citrus stack, sentiment and punches SU! except the swirl punch which is EK Success and the Martha Stewart border punch. Raffia ribbon from Hobbycraft, sticky gem butterflies from The Range.

I am entering this card into 4 challenges

Cute Card Thursday - Celebration, they are celebrating their 2nd birthday

Charisma Cards - Butterflies, I know they are small, but they are there...

Just Magnolia - Sketch, lovely one to work with

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Anything goes.

Back tomorrow with a DT card for a fab new challenge at Creative Card Crew.

Have a lovely day.

xx

Gorjuss Cooking Tilda

I had a get well card to make for our school cook



so there was only one image to use - Tilda with wooden spoon and a couple of rolling pin images, coloured with copics.
Papers from K & Co, and DCWV colour stack
Sentiment - SU!
Punches - SU! & Martha Stewart.
I used the sketch from Totally Gorjuss, so off there to add a link before I'm too late!!
Have a wonderful weekend.

Another new stamp....

Here's another stamp from my lil' shopping spree the other day, isn't she just adorable? I couldn't wait to get her inked up and coloured, just discovered some fab tutorials on You Tube for creating shadow effect using copics, I will post the link later, when I can find it again!!



The layout for this card is from last week's challenge at Spoon Full Of Sugar, too late for the challenge but I enjoyed making the card anyway and there are so many valentine challenges out at the moment that I can enter it into. Love the layout, will definately use this one again, will try it with snowflakes sometime.

Angel hair and cardstock from stash, hearts cut using Sissix Heart die and Cricut George & Basic Shapes heart, Martha Stewart border punch. Sentiment shapes cut with SU! punches.

I am entering this into the following challenges
Stamp Something - Love Something
Charisma Cards - I Love You
Simon Says Stamp - Photo inspiration - red
Cupcake - Red & White all over, there is only a lil' bit of silver there....
Stampin' for the Weekend - Valentines

For Sale - Magnolia Winter & Christmas stamp club kit

I finally received my Magnolia Winter & Christmas stamp club kit on Friday and was disappointed to discover there aren't any Christmas stamps in it - one of the reasons I ordered it! The stamps are Valentine themed, not something I make a lot of cards for so I am offering it for sale, these are no longer available as a kit from the company as a kit and would cost considerably more separately.

The stamps included are listed below

5 Tilda images
1 Edwin image
1 mini Edwin image
A grand piano image
1 lacy heart image aprox 2"
2 roses
1 banner
1 key type image with ribbon & hearts on
1 wine bottle
1 glass of bubbly
Candelabra
and 3 text images.
They are not foam mounted, just the grey rubber.

I would like £30 + P&P which should be no more than £1.50 for first class postage.
If you are interested please leave a message here or email me.

Suppose I will have to go in search of the few remaining christmas images available.

Edwin & Tilda again......

Not had much time to blog lately, I had an open day at home on Thursday and was at a local junior school Christmas fair on Saturday, in between was catching up on housework :-( & Christmas preparations.... oh and a bit of patchwork !!!

After all that hard work I felt I deserved some time in my craft room.....



There are so many great challenges about at the moment I was spoilt for choice but settled on the sketch at Papertake Weekly, the theme at My Time to Craft, which is Winter Pals and making a Christmas card using non-traditional colours at A Spoon Full of Sugar. There really was only one stamp I could use for this card, it has been well inked of late but here goes another card....
Image coloured with copics to match the papers from DCWV Xmas stack, snowflakes made with Punch Bunch stamp and brads from stash. SU! punches got another outing on this card too to make the little stopper that makes the card stand up.

Anyhow had better be off to bed now, work tomorrow, it's silly season at the moment, so much going on, but my favourite time of the year at work. I love listening to the children practising the Christmas concert. There are 2 performances tomorrow and Tuesday so its gonna be busy!

My first easel card

The challenge at Creative Card Crew this week is 'Strings Attached' Linda who has chosen this challenge would like to see fibres on your card.



Having seen lots of easel cards around in blogland recently I decided to give one a go. Really enjoyed making this, can see I'm gonna be making a few more of these, they are so effective and easy to make. Just what I needed after my hectic weekend...
I used some more of those lovely paper from the MME Magnolia stack, Edwin & Tilda skating, such a cute image, coloured with my copics. If you look closely you can just about see fibre on my card - yes it is there, tied through the button in the middle of the flower.

The prize this week is a $20 gift certificate from Simon Says Stamp, so lets see your fibres....

Tilda in Red & Green

Still trying to catch up with challenges and blogging, here's a card I made yesterday but didn't manage to post.



I am entering this into ABC challenge which is 'Embossing' and Simon Says Stamp which is to use Red and Green.

I used my copics to colour this image which I received ages ago from my blogging buddy Heather. The papers are from a Papermania pack from last year that I never got round to using, don't know why as they are really lovely papers. I embossed some gold pearlescent card using CB d'vine swirls folder and added a few vellum snowflakes punched with an MS punch decorated with some gold stickles.

Better go and tidy my craft room now, can't see the worktop....

Magnolia kitchen door hanger

I am lovin' the Magnolia Fall kit, just in case you hadn't noticed ..... LOL Its out on my work surface, not found a home for it yet so a couple of the images found their way onto this project!

I got some door hangers recently from my bloggy friend Susie, who runs an online shop Die Cut Dreams why not nip over there now and check out the fantastic goodies she has on offer there, all at very reasonable prices and super speedy delivery.



Barry and I tend to share the cooking so this gave me the idea for this door hanger. I decided to have the Tilda Chef on one side and Edwin Chef on the other.



I used the Swiss Dots and D'vine Swirls CB embossing folders, MME Bloom & Grow papers, I'm sure they do bloom and grow as I use them quite a bit but the pile never seems to get any smaller! I coloured the images with copics, this is the second Edwin image as I managed to drop my Memento Black Tuxedo ink pad on the first one leaving a couple of black marks on the image - perhaps it would help if my desk wasn't so cluttered - yep I still haven't managed to tidy it yet :0

I've had a fantastic weekend, great weather and lots of crafting, hope you've had a great one too.
Can hear my pillow calling me now, so off to bed.

Guest Design Team spot for Cute Card Thursday

Woo hoo!!! I was thrilled to be offered a 2 week GDT spot at Cute Card Thursday. Thursday is my day off, so I try and take part most Thursdays although I haven't done very well lately :-( , as my school report always used to say - needs to try harder....



The challenge this week is
'Strawberry Mint Julep' - use a pink and green colour combo.

These are not normally colours I would put together, although I'm not quite sure why.
I really enjoyed making this card, apart from when I lost the image. I stamped and coloured it at the weekend then it went AWOL - I'm sure Tilda had a little holiday as she reappeared on my desk on Tuesday evening. I used some Basic Grey paper which I've had for ages but didn't want to cut into, how sad am I?
I used glossy accents on the plate to give it a glazed effect, it looks very effective IRL, not managed to capture the effect very well in the photo.

Don't forget to check out the very talented design team members fantastic creations.

A Magnolia fall card.... 2 challenges

Finally, a card that has gone right the first time today.....
I made a couple of cards earlier today that were to say the least challenging, one is on its way to the recipients now, well sat in the post box, and the other is for the Creative Card Crew challenge this week, so be sure to take on a look on Tuesday morning.



Had a flick through the challenges about this week and this card is a combination of 2, the sketch at Sketch & Stamp and the theme of distressing at A Spoon Full of Sugar.Anyone who knows me knows I don't do distressing, well not on my cards anyway! I tried ripping and tearing a piece of card but just didn't like it on my card, it looked messy so I afraid girls this is as distressed as it gets.... I used my distress inks and a Heidi Swapp distressing tool.

Image - Magnolia Fall kit
Sentiment - Oval All, Stampin Up!
Colouring - Distress inks
Papers - K & Co, DCWV
Glittery heart & brads from stash.

My boys are back to school and my daughter starts Uni, I swapped my day off last week for tomorrow, so looking forward to some quiet time! I've got lots of housework to catch up with, you know what its like when the kids have been off and we had the new banisters fitted yesterday, so a bit dusty round here.... Hoping to fit in some crafting, especially as I bought a pack of Jelly Rolls yesterday, material, not sweets, to have a go at some more patchwork.

Had better go and tidy up my craft room before I go off to bed.
Back tomorrow with a card in a tin I made at a workshop yesterday and a picture of the patchwork I made recently.

Get Sketchy - week 3

Here's my card for Get Sketchy's challenge this week. I thought it was about time I inked up some of the images from my Magnolia fall kit which was on the doormat when we arrived home from our hols last Friday. They are such gorgeous stamps, I spent most of yesterday evening colouring the different images, hence no completed cards made....

I stamped the image in Memento Rich Cocoa and coloured with distress inks, I know I always seem to use the Shabby Shutters and Spiced Marmalade colours, I really do need to buy some more, gonna have a lot online tonight - any suggestions for must have colours? Thinking I need Faded Jeans, Fired Brick, Milled Lavender.

I dug deep into my paper stash and used some Basic Grey papers, a scrap which I ran through a CB embossing folder and distressed the edges and embossing.
Hope you like.....
Am off to make another card now, hopefully in time for Just Magnolia challenge - fingers crossed!

Edwin hits the beach!

Here's my second card of the day....



Trying to catch up on a few challenges - I've combined 3 here
Get Sketchy - sketch by Dora & bonus challenge to use patterned paper - would be more of a challenge to make a card without patterned paper these days!!
A Spoon Full of Sugar - travel - use a holiday theme or form of travel - think I've covered both here!
ABC - use buttons - had to dig deep, had these buttons for ages, knew they would come in useful one day!

Stamp - Surfer Edwin - Magnolia Lazy Summer Days kit, sentiment - Hero Arts clear stamp set
Coloured with Promarkers and Copics
Papers - K & Co Tim Coffey paper stack - one of the first paper stacks I bought
Gold mirri card, white pearlescent card and buttons from stash.

Had better be off to bed now, gonna be a busy day tomorrow! :-)

Congratulations - Tilda with Roses

Thought I would make a Congrats card today with the sketch by Beatrix from Friday Sketchers.



I used one of the cute Tilda with Roses images Paula kindly sent me earlier this week. I coloured them with copics, practising my shading - been watching some You Tube videos this week, and finished off the roses with a bit of icicle stickles.
I decided I wanted a bit of white space on this card so didn't put my usual first layer on the base case, quite pleased with how this turned out, not looking to bare as the other layers are quite large.
The papers are from an old DCWV stack, (A Pocket Full of Posies), flowers made from offcuts and an X Cut punch. Sentiment is from a Stampin Up! set, which was free in a promotion earlier this year. Ribbon and brads from stash.

Probably won't get round to any crafting tomorrow as its my oldest son's 15th birthday, so am off to my craft room to make up for it tonight!

Millie's christening card

Here's one of the cards I was working on yesterday.
One of my friend's asked me to make a christening card for her niece's daughter - not sure what that relationship would be?? Think she said that made her a great aunt he he....



I just love this Magnolia image, which I coloured with copics, really getting the hang of shading with these now, I think! Will be stalking the postman this week as I ordered another set last week. I need to get hold of E000, I've got E00 in one of the sets but think I could do with a lighter shade. I had to dig deep for the Blonde Moments papers, love these and had to steel myself when cutting into a new sheet, but it had to be done, the colours matched so well. I cut the flowers and letters using George & Basic Shapes cartridge.

Can't seem to settle to anything today, so not made any cards, hopefully normal service will resume tomorrow. Hope you have had a great weekend, can't believe its Sunday night again already!