Wishing you Sunshine!!

I'm loving the challenges out and about in blogland this week and also have been blessed with some of the new Magnolia Easter Collection images - what more could a girl want?? LOL

I have loved this sweet Tilda with Bike since she was released last summer.  I have coloured her with my copics and played around with some of the new pinks I just added to my collection. The open fence is a new release image and also coloured with my copics.  I have followed the sketch from this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge - it was a really fun one to play with!  The papers are from MME Pretty Please - talk about yummy!!  I disressed the edges of the image with Stormy Sky & Tumbled Glass Distress Inks.  Stickles have been added to some of the magnolia flower centers.  Sentiment is from The Stamp Barn and cut with a nesties label die.  The small retro flower punch was used for the little flowers with adhesive pearls for the centers.  Grosgrain ribbon is from stash.

I'm also entering this into these other challenges:-

Cupcake Craft Challenges - 'Childhood Memories'
Sketch Saturday - Sketch
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - 'Create a Scene'
The Stamp Shoppe - 'Spring' (card #2)

Thanks for stopping by today - I love to have you visit and thank you so much for your lovely comments!  They are always so much appreciated!
Hugs,
Danielle x

A sweet Tilda card!

Happy Friday everyone!

Wow - another week over and hopefully a great weekend to look forward to! I'm going to have to make this a quick post and I'm on my way out to help set up and decorate the school gym for the school dance tonight!

I received a wonderful package from my mum yesterday full of Wild Orchid Craft flowers - woohoo - they are gorgeous!!

So I decided to ink up this cute Tilda as she hasn't been played with yet! I coloured her with my copics and tried a different technique this time for colouring her hair - I love the result! I'm entering this card for the February challenge over at The Little Stamp Shoppe where we are to make a 'Swedish' style Magnolia card - do you think this fits the bill? The winner of this months challenge gets a Guest DT spot - what a prize!
Papers are Magnolia which I machine-stitched around the edges. I added some cream and dusty pink lace with a pearl slider from Wild Orchid Crafts. I distressed the edges around the octagonal nestie with distress inks. The cherry blossoms are from WOC and the rest from stash. Two pearls in each corner finish off the look.

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit - I love having you here and I really do appreciate all your comments! Gotta run - have yourselves a great Friday evening and start to the weekend!

Hugs,

Danielle x

Tilda with Hearts - 4 challenges!

Hi!

I hope this Wednesday finds you all well! I've been a little lacking in my mojo these past few days but I made myself go down to my craft room today and this is what I came up with!

With this one card I've managed to get 4 challenges checked off! Magnolia Down Under is asking for a colour combo of 'Pink & Grey, the sketch is from Friday Sketchers and Cute Card Thursday are looking for 'Spots & Dots'. I can also add this into the Totally Papercrafts challenge where there is a recipe to follow of 3 embellishments, 2 papers, 1 image.

This is a relatively new Tilda in my collection which I purchased from the lovely Heidi at The Stamp Shoppe. I coloured her with Distress Inks and cut her out. The papers are from K&Co Itsy Bitsy. I embossed the nestie circle, used the MS heart punch and added embellishments from stash. The sentiment is from EK Success.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. And your comments are always greatly appreciated! I hope you enjoyed my post today and could find some inspiration from my card! I hope you all enjoy a beautiful day - it's a balmy -4oc here today with sunshine!!

Hugs,

Danielle x

An old Magnolia ....

Hello folks!

I hope you are all enjoying this last day before school starts up tomorrow (for us anyway!!). The weather is miserable; snowy, windy, cold. So, what better way than to spend my Sunday wrapped up in my craft room!

I popped over to The Stamp Shoppe blog and saw that the new challenge this month is to use an old Magnolia image. Well, this was one of my very first purchases from Magnolia - wow, hasn't Tilda grown up and changed along the way! OK, so now just having reviewed the challenge it also calls for your oldest paper too - hmmm, forgot to check that one off - this is BG Wisteria - not old at all! Ah well, I'll still submit it and perhaps I'll do another one!

Anyways, Tilda is coloured with my Distress Inks. I followed the sketch off Friday Sketchers and you may not be able to tell, but I used a half-circle of acetate and embossed it. I didn't want to cover up the gorgeous Wisteria paper!! Ribbon, mini flowers, pearl brads and the sentiment finish off the card.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek today. I thank you for the comments you leave and hope you are able to take some inspiration from my card today.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

Hugs,

Danielle x

The Little Stamp Shoppe Blog - Tag Challenge

Hi there!

I hope today finds you all happy and well. I've made this tag to show you. The Little Stamp Shoppe Blog have their December challenge posted to 'make a tag'. My eldest son is doing a 'Secret Santa' in their class and he is buying for a girl. Today is their day to bring in a special snack so I tied 3 candy canes together and made this sweet Tilda tag to go with them.

Tilda is coloured with copics and cut out and popped up on dimensionals over these 2 snowflake embellishments. I did some faux stitching around the edges to add detail. I also added some pearl beads with the ribbon so I will also enter this into the Cute Card Thursday challenge this week which is 'Sew Beady'.

Thanks for popping over for a visit - I hope it was worth your while!! Thanks for any comments you leave too - you know how much I appreciate every one of them!

I hope you all have a fabulous day!

Hugs,

Danielle x

A winter card ..... just because!

Happy Halloween everyone!!

I don't have any spooky cards for you but I do have a sweet winter scene with the gorgeous Tilda!

I'm not sure what you call this kind of card but I just received one which my mother made and had to give it a go! It's really easy and creates a wonderful dimensional scene. I used this sweet Tilda on her sled and coloured with copics and cut her out. The paper is Bo Bunny and the snowflakes are the MS punch on beautiful glittery paper. I used a nesties circle to die cut the aperture. The ribbon I received as part of my candy win from Bev a while back.

I will enter this card into the Winter Wonderland challenge this week as it's an open theme. Also, the November months theme over at The Little Stamp Shoppe is to create a non-traditional coloured christmas card (I think this qualifies don't you??).

A side view to show the inside layers to the card

Thanks for stopping by and many apologies for my lack of posting this week. I have been busy crafting just not able to show. So with that said I will have some exciting news to share with you all next week!

I wish you all a wonderful and safe Halloween. My boys are very excited and thankfully the rain seems to have stopped. I hope I can craft a bit more tomorrow and have something else to post! Thanks again for all your beautiful comments!

Hugs,

Danielle x