Magnolia vs. Stampavie Meets Friday Sketchers

This week over at Friday Sketchers is a fabulous sketch done by my friend Mumur! She does fantastic work...if you haven't gone to her blog you NEED to go and see her amazing work! Mumur's sketch was so much fun to play with!

Here's the sketch:

I tweaked the sketch just a tad....put the flower/flourishes on the opposite side otherwise my ribbon covered my pretty dp! The Magnolia vs. Stampavie challenge this week was to use a bow on your card! In this past week's SCS newsletter Pam Bassett showed her tutorial how to create a ribbon blossom! I have never done this before so I thought I would challenge myself to use it in this week's Magnolia challenge! I do think for my very first ribbon blossom it turned out pretty cool!

This card was created for my Mom's boss's birthday today! I colored Tilda with my Copics (of course). Cardstock was in my stash, dp is Deja Vue, I used stickles on Tilda's wings. Ribbon, flower, and jewels are from my stash. Remember Loreen at Wish On A Scrap sells the Magnolia stamps!

I carried the dp through to the inside. I used my martha punch and my corner punch (from Wish On A Scrap....gosh I really love these punches), and added one of my special angel charms as a finishing touch.

My Mom called me tonight and said her boss absolutely LOVED the card! That makes me feel so good when people treasure one of my creations!

Tomorrow is CBCC day....so make sure you come back to see my surprise for that!

Blog Candy with Christmas Spirit!

***This post will remain at the top of my blog until Dec. 17th....so please scroll down for current postings!***

I bought some awesome Angel charms from my dear friend Fran, and with some advice from her I have now made my own charms for my cards....now I just need some time to put some cards together! (Hopefully this weekend!!!) I can't wait to get me some more beads so I can make some more of these pretty angels! I love angels!

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AND NOW WHAT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR.......

On to the good stuff....the blog candy!

I love giving Christmas presents so I put together this fun Christmas candy for one lucky reader!

My Christmas Candy includes:

6x6 DCWV Christmas paper

Glittered foam snowmen figures

Glittered foam tree figures

Snowflake brads

Red & White flowers

Roll of Poinsettia ribbon

Merry Christmas stamp

Various Magnolia & Whiff of Joy stamped images

AND

5 of my handmade Angel Charms!

To Win you need to do the following:

1. Post a reply in this post telling me what is on the top of your crafting wish list; and

2. Post a comment on your blog telling everyone about my blog candy.

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Subscribe to or become a follower of my blog, and post an additional comment on this post telling me you have done so!

**Edited to add** If you do not have a blog, please click on my profile on my sidebar and send me an email answering the above question!

You have until Wednesday, December 17th at midnight to enter my drawing!

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I want to leave you with this awesome video that my friend Suzanne has on her blog! It's too awesome not to share! Make sure you watch it to the end!

I want to sent a BIG thank you to all of my blog followers and readers! Your comments always make me smile and can turn a bad day into a great one! I am so thankful to have made such wonderful friends from all over the world! I hope someday I can meet a lot of you!

Good luck with winning the Christmas Candy!
Wishing you all a very Happy Holidays!

Cuttlebug Camp!

My friend Trudi is the creator of the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog! This weekend there is a Cuttlebug Camp going on over in Cuttlebug Challenge World. Trudi contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I would mind being a part of her Camp! Of course I couldn't pass that up!!!

I decided to share my Cuttlebug Beaded Fun tutorial for the Camp! There are many other fabulous challenges scheduled for the weekend with prizes.....so hop on over and check it out, and have GREAT fun playing along!!!! I can't wait to see what everyone creates!

Happy Card Making Day!

Well I am a day late for world card making day....but yesterday I did get a little bit of card making in! I was supposed to be studying....but SHHHHH don't tell....plus I am busy studying today instead of playing! Yesterday I made birthday cards because it was my Mom's 50th Birthday.....and my brother's birthday is this coming Wednesday. We celebrated both birthdays last night. We went to an elegant restaurant as a family and it was so much fun! We laughed all night! I will share these birthday cards with you later this week! You don't want to miss them...they turned out awesome. Way to make you wait huh?!

I also wanted to let you know that today I uploaded my VERY 1st tutorial on the Wish On A Scrap blog. Click HERE to go to my tutorial! You will learn how to take an ordinary Cuttlebug embossing folder and turn it into a tool to make pretty beaded elements for your projects! Below are two of my creations using this technique!

First is a pretty autumn card: And second, is an altered notebook. This is my 1st Magnolia project too! I just love coloring Tilda! I used my Copics to color her, and placed her on my beaded branch paper to make it look like she is sitting in a tree!
Hope you like!