Peace and Joy in Pastel Colors!

Hi again and thanks for looking at my second post for the day! We're having a brand new challenge over at Lili's Little Fairies as well:

Pretty Pastels

Now, that was supposed to be simple as I love pastels but somehow I couldn't manage to color up a Christmas image in pastels right now. I must admit I struggled with this one and at some point I really wanted to throw away everything but well, seemingly eventually it turned out quite well:). That's what challenges are for, isn't it?:):

Card recipe:

Stamps: Lili of the Valley- Moonlight Wishes, Magnolia- Winter Night Background

DP: Yesterday, Today and Forever by Juliana Kneipp and Sugarplum Paperie

Embellies: flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, poinsettias from IAM Roses; snowflake, wooden stars, ribbon/stash

Die cuts: Marianne design label and pine branch, nestabilities label 8

Sentiment: DeeDee Designs

Thanks for coming by! Hugs to everyone! 

This card is for sale for now in my Etsy store. 

Mwaaaaah,

Magnolia Autumn Card

Hello everyone! I feel like I haven't posted in a long time so I thought I'd share with you an autumn card I made a while ago. Since we are still enjoying fall here it's still not late to show it  to you.

I wanted to color up this Make It Crafty background, I think it looks lovely on an autumn card. The papers are all digital from Cajoline Scrap, love them.

It's been a while since I last posted a card which is not part of my DT commitments, I think I work quicker, if not better when there're no strings attached:).

This will be my last autumn card for the year, look forward to use these bright colors on my cards in 2013:). I really love them.

The sentiment is so very  true...

Here's a close-up of the front:

List of supplies:

Stamps: Magnolia- Turning Leaves Collection -Tilda with Carrots

Make It Crafty- Sunflower Garden

Coloring Medium: copics, promarkers, chalks

DP: Cajoline Scrap- Papiers Automne

Embellishments:quilled flowers with glitter and sand in the center, flowers from WOC and IAM Roses

ribbon from stash, jute ribbon from WOC

Sentiment: internet- Photoshop

Challenges for my card:
Kaboodle Doodles - Fall-themed items , Paper Playtime -Anything Goes, Paper Pretties Monday Challenge - Bling, Scrappy Frogs -Fall/Halloween, Sunday Stamper -Autumn/Fall , The Ribbon Girls -Photo Inspiration* , 2 Sisters -Halloween or Fall colours, My Sheri Crafts  -Fall, Pattie's Creations -Autumn Colors, Sweet n' Sassy Digi Challenge -Stitching, Wags 'n Whiskers - Fall Colours, DRS Designs-Autumn greetings

My card is for sale in my Etsy shop here. 
sold

Thank you for coming by today! Wish you all a wonderful week!

Hugs,

Just Magnolia DT - Another Fall Card:)

Hi there sweet friends! I think I went a bit overboard with autumn cards this year...lol, I think I should perhaps try out something else too, prove you I can do different...he he.

Still, looking back I realized I didn't make use of any stamp from the Turning Leaves Collection, so it was high time I did before the first snow....brrrrr.

This week we're having another simple theme for you at  Just Magnolia:

Pearls and Die Cuts

so we're hoping many of you will join in the fun! This week, we are sponsored by  Quixotic Paperie and  The Ribbon Girl with 10 pounds gift vouchers from each. Sounds great, isn't it?

If you look closer you can see I actually followed the theme:)):

It is a shaker card; I wanted it to be a bit different from my previous scenic cards so added small orange pearls inside; looks really lovely in flesh. I made some quilled flowers lately, I think they look nice on autumn cards. Here are some close-ups:

Ingredients: 

Stamps: Magnolia- Turning Leaves Collection- Sunny Autumn Morning and Tilda with Daisy & Mushrooms

Coloring medium: copics, promarkers, chalks

DP: Basic Grey- Pyrus Collection

Embellishments: Woc flowers, quilled handmade flowers, mushroom made with gypsum mould, pearls from Bunny Zoe, leaves, beads and ribbon from local store

Die-cuts: Magnolia Doohikeys Fence and Bloomy Tag

This card is for sale in my Etsy Shop.

I want to enter my card in the following challenge:

Wild Orchid Crafts- Autumn Colors

Thank you all for visiting! It's great to hear from you!

Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

Tilda Singing Carols at Just Magnolia

Hi, everyone! It's Just Magnolia and Hanglar and Stanglar challenge day and a perfect occasion for me to ink up this lovely Tilda singing carols from the 2009 Magnolia Christmas Collection, but one of my favorite ever.

This week's theme at Just Magnolia is: 

Twinkle Little Star - use stars on your project!

Hope you can see the stars:)! I admit this was a last minute addition; no idea why I made my card with this idea in mind that the challenge was something about dies and punches...lol. I must be getting old:))

This is a special Maggie, as Tilda actually uses her mouth...hehe, and people around me don't find her freakish for once. Nevertheless, Maggies are still among my favorite stamps.

Since I don't have a Magnolia door stamp, and I really think my Tilda needs a background for her performance, I used two Mo Manning digis and created a scene for her. Love the way it turned out!

My list of supplies:

Stamps: Magolia- Tilda Singing Carols

Mo Manning- Door with Wreath and Christmas Lamp Post

DP: Cajoline Scrap, Webster Pages

Coloring medium: copics, promarkers, chalks

Embellishments: Wild Orchid Crafts and tessel from Joanna Sheen

Misc: glitter, white fun flock

Sentiment: computer generated

Here's a peek of the inside too:

Hope you peeps will join us this week at Just Magnolia! Don't forget to add stars somewhere on your project though!

I will enter my card in the following challenges:

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Snowy

Cute Card Thursday  Christmas cards

Digi Doodle Shop's Best – Anything goes

Midweek Magnolias -Christmas

Crafty Cardmakers - Winged Things 

Stamp and Create -Anything Goes

There's Magic in the Air -Things with Wings

Cupcake Craft - In Stitches

Thanks for visiting and for your lovely comments!

Hugs, 

Just Magnolia- Pretty in Pink

Hi there sweet frieds! Time for our weekly challenge at Just Magnolia and Hanglar and Stanglar! We would love to see some:

PINK

on your cards!

   

So pick one of your favorite Tilda's or even Edwins...lol, and come and join us!

I'll be short today, so let's get started:

for my card I chose one of my older Maggies, one of my favorite ever- Tilda with Butterfly dress:

I tried up some fuchsia pinks for a change ad love the result:)

I'm in a "photo mood" today, hope your internet connection is good...lol:

I distressed all the edges and added acrylic white paint and lots of glitter.

Supplies:

Stamp: Magnolia Butterfly Dreams - Tilda with Butterfly Dress

DP: Cosmo Cricket- digital- DeLovely paper pack from Jessica Sprague- now retired

Medium: copics, promarkers

Embellishments: Wild Orchid Crafts, stash

Sentiment: Lili of the Valley

Some challenges for my card:

Magnolia Down Under Challenge- All Stitched Up

Bearly Mine - Anything That Glitters

The Stamping Boutique -Anything Goes: Twist:  Birthday

Bunny Zoe's Crafts -Summer

Dutch Magnolia Lovers -BINGO* (multifold, flowers, pink)

Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia - Your Favorite Image 

Sentimental Sundays - Sewing or Faux Stitching 

This card is for sale in my Etsy Shop here.

Thanks for coming by today! Hope you will join us at Just Magnolia this week!

Hugs,

Magnolia Back to School Card

Hello, ladies! It's challenge day at 

Just Magnolia and Hanglar and Stanglar, 

perfect moment for you to get to play with your Maggies and come up with a SCHOOL card/project, whatever suits you most.

Since I don't have a school themed Magnolia stamp, I altered a bit some other stamps I have and added some really lovely digital elements from Elizabeth Dulemba to make them look as  pupils:)

Since the stamps are cut out and then assembled I chose to add an acetate sheet onto protect it and for a neat look, hence the blurry aspect of the whole image. In flesh, it looks beautiful:)
Here's a look on the inside:

The quilled flower basket is one of my older creations, a souvenir from a time when I really had lots of time for myself:). I thought it looks nice on this card.

Here's a close-up:

and a little notebook sheet for some wording: 

Ingredients for my card:

Stamps: Magnolia- Edwin with Butterfly (lol, replaced with the pencil) and Tilda with Flowing Hair,

school bag, clock and book pile from Elizabeth O. Dulemba

Medium: copics/promarkers

DP: Cosmo Cricket- Boyfriend-digital from Jessica Sprague, Echo Park, MME

Embellishments: quilled flowers and flower basket, flower from WOC, pencils from stash, ribbon from local store

Sentiment: Elizabeth O. Dulemba

This card is for sale in my Etsy shop here.

Some challenges for my card:

Cute Card Thursday - Back to school, Paper Crafting Journey -Anything Goes, Crafting for all Seasons - bright colors, Penny's Paper-Crafty -back to School, Whimsy Inspiration - lots of layers, Going Grey With Scrap-Creations -Kids Theme, Sassy Cheryl's -Favourite Colour Combo (red, yellow, blue), Use It Tuesdays -All About School ColourQ - COLOUR CHALLENGE*  - #150, Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge - Back to School The Pink Elephant - Back to School 

This is what I wanted to show you today, hope you like my school themed project. Can't wait to see what you will come up with too!

Till next time,sending big hugs to ya all!

Reach for the Stars Magnolia Shaker Card

Hi there sweet peeps!

We're having a

BIRTHDAY 

 theme for you this week at Just Magnolia and Hanglar and Stanglar! Is there a more popular theme than this one? :)  So, easy-peasy!

I made a shaker easel card this time and went for this lovely color-combo- one of my favorite- purple/oranges/yellows. I really like the way it turned out:):

And a close-up:

Love this sentiment!

Here's a list of the materials I used:

Stamp: Magnolia -Princes and Princess- Tilda catching stars

DP: My Mind's Eye - A Beautiful Life 6x6 Pad,   some digital purple stars paper

Embellishments; Wild orchid Crafts flowers, metal corner,; lace, ribbon, stars, feather and sequins from stash.

Sentiment: computer generated- quote by Ralph Aldo Emerson

This is a scheduled post. I shall add this card to my Etsy store when I return from holiday.

Till then, thank you all for supporting my creativity and leaving such nice comments!

Big hugs to all,

Magnolia Baby Tilda Card

Happy Friday everyone! It's  time for a new challenge at Just Magnolia and Hanglar and Stanglar which is our regular Special Month Challenge which is sponsored as always by Simon Says Stamp. 

This week's theme is a bit different and says: " All the B's!" which means your card may carry different things starting with B: bling, buttons, bows, blooms, butterflies- lots of possibilities here.

On to my card now: it's a rather big card, it is about 8x6 inches cause I wanted the image to be very clear:

And some...lots:D of close-ups:

I also inserted a little tag for some congratulations note:

Materials I used:

Stamp: Magnolia - Princes and Princesses- Baby Tilda

 and Make it Crafty- The Ivy Swing

Coloring medium: copics, chalks.

DP- Marianne Design - Eline's Pretty Paper Bloc, Cajoline Papers from here

Dies: Magnolia Doohickeys Tilda lace

Embellishments: Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, heart loops and padded butterfly; ribbons and lace from stash

Hope you will join us at Just Magnolia this week! Look forward to seeing your gorgeous creations

and thank you so much for being here! Hugs,

Summer colors at Just Magnolia

Happy Friday everyone! It's challenge day at Just Magnolia and we are happy to announce a brand new challenge for you to play along:

Summer colors!

I'm sure it will be an easy one for you as it was for me. You can make whatever project you want using some colors you consider linked to summertime!

I used this cute Tilda I've been having for a while now and never had the chance to color and set her agains this mushroom house I've won in some challenge long time ago.

Hope you like it:

Materials I used:

Stamp: Magnolia Summer Memories - Summer Flower Tilda
Mushroom Home from Limited Runs Digital Stamps

Medium; promarkers/copics, chalks

Embellishments: Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and golden padded butterflies, net and lace from stash, button from Bunny Zoe

DP: Basic Grey- Pyrus

Sentiment: Pink Cat Studio- freebie;

I'm entering this card in the following challenges;

• Charisma Cardz - Summer,
• Cute Card Thursday -Here comes summer,
• Delightful Challenges -Anything goes,
• Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Summer fun, 
• Magnolia Down Under Challenges- Bingo (sentiment, Tilda, ribbon)
• Moving Along With The Times Happy birthday,  
• Crafts and Me -anything goes
• Paper Shelter Challenge - outdoors,  
• Color Throwdown - colors*
• Bearly Mine -Flowers,
• Deep Ocean Challenge -Welcome Summer  ,
• The Stamping Boutique - Jump In To Summer
• Simon Says Stamp and Show... - a bit of Brown

Thanks for visiting today! Hope you will join us in the fun this week! Wish you all a lovely weekend and don't forget to stay cool:)!

Hugs,

Magnolia Pearl Tilda Summer Card

Hi there sweet friends! Can't believe this is my third post in 3 days, wow, that's requires a vacation or something...lol.

I wanted to create an underwater scene with this adorable Pearl Tilda using my favorite colors and since I love the way it turned out I wanted to share it with you:) Also, can't believe I actually make a card which is not part of my DT requirements...hehe.

I tried to merge the two stamps but after several attemps I thought the best way to have it done properly would be to cut out my Tilda and set it against the colored Make it Crafty background. I also stamped my Tilda first for the curls and bubbles I couldn't cut out, hope you like the result:

Here's a close-up of the upper right corner with real coral in the cluster:

I made some quilling for this one; I kind of missed making quilled flowers; one of my first and dear hobbies.

Here's a close-up of the underwater scene:

And a close-up of the sentiment:

Materials I used:

Stamp: Magnolia- Summer Memories- Pearl Tilda
Make it Crafty- Coral Sea Floor

Medium: copics/promarkers/chalks

DP: Doodlebug, MME

Embellishments; quilled flowers, Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, pin, ribbon and pearls;

net, fish, shells and coral from stash, 

Sentiment; computer generated

Challenges for my card:
Magnolia-licious Highlites- Water, water everywhere!, Sweet Stampin -- All Stitched Up, Dutch Magnolia Lovers -Photo Inspiration* Crafty Ann's - It's A Girl Thing,  Crafty Catz - Summer Time, Fun with Shapes & More -Summer, Inspire Me Fridays – Always Anything Goes, Polka Doodles -Flowers, Stampin With The Dragon -All About Water, Cute Card Thursday - Water, water everywhere, Paper Crafting Journey -Handcoloured image, Sassy Studio Designs -Use something wet (stickles, smooch, glimmer mist, etc) Crafters Companion -Time to embellish,  I Brake for Challenges - Summer fun,  Really Reasonable Ribbon - Flowers & ribbon, Paper Pretties - favorite color combo,  Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes, House of Gilli -Vibrant Colours/Summer,  The Pink Elephant - Vibrant Colors

That's it from me today! Wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,

Shall I compare thee...

Hello lovely peeps!

It's time for an Edwin challenge at Just Magnolia! I'm guessing not many of us are thrilled about that; putting aside all those lovely girly papers and lace and ribbons doesn't sound that much fun...hehe. So we also have the option for you to make a Father's Day project which, of course, may carry a Tilda image on:). Now, that sounds more interesting, isn't it? 

I'm not a big Edwin fan, that's why my Magnolia collection only counts 3 Edwins, so  I chose this cute one with a lovely butterfly for my card today. I wanted it to be more romantic, it didn't turn out great but for an Edwin card it looks nice...lol. 

And a close-up:

I chose not to add many layers, these DCWV papers are too beautiful to be covered. I just love them!

Supplies:

Stamp: Magnolia Butterfly Dreams - Edwin with Butterfly

Medium: copics/promarkers

Papers: DCWV Mariposa (8x8)

Embellishments: Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, ribbon  and metal buttrefly; button from Bunny Zoe- Almanach collection, Tim Holtz film strip.

Misc; distress ink- Walnut Stain, stickles, glitter, pearls

Dies: Magnolia- heart swirl

Sentiment: sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare written in Photoshop,

sentiment-computer generated

Challenges for my card:
Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday – Stitching, Inspire Me Fridays – Always Anything Goes, Pattie's Creations - include a digi / stamped image -Fathers Day / Male, Phindy’s Place -Fathers Day / Masculine, Stampin' For The Weekend - Bugs & Butterflies, Crafty Ribbons -Butterflies & bows, DRS Designs -Anything that can fly, Southern Girls -Things with wings, Through the Craftroom Door -Distressing, Whimsy Inspiration -things with wings.

And a sneak peek of the inside. Just click on the photos to enlarge them so you can read the sonnet.

Tha's it from me today; hope you will join us for the Edwin/Father's Day challenge! Let's not forget there are so many boys in our lives and they deserve cards too!!!

Have a lovely weekend! Enjoy sun and quality time with your loved ones!

Hugs,