Magnolia Challenge

This weeks challenge over at Tilda & Co is a sketch and I love doing these as it makes it so much easier, esp when I am still struggling with my mojo.

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - DCVW

Ribbon - Stash

Fabric Brad - Bazzill

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Cute Card Thursday & Tilda & Co Challenge

Well I am so far behin with my challenges, that I have combined 2 into one card!!! The challenge at Cute Card Thursday is to make a birthday card and at Tilda & Co is Dottie, to use dots on your card.

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - Pink Petticoat

Embossing - Cuttlebug Swiss Dots

Flower - Papermania

Brad - Papermania

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Blimey at last some cards

Blimey I have hardly been in my craft room lately, with all this lovely weather it seems a shame to be stuck in doors. I have managed to fit in a couple of cards, although I'm not sure how happy I am with this first one, it just didn't turn out how I imagined!

Image - received in a swap

Paper - DCWV

Butterfly stamp - Magnolia

Flower - Poppicraft

Brad - Stash

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Image - received in a swap
Paper - Dovecraft

Brad - Papermania
Fower - Prima

Cute Card Thursday - Patterned Paper

The challenge this week over at Cute Card Thursday is to use Patterned Paper. I decided to use some more of my gorgeous Daisy Bucket paper, which is so pretty I just like to look at it!!!! It was also a change to use my new Tilda, who is so cute.

Paper - Daisy Bucket

Stamp - Magnolia

Embossing - Cuttlebut Swiss Dots

Buttons - Papermania

Ribbon - Stash

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Cute Card Thursday

This weeks challenge over on Cute Card Thursday is another great sketch from Katharina. I had to move my image to the left hand side, as I realised after I was laying it all out that my Tilda would be looking the wrong way!!!!

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - Pink Petticoat

Jewels - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

Papertake Weekly - Luscious Lime and Lilac!

This weeks challenge over on Papertake Weekly is Luscious Lime and Lilac - or any shades of green and purple! I really liked this colour combo and was lucky enough to have some lovely papers that were just right!

Stamp - my new Magnolia

Papers - courtesy of the lovely Natalie

Flower - Prima

Brad - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Flower centres - Liquid Pearls

Sentiment - Papermania

Stamp Something - First Challenge

It's the first challenge over at Stamp Something and the theme is 'Firsts'. I couldn't think of any firsts that I needed a card for and I have a few baby cards made up, so I did as Cindy and used a product for the first time, my new Magnolia stamp.

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Craftwork cards

Pam's Blog Candy Card

I made this little card to send to Pam with her blog candy and I thought I would show it now I know she has received it. Have fun playing with your new stamp!

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - Papermania

Buttons - Papermania

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Cute Card Thursday - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

The challenge over at Cute Card Thursday is Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, to make a girlie card.

I made this wallet card to send some images over to Natalie to say thanks for mine! I've had this Magnolia stamps for ages and I've never used her. I will from now on as she is gorgeous.

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - Free from Magazine

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Tilda & Co Challenge - Girly but Blue

The challenge this week at Tilda & Co is Girly but Blue. "You don't see many girl cards/projects in blue very often, They are normally pink! Well i would love you to make your projects this week in BLUE! Has to be suitable for a female"

Big day tomorrow, the plasterers are arriving to do the extension, the ceiling in our kitchen and also where we have blocked up the old door. Can't wait as it will really look like a proper room then and on Tuesday the units can go in and I can have a cooker and hob again!!! Can't wait for it to be finished, the end is now in sight :o)

Image - Magnolia

Paper - From Natty K

Flower - Poppicrafts

Brad - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Tilda & Co Challenge - Ribbons

The challenge this week at Tilda & Co is to use Ribbons on your project, the more the better! This was a tricky one for me as I really don't like to use my ribbons, they are just there to be taken out and stroked every so often and then put back into their jars :o)

Been very hectic weekend, hubby's birthday on Monday so we went out for a meal and a few drinks last night. Blimey I really struggled to get out of bed this morning, don't think I can cope with too much alcohol and we only shared a couple of glasses of wine!!! Going to be a busy week, more work on the house and we have to go over to ikea this week to get some bits that I want, hubby looking forward to that!

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - Dovecraft Birthday
Embossing - Cuttlebug Birthday
Ribbon - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Tilda & Co Challenge - Stitch me up

This weeks challenge on Tilda & Co is to use stitching on your card, we I cheated slightly and used pretend stitching on my circle!!

Stamp - Magnolia

Paper - Me & My Big Idea

Embossing - Cuttlebug Baby Words

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Tilda & Co Challenge - Mix & Match

The challenge over on Tilda & Co is Mix & Match, use 2 Magnolia Stamp images together to make 1 Image. Now this could be a simple as ,Taking a Tilda Stamp with a Basket and removing this and adding a Heart from another magnolia stamp so she is holding that instead of the basket, Or it could be as simple as Tilda's Head on a Magnolia Horse.

Well I couldn't bring myself to cut the head of one of my Tilda's so I used this bench that I had received in a PIF candy and my new Magnolia Stamp.

Images - Magnolia

Paper - Daisy Bucket

Card - Die Cuts with a View

Embossing - Cuttlebug Birds & Swirls

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Glitter - Stickles

Tilda & Co Challenge

This weeks challenge at Tilda & Co Challenge is a template, so I decided to join in. The last couple of weeks have been a bit too much effort for me, i like nice simple cards and this was a great template.

Stamp - Magnolia image courtesy of Jo

Paper - Courtest of Natalie

Brads - Papermania

Flowers - Courtesy of Jo & Natalie

Peel offs - Dawn Bibby

Glitter - Stickles

Papertake Weekly Challenge

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is Weather with you! After last weeks appalling weather here in the UK, we've decided to use this theme for this weeks challenge! So anything associated with the weather - whatever your interpretation! Under the weather, fun in the sun? Wind? Rain? Let's see what you can come up with lol!

I had this lovely Magnolia image from Jo at Only Joking and thought it would be perfect.

Image - Magnolia

Paper - Pink Petticoat

Flower - Jo's PIF

Brad - Stash

Glitter - Stickles

Wording - Ellison Extended Cut Small Stuff

Tilda & Co Challenge - Spring is in the Air

I've not managed to take part in the last couple of Tilda Challenge's, so I wanted to make sure I got in early for this weeks. "As spring is almost upon us, the first signs are there now, the spring bulbs, the baby lambs are out already, I thought it was time to get those spring and Easter projects under way!" I'm not one for Easter cards, but I had this image from Hans which is gorgeous and I thought I'm make a card for my Aunty and Uncle who live in America.

Sorry the top paper isn't very clear, but it has lovely spring says all over it. Just a nightmare to get a decent picture!

Stamp - Magnolia

Papers - DCWV Spring Stack

Watercolour Pencils - Derwent

Glitter - Stickles

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Kimmies Challenges - # 2 & # 6

I love Kimmies Blog and she has been having a week of challenges to celebrate her birthday. I made this card for the Sketch Challenge # 2, but thought it would also work for Challenge # 6, which is to make a Thank You or Thinking of You or You are Special to Me card as this magnolia image just says thinking of you!

I used an image from Jo at Only Joking, coloured using Derwent watercolour pencils and then cut out. I mounted her to white c.s. and then pink c.s. and glittered her wings. I then added bright pink c.s. to the left hand side, black chiffon ribbon from this months Little Silver Hat kit and pink heart buttons. The swirly paper is from Pink Petticoat and I cut it with the attachment on my new guillotine/paper trimmer. The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards and I added 3 little heart jewels to the bottom right hand corner.

Tilda & Co Challenge - Buckles

There are 2 challenges this week over on Tilda & Co, one is a Valentines one but I only have 1 person to send to and I've made his!!! So I decided to try the other one which is to use a buckle on your card.

I coloured and paper pierced tilda last night in front of the telly, so I used brown and pink as my colour scheme. The pink and brown spotty paper I have had in my stash for over a year and the buckle has also been in my embellishment box for ages. The stripy pink and brown ribbon was part of my order from Ribbon Oasis the other week and the sentiment is an A Muse Art stamp

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Heart's Desire

This weeks challenge over at Papertake Weekly is Heart's Desire. 'Please could we see some hearts (or a heart lol!) on your cards this week? Already done your Valentine's cards? How about doing a Wedding / Anniversary / engagement or birthday card! We don't mind which - as long as there's a heart or two...or three.....!!!'

I decided to use this Magnolia image that Jo from Only-Joking sent to me (although I have had to buy this stamp now!!). I watercoloured and paper pieced her and added stickles to her wings. I cut out a large heart with my Cricut for her to sit in. The Happy Birthday sentiment is an A Muse Art stamp and I cut with my scalloped circle and added to the side on the heart. The card has been covered in paper from this Christmas DCWV pack and heart jewels added to the corners.

Tilda & Co Weekly Challenge

'This week's challenge i would like to see Numbers, Be it just 1 number on your artwork or lot's of numbers.'

Although I am a bit early, I decided to do a first birthday card for our friends little girl Katie Louise. I covered a card in pale pink spotty paper from Pink petticoat, punched 3 holes in the top right hand corner and tied 3 pieces of pink ribbon through the. I then cut a 1 with my Cricut from the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge in bright pink card and added to the front of the card. I then stamped and coloured Tilda with her teddy and added slightly to the right of the 1 with foam pads. I added Happy Birthday to the bottom of the 1