Tilda & Co Challenge # 23

The challenge for this week is

Swirls

Right this week is swirls, You can do what you like aslong as it has swirls
involved somehow.

I'm not too happy with this card, I don't know why, just one of those ones were you look at it and think it's not right in some way. But on the plus side it has plenty of swirls!! So for this one I covered the card with lilac cardstock but left a couple of centimetres on all four sides to show the white of the card, which I then sponged with a lilac ink pad. I cut the frame out with some BG card and my Cricut. I then adhered it to the card with 3D pads. The swirls were also cut from BG and the Cricut and also adhered with 3D pads. I also added some eyelets to the swirls. Tilda was coloured in with prismas and zest it, as was the butterfly. I added a little bit of stickles on to Tilda's crown and wings. To finish it all off I added some little gems and some blooms.

Papers: Basic Grey
Stamps: Magnolia
Cricut:- cartridge - Stretch your imagination
Swirls:- Quickutz Flourish



If you would like to take part in this week's challenge over on the Tilda & Co Challenge blog you can find all the details here

http://magnoliachallengeblog.blogspot.com/

and of course you can see all the lovely DT work.

Friday Sketchers Challenge

I just found this challenge so I'm a bit late with it. Nice easy sketch to start me off.

Here's the sketch for this week for the Friday Sketchers blog challenge.

I decided to turn my card 90 degrees because the image is quite small. I've used a ladybug and friends image very kindly sent to me by Frances. Thanks Frances!! x I think this is my favourite or it could be the frog one. :0) I've coloured the image in with prismas and zest it. I've accentuated the swirls on the sheep with a silver gel pen although you don't get the effect from the photo in real life it looks embossed. I've also used some diamond glaze on their cheeks and the heart. The papers are from the American Crafts - spring summer range. I layered them up with cardstock, which all came with my Sarah's cardmaking monthly kit. The "adorable" sentiment is a Stampin Up one and I cut out the backing cardstock with a stampin up punch. The little gold and crystal dots are peel offs.


Stamps:- Ladybug and Friends by Rachelle Anne Miller
Papers:- American Crafts
Sentiment:- Stampin Up

I won't say who but this card will be winging it's way to someone as a thank you.

PS I've just managed to get a better photo of the card showing you the silver gel pen effect to the sheep's wool.

Oops

Apologies my CCT card was a bit late. Our not so angelic puppy decided to nibble through our phone line cable!!! Took DH all day to find a new one. Boy did I miss not being able to see all the blogs. :0)

Cute Card Thursday

Christmas comes early to CCT this week. For challenge ~ 13 it's

Xmas Cards

The challenge this week is to make a Christmas card!! We thought
we'd give
you a helping hand to get your cards started early this year and
we have a
fabulous CD of Christmas designs which Wendy of OOh La La
Creations has kindly
donated as a prize to be given to one randomly
chosen winner.

For this Xmas card I used papers from a Hot of the Press Xmas pad
and backed them with Stampin Up cardstock. For the small panel on the right I
used a Magnolia snowflake stamp and stamped them on with SU heat and stick
powder and stampin' glitter. The oval behind Tilda was made with my cricut and I
embossed it with a cuttlebug embossing folder. The winter bench and the Tilda
were both coloured in with prismas and zest it. Tilda's fur also has
diamond stickles on it. And to finish the card off I added some lilac with gold
edging ribbon and some diamond gems.

Oval:- Cricut Cartridge, Plantin

Embossing Folder:- Swiss Dots
Stamps:- MagnoliaPaper:- HOTP
Cardstock:- Stampin Up

Some gorgeous DT cards this week to help you get some inspiration, so you can get a head start on your Christmas cards. Why not pop over to the Cute Card Thursdy blog and leave a comment and a link to your card. You could win a fabby Xmas CD this week too!!

Blog Candy

Thanks to Heather I just found some blog candy!! If you go over to Lisbet's blog you have the chance to win two fab Krilla stamps!!

If you haven't seen these stamps before here's the stamps you could win. Aren't they fab?

Tilda & Friends ATC Challenge

This week's theme is

Give Me Sunshine

mmm need some of that here as it is absolutely tipping it down today!!

It seems that most of the UK has seen the sun at least once recently and the
temperatures are finally starting to slowly climb so this week we want you to
give us some sunshine! Be inspired by the summer and sunshine, be it in your
images or colours, and please create an ATC for us - but don't forget to HAVE
FUN!

Here is my bit of sunshine. I've used Memories Complete paper for the background. I thought this Magnolia stamp would go well with the theme as she has some lovely summery flowers in her hair and I coloured her in with sunshiney colours too. I also added some tiny peel offs to the centres of the flowers. Diamond glaze was added to her pockets and shoes.The "sunshine" is on vellum and I cut around that and used brads each end to fix it on the ATC. To give the ATC a bit of texture I wrapped some very thin ribbon again in sunshiney colours around the bottom.

Stamps:- Magnolia
Paper:- Memories Complete
Vellum sentiment:- Scrapping Sally

If you're in need of a bit of sunshine why not pop over to the Tilda & Friends ATC Challenge blog and have a look at the DT's work. Maybe they will give you some inspiration to make your own sunshine ATC. Then all you have to do is leave a comment under this week's post with a link to your ATC.

Hope you all get to enjoy some sunshine soon!

A Spoon Full Of Sugar Challenge # 2

Onto challenge # 2 for the "A Spoon Full Of Sugar" Challenge blog. And the challenge this week was

A Colour scheme

This week we are asking you to use all the following 3
colours on your cards Pink, Blue and Green (any shades) + you can also use flesh
colour and a little bit of brown for hair or Animals.We have a gorgeous stamp
kindly donated by Debbie up for grabs this week, To be in with a chance to win
it, just leave us a comment with a link to your work, and we will randomly pick
1 winner next week

For my card I've used the new Sweet Ebony range of stamps by Elisabeth Bell. They arrived just in time to make this card. The set is adorable. I coloured her in using prismas and zest and also added some diamond stickles to her flowers. The background papers are from Heidi Grace ( they have a lovely velvety texture to them) and I cut out different sized squares and a triangle and then layered them with cardstock. I folded back one of the squares and added a brad, some ribbon and two flower charms. The charms looked too silver so I coloured them with a pink marvy le plume pen. The "so sweet" sentiment is from Funky Kits which I received free as I bought the Sweet Ebony kit. I just layered that onto a bloom.

Papers:- Heidi Grace
Stamps:- Sweet Ebony
CS:- Stampin Up

If you would like to take part in this week's challenge the details are all on the blog here

http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/

And why not have a look at the DT work to get some inspiration. There are some gorgeous cards!

Tilda & Co Challenge Blog

We're on challenge # 22 now at the Tilda & Co Challenge blog and this week the theme is
None card week

Now you may be looking at the title and thinking what? No cards? But i only make
cards?Now is the time to experience New things!,For this challenge you are NOT
allowed to make a Card,Now there is so many things you can do with Magnolia
Stamps, You only have to look @ Myself & the Design Teams work this week!You
could do a Gift Tag, Bookmark, Atc, Scrapbook(layout)Page, Gift Bag, Book The
possibilities are endless!So The rules are, Anything as long as it isn't a card,
Has to have at least 1 Magnolia Stamp on ( remember it doesn't have to be Tilda
or Edwin) , And last of all most important one is HAVE FUN!!!

For this challenge I made a tri photo frame. For the basic shape I used my Cricut, it was for a tri photo album but I adapted it. The papers and embellies are a SU simply scrappin set. The birds, butterflies, Tilda and Edwin are all stamped and coloured in with prismas and zest it. To finish it off I used two co ordinating ribbons together to put through the holes. The photos are of Milly and my youngest daughter and also Milly and my two sons.

Stamps:- Magnolia
Papers & Embellies:- SU simply scrappin secret garden
Cricut:- Cartridge - Fabulous Finds

You can find all the details for the challenge over on the blog and you also have a chance to win a fantastic Lily and Milo stamp. The DT have done some outstanding work this week and there are also some new DT members, so why not go and have a look?

Sweet Ebony

Look what I got in the post today!!!

The new stamps from Funky Kits called "Sweet Ebony" designed by Elisabeth Bell.

I decided to go for the kit as I couldn't decide on just a few. They are all so sweet, you can't see them to the full effect here but I'll be making cards with them real soon.

A Spoon Full of Sugar

I was delighted to be asked by Debbie to be on the Design Team of a new challenge blog just for Sugar Nellies and Rachelle Anne Miller stamps. Unfortunately I was too busy with relatives visiting to join in with the first challenge but you can go and have a look and join in here

http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/

It's a fantastic theme this week "Summertime". Quite appropriate for us here in Germany as it is sweltering!!! The challenges are posted every Tuesday so you still have time to do this week's challenge.

Tired?

Day 4 and Milly has just been for a little walk. Do you think she is tired?

Sweet Sugar Challenge

A bit late this challenge but this time it's

Not a card!

This week's challenge is to make something different with your Sugar
Nellies
thats not a card!

So I made a set of 3 ATCs. I've coloured the images in with prismas and zest it. For the backgrounds and embellies I've just used bits and pieces of my stash.
Have a look at the challenge blog here and you may get some inspiration from the DT. Also Claire is looking for some new Design Team members so if you take part and leave your blog link on the comment she will be searching!!!

Cute Card Thursday

Sorry bit late putting my card up but things are manic here. Relatives come to stay (which makes 9 people living in one house) and a new puppy!

Ok so this week for the Cute Card Thursday challenge blog we were to follow the fabulous sketch by Katharina. Who does some stunning work you should check out her amazing blog.

Thanks Katharina it was a lovely sketch to follow.

Here is my card. I kept it quite simple this week as time was short. I used a Hanglar image that Monika had sent me. Thanks Monika :0). I coloured it in with prismas and zest it. I then cut out some scallops using my cricut to make a background for the image. All papers and embellies are from a SU simply scrappin set called "Round Up".

Papers, CS and embellies:- Stampin Up simply scrappin - Round Up

Stamp:- Hanglar

As usual there are some stunning examples from the DT over on the blog. Why not go and get some inspiration and take part? You can find all the details here

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/

And this week there are four stamps from Bootiful Stampz up for grabs!!

Tilda & Friends ATC Challenge

This week's challenge is
Birds of a Feather

Here's my ATC for this challenge. All the images are from Magnolia and are coloured in with prismas and zest it.
If you would like to join in with the challenge you can find all the details here

http://tildaandfriends.blogspot.com/

Tilda & Co Challenge

Challenge # 20 this week and it's ....

Beads

show some beads on your creation either beads on a ribbon or string or just
a beaded embellishments

For my card I've used Cherry Arte papers. All stamps are by Magnolia and have been coloured in with prismas and zest it. For the "For you!" I have used my Cricut machine. I've used beads in the middle of the flowers, on Tilda's bow, smock top and her pockets and I also added three beads each down the sides of the card. The little flowers on the fence are tiny buttons.

Stamps:- Magnolia

Papers:- Cherry Arte

Sentiment:- Cricut cartridge - Jasmine

If you would like to have a go at this week's challenge you can find all the details on the blog here

http://magnoliachallengeblog.blogspot.com/

and.....

the prize for this week is your choice of Magnolia stamp!!!
All you have to do is leave a comment with details of your blog under the challenge on the blog.