Sunshine on a Rainy Day - Totally Tilda DT

Morning everyone,

I hope you're all ready for 

Totally Tilda's 

brand new challenge......

Inspired by a song!

 I thought it would be difficult as I've always struggled with this theme before but once I got looking through my Tildas I found loads I could do! Soooo I ended up with Sunshine on a Rainy Day by Zoe which I think was released in 1990. It meant I got to use a Tilda I haven't used in a long time - Tilda celebrates midsummer, and a background which I've never inked up.

 I used loads of glossy accents as 'rain' on Tildas dress, hanging off the big leaves and splashing off her hand so you'll have to excuse the amount of photos but one shot didn't get all that I wanted to show. The one below was to show the glossy accents on Tildas shoes....

 The next one was to show the glossy accents as rain splashing off Tildas hand....

 

and the last one is just a fun shot showing the doo bee pop tulips and doohickey dragonfly on them.

Supplies:

Go Kreate shaped card dies

DooHickeys - tag, Tildas ticket, dragonflies, peony, scalloped laced border, leaf

Papers Little yellow Bicycle, SU

Marianne Creatable rolled flowers

SU brads

gems, lace and charm from stash

Our wonderful sponsor this time is The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop are having a huge closing down sale!! Everything is reduced to rock bottom prices including all ribbon, twine, mulberry paper flowers, rubber stamps and embellishments.  Hurry stocks are selling out fast - you can browse the sale HERE

and here is the fabby prize that our lucky hand picked winner will receive:

Challenges I would love to enter are:

Bunny Zoe Crafts - Wings

MDUC - Anything Goes

Magnolialicious - Lace

Marvelous Magnolias - 2 Magnolia stamps/2 doohickeys

Tildas Town - Use your stash

That's all for me folks today so thanks for visiting my blog it really means a lot and don't forget to have a peak at what my teamies have been up to, there's some truly inspirational song creations!

Have a wonderful Fathers Day whatever you end up doing :)

Hugs,

Holiday snaps

Morning all, just a quick post to show you a few holiday photo's! I've been rushing round like a headless chicken since we got back, can't believe it was the 2nd June when we got home, and I've been chasing my tail ever since! Needless to say I'm behind with everything including my blogaversary post so even if it passes me by I'm determined to have a giveaway to celebrate this year even if it happens slightly later than I wanted it to!

Anyhoo, on to the photo's, I won't bore you with hundreds of them, I didn't realise I'd taken nearly three hundred until I uploaded them the other day! 

The highlight of the holiday has to be going to Disneyland Paris....

My three kids posing in front of Mickey outside Walt Disney Studio Park

My daughter Jasmine at Disneyland Park entrance

 

My kids and their three cousins (plus a couple of other kids) having their piccie taken with Rex off Toy Story

We had our picture taken with Slepping Beauty's castle in background as the sun was setting

A magical place day and night, loved it when the lights came on with the big display celebrating 20 years of Disneyland Paris, you can just see Tinkerbell flying over the 20!

We had to visit the Eiffel Tower and we walked up to the second level so got some great pictures looking down

The Arc de Triomphe

After the day in Paris we had to get out again and my husband must have nerves of steel as we were mad enough to park right in the centre of Paris and then had to negotiate the traffic to get out again. All I kept hearing him say was 'Oh my god......oh my god!!!' as the cars and bikes came at us from all directions, extra lanes were created on  numerous occasions and it was every man for himself! I just kept hold of the camera merrily taking photo's of anything and everything!

Right that's it for now, I will be back tomorrow with my latest card for Totally Tilda, have a great weekend xXx

Hugs,

Going Postal with Totally Tilda #73

Hi everyone,

If Mr Blogger is behaving then this is my second scheduled post, this time to announce a new challenge over at 

Totally Tilda,

 which is one of my favourites....

Going Postal!

 Obviously we want to see Tilda stealing the show but we also want to see all your postage stamps, papers and embellies to follow our postal theme.

Supplies:

Magnolia Cowgirl Tilda stamp coloured in Walnut stain DI

SU circular sentiment stamps and vintage brad

Whimsy mini postage stamp sentiments and post card stamp

Magnolia doohickey vintage tag, foliage and Tilda's lace border

Papers: TH, nitwits and Magnolia

WOC flowers

SU seam binding

lace and cheescloth from stash

Pink Fran-tage

Go Kreate shaped card die

Our wonderful generous sponsor this fortnight is Nikki from Bunny Zoe Crafts

offering this fabby prize:

Thanks for your continued support Nikki x

Hope you are inspired by my card and the other DT's magnificent creations, can't wait to see your beautiful masterpieces as always! Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog x

I'm back off my hols this week so hope to share some pics very soon and will have to sort out some blog candy as the blogaversary is looming :) So looks like I've got a few posts to do, not to mention catching up on whats been happening in blogland over the last ten days or so.

Have a wonderful crafty week

Hugs,

Totally Tilda MW #72 More than one fold

Morning Folks,

Fingers crossed that this scheduled post works lol! so that I can remind you of 

Totally Tilda's

 current challenge of 

More than one fold,

  you have about a week left to enter your magnificent folded Tilda creations!

This post and the next one are scheduled as I am going to be in France for the school half term for a family holiday and will post a few piccies on here when I get back :)

This is my folded reminder, and although it's a napkin or handkerchief  fold card I didn't flatten it like I usually do but left it quite raised and made a deep belly band to keep it all together.

From this angle you can see the depth of the card all tied up in the belly band.

Dies:

DooHickeys used: vintage tag, Tilda's lace border

MS PATP Punch

Spellbinders Labels twenty three and sixteen

Papers: SU and nitwits

The flower charm attached to the tag inside has had the Fran-tage treatment

Sentiment is LOTV

WOC daisy

Magnolia Sneezing Tilda and Tilda's heart flowers stamps coloured using DI's

I added diamond stickles to Tilda's spots on her boots, wings, and the flowers and tea die stickles to Tilda's hair

Cheesecloth from stash

SU Baja breeze seam binding

As you may know by now we are sponsored by the lovely Ribbon Girl for this challenge

and they have a £10 voucher for the lucky winner!

Don't forget to check out my fellow teamies beautiful projects on Totally Tilda's main challenge blog. Thank you for visiting me today and I will (hopefully) be back with another scheduled post next Sunday!

Have a wonderful week

Hugs,

Totally Tilda DT #72 More than one fold

Morning lovely peeps,

I can't believe how quick these weeks are flying by, I'm already back to tell you about our new challenge over at 

Totally Tilda

 and it doesn't seem like five minutes since I was telling you about the last one! This fortnight we want you to impress us with your

 More than one fold creations :)

I'm later than I wanted to be with this post but as usual I'm never organised enough to schedule my posts. I will have to be though for my next two as we are going to France this Thursday for ten days holiday and so I'm extra busy trying to make sure that I'm up to date with craft, as well as getting all the washing, ironing and packing done, on top of work for my job and all the day to day stuff too! I'll be meeting myself coming back soon lol!

Anywho, I'm keeping you waiting so I guess I'd better show you my card, this was a no brainer for me this week - my favourite multi fold card is still the double tri-shutter card. As I was in holiday mode I gave it a seaside theme and love the blue and green colour combo.

All the panels are machine stitched. I added a button to the bow on the left hand side with a shell charm beneath. WOC flowers and a pin adorn the right hand bow. All the ribbon is SU seam binding, I use tons of the stuff, especially this Baja breeze colour.

The papers are a combination of BG, raspberry road and nitwit.

DooHickeys - Stitched scalloped lace border and fence

I layered up TH scrollwork die either side of anchor Tilda to create some waves over the fence.

I used Spellbinders Fleur de Lis squares to frame both Tilda images.

Magnolia Anchor Tilda coloured in DI's and Fran-tage added to the top corner and on the fence

Magnolia Tilda in Key Largo coloured in DI's with Fran-tage added at the corners, the shells are something I've had for ages and want to use more of.

The centre of the card where the two tri-shutters join I made into a criss cross card. The pull out sentiment card I left blank but carried the theme through with another Fleur de Lis square and more Kraft and machine stitching.

This shot shows the card as closed as I could get it without holding it lol! 

Hope you like my creation, pop over to Totally Tilda to see my teamies magnificent cards!

We are lucky to be sponsored by The Ribbon Girl for this challenge

with a fab £10 voucher to use in the store (gutted I can't win this lol)

I would like to enter the following challenge:

Marvelous Magnolias - Best bows

Thanks so much for visiting me today, and for the comments you leave me which are sooooooo appreciated!

Hope you have a wonderful crafty week and I will be back next week (via schedule fingers crossed!)

Hugs,

Totally Tilda DT MW #71 Pink Princess Tilda

Morning folks,

I'm back today with a quick reminder that you have nearly a week still to enter 

Totally Tilda's

 current challenge which is 

Pink Princess Tilda.

 So long as Pink is the predominant colour and Tilda is wearing a tiara or crown then you will be in with a chance of our prize or Top 3 slots - easy right?

Tilda catching stars is coloured using DI's 

I had a happy accident with Tilda's wand and crown. I wasn't very pleased with how they looked when I'd added gold Fran-tage, so I overlaid it with pink Fran-tage and loved the end result as it looks like they are shimmering with magic!

I used LOTV birthday recipe stamp on a Magnolia tag and tucked it into a pocket I made inside the card

Supplies

Go Kreate shaped card die

Spellbinders nestie labels twenty three and foliage

Magnolia DooHickeys tag, tea label star, sweet lovely lace

WOC flowers

Magnolia Bumble bee paper

If you have time, check out my fellow DT's creations, you won't be disappointed!

Our sponsor for this challenge is still the lovely Nikki from Bunny Zoe Crafts

with this fab prize for one lucky winner:

Challenges I would love to enter:

Sir Stampalot - Embossing and texture

MDUC - Move it (my tag on the inside moves in and out)

Midweek Magnolias - Die cuts and/or punches

Marvelous Magnolias - Anything Goes

Tildas Town - Something old, Something New (old: lace, cheesecloth and Tilda, new: Fran-tage, metal corner and tea label doohickey)

Thanks for visiting my blog, hope you like my card, your comments are very much appreciated :)

Have a wonderful week and keep crafting!

Hugs,

Totally Tilda DT #71 Pink Princess Tilda

Hi everyone,
Well, I guess everyone loved using their embossing powders as much as we did for Totally Tilda's last challenge, the competition was as fierce as ever and we had a very difficult job choosing our favourites! Pop over to see if you were our winner or one of our chosen Top 3 :)

Our fab new challenge over at 

Totally Tilda

 this time is 

Pink Princess Tilda! In honor of our lovely Susie's birthday which is coming up very soon!
As long as PINK is the predominant colour and your Tilda is wearing a crown or tiara you will be eligible for the prize :)

I love this theme as pink is a favourite colour of mine and the Tilda princess stamps are just adorable - bliss lol! 

I made a shaped easel card this week with lots of yummy pink papers including two different Magnolia papers. I used both of them together on the TH Butterflight die and topped them with WOC flowers.

These two shots hopefully show the SU frame I used to display the Whimsy mini postage stamp sentiment, as you can see it's bevelled and looks beautiful IRL.

I coloured Tilda in cotton dress and fairytale castle background with DI's and added glossy accents to Tilda's crown for extra shine.

Supplies:

Go Kreate shaped card die

Spellbinders large scalloped circle and labels twenty three

DooHickeys: Tildas Ticket and bon voyage flower

TH elegant swirl die

pearls and lace from stash

We are very lucky to be sponsored by Nikki from Bunny Zoe Crafts this time

with this fab prize for one lucky winner!

Challenges I would love to enter:

Midweek Magnolias - Lovely Lace

Marvelous Magnolias - Pearls and Lace

Tildas Town - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for popping by and visiting my blog today :)

Can't wait to see your gorgeous Pink Princess Tilda creations

Don't forget to pop over and see what incredible masterpieces my teamies have made for inspiration and I will be back next week with another regal creation!

Hugs,