Summer Dreams

Hi, I'm back as promised to show you the first of three cards that went into a box I made for my Marvelous Magnolia DT project following the current Ribbon or Bow challenge, please scroll down if you want to see the finished article. There is a strong Summer holiday theme throughout the project and this card represents the bike riding that we love to do as a family particularly when the weather gets warmer.

I had so much fun colouring Tilda on the road with distress inks. I finished the image off with some postmark stamping around the edges, randomly added shabby white frantage and inked the edges with walnut stain distress ink. Papers are Magnolia and Stampin Up. The bulldog clip, chit chat sticker and divider die are all Tim Holtz.

I roughly machine stitched round the edge of the card twice. 

Thanks for visiting my blog today, hope you like my cycling inspired card. I'll be back again tomorrow with the middle card, depicting something else my family and I like to do in the summer (which we do all year round in fact).

Hugs,

DT - Midway Marvelous Magnolia - Ribbon or Bow

Hi, hope you're all enjoying our current challenge over at

 Marvelous Magnolia....

Ribbon or Bow.

I'm here to remind you that there is almost a full week left to enter your beautiful creations, so what are you waiting for?

The project I've got to show you today was something I made for the last Magnolia Ink competition and with that in mind I created a summer holiday file comprising of a box file and three divider cards. As it's a lot of work and too many photos for one post I've decided to split it into four posts over the next four days. So today's post is dedicated to the box file.

I coloured Magnolia's Welcome to a lovely home with distress inks, postmark stamps also Magnolia. DooHickeys used: antique lace, lovely fence, foliage.

Flowers are WOC, the brad is Stampin Up, main shape is created using a Go Kreate die and the papers are Maja design. The ribbon is wired and I love it as it can be shaped any way you want it  - happy days for me as I can usually be found wrestling with ribbon for ages trying to achieve the perfect bow lol!

I made a box to be sandwiched between the two Go Kreate shapes with an opening at the side for the cards.

I splashed plenty of white acrylic paint about!

The house represents holiday cottages past, present and future that we visit and use as a base when on holiday. The cards inside have Tilda doing just a few of the things that we like to do as a family (and not just when we are on holiday or in the summer either - although they are a lot more fun to do on a warm summers day!)

.....and there's a sneak peak of the cards inside. I'll be back tomorrow with the first of them!

I do hope you can join us with a ribbon or bow somewhere on your Magnolia creation. If you have time take a look at what my teamies have made, you wont be disappointed!

Our lovely sponsors for this challenge are:

Dies R Us

Scrapbooking Boutique

The Rubber Buggy

Challenges I would love to enter are:

Magnolialicious - Flowery

Tildas Town - Clean and layered or Fussy and Fancy (2nd entry)

Hugs,

DT Simply Magnolia - Easter

Hi everyone,
First proper day of the Easter holidays for most kids in the UK and it's raining! Typical British weather then lol!
Maybe the card I have to show you can help coax the sun out for later in the week :D

We have a brand new challenge for you over at

 Simply Magnolia .......

Easter!

All you have to do is make sure that along with your Magnolia image you include things related to Easter such as rabbits, chicks, Easter eggs etc. 

I love my Easter Maggies, and got a little bit carried away with this card, colouring FOUR images lol! I just couldn't decide between them so I thought what the heck I'll go with all four!

It started off as a traditional shaped centre step card but its shape changed somewhat as I added extras along the way.

Images: Magnolia Tilda withMr Rooster, Tilda and her bunny, Tilda with newly hatched chick and Happy Easter background - all coloured with Distress inks (you'll have to excuse the terrible colouring this time as I had big problems with my Langton hot pressed watercolour paper for some reason :(

Magnolia DooHickeys: scalloped tag, lovely fence, grass edge, cloud

Also used Magnolia chicken wire stamp, Spellbinders Labels twenty three for the sides covered in cheesecloth, lace and seam binding, shabby white frantage, and glossy accents for the raindrops.

The sentiment is from an old Forever friends spring collection and the flower stamped edge is an Stamping Up stamp. All the butterflies are from an SU embossed die. The pink paper on the butterflies is Magnolia Rose - Easter Blessing but the other papers are from my stash so I don't know who they're by :(

Hope I've inspired you to join in with our Easter challenge, check out my teamies creations - they're awesome!

Our lovely sponsor this time is:

The Ribbon Girl

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Midweek Magnolias - Easter with option of adding bunnies

Tildas Town - Clean and Layered or Fussy and Fancy

Inky chicks - butterflies

The Ribbon Girl - Spring

Thanks for visiting me today, I'll be back on Thursday for my midway reminder for Marvelous Magnolia, so until then have a great week!

Hugs,

Marvelous Magnolia DT - Midway Doily Delight

Hi everyone,

My card today comes with a reminder that you still have about a week left to enter

 Marvelous Magnolia's

 fab Doily Delight challenge.

I decided to give this card to my mum for Mother's Day which is this Sunday in the UK.

The gorgeous paper is Maja - 6th of April

Dies used: Spellbinders - foliage, beaded ovals, Doohickey - scalloped tag. Part of the tag is covered in a torn doily and I used one full doily and two quarter pieces behind the image.

 The Mother's Day sentiment and lace are from my stash.

The beautiful flowers are WOC

I had such fun colouring the awesome Tripping Flower Tilda (using distress inks as always) I used my pearl maker pen to finish off

As you can see my card has the added shaker element of micro beads

I hope you like my card and that it has inspired you to join us, thanks for visiting my blog today, check out my teamies gorgeous creations too!

We are lucky to be sponsored by:
The Ribbon Girl



Tildas Town


Hobby Cutz



Challenges I would love to enter:
Deep Ocean Challenge - For a Friend and DT call (my card is for my best friend - my mum :)

Simply Magnolia DT 'Bingo!'

Hi everyone,

I can't believe how quickly the last fortnight has gone but here I am again to tell you about another brand new challenge at

 Simply Magnolia.

 This time we would like to entice you with a game of

 Bingo!

 and who can resist when there's something for everyone on the board! :D

Dies used: Go Kreate,

Tim Holtz - Butterflight;

DooHickeys - peony petal, scalloped stitched lace, scalloped tag

Layers were machine stitched

I used crackle glaze on the eggs and stickles on the WOC flowers

I masked Magnolia's Tilda carrying lamb with two eggs, coloured with DI's. The sentiment and postmark are also Magnolia stamps.

So here's a reminder of the fab Bingo grid:

I went with a couple of lines - straight across the top with Ribbon, Pink and Bling and

straight down the middle with Pink, Die cuts and Flowers.

Our wonderful sponsor this time is Crafty Ribbons

Challenge I would love to enter:

Tildas Town - 'Spring'

Thank you for popping by it really means so much, and check out what beautiful creations my teamies have come up with for inspiration.....

Can't wait to see what you all make :)

I'll be back on Thursday with my midway card for Marvelous Magnolia

Hugs,

DT - Midway #63 Marvelous Magnolia - Add some Green

Hi! Glorious spring sunshine here today, in fact this week has been lovely with lots of warm weather for the time of year - long may it continue :)

I'm here this afternoon to remind you that there is almost a full week left to enter our current challenge over at

Marvelous Magnolia

#63 Add some Green.

This is the perfect opportunity to start those gorgeous spring/Easter creations and I find that purple and green are a beautiful colour combo!

Dies used: Go Kreate Frilly #6, Spellbinders labels twenty three, doohickeys - Tildas Ticket, stitched scalloped lace. The green butterfly paper is SU and the background paper is Magnolia Vintage Easter egg. The flowers are Magnolia and WOC. The adorable resin corner is from Live and Love Crafts. Lace and hessian both came from my stash.

I never tire of colouring Ballerina Bunny Tilda - she's so much fun to colour (with DI's for me), I randomly stamped Magnolia's chicken wire stamp round the edge and limited the Frantage to these places too.

Our fab sponsors this time are:

Magnolialicious

The Rubber Buggy

Scrapbooking Boutique

Wow, with so much up for grabs, how can you resist?

I would love to enter my card into the following challenge:

Tildas Town - Add a technique (Frantage)

I do hope you can join us, my teamies have also made some awesome inspiration for you! Thanks for visiting me today....

Hugs,

Debut DT creation for Simply Magnolia

Hello,

There was a time when I didn't think I would ever be on another design team and here I am showing you my first card as a DT member for

Simply Magnolia.

 I was blown away when Tracy emailed me to say I'd made the team, I thought I was just guest designing for them, hadn't checked the challenge blog for any announcements, so it came like a bolt out of the blue! I have a lot to thank Tracy and the design team for, as I now find myself on not one but two Magnolia Design Teams, this news coming soon after being fortunate enough to make the Marvelous Magnolia DT!

Well, lets get down to the important business of showing my card.....

The theme is nice and easy:

Birthday Wishes and add a Birthday Sentiment

and we all have a reason to make plenty of those!

Dies used are: Go Kreate shaped card die, spellbinders circle and lacey circle, DooHickeys: scalloped tag, scalloped stictched lace border

Sentiment on Tilda's board is SU and the Time to celebrate stamp is by LOTV.

Write a Message Tilda was a delight to colour as always, using DI's. I finished the image off with Frantage and a white bead string.

The detail to the top right corner with lace under the ripped section and wrapped over the top of the paper in the corner, finished with a pale pink flower button. The reason for the ripped paper is so I had an excuse to add the zipper (I just love these!)

All the flowers are WOC and I couldn't go without adding an arty shot of the finished card! At the time of taking the photo I hadn't decided whether to sell the card or give it to someone special so I hadn't filled in the Month and Date on the stamp but I have since decided to give it to my daughter next month who will be six and adores Tilda as much as me!

We are lucky enough to be sponsored by the awesome:

Live and Love Crafts

Thanks for visiting me today it really means a lot, I hope you have had time to pop over to see what amazing inspiration my new teamies have for you on the main challenge blog, and I will see you on Thursday with my next creation for Marvelous Magnolia.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, if this goes to plan as a scheduled post I will be at Birmingham NEC today at Crufts dog show :)

Hugs,