Totally Tilda MW #70 Heat embossing

Hi everyone,

sorry I'm a bit later today with my 

Totally Tilda

 midway reminder, letting you know you have almost a week left to show off your Tilda creations with some Heat embossing

 on there somewhere too.

Up until this themed challenge I have to admit to not doing much heat embossing as I wasn't always inspired by the end result, but since buying some Fran-tage it's renewed my interest and I hope I will continue to use it more from now on.

This week I was in the mood for making a centre step card:

and because my Tilda and bench were from the new mini collection I found I had time to decorate the inside of my card as well:

here's a close up of the fran-tage on the Magnolia doohickey doily sentiment:

Supplies:

Magnolia mini world stamps Sitting Tilda with Butterfly and bench

Spellbinder nestie lacey circle

Magnolia doohickey's - doily, dragonfly, fence

Stampendous Fran-tage - shabby blue

SU Baja breeze seam binding

Magnolia knick knackery gems

WOC rose

cheesecloth, papers, button from stash

Don't forget we have the wonderful Pretty Little Ribbon Shop as our sponsor this time

with this fab prize on offer:

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop  currently have a Spring Spectacular Event with reductions on nearly all products throughout the store including ribbon, twine, charms, pins, rubber stamps, pearls, rhinestones and much more. Pop over and grab a bargain while stocks last! Further reductions available in our sale section too

Check out the rest of the DT inspiration on the Totally Tilda challenge blog, each one is a masterpiece and you won't be disappointed! We hope you have time to join us with your take on Heat embossing with Tilda, can't wait to see what you all create!

Challenges I would love to enter:

Midweek Magnolias - Bingo (top line: Pink, Ribbon, Dies or punches)

Marvelous Magnolias - For a Special Lady (I made this card for my niece whose birthday was last week)

My daughter, Jasmine, was five the week before last and this picture was taken last weekend at the local soft play where she had her party. She was so excited when the cake came out that she blew the candles out before we had sang happy birthday lol!

Thanks for visiting me today, wishing everyone a great week ahead :)

Hugs,

Totally Tilda DT #70 Heat embossing

Hellooooo,

I'm here to tell you about the fab new challenge starting today over at 

Totally Tilda,

 which this time is 

Heat Embossing. 

I made this card for my daughter Jasmine who was 5 on Thursday. Her dad has always called her 'Princess Pea' so buying this Tilda was a no brainer! 

I've got so much to do at the moment what with work and homelife and I don't cope well with work piling up, so it's a wonder this card got made at all! I had to colour the image twice as I made a complete hash of the first one, and after that I couldn't settle on a design that would compliment my image. However, as you can see I got past my crafters block in the nick of time and hope it doesn't show too much that my mojo is AWOL!

Challenges I would love to enter:

Bunny Zoes - Favourite colour combo (pink, purple, turquoise)

Inky Chicks - Happy Birthday Girl

Tilda's Town - Once Upon a Time

I used shabby pink Fran-tage embossing powder on the metal corner, SU brad and Spellbinder Nestie Fleur de lis square (I cut the middle out of this nestie so my image poked through)

Other supplies include:

Magnolia stamps Princess Pea Tilda and mattresses (coloured with DI's)

papers - Bazzill Antique newsprint and Magnolia Bon Voyage Hummingbird

Go Kreate XXL Square frame frilly #8

Magnolia doohickeys peony petal, cloud

Marianne Creatables rolled flowers

SU birthday sentiment

ribbon, cheesecloth, feather from stash

We are very lucky to be sponsored this time by The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop

with this awesome prize for one hand picked winner!

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop  currently have a Spring Spectacular Event with reductions on nearly all products throughout the store including ribbon, twine, charms, pins, rubber stamps, pearls, rhinestones and much more. Pop over and grab a bargain while stocks last! Further reductions available in our sale section too

Please check out my teamies creations over on the Totally Tilda challenge blog - each one's a gem! Hope we have inspired you enough with our cards and projects for you to enter your own heat embossed masterpiece!

Thanks for visiting me today :)

Hugs,

Totally Tilda's Midway reminder #69

Happy Sunday morning everyone,

We're already halfway through our current challenge over at 

Totally Tilda

 and we're still going 

Bingo

 crazy lol!

So if you fancy a game with us you still have almost a week to play - just make sure you use at least one line of three in a row from our Bingo grid and you have our lovely Tilda on your creation too of course :)

The card I made for this weeks midway reminder is for my mums birthday that's coming up in a couple of weeks. It's a twisted easel and I made a box for it to go in, something I don't normally do, and I decorated the lid to match the card inside. Mum is my biggest fan and loves the creations I make so I thought I would do something special for her.....

I didn't over layer it with papers as the couple that I picked were too beautiful to cover up (like I usually do lol!) I picked out the creams and browns from the paper to layer up the base with cream and kraft cardstock.

I coloured Tilda with Ugg boots using DI's, mainly vintage photo and walnut stain to keep with the vintage look. I used black soot for shadowing and then cut her out and matted her using Spellbinders Nestie beaded oval, distressing with walnut stain and machine stitching around the edges. I added stardust stickles to her boot buttons and the butterflies, and tea die stickles to her hair. 

A close up of all those gorgeous WOC flowers, the double bow and sentiment.

This is a shot of the card in its box base next to the decorated lid.

I used the same papers for the lid and followed a similar design to the card. 

Kangaroo Tilda was also coloured with DI's with more tea die stickles in her hair and glossy accents on the sweet kangaroos nose! I'm really pleased with the finished bunting, they look like mini tiles mounted on thick cream card and that fab BG paper sandeed back slightly at the edges.

Lastly I took this picture from above the card as a fun shot!

Supplies:

Stamps - Magnolia Tilda with Ugg boots and Kangaroo Tilda

Dies - Magnolia DooHickey's: tea label heart, peony petal, tag, flag

Go Kreate card shapes, Spellbinders Nestie Beaded Oval and foliage

Magnolia pearls

WOC flowers

SU sentiment, seam binding, linen thread

As you know our lovely sponsor for this challenge is Nikki from Bunny Zoe Crafts 

(thanks Nikki for your continued support x)

and this is the prize for one lucky winner:

this is of course the fab Bingo grid for you to get cracking with:

This time I used three lines:

Across the top - faux stitching, glitter/sparkle, ribbon

Down the right hand side - ribbon, pearls/gems, machine stitching

Across the bottom - Dies/punches, flowers, machine stitching

I would love to enter the following challenges:

MDUC - DT call with Anything Goes theme

Deep Ocean Challenge - Flowers and Fantasy plus DT call

Magnolialicious - Buttons, bows or beads

Tilda's Town - Flowers everywhere

Thanks so much as always for taking the time to pop by, your comments are cherished!

I hope you all have a wonderful week....

Hugs,

Who's for a game of Tilda's Bingo?

Morning friends!

It's time for a fresh new challenge over at 

Totally Tilda

again and this fortnight we're playing 

Bingo

 with Tilda!
 I'm not a player of real Bingo, but love it when craft is involved lol! The challenge for me was to go for a full house but only got as far as two lines with this weeks creation:

The card shapes are Go Kreate dies and the papers are BG and Magnolia. Doo Hickeys used were tag, lovely fence and heart swirl branch. I painstakingly machine stitched around Tilda and drew faux stitching on one of my paper layers and the tag.

The sentiment stamps used on the tag and around Tilda are SU. I covered the DooHickey fence with crackle paint and then went over it lightly with distress ink. This photo and the next one are the best I could take of the stickles on the WOC flowers, the Nestie lacey circle and Tilda's icecream cup. I also added glossy accents to Tilda's icecream. I used my DI's to colour Tilda.

Ribbon, cheesecloth, lace and charm are from my stash.

We are lucky to be sponsored by the lovely Nikki from Bunny Zoe Crafts for this challenge

with this fab prize for one lucky winner:

and this is the wonderful Bingo Grid

I used the top line: Faux stitching, glitter/sparkle and ribbon,

and the bottom line: Dies and/or punches, flowers and machine stitching.

Challenge I would love to enter this week:

Marvelous Magnolia  - Anything Goes

Tilda's Town - Fussy and Fancy

I hope you find time to play Bingo with us this fortnight, and that you have as much fun as I had with this grid!

Thanks for popping by today and taking a look at what I've been up to, and for such lovely comments you leave x

I'll be back next Sunday with my midway creation, can't wait to have another game of Bingo with you all lol!

Hugs,

Totally Tilda DT MW #68 Shaped card

Happy Easter everyone!

I hope you are all enjoying a fab Easter day with friends, family or a bit of piece and quiet to yourself ;) Whatever you're doing, maybe you'll be interested to know that over at 

Totally Tilda, 

we are halfway through our current challenge

 'Shaped cards'

 which still leaves plenty of time for you to make something beautiful to enter. As long as your card shape is not square or rectangular and Tilda is the main image then you could be winning our fab prize or be picked as one of the DT's top three!

Well, on to the creation I made this week, a double circle easel:

I used my Grand Nestie scalloped circle dies again for both the base easel and DP layers, the flowered yellow paper is BG and the flowered blue paper is SU. All the cut butterflies are using a Sizzix SU Embosslits die called Beautiful Wings which embosses them with different patterns too.

For the left hand part of the card I masked Tilda with eggs in her apron and Spring background, mounted the finished DI coloured image on kraft cut into nestie lacy circle shape, then added cheesecloth behind it.

This is the right hand side of the card. I masked Tilda carrying a lamb and tulip wheelbarrow, cut another nestie lacey circle out of kraft and added more cheesecloth.

I glued my two separate circle easel cards together and made a centrepiece for a tag sentiment using nestie labels sixteen, tied two Sizzix tags to a piece of lemon ribbon and added WOC flowers.

As you know we are lucky to be sponsored by The Ribbon Girl for this challenge

Challenges I would love to enter:

Magnolialicious - Spring

Midweek Magnolias - Favourite stamp: Tilda carrying a lamb because not only is she a dream to colour but she's a spring stamp and it has to be my favourite time of year!

Marvelous Magnolia - Wings

That concludes my Easter creations for this year, I've loved using the spring colour combos - I hope spring weather is just round the corner now :) The sun was definitely shining when I took the pictures of this card which was a very welcome sight after all the snowy grey skies.

The kids are having their usual Easter egg hunt around the house this morning and although I haven't had time to bake yet, I'm looking forward to doing some Easter baking with them this week. Now that I'm working, I appreciate the time off more these days and with working at a preschool I get the best of both worlds as I'm off when they are :)

Thanks so much for popping by and taking a look at what I've been up to, I hope you find time to join us at Totally Tilda, and enjoy the week ahead

Hugs,

Guest designer for Simply Magnolia

Hi, I'm back again as promised, and soooooo excited to be showing you this project! 

I was thrilled when I found out a couple of weeks ago that the lovely ladies over at 

Simply Magnolia 

had chosen me to Guest Design for them, (thanks so much ladies - it means such a lot!) It's the first time I've ever been a part of a GDT and don't win things very often so this was a treat for me!

The challenge brief that I was given was

Tilda Wearing a Hat

and I thought of this Tilda instantly lol!

I didn't have her so it gave me an excuse to go on a craft spending spree and I bought some Magnolia Doo Bee Pops at the same time, some of which also found its way onto my creation.

I hope the pictures do this justice as it looks far better IRL and I wanted you to get a good idea of what I made.

It's a decorated/packaged foam Easter egg. The foam Easter egg has chocolate eggs inside (but forgot to take a pic before I wrapped it up!) I first painted the egg white using acrylic paint(I had previously used it for Easter last year and it was pink) and then once that had dried I did two coats of crackle paint. If you click on the picture below you might be able to see the cracks - it worked really well but it's covered by the cellophane and outer packaging!

The 'packaging' is a strip of Kraft covered in Magnolia paper. Tilda with her bunny from Butterfly Dreams collection is coloured using DI's. The Doo Bee Pops egg has SU seam binding tied round it and most of the flowers are WOC. The nesties shape that Tilda and her egg are sat on is labels twenty two and this was all layered with cheesecloth.

Ruffled SU seam binding and curled yellow florist ribbon was used to tie up the packaging.

Simply Magnolia are sponsored by Tilda's Town

 with this fab prize up for grabs

and if that wasn't enough to get you entering your fab creations, they're also having a DT call!

Challenges I would love to enter:

MDUC - Easter Greetings

Magnolialicious - All About Easter

That's all from me this week, hope you like my decorated Easter egg, don't forget to check out all the Simply Magnolia DT's awesome inspiration! Thanks, as always for your continued support, your comments are treasured :)

Please scroll down for my Totally Tilda DT card for the new challenge, Shaped cards, that started today.

Yippee, only three days to go till the end of term for me and the kiddi winks, so looking forward to chilling out with them and forgetting about any sort of routine!!!!

Hugs,

Totally Tilda's gone all shapely DT #68

Morning everyone,

Hope you are ready for a brand new 

Totally Tilda

 challenge which this time is 

Shaped cards featuring our lovely Tilda (no squares or rectangles please :) 

After last fortnights fab Easter challenge, I can't wait to see what everyone makes for this one, the standard of work is always so high!

My card is probably as CAS as I go these days and I held back quite a bit as I wanted the image to dominate, and because the scene had lots of different colours I thought I would keep the details to two simple colours so it didn't overpower my image.

The shape of my card is made using my Grand Nesties Scalloped Circles dies, Magnolia DooHickeys used were Lovely Fence,  Bon Voyage flower and tag. I used an SU brad to attach my tag behind the image. Flowers, ribbon and feather are from my stash.

The sentiment is a Forever Friends Easter clear stamp.

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

Challenges I would love to enter:
Tilda's Town - Think Spring
Marvelous Magnolias - Dies
Fussy and Fancy - Spring Days

I hope you can join us this fortnight and take a peek at the rest of my teamies awesome work for more inspiration! 

I will be back soon with my Guest Designer creation for Simply Magnolia

Hugs,