Magnolia-licious September Blog Hop - 2-for-1 Holidays

Hello.

Woo-hoo...we're having a blog hop at the Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog.  The theme for this blog hop is 2-for-1 Holidays.  
Take a Magnolia holiday stamp and use it in 2 ways:  
1) Use it for the holiday it was intended for and 
2) Re-invent it in some way for another occasion or event.

If you have arrived here from Cheryl's blog then you are on the right track.  If not, then you may want to start at the beginning.  Here is a list of my DT teammates in blog hop order:

Suzanne

Patti Jo

Mary

Cheryl

Norma (you are here)

Sharon

Tracy

Mindy

Janiel

Ruby

Cabio

Angela

The Magnolia image that I have decided to spotlight is this adorable Christmas Tilda With Cat from the Little Christmas Collection 2012--isn't she just adorable?  So, in keeping with the theme, my first card is of course a Christmas card.

I've made it an easel card--one of my fave types.

A closer up of Christmas Tilda With Cat.  Humph...I can never get the colours in my pictures the same as in real life--so frustrating!!!  But it's close enough I guess...LOL.

This stamp is available from Diana's on-line store Magnolia-licious. (Actually I just checked and the stamp is currently out of stock but is expected in within a few days.)  Diana has a vast collection of other adorable Magnolia stamps, along with cutting dies from Magnolia Doohickey, Memory Box, PoppyStamps, Marianne Design and Cheery Lynn Designs.  You can expect services, discounted prices and in-store credits for every order.

For my second card, I've made a birthday card,

also an easel card.

I've computer-generated the 'Happy Birthday' sentiment, traced/drew the outline of the sign around the sentiment and coloured the sign.  Then I cut out the sign shape and glued it over the original 'Merry Christmas' sign.

I played a pun on the word 'perfect' for the sentiment on the bottom of my card.  Cute, eh?

Challenges for this card:
Card Makin' Mamas Challenge #54 - Be Punny (Wishing you a purr*fect day!)
Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge 17 - Starting Christmas early
Cute Card Thursday - Christmas in September
Charisma Cardz Challenge #36 - Shaped Cards
Paper Play Challenges '12Week37 - Fancy Folds
Simply Magnolia - Anything Goes
Stamp and Create September Challenge - Anything Goes
Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia Challenge #52 - Anything Goes

Your next blog to hop to belongs to the very talented Sharon.   
I hope you will play along with our challenge.   More details of how to enter and on the prize can be found at the Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Your visits are very much appreciated.  Your encouraging and lovely comments more so as I love reading them.  Have a fabulous week!


Materials and Tools Used:

Card #1
Sentiment Stamp: TPC Studio Christmas Expressions clear stamp set
DP's:  DCWV Holiday Stack; Basic Grey Wassail Noel
Dies:  Go Kreate XXL Square Frames Frilly #3; Spellbinders Classic Ovals; Tim Holtz Festive Greenery
Miscellaneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pad Frayed Burlap; pearls from my stash
Medium: alcohol-ink based markers--Letraset Promarkers, Letraset Pantone Trias, Shin-han Touch markers

Card #2
DP's:  Chatterbox Den Belle; DCWV Baby Boy Stack
Dies:  Go Kreate XXL Frames Frilly #5; Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Two and Classic Ovals; CC 
Designs Olive Branch; Nellie Snellen Extra Large Leaf
Punches:  Marvy Uchida large and medium Daisy
Miscellaneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pad Frayed Burlap, Faded Jean and Wild Honey; pearls from my stash
Medium: alcohol-ink based markers--Letraset Promarkers, Letraset Pantone Trias, Shin-han Touch markers