Halloween Treat - Magnolia-licious Highlites October Challenge

Hello. Happy October!

It's time for a new challenge at Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog.  Angela is our hostess this October and she has chosen 'Halloween Project (no cards)' as the theme for our challenge. 

I struggled in deciding what to make.  Finally decided to make Treat or Trick bags--well, they're treat bags really, no tricks in them...LOL.  With time running out though...yikes, I was able to make only 2 of them.

 

Here's a view from a different angle to show the sides of the treat bags and also of how I've similarly decorated the back of both bags. 

 

 



One of the Magnolia images I am featuring is this Wizard Tilda--I call her the female Harry Potter...LOL.  She is from the Princes & Princesses Collection 2012.

 

 



And this is Sitting Witch Tilda (link is for the mini stamp), from the So Spooky Collection 2009.  OMG, I didn't realize that collection was that old.  This Tilda looks just as adorable as newer ones, don't you think?   I've used my markers to colour these images.

Check out Diana's on-line store, Magnolia-licious, as your source for your Magnolia stamps.  Diana has a vast colletion of other full-size as well as mini images.  You can expect excellent services and  discounted prices, as well as earning in-store credit on each order. 

Challenges for this project:
Magnolia Stamp Lovers Challenge - Boo 2 You!
Challenge Up Your Life Challenge #79 - Candy Wrap
Simon Says Stamp! Challenge - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss Challenge #151 - Punches and dies
Craft Us Crazy Challenge #27 - Halloween and/or Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons Challenge #29 - Anything But Square
Deep Ocean Challenge #35 - More Than 2 Colours
Hooked on Craft Challenge #25 - Halloween
Unique Crafters October Challenge - Halloween

I hope you'll be able to play along with us in our challenge.  For inspirations, have a look at the fabulous projects that my DT teammates have created.  No kidding here--they're really fabulous.  Check them out HERE.

That's all for now.  Thanks so much for dropping by.  I appreciate the visit and each and every one of your sweet and encouraging comment.  Have a wonderful week!

 

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiments:  computer generated

Dies:  Spellbinders Labels One; Sizzix Ghosts #2
Punches:  Martha Stewart edge punch
Miscellaneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pad Black Soot; clear acetate, ribbons and glitter from my stash
Medium:  alcohol-ink base markers--Letraset Promarkers, Letraset Pantone Trias and Shin-Han Touch markers
- face and skin--blush, coral, soft peach, vanilla, oatmeal, pastel pink
- hair Tilda #1 & broom--umber, burnt sienna, Touch 100, caramel, sandstone
- hair Tilda #2--cocoa, raw sienna, mustard, pastel yellow
- purple shades--aubergine, 2607-T, 2665-T, purple, orchid
- green shades--Touch 42, olive green, 5767-T, marsh green, 617-T
- black shades--black, Touch Cool Greys 3 to 9

Have a Great Birthday - Crealis GDT Card

Hello.

This is my fourth and last card for Crealies.  (Thanks, Annelies, for giving me the opportunity to be your guest designer for this past month.) 

 

Again, I am featuring some of Crealies products which are available from Crealies webshop HERE.  For the card shape, I have used Crealies In Shape Cutting Template No. 02 .  The centre panels were created using Crealies In Shape Cutting Template No. 01. 

 

The flowers were created using Crealies Creative Flowers No. 19--I love this die set!--and for the leaves, I have used Crealies Creative Shapes No. 16. 

 

This adorable image which I've coloured with my markers is a Special Edition Tilda that Magnolia Sweden created for a store in the Netherlands, Hoppy Stunter.  It is not available any longer, but like other past special edition stamps I rather think that it will appear in a future Magnolia stamp collection.

 

 



Challenges for this card:

Simon Says Stamps Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Challenges2 - Anything Goes

Bearly Mine Challenge #54 - Add a Sentiment

Stamp and Create September Challenge - Anything Goes

Stampin' For the Weekend Challenge #18 - Feeling Floral 

Tilda's Town Challenge #19 - Choose your passion, CAS or Fussy and Fancy

 

Thanks for stopping by.  Your visits are very much appreciated. I love reading your lovely and encouraging comments too.  Have a wonderful day!

 

 

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiment Stamp:  Inkadinkado 'Have a Great Birthday'

DP's:  Recollections

Dies:  Crealies Creative Flowers No. 19 and Creative Shapes No. 16

Templates:  Crealies In Shape No. 01 and No. 02

Miscellaneous: Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pads Frayed Burlap and Dusty Concord; pearls from my stash

Medium:  alcohol-ink base markers--Letraset Promarkers and Pantone Trias  



You deserve a Big Hug - Crealis GDT Card

Hello.

This is my third Guest DT card for Crealies.  I've done this one in one of my favorite colour combos--I have several faves...LOL.

I am featuring some the Crealies products that are available at Annelies' Crealies webshop, HERE.  The circle panel with it's decorative border was created using Crealies Doily Element No. 7 along with Crealies Round Template. The straight borders were created using Crealies Creative Border No. 17.

The flowers were created using Crealies Creative Flowers Dies No. 06--I love this die set!--and for the leaves I used Crealies Creative Shapes Dies No. 16 .

I have a tutorial on how to make these flowers if you're interested--HERE.

I am also featuring this very adorable Magnolia image of Tilda Wants a Hug.  She is actually a holiday stamp from the Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010.  I have hidden the holly leaves in Tilda's hair with a couple of ribbon bows. 

Check out Diana's on-line store Magnolia-licious for a vast collection of both the full-size and mini Magnolia stamps.  You will get excellent customer service, discounted prices and earn in-store credit with each purchase.  

Challenges for this card:

7 Kids College Fund Challenge #56 - Easy as 1, 2, 3 (1 Tilda image, 2 DP's, 3 embellishments--pearls, flowers, ribbons in hair) 

Divas By Design Challenge #53 - Lovely Layers

Stampalot September Challenge - Photo Inspiration (cute little girl, flowers, shades of pink, green and white)

Lollipop Crafts Challenge #90 - Break out your punch! (2 punches/dies) 

That's all for now.  Thanks for dropping by.  I appreciate your visit.  Enjoy your day!

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

Winter Wonderland - Crealies GDT Card

Hello.

I've got another card to show you that I made for Crealies.  This is my second Guest DT card and I've made a front panel side step card.  

The centre panel shape was created using Crealies cutting templates In Shape No. 1.  I have actually used flower dies to make the snowflakes, Crealies Creative Flowers Dies No. 18.  Those gorgeous borders were made using Crealies Creative Border No. 17.  Crealis products are available from Annelies' webstore HERE.

I bought this Magnolia stamp after the last Christmas season was already over, so I haven't had a chance to use it until now.  This adorable image is called Winter Skates Tilda, a special stamp from Magnolia Sweden--I don't think she is part of any of their stamp collections.  

The stamp is available from Diana's on-line store, Magnolia-licious.  Check out her vast collection of full-size and mini Magnolia stamps.  Diana gives excellent service, discounts and store credit for every purchase.  

Here's a picture of the inside of my card.  Hmmm...the colour is a bit off here--it's not really that vivid in real life...LOL. 

I've used another Tilda image here and this time it is a mini stamp.  This is Mini Winter Tilda from the Sweet Christmas Dreams Collection 2011.

Challenges I am entering with this card:

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #234 - Christmas in September

Paper Play Challenges '12-Week 37 - Fancy Folds

Dutch Dare Card Challenges #182 - Sugar & Spice 

No Matter Which Challenges September Challenge - Die Cuts and/or Punches 

Stamp and Create September Challenge - Anything Goes

Simply Magnolia - Anything Goes

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations Challenge - Pick 3 (I picked diecuts/punches, distress, blue)

That's all for now.  Thanks for dropping by.  I appreciate your visit and am always encourage by your lovely comments.  Enjoy your day!

Materials and Tools Used:
Sentiment Stamp: Inkadinkado 'Winter Wonderland'; Magenta 'Let It Snow'
DP's:  Recollections
Dies:  Crealies Creative Flowers No. 18; Crealies Creative Border No. 17
Template:  Crealies In Shape No. 1
Miscellaneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pad Walnut Stain; blings and glitter from my stash
Medium:  Letraset Promarker and Letraset Tria markers

Halloween - Sweet Stamping Pixies September Challenge

Hello.

It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stamping Pixies.  Our theme for the September challenge is Halloween.  Here's my DT card...

The flower was an eleventh hour decision, because the area there looked so bare.  Should have put a more Halloween-themed embellishment but I didn't have anything else.  Probably should have made another spider...LOL.

This adorable image is one of Mo Manning's from Mo's Digital Pencil called Fall Fairy Jesen.  I've coloured it with markers and added glitter to the wings.

I hope you will come and play with us in our challenge.  The rules have been relaxed and now you are allowed to use fairy like images like e.g. Magnolia, hAnglar & sTanglar, TFG, etc. without wings!  You can find more details of the challenge and the prize at the Sweet Stamping Pixies challenge blog HERE.  Also have a look at the fabulous cards of my DT teammates for more inspirations.

As for myself...LOL, challenges I am entering with this card:
Crafting Life's Pieces Sketch Challenge #51
Allsorts Challenge Week 171 - Layers
Bronte and Bella's Challenge #151 - Anything Goes
Stamp and Create September Challenbe - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody Challenge #2 - Anything Goes
Delightful Challenges - Halloween
My Heart Pieces Digital Stamp Challenges - Lots of layers
My Mum's Craft Shop Challenge #73 - Anything Goes

Thanks for dropping by.  I very much appreciate your visit and your encouraging comments.  Have a wonderful week.


Materials and Tools Used:
DP's:  Recollections Garden Floral Paper Pad
Dies:  Memory Box Twiggy Tree
Punches:  EK Success medium Retro Flower; Martha Stewart Pine Branch and Scary Fence edge punch; Nellie Snellen Extra Large Leaf
Miscellaneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink pad Black Soot; brads from my stash
Medium:  Letraset Promarkers and Pantone Tria markers

Thinking of You - Crealies Guest DT Card

Hello.

I was honored to be asked by Annelies, owner of Crealies, if I wanted to be her guest designer and of course I said yes!  Annelies is from the Netherlands.  Her webshop Crealies has some really gorgeous templates and dies--shapes, borders, corners, flowers, leaves...  Check it out HERE.

So, I am the Guest Designer for the month of September for her Crealies Blog which you can find HERE.  This is the first of several cards that I have made--the rest will be shown later on during the month.

I have used Crealis products to create this card.  The shapes were made using the In-Shape Cutting Templates No. 7.  The flowers were created using Creative Flowers No. 02 dies and the leaves are from Creative Shapes No. 16 dies.

And this adorable image--and she is one of my favorite Magnolia images--is Rose Scent Tilda.  She is from the Sweet Crazy Love Collection 2012.  I used markers to do the colouring.

This stamp is available from Magnolia-licious, Diana's on-line store HERE.  Diana has a vast collection of both the full-size and mini-size stamps.

I have made this into an easel card--one of my favorite types of cards.

From a different angle...

Challeges I would like to enter with this card: 

Allsorts Challenge Week 170 - Anything But a Card

No Matter Which Challenges #2 - Die Cuts and/or Punches

Magnolia-Mania Challenge #54 - Favorite Magnolia Rubber Stamp

Oldie But A Goodie Challenge - Recipe: 1 image, 2 papers and 3 flowers (the sentiment stamp is an old stamp that I forgot I had)

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamps - Put a Stamp On It!

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #233 - Autumn Gold

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Your visit is very much appreciated.  Enjoy your day!

Materials and Tools Used:
Sentiment Stamps: PSX 'Thinking of You'

DP's:  Recollections Owl Be Falling In Love Greenhouse and Recollections Batiked My Interest Mango

Dies:  Crealies In-Shape Cutting Templates No. 7; Crealies Creative Flowers No. 02, Crealies Creative Shapes punch No. 16

Miscelleneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pad Walnut Stain and Dried Marigold; pearls from my stash; Coluzzle circle template

Medium:  alcohol-ink based markers--Letraset Promarker and Pantone Trias, Shin-Han Touch markers
- face and skin--blush, coral, soft peach, vanilla, oatmeal, pastel pink
- hair--umber, burnt sienna, Touch 100, caramel, sandstone
- blouse and socks--raw sienna, mustard, pastel yellow, buttercup
- coveralls--Touch 42, olive green, 5767-T, marsh green, 617-T
- flower and heart--burnt umber, 484-T, 486-T

Tea-Bag Dispensers - Magnolia-licious Highlites September Challenge

Hello.

It's a new month so it's a new monthly challenge at Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog.
Woo-hoo...this is my first project as a new Design Team member.   I'm sooo... excited!  I'm really going to enjoy working with the ever so talented ladies there--several were my teammates from the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog.  Thanks Diana for having me here!

The theme for this month, chosen by our hostess Cabio, is Anything But A Card.
Here's my DT project for the September Challenge at the Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog. 

I got this idea for Tea-Bag Dispensers from my sister a while back.  I googled for a tutorial and found one I liked, created by Heidi Baks HERE.

I've made 3 tea-bag dispensers.  Each box is for only one type/flavor of tea--and featuring a different Tilda, each sitting on a tea cup.  The Tea Cup image is from the Magnolia's Yummy For Your Tummy Collection 2009.
Magnolia stamps are available from Magnolia-licious on-line store.  Diana has a vast stamp collection of both the full-size and mini-size images.  She also carries cutting dies--Magnolia Doohickey, Memory Box, PoppyStamps, Marianne Design, Cheery Lynn and Joys! Craft.  The prices are discounted and for a bonus, you receive a 2% in-store credit to be applied to future purchases.  Sweet!

On the first tea-bag dispenser, I have used Tilda as a Star from Sweet Crazy Love Collection 2012.

On the 2nd tea-bag dispenser, I am featuring Pie Tilda from the same collection (link is for the mini stamp--the full-size one currently out of stock).

And on the 3rd one, this is Tilda With Lovely Lace Shoes also from the Sweet Crazy Love Collection 2012.

I have put labels for the names of the teas on the lids.

The sides of the boxes were decorated very simply.  If I arrange the boxes on the table side by side in a row, nobody will be looking at the sides anyway...LOL.  If I only have the one tea-bag dispenser only or give it out as a gift, then I would probably decorate the sides more elaborately.

Hope you will play along with us in our challenge--you have until the end of the month, so lots of time!--for a chance to win a $25 Gift Certificate from Magnolia-licious.  For more details on the challenge and more inspirations from the fabulous projects of my DT teammates hop over to the Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog, HERE. 

I am also using my project for these challenges:

Everybody-Art-Challenge Challenge 202 – Anything Goes

I ♥ ProMarkers Challenge #132 – Anything Goes

7 Kids CollegeFund Challenge #55 – Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamps Challenge – Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz Challenge #34 - No embellishments

Sweet Stampin' - Inspired by a song or film (Tea For Two song)

Allsorts Challenge Week #170 - Anything But A Square

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I appreciate your visit and your comments--just love reading them.  Have a wonderful week and get creative!

Materials and Tools Used: 

DP's:  from DCVW Nana's Nursery Baby Girl paper pad; We R Memory Keepers Vintage Brass Lattice and Verdant; from DCVW Baby Boy Stack; from Me&My BIG Ideas Modern Milan paper collection 

Dies:  Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Five Eighteen; Memory Box Madera Corner

Miscelleneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pad Frayed Burlap; Coluzzle oval template

Medium:  Letraset Promarker and Letraset Pantone Tria markers