You Make Me Smile - Magnolia-licious 'Sunny Yellow'

Hello.

We're currently midway in our 'Sunny Yellow' challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge.  It's Team B's turn to post our DT cards/projects to inspire you to play along with us.  Hop over to the Magnolia-licious Challenge to get the details on the challenge and how you can join in the fun.  Check out the fabulous cards/projects that my DT teammates have created.

The challenge is to use some yellow on your card/project.  Well, I used lots of it!  Here's my card.

I'm featuring a couple of adorable Tilda's here from Magnolia:

- Tilda With Cross Necklace  from the Special Moments Collection 2013

- Princess Pea Tilda from the Once Upon A Time Collection 2013

The stamps for these two adorable Magnolia stamps can be found at Magnolia-licious on-line store.  Diana carries a large selection of both full-size and mini Magnolia stamps.  And if you don't see the particular one you are looking for, ask Diana if she can bring it in for you.  Also available are stamps from Wee Stamps, Wild Rose Studios, Penny Black and Candibeans.  Magnolia-licious also carries cutting dies from various companies including Memory Box, PoppyStamps, Magnolia Doohickey.
Prices are discounted, you get excellent customer service and what's more, you get to earn 2% credit to be applied to future purchases.  Sweet!

Challenges I am entering with this card:
Passion for Promarkers Week 248 - Use your diecuts
Dutch Magnolia Lovers #81 - Spring, use flowers on your card
Feeling Crafty Challenge #28 - One for the girls/ladies
Just For Fun May Challenge - Ribbon or Lace
Ladybug Crafts May Challenge - Use your favorite embellishments (flowers, pearls, flourishes)
One Crazy Stamper May Challenge - Anything goes and an embellishment
ABC Challenges - L is for Lots of Layers
Crafty Girls Challenges #18 - Anything Goes
Hobby Cutz Challenges #48 - 3 shades of the same colour
Loves Rubberstamps Challenge #104 - LRSBC104 Fun with your name (N-Nestabillities, O-Ochre yellow, R-Rose, M-Magnolia image, A-Alcohol markers Promarkers)
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Inspired by a song (Mellow Yellow by Donovan)

Thanks for stopping by.  Your visit is always very much appreciated.  Enjoy your day and have a wonderful week!

Materials and Tools Used: 

Sentiments:  Computer generated

Designer Papers:  Basic Grey Hello Luscious Honeyed; from DCWV Baby Boy Stack paper pad; unknown paper with art nouveau design from DeSerres art store 

Dies:  Spellbinders Labels Four; Tim Holtz Tattered Flower Garland; C.C. Design Leaves; Marianne Design Creatables LR0151 Garden Branch; Poppystamps 1024 Cheviot Butterfly and 1028 Delaney Butterfly

Punches:  EK Success medium Retro Flowers

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pad Walnut Stain; lace and pearls from my stash

Colouring medium:  Alcohol ink markers from Letraset - Promarkers and Pantone Trias 

You Make Me Smile, Sunshine - Guest DT Card

Hello! Happy Tuesday!

Woo-hoo...I am a Guest DT at Top Tip Tuesday for a couple of their challenges. I am so jazzed about joining the ladies at Top Tip Tuesday because I think I am their very first Guest DT. I feel sooo... honored. I'd like to thank Leanne for giving me this opportunity.

For this week, the theme for their Challenge 37 is: More Than One Fold. I've made a front-panel side step card. I think this is my next favorite type of card, after the easel card.

I would like to use this card as my entry into the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Challenge 12 - Lace
Magnolia Stamp Lover Challenge - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Challenge 72 - Let's get sentimental
Crafts and Me - Challenge 37 - Punch it out!
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 167 - Embellish it!
Paper Play Challenges - Week 22 - Summer Citrus Splash
Just Magnolia hAnglar & sTanglar - Week 110 - Anything Goes with the option of adding Lace
Sundays With Chrissy - June challenge - Here comes the sun.
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Challenge 155 - Here comes Summer




This adorable Magnolia image that I have used for this card is of Running Tilda and she is from the Butterfly Dreams Collection 2011. This stamp is available from Magnolia-licious on-line store.


I am still in my coloured pencil mode, so I have coloured this with my mixture of Prismacolour, Faber-Castell and Derwent pencils. Up to now, I have been experimenting using odourless solvent(or some people use mineral spirit or gamsol) with my coloured pencils, but this time I wanted to try the colourless blender pencil. I think I find this more to my liking. I will have to practice more to be sure...LOL.


If you're familiar with my work, you know that I luvvv... to decorate the inside of my cards (hee hee...when I have the time, that is). I've added another sentiment and another set of images here.



Both the sentiments on the front and in the inside of my card are computer generated. I've used a mini Magnolia stamp here called Mini Sitting Angel Tilda, also available from Magnolia-licious.
She's just so adorable that she's my favorite from the Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010, or rather the full-size version is...LOL.




That's it for me. Thanks so much for dropping by. I appreciate your visit. Have a wonderful week.



Materials and tools used:

Stamps: Docrafts Clear Stamps Botanical Set Sunflower Burst. The sentiments are computer generated.

DP's: Scenic Route Paper Co. North Shore Stoked Stripe, Making Memories Multicolor Floral Spring

Tools: Go Create Die, Spellbinders Grommet Tags and Classic Ovals, Punch Bunch Daisy Punch Small, Martha Stewart Daisy Dot Edge Punch, EK Success Leaf Punch

Misc.: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Stamp Pad Tea Dye, Lace from my stash

Medium: Coloured pencils (FC - Faber-Castell Polychromos, DC - Derwent Coloursoft, PC - Prismacolour Premier).
Face and skin - FC188, DC550, FC132, DC170, FC131, FC191
Hair and shoes - PC946, PC948, PC941
Dress - PC1033, PC939, PC1010
Sunflowers - PC942, PC1012, PC1011, PC914, PC948, FC179, FC180, FC182
Leave and stalks - FC174, FC 170
Mini Sitting Angel Tilda's dress and flowers in flower basket - PC1025, PC1024

You make me smile

Happy Saturday!

I finally got my card done for the Magnolia-licious June sketch challenge.

(I'm constantly playing catch-up with the challenges that are out there. Don't know which one to tackle next. We've got possible challenges coming out our ears, don't we?. May have to start tossing a coin, hee hee hee.)

Anyway, here's the end result of my work. I'm finally using the new Tilda with Butterfly image from the Chasing Butterfly collection--she's soo.. cute. I wondered about the cap that Tilda is wearing. Doesn't it look like a strawberry to you? LOL.

This is the wonderful sketch that I used for the card, provided by Kerry.

And this is the inside of my card.

I've got a short announcement here. Woo hoo!!! I'm going to be a guest DT member at the Magnolia Down Under Challenge blog, for 4 weeks in the month of June. Kellie, thank you very much for the opportunity. I'm soo... excited. I'm tickled pink.
Thanks for stopping by. And have a wonderful weekend!

Stamps: Magnolia #345 Tilda with Butterfly, sentiment from Hero Arts LL169 From the Heart Greetings set.

DP: Basic Grey Blush Admire, My Mind's Eye Wild Asparagus Birthday Girl Plaid, Hot Off the Press Joy's Vintage Paper .

Thinking of You - 3 KAOS Cards + 1

Hello!

In my last posting I have shown a KAOS card that I received from Oliver. When I received it in the mail, it brought a smile to my face and it sure brighten my day. I wanted to do the same to a few people, so I have been busy making these three cards to send off. (See my last posting for the details on the KAOS award.)

I call these mini cards, because they are smaller than my usual 6" x 6" (15cm x 15cm) cards, but they are not really minis...LOL...more like medium-size card. They are 4" x 6" (10cm x 15cm).

So these cards, I will be mailing to three of the many beautiful people that I have met in blog land: Barb (Stampelicious), Patty Jo (PJSDesigns) and Maz (Only By His Grace). There are so many lovely ladies out, but sigh...I am only making three!!!

The layout and design, cardstock, DP's and embellishments for all three cards are the same. Trying to figure them out is what usually takes me ages to do!!! No way was I going to design 3 complete different cards. Soooo.....these are all more or less the same, except for the Magnolia Tilda image. As you can see here, I've made them into easel cards.





Here are close-ups of the 3 card fronts. On this first one, I have used Travelling Tilda from the Bon Voyage Collection 2010.


Tilda with Pony Tail is sitting on the second card. She is from the Sweet Rainbow Collection 2011.


And the third card has Sweetie Tilda from the Sweet Rainbow Collection 2011 also.




And look! While I was at it, I decided to make a Thank You card for my Swedish young friend in the same style.



And this image is Lying Tilda from the Sweet Rainbow Collection 2011.

ALL these Magnolia images I have used, including the sentiment "Just sitting here thinking of you" are available from Magnolia-licious, your on-line source of anything and everything Magnolia in North America. it is also your best source of the mini-version stamps of these and many other Magnolia images. The service there is excellent!!!


These are a few challenges that I can use my cards as entries to:

Stamptacular Sunday - Challenge 127 - The Sky's the Limit
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Challenge 50 - Easel Card/Easel Box Card
Simon Says Stamps - Multi-fold Cards/Creations
PaperPlay Challenges - Week 36 - Use 2 or more stamps



Thanks so much for dropping by--so glad to see you. Your visit is always appreciated. Have a wonderful weekend!



Materials and Tools used:

Other stamp used not mentioned above: Inkadinkadoo "Thanks for Thinking of Me"

DP's: DCWV The Blossom Song Stack, DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy Premium Stack

Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Twenty One and Petite Ovals; Sizzix Sizzlits Die Decorative Strip Wingo Zingo alphabet; Marianne Design Creatables Swirls and Leaves
Punches: EK Success medium Retro Flower; Carla Craft flower centre

Misc.: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Stamp Pads Frayed Burlap and Broken China

Medium: Alcohol-ink-based markers - Letraset Promarkers, Shinhan Touch, Letraset Pantone Tria; Coloured pencils for shading.