Especially for You - FFFC #186 'Anything Goes'

Hello.  Happy Friday!

It's time to kick off another new challenge at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge blog.  Our theme for the next fortnight is 'Anything Goes'...easy peasy!  I hope you'll join us.  Don't forget to visit the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge to get complete details on the challenge and to check out what my DT teammates have created to inspire you to play along with us.  

Here's what I've created for the challenge.

A closer look at this delightful image from A Day for Daisies.

This image is titled 'Mothers Day Flowers.'

Mother's Day in my part of the world is on the second Sunday in May, so I thought this image would be just perfect for my card.  The digital stamp is available from the A Day for Daisies website HERE.

Challenges for this card:
Crafting With An Attitude Challenge 26 - Anything Goes
The Crafty Addicts Challenge #35 - Anything Goes/Add a Sentiment
Crafty Creations Challenge #340 - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends Challenge #56 - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #120 - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge #129 - Anything Goes
Creative Moments Challenge #116 - Anything Goes w/twist Spring Has Sprung
Kitty Bee Designs Challenge #93 - In the Garden
Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

That's all for now.  Thanks for stopping by.  Your visit is always very much appreciated.  Enjoy the rest of the day and have a wonderful weekend!

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiments:  Computer generated

Designer Papers:  Deja Views White Flower Patch; Recollections Botanica Noel paper pad

Dies:  Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circles; Memory Box 98312 Fancy Blossoms; Die-namics Simple Leaves Flourishes; Memory Box 98319 Willow Dragonfly

Punches:  EK Success Medium Retro Flower

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads Walnut Stain, Spice Marmelade and Bundled Sage; lace and pearls from my stash

Colouring medium:  Alcohol ink markers from Letraset - Promarkers and Pantone Trias, Shin-Han Touch markers; coloured pencils to help with the shading
- face and skin:  blush, coral, soft peach, vanilla--for the cheeks:  oatmeal, pastel pink
- hair and shoes:  burnst sienna, Touch BR100, caramel, sandstone
- orange shades: terracotta, spice, honeycomb, apricot
- green shades:  Touch 42, olive green, apple cider, 617-T
- white shading:  warm grey 5-T, cool grey 4-T, cool grey 1-T

- dotted background:  grey green, 5507-T, tea green  

Happy Mother's Day

Hello.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there.  Here's a Mother's Day easel card I've created.

And here's a close-up of the adorable Magnolia image.  I've coloured with markers and she is called...

- Love Love Love Tilda from the Special Moments Collection 2013

Magnolia stamps are available from Magnolia-licious, where 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.  Check out also the 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 and other crafting tools such as Scor-tapes, Prima Chalk Edgers, flowers, etc.
Prices are discounted, you get excellent customer service and what's more, you get to earn 2% credit to be applied to future purchases.  Cool!

Challenges for this card:
Creative Fingers Challenge #35 - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge Week 258 - Fancy Folds
Charisma Cardz Challenge #10 - Mother's Day
Crafty Girls Challenge #17 - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #194 - Special Lady
Loves Rubberstamps Challenge #102 - LRSBC102 Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - Mother's Day/Girl Challenge
Cut It Up! Challenge #44 - Mother's Day
Stampin' with the Dragon - Flowers

That's all for now.  Thanks for stopping by.  Your visit is always very much appreciated.  Enjoy what's left of your weekend!

Materials and Tools Used: 

Sentiments:  Computer generated

Designer Papers:  American Crafts Jolly Patterned Paper stack; Recollections The Ballet paper pad

Dies:  Go Kreate XXL Square Frames Frilly #4; Spellbinders Standard Circles, Petite Ovals, Heartfelt Creations Posy Patch, Twisted Metal Tags and Accents; Memory Box 98502 Fresh Foliage

Punches:  EK Success Retro Flowers medium and small

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 

A Mother's Day Round Side-Step Card

Hello!

This Mother's Day card is the end result of my doing a tutorial on how I do my round front-panel side-step cards.  I've posted the tutorial just previous to this posting--see below or click HERE if you're interested. 

View from a different angle. 

This adorable Magnolia princess is called Princess of the Valley.  She is part of Magnolia's newest Princes and Princesses Collection 2012.  Have you seen the rest of the collection?  Oooh, they are all just as adorable.  Check them out at Diana's on-line store, Magnolia-licious.  You will find that Diana has a huge inventory of regular-size and mini-size Magnolia stamps and doohickey cutting dies.  Don't overlook her selection of dies from Memory Box and Poppystamps--they're exquisite!     

I've mainly used my markers to colour Tilda and my coloured pencils to add some shadings. 

Here's a view of the entire round card when I lay it flat out on the table.

Challenges I would like to enter with this card:

Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - Flowers

Hooked on Craft Challenges Challenge #18 – More than One Fold

CupcakeCraft Challenges Challenge 184 – Going Round in Circles 

Top Tip Tuesday Challenges Challenge #72 – Mothers Day or Craft Buddy

Simply Magnolia – Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes Challenge #112 – Photo Inspiration

Stampin’for the Weekend Challenge 5 – Shabby Chic photo inspiration

MagnoliaStamp Lover Challenge – Sentiment
Crafts and Me Challenge #76 - Light Airy Springtime Colours
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #209 - Anything Goes

That's it for now.  Thanks for taking the time to drop by.  Very much appreciate your visit. Enjoy today!

Materials and Tools Used:

DP's:  Recollections Printed Scrapbook Papers

Dies:  Spellbinders Labels Thirteen, Classic Circles and Rose Creation; Magnolia Doohickey Swirl: CC Design leaf bunch

Punches:  EK Success retro flower medium and small; Nellie Snellen floral punches leaves

Miscellaneous:  Tim Holtz distress ink stamp pad Walnut Stain; pearls and glitter from my stash

Mother's Day #2

A happy Sunday morning to everyone and a special Mother's Day greeting to all the mothers out there.

I'm being sneaky with this card by posting it at the eleventh hour. This is another Mother's Day card. I've made this one for my sister--I think she's an amazing mother to my two nieces. A little problem with this card is I don't want my sister to see it before she gets it--she visits my blog. I'll be giving it to her at lunch today. I'm hoping she won't boot up her computer this morning, so the card will be a surprise. LOL.

Here's the card I've created.

I am using this fabulous sketch provided at the Ismaki challenge blog. This is a new blog for me. I like this sketch--sooo...many details, so it did take longer than usual.

I'm using the Tilda with garland in her hair, sooo.... adorable. The other stamp images I've used, the butterfly swirl, the border image at the left and the Mother's Day, are all stamped using Colorbox colonial blue pigment ink stamp pad and I've added clear embossing powder on them (melted with a heat gun) to make the images stand out more.

I ended up using the 3 pure white flower near the top left corner. I initally had other coloured flowers there, but they looked buried against the dark background. The white flowers stand out more.

And the card inside looks like this.

The butterfly swirl image is the same one I used in front, stamped and embossed the same way.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Stamps: Magnolia #214 Flower Garland in Hair, Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps Spring Swirl and Stampology On the Edge. Unknown maker of Mother's Day stamp.Papers: Creative Imaginations

Mother's Day

A happy Thursday!

I've finally got Mother's Day card done for my Mom. Phew...what a relief! This is also for Magnolia Down Under Challenge #10, whose theme this week just happens to be: Mother's Day Card.

And I'm using the sketch here provide for Week 3 of Just Magnolia Challenge Blog.

I was going to use the Tilda with Tulips image since I haven't used it yet since I got the stamp a few weeks ago, but everybody seems to be using that for their Mother's Day. People might be tired at looking at it for now, so I went looking for another Tilda image with flowers in it. I have only 3 for now and found this is one that I haven't used yet, Tilda Holding Crowsfeet Flowers.

I lucked out in finding the Mother's Day stamp while I was browsing through one of those dollar stores. I'm surprised sometimes by what I find in there. I think I got it for abour $3. The oval is cut out using a Coluzzle template and the tiny scallop edges is done by using one of those decorative scissor. Not always easy to do--you just sort of have to hope that you ended up cutting at the same place where you started the initial cut. Everything else is sort of self-explanatory I think. And this is the inside of the card.

Stamps: Magnolia #231 Tilda Holding Crowsfeet Flowers, Unknown maker of Mother's Day stamp.

Papers: Chatterbox Rosey Flowering Vine and Loft Bias Plaid.

Tools: Martha Stewart border punch, Provo Craft decorative scissors,Marvy Uchida scallop circle punch, Coluzzle oval and circle templates.