Easter Wishes - FFFC #207 'Let's Celebrate'

Hello.  Happy Friday!

Time for a new challenge at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge.  Our theme this time is 'Let's Celebrate.'  I hope you'll play along with us.  You can find out the chalalenge details and also check out what my DT teammates have created to inspire you to join us at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge blog.

This is what I've created.

Here's how I've decorated the inside of my card.

A closer look at this delightful image being featured.

This digital image from A Day for Daisies is named 'Easter Friend.'  Isn't it adorable?  I've coloured the image with my alcohol-ink markers and coloured pencils.

Challenges for this card:
Aud Sentiments Challenge #198 - Anything Goes + A Sentiment
Crafty Girls Creations Challenge 45 - Always Anything Goes
Digi Choosday Craft Challenge - Wk 10 Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Mar 5 - Mar19 Ultraviolet
Let's Craft and Create Challenge #135 + option Easter
Little Miss Muffet Challenges #184 - Anything Goes

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

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiments:  Computer generated

Designer Papers:  Recollections (stripes); Basic Grey Wisteria Cornflower; Anna Griffin (crocuses)  

Dies:  Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circles; Crealies Creative Flowers No. 19; Memory Box 98486 Lavish Branch and 98502 Fresh Foliage; Poppystamps 1436 Dogwood Blossoms; Cheery Lynn Designs B162 Lace Corner Deco B

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads Walnut Stain, Dusty Concord and Wild Honey; 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
- brown shades:  Touch BR100, Touch BR104, Touch YR101, sandstone, champagne  
- purple shades:  2607-T, 2665-T, lilac, 264-T
- yellow shade:  raw sienna, mustard, pastel yellow, buttercup 
- green shades:  apple, green shoot  
- white shading:  warm grey 5-T, cool grey 4-T, cool grey 1-T

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

Sow Seeds of Kindness Everyday - FFFC #203 'Distress It'

Hello.  Happy Friday!

We have a new challenge at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge--it's our first one of the new year.  (Hope you've all enjoyed a marvelous holiday season by the way.)  The theme for our new challenge is 'Distress It!'  Don't forget to hop over to the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge blog to get 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 as my DT card.

I love doing cards with distressed paper edges, but I only do them once in a while because it's time consuming distressing those edge...hee hee.  But I sure like the look of them!

A closure look at the image being featured.

This adorable girl is a digital image called Flora and she's available from Mo's Digital Pencil.  I've coloured her using alcohol-ink based markers and some colouring pencils.

Challenges for this card:
Craftaholics R Us Challenge #2 - Pattern Paper
Crafting from the Heart Challenge 189 - Always Anything Goes
Crafting with an Attitude Challenge 35 - Anything Goes
The Crafty Addicts Challenge 44 - Anything Goes
Crafty Girls Creations Challenge 43 - Always Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge - Use Patterned Paper

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

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiments:  Computer generated

Designer Papers:  Me+My Big Ideas Modern Milan paper pad 

Dies:  Spellbinders Petite Ovals; Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circles; Tim Holtz Tattered Flower Garland; Joy! Crafts 6002/0157 Floral Flourishes; Memory Box 98312 Fancy Blossoms and 98261 Kaleidescope Butterfly; Penny Black 51-016 Dancing Leaves

Punches:  Carla Crafts Small Cosmos (for flower centres) 

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads Walnut Stain, Stormy Sky, Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge; brads, eyelets, metal charm and hemp cord 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:  burnt sienna, Touch BR100, caramel, sandstone
- blue shades:  twilight, polar blue, pebble blue
- green shades:  pine, forest green, bright green, leaf green, meadow green
- orange shades:  terra cotta, burnt orange, honeycomb, apricot, cool grey T-3
- white shading:  warm grey 5-T, cool grey 4-T, cool grey 1-T

- dotted background:  grey green, 5507-T, tea green, 5527-T  

Hello Spring!

Hello.  Happy Spring!

I love gardening so I'm looking forward to the weather getting warmer so I can go out there and sow flower and vegetable seeds in my little community garden plot.

Here's a card I've created to celebrate spring.

This is also an easel card--one of my fave types of cards.

A closer look at the adorable image being featured.

This is 'Tilda Decorates Easter' from the Little Easter Collection 2013 from Magnolia Stamps.

Challenges for this card:
Aud Sentiments Challenge #176 - Any Sentiment Except for Birthday
Crafty Girls Creations Challenge 34 - Always Anything Goes
Creative Knockouts Challenge #186 - Spring is on the Way
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #470 - Spring Fever
Making Memories Crafting Challenge #3 - Add Some Layers
Moving Along With the Times Challenge 41 - Handmade or Diecut Flowers
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use More Than One Die or Punch
Tuesday Throwdown TT335 - Add Dimension

That's it.  Just a short post today.  Thanks for stopping by.  I appreciate you dropping by.  Have a wonderful day and the weekend is coming up, so enjoy!

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiments:  Computer generated

Designer Papers:  K+Company Watercolor Bouquet paper pad

Dies:  Spellbinders Floral Ovals; Tim Holtz Tattered Flower Garland; Cheery Lynn Designs B155 Large Rose, B152 Miniature Rose and DL113 Exotic Butterfly Small; Marianne Design LR0150 Forest Branch

Punches:  EK Success Small Star

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads Walnut Stain, Wild Honey and Dusty Concord; 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:  burnt sienna, Touch BR100, caramel, sandstone
- purple shades:  aubergine, amethyst, 264-T, 263-T
- tights and shoes:  umber, Touch BR102, cinnamon, tan
- yellow daffodil:  raw sienna, mustard, pastel yellow, buttercup
- green shades:  370-T, apple, meadow green 
- flower bulb:  khaki, pastel beige, champagne    
- dotted background:  grey green, 5507-T, tea green, 5527-T 

Seed Box - Magnolia-licious Spring Blog Hop

Hello.

Today, we're kicking off our Spring Blog Hop at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog.

If you're already taking part in the Blog Hop and have arrived here from Suzi's blog, then you're right on track.  If you didn't come from her blog then you just may want to start at the beginning, HERE.

My project for this Blog Hop is a Seed Box.  I love gardening and I've created this box to store my seeds.

For this gardening scene, I cut out each of the Tilda images.

The inside of the box is divided into 3 compartments:  the 2 larger ones for seeds and the smaller one for seed stakes (they're actually large popsicle sticks).

I've made three index cards to separate the seeds into 3 seed-type groups:  vegetables, herbs and flowers.

A closer look at the Magnolia Stamps images being featured.
- Tilda In the Garden from the Pink Lemonade Collection 2014
- Seeding Tilda from the Sweet Rainbow Collection 2011

- Watercan Tilda from the Sweet Rainbow Collection 2011

- Tilda Picking Carrot from the Sakura Collection 2015

- Virgo Tilda from the Zodiac Collection 2015
- Tilda Loves Flowers from the Sweet Crazy Love Collection 2012

Magnolia Stamps are available from Magnolia-licious, Diana's on-line store where she 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, e-mail Diana and I'm sure she'll be happy to bring it in for you.
And other-brand stamps that the store carries include Stamping Bella, Wee Stamps, Wild Rose Studios, Saturated Canary and Crafter's Companion.

There are two ways to win during our Spring Blog Hop:

- Tulip Scavenger Hunt (see the picture below).

- Enter a project following the Hop theme below.

Both winners will win a $20 Gift Certificate from the Magnolia-licious store.

How to play:

1.  Like us on our Magnolia-licious Facebook Fan Page.

2.  Leave a comment on DT's post during the hop.

3.  Count the number of images of the 2 tulips in each of the DT post and send the total to Cathy Lee at cathylee.co@gmail.com using "Spring Tulip Scavenger Hunt" in the subject line.

Scavenger Hunt Picture

Now for your next stop, HOP over to the blog of the super talented

Julie

to see what she has to share for you.

I'm entering my project into these challenges:
Artistic Inspirations Challenge #156 - Anything Goes/twist of Use a Die Cut
Craft Your Passion Challenge #311 - Always Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Challenge #323 - Female (Girls) Only
Crafty Friends Challenge #31 - In the Garden
Creative Artiste May Challenge - Anything Goes
Glitter 'N' Sparkle Challenge #187 - One for the Ladies
Live and Love Crafts Challenge #47 - Blossoms and/or Butterflies
Simply Magnolia Challenges - Flowers
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - May Flowers
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

That's it for me!  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:  Recollections Floral Garden paper pad; Paper Adventures KN Tickled Pink Ribbons

Dies:  Spellbinders Mega Ovals, Mega Classic Scalloped Ovals Large, Labels Seventeen; Memory Box 98470 Blooming Vine and 98895 Wildflower Corner; Poppy Stamps 956 Lovely Tendril and 1028 Delaney Butterfly; Dee's Dinstinctively IME-121 Tree Toppers

Punches:  Punch Bunch Large, Medium and Small Daisies; EK Success Small Retro Flower; Fiskars 3-in-1 Celestial Corner; Michaels Mini Sun

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads Walnut Stain and Fired Brick; hinges from hardware store; latch set from Live and Live Crafts; pearls from my stash 

Colouring medium:  Alcohol ink markers from Letraset - Promarkers and Pantone Trias, Shin-Han Touch markers (sorry, too many colours to list--I was in a colouring marathon and didn't want to stop and jot down the colours); coloured pencils to help with the shading

Birthday Wishes - FFFC #161 'Green and Pink'

Hello.  Happy Friday!

We're starting a new challenge at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge.  The lovely and super-talented Beth is our hostess for this challenge and she has chosen a colour challenge of 'Green and Pink.'  This challenge is being sponsored by Magnolia-licious.  Please hop over to 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 join us.

Here's the card that I came up with.

 A look at the inside of my card.

A closer look at the Magnolia Stamps images being featured.  As usual, I've done my colouring with my alcohol-ink markers (colours listed below), along with a few coloured pencils.

- Tilda With Big Balloon from the Lost and Found Collection 2014

- Summer Strawberry Tilda from the Animals of the Year Collection 2014

The stamps for the above two images can be found at our sponsor's on-line store Magnolia-licious.

Challenges for this card:
ABC Challenges - E is for Everything
Clear It Out Challenge - Theme: Springtime, Stash: Add a flower
Crafting For All Seasons Challenge #123 - Use Die Cuts/Punches
Crafty Calendar April Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Lace and/or Pearls
Create and Inspire Challenge #43 - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew Challenge #110 - Die Cut
Inspiration Destination Challenge #80 - Anything Goes
Jade's Sparkling Butterflies Challenge #16 - Anything Goes
Star Stampz - Flowers, Flowers, Flowers Challenge

That's all for now.  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:  Recollections Floral Garden paper pad; American Crafts Baby Miss Muffett; Making Memories Brooke Narrow Stripe

Dies:  Spellbinders Labels Thirty-Six; Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circles; Marianne Design LR0111 Flower; Cheery Lynn Designs B435 Tea Rose Small; Memory Box 98890 Blushing Bouquet; Poppystamps 956 Lovely Tendril    

Punches:  EK Success Small Retro Flower; Martha Stewart Rose Leaf; Fiskars Celestial 3-in-1 corner punch; Michaels Mini Sun

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads Walnut Stain, Worn Lipstick 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 Tilda #1:  burnt sienna, Touch BR100, caramel, sandstone 
- hair and shoes Tilda #2: black, Touch BR92, cinnamon, tan   
- green shades:  forest green, bright green, leaf green, green shoot, meadow green 
- pink shades:  701-T, 1767-T, 182-T, pale pink
- white shading:  warm grey 5-T, cool grey 4-T, cool grey 1-T

- dotted background:  grey green, 5507-T, tea green, 5527-T  

Hello Spring!

Hello.  Happy Spring!

Yay...spring has arrived and I've got this beautiful image for a card to celebrate the season.

I see the clematis (armandii) vines blooming everywhere around my neighbourhood, so I've incorporated their flowers into my card.  I love clematis!!!

A closer look at the digital stamp from A Day For Daisies.

This image is called Morning Dew Fairy.

I've done my colouring with my coloured pencils this time, except for a couple of markers that I used to create the dotted background.  I've added glitter to the fairy wings.

Challenges for this card:
A Day For Daisies Challenge #143 - Add Pearls or Beads
Craft Your Passion Challenge #304 - Anything Goes
Glitter 'N' Sparkle Challenge #180 - Anything Goes
Love To Scrap! Challenge LTSCB #74 - Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Challenges Week 11 - Spring Colours
Sketch Saturday Week #404 - Sketch
Simply Papercraft Challenge #25 - Anything Goes
Star Stampz Challenge - Think Spring
The Cutie Pie Challenge #97 - So Fairy Cute
The Ribbon Girl March Challenge - Any Image (yes, there's a yellow ribbon there, under the flowers)

That's all for now.  Thanks for stopping by.  I appreciated the visit.  Enjoy your day and have a wonderful week!

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiments:  Computer generated

Designer Papers:  Recollections Purple Ditsy Floral and Bold Basics paper pad

Dies:  Spellbinders Petite Ovals; Bosskut Design-a-flower #0680 Flowers; Whimsy Stamps Large Leafy Flourish; Dee's Distinctively Floral Leaf Set 2  

Punches:  EK Success Corner Rounder; Carla Crafts Medium Cosmos

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pad Walnut Stain; Glitter Ritz microfine glitter; pearls from my stash

Colouring medium:  
- coloured pencils:  Faber-Castell Polychromos and Art Grips, Prismacolor Premiers and Verithins
- dotted background:  Letraset Pantone Trias 5507-T, 5527-T 

Easter 2-Tier Gift Box and Card - Magnolia-licious Easter Blog Hop

Hello.

Our Easter Blog Hop at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog gets under way today.  To get complete details of the challenge and how to play along with us, please visit the challenge blog.

If you're already taking part in the Blog Hop and have arrived here from Chris' blog, then you're on the right track.  If you didn't come from her blog then you just may want to start at the beginning.  Here's a list of the participating DT gals in blog hop order:

Cathy

Tamara

Suzi

Karen S.

Karen G.

Kelly

Chris

Norma (you are here)

Katie

Julie

Jane

Here's what I've created for this Blog Hop--it's an Easter Gift Box along with an Easter card.

Taking a closer look at the gift box first.

The box opens sideway to reveal that it's actually a 2-Tier Gift Box.  Cool, eh?

I saw a model of this box on Pinterest, loved the design so I tried to recreate it.  I made the drawers just large enough so each can be filled with 4 Ferrero Roches chocolate pieces...oh yum!

Edited:  I've now posted the tutorial/templates for a 2-Tier Box that you can find HERE, if you're interested. 

Now, for the greeting card, it's really a Surprise Pop-Up Card.

There's a tab at the top/back of the card that you pull out.  The centre panel slides upward to reveal a surprise message/sentiment.

There's a Surprise Pop Up Card tutorial at the Splitcoast Stampers site HERE if you're interested.

Here are close-ups of the Magnolia-Stamps images being featured.

- Tilda Hiding Easter Egg from the Little Easter Collection 2013

- Tilda with Her Rabbit from the Special Moments Collection 2013

- Tilda With Egg and Chicken from the Little Easter Collection 2013

These stamps and other Magnolia Stamps are available from Magnolia-licious, Diana's on-line store where she 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, e-mail Diana and I'm sure she'll be happy to bring it in for you.  And currently until the end of the month, all regular size Magnolia stamps are on sale at 40% off. 
And other-brand stamps that the store carries include Stamping Bella, Wee Stamps, Wild Rose Studios, Saturated Canary and Crafter's Companion.

There are two ways to win during our Easter Blog Hop:

- Bunny Scavenger Hunt (my hidden bunnies are in the picture below).

- Enter a project following the Hop theme below.

Both winners will win a $20 Gift Certificate from the Magnolia-licious store.

How to play:

1.  Like us on our Magnolia-licious Facebook Fan Page.

2.  Leave a comment on DT's post during the hop.

3.  Count the Bunnies in each of the DT posts and send the total to Cathy Lee at cathylee.co@gmail.com using "Easter Bunny Scavenger Hunt" in the subject line.

Scavenger Hunt Picture

For your next stop, HOP over to the blog of the super talented

Katie

to see what she has to share for you.

Challenges for my project:
Crafting From The Heart Challenge #102 - Anything Goes
Crafting With An Attitude Challenge #13 - Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends Challenge #15 - Anything Goes
Crafty Girlz Challenges - February Anything Goes
Creative Corner Challenges - Bunnies Everywhere
Die Cut Diva's March Challenge - Something Spring
Dies R Us Challenge #44 - Shaped Cards (list of dies below)

Lovely hAnglar or sweet Magnolia Challenge #131 - Add Some Flowers
Sisters of Craft March Challenge - Anything Goes
Where The Heart Is Challenge #7 - Easter/Anything Goes

That's all for now.  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 Wisteria Cornflower; My Mind's Eye Wild Asparagus 

Dies:  Go Kreate XXL Square Frames Frilly #3; Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circles; Spellbinders Petite Ovals and Die D-Lites Blooms Two; Memory Box 98312 Fancy Blossoms; CC Designs Olive Branch; Elizabeth Craft Designs 730 Curvy Leaves

Punches:  Carla Crafts Small Cosmos (flower centres) 

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads Walnut Stain, Wild Honey and Dusty Concord; pearls and hemp cord from my stash

Colouring medium:  Alcohol ink markers from Letraset - Promarkers and Pantone Trias; coloured pencils to help with the shading
- face and skin:  blush, coral, soft peach, vanilla--for the cheeks:  oatmeal, pastel pink
- hair Tilda #1:  burnt sienna, cinnamon
- hair Tilda #2:  raw sienna, mustard, pastel yellow
- hair and boots #3:  walnut, terracotta, spice, apricot  
- bunny suit:  raw sienna, honeycomb, apricot, vanilla, buttercup
- purple/violet shades: spring lilac, amethyst, orchid, lavender
- yellow shades:  mustard, pastel yellow, buttercup
- pink egg:  peony, baby pink 
- blue egg:  duck egg
- white shading:  warm grey 5-T, cool grey 4-T, cool grey 1-T
- grass:  apple cider, olive green, forest green, pine 

- dotted background:  grey green, 5507-T, tea green, 5527-T