Fun in the Sun - Magnolia-licious 'Sun, Sea and Sand'

Hello.

Today being the second Tuesday of the month, it's time to start a new challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog.  The new theme is 'Sun, Sea and Sand.'   To get complete details of the challenge and how you can join in the fun, visit the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog site.  Don't forget 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 for the challenge--a tri-shutter card.

I haven't made one of these for a while--I love fancy-fold cards.  You can find the template for this Tri-Shutter Card HERE, if you're interested.

The scroll design corners were diecut and the sandcastle borders, starfish and crab were punched out using punches.  Other than those, the rest of the embellishments were cut out by hand.

When laid-out flat, the card measures 6" x 12", but it folds to 6" x 4" for easy mailing.

Here are close-ups of the adorable Magnolia Stamps images...(list of marker colours listed below)

- Summer Bathing Tilda from the Sea Breeze Collection 2013

- Summer Beach Tilda from the Sea Breeze Collection 2013
- Bathing Ring from the Lazy Summer Day's Collection 2009

Magnolia stamps can be purchased from Diana's on-line store, Magnolia-licious.  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, e-mail Diana and I'm sure she'll be happy to bring it in for you.
Check out also the stamps from Wee Stamps, Wild Rose Studios, Saturated Canary and Candibeans and Crafter's Companion, along with cutting dies from various companies including Memory Box, PoppyStamps, Magnolia Doohickey, Wild Rose Studio.
Prices are discounted, you get excellent customer service and you also get to earn 2% credit to be applied to future purchases.

Come and join our challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog and you will have a chance to win a Special Surprise from the Magnolia-licious store when you follow the rules and theme of our challenge.

For your chance to win a "Leave A Comment" Surprise Package Prize from Magnolia-licious, there is a weekly random draw.  All you have to do is leave a comment--the more you comment the greater your chances.

- comment on any or all the postings on the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog
- comments on related postings on the DT gals' blogs for that week

Challenges for this card:
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge #92 - Summer Fun
Sisters of Craft June Challenge - Anything Goes
Not Just Cards Challenge #21 - Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Summer Fun
Quick Creations June Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Time Challenges for June - Girls, Girls, Girls
Aud Sentiments Challenge #133 - Bingo (diecuts, rubberstamps, markers)
Sister Act Card Challenge #109 - Anything Goes
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #140 - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #11 - Anything Goes

That's all for now.  Thanks for dropping 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:  DCWV Baby Boy Stack paper pad

Dies:  Go Kreate Small Frames Frilly #10; Cheery Lynn Design B162 Lace Corner Deco B

Punches:  EK Success Beach Scene Edge, Circles, Starfish, Crab; Martha Stewart Grass Edge

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pad Walnut Stain

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 (1st Tilda):  burnt sienna, caramel, sandstone, black coloured pencil
- hair (2nd Tilda):  Touch BR99, Touch BR102, cinnamon, tan, black coloured pencil
- blue shades in clothing:  279-T, cobalt blue, 283-T, 277-T, powder blue
- green shades:  pine, 370-T, apple, meadow green
- orange shades:  spice, apricot, oatmeal, saffron
- sky and clouds:  icicle, 2707-T, 2717-T, cool grey 1-T, cool grey 3-T, cool grey 4-T  
- sea:  317-T, 3105-T
- sand:  champagne, pastel beige, khaki
- white shading:  warm grey 5-T, cool grey 4-T, cool grey 1-T

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

A Fairy Happy Birthday - GDT Card for Crealies

Hello.

I've been asked to be a Guest DT for Crealies by Annelies, owner of Crealies...woo-hoo.
Crealies has just released some new Create-A-Card and Crea-Nest-Lies dies--check them out HERE-- and I'll be showcasing a few of them on my GDT cards.

Here's the first GDT card that I came up with.

When it's folded, the card measures 3½" x 5¼" or 9.0cm x 13.5cm, so it will fit into a medium-size envelope--you just need to worry about the thickness of your card...hee hee.

When you unfold the card, you can then see its multi-fold feature.

Fully spread out, the length of the card is 10 5/8" or 27cm.

This adorable little fairy being featured is from Mo's Digital Pencil designed by Mo Manning,

and it is only one of the fairies from a set called 3 Baby Fairies.  I have coloured the image with markers and a few coloured pencils to help with the shading.  I've added glitter to the wings.  

As mentioned before, I am showcasing some Crealies dies and here are the list of dies I have used:

- Crealies Create-A-Card No. 7
- Crealies Crea-Nest-Lies XXL No. 15
- Crealies Set of 3 Flowers No. 4
- Crealies Creative Shapes No. 16 (leaves)
- Crealies Creative Border No. 17

Check out the rest of Crealies dies at the Crealies on-line store, HERE.

And you may also want to check out the Crealies Blog, HERE.

Challenges I am entering with this card:
Open-Minded Crafting Challenge #17 - Last days of summer (using warm summer colours)
613 Avenue Create Challenge #86 - Anything Goes w/option Post-It Notes
Crafting From the Heart Challenge #33 - Anything Goes
Inkspirational Challenge #63 - Red, Orange, Yellow
Fairytale Stampers Challenge #43 - Anything Goes
Through the Purple Haze Challenge #54 - Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #121 - A World of Fantasy
Inky Chicks Challenge #36 - Fairies and/or Angels
Divas by Design - Happy Birthday
The Crafter's Cafe Challenge #79 - Use your punches and dies

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:  We R Memory Keepers Lattice; DCWV Old World Stack paper pad

Dies:  Crealies Create-A-Card No. 7, Crea-Nest-Lies XXL No. 15, Creative Set of 3 Flowers No. 04, Creative Shapes No. 16 and Creative Border No. 17

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads Walnut Stain, Rusty Hinge and Aged Mahogany; pearls from my stash; Glitter Ritz Tranparent Micro Fine Cool Highlight glitter 

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

Thinking of You - Magnolia-licious "W"ednesday #30

Hello.  Happy middle of the week!

It's time for another "W"ednesday Posts at the Magnolia-licious Challenge.  "W"ednesday postings are where the DT gals take turns showcasing the other stamps beside Magnolia stamps that the Magnolia-licious on-line store carries--images from Wee Stamps, Wild Rose Studio, Penny Black and CandiBeans. It's Dena and I who are participating today.

And so...this was the card that I made.

This is the view when it's all folded up....

when on display...

and when fully stretched out...

I'm featuring images from the Flower Fairies stamp set.

These two Flower Fairies are just 2 of the 5 stamps in the set.  The 'Thinking of You' banner is another one and you get 2 more sentiment stamps.  This stamp set can be found at the Magnolia-licious on-line store.

Have a look at the rest of the Wee Stamps Collection HERE.

Of course you can also find Magnolia stamps there--both full size and minis--as well as stamps from Wild Rose Studios, Penny Black and Candibeans.  If you don't see the particular one that you're looking for, ask Diana is she can bring it in for you.  Magnolia-licious also carries cutting dies from various companies including Memory Box, PoppyStamps, Magnolia Doohickey.  Prices are discounted, you get excellent customer service and...you get to earn 2% credit to boot which you can apply future purchases. How cool is that!

Challenges I am entering with this card:
Passion for Promarkers Week 242 - So Sentimental
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge - Cute
Bearly Mine April 2014 Challenge - Spring
The Cheerful Stamp Pad Challenge #83 - Add some flowers
Craft It Up and Link It Up Party #28 - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie Challenge #66 - Cute With Dies and Punches
Fitztown Challenge #29 - Fancy Folds
A Creative Romance Challenge #21 - Spring Flowers
Creative Fingers Challenge #30 - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

I haven't made one of these tri-shutter cards for a while and thought it's about time I did another one.  If you have a yen to try one yourself, this is the template that I used:

If you want to print a hard copy...Tri-Shutter Card Template (PDF)

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

Materials and Tools Used: 

Designer Papers:  DCWV Linen Closet paper pad   

Dies and Punches:  Go Kreate Small Frames Frilly Square #10; Memory Box 98312 Fancy Blossoms; Crealies Creative Shapes No. 16 (leaves)

Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pad Walnut Stain, Tumbled Glass, Evergreen Bough and Scattered Straw; pearls from my stash

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

Celebrate...it's your day! - Magnolia-licious 'Celebrations'

Hello!

We're midway into our current challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog.  The challenge theme is 'Celebrations'.  It's Team B's turn to post our inspirational cards/projects, so hop over to the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog to see what my DT teammates have created and also to get the details for the challenge and how you can join in the fun.

Here's my DT card for the challenge...

But just wait for a sec...this is only the view of the card front, when the card is all folded up.  This is actually a tri-shutter card.

I altered the measurements of the original tri-fold shutter card and made another version of the card.

This gives me not quite a full panel for the card front but still a bigger front panel than the original tri-shutter card. 

Here are a few new Magnolia stamps that I finally got around to colouring.  And I've coloured these images with markers.   

- Elephant Show Tilda from the Little Moscow Collection 2013
- Miss Dorothy (the elephant) from the Little Moscow Collection 2013

- Tilda in Evening Dress from the Little Moscow Collection 2013

The stamps for these images 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.  Have look at the *new* exquisite dies from Memory Box and PoppyStamps.
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!

Here's one of the dies that you can get from Magnolia-licious:

for the purple flowers, I used these dies...

Memory Box 98511 Fabulous Phlox

If you're interested in making a similar card, here's the template:

And if you want a printout of the template:
Tri-Fold Shutter Card (another version) template - in PDF

Challenges for this card:
A Little Bit Crafty January Challenge - Celebrate!
Totally Tilda Challenge #88 - Masking
Heck of A Challenge for January - New (new stamps from Magnolia)
Deep Ocean Challenge #69 - Birthday
Sparkles Monthly Challenge #52 - Show us your new stash (new stamps from Magnolia)
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Birthdays
Creative Craft Challenges2 Challenge #1 - New (new stamps from Magnolia)
Stampin' for the Weekend - Happy Birthday
Creative Fingers Challenge 20 - Anything Goes

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

Materials and Tools Used:
Sentiments:  Computer generated
Designer Papers:  Chatter Box Light Parlor Stripe; unknown yellow DP from DeSerres Art Store
Dies:  Spellbinders Standard Circles and Petite Ovals; Memory Box 98511 Fabulous Phlox, Memory Box 98222 Fauntleroy Crest; Impression Obsession DIE042 Spiral Flowers
Punches:  Nellie Snellen Floral Punch FLP031 Large Rose Leaves
Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pad Walnut Stain, Dusty Concord and Wild Honey; pearls from my stash
Colouring Medium:  Alcohol ink markers from Letraset - Promakers and Pantone Trias

Sweet Wishes for Debbie - FFFC #94

Hello! Happy Friday!

It's a new challenge at Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge Blog.  And this time, woo-hoo...it's my turn to host it.  For the theme, I've chosen...More Than One Fold or Fancy Folds (e.g. gate-fold cards, tri-shutter cards, side-step cards, stair-step cards, diamond-fold cards, etc.).  I just love the not-so-ordinary cards and I'm hoping I'll get to see a type of folds that I haven't seen before and I get something new to play around with...LOL.  Anyway, for more details on the challenge and how to join in the fun, hop over to Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge. Have a look at the fabulous cards that my DT teammates have created for inspirations. 

For my DT card, I am showing you this birthday card that I made for my friend Debbie down under in Aussie land--hope she liked it.  This first view is of just the card front when the card is all folded up.

 

When opened it's a type of a tri-shutter card.    



It's not of the more popular basic tri-shutter card.  This one has different cuts and folds giving me a full panel for the card front. 

I am featuring a couple of adorable Tilda images from Magnolia:

- Tilda With Little Pocket from the With Love Collection 2013
- Tilda With Love from the With Love Collection 2013

Diana's on-line store, Magnolia-licous, is an excellent source for your Magnolia stamps.  Diana carries a large selection of both the full size and mini stamps.  And if you don't see the particular one you are looking for, contact Diana and ask her if she can bring it in for you. 
Check out the selection of Wee Stamps by Sylvia Zet, and Wild Rose Studio stamps.
Prices are discounted.  Along with excellent customer service, you get to earn 2% in-store credit of every order which you can apply to future purchases.  Sweet!

Challenges for this card:
A Little Bit Crafty July Challenge - "Die-ing" for it!
Stamp With Fun Challenge 217 - Celebrate
Totally Tilda Challenge #76 - Titian Tilda (Tilda with Little Pocket)
Creative Fingers Challenge #2 - Anything Goes
Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes Birthday
Bearly Mine Challenges #96 - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Die-ing for a Punch
Crafts and Me Challenge #139 - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenge #29 - Make your own embellishments (handmade flowers)

Thanks for stopping by.  I very much appreciate your visit.  Have a fabulous weekend.  Stay safe!

These are the measurements that I used for the card. 
PDF Template HERE if you're interested and want a printout.

Materials and Tools Used:

Sentiment Stamps:  Hero Arts "Sweet Wishes"; Inkadinkado "Have a Great Birthday"
DP:  One DP from Recollections Habitat paper pad
Dies:  Go Kreate Small Frames Frilly Square #10; Memory Box 98222 Fauntleroy Crest; Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterfly Mini DL112 and Small Angel Wing DL112A
Punches:  EK Success Retro Flower large, medium and small; Michaels mini sun; Carla Crafts small Cosmos
Miscellaneous:  Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pad Walnut Stain; pearls from my stash
Colouring Medium:  Letraset Promarkers and Pantone Trias

Up on Cloud No. 9

Hello! Happy Tuesday!

A new inspirational challenge for December at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog. One week earlier! Don't worry though if you're still working on a project for last week's colour challenge, because that one is still open for another week. So we have the 2 challenges open at the same time for an entire week. We're starting this today, so we can concentrate on Christmas as we get closer to the big day. This new challenge will run until January 10, 2011, the day before January's first colour challenge. This is Chrissy's month and she has chosen the theme white-on-white--at least that is how I interpreted it, so I went with that in mind...LOL.

I had wanted to do something like the card below ever since I saw all the Tilda angels in the pre-order list, but what I had imagined in my mind was...navy night sky, golden moon and stars. Hmm...maybe I will still do that at a later date. But for now, this being a white-on-white theme, this is a tri-shutter card that I came up with.

In keeping with the white theme I did consider having the angels wearing white robes, but colouring white is not something I have learned to do very well...sigh...and to do it for 3 images!!! Yikes...I quickly abandoned that idea. I opted for colours for their robes instead...LOL. And besides I really really wanted to colour those striped tights. I love it when Tilda is wearing her striped socks or tights...tee hee, they are so cute.

This is what my card looks like if I flattenned it out.

These 3 adorable angels are from Magnolia's new A Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010. They are Starlight Tilda (in yellow), Angel Tilda (in dusty rose) and Sitting Angel Tilda (in blue). This last one is my favorite image from this collection--she looks like an angel with a little bit of naughtiness in her...LOL. These angels are available from Magnolia-licious, Diana's online store for anything Magnolia (and much more).

If you haven't made a tri-shutter card before, this is an overhead view of the card. There are quite a few tutorials on the internet. Here is a link to just one of those tri-shutter card tutorials.

What I was trying to do was paint a picture in white. I wanted to make it more 3 dimentional with embossed images and 3-D embellishments to create the background for the angels.

This is what my star looked like before I covered it up with glitter.
I used white bristol board paper. I have a Sizzix die cuts (Stars #2) that cut out 4 different sizes of stars: the smallest one, the 3rd largest one and 2 others in between those 2 sizes. The rest of the stars--there are 9 stars in total--I cut them out by hand using a ruler and a craft knife. I made them in 1/8-inch increments until I have the star big enough for Tilda to sit on.

(Doesn't she look like she's hanging on for her dear life to that star? LOL. Not too worry--if she falls, she's got wings!!)

I have tried to do the same thing with the crescent moon--I didn't do as good a job here though...LOL.

I have used the Spellbinders Nestabilities circle die cuts for the moon. I started out with cutting out whole circles. I used the largest size circle die cut that I have for the first one, and then going smaller after that. There are 7 circles in total. Their diameters are in 1/8-inch increments, so I had to cut some of the circles out by hand--no Nesties for those sizes.

To make this into a crescent moon--so Tilda have something to sit on--I used a smaller circle die cut for the hole/opening in each of the 7 circles. I used the same size on each and made sure that at one point, the edge of the smaller circle met the edge of the large circle. When I gluing the circles together one by one, I lined them up by this hole/opening.

I used lots of glitter on this card. I've added them to the moon, the big star, the angels' wings, the star at the end of Tilda's wand and her halo.

I am using this card as my entry into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp! - Christmas, but no red and green.
Flutterby Wednesday Challenge 134 - Anything goes.

Just Magnolia Week 85 - A Christmas card.

ABC DT Challenge - Non-traditional holiday colours.

Bunny Zoe's Craft Challenge 7 - Sparkle and Shine.

Creative Inspirations Challenge 49 - Anything goes Christmas.
Stamp With Fun Challenge #89 - Christmas.

Cupcake Craft Challenge 121 - Non-traditional Christmas (colours).

Challenge Up Your Life Challenge 33 - Advent/Christmas.

I hope you will join us in our Challenge. Diana is generously offering a $25 gift certificate from her store Magnolia-licious as the prize. And please check out the fabulous cards and projects that the other DT ladies had created for the challenge. The links to their personal blogs are on my side bar.

Are you finished with you Christmas cards yet for this season? I am NOT. Even if I am though, I will probably will still be making them into the New Year. While I am in this Christmasy/holiday mood, what better time than now to start on next year's list...LOL...when I have all these ideas and inspirations around me. And actually I do like to work on them all year long.

I know your time is precious especially in this busy time of year, so thanks much for dropping by. I appreciate the visit. Have a wonderful week. Let's hope we can find time to relax a bit and get recharged before tackling the next task on our to-do list...LOL.

Stamps: Starlight Tilda, Angel Tilda and Sitting Angel Tilda--all 3 from Magnolia's A Merry Little Christmas Collection 2010, Mary Engelbrett clear stamps "The Magic of Christmas", the other sentiment is computer-generated.

Tools: Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles Large and Small, Sizzix Stars #2 die cuts, Sizzix embossing folder Rays, Cuttlebug embossing border Measure by Measure, Big Shot Machine.

Misc.: Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter, Glitter Ritz Micro Fine Glitter light gold.