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Over @ Magnolia Vs Stampavie, This week we have a Gift Challenge going on....

The challenge is as followers:

Perhaps you got a last minute Christmas Gift to make, for somebody you not had a chance to see over the Festive times?

Whatever the Reason, Make us a Gift and enjoy the Challenge.

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So i made a Gift Tin for a Family Friend who we hadn't had chance to see for Christmas as they don't live in the UK, We got to see them and i handed over a Altered Paint Can that was filled with Treats for them.

I wasn't able to get a photo of the actual tin i gave, as i had forgot in the excitement.
But i did the same tin as the one in the photo not so long ago for Lorraine as a little gift.
The only difference was Tildas Hair was coloured slightly different.

Well its time!
Our Very first challenge on Magnolia Vs Stampaive is now up and away

This week i am, as in me Donna ( Crafty Krafts )



Is Giving away £20 worth of goodies from my store, of your own choice!
Which includes your postage
(excludes Sarah Kay Stamps)
www.CraftyKrafts.co.uk


Now for the challenge..........

*Week 1* Sketch it!
Our First Sketch of this Blog was Done by our very on JayJay
Below you will see a Sketch,
Please make your work using the sketch as a guide,
You can Rotate the sketch & Even resize the Elements if you would like,
But do not move the elements around!
As long as we can still see the original sketch layout and it can be easily recognised then that is fine!

Please Remember your work must contain one of the stamps that can be found on this list Here!

Tilda & Co challenge 36 - Chocolate Delight
This week on Tilda & Co , we had a challenge: Chocolate Delight
For Further Details see here

I was a little late this week getting my work on the Blog,
Due to Camera Issues.

This week i decided to try something a little different and something new to me

I call it a Card Bag
Because it can be given as a gift bag, but when the gift is taken out it becomes a card in its own rights.

Below is photos of the Christmas Chocolate Delight Card Bag
(that will be filled with chocolates and given as a little gift @ Christmas)




As you can see from the photos,
The bag can accommodate small items or larger items,
When nothing or a small item is in the bag, it sits at a very slight angle to show off the card and can be tied with ribbon to keep closed.
When the bag is filled right upto the top it still sits nicely and the gift can explode from behind the card.

There is also a Winter Tilda Magnolia Stamp, Stamped onto Shrink plastic on the back that is a little magnet.

Now if the " winner " already has this stamp, then i would be happy to change it for a Magnolia Stamp, of my choice ( of course checking with you to make sure you don't already have it ) wouldn't want somebody to win a prize they already have! wouldn't be fun then would it?

Once again Prizes are Donated by myself from my Store www.craftykrafts.co.uk

Winner will be Chosen & announced on the Sunday 8th June


Now for the Challenge this week.......

Challenge 22 NONE CARD WEEK!

Now you may be looking at the title and thinking what? No cards? But i only make cards?
Now is the time to experience New things!,
For this challenge you are NOT allowed to make a Card,
Now there is so many things you can do with Magnolia Stamps, You only have to look @ Myself & the Design Teams work this week!
You could do a Gift Tag, Bookmark, Atc, Scrapbook(layout)Page, Gift Bag, Book The possibilities are endless!
So The rules are, Anything as long as it isn't a card, Has to have at least 1 Magnolia Stamp on ( remember it doesn't have to be Tilda or Edwin) , And last of all most important one is HAVE FUN!!!



(also to get a Closer Look you can Click on the Images which will make them bigger!)

Donna
This week i done another Canvas Board This time a small one 10 x 15 Cm ( a6)
And I Used my Old Faithful chalks along with watercolour pencils for,
The sky was Chalked with Shimmer Chalks, Same for the Grass, and the Pathway,
Pathway was Hand draw by myself ( i need practice)
Magnolia Butterfly's in the sky,
Along with a Magnolia Dragonfly
The sun was chalked and water coloured by Hand
The Garden Fence with Gate, is Papirloftet Stamp from my store, That i stamped and water coloured onto the canvas Board,
Little Tilda was Stamped and water coloured onto some card, Then cut out and added on to give her a little 3d Raised feel, and added a touch of Clear Sparkle Glitter Glue.

Boy can i just say Phew! i finally got around to getting my Tilda & Co Challenge i done , on the blog, and on here.......

Not had five minutes to myself lately due to the Magnolia Stamps being in store its been a bit of a crazy week with getting all the orders packed and posted before The bank hoilday weekend.

Anyways enough of my rambles...............

Below is my work i did for Tilda & Co

I wanted to try something different so i did another Canvas Board, and made a Tree house with my New Magnolia Stamps that arrived on Wednesday.

Below is alot of pictures of my canvas, as you need to see it at all angles to get the 3d Decoupaged look, as it looks flat on the main image.






You cant see too well that there is a blue/white sky that is shimmery as i used chalks for the sky.

The items used were......

Butterflies Magnolia Stamp
Dragonfly Magnolia Stamps
Fern Magnolia stamp
Owl Magnolia Stamp
Sweet Flower Magnolia Stamp
Grass Magnolia Stamp
House Magnolia Stamp
Winter Tree Magnolia Stamp
Ladder Magnolia Stamp
Goblin William Magnolia Stamp
Tree Trunk Magnolia Stamp
Large Circle Canvas Board
Eyelets & String
Watercolour Pencils/Pens
Shimmery Chalks

Now if you would like to take part pop over to my challenge blog and join in the fun , below is the challenge for this week.

Decoupage Tilda & Co

Now for this week..... I would love to see you decoupage with your magnolia stamps.

This could be as simple as having a Tilda or Edwin, that is holding something, you then stamp that image out twice, cut out the item he/she is holding and then layer it up with foam pads or silicone glue, to give a 3d effect

Or you could go totally wild and build up lot’s of layers.

Well its that time of the week again.....
Another Challenge on over @ Tilda & Co

This weeks challenge is.........

EYE EYE ITS A NATURAL FEELING....

For this week's challenge it's abit of a double up,
I Would like to see you use Eyelets if possible ( if you do not own them, then you can leave that part out or use brads)
Along with anything Natural, Could be fibres, Leaves, Straw, Twigs, Papers etc as long as it is Natural with Eyelets ( if you have them )

Now here is my work i done this week for the challenge........

My card..


Materials i used

• Edwin with broom Magnolia stamp
• House Magnolia stamp
• Watercolour pencils
• White Gel Pen
• Ribbon
• Ribbon Slider
• straw/twigs from Garden
• Glitter ( for his bobble on hat)
• Eyelets ( from set in my new toy)
• white Rub-on's are Cosmo Cricket
• Black pen for stitching
• 2 Shades of blue papers from stash

Now here is my String Box
I will just tell you a little about what it is,
Well i love my Garden natural string, But i am forever misplacing it or dropping it.
so i came up with an idea for a little box, the string sits underneath, and the string is pulled through one of the eylets, so i always know where my string is, it looks pretty and dust and dirt can be kept away from it also, as the roll is too big to go into a draw.
oh and it was made from canvas boards that i sell in my shop.

• 5 10cm square Canvas Boards
• Garden Natural String
• Eyelets from Cropadile set
• Rub-Ons from cosmo cricket
• 4 Tilda Images, Coloured in Watercolour pencils

Would you like to win some stamped images?

Magnolia, Papirloftet , Sarah Kay, Bellas etc a Nice little range of stamp images on a6 card,

Now how would you like to have some input into the Ideas & challenges that are set on Tilda & Co weekly Sunday Challenge blog?
Got an orginal idea thats not been used before?
Would love to see a Challenge you have in your head come to life?
Then please do Email me the challenges, no challenges to be posted on the " messages" but please use the Email link on the right hand sidebar,
I will then pick a couple of challenges that i feel will work bests on the blog,
The people choosen will receive this lovely little set of goodies each.

You have until Next Sunday to get the E-mails to me.
Of course u may list more than one challenge.

Note: Note all the Stamp images are shown, they may differ slightly from the ones shown.

Now for this weeks Challenge......

Girly but Blue!
You don't see many girl cards/projects in blue very often, They are normally pink! Well i would love you to make your projects this week in BLUE! Has to be suitable for a female. This is a pretty broad challenge this week, It could be a simple card, A altered art project etc

As per the rules, You work must have a Magnolia Stamp on there somewhere, It does not have to be Tilda/Edwin themselfs it could be any magnolia stamp.


Here is my card that i did for Tilda & Co.....

Sheesh we are on 15 already over @ Tilda & Co , only seems like Yesterday i was just starting the blog out as i thought it would be good idea to show off our lovely Magnolia Works, Never in million Years did i still think i would be here going on still, Honestly thought it would flop within a Week or 2!

So for this weeks Challenge
RIBBON GALORE!

We would love to see lots of ribbon on your work,
As many ribbons you can get on your work as possible.
You all have heard of the saying "less is more" well we want MORE MORE MORE!

You could use Ribbon Knots, Ribbon Bows Or even make your own fancy bow of our lot's of Ribbon.
Let your creative flare release this week.

Once again your work could be a Card, LO ( scrapbook page ) Handmade Gift, Altered Art Item, Atc, anything that takes your fancy!

Now don't forget if you do not have blog or a way of showing your work off online (you can use your photobucket account, A forum gallery, Anything that will have a direct Link to your work) then you can email me your work and i can upload this for you.

Here is my Work i done this week, It is for Emma....
We are swapping some images i done Tons of stamping this week so much so my arm feels like it is going to fall off!
So this is a Card/Stamped Image holder.
It is made to stamp upright and look like a book, But when you open it up, Its got Ribbon Embeded into the Card and tied together to hold the Massive bunch of Stamped Images, Then once these are removed left with the card.

So heres my effort...




Items Used - Black Pearlised Card, Gem Stones, Prima Flowers, Flowers from my shop, Ribbon, Brads, Paper from stash.

Hope you all like this,
And of course i hope Emma will too....

Now i have to try and pack it without it getting Damaged by the lovely Royal Mail!

I been a very bad blogger and not posted any work for a while really .

I have been very busy with alot of things which will be annouced Shortly im over joyed about these but i wont let cat out the bag just yet!

Along with being so busy and not even having time to scratch my.... Well you get the idea!

My pc decided it needed a big clean on friday, It has silly little problems that just all got worse on Friday , Mainly due to having a Brand new router and Wiresless USB thingy! Turns out the USB Thing that cost me £70 from comet is faulty!!!!! i spent £200 on new router and Wireless Usb for my pc last weekend and i havnt been able to use it! , i could i spent that money on stash! argh!

Anyways i will quit rambleing now to cut long story short, PC was reformated Friday i managed to save most of my Work, and I am now hardwired into my router , silly wireless!

Right so here is some work you wont of seen yet on here, some of the work i done for Tilda Challenges,

I thought it was about time i got my act together and starting actually putting some work of my own , on my own blog! rather than sticking other peoples on over @ Tilda & Co.


Here is My piece for This weeks Tilda & Co Challenge # 13 - Mix & Match.

I decided that it would good to try and see how many ways possible we could change our magnolia stamps, I know personally myself i feel sometimes they need a little changing to get there moneys worth? seeing as we all spend so much on them it be good to try get 2 different looking stamps out of each one?

So on to this weeks challenge.......

Don't forget your work can be anything from a Card, Layout(scrapbook page) To an Atc, Altered Art Project , anything that takes your fancy , but do try to challenge yourself out of your comfort zone , as you may be surprised what you can come up with.

Also just to mention this week we are giving away another Prize!
Lot's goodies up for grabs to one lucky winner!

So get your thinking cap on and stop over @ Tilda & Co , to Check out the Goodies & the challenge.

Heres my work
I've used Tilda's head on Edwin's Winter with Broom Body Stamp to make Edwina on a A4 Canvas board from my shop.

The Items i used to make my Edwina Canvas Board.......

1. Gem stones ( stash)
2. Magnolia Large Background Swirl stamp( from my shop )
3. Magnolia Swirl stamp ( from my shop)
4. Magnolia House Stamp ( from my shop)
5. Magnolia Sitting Tilda ( already had )
6. Magnolia Winter Edwin ( already had)
7. A4 Canvas Board ( from my shop)
8. Super Large Butterfly ( stash )
9. Pebbles inc Chalks ( from SassyCrafts )
10. Primas ( stash)
11. Papirloftet ABC Stamps ( from my shop )
12. Derwent Watercolor pencils

I also have some news............. I am now an aunty!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoo,
I know some of you have been asking me if shes popped yet but .. she popped yesterday morning at 6.17am! do a bouncy baby girl with very dark hair! Named Philipa Anne ( Pippa ) weighing in at a little joy of 6lb 7oz

So i really must get on with the baby gifts i want to get done , now i know its a girl , it is easy!!! lol

This week's challenge over @ Tilda & Co

Recycling Mothers!
Here is what Deb said she would like to see:
I have had lots of ideas but the one I like the most is Recycling! Because I am a huge recycling freak I thought it would be good to have a challenge where you have to use an item that has had a former life.
It could be a piece of card or paper from some packaging, cereal box card made into chipboard letters or shapes, ribbon taken from an article of clothing or chocolate box, old buttons taken from a garment etc.

Also we would love to see Mother's Day In the challenge.

So This week we would love to see your Mothers Day Art Work involving Recycling along with of course Magnolia stamps.


So get creative and take part this week!

It is extra special this week as we have a very good prize donated by Bootiful Stampz


Here is my entry this week that i have done,


Here i have made a Handbag Charm for my mother , using A Magnolia stamp , which was stamped onto White Shrink plastic, and then colored in using Gel Pens.

I also then looked around & Found a very good tatty children's bag, but it had some lovely lilac metal chain for the strap, So i pulled that off and cut it down to size i wanted.

Also added some mother of pearl beads and many more & A crystal i got from a RAK from Rosie @ Christmas in my Altered Tin.

Just hope she will like it now.