MDUC :: Olden Days

Here is my entry for the Magnolia Down Under challenge this week, which is: "OLDEN DAYS" :: To colour the image in black, white and greys and have colourful, vintage (what ever you like) papers.

This was another image that Trace stamped up for me - How lucky am I!! I coloured her in with the Copic Ciao Warm Grays - W-1, 3, 5, 7. The sentiment is another ticket from Bizzy Becs, I cut the outside edge off. And the paper and flowers are from the stach I picked up at my LSS sale last week! Thanks for looking .. I must admit I was feeling rather Mojo-less for this card!

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Magnolia Down Under :: Easel card

This week's Magnolia Down Under challenge is to make an easel card! Here's mine....

I'm sorry but my MOJO seems to have run off again.... don't really like this card... except for the image which was sent to me by the lovely Sharon ... THANKS!!!
I had written down my copic colours but not sure where I put that scrap of paper... mmm. Will try and record colours better from now on in!

I have not really been around as many blogs as I like these last few days either... please bear with me.. I'll come and visit SOON!! Promise!!! :D

on a better note.. last weeks IVF procedures went quite well and we ended up with one blastocyst (5 day old embryo with over 100 cells) .... which was transferred on Saturday... and now we just wait and pray that this little one sticks around! I Have a pregnancy test on 3 March.... not sure I can wait that long without exploding! lol

Thanks for stopping by!

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exciting news....

oooh... I am so thrilled!! I am one of the (lucky) twisted thirteen to join the wonderful Jessica (aka. the mad hatter) on her new challenge blog DT - Oh, Alice! How exciting! I'm pretty excited to be on the team with such a lovely talented bunch of crafters...


Oh, Alice Design Team
The Mad Hatter
Jessica Diedrich

The twisted thirteen are:
Natasha Beasley
Samantha Betbeder (Me)
Catherine
Margie Cortina
Mary Giles
Lisa Hjulberg
Jimmi Mayo
Peggy McCurry
Betty Roberts
Kyra Sanders
Jen Shults
Pam Varnell
Kristy Young
I hope that you will join us for the first challenge on Sat 20th February!

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also.... Kristy asked if I would join Magnolia Down Under Challenges as a guest designer in July! YAY!! I love that challenge blog and I love Magnolia images (can't wait to get my Spring kit)!!
It's the MDUC blog that I can thank for enabling me to get to know so many aussie crafters/ bloggers... until then I barely knew any others downunder ... Now I have lots of lovely fellow aussie craft blogger buddies!

Magnolia Down Under :: Grey + Pink

Yup... this week the challenge at Magnolia Down Under is Grey and Pink and I have not left it till the last minute! Love this colour combination...and think it works well for a shabby chic kind of look... that's what I was trying to go for here...

Tilda is coloured with pink and Grey copics....plus of course some white gel pen highlights. I also used a grey copic to turn a white flower grey! :D
Pop on over to Magnolia Down Under for a look at the challenge and the AWESOME DT creations.. ooh and Kellie has a scrummy prize this week so you might just want to enter as well!!! :D

Well... I seem to be doing a lot of blogging right now (2/3 posts a day) ... I guess that colouring, making cards and then sticking them on my blog is kind of escapism...I LOVE it! and It can be done when I don't have the energy to do a lot else... but I really should get up and do some housework... :P

Just scraping in to Magnolia Down Under

The Magnolia Down Under challenge is now weekly...and I almost missed it... but am just scraping in..... Here is my card.. .following their sketch... and having Orange + girly card!
Hope you like it - Tilda is watercoloured! I was given 20 of this image from my bloggy friend Arline some time ago... I love this image!!! :D If you read this Arline - thanks Hun!!! :D



Check out the Magnolia Down Under challenge for the lovely DT creations and tomorrow for the new challenge!! Might be back later!

Magnolia Down Under :: Valentines

The Current Magnolia Down Under Challenge is to make something for Valentines. I used this gorgeous Tilda I got in a swap... coloured her in with Watercolours, adding some stickles and white gel pen. The large flower is from the Stamp Spot and the smaller one on top + the leaves are Bizzy Becs. The rest of the papers are from my stash(most came from Tina).

Thanks for looking.. sorry I have not been about much..this cold/ flu is really knocking me around... and my mojo too.

*edited* Red = pink + white right???

Magnolia Down Under :: Stamp with another use

YAY!! I'm finally entering another MDU challenge!!

I promised something different for my next post (although I had yesterday off as I made some cards but then we had a blackout in the afternoon... power for about an hour and then no power again most of the night.... so here I am today!)

Well I've had this little cutie coloured for some time (she was one I got in a swap) ...and I thought I better pop her on a card ... The current Magnolia Down Under challenge is:
Stamp with another use.... now I'm fairy certain this Tilda was not designed to be used on a baby card... but I think it works... cookies for the family?!


Speaking of Magnolias... I was given some money for Christmas and I've ordered the Spring Kit! oooh.. how exciting!!! Can't wait to see what will be in it!!

thanks for stopping by! Tomorrow I'll be back with my first STAMP SPOT creation for the year!

Magnolia Down Under :: recipe challenge

This card was made for the Magnolia Down Under challenge.... following their recipe of
1 flower, 2 ribbons, 3 brads and 4 papers/pattern papers.

this card is for fellow blogger - Vanessa
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nessy
(BTW, it's COMING!!!)

Thanks to Cheryl for the gorgeous image and thanks to T for sending me lots of different papers!

Magnolia Down Under Challenge # 7

Here is my card for the Magnolia Down Under challenge #7.

This time they have a lovely little sketch for us to follow.
I took a bit of artistic licence and used a smaller rectangle
shape which means the elements are more overlapped
than the original sketch but I think it works :)



I LOVE this Tilda image
(she was in a RAK from a blogging buddy :)

Thanks for stopping by.
Sammi
xxx

Magnolia down Under :: All about a Boy...

Whoo! I am finally getting my Magnolia down Under card in early'ish in the challenge...

This challenge is:
"All about a Boy"

so here is my "boy" card!! Hope you like it :)



I missed out on the last challenge... did not get my card onto the computer in time... but I thought I'd show it to you anyway... this was made with the "Moving to the Country" theme in mind...

I used a photo taken in Orange for the bacground (the pic of the card is a bit dark - sorry)

Magnolia Down Under :: Sepia

The challenge this week on Magnolia Down Under is "SEPIA"

Here is my card for my second week as one of their guest design team:



I used watercolours to do a little wash over the Edwin image and then some extra brown watercolour to add more colour in .. I tried to make it look like an older style Sepia photograph (hence the photocorners).

Pop on over to Magnolia Down Under - look at the wonderful Design team creations and join in the fun :)

We are off to the lovely city of Adelaide early tomorrow so will not be blogging or crafting for a week or so! will catch up with you all when we get back :)

Thanks for looking,
Sammi

Magnolia Down Under :: A Baby is born

Magnolia Downunder Challenge # 6 went live today... wow... up to six already.. how time flies!

This is my first week as a Guest Designer for The Magnolia Down Under Challenge and the theme was
"a Baby is Born"

Here is my card...




From another view... so you can see how it opens:


Pop over to the Magnolia Down Under blog for some wonderful inspiration and join in the fun :)

Magnolia down Under :: Bling it on!

The challenge this week at Magnolia Downunder is:

BLING IT ON!

Now I used quite a bit of bling....
1. rhinestone on the heart at the top of the Eiffel Tower..
2. lots of KindyGlitz...and
3. some silver brad in the middle of the flowers! :) I love sparkles and bling. lol!
4. Oh and Don't forget the DCWV Glitter stack :)

I used 2 Magnolia stamps... the Eiffel Tower + Tilda in Paris which is actually owned by my sister Nic (who funnily enough is in Paris now!)




I had a few troubles getting a good photo due to the sparkles!! But you get the idea...
here is a close up of Tilda for you...



Thanks for looking.

Kellie's Magnolia Challenge #3

Great challenge this week at Magnolia Down Under - set by Debbie!

• Must have at least one yellow ribbon.
• Has to be Tilda.
• And last of all has to have a flower.

so here is my card...




used derwents, water colour pencils, white gel pen, yellow ribbon and cardstock....oh and some kinderglitz! And the image was received from a friend (I only actually have 4 Magnolia stamps of my own...mmmm).

Tangled Tilda

Here is my entry for this week's Magnolia Down Under challenge.

Poor Tilda is looking a bit worse for wear!



I coloured Tilda and the purple flower (it used to be bright pibk) with my Copics!

Go and check out Kellie's Magnolia challenge and the fabulous creations the DT ladies have made!! :)

Thanks for looking ! Hope you are having a good week!
Sammi
xxx