Get Well Soon...

I have made this little card for a friend of mine who will be having surgery on Tuesday for Breast Cancer. Oh, what an ugly disease this is. I hope this card will cheer her up, even though it's not a Magnolia!

I CASED this card from Anita Hagin's blog. She has a beautiful blog full of wonderful creations. So since I was using a hAnglar image, I wanted to make the card in the Swedish style. Vivi and Regina in Brazil were so kind to send me some hAnglar stamped images so that I could enjoy them. The images are not available outside of Sweden, Norway or Finland. I don't even know the name of this sweet image but here is a close up of her...



For her face I used E0000, E000, E00, E11, R20 and R01. For her hat and dress I used B12, B21, B23 and a Blender Marker. The Flowers are G40 and G82 (leaves) R22 and Y21 (flower center). The Bench is G24, G40 and G82. The Shoes are R22 and R20. The Bear is E30, E31, E34, and E35. For the hair I used Y26, Y21 and Y23. All edges are distress with Vintage Photo.


The get well sentiment is from Just Rite Stampers Designer Center's and Borders. I hand stitched a piece of sheer ribbon to put behind the seintiment. The inside of the card is finished, but I wrote a note to Jacque in it before I took pictures. Sorry!

Thanks for stopping by my blog to see my latest card creation...

Four Challenges - One Card

Hi everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. It's a little chilly here in Texas but nothing like the snow and ice that are hitting other parts of the country. I'm so thankful for mild Texas winters.

I have another card done. I followed three challenges for this card so it made the putting of it together much easier. Took most of the guess work out of my creativity.

The first challenge I was really wanting to participate in, which finishes tomorrow, is from Copic Creations. The challenge was to do Ethnic skin. Well I just happened to have the perfect stamp. This is Tilda with Stripped Tights from the Pink Collection. Roses on Paper had a wonderful sketch which suited itself to the image perfectly. Cute Card Thursday want flowers, flowers, flowers! Well.....that's not a stretch for me...and finally, Just Magnolia wants Hearts and Flowers. I think my card qualifies!

Here is a picture of the sketch...



Here'a my card...



The sentiment is from Just Rite Stamps Curls Monogram and Lettering set. The lace is from my stash as are the heart pin and pearl. All dp is from MME Wild Asparagus collection.

Here's a close-up of my Tilda. Thanks to Suzanne Dean's tutorial, coloring this skin was so easy! I used E11, E21, E13, E25 and R22 for the cheeks. For the hair I used E25, E29 and E49. The tights were colored with BG10, BG13 and BG18. The dress was paper pieced.



Here'a how my flowers look, sprayed with Pearl Glimmer Mist and sprinkled just a little with Diamond Dust...you can't even tell until you enlarge the picture, but its nice and sparkly IRL.



To finish the inside of my card I used an Classic Oval and Scalloped Oval which I'd had lying around for about 4 months. I new I would use it somewhere. I colored Tilda again and cut her out and popped her up on dimensionals on the oval. For the opposite side I simply added some white cs which is matted with Taken with Teal and I used my MS Flourish punch on the one side.



Here is a closer view of the Tilda on the inside...



Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. Your appraisal of my creation is much appreciated...hope the rest of your weekend is super!

Thanks SO much...

Yeah! I've been able to get another card done. Actually this one started out a couple of days ago to be red and green, don't ask me why! I struggled and struggled over how to pull it together, but it was just not coming together for me. So today I scrapped that idea, put that paper away for another day and another card and started over. I restamped Tilda and colored her again, still using the same luscious dark green, but I paired it with Blush Blossom, and I like the results so much better. The sentiment is from a SU retired set called So Many Words and I used my stamp positioner and just inked the phrase I wanted

Here is my Tilda Throwing Heart Rice thank you card...



I colored Tilda a little differently this time. I used E0000, E000, E00, E01 E11 R01 and R20 for her face. Yes, that's a lot of different colors, but I like the way the cheeks blended out much better.

Here is a close-up of Tilda...I tried out my ABS again and I'm getting a little better at it. I used R01 around my Tilda, did lots of practicing before I hit the paper though...



A closer view of my flower arrangement. I went to Michael's today and bought the MS Butterfly Punch. There are three Butterlfies on the punch and the size was just perfect for what I wanted to do.



The inside is very plain. I didn't even finish the top part of this card, because I didn't have enough of the Magnolia dp to complete it. I added the row of pearls on the bottom of the MS Deep Edge Lattice punch just as I did to the front. Each of the Butterflies has a pearl or two also. The little hearts are from a Michael's punch I picked up in the dollar bin and got for 76 cent! Now that's a deal! The sentiment is computer generated.

Thanks for stopping by my blog again! I so appreciate all the wonderful comments that are left for me, it's so very encouraging...hugs...

Christmas All Year Long meets Pretty In Pink!

Welcome to the first ever "Christmas All Year Long" Blog Hop. If you've just hopped over here from Julie Glasgow's blog, you've started out in the right direction!

This is my card and I have been eagerly awaiting the time to post this card. Since I posted my other Christmas card much too soon, I really wanted to be able to make a different card to use for the Christmas All Year Long Blog Hop. I also wanted very much to take part in the Pretty In Pink Challenge over at Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog! Woo Hoo! I've managed to combine the two in one card.

I had colored this image around the end of November, but had laid her aside with the craziness of Christmas and Advent Calendar stuff and kids, kids, kids! When I read about the Pretty in Pink challenge, well I pulled her off the shelf and picked out some Magnolia Papers that I thought would look great with her and then got to work. Really the card should not have taken me very long, since the coloring and papers were already pre-determined, but, oh, how I fussed and fumed over the embellishments and which way to lay my narrow panel and it took me days to make up my mind. Finally it began to come together and here is the end result...



Here are the ingredients for my card:

Bazzill White, Whisper White, Cryogen White, Brushed Silver cardstock
Magnolia Designer paper
Prisma Color Pencils
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and Ranger Distress in Tattered Roses
Martha Stewart Lace Edge Punch and leaf branch punch
Spellbinders Fancy Labels Punch
Versamark Ink with SU Sterling Silver Embossing Powder
Just Right Stamps
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Pink Azelia and Pearl
Computer generated sentiments on front and inside
Tulle - stash
Heart Pin - stash
Silvery glittery beads - stash
Silver Pearls - stash
Mini roses and Rose Buds - stash
Bridal spray - stash
Silver chain - stash

Here is a close up view of my Tilda (the image was stamped for me by my friend):



To finish the inside I used one more sheet of the Magnolia striped dp mounted on the rose colored dp. All my panels have been stitched on my sewing machine. I used Just Right Stamps Celebrations Demi Phrases and A Merry Little Christmas Centers and Borders to make the tag on the inside.



So now it's time to head on over to Brandi Burns' blog and see what she has done for the Blog Hop. Have fun and get inspired enough to join us for our second Blog Hop in February.

My Phat Fairy...

Happy Sunday everyone! Well, I've been busy as a bee this weekend trying to complete several cards. Today's card is for the Friday Sketch Challenge as follows:




It also is my entry to Cute Card Thursday Challenge, which this week is Fairies, any kind of Fairy! I chose one of the Phat Fariy images from Mo's Digital Pencil.

I flipped the sketch because of the direction of my fairy, even though my sentiment is falling in the wrong direction - it works!

The image is colored with Copic Markers on Cryogen White paper. On her wand is really a star, but I punched out a tiny heart to replace it.

So here is my card...



My Card Recipe:

Cardstock - SU!
Designer Paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle Sweet Love collection called Big Love.
Nestabilities Large Classic Oval and Scalloped Oval, Scalloped Frame Dies
Spellbinders Fancy Labels large and small
Silver Pearls - stash; Flowers - stash; Bridal spray - stash
Martha Stewart Leaf and Branch punches
Sewing machine; Glimmer Mist; Stickles

Here is a close up of my Fairy...



I kept the inside quite simple I repeated the paper on the inside using the reverse side under my note side. The Sentiments are both computer generated and then punched out with the Spellbinder Fancy Labels. I cut out a heart from the Big Love side of the paper and attached with dimensionals.



Thank you so much for stopping by my blog to see what I've done. Please come back tomorrow to see my entry into the Magnolia-licious Christmas All Year Round Blog Hop. Feel free to leave comments - they make my day!

Christmas All Year Round...

And why not? I decided that it would be a great idea to continue to make Christmas cards along with my usual birthday, thank you and get well cards and challenge cards! I have enough Christmas images from Diana's wonderful store Magnolia-licious to keep me going for months. And who says you can't use an image more than once?

So here's my first card. I've been working on this card for about two weeks. As the twins continue to get into more trouble each day, taking things like scissors (that's a safe toy, right?) tape and even the paper I'm working with off my desk, or pulling out plugs, or opening the drawers where I keep my embellishments and over the past few day, pulling my ribbon off the spools - well you get the picture - I just don't seem to be able to get much card making done. The only time I have to get anything done is when they're asleep. Sometimes just keeping up with computer stuff takes a whole nap time, and when it's bed time at night, I'm usually done in.



I love Snowmen! And Magnolia has the cutest ones anywhere, so I decided to use one of my newest images and make my card from her. On a trip to my LSS, I found this delightful double sided paper from Graphic 45 Christmas Past Collection called Carol of the Bells, (one of my favorite all time Christmas songs!) so I've been humming the music for days. The snowflakes and branches are both M.S. punches and I sprayed them plus the mini roses with glimmer mist. I added gold pearls to the center of two of the snowflakes and to each corner of the card. I tied a small piece of gold cord through my sentiment to make a bow.




I colored him with Copic Markers and uses some stickles to give him a little sparkle. I also added some Liquid applique to the ear muffs and around his cute little jacket. I used Gold Spica Gel Pen on the, er, gong thingies, of the bells! That's technical, right? The sketch is an older one from Friday Sketchers Challenge. I used Gold Leafing pen around each square. The Merry Christmas sentiment is also from Magnolia.

Here is how I finished off the inside of the card...I used another Magnolia image, the Bell to repeat the bell theme of the paper. I used my Nestabilities Standard Large Circle and Scalloped circle to showcase the bell. On the opposite side I used my Martha Stewart Flourish Punch for one side, punched two small holes and threaded gold cord to tie the bow.



Thank you so much for stopping by my blog to see my latest creation!

Valentines Tilda...

Well another weekend rolls around and it's so cold outside that we can't even take the children out to play. Yikes! At least we're not buried under feet of snow, so I'm thankful for that.

For the past week and a half I have been working on two projects, the one is posted under this posting. This is my other project, now finished also and here is it.

Over at Magnolia Highlites Challenge Blog the challenge for the month, is to make a Frame Card. Each of the DT have their beautiful cards posted and they all look so totally different. Please drop by there to take a look and also to find the link on how to make a Frame card. Claudia Rosa has a super tutorial posted so you can follow along if you like.

So here is my card:



Cardstock - Swiss Dots by Bazzill, Bazzill, Generic White
DP - SEI Lovebirds
Heart Punch / Lace Edge Punch- MS
Key - Stash
Ribbon - Stash
Pearl Hearts - stash
Lace Doily - Stash
Copic Markers
Tilda and Heart - from the new Magnolia Sweden Kit

At first I thought the card was pretty difficult to make so I did a dummy one - a trial run - and that helped me to visualize the way the card was to go. Once I had it figured out (I'm a slow learner LOL) I went to my LSS and picked out the speciality papers I wanted. To add the key, I punched a small hole through the dp and then added a mini eyelet. I put a couple of gold jump rings together in a row, put one end through the eyelet and the other into the key. I tied a small bow using my Bow Easy and glued it onto the key.

Here is a closeup of my Tilda. I masked her to have her sit on the heart...



I put Glossy Accents on her shoes so they were like Red Patton shoes.

The inside was fairly easy. I stamped and colored two more hearts, the top one was printed with the sentiment first and then stamped, colored and cut out. I cut a red circle with my Nestabilies Standard Circle die out of the same swiss dot cardstock and mounted it onto a paper doily. The hearts are mounted together with dimensionals and adhered to the red circle with dimensionals also.

On the bottom section I printed with my computer the sentiment then stamped the Banner from the Magnolia Winter Kit and colored with my Copics.



This has been a fun project, thank you Sharon Caudle for hosting this month and thank you Claudia for the tutorial on how to make these cool cards.

Copic Creations Challenge #19...

I finally have a new card to post. Actually I've been working on two different cards for two different challenges, but I got this one finished first. Over at the Copic Creations challenge blog they are having a challenge on coloring fur. I decided to give a try. Along with the DT samples - which are all fabulous - they also have some tutorials to help you along. The sponsor this week is "Squigglefly" a digital image company. They have some very awesome images available, so you need to check them out.

When I saw this image, called Snuggle Buddies, I just knew I had to have it.
You can find this, and other adorable animal images here.

Here is my card...



I colored my image first and then went hunting for some paper to go with it. A little backwards I know, but I already had an idea what I wanted to do. I found this scrap of paper in my stash and immediately decided that I had to use it. Unfortunately I didn't have quite enough to finish my card on the inside the way I usually do.

I also chose to leave off all the flowers and frills I normally adorn my cards with. It just didn't seem to fit this sweet image. BUT I did want to use my new Nestablilities Fancy Labels dies for the first time since I got them!! I found some pretty ribbon in my stash also, but it was just too flimsy by itself, so I layered a piece of SU 1/4" grosgrain - Mustard - now retired. I just added some small gold pearls to each side of the label and voila! I really like the way the card shaped up.

Here is a close up of my coloring...















So how to finish up the inside of my card...hmmmmm...that posed a bit of a problem for me, with only a small piece of the dp left over (and I had removed the bottom strip of the paper a long time ago and have no idea who made it). I decided to use the largest of the Fancy Label Dies to mount the remainder of my sentiment on and just pop it up on the upper portion of my card. I added small gold pearls to each side of that as well.



For the notation part of the card I stitched my remaining small piece of dp to more Hunter Green cardstock and then added a piece of white so I could write something personal. I sponged on a VERY small amount of Hunter Green Craft Ink (SU) to the edges, but it's barely visible.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog tonight...please come again!

A Year in Review...

I thought it would be interesting to review the cards that have been my favorites over the past year. Since I only started using Magnolia Images last April, I just barely have a year to review but here are those that are my personal favorites. The first nine cards are Mo's Digital Pencil images (which I only discovered in the late summer) the remainder are Magnolia images. They are in no particular order...

Twins in TuTu's a Mo's Digital Pencil Image...


From the Terrible Two's Collection...


















My entry into the Pixie Cottage Challenge...





















This gorgeous angel, whom I made a smaller image of and made an ornament out of that fitted inside the card...

















Another Mo image...Kai in the snow

















Another entry to the Pixie Cottage Challenge...






















This beautiful image is Tabia from Mos' Digital Images...




















Wynken, Blynken and Nod - a baby card that welcomed my new neighbour, Baby William...





















One of the first images I colored of Mo's Digital Images...

















My entry into the Magnolia-licious Home page challenge...






























My very first Tri Shutter Card. It went to my very dear friend in Canada...




















This was a personal challenge card. Red, White and Black only...

















This is my most recent card, a birthday card for my sister in WA State...




















One of the first cards I did stitching on...

















A RAK card which was sent to a Yahoo member who had broken her wrist...






















My first Mingle card...I loved working on this card...
















I love this card with the pretty flowers added to it...



















I actually bought some eyeglass charms and added them to this card...















After making my Christmas Advent Box - which I didn't like - I made this Advent Calendar. I love this one so much. The faces are just so sweeet...























One of my very first projects. With images that were sent to me until my first order arrived, I made a set of 3X3 note cards with matching envelopes.




Well that's it folks. Just a brief sample of some of my work during 2009. I have already started on a project for my first of 2010. Looking forward to a productive year...

Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments you made to my work, for all the support and encouragement as I stretched myself outside my comfort zone and dealt with three rambunctious children at the same time. Your words have have given me comfort, encouragement and helped me grow in my faith...I so appreciate each and every one of you.