Not Your Average Pet

I had so much fun creating this card as my entry for this week's sunday theme challenge for the Craftbubble Craft Mad & Loving It group.  My pal Kathy is this week's Guest Design Team Member and her theme is "Not your Average Pet"  - what a great theme !

I dug out some of my older Magnolia stamps, coloured the images with a mixture of Copics and Promakers and cut each one out.

The grass was created using some SU! Garden Green cardstock and an icicle border die from Marianne's Designs, which I think makes perfect grass.

I stamped the African Sun image straight on to the base card before colouring it, adding the other elements with Pin Flair glue to give them just a little dimension.  There's Glossy Accents on Tilda's bucket and Edwin's matchette and just a touch on the ellie's eyes to make them shine. 

I'm also entering this card for the All That Scraps Magnolia Challenge #11 - In the good 'ole Summer Time.

I hope this project made you smile as much as it did me while I was creating it.  Thanks for dropping by today, I appreciate it !

Tag for a wee giftie......

As I promised yesterday, I'm sharing with you today the gift tag I created to attach to the birthday gift for my pal Linda. 

I went with Linda and a couple more lovely pals for a delightful indian meal on wednesday evening to celebrate Linda's birthday and we had a really lovely time.  The restaurent we visited is called Veggie Perrins in Plymouth and if you ever find yourself in the vicinity, I can highly recommend it.  They have quite an extensive and interesting menu, despite being totally vegetarian, and the staff are extremely friendly and helpful.  Prices are exceptionally reasonable too !

For my tag I used a set of Spellbinders shapeabilities dies, three colours of SU! cardstock, Magnolia Doo Hickey flower dies and a mini Tilda stamp.  I coloured Tilda with Copics before cutting out and adding over the diecut layers.  The eyelet at the top to reinforce the hole for the ribbon was attached with a Crop-a-dile.

Thanks for stopping by today, I'll be back with another project to share with you tomorrow.

Shop til you drop !

Can you believe it, another weekend already, January is just flying by!  Last saturday I went along to a local craft group crop and spent my time there colouring some ready stamped images which I took with me.  One of the images was this sweet Tilda, she's obviously a girl after my own heart with her shopping bags as I do enjoy a nice bit of Retail Therapy!

I coloured the image with Copics then cut it out with one of the Labels 4 nestabilities dies.  Leaving the die in place I sponged Victorian Velvet Distress Ink around the edges, then using a flourish stamp, I randomly overstamped around the edges with the same DI.

Using the next size up nestie, I cut a layer from Almost Amethyst cardstock by Stamping Up! and embossed it before adding it horizontally under the image layer.  I cut the swirl from SU! Orchid Opulence cardstock using a Marianne's Designs die and punched flowers from both colours of card, before layering them up and adding faux pearls to the centres with my Waco Pearlmaker pen.  The base layer background paper was a magazine freebie.

This week's sketchie challenge over on Craftbubble's Craft Mad and Loving It forum provided the sketch I used for the layout and the theme for the challenge is Pearls, so I'm going to enter this card.

Hope you're having a great day, do drop by again real soon, I love visitors !

Chinese Tilda

When this gorgeous new magnolia stamp arrived in the post, I just couldn't wait to get my Chinese Tilda inked up, she's just so adorable.  Last week on the Craft Mad and Loving It group on Craftbubble the sketchie challenge included creating your own background papers.  I've had this fibre material in my stash for absolutely ages - I think it was made from banana leaves, but can't be completely certain after such a long time!  Suffice it to say that it is very interesting material to work with! 

I spritzed the fibre with glimmer mists and cut out a piece to fit my base card but maintaining the natural shaped edge at the bottom.  I added the fibre layer to a plain white 5x5 card as I wanted to keep the design as 'clean' as possible so that the hand made background and the image were more prominent.  I coloured the image with Copics, although I only have a very few colours to work with as I mostly use Promarkers.  The sentiment is from a set of clear stamps by Kanban and I thought it worked well with this image and layout.  I added  a piece of scrappers' floss which matched the colour palette I've used and attached it with staples.  I then punched out a large retro flower and a smaller one from white card and coloured to match the image with Copics.  The small mauve/beige half pearl just finishes off the flower perfectly I think. 

Thanks for dropping by my blog, I hope you've enjoyed today's project.  That's all from me, so until I see you again - Happy Crafting!

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wynneth

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Tutti Frutti Tilda

Well, the weekend's finally here!!  Hope you are enjoying yours and have lots of great things planned. 

Over on Craftbubble, last week's Let's Get Stamping sketchie challenge provided us with a sketch and the theme of 'Tutti Frutti' for our entries.   Coincidentally, the theme for challenge #119 this week on Cute Cards Thursday is 'Let's Get Fruity' - soooo..... I can enter two challenges with one card - result!

I decided to use this adorable Magnolia stamp called 'Peachy Tilda'.  I also used a couple of magnolia flower stamps to create a bit of a scene for the main image, created with the masking technique.  I coloured Tilda, her peaches and flowers with Copics and Promarkers and added touches of Spica Glitter pen and Stardust Stickles.  The flowers were punched from a scrap of the background paper with a Martha Stewart punch and gems added to the centres before attaching with silicone glue to create layers. The butterfly was cut with a MS punch with Stickles added and the leaf fronds also cut with a MS punch.  The background papers are from the new Henbury Lane range by Papermania.

Thanks for visiting today, leave me a comment if you've enjoyed seeing today's card, I love to hear what my visitors think.  Hope you'll drop by again soon.

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wynneth

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