Just Magnolia #84.... Believe and No Peeking!

Hey crafty friends! I made a few more christmas cards for the Just Magnolia challenge, Anything Goes with Sparkle!

I love this stamp, Tilda with Fir, she is so sweet and I love her Uggs, (I soooo want a pair,lol)! Again, I made yet another easel card with BG Jovial and a Magnolia Tree stamp embossed with Northern Lights embossing powder! I have to say keeping a similar style to all my Christmas cards has made the process easier. I used some AC ribbon, cotton lace trim and a Melissa Frances Rub-on and a Catslife Press label stamp.

For this card I coloured my favorite stamp, Secret Tilda, from the Magnolia Merry Little Christmas collection this year. I am totally in love with my new toner Copic markers too. I got T1, T3 and T5 at Scrapfest and will have to get a few more. They are absolutely fabulous for toning down some of the more vibrant colours. Adding the toner marker on Tilda's outfit gave me a grey teal colour that matched the paper better. Also my new fave Copic colour combo for Hair is E41, E42, E43, E44, E49....I have been using it a lot lately.  I used BG Jovial papers, an Elements sticker tag, a sheet from Capella pad and an Olivia fabric brad.  I embellished with Prima Flowers and lace trim. The sentiment stamped on the BG Elements sticker is from the Kelly Panacci Christmas stamp set. 

I once again used the Magnolia tree embossed with Northern lights embossing powder for the sparkle and I also used my MFT large Scalloped border Die-namics die. 

Well, thanks so much for stopping by and having a wee peek at my cards! I still have a few more to make, oh boy, remind me next year to get cracking on the cards earlier, will ya, he, he, he!

Happy stampin'!

Hugs,

Whiff of Joy # 73...A Recipe Challenge...Take time to smell the flowers!

Hey Crafty friends! I hope you are having a great week! It is Wednesday and that means we are a little closer to the weekend! I am looking forward to having the extra days off as I really need to catch up on some sleep and I am looking forward to chocolate too, smile!

Well, it is also Whiff of Joy Challenges day and I have to say that I saw soooo many gorgeous cards with Bev's sketch...wow you all really out did yourselves! This week we have a recipe challenge...I always love the recipes challenges, myself...we would like to see you use 1 ribbon, 2 buttons and 3 papers...and please remember to use a Whiff of Joy image on your creation!

My card this week is rather simple...it is still growing on me, so to speak, as I 'm not so sure I like what I did here but I soooo love this sweet, sweet image!!! I'm totally in love with all the new WOJ spring Gnomes by Norma Fickel...they are absolutely darling! I especially love this one Girl and her Lamb! I'd always get a stuff animal at Easter when I was little and I got a darling stuffed Lamb one Easter, just like the one in this image, that I called Lambchop, smile.

For my card I made the base 6x6 from American Crafts cardstock and used this adorable 3 Bugs in a Rug paper called Savannah. I stamped the Whiff of Joy image on Neenah card and coloured it with my Copics, cut the image with my Nesties and left the image in the die and inked with Broken China and crushed Olive Distress inks. I added some Sakura Stardust pen and spread it around with my finger so there is just a light sparkle on the flowers and I added a few half pearls. I love this cute American Crafts ribbon and my buttons are cut out of cardstock with a QuicKutz die. The sentiment is a Kelly Panacci rub-on. I thought it went well with this image as it looks like the girl is holding the wee lamb up to take a sniff of the pretty flowers,lol!!!

Here is the inside...the sentiments is by C.C. Designs.

well, I hope you can join us this week and please go and see all the fabulous creations the Whiff of Joy Challenge DT have created to inspire you!

Have a stampin' great day!

Hugs,

Just Magnolia #4, FS #51 & CCT #59...Happy B-day!

Hey! Just a quick post this evening to share this card that I made on the weekend for Magnolia Challenge #4...In Stitches, FS #51 using the fabulous sketch by Carole and for CCT the challenge is...Happy Mail!!!

I am really digging deep into my stash lately and finding great paper that I have been hording. I found only two sheets of this paper in my stash but it is doubled sided so that was a bonus! I think it is by BoBunny but I am not sure! I used my Kelly Panacci stitches acrylic stamps and Tim Holtz Distress inks Weathered Wood for the stitching around the different panels. I stamped Tilda with "happy mail"on Prism Simply Smooth cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured her with my Copics. I stamped the sentiment from a My Favorite Things set with VersaMark Watermark ink and embossed it with some new American Crafts Zing White embossing powder. Then a few Prima flowers a little bling and some American Crafts ribbon to finish it off!

Thanks for stopping by and having a wee peek! I am off to watch Dancing with the Stars now! Go Gilles!!!! he is sooooo dreamy, smile!!!

Hugs,

WOJ Guest Designer Call...You're the Best!!!!

This is a quick post tonight to submit a second card for the WOJ Guest Design Team call that is posted on the WOJ Challenge blog!!! Check out all the details here!!!

I have discovered this fabulous Pink Paislee paper and just can't get enough of it! So, I had to make another stop at Crop Circles in Peterborough when I was there the other day and picked up a few sheets of this collection, called, Vintage Moon! Isn't it pretty?! I thought it would look fabulous with this sweet new WOJ image, Willow with Flower Basket!

I used my Qk Silhouette to cut this fancy label out of some Georgia Pacific paper and cut the black mat out of Prism cardstock! I stamped Willow with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured her with Copics and Twinkling H2Os. I sponged my fave Metallic Rub-ons around the image and all over the card and did a lot of inking on all the edges of the paper. I also, added some Stickles to the image for a little extra sparkle!!!!

I used my new EK Success border punch that I got at Micheals! I just love it and it is one of the easiest border punches I've used! I have struggled getting border punches to line up properly but this punch was a dream to use...love'em! I used two of the punch outs as little photo corner accents and I really love how that looks!

I also cut the tag, flourishes and flowers on my Silhouette! The fancy label and all the other shapes are QK digital designs that you can purchase from QK if you have a Silhouette! For the outside and inside sentiment I used my Kelly Panacci stamps!

So, there you go...my second card for the WOJ GDT call! I'm keeping "everything" crossed...fingers, toes, you name it,lol....I would be soooooo psyched if I could be the GDT for WOJ!!!

Thanks for stopping by and having a wee look!

Hugs,