Crafty CardMakers and Mum's New Blog

Hi Everyone

Please pop over to Crafty Cardmakers to see the latest challenge - Romance. The Design Team cards are wonderful.

Also, please check out my Mum's new Blog.  It is her first steps in to Blogging and she has some lovely cards on her blog. Her blog is called Judes Pansy Patch

Lv Toria

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #29

Magnolia Down under's challenge this time is - Stamp with Another Use?  - Take a magnolia stamp and use it for another use.  For example take “wrapped Tilda and use her on a Birthday card or even a Baby card…So your taking a Chrsitmas based stamp and giving it another use. Take a Halloween stamp and use for say a Valentines Card.

Here is my card.

I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers for challenge 84 to base this card and decided to do it in a valentine theme.

I used Tilda with Heart Ornament, stamped in Memento Ink. I used watercolour pencils and Copic marker to colour her in. I decided to do a Valentine theme. She is coloured in with pinks and reds. I used diamond accents on the heart ornament. I used Nestability die to cut the circles and then used a cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss the centre circles. I used papers that I got free in a craft magazine and red card from Paper Mill. The lace was from a charity shop and the ribbon came off a box of chocolates. I added a heart charm and some flowers as well.

I also used this for the ABC – laying challenge as well.

Even more snow

Last night we had even more snow.

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - WEEK 12 - WHATS NEW?

The latest challenge for Crafty Cardmakers was to use new products or techniques, maybe things that santa brought. 

Well I decided to use a stamp that I was given for Christmas.  Just before Christmas I brought some packs of notebooks to alter, so decided to use one for this project.

Card used in this project: Stampin Up - Tempting Turquoise, Creamy Caramel and the other was some from Paper Mill.

Stamps used: Magnolia - Tilda with Cat and Papermania - Doodles from Clare Curd's Signature Range

Ink used: Memento Tuxido Black

Copic Markers used:
Skin - E00 Skin White, E21 Baby Skin Pink, R20 Blush , E04 Lipstick Natural
Hair - Y11 Pale Yellow, E43 Dull Ivory, E35 Raw Silk, E33 Sand, E57 Light Walnut
Clothes - BG10 Cool Shadow, BG23 Coral Sea, BG34 Horizon Green, B93 Light Crockery Blue , YG03 Yellow Green, YG00 Mimosa Yellow, G99 Olive, Y11 Pale Yellow, Y17 Golden Yellow
Cat - E21 Baby Skin Pink, E35 Raw Silk, E37 Sepia, E47 Dark Brown, E57 Light Walnut, YR16 Apricot, R20 Blush, R02 Flesh

Atyou Spica Pens used : 00 Clear and 08 Turquoise (I also got these for Christmas as well as some more Copic Markers)

Flowers: 2 Large and 2 Slight smaller. I brought mine from the Flora Doodles Daisy Box Blends range
Plus 2 gems for the centres

Other: Notebook, Ribbon and Diamond Glaze or similar

Method:
Notebook - I replace the cover with a new one create from Tempting Turquoise SU Card. Added a smaller piece of card at the bottom. Added strips of ribbon and then a flower, created from two flowers stuck together with a blue pearl in the centre. Tilda was coloured in with Copic's and then I added highlights with Spica Pens. I used Glaze on her shoes and the Cat nose. I added faux stitching using black pen.

Card - Tilda is decoupaged and coloured as for the note book. I cut a card blank from Tempting Turquoise. I cut a piece of Creamy Caramel card and added strips of the ribbon and then stick it to the card blank. I cut a circle from Tempting Turquoise using a Nestability Die and then a scalloped one from the paper mill card. Then I put this on the the card. I stuck Tilda to the circle. I again added faux stitching to the card edge and the around the middle circle.

 For the inside I cut two squares from the paper mill card and then stamped flowers from the doodle stamp set.  I added spica 08 Turquoise to them.  I added faux stitching around the edge. These I then stuck inside the card blank.