A piece of cake :)

Happy Sunday friends, 

I have used two older Magnolia stamps from A Little Yummy collection of 2009 masked together. 

The image is coloured with Copics and the papers are Kaisercraft. 

Until next time, happy crafting xx

Tea time

Hello friends!

With Mother's day being next weekend, I thought I'd better get a wriggle on with some Mother's Day card :)  

The gorgeous tea cup is an old Magnolia stamp from "Little Yummy" 2009 collection. They're one of my favourite accessory stamps. I've stamped them onto different patterned papers, shaded the edges with Copics for definition and added some gold liquid pearls.

All of my embellishments are from the Ribbon Girl. 

The papers are very old Basic Grey "Wisteria". I have two sheets left from my paper pad. I've been coveting these papers since I bought them about six years ago, they're just gorgeous. 

The card base is cut using a Spellbinders die set and cream AC cardstock and eddged using Tea Stain DI.

I have a couple of new projects sitting on my desk awaiting completion, I hope to finish some off to share soon. 

Fingers crossed!

Hugs x

Doo Bee Pops

Hi there friends,

I am back again with something quite cute to share with you today.

Have you seen Magnolia's new Doo Bee Pops? They are vintage honeycomb paper.  The DT was sent some to have a little play with. OMG - these girls are super talented!! Make sure you check out the fantastic stuff they've come up with. 

I thought it was timely to make some Easter decorations and made some paper eggs to decorate. 

This adorable little Tilda is a newbie from the Little Easter collection, she is Happy Easter Tilda. Its such a cute collection, lots of lovely new stamps to choose from. 

So... a little bit of a funny story to go with my Doo Bee Pop eggs.... I needed some assistance from my hubby to get some photos of them... and well... he SAT on one of them! OMG. I didnt know whether I should cry, throw a tanty, or what. I ended up just laughing. The poor bugger, hehehe. He has had a huge day at our new house site pouring the concrete slab, he is exhausted. So I am really not surprised he didnt see where he was sitting! 

This one is decorated with flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

Both eggs have tags and sentiments on them

The pretty lace is from Magnolia.

And finally - 

my Hubby in the middle of the slab pour this morning. What a massive job. My father in law is the brains behind the project, organising all the tradies and making sure everything happens as it is supposed to. It is all so exciting and we're really lucky to have this opportunity. The kids are having a ball watching the house come out of the ground. 

Well... that is it from me today. I will be back on the weekend.

Until then, 

Hugs x

Editor Tilda has a cuppa

Hi there friends, 

After a shocking week last week, I am very happy to say that this week is off to a very good start - phew!!

Well, the only way really, was UP!

There are some new challenges for you to play along with this week too....

All coloured with Copics, the embellishments are all from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

I have masked together adorable Editor Tilda from the Turning Leaves collection with the Tea cup from the A Little Yummy for your Tummy collection. I've also used the tea label from the same collection and used my image to decorate a little gift bag for friend. The bag will contain, yup, you guessed it - Tea! 

Until later in the week,

big Hugs xx

Mmmm - BBQ

Well... it is the beginning of a very cold winter here in Aus, one of the coldest on record for decades. 

I needed a warm up so had to ink Burger Tilda and Tilda's BBQ from the new Summer Memories collection. Aren't they adorable?? I really love this cute little Tilda and she's been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks waiting for me to give her some attention. 

All of the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and the adrorable papers are Echo Park This and That. Love them!! Perfect for a summery project. 

Have you seen that there is an adorable new collection soon to be released as well?

OMG - I can't wait til these newbies hit the stores, this adorable little Tilda on the Turning Leaves Collection promo is simply too cute!!

I'll see you all a bit later on,

til then, have a lovely day :o)

Blueberry Tilda

Good morning! It is time for a new challenge at MDUC! This week the challenge is Fancy Folds. I couldn't wait to make one of these shadow box cards again, this one is actually for my sister's birthday which is today! Happy Birthday Nai! 

I was searching through all of my stamps and came across this little cutie pie. I just love all of the Magnolia stamps but the A Little Yummy collection is definitely one of my all time favourites. This is Blueberry Tilda and I've used both the full sized Tilda and the mini Tilda. 

The papers are Lilybea Design (I think - I'll have to double check) and I just adore this gorgeous lavender colour.  The inside image is Blueberry Tilda masked with the Heart Fence.

The images are all coloured with Copics. The pretty paper lace edge is cut with Magnolia Doo Hickey Dies. 

The mini Tilda is stamped on Make it Colour cardstock and then trimmed and mounted on 3d tape onto bazzil, which was die cut with the new Doo Hickey doily die. 

Well.. thanks for stopping by to visit me today!

Hugs x

TOMIC

Woo hoo!! It is time for our next challenge at TOMIC!

This week we have a really yummy challenge for you... in fact, I am hungry just thinking about it. This week we are looking for a theme with a colour combo....

Chocolate (brown & cream)

"The colours brown and cream are mandatory and have to be dominant. 

The chocolate theme can be illustrated by recipe, word, decorations, theme... 

You must use a Magnolia stamp which is cooking related from the numerous collections of Magnolia stamps. "

For my card, I  have used a sheet of Prima paper that I have been saving for at least a year. It was time to use it I think !  I folded the paper into a Shaddow Box card. I recently discovered these but the format was too small for me so I've altered it so it is finished approx 5 inches square.

The images are Chef Tilda and "A Little Yummy" sentiment from the A Little Yummy collection, Strawberry from Lazy Summer Day collection and the  Love Muffin (I'll have to check the collection that one for you, sorry!!). The images are coloured with DIs on Archers Watercolour paper.

We would love for you to join us at TOMIC this week! I think we're all going to gain a few kilos while we're commenting hahaha.

Have a great week. I'll be back tomorrow with something else to share with you!
Hugs xx

My Kitchen

Hi again :) It is time for another fun challenge over at Magnolia Down Under Challenges. This week we are looking for Kitchen themed projects. My kitchen has been in serious need of a notice board/grocery list/organiser type project for a long time now so this was my chance to do something about it!

The board itself is actually the back of a picture frame. My hubby had taken two off a frame as they were too thick for the picture he wanted to put in the frames, so I had snaffled the back boards knowing they would come in handy at some stage. I painted the edges and mod podged on some checked paper.

I think there are about seven different Magnolia stamps on my kitchen board. Most are from the A Little Yummy collection, the apple basket is from So Heavenly and Tilda Shopping is from Shabby Chic 2008. I crossed some ric rak and glued on some buttons so I could add little bits and pieces.  The chipboard letters were painted in acrylic paint and then given a good dose of loose glitter.  The crochet flower was a pressie from my gorgeous friend Ingrid - she made it herself! Thanks Ing - I look at your beautiful flower every time I open my pantry door!

At the base, Hubby drilled a couple of holes so I could tie a pen to the board - we are forever losing pens in our house, haha, I don't think we're unique there!And to add some wire to hang it.  I've also glued on some tiny pinch clips to hang my grocery list and take away menus and some mini pegs to the top of the banner.

 The flowers are a bit of a mix. All of the lace and ribbon are from my stash.

So! There is my new kitchen board. I am so happy with it. I finally have something in my kitchen to keep me organised! And it is fantastic to have something just for me :o)

Thanks for visiting me today! I hope you are having a great weekend :) 

Mmmmm - chocolate

Chocolate!! I love chocolate. It is my weakness. But I suppose I am not alone there :)

I thought I would make a Mothers' Day gift with a little chocolate box.  It is basically a mini pizza box, but it measures 6x4 inches with a little easel card on top.

I've masked little Tilda with her chocolate boxes and then stamped the sentiment on the image as well. The papers are Prima "Botanical" and I've gone a bit Doo Hickey nuts with Tilda's lace, the Rose leaf, and Dragonflies.

The recipe card is stamped and coloured as well so there is a place to write a little message and I've added little buttons to the bows. The little brown roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

This is what it looks like closed with the little teapot charm and pearls.

I had lots of fun making this little box.
Thanks for stopping in to visit me :o)  Today is my eldest son's 3rd birthday! Where does the time go? It feels like just yesterday that we were in hospital with this amazing little baby and now he is a tall and adorable little man.  Happy Birthday Jarred!  I thought I would share a pic of him this morning with his little brother and Dad in the cubby that we gave him (lol, them) for his birthday. Smiles all round.

 
Hugs x

Mini Tilda with Blueberries

Hi there! Hope you are all well today :)  I have another mini to show you, lol. This is Blueberry Tilda and she's on a mini pizza box. My friend Kellie has been making these cute boxes recently and I felt I needed a bit of a change from cards so the mini pizza box was the perfect size for this little cutie.

The sketch is from Just Magnolia and hAnglar stAnglar challenges. I received these beautiful Magnolia papers from my gorgeous friend Tanja for Christmas - perfect for mini Tilda with Blueberries.

I've used Magnolias Doo Hickey dies "Lovely Fence", "Berry Lace" and "Leaves" and Nestabilities Classic Circles and Lacey Circles. All layers are distressed and stitched.  I am also entering her over at Stamp with Fun for their Blue and Brown challenge.

And finally, a side view. I died the seam binding with my copics and some hand sanitiser. It is really fast and such a great way to get the colour perfectly matched to your image.

Cuppa Tea anyone?

How are everyone's Christmas preparations going? We finally did our big grocery shop this morning. We thought we'd head out at 8am and beat the crowds... fingers crossed!  And it worked. We were so relieved! We were home again by 9am and able to relax.

I've had this idea to make a tea cup with flowers for a little while now and finally last night I sat down and made it happen. It was inspired by a couple of ideas, firstly, those flower pot cards that were around for a little while and also I was at a garden centre and saw a ceramic pot in the shape of a tea cup with pansies planted in it, so cute!

The card base is simply an easel card and I used a tea cup template I found at Peets Scrapalbum. The flowers are cut with Doo Hickey dies and so is the edge border. I used the "Berry Lace" Doo Hickey but only showed the little dots on the edge.

The flowers and Tilda are attached to a die cut oval which is removable for a message to be written on the back.

 I also used the Doo Hickey Swirl and Leaves on white cardstock The flowers are all edged with "Walnut Stain" distress ink. 

The base of the easel has two pockets built into it. The back one houses a little gift of a tea satchel and the top one has two little tags cut with the Doo Hickey tag die.

Midsummer Tilda is from the Once Upon A Fairy Tale 2010 collection and is coloured with Copic sketch markers.

Magnolia Products used in this card are:

Stamps: Midsummer Tilda - "Once Upon A Fairytale 2010", Tea Label and A Little Yummy for your Tummy sentiment - "A Little Yummy for Your Tummy 2009", Just Sitting Here Thinking of You sentiment "Lazy Summer Days 2009"

Doo Hickey dies: Berry Lace, Tag, Swirl and Leaf, Peony Flowers

Yummy Apple Cake!

Happy weekend everyone!

Today I have a cute card to show you that I made for my MIL's birthday. I have so many cards laying around my house, I really could have given her one of those, but well, I just can't help myself. Any excuse to make a new one really.

When I started the card, I had all intentions of entering it into the All That Scraps Third Magnolia challenge... which is Fall with a Fold... but as the idea developed, it became less of a "fall" card and more of a birthday card, so Pam, I'm sorry! I think my papers and the first image are still very fall themed, but the rest of the card... I'll leave that up to you to decide :)

I've made an "accordian card" so when the raffia is untied, it opens out to reveal more images. There is a great tutorial HERE if you want to give it a go yourself.

So my card tells a little story... Tilda went and picked her apples... then she did some baking but made a big mess... and the end result is a yummy apple cake and a nice cuppa. I know the images are out of order, lol, but they worked better on the card that way.

Magnolia-licious Highlites is also having a fun blog hop called "Whats cookin". The DT have created some fun projects and now the rest of us can play along and make a project with a recipe or food element... so this is my entry over there too!

Oops!

I have made a circle easel card, inspired by my beautiful friend Jodie. If you haven't been to Jodie's blog, you are missing out, she is a true artist. I just love her shaped cards. This is the first time I have given it a go myself and I was really please how it turned out... mind you, it required a bit more thinking for me than usual!



I have used Magnolia images Oops Tilda and Kitchen from the Yummy in your Tummy collection. This is the first time I have inked up Oops Tilda, the poor little thing has been sitting in my stamp collection all unloved. The swirls and tag are both Magnolia Doo Hickey dies. I just love them!

There is some crystal effects on the "glass" in the kitchen and on the jars. The images are coloured with Copics.

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