Winner of Advent day #1

Welcome back! I am so glad to see you enjoyed the project I had to show you on Tuesday. 

I will announce the winner of Day 1 at the end of the post. 

I'm still busy working away making Christmas cards here :) 

I have been dying to play with the adorable little scene background from the Doo Hickey club and finally had a chance to put a card together with it. 

I coloured up the cute little Sitting Mary Christmas from So Jolly Collection 2009 to go with it and added quite a few other Doo Hickey cuts to embellish. 

Mary is coloured with Copics and the papers are Maja Design. 

So without further ado - 

the winner of Magnolia's Christmas Advent Day #1 is 

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Sol! Congratulations!  

Could you please email me (kyliekueter@gmail.com) with your address so I can pass it on to Magnolia for your prize

Thank you so much for your sweet comments everyone. 

Make sure you check in with the DT each day until the end of the month. 

Hugs xx

Only 3 months to go!

Ahhhh .... last day of school for my boys today! We now have two weeks off. 

It has been a super busy term and they are both exhausted and looking forward to some quiet days. 

I had a little play with another Christmas card over the last few nights. It is a fairly simply one but I am happy with how it turned out.  Can you believe that as of today there is just three months to Christmas? phew.... it is going to just speed by. 

The card base is cut with Doo Hickey dies and both Tilda and the Bull finch are from the So Jolly 2009 collection. 

All of the pretty embellishments are from the Ribbon Girl.

The second layer is embossed with Swiss Dots embossing folder and all edges are inked with DI Antique Linen. The pretty Poinsettia banner die is from Memory Box. 

Tilda is coloured with Copics. The sentiment is from Penny Black. 

I have another card up my sleeve to share in a few days but I can't share it yet. I will hopefully have something else to play with on my desk soon. We'll see :) 

I hope you get a chance to play at your craft desk this weekend!

See ya - Kylie x

Unwrapped Tilda

What is this? A Christmas card already? 

Sorry about that :) I had this adorable little stamp sitting on my desk so had to make a card with her. 

She is Unwrapped Tilda from the 2009 So Jolly Collection.   I have masked the Snowy Circle from the So Snowy collection 2009 in a pale blue ink. Tilda is coloured with Copics. 

The button twine, bells and ribbon are from the Ribbon Girl.

The papers are a mix off a few scraps I had laying around. I've used a few doo hickey dies as well to embellish. 

I spent a bit of time in my craft room on the weekend organising it a bit so hopefully that means I will be inspired to craft a little more :) 

Until then, happy crafting!

Snowy Branch and Bull Finch

Hello there, 

Are you enjoying the Magnolia advent calendar this year? The girls are really putting on a wonderful show for you. It is my turn later this week. 

Time for a new Christmas card. This one is a little shaker card. I haven't made one in a while so it was a bit of fun to do something like this for a change. 

I have used a lot of Ribbon Girl products on my Christmas card, including clear dewdrops for inside the shaker. 

The stamps are Snowy Branch (Waiting for Christmas collection) is masked with the Bull Finch from an older collection - I think So Snowy. The images are coloured with Copics.

I have a couple ore fun projects to share later this week as well, I hope to see you back soon. 

Show the way Jolly Bullfinch

My poor markers are getting a bit of a work out right now - its that time of year when I love to colour - its almost Christmas time!

I was going through my stamps on the weekend and came across a few that I hadnt inked in a while. The new Magnolia club that arrived last week meant that I had a great masking opportunity at hand. 

The only stamp from the Winder Wonderland collection is the "Show the way sign", the rest are from much older collections. I love how you can collect stamps over the years and they all come together to make a scene :)

Its all coloured with Copics, some snow tex added with some stickles and doo hickeys and we're done. 

Thanks for stopping by! See you again on the weekend.

Magnolia Christmas Calendar - Shutter # 17

Hello! Welcome to day 17 of Magnolia's Christmas Calendar. 

I hope you are enjoying all of the amazing projects from each of the DT so far. There are many more to come so please join us each day. 

 There are fantastic prizes for you as well. Each day all you have to do is leave a comment on the DT member's post for your chance to win a surprise Christmas present from Magnolia. Thank you so much Magnolia!

I thought I would make a pop up slider card to share with you. I love these cards and they are super easy to make. There are several beautiful Magnolia stamps used on my card...

Tilda with Presents (Wedding Collection) is standing in front of Edwin's Town (Spring 2008) and behind that are the gorgeous pines Forrest Background (Santa 2008).   On the lower right corner is a cute little Bullfinch (So Jolly 2009).

The sentiment is one from my collection and I have stamped around it with the snowflakes (Merry Little Christmas 2010).

The papers are Cosy Xmas from The Scrap Cake and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. All of the edges are inked in Vintage Photo DI and the lacy edge is by one of my MS PATP punch sets.

I hope you enjoyed your visit to my blog.  If you would like to win a surprise magical Christmas gift from Magnolia, please leave me a comment below. I will be back tomorrow to announce the winner.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

TOMIC #24 - Decorate a paper bag & photo inspiration

There is a new challenge over at TOMIC ! The challenge this week is to create something using a Paper bag and to use the inspiration photo of the Dala horse. 

I am filing in for one of the girls this week and stupidly thought it was next week :S I was just finishing off my project last night, thinking I was being really good and ahead of time, when the challenge went live, lol. Argh! Panic! 

I've used adorable "Tilda with Cross Stitch Heart" and masked her sitting on the "NOEL" accessory stamp from the 2009 "So Jolly" collection. The gorgeous papers are also Magnolia

I used a flat brown paper lunch bag for my project. I chopped off the ratty top and folded it in half so I had two pockets to put tags in. Sorry the inside isn't decorated!

And finally, the back....

So sorry for being a tad late, lol.
I hope you can join us at TOMIC this week.  Have a great week!
Hugs xx

Skating into the festive season...

I've finally inked up this little cutie pie from the Sweet Christmas Dreams collection. I just adore each and every stamp in this collection and I really had to restrain myself not to buy them all :o)

The papers are Magnolia from the Yummy in my Tummy collection (i think anyway!!)

I've also gone a teensy bit Doo Hickey mad - I do love those Magnolia dies!  All of the edges are inked with Vintage Photo.

And painted some corrugated cardboard with some white paint. The image has been stamped around with a swirl stamp from the 2007 Pirates and Swirls collection.

So there is my card! I hope you like it.

Have a fantastic week and thanks for visiting me today,
Hugs x

Waiting for Christmas

It is time for a new challenge up over at the TOMIC blog and we are looking for "Magnolia Forever" - use a sitting Tilda or Edwin and doo hickey dies.

I inked up this adorable Tilda from last year's collection and sat her on a doo hickey branch. The edge is also punched with a doo hickey die. The cute little "Bull finch"is from the 2009 So Jolly Collection. I'm not too sure which collection the ticket stamp is from, but it is Magnolia too. 

All of the gorgeous embellishments are WOC and the papers are Memory Box.

So that is it from me today... I'm actually a day late, sorry! But I'll be back with something else to share a bit later in the week.  My Magnolia stamp club arrived today so I hope to ink one of these cuties up sooner rather than later!

Thanks for visiting me, Hugs xx

Tilda's Easter Egg Hunt

Hi! Happy Friday to you all :)

Today I have "Tilda with Lace Jeans" to show you. She is from the new Butterfly Dreams collection. I've masked her behind the cute little mini "Two Eggs" (Hoppy Easter collection 2010) and stamped the New Years Swirl (New Year collection 2008) around the edge of the image.

I have used the amazing "Pion Design" papers again that my gorgeous friend Louise sent me - thank you Hunni! I am loving them! I've used two Doo Hickey dies, "Peony Petals" and "Romantic Lace", there is some of Tim Holtz's film strip ribbon in there and some coloured seam binding ribbon.  The crochet doily is Kaisercraft.

You can see a little peek of the inside of the card - I've actually decorated it too for a change, lol, but I didnt get any pics, sorry!  The large curly rose and the aster flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. The silver photo corner is actually a brad! Cute hey?

Tilda is coloured with Copics: Skin - E 13, 11, 000, 0000, R 20, 00; Hair: E 44, 23, 41, 0000; Overalls: B 95, 23, 21; Shirt: E 42, 41, 0000; Bow: R37, 22, 00, 0000; Shoes: E 44, 42, 41; Eggs: G 82, 000, 0000, R 35, 20, 00, 0000; Hue: B 52, 0000; Ground: W 3, YG 61

So thanks so much for stopping in to visit me today! Have a terrific weekend! 

Hugs,

Kylie

A Christmas gift from the Heart

Hi everyone! Well... here it is, my very last Christmas card with a Magnolia stamp... I think... :o)  I have a couple more Christmas cards on the way, but I am fairly sure this is the last Magnolia one.

It is time for Magnolia Down Under Challenges #76 today... and the challenge this week is Red, Chocolate and Cream.... perfect for Christmas cards or any other occasion really! I chose to make a card and matching gift wrap for a little pressie for a great friend :o) She hasn't received this yet... lol, so it is a little bit of a sneak peak and I'm not going to name any names, hehehe.

This is my last Christmas Maggie to be inked up. She is Jolly Tilda and she is sitting on the little fireplace from the 2009 Christmas collection. The papers are a little bit of a mix.. they are Basic Grey Archaic, Cloud 9 Design Fleur and SU. All of the images are coloured with Copics and the edges of all of the papers are inked with Distress Ink Vintage Photo. The panel that Tilda is sitting on is embossed with a Craft Concepts folder called Venus.  The pretty chocolate lace is Websters trims.

Here is a little close up. She is such a cutie! She looks like she is keeping a secret :)  The holly leaves are cut using my Whiff of Joy die. The swirl is cut using the Magnolia Doo Hickey swirl die.

The gift is in a lovely box as part of its packaging, but the sleeve around the box was pretty boring and daggy, so I removed that and made a new sleeve from cardstock and covered it in patterned paper and a belly belt and a big bow. I've stamps and colours the little bauble images that came in the Christmas Stamp Club from Magnolia and then popped them on foam tape and given them a coat of Crystal effects to make them shiny.

Both the card and the box have been generously sprayed in Iridescent Gold Glimmer mist. I love that stuff! But gosh, it smells a bit when its wet! It was a bit hard to photograph but I was determined!

The challenge will run until Midday Saturday so if you have some time to craft, please check out our little challenge. The DT have come up with some amazing creations.