Some simple Christmas cards to share

As usual I am running out of time! I have all these grand ideas to make Christmas cards, but never end up having enough. So this year, I've succumbed. I'm making some CAS Christmas cards. 

All of the stamps are of course Magnolia. Some older stamps and some newer ones. 

The kraft cards I found at a local department store and went to town heat embossing everything :) That was fun - I don't often heat emboss anymore. 

These little cards have some patterned paper on them and I've used a doo hickey label die to cut the start on the white card to let the patterned paper peep through. 

I over inked the edges of this one :/ oh well. I adore the little Polar bear and Penguin though! Such little cuties. 

The papers are from MME Mistletoe Magic. 

A fair bit of stickles is added to frost them up :) 

I do plan on making some more lavish cards soon - I finish work for the year on Friday so hopefully after that I will have some more time to go crazy at my craft desk.

Don't forget that Magnolia Down Under Challenges has an anything goes challenge running until December 31. Please head over and check it out - there are three sponsors with prizes up for grabs :) We'd love to see you join in the fun.

Until a bit later in the week...

Hugs and happy holidays! 

Circles!

Its the first day of December! Woohoo! 

That means that today we're putting up our Christmas tree :o) I love decorating the house for Christmas. So much fun!

At Magnolia Down Under Challenges this week our challenge is CIRCLES - no corners allowed. 

This is a cute Tilda from 2010. I've masked her with the Silent Night background from ..2008(?)

Some cute flowers and die cuts and we're done. A nice simple card this week.  

I hope you get a chance to join in! We would love to see you.

Hugs x

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 #27 - Shaker card (and a paper lace How To)

There is another great challenge up at TOMIC this week. We are asking you to make a shaker card.  Camilla has written a fantastic tutorial for you to follow and WOW the TOMIC team has some stunning inspiration to share with you.

Instead of a card, I made a Shaker gift box with adorable little Tilda with Hanging Heart from the Merry Little Christmas 2010 collection.  I have masked Tilda and stamped the "Christmas" sentiment behind her in Silver ink. The glitter is German Glitter Glass from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Inside the lid of the box I have used the new Heart tag Doo Hickey die (sent to me from gorgeous Camilla H from Sweden, thanks Hunny!).

To create the shaker on the top of the box, I've made some paper lace using the Heart border Doo Hickey die below the image and some ribbon wrapped around a circle cut with Nesties for the top of the shaker frame.  To hide the adhesive, I've attached some pearls around the edge.

So there you have it, my shaker box!

I received a few questions about how to make paper lace too, so below I have an explaination for you...

1. Cut a strip of patterned paper approx 1 inch (2.5cm) wide. Using scotch tape, carefully line up your Doo Hickey border die along the edge and run thought your die cutting machine.  Carefully remove the die and tape from your paper, then line up the end to match the pattern, tape down and run through your die cutting machine again. You will end up with a 12 inch (30.5cm) strip of border edged paper.

 2. Using small scissors, carefully snip about 1/4 inch( 0.5cm)  tabs along the edge of your strip. Make sure the snips are cut close to the edge, but not right through. This allows you to make a curve.

3. Apply some adhesive to your surface. I find it is easier to work in stages otherwise I get glue everywhere.

4. Carefully attach your paper lace around the curve, adding more adhesive as you go.

5. If you run out, just make another little strip to fill in the gap. The patterns always line up beautifully with Doo Hickey dies.

Easy peasy! I hope that helps. If you have any questions, just leave me a comment or email me and I'll try to help out.

Thanks for visiting me today. I hope you get a chance to play along with us at TOMIC this week. Its a really fun technique to follow.

Hugs xx

Mini Tilda bird house advent

It is time for our next MDUC challenge!! Yayayayay!

This week we are looking for Christmas Decorations. Yup. Perfect timing isn't it?

I wanted to make a mini birdhouse ornament ... well... the plan is to make 24 of them to use as an advent calendar,but so far I just have one completed and the rest trimmed and scored ready to assemble :o).

The yummy papers are by The Scrap Cake and are called Cosy Xmas. I couldnt find them anywhere in Aus so ended up buying them from the US.

The sentiment is by Stampendous and is one of their nifty clings.

 And a third mini Tilda to finish off the little bird house.

I had fun making the birdhouse and thought I'd share the template I made (just right click and open it in a new window).

 I just used the smallest Scalloped Rectangle nestie to cut out the little window. I saved the piece that was cut out though to use behind the number.

And just a couple of cute pics to share to finish off... in a house full of boys, you find red sports cars everywhere!

And it just wouldn't be Christmas without Bob the Builder in the back of a Ford F150 now would it?

Ahh... gotta love them :o) Its the kids that make a house a home. When I find these little boy touches around the house I can't help but grin like a crazy person.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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

Star Tilda

Ohhh - Christmas is getting closer! Just three months to go! And yes, I have finally started to get into the Chrissy mood.  

For this project, I washed out an olive jar and decorated it for a candle. The top of the jar is 'frosted' with German Glitter Glass. The paper is Magnolia and the adorable Tilda is "Star Tilda" from the Merry Little Christmas collection 2010.

I've punched around the paper edged with a MS punch and then added some cheesecloth and seam binding to pretty it up a bit.

 I can not wait to get my hands on this year's Chrissy collection - have you seen them yet? I am just GREEN with envy of my crafty friends who were lucky enough to get to Stampel Mekka this year and get them early - you lucky lucky ladies!!

And just to make you smile, here are my two best ever creations - my little boys! They are 'helping' me while I am trying to take pics of my candle holder, lol. They thought it was great fun blowing out the candle over and over. Cheeky little monkeys!

And the cheekiest monkey of all, my eldest. What a smile. Every day he begins to look more and more like his Daddy. I am the luckiest Mum in the world to have two amazing little boys. I fall in love with them both more and more every single day.

Ok, enough sappiness from me :) I'll let you get back to your day.
Thanks for visiting me!
Big hugs
Kylie xx

Christmas in May

Good morning! I hope you are having a great weekend so far.

My card today is for Magnolia Down Under Challenges #97 - Christmas in May. I've inked up cute little Tilda with Star and watercoloured her. I messed her dress up a bit (hehehe) so I've paper pieced it to cover it up.



The card shape was cut on my cricut and I've distressed and stitched all of the edges.

I don't know about you, but I bought so many stamps from the Merry Little Christmas collection last year and a lot of them didn't get much love (very bad!) so this challenge was a fantastic opportunity to have a little play and to get ahead for this Christmas.

We'd love to see you join us in getting into the Christmas spirit this week. The DT has done an amazing job once again, so please pop on over to check out their work.

 

Thanks for visiting me today! Have a great weekend.

Reindeer Tilda

Let me show you my little creation....this is Reindeer Tilda from the Merry Little Christmas 2010 Collection. Isn't she sweet?

I've made a card with a matching gable box for some chocolates. The papers are Basic Grey Jovial.  I've wrapped the ribbon around a circle loop that I cut using Nestabilities Classic Circles. The gable box was cut on my Cricut and the sentiment is also Magnolia from 2008.  Of course the box is filled with little santa chocolates.

White and gold Tilda with Letters

Good morning! Did you all have a great weekend?

I have a little play with this cute little Tilda last night. She is so cute. But I think I say that about all Tilda's, lol. The challenge this week at Just Magnolia is "White plus one" so I have chosen gold, I thought it would look lovely and elegant. And while I was working on this card, I saw the new Totally Tilda challenge pop up in my browser to... Glitz and Gold - how lucky was that? LOL.

The papers are all from the DCWV "Linen Closet" stack. I just love the glittery piece behind Tilda, so beautiful. The gold cardstock is left over from my wedding invitations, haha, yep, I save everything, and somehow even back then, I knew I'd use it down the track :) I gathered some white organza ribbon on my sewing machine and used my nesties to create a little circle for Tilda to sit in. The snowflakes are a Magnolia Doo Hickey die.

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.