Shake it, shake it

Good morning! It is shaker card week at Magnolia Down Under Challenges. 

Oh my word, the girls have done an amazing job this week, all of the cards are just WOW - we have a special guest too, Katie K, and you just have to go and check out her card. Amazing!!

I painted Tilda with her little lamb from the A Little Christmas collection for my shaker card. She is so cute :) Probably one of my favourites this year so far. 

All of the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts. The cute little wooden birdie is also WOC. 

I finally used the lamp doo hickey die. I adore this die and never seem to get it out to play.

Well, that is it from me today. I hope you get a chance to come and play at MDUC this week, we'd love to see your shaker cards!

I'll be back tomorrow with something else to share. 

Until then, have a great weekend,

xXx

Christmas bear

Hey there crafty friends. 

I hope your weekend is going swimmingly. 

There is a new challenge over at MDUC today.... your favourite colour combo - use 3-4 of your fav colours. Blue and kraft are usually two of my favourite colours. And I adore red as well, so it made lots of sense to put them all together for this challenge.

The cutie stamp is Magnolia from the Little Christmas collection and I sat down and painted him up with DIs.  

The flowers, lace and ribbon are all Wild Orchid Crafts.

I hope you have a chance to share your favourite color combo with us this week. We'd love to see what you come up with. Til then, have a great week!

Hugs x

Tilda had a little lamb

Hi Friends, sorry it has been a little while!

This has to be one of the cutest stamps around at the moment. I just love it. She is from the Little Christmas collection. 

I love her poinsettia in her hair and her little lamb. Although... my three year old and I had a bit of an argument about the lamb - he is convinced it is a puppy...lol.  

Instead of a sentiment, I used some AC Thickers for the word "Joy". All of the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts. The cute papers are MME.

I will be back tomorrow with something else to share. Until then,

Hugs x

Pop Up Cards

Oh boy. Well.... it has been a little while since my last post. Sorry friends. There has been a lot happening here.

More about that another time.

This week at Magnolia Down Under challenges we have a terrific challenge for you - Pop Up Cards!!

This is the first pop up card in this style that I have ever made and let me tell you... I was a little bit unsure how I was going to go. Camilla S has done an amazing tutorial for us and her end result is just amazing.

My pop up card is much simpler... here is the cover

And here is the inside:

It was heaps of fun to make and I am really keen to make more now :o)

Of course if you wanted to make a different style of pop up card, go for it, all types are welcome.

Well... that is it from me today. I have a lot of new work to share with you over the next few days so I will be back.

Big hugs xx

Christmas Tilda with Cat

Good morning friends. 

There is a new challenge over at Magnolia Down Under today. This week we are challenging you to use STITCHING, real or faux. 

This adorable little stamp is Christmas Tilda with Cat. She is one of the cute stamps from the Little Christmas collection. She is just adorable! 

The papers are Melissa Francis and all of the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. The dark green lace is from Magnolia and the lovely mint ric rak is a gift from my good friend. 

I also want to share the cover of the new Magnolia Ink magazine - Turning Leaves. 

I am a bit excited as the card shown on the cover is by my gorgeous friend Debbie - Yayayay! Congratulations Debbie.  It is stunning :o)

Next weekend is an exciting weekend for me. I'm heading down to Melbourne to Paperific, a large paper craft show in Melbourne.  I finally get to meet some of my crafting friends :o) It is just amazing the friendships we make via this wonderful craft and unfortunately we don't often get to meet these wonderful people in real life. I have been fortunate to meet a handful so far but this weekend is going to be a big one with lots of close friends all together. I can't wait! Magnolia are coming as well and Zoe and I will be demoing for them. It is going to be a fun filled weekend. 

Beary Kiss-Mas

Hi there everyone!

I have a tag here to share with you today with one of the new Little Christmas stamps.

I just adore the little bears from this collection. I tried a new colour combination with my Copics for his hat and scarf, R59, R56, E04 and RV 91. It gives a lovely plum finish that I was quite pleased with. Its fun to experiment :o)

All of the embellishments are from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

I broke out my Snowflake die for the first time too.

There are also some Doo Hickey cut tags poking out behind. 

This adorable little fella is Cozy Christmas Bear. How adorable is he? I love his cute little scarf and hat. I had a ball colouring his fur up. Adorable. 

Thanks for visiting me today! 

Hugs x

Little Tilda

Hi there! Its the weekend already. Yay! 

That of course means a new round of challenges out there in blog land.

I have a card here to share for The Sketchy Challenges. 

I have adorable "Little Tilda" here from the new Little Christmas collection from Magnolia. I have used a lot of Magnolia papers and Doo Hickey dies on my card as well. 

All of the edges are inked with Tea Dye DI. The amazing flowers and pearls are Wild Orchid Crafts. 

Tilda is coloured with Copics and a generous amount of stickles were used again. 

I have to say, normally I would feel quite odd making Christmas cards so early, but this year it feels really lovely. We are having a very cold winter over here in Canberra - possibly even snow tonight - so it feels somewhat appropriate to be making some wintery Christmas cards :) 

I was quite happy with how this card turned out. It is a lovely stamp to colour - as are all of the Magnolia stamps in my opinion :)

I have a bust few days blogging ahead of me. All of my challenges seem to have aligned on the one weekend  each fortnight, lol. 

Until tomorrow - have a lovely weekend!

Hugs x

Tilda Dancing with Stars

Hi there,

how are you today?

I am pretty excited to show you a little box I made using this adorable new stamp from Little Christmas collection. From my understanding, there have been 6 stamps released and there will be further released later on towards the end of August... so if you like these adorable stamps, keep an eye out for more!  Once i know more, I will update you. 

This is Tilda dancing with Stars. 

I used my Cricut and made a star shaped box. The template/cut file is from My Time Made Easy

I then used the Starlight Lace doo hickey die to make the pretty star lace edging. All of the edges are inked with Tea Die dirstress ink.

The pearl string and flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and the pine cone and pine leaves are from a Time Holtz die, along with more doo hickey dies cuts to decorate - Tilda Ticket, Star Tag and Angel Wing.

The top layer of cardstock is embossed and a generous amount of stickles added. 

I hope you've seen the collection around in the stores. I know I am in love with the little bears! So cute. 

Take care and I hope to be back later in the week with more to share!

Until then - Hugs