TOMIC and magnolia-licious challenge

i made the cutest little card today!  :)  The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge  is to make a fruity pocket, and i have some adorable little vintage strawberry fabric that i took to staples and colored copied, and i thought this would be the perfect oppertunity to use it! :) and magnolia-licious  has a wonderful picture for their color inspiration i love the berry tones in this and the green! :) 

so using these two components i made the following card and im entering it in both challenges :)

i love the way this card turned out!  i used my copies for the background and just plain colored cardstock for the mats and die cut outs.  i used the large spellbinders beaded circle die that i inked with Martha stewart's spray rose pink stamp pad, and inked a magnolia doohicky with brown, and added a circle of origami paper behind tilda and edges the whole circle with some white lace that i inked wit tim holtz peeled paint destress stain.  i added a flourish that is inked with the peeled paint and spun sugar to created a tie died effect, add some small pink i am roses, and some large silk roses that i got from hobby lobby, added a tag that i embellished with lace fabric and a sentiment from fisker's, and some stamped paper roses inked onto crackled paper.

 here' a close up of the tag,

 here's the flower corner, i forgot that i added some pearls from say it in pearls too.

 and little strawberry tilda herself! :) she's so cute! :)

 the pocket is on the inside, i thought it would be a great place to add a photo, invitation, gift card, long letter or whatever.  just to make it a bit different on the inside.

thanks for stopping by!

just magnolia/tilda town challenge

i created a card for the just magnolia as well as the tilda town challenge.  they had a really great sketch to use and this is what i made using that cute sketch

i used the tilda catching stars stamp,  various loose scraps, the magnolia doohicky lace tag, a butterfly from recollections, flowers from i am roses and silk yellow roses from hobby lobby,.

here's a close up of tilda.  the no lines technique is inspired from zoe's magnolia cards.   

thanks for stopping bye! i hope you enjoyed this one! :)

tilda town challenge

ive recently come across the blag named zoe's magnolia cards where she colors tilda to have no black lines.   this card turned out so nice that im going to enter it in the 1th Tilda town challenge the result is a very soft natural looking tilda.  she doesn't have an official tutorial but she does give the jist of it.  so i had to try my hand at and this is what i came up with! :)

 she turned out sooo pretty!  im not quite that great at dong the shading just yet but it's still my first one :)

here's a close up of the little lady.  when i stamped her i tried to use a very light brown, (zoe explains that she uses blue but i didn't have any light blue)  then i colored her with my copics and went over  that with coordinating prismacolor art pencils and tried to soften anywhere that the light brown outlines from the stamping still appeared.  then went over the whole thing with a Fine paint brush and turpinoid to even the pencil makers and smooth it out.

i really enjoy making her, and zoe's work is really inspiring!  and i think with a little more practice i think i can do just as well as she.  :)

mother's day cards

mothers day cards!

i also entered these on the whimsy challenge blog.  whimsy stamps are one of my favorite companies :)

ive been so inspired here lately, and ive made some really great mothers day cards.  i hope you like them and they inspire you as well!

this is my first one that i made, its an envelope card and the die cut in the middle pulls out and thats where you write your note.  the stamp is a wee digi stamp, from whimsy stamps.

this is the next one that i made i was inspired after going to hobby lobby and seeing some of the beautiful white bird houses that they and i used the two birds digi from wee stamps.  this is an easel card and i just added a triangle for the roof and plenty of embellishments. 

 heres the next one i did.  i used another wee stamp digi, i didn't like the patches on her pants so i transferred the design and also took out so many of the fly away designs that were on it too. 

 i added lace that i inked in between the die and middle circle.  as well as inking the beaded spellbinders die with Martha Stewart pink rose spray stamp pad.

  i added rolled ribbon roses, as well as some stamped doodle roses.

this card i wanted it to look like a vintage quilt.  i added quarter square triangles under the beaded spellbinders dies,  and put half circle in the middle of the dies. 

here the card is open and you can really see the effect of the pieces.  lots of inking adds to the vintage feel of this card.  and plenty of miss matching patterns for a "make do" look.

this is a digi stamp from milk and coffee.

this is one of my favorites!  this is another stamp from wee stamps.  the large heart is also a stamp that i got from a crafting garage sale at my local stamp store.  this pink rose frame is vintage wrapping paper.

the sheet of music paper is inked on the outside with pink, and i used my BG10 copic marker on the inside of the rose frame and dry brushed white on the inside of the frame to soften the black music notes. 

after softening the music notes, the beautiful little girl really stands out

get well card

recently ive found out that my favorite aunt is having surgery and i wanted to make her something to lift her spirits so i decided to make her a card and i wanted it to be able to stand up on its own, so she could still see it as she was recovering.  this is what i came up with.

i used a penny black stamp and made two spring cards that i fitted together here is link to the tutorial that i used to make the spring card.  it was a lot of fun to make, and i hope when she gets the card she will feel all the love and best wishes that come with it. :)