inky impressions challenge- give thanks

hello everyone it's that time again, time for a new challenge from inky impressions.  the new challenge theme is give thanks, which is a very easy thing to do this time of year :).  here's my card for this week :

i tried to keep this card nice and sophisticated by using sepia tones and blacks.  i used the senitment "you're unforgettable" on this card, i love the size of the sentiment stamps they fit perfectly onto little labels or tags, like ive used here.

i used the stamp Lili playing in the leaves and colored her in sepia tones with my copic markers.  :)

i hope you enjoy this card and stop by the inky impressions challenge blog to join us :)

i would like to enter this into the following challenges:

papertake weekly - flower power
make it monday - anything goes
challengees for everybody - anything goes

simply and midweek magnolia challenges

hey there!  ive made a cute little card here and i want to share it with you :)  ive made this card for the simply magnolia challenge and their theme was embossing with wet or dry techniques ( i did both)  and the other one is the midweek magnolia challenge and their theme was elegance.  here's what i came up with useing both themes.

 i love the way this card turned out!  i really challenged myself to use only scraps of paper to make this card.  even the card base is a scrap of cardstock.

here's a close up of cute little tilda.  the heart frame around the side is wet embosses with white and inked pink.  the background is dry embossed with daises. 

here's a close up of the corner with the roses.  you can tell better that i patchworked the scraps of paper in the background.  i  wanted to reflect tilda's patchwork wrapping job on her heart present. :)

well that's it for me today! :) i love this card and i hope you do too :) 

CLP, whimsy stamps, DT challenge

hello everyone! :) ive got another card today, this one im really proud of :)

im entering it in the creating lifes pieces challenge blog here is the sketch they gave out to use

the whimsy stamps challenge blog and their theme was monochormatic

and the anything goes all that scraps DT call  i really hope they like what ive made. :)

this sketch had a lot going on in it.  it was really hard for me to be able to wrap my head around adding all the rows of decoration on the bottom, paper layering and swirls on the edges of the focal design.  so i came up with the brilliant (to me it was) :) idea of doing it in layers heres what i cam up with. :)

the top vellum has the swirls and the bottom lace decoration which i decided to use stitching for  my bottom 3 rows of decoration, which doesnt take away from the over all effect.

for this project i used flowers from i am roses, bling from k & company, the metal butterfly is from 7 gypies, paper from k and company, my minds eye, and basic grey.  the stamp is from whimsy stamps.

  there is a tag in the pocket behind the fairy picture that has plenty of space to write your message on.

i hope you like this project!  i had a lot of fun making it :)

the prettiest card ive ever made!

     today i made a card for the simply magnolia blog challenge.  the challenge was to to make a card with tilda  with an animal.  so i used a sitting tilda holding a lamb. i also entered this card into the just magnolia bingo challenge. on the bingo board i picked ribbons & lace, flowers and pink!  and the crafty ribbons challenge blog with the theme of candy! :)

     i used the circle rainbow background stamp, and after i stamped it i traced over it leaving off the flowers on the edge and the birds off the top.  

then i colored my background and tilda, and cut them out.  i made a wire frame for where the outline of the background and wrapped it with pink seambinding, then added flowers from i am roses.

the result is the prettiest card ive ever made! :)  i hope you enjoy it too! :)

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.  :)

tilda catching stars

i just got the magnolia stamp tilda catching stars a couple of days ago, and i just LOVE her!! she reminds me of one of the little twin stars from sanrio. this is my all time favorite tilda! and im entering this card into the tilda's town challenge #8 ... favorite tilda! this is the card that i was inspired to make with her.  i hope i win! :)

it turned out so pretty! i love yellow, so i tried to use plenty of it but not make it over bearing, and i chose purple because its nice and dreamy.  i didn't really use and paper packs on this i mainly used plain card stock in light yellow, white, and lavender.  the only patterned paper that i used was origami paper from paperjade i love this place :) and a very small circle of webster's pages from the In Love/Palm Beach/Game On 6X6 Paperpad. 

here's a close up of tilda, she's soooo cute! :) i used pale lavender and cream cherry blossoms from i am roses and added rhinestones, stamped and glittered stars, and cream lace distressed with wild honey tim holtz ink dobber.

thanks for stopping by! i hope you enjoyed this project! :)

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