I was honoured to be asked my the Just Magnolia team to do a tutorial on how I 3d my Tilda's for their Just Magnolia Tutorial Challenge. Today its there in all its glory just hope someone proof read it cos my fingers tend to get carried away sometimes when typing.
I'm not sure I like this card, it could it be the papers or could it be just a little too much of everything. I've used the sketch from Sketch Saturday and on Stamp with Fun the challenge is for punches or shapes, well I've certainly used punches here. The mats I used a corner punch, the main mat I've used the flourish punch and I was experimenting and used the heart border for the corners and don't forget the ash branch punch too. The papers are chatterbox and sentiment is Hero Arts.
Yes I've got a swirl punch and yes I want to use it everywhere, to be honest I was struggling yesterday to make a card. So I settled on the Heidi Grace Christmas paper I picked up somewhere and used a PB mouse again but this one hasn't been inked yet be warned you will see it again before Christmas is finished. Used stickles for the snowflakes and the snow and to finish off snowflakes punches and not forgetting the swirls for the challenge on Penny Black Saturday.
While backing up my photos realised I haven't show this layout, it was about the AVE train from Madrid to Barcelona. I think the papers are Crate papers and the titles are cut from the cricut, I've also added the tickets behind the main photo of the train.
Look no flowers, I just thought that the Cosmo Cricket was quite busy already. The sketch I used was this weeks Friday Sketchers and the fancy corner is a die cut which I then used a corner punch.The image is a Sugar Nellie another of my all time faves.
There's a fabulous sketch on Just Magnolia and it gives me a chance to use this monkey stamp, isn't he cute. I've used Cosmo Cricket card and the flower and leaves are woodware punches. The sentiment is Simon Says Stamps, yes I know, I can't help it but use them probably cos they fit so well in the punches I've got.
I'm going to have to put red on their cheeks cos the camera really washes it out when photo. Love these Cosmo Cricket papers, yes I brought them at Newbury and at The Hobby House but The Hobby House had all the stuff that I love on my cards so where else was I going to spend my Money, Sis spent a lot there too.
There is some fabby candy around above is from Fran
And this one is from Chrissy but this is just a tip of the iceberg, she is offering stamps from the new release of High Hopes too.
Now I know why they call Wednesday the Hump day cos I was well and truly in hump all day. I coloured the SK image to match the fab Kaiser paper I brought at Newbury at The Hobby House and then chose the wrong backing colours so that was the final straw and went off to annoy everyone else.
I love Paper piecing it really brings the image and the papers together and it's really easy to do. Just stamp onto the pattern paper and cut out and stick on top of another stamped image. The WOJ chair is brilliant to do this with so if you fancy having a go then pop on Simon Says Stamps Challenge and you will be in for a chance to win £25 voucher and there's some hidden candy on one of the DT blog, sorry but its not mine.
My scrapbooking has seems to be going back to clean and simple, the papers are BG Bittersweet it goes really well with DD dress, I used Pagemaps for the sketch.
It's cards like this I wish I could work out how to make the pic extra large cos this is a large card with lots of detail that seemed to lose they're effect with such a small pic. After watching Bev colour these images I realised mine haven't seen ink.
Why should such a simple card take so long, although my printer did decide that it would go slow. I printed off the papers from Summertime Designs Freedom kit, when I saw that the challenge on Penny Black Saturday was for Red, White and Blue I knew I didn't have anything suitable lucky for me this Patriotic kit had the perfect colours. Now the little mouse was one I brought from Newbury, I thought he would make a perfect mans card. Yes the sentiment is Simon Says Stamps they never leave my desk.
Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Newbury, Ok there wasn't has many stalls, not so many people but somehow I still didn't have any probs spending my money. Quite a few of my pennies was spent on the Hobby House where I met the lovely Bev, the stall was covered in Bev's masterpieces which are more fabulous in real life. There was some awkward moments when my Sis and DD asked whether I had this stamp or that, put it this way I didn't have to buy any of the stamps they were already in my collection.
Thank goodness the weather's cooled a bit, I'm feeling a bit more normal. So this has to be a quickie post cos I'm on my way to Newbury this morning, sorry if you're fed up with me telling you. This card is for the Just Magnolia challenge of using charms, I know why I don't use them that often cos they are so fiddly with putting the rings on the chain and charm, the air was very blue but I wasn't going to give up. The papers are Chatterbox, they were in a kit with the flower although I wasn't keen what they put in the centre so that soon came off. The ribbon is DD so I'm going to have to get some more for her since I've used it quite a bit especially with the Wisteria pack from BG.
The challenge on Cute Card Thursday is for stitching real or faux, well seeing as Damon (my sewing machine) is still hidden from when we had the downstairs floors done I've settled for faux stitching it probably looks neater than my actually sewing. These Bloom and Grow papers are real ones not download but I've only got enough for one more card so pleased I downloaded them from Sweet Shoppe Designs and they didn't cost that much especially has I can use them over and over again. I used one of the Pet Collection Magnolia stamp, he doesn't look that happy with me I was trying do a Marmalade cat but I've sure he knows they were mouse colours I used. The sentiment is Woodware.
WOW at some point yesterday I hit 100.000 truly amazing thank you for all visiting my little blog. Looking forward to buying some candy at Newbury of course I will have to buy two cos I'm not giving away something I haven't got.
If by concidence Dawny's Sketch on Papertake Weekly shouted to me to make the same size. The cute pair are from Simon Says Stamps We are Family and the sentiment is from the simply the best words. The papers are BG Marrakech pack (hoping to pick the new packs of BG at the weekend). Another for the Marie Curie box.
I think these papers are gorgeous and they were a free download from Summer Driggs blog, the set is call Sweet Springtime but to me they shouted Summer which is the challenge on Spoonful of Sugar. I do think Tilda would be cooler in shorts rather than jeans. I received a e-mail today about the Magnolia Summer Kit and the preview image is so cute. Whoops nearly forgot the sketch is from The Next Level, always like to give credit to where its due.
I need you help with this card, do I send this one of Oakley or this one from yesterday, same papers but I used the Mojo Monday #93 sketch.
Remember the award from yesterday from Clare aka Littlebear, well here's my ten honest things about me!
I love these papers so much so I've had to buy some more MJ at Every Moment Matters, they're SEI Mimosa and they are perfect for this weeks Simon Says Stamps challenge for Hot Summer colours. I popped over to Simon Says Stamps shop I do like to choose a stamp that Heidi sells but you don't have if you want to join in. The little chap is of course Penny Black and the sentiment is Hero Arts.
Pauline is celebrating her year of blogging with a fabulous candy, one of the ways to enter it is to link it on your blog otherwise I wouldn't be telling anyone but keeping it a secret so I can win it.
Hubby wants a card for his friend who is retiring and he liked the card I made for our friend in Spain, now I know its a compliment but I'm not that keen on making complete copies of cards I've done. So I've used the sketch on Sketch Saturday and some Bloom and Grow papers so it almost the same.
There's a little chap who first birthday is coming up and the challenge on Stamp with fun is for Turquoise and brown colours and I found these papers not sure who by. I thought I would have a go at distressing with distress ink like Kim's tutorial but it looks like I overdid it a bit. I use the cricut to cut out the number and letters.
There's a fabulous sketch on Penny Black challenge from Nat and although I pleased with this card perhaps I haven't done enough justice to Nat's sketch so might use it again maybe not with a PB. As soon as I saw these critters with rackets I knew I had to buy it, my Son is an avid tennis fan having played a lot when he was a teenager in fact he was very good till he's knees played up something he blames me for something to do with genes he tells me.
This is how I made the photo corner which are really easier to make and you can vary the size to whatever you want. For the pic above the square is 4cm and I measured a cm in from the edge all the way round then, a diagonal line across the middle which I then cut. I cut out the shaded areas too.
It leaves you a pair of these and if like me, you ink the edges then stick onto a piece or c0-dinating card in the corner then use a ruler to measure, make a border.
You then cut out the middle leaving a border. I have to thank Ellie at Mod Scraps who showed me how to do this when I first started Scrapbooking.
Many thanks to Spyder for the fabulous award.