A little birdie told me.....

Hello Lovelies,

Almost the weekend, hope you've had a great week and found time to fit in some stamping.

I made this for a little boy going into to hospital and was under strict instructions to make it bright and cheery without looking girly. Well the bright & cheery was easy but I always struggle wanting to add flowers, bows and sparkle, it always seems to be missing something without them. The little frog hops from card to card.  How cute is that little bird. I chose Edwin with cap as he looks just like our ginger haired little Jake.

Magnolia Stamps: Edwin with Cap, Shabby Chic Fence from Shabby Chic Summer 2008 Collection

Sun from Lazy Summer Day's Collection, Tilda's birds from Magnolia Spring Summer 2008

Copic Markers: Skin - E000, E00, E11, R20, Shirt -YG00, 01, 03, 05, Jeans - B21, B24, Hair - YR23, Y23, E35, Background Airbrushed B41

Martha Stewart Punches - Grass border & Butterfly

All other supplies from stash

Kellie at Tickled Pink Stamps has a huge range of stamps, not just Magnolia Stamps, lots of other crafting goodies and with Mothers Day just around the corner.

I am so excited, almost bursting at the seams, we have lots happening at Tickled Pink Stamps in May, don't miss out, stop by the new blog to check out all the fun.

here is a little sneak peak

Have a great weekend.

New Challenge Blog - Tickled Pink Stamps starting a monthly challenge

Tickled Pink Stamp Monthly Challenges COMING SOON....

Woohoo, Kellie & us Pink Ladies have decided to put together a challenge blog for you all. And while it's great to have weekly and fortnightly challenges as we all love entering them, time is not always on our side. So we have decided to go MONTHLY giving you all plenty of time to get that relaxing craft time we all know and LOVE...

Coming May 8th write it down, book it in you won't want to miss out with a Tickled Pink MAJOR PRIZE give away for our first challenge. So become a follower as you will NOT want to miss it!

For now how about a stamp give away.....? YEAH, all you have to do is pop our challenge badge on your blog/sidebar and link to Mr. Linky and you could be the lucky winner.... What's the stamp? NOW that is a surprise coming in May! Be one of the firsts to own your own.... You have until the challenge opening and the winner will be announced on the challenge post on the 8th of May 2010... So what are you waiting for pop over here to check it out.

Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Make a Wish

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. I have had another super busy week, making DT cards to send off to Magnolia Sweden for the next Magnolia Ink Magazine. Wow, talk about nervous, my mojo has not been to good to me lately. Hopefully now my cards have been posted off, I can relax and get back into the swing of things. Anyways, It is time for another challenge at Magnolia Down Under and this week you will find it charming......yes pun intended.

Challenge 43 - Charms

and the sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamps.

Also Kellie set us DT's a challenge for Tickled Pink Stamps to make an Easel Card, you all know how hard that would have been for me, bahahaha, I love Easel Cards and thought I would combine the 2 challenges.




I stamped & cut Tilda twice to give my card some dimension (see side view), airbrushed the background a little in blue B12 (normally I use B41 but wanted to match Tilda's sleeves). 

Magnolia Stamps: Magic Tilda - Fairytale Collection (available soon), Snowy Circle - So Snowy Collection, Paper: Basic Grey - Kioshi, Colouring: Copic Markers, Skin - E000, E00, E11, R20, Hair - Y23, YR23, E35, Dress - V000, V12, V15, V17, Magic Wand, Y19, Y13, Y11, Sleeves - B000, B12, B14 & Airbrush, Other: Charm & Violet Gardenia - Tickled Pink Stamps, Ribbon and all other flowers - Personal Kit, Machine Stitching, Stickles - Star Dust.

Magnolia's hugely popular Fairytale Collection is available here for pre-order. Personalised Stamps back by popular demand. Kellie has a huge selection to choose from.

Looking for inspiration, stop by & see what the other Design Team Members have created, they are all amazing! Thanks for joining this wonderful challenge, I can't wait to see what you come up with & hope you will join us next week.

Don't forget to keep a look out for all the exciting news at Tickled Pink Stamps over the next few weeks.

Sneak Peak Tickled Pink Stamps

 

Have you heard the buzz over at Tickled Pink Stamps

There are a lot of exciting things coming in May for Tickled Pink Stamps and we can NOT wait to share them with you, we are all so excited and ‘tickled pink’ that we decided to give you a little snippet of whats to come to Tickled Pink Stamps online stamp store…….

Got you all guessing now? Start counting down the days….. And be sure to pop over to the Tickled Pink Stamps Store blog to not MISS a thing! HERE…

Don't forget MOTHERS DAY
GIFT VOUCHERS NOW IN STORE FOR MOTHER'S DAY...

Are you like me and you always like to pick your own Mother's Day present? Or have a mum/grandmother that loves to craft. Then what better present to give her than a store voucher. She can shop at her leisure and buy all the rubber she needs here......

Magnolia Ink Subscription Offer from Tickled Pink Stamps

Do YOU love the Magnolia Ink magazine??? Would YOU like to make sure you don't miss out on them for the next few months??? If the answer to these questions is YES then Tickled Pink Stamps has the answer for you. Kellie is offering a limited number of 5 issue subscriptions - check it out HERE. The pre-order for the next single issue is listed too HERE to if you just wanted to go one at a time - we're up to Magnolia Ink #4.

And how exciting for Kellie - that's HER card featured in the ad for the next issue - and isn't it just tooo cute!

Sorry - Australian residents only
Worldwide shipping for stamps only

Magnolia Fairytale Collection - 2nd pre-order

Hurry Tickled Pink Stamps has just listed a  2nd pre-order for the most amazingingly adorable super popular new Magnolia FairyTale Collection, if you missed on the first then hurry, before Kellie sells out again and still on sale 15% off stamps. Also on offer, another selection of magical papers from the collection, these will arrive with the 2nd delivery date. Check it all out HERE

Coming soon will be NEW Kraftin' Kimmie stamps, Charms and Stamps, Stamps and MORE Stamps!

Happy stamping, hugs Jodie

Older Style Princess Tilda & the Frog

Happy Saturday Stampers,

Oops, I found this card a few weeks ago, I made it way back in January, then forgot to show you. I know it's way past Valentine's Day, but it work for an Engagement, Anniversary etc. and it fits in with the new Fairies & Princesses coming soon, I thought why not. Kellie from Tickled Pink Stamps got me hooked on some of Magnolia's older style stamps, I would love to give them a try with Distress Inks next time.

  

Magnolia Stamps - Tilda (Princess Noni from Summer 2006 Sun & Rain Collection). Tilda & Edwin - (SP06 Vi Två from Winter Spring 2006 Collection) & Be My Valentine text (Valentine 2009 Collection).  I used the January sketch from Mojo Monday, coloured the images with Copic Markers, used my favourite Martha Stewart border punch and lots of Star Dust stickes. Papers and crystals from Kaisercraft and cut the card with my Cricut using my favourite Doily Card from Wildcard cartridge and finished it with a little machine stitching. Tilda inside the card is paper pieced to match the sentiment side of the card. A fun card with not much colouring. Inside text is computer generated.

I am working on some cards for the next Magnolia Ink Magazine, so won't have anything new for you for a few days. Thanks for stopping by and hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Don't forget Kellie at Tickled Pink Stamp has a sale on this weekend - 15% off all stamps and this includes Magnolia Fairytale Collection listed for pre-order, and the sassy new Kraftin Kimmie stamps.

 

Pre-Order Magnolia Fairytale Collection now at Tickled Pink Stamps

I am doing the happy dance or I should say I'm tickled pink, Kellie from Tickled Pink Stamps has now just listed the much awaited Magnolia Fairytale Collection. Available for pre-order now. Fairies, Princesses, Castles and Pirates, they are so all so magical, if you are anything like me you will have to have them all. Hurry they will sell out very quickly, pre-order here.

To celebrate Kellie is offering 15% off all stamps in store now including the pre-order but hurry.Check out the cute charms to suit the new range and Kellie now also stocks Paper Doilies.

New Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps arriving in Australia at Tickled Pink Stamps

New Kraftin' Kimmie stamps arriving any day now. Queens, princesses and some adorable Spring Tea Party cuties.  Kraftin' Kimmie had a blog hop to showcase these gorgeous girls! They are arriving any day now at Tickled Pink Stamps.....hurry they will sell out very quickly.

Don't forget to enter the Blog Candy for some wonderful prizes.

Arghh Pirates in B & W

Happy Sunday Stampers,

Edited - I kept looking at it, then decided to remove the flowers and add the anker. My DH tells me to leave things alone and move on, but I can't help myself, I do it all the time.

Huge apologies again for being such a bad blogger, so much happening lately between sickness & family. I've misplaced my mojo also, hope it returns soon, I have lots of little Maggies coloured up, hoping to give them a new home very sooooooon. 

Anyways it's time for my favourite challenge

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #41 - Olden Days

We were asked to colour our images in black, white and greys, but still have the option of using coloured paper and cardstock. 

This was a real challenge for me, stepping out of my comfort zone, I guess that's what challenges are all about, I persevered, I've seen some amazing cards using this technique and I hope to master it one day, practice practice practice. Maybe I will give it a go with the softer distress inks.

I got the idea of the Pirate Banner on the top of my card liner from Kim Piggott, Kim used a Magnolia Stamp (I need more accessory stamps) but  had to compromise and cut this out with my Cricut, then hand cut the skull and crossbones from the Magnolia paper, it would have been easier to cut them directly from the paper on the cricut but they all faced different directions. Kim's card is so soft and breathtakingly beautiful.

Also, I thought I take a photo of the card liner before attaching it, I spotted this idea on someones blog, but apologies, I am not sure who. 

My Tickled Pink Stamps DT package from our wonderful Boss Lady Kellie arrived the other day and it was overflowing with some yummy goodies. All of the following items are available from Tickled Pink Stamps.

Of course I wanted to play with the new Pirate stamps Kellie sent, I coloured them up with Copic markers - C00. C0, C1, C2, C4, C7 , C9. Tilda & Edwin were cut out and raised for dimension with pop dots. I distressed the edges of my cardstock, inked them up and added some Star Dust stickles.

Magnolia Stamps - Pirate Tilda, Pirate Edwin - soon to be realeased  from the Pirates, Fairytale and Princess Collection, available for Pre-Order soon here
Patterned Paper - Magnolia's So Spooky Halloween Papers - perfect for the new Pirate Collection - available now here
Charms - Skull & Cross Bone, Red lace - all from Tickled Pink Stamps, Anker cut with my Cricut - Lifes a Beach cartridge.

I have also entered this in the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday - Mono Mania

Personalised Stamps are back by popular demand, pre-order yours now. I've had lots of enquiries from our international blogging friends, well now you too can order one, Kellie will be shipping worldwide,  but for stamps only.

Looking for inspiration, stop by & see what the other Design Team Members have created, they are all amazing! Thanks for joining this wonderful challenge, I can't wait to see what you come up with & hope you will join us next week.

Also look out for the new release of the FairyTale Collection with gorgeous papers, cute Pirates, Little Princesses, and MANY MORE…. Sign up to Tickled Pink Stamps Newsletter to be sure NOT to miss a thing!

I've just have received my copy of the new Magnolia Ink Magazine, it is amazing, the Design Team out did themselves again, their creations are so inspiring and Magnolia have a sneak peak of some gorgeous new goodies. So if you have not ordered yours yet, than you better hurry here.

Tickled Pink Stamps now has it's own Blog and to celebrate all the store's changes Kellie has some amazing Blog Candy to giveaway. Entries are open for everyone not just Aussies, stop by here to find out more.

Wow, I apologise for my long winded waffle, thanks for visiting & I hope you all have a fantastic weekend

Magnolia Down Under Store has changed it's name to Tinkled Pink Stamps

News break, Magnolia Down Under Store has had a name change and is now called Tickled Pink Stamps. Why change the name you ask, Kellie is now expanding the store and us DT's (now known as The Pink Ladies) are so excited....... Kellie will not be just selling Magnolia stamps, but lots more, the new stamp ranges include:

Kraftin' Kimmi

Sweet November

Baby buds

Magnolia Stamps - the new Fairytale collection available soon

and lots more soon.

Tickled Pink Stamps will start selling to International stampers again very SOON.... But only stamps, this includes the personalised stamps that have been so popular. 

Tinkled Pink Stamps now also have a blog, with all the latest news, challenges, tutorials,  giveaways, sneak peaks, new releases and updates - so make sure you follow or you will  miss out.

BLOG CANDY ALERT

Celebrations have started already at Tinkled Pink Stamps Blog with some amazing Blog Candy now, Not 1, not 2, but there are 3 prizes! WHOO HOO... so what are you waiting for stop by the store blog here and enter for these amazing prizes.

Celebrations continue at Tickled Pink Stamps Store a huge sale, 15% off all stamps and a HUGE 25% OFF the Magnolia Easter Collection. New Halloween papers in stock, perfect for Magnolia's Pirate Collection available soon. Personalised stamps are back due to popular demand but not on sale and lots more.

Blog Awards

Happy Easter Friends,

Blog Awards I received from some wonderful Blogging Friends

This award translates to "this Blog is a charm" or something very similar

The above awards I received from the very talented Hanna of Hanna's Hobby Blog, the youngest Design Team Member for Magnolia Sweden, she is only 13 years of age, but you wouldn't guess that in a million years, her creations are amazing, thank you so much Hanna, and appreciate these awards very much. I hope you will stop by Hanna's Blog for some amazing inspiration.

I received this fabulous award from the very talented Jane of Jane's Lovely Cards, thank you so much for thinking of me and passing this wonderful award on to me Jane. 

Jane is a fellow Design Team member for Magnolia Down Under Challenges and also many other Design Teams, she is in big demand and I am not surprised as her creations are amazing. Visit Jane's Blog for some gorgeous eye candy. 

I am to list 10 things I love and pass it on to 10 bloggers.

10 things I love

My family & friends

Ruby my Westie Puppy

Stamping/Crafting

Blogging

Coffee

Chocolate

Shopping

Photography

Holidaying

Reading

I wish to pass these on to my wonderful followers, you all inspire me very much, thanks for the inspiration I receive from your amazing creations and for the support and sweet comments you leave.

Easter Blog Candy Winner

Hello & Happy Easter Everyone,

I am sorry I've been missing in action and have nothing new for you to post. I've been away helping out family members.  Anyways, without too much waffling, hopefully I should have some new cards soon, I took my copics and some stamped images to play with. I've returned to an overflowing email inbox with over 300 emails, it may take a little while to catch up on all the goss.

Thank you to everyone entering my

Easter Blog Candy; the Winner is...

#84 - LynnB from Lynn's Designer Creations

Congratulations Lynn, please send me your full name and mailing address to  turner.jodie@gmail.com and I will post these off for you asap.

Thank you for all your fabulous support and lovely comments, I'll have more Blog Candy on offer within the next week or so to celebrate my 6 month blogaversary.