TOMIC Challenge 44 - Some Bunny Loves You

Happy Easter Everyone,

I am taking time out this long weekend to catch up with family & friends. I know I'll be eating way too much chocolate, I've been taste testing them for days, I'd hate to pass on any that were not perfect to my family & friends bahahahahaha.

I hope whatever you have planned, you all have a wonderful Easter.

It's time for another TOMIC Challenge
The Official Magnolia Inspirations Challenge (TOMIC)

Challenge 44 - Bunny + sketch by Liza + inspiration picture

We want you to use a bunny somewhere on your card (can be a charm, printed paper, stamp, die, etc...), get inspired by this easter picture and use the marvellous sketch by Liza. We also want you to get inspired by the picture (colors, theme, etc...):

I hope you will join us this week, I can't wait to see what you come up with.

I have coloured up one of my favourite Easter images, she is from an older collection, I just couldn't resist, she is perfect for baby cards & gifts too.

Magnolia Stamps -Tilda Hugging Bunny - Easter Collection 2009 

Happy Easter (Text) - Butterfly Dreams Collection,

Paper , Doohickey and Pink Flowers - Magnolia.

Colouring - Copic Markers

TOMIC - Tilda's Princess Birthday Party

Happy Wednesday Everyone,

It's time for another TOMIC Challenge
The Official Magnolia Inspirations Challenge (TOMIC)

This week is another a very special Challenge
it's Tilda's Birthday
Happy Birthday Tilda
Wishing you a magical day!!!!

Tilda's Princess Birthday Party

Challenge 39 - this week we ask you to use the following:

Tilda Stamp + Sketch by Tina + girly theme + Birthday Sentiment.
I hope you will join us, I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Sketch by Tina

Flying Tilda - Fairytale Collection 2010

I had so much fun with this challenge, I love all things girlie and the very first collection that came to mind for this challenge was a stamp from the Fairytale Collection 2010. I'm so looking forward to getting my hands on the newest Princes & Princesses Collection, OMG they are beautiful!!!!!!

Now for my girlie theme, I tulled up a craftwood Manequin, adding lots and lots of bling, love bling especially from my favourite Australian supplier (FWAB), some ribbon and flower (I will use this in my craftroom as a pin cushion). For my Princess Crown and Party/Candy Bag I used my Cricut. I hope you like my projects this week as much as I loved making them.

Magnolia Stamps

Flying Tilda - Fairytale Collection 2010

Happy Birthday Sentiment
other sentiment stamp - Whiff of Joy

Magnolia Papers
Magnolia Crown Paper - Fairytale Collection
other papers - Prima & Paper Chic

Other
Bling - Kate's Corner Flourish & Rhinestones - Flourish with a Bling
Craftwood Manequin - Kaisercraft
Flowers, Ribbon, Lace, Tulle from various companies
Copic Markers

Cricut

Wow!!!! The DT's cards are beautiful, I hope you will stop by their blogs and leave them a nice comment. Don't forget you have until Monday 18.00 (Paris time) to get your entries in.

Have a wonderful week

TOMIC - Edwin's Birthday

Happy Wednesday Magnolia Lovers,

It's time for another TOMIC Challenge
 The Official Magnolia Inspirations Challenge (TOMIC)

This week we have a very special Challenge
it's Edwin's Birthday
Happy Birthday Edwin
Wishing you the best birthday ever

Challenge 36 - this week we ask you to use an

Edwin stamp and Tina's Sketch.

I am sure you will agree how creative and talented Tina

 is with her wonderful sketches and gorgeous creations, thanks Tina.

Magnolia Stamp
Edwin waiting for Fish - Sweet Rainbow Collection
Magnolia Papers
Turquoise Plaid - Sweet Rainbow Collection
Turquoise Hearts - Sweet Crazy Love Collection

I love Edwin stamps, he is adorable,
it's just I am a bit of a girlie girl and love flowers and bows.
It was soooo hard keeping all my girlie embellies off, but I was strong.
I know it's not real birthday-ie but it is still boyish.

Magnolia Doohickey
So Wrapped Starlight Folded Tag - Sweet Crazy Love Collection
I love these new folded tags, they are perfect as decoration on your card for a secret message tucked away as a special surprise or a mini gift card, a gift bag topper and even a bookmark.

Supplies:
Magnolia Stamp
Edwin waiting for Fish - Sweet Rainbow Collection
Magnolia Papers
Turquoise Plaid - Sweet Rainbow Collection
Turquoise Hearts - Sweet Crazy Love Collection
Magnolia Doohickey
So Wrapped Starlight Folded Tag - Sweet Crazy Love Collection
FWAB - Rhinestones & pearls,
Coloured with Copic Markers


I'm sure you will agree how wonderful the DT's cards are and I look forward to seeing all your gorgeous creations, you have until Monday 18.00 (Paris time) to get your entries in for a chance to win the Magnolia Secret Prize Pack.

 Have a wonderful week.

TOMIC Challenge # 32 - Pink & Bow

Happy New Year to all my gorgeous Blogging Friends,

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

I apologise for not blogging much lately, I have had a few health problems again. I finished up at work just before Christmas and now hope to have a bit more time and energy to enjoy playing with my Maggies and visiting all your wonderful blogs for some inspiration.

Anyways enough about me, it's time for a new Challenge at

TOMIC - Challenge # 32

Monochromatic pink + bow 

this week we want to see pink as your main colour.

You can use touches of other colours too, but be sure that

pink remains the main one.

We also want you to use a bow somewhere on your creation,

it can be as an embellishment, a chipboard, a ribbon, a charm.

I hope you will join us this week, you could be the lucky winner of Magnolia's surprise package.

Magnolia Supplies:

Stamp - Tilda with Heart Balloons - Sweet Crazy Love Collection.

Doohickey - Romantic Lace (Border) & Tilda Tag

Paper - Pink Plaid - Sweet Rainbow Collection

Other supplies

Flowers, Doily, Lace, ribbon, pearls & other dies  from various companies

Coloured with Copics - Pinks R85, 83, 81, 00, 000, 0000.

I love this sweet Tag - Doohickeys - Tilda Tag & Romantic Lace

I hope you will stop in at TOMIC to see all the other Design Teams gorgeous creations.

TOMIC Challenge 25 - Animal Mania

Please accept my apologies for my very late post. I thought I had scheduled my post.

I hope you had some fun and joined in with our

TOMIC Challenge 25 - Animal Mania

use any Magnolia Animal and Magnolia Paper to be in the draw to win.

I have used Tilda with Lace Jeans & Magnolia with Butterfly - both from

Magnolia's Butterfly Dreams Collection

Papers & Doohickey are also from Magnolia

Coloured with Copics.

Thanks for joining.

TOMIC Challenge 22 - Create a Basket

Happy Friday Friends,

Just in case you haven't been by TOMIC's latest challenge this week, it is to create a basket. I hope you will stop by and have a look at the Design Teams inspirational baskets, so many different styles to choose from and Kianel has made a tutorial. It's not my turn this week, but I love the idea and decided to join in at the last minute. This time of year they come in very handy for those extra little gifts full of little Christmas goodies, and what better selection of adorable images to use then Magnolia's newest collection - Sweet Christmas Dreams 2011. On my Blog rounds I fell in love with this basket from the wonderfully talented Heidy's Blog.

Sweet Christmas Dreams Text & Holly - Christmas Love

Sweet Christmas Tilda

Halo Tilda

A Little Gift Tilda - this one is perfect for so many occasions

Side View

View from the top

In this photo you can see some of Magnolia's Doohickey Dies - Bon Voyage foliage

Flowers from Wild Orchid Craft & Prima

So  many photos, but so many wonderful new stamps in this gorgeous new collection - Sweet Christmas Dreams 2011. I couldn't decide on just a few, so I have so many more still to come very soon. Thanks for looking, have a great weekend. 

TOMIC Challenge - Get Sporty

Hello Lovlies,

It's that time again for our fabulous TOMIC Challenge

(The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge Blog)

Challenge # 20 Get Sporty

 We ask you to use Liza's gorgeous sketch + use a sport themed Magnolia stamp

Now is the time to pull out your adorable sporty Magnolias. The kids love them, they make great birthdays, congrats cards. I hope you will play along. If you would like to be in the random draw to win a fabulous surprise pack from the Magnolia then start stamping, you have until next Saturday to be in the running.

Magnolia Stamp Baseball Tilda - Winner Takes It All Collection 2011

Colouring - Copics

OMG no flowers - I was sooooo tempted

I hope you will stop by to visit the other Magnolia Design Team, they have made some amazing creations with lots of inspiration and it gives you a chance to play with your adorable Maggies.

TOMIC Challenge 19 - Magnolia Forever

Welcome Magnolia Lovers,

It's time for another TOMIC Challenge

(The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge Blog)

Challenge # 19 Magnolia Forever

 We ask you to use a sitting Tilda/Edwin & a Doohickey Die Cut

This week should be a nice easy week for you, there are so many to choose from. Did you know Magnolia are famous for their sitting images. The hardest thing this week, was deciding which adorable image to use and of course I love their Doohickey Dies, I have used 4, it should have been 5 but I forgot to put my leaves on bahahaha. If you would like to be in the random draw to win a fabulous surprise pack from the Magnolia Sweden then start stamping, you have until next Saturday to be in the running.

Magnolia Stamp Tilda with Butterfly Jeans - Butterfly Dreams

Magnolia Doo Hickey Dies - Angel Wing, Tilda Lace Die (Border), Scalloped Tag, Butterfly Swirl

Magnolia Designer Paper - Turquoise Plaid

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts, Friendship Text - Kaisercraft

Colouring - Copics

I hope you will stop by to visit the other Magnolia Design Team, they have made some amazing creations with lots of inspiration and it gives you a chance to play with your adorable Maggies.

Looking for Magnolia Stamps and other wonderful crafting goodies, stop by Kellie's Tickled Pink Stamps, her prices and service are fabulous.

Happy Birthday Magnolia Ink Magazine - Come & Join TOMIC to celebrate

Hello Magnolia Lovers,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGNOLIA INK MAGAZINE

Hope you have had a wonderful weekend. Today is the start of a new challenge over at TOMIC. This week we have a very special celebration, we are celebrating the birthday of Magnolia Ink Magazine. The theme of Challenge 12 - Recycling as Magnolia use recycled paper for the magazine.

There will be a very special prize from Magnolia to celebrate. Hope you will join us & don't forget to stop by the other Design Team members to see all their amazing creations.

I used a breakfast cereal box, the cardboard weight is perfect for my tissue box. I love the finished result and I will definately recyle more often.

Meet Nurse Tilda Magnolia's newest collection - Winner Takes it All

I have also used Magnolia Paper from their Sweet Rainbow Collection

Magnolia Doohickey Cutting Dies, Rose Leaf, Vintage Flowers & Leaves & Heart Swirl

The flowers are from both Magnolia & Wild Orchid Crafts.

For my tissue box I used a tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers here.

My Cricut came in very handy to cut out my tissue box. I find working with imperial fractions a bit tricky, so I converted the fractions to decimal and loaded the dimensions, cutting them with a program called SCAL, making it so much easier.

Looking to buy Magnolia Stamps, Kellie at Tickled Pink Stamps stocks them plus loads of other amazing goodies, including her own quirky images. Race on over and join her newsletter at the same time.

ORDER NOW!!

FALL 2011

click here to follow the link before it's too late.

 

Magnolia Challenge - Easel Cards

Hello Everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We've had beautiful sunny weather, still a little cool, but thank goodness our winters are mild. Happy Independance Day, to my USA Friends.

There's another challenge on over on the TOMIC Challenge blog and this week the challenge is my very favourite, Easel Cards. See Tutorial further down the page.

I've used Tilda holding Daffodil from the

Butterfly Dreams Collection &  the new Swirl Butterfly

& my fave border - Romantic Lace - Doohickey Dies

Hope you will stop by & see what the other Design Team Members have created for you, 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.

EASEL CARD TUTORIAL

My finished card size is 15cm square (6")

supplies needed:
Cardstock 30cm x 15cm (12"x6")
Cardstock -15cm x 15cm (6"x6")
score tool/scor pal
Scor Tape/Red Tape or strong adhesive

Easel Card 15cm square cut 30cm x15cm piece of cardstock - score at 15cm & 7.5cm (6" & 3") vertically - valley fold both score lines.

Embellish card front - attach to card base, I find it easier to close the card, sticking the front to the closed card, it's easier to line up. To hold the card in place, you need to add a button, pop dot or some sort of dimension for the card to catch on to keep it from closing.

They are a lot easier to make than you might think and they come with a warning, they are very addictive. Easel cards can be made in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

To resize all you need to remember is score your card in half and then in half again.

Example of sizes: 12.5cm (5") square

Cardstock 25cm (10") x 12.5cm (5") - score at 12.5 (5") & 6.25cm (2.5")

TOMIC - Challenge # 2

 Hello Magnolia lovers!

It's time for a new Magnolia Challenge at TOMIC. Thanks for joining us last week for our very 1st Challenge, it was amazing, I was inspired by all your beautiful creations. The Design Team have now split into groups, it's not my week, but I hope you will visit TOMIC for Challenge # 2,
 A Colour Challenge - Combo "pink + white + brown"