Friday 31 October 2008

Lily of the Valley Challenge 6 - Christmas
I have seen the Lily of the Valley challenge blog before and I thought you had to use their products to enter it (unfortunately I don't have any yet) but I have just found out that you can use any products so here is my card for challenge 6 - Thanks Jacqui.
The card shape has been cut with the Cricut and the
Wild Cards cartridge, this is such a fab card shape and I think I will be using it a lot. I have taken a couple of photos to show the unusual shape of the front of the card.








































Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia - Tilda with Sledge, Penny Black - Sentiment (inside card), Little Claires - Merry Christmas
Tools: Pro Markers, Cricut, Wild Cards, Prima Flower, Brad, Sakura Clear Stardust Pen
DP: Cosmo Cricket


Thursday 30 October 2008

Cute Card Thursday 'Cheers' Challenge
The challenge at Cute Card Thursday this week is 'Cheers', make your card drink related. It was my daughter's birthday on Tuesday and this is her card which also doubled up for CCT - there is a bottle of drink in the basket!
I love making these stair fold cards and am plan
ning on doing some Xmas themed ones.


















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia- Summer + Sea 08 - Barefoot Tilda, Sea Background, Picnic Basket, Flowers
Tools: Pro Markers, PC for Sentiment, Glamour Dust
DP: Bo Bunny

Wednesday 29 October 2008

Tilda + Friends 'Halloween Spooks' Challenge
The challenge at Tilda + Friends this week is to make a spooky Halloween ATC. I have used one of the new Magnolia Halloween Tildas and the sentiment is made with my Dymo.
The other DT ATCs are fabulous so why not pop over here and take a
look.




















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Halloween Collection 08 - Tilda with Spider, Ghost
Tools: Pro Markers, Dymo
DP: Provocraft

Tuesday 28 October 2008

I Won Simone
I couldn't believe it tonight when I got an email from Kay to say I had guessed the name of her fab new stamp correctly, she is called Simone and you can see more about Simone and Kay's other stamps here.





















Spoonfull of Sugar 'Lots of Sparkle + Bling' Challenge
The challenge at A Spoonfull of Sugar this week is to use lots of sparkle and bling on your card. I have cut another card with the Cricut Wild Cards Cartridge, the swirly pattern is so pretty but I think next time I will use a darker card to show it off better! I have put glitter paper behind the cutwork and added a Tilda and sentiment cut with a Quickutz alphabet.





















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Christmas Collection 08
Tools: Pro Markers, Glossy Accents, Quickutz, Cuttlebug, Cricut, Wild Cards Cart, Ribbon

Denise's Fab Blog Candy
Denise from Stamping With Denise has some fantastic blog candy to give away to celebrate her Blog Anniversary, pop over to here to check it out and to have a look at her wonderful cards.

Monday 27 October 2008

Papertakes Sketch + Stamp Something
There is a fab sketch at Papertake Weekly this week by Dawny P. I have made this card using my favourite Penny Black duck stamp and the Cricut.
Denise has kindly pointed out that I can also enter this card for the Stamp Something Challenge 'One for the Birds'



















Supplies
Stamp: Penny Black
Tools: Pro Markers, Cricut, Mickey + Friends Font, Doodlecharms, George and Basic Shapes, Fiskars Punch, Glamour Dust, Gems

Sunday 26 October 2008

Tilda + Co 'Over The Rainbow' Challenge
The challenge at Tilda + Co this week is to use rainbow colours on your card. I have been playing with the Wild Card cartridge for the Cricut again and cut out the cupcake shaped card and replaced the candle with Tilda! The icing has been run through the Cuttlebug and I added some glitter highlights. I will add a sentiment inside the card later.







































Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Pink Collection 08 - Tilda + Heart, hero Arts Sentiment
Tools: Pro Markers, Cricut, Wild Card Cart, Cuttlebug, Glossy Accents, Glamour Dust
DP: DCWV

Monster Card
My Wild Cards cartridge for the Cricut arrived yesterday and I couldn't wait to have a play with it. I just love this cute Monster card and it's so easy to make. I am going to enter him for the Spoonfull of Sugar 'Halloween' challenge, I hope he counts!
The papers are from Bo Bunny and I just added googly eyes, a button and glitter to the heart.




















Supplies
Tools: Cricut, Wild Cards Cartridge, Googly Eyes, Glitter, Button


Friday 24 October 2008

Dutch Dare Challenge 20
I have based this card on this week's fab sketch at Dutch Dare. The stamp is from Spiral Whisper and I'd like to thank Bernadette who sent it to me, it was very kind of you and it's so cute.


Supplies
Stamps: Spiral Whisper, Little Claires
Tools: Pro Markers, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Glamour Dust, Glossy Accents, Gems

Scrummy Blog Candy
There is some really fantastic blog candy up for grabs at the moment, check these links out.

Suzanne at Slumber Cards has 2 gorgeous Magnolia stamps and some other fab goodies for candy and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to make a pink card, until 31/10

Thursday 23 October 2008

Cute Card Thursday ' The Stars at Night' Challenge
The challenge at Cute Card Thursday this week is to use stars or something spooky on your card. I have used this Magnolia snowman which I bought last year but never got round to using!! The snowflakes are cut on the Cricut and then glittered as I'm not sure if you can cut glitter card in the Cricut. The paper is from K + Co and is pale blue and glittered, so this is a really sparkly card but the photo doesn't really show it.



















Supplies
Stamp: Magnolia
Tools: Pro Markers, Cricut, Diamond Dust
DP: K + Co

Wednesday 22 October 2008

Tilda + Friends ATC 'Golden Tones' Challenge
The challenge at Tilda + Friends this week is to use Golden Tones on your ATC. I have used stamps from the Magnolia Fall Stampclub Kit.



















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Fall Stampclub Kit
Tools: Pro Markers, Sakura Clear Stardust Pen

Tuesday 21 October 2008

Magnolia DT Card
This is the final card which I made with my latest Magnolia DT kit and the Pink Collection 08 stamps. The paper is so pretty that I decided not to cover it up and just add Tilda and some flowers, I also glittered the DP.



















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Pink Collection - Ballet Tilda
Tools: Prismacolors, Sansador
Everything Else - Magnolia



Edited: Suzanne at Slumber Cards has some wonderful blog candy up for grabs and all you have to do is make a Pink card, so why not pop over here and take a look.

Monday 20 October 2008

Papertakes 'Frightful but Delightful' Challenge
The challenge at Papertakes this week is to make something spooky. I have used my Tildas and made a witches hat.



















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia - Tilda with Spider, Ghosts, Pumpkins, Sentiment - Unknown
Tools: Pro Markers, Cricut, Cuttlebug

Sunday 19 October 2008

Penny Black Saturday ATC Challenge
The challenge at Penny Black Saturday this week is to make an ATC. I have used a cute duck on mine and an Autumn Leaves stamp for the lines on the backing card, so it looks like notepaper.

















Supplies
Stamps: Penny Black - A Wish + A Kiss, Autumn Leaves - Date Stamp
Tools: Pro Markers, Glamour Dust, Button, String
, Glossy Accents

Saturday 18 October 2008

Magnolia DT + Friday Sketchers #24
Here is another card using stamps from the Magnolia Pink Collection 08 which I have based on this weeks sketch at Friday Sketchers. Another terrible photo I'm afraid!




















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Pink Collection 08 - Pink Tilda with Rose, Autumn Leaves - Swirl
Tools: Prismcolors, Sansador, Cuttlebug, Cricut, Glitter, Gems, Flowers, Ribbon - Magnolia

Friday 17 October 2008

Magnolia DT, Dutch Dare + Theme Thursday
I have made this card using another of the fabby new Pink Collection 08 stamps from Magnolia. It is for the Dutch Dare challenge which is to use cardstock only and also the Theme Thursday challenge where the theme is pink. I found this quite a hard card to make as I am not a 'pink' girl!! The embossed card and flower have had glitter put on them to add lots of sparkle but this won't show up in the photo no matter how many times I have tried! The card is aldso white but looks grey for some reason.




















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Pink Collection 08 - Ice/Ballet Tilda, Ice Skates
Tools: Prismacolors, Sansador, Glitter, Gems, Flowers
, Cuttlebug

Thursday 16 October 2008

Magnolia DT + Ismaki #35
Here is another card using the gorgeous Pink Collection 08 stamps from Magnolia which I have based on the wonderful sketch over at Ismaki. I have coloured Tilda with Prismacolors and added glitter to her wings and the rose. I have stamped the DP with a Basic Grey stamp and the wording is a rub on. I even managed to use the optional extra of lace and I added some pearls as I thought these complimented the lace and the image.




















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Pink Collection 08 - Pink Tilda with Rose, Basic Grey - Swirl
Tools: Prismacolors, Sansador, Glitter, Rub Ons, Cricut, Jasmine Cartridge, Pearls, Cuttlebug, Ribbon, Lace, Button
, Distress Inks
Cute Card Thursday 'Autumn' Challenge
The challenge at Cute Card Thursday this week is to make an Autumn themed card and we have some fab stamps from Alota stamps to give to one lucky winner.
I have made a 6" Z Fold card and turned it the other way, the sentiment is behind the picture of Edwin.
I have used my favourite papers by Cosmo Cricket and lots of Glossy Accents on the acorn.



















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia - Edwin with Broom, Owl, Iron Fence, Ant, Acorn, Oak Leaves
Tools: Pro Markers, Glossy Accents, Sakura Clear Stardust Pen, Scallop Scissors, Brad
DP: Cosmo Cricket


Edited: A couple of people have asked how I folded the card, it is a 6" sq card with the front folded at 3" to form a concertina and then instead of standing the card upright it is lying on its base. The brad is there to stop the front sliding down and a sentiment is hidden on the base behind the main picture. I saw this card fold on a website but I can't remember the name of it now.

Wednesday 15 October 2008

Magnolia DT + Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge 21
My latest Magnolia DT package arrived yesterday but due to a nasty stomach bug I only got around to opening today - I must have been feeling rough!! It contained some of the gorgeous Pink Collection 08 stamps, these are such pretty stamps and are helping to raise money for Breast Cancer Awarness.
I have based my card on Lim's wonderful sketch at Spoonfull of Sugar, I stamped the circle with the pink straws stamp using a pink Brilliance pad and the coloured them in using the same inkpad
and a waterbrush.


















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Pink Collection 08 - Pink Tilda with Heart, Pink Straws, Pink Bench, Faith, Hope Love
Tools: Pro Markers, Brilliance Inkpad, Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Quickutz Corners, Glossy Accents
Gems, Flowers, DP - Magnolia

Tilda + Friends 'Tag You're It' Challenge
The challenge at Tilda and Friends this week is to make you ATC into a tag. I have used one of the Magnolia Christmas Collection 08 stamps.



















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Christmas Collection 08, Hero Arts - Sentiment
Tools: Pro Markers, Glossy Accents, Gems, Ribbons, Staples

Monday 13 October 2008

Papertake Challenge - Sketch 13
Here is my card based on this weeks fabulous sketch by Katharina over at Papertakes.


















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia - Tilda with Wreath, Hero Arts - Sentiment
Tools: Pro Markers, Distress Ink, Fiskars Punch, Pearls, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Sakura Clear Stardust
DP: Basic Grey

Thursday 9 October 2008

Cute Card Thursday 'Buttons + Bows' Challenge
The challenge at Cute Card Thursday this week is to use buttons and bows on your card. I have coloured this fab image which Dawny P sent to me with Pro Markers and a Sakura clear stardust pen (the pic doesn't show all the shimmer). The fibres have been tied in a knot (halfway to a bow!!) and the scrummy papers are from Cosmo Cricket and I have stamped Basic Grey swirls over the spotty paper.
Deb is having a blogging break until the New Year so I'll continue to run CCT but on my own. It has been great fun running the challenges with Deb and I hope she will be back with us soon.



















Supplies
Stamps: Sugar Nellie Santa, Basic Grey Figgy Pudding
Tools: Pro Markers, Sakura Stardust, Glossy Accents,Basic Grey Fibres, Buttons
DP: Cosmo Cricket

Wednesday 8 October 2008

New Magnolia Collection
Magnolia are going to be releasing their Santa Collection 08 shortly and here is a sneeky peek at one of the images, isn't he the most gorgeous Santa.











Tilda + Friends ATC Challenge
There is an open theme at Tilda + Friends this week and we have a fabby prize for one lucky winner. I have used 2 of the new Magnolia Christmas 08 Collection and also Tilda's cat. The tree and tinsel are really sparkly but this doesn't show up in the photo.



















Supplies
Stamps: Magnolia Christmas Collection 08, Tilda with Tinsel, Tree. Tilda's Cat
Tools: Pro Markers, Silver Glitter, Glamour Dust