tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532171291727408832024-02-19T16:56:15.235+00:00a touch of magnoliaChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14493588973399676979noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53217129172740883.post-44812723927945034092013-04-30T22:45:00.003+01:002013-04-30T22:45:41.948+01:00Clown Tilda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi everyone, I hope your week is going well so far. Today I'm sharing a card with the sweet Tilda as a clown from the once upon a time collection. I've coloured with watercolour markers, given her a clown nose with red marker and drawn in a harlequin background.<br />
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I'm entering my card into the challenge at Tilda's Town which this week is May Day flowers.<br />
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Hi everyone! Today I've made a card with the sweet Tilda long stocking and coloured her with distress and wataercolour markers, cut her out and added her to my card base. I also used the gorgeous butterflies again this time stamping, colouring with markers and cutting them out to place amongst the flowers. I also added the Magnolia balloons with a chit chat sticker as this is a Birthday card for a lovely friend.<br />
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I created the card base for my die cutting machine with Basic Gray paper under the trellis. I've added stickles for some sparkle and lots of pearl pen dots to decorate.<br />
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Hi everyone, a card to share today with the gorgeous new Princess Tilda with ballet shoes, I do love the ballerinas :D! I coloured Tilda with distress and watercolour markers and added some faux stitching around the image. </div>
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I also created the background paper with the fantastic new collage style stamps that are in the new 'once upon a time 2013 collection'. I used the two smaller butterflies and the smaller crown and distress ink for this piece. The rest is a floral overload :D, stardust stickles glitter glue, seam binding ribbon, a chit chat sticker and pearl pen pearls. </div>
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I'm entering my card into <a href="http://tildastown.wordpress.com/">Tilda's Town challenge</a> of flowers everywhere.</div>
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Hi
everyone, a Magnolia tag to share today with the gorgeous 'joyful
Tilda' from the Christmas story collection and she's another sweet one
that can be used for lots of occasions.<br />
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her with distress ink and watercolour markers and added her to the
chipboard tag. I cut the tag and the frame with sizzix dies which I've
covered with Cosmo Cricket Dutch Girl digi paper from Jessica Sprague.<br />
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Lots of flowers and some pink silk ribbon to finish off.<br />
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I'm entering my tag into the challenge at <a href="http://midweekmagnolias.blogspot.co.uk/">Midweek Magnolias</a> of 'shabby chic' and the challenge at <a href="http://tildastown.wordpress.com/">Tilda's Town </a>of F & F or U & E, I've gone for f & f (fussy and fancy)<br />
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Hi
everyone and I'm back today with a Magnolia project to share using the
gorgeous new bunny Tilda's from the Little Easter Collection, this is
Ballerina Bunny Tilda and Tilda Holding Easter Egg, they're very cute
and are a lovely additions to my Easter Magnolia's, I particularly love
the bunnies! I've also used the Doo Bee Pops Honeycomb paper again to
make the Easter egg on the corrugated card tag and it's such a pretty
colour for spring and Easter.<br />
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coloured with copic markers and then cut them both out. I painted the
tag with Picket Fence crackle paint and edged everything with Gathered
Twigs Distress Ink. The fence is die cut from white Bazzil card using
the Lovely Fence DooHickey die and the butterflies are also DooHickey
dies. It's not that visible but behind the fence which is curved around
the tag and at the base of the tag I added some green crepe paper which I
cut into to make the grass for the egg to sit in.
I've finished off with some pearl pen pearls and some turquoise tulle
netting for the bow.<br />
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Have a lovely evening :D<br />
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I'm entering my tag into:
<a href="http://www.midweekmagnolias.blogspot.co.uk/">The Midweek Magnolia's challenge</a> of 'the colour blue'
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<a href="http://stampandcreatewithmagnolia.blogspot.co.uk/">Stamp and Create with Magnolia</a> where the challenge is Spring with Butterflies<br />
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Hi
everyone and I hope you're keeping warm if you're here in the UK. More
snow down here in the south and very pretty it is as long as the roads
stay clear :D, a photo I took today is further down.
For this project I've tried colouring directly onto a wooden heart
decoration, I like to see the effects I get on different surfaces. I
used pencils and as the wood is a very soft wood the effect is less
precise than but I like the rustic effect. I coloured a background but
left the edges uncoloured. On this side I've used Tilda with dot bow and
the flying heart on the large hanging heart. The other hearts are
freehand.<br />
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On
the other side of the main heart I've used the gorgeous Tilda blowing
hearts, I think she's really sweet and can be used for occasions other
than valentine and of course neither of these Tilda's have wooden hearts
:). The smaller wooden hearts are the same on both sides.<br />
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I'm entering into the following challenges:<br />
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<a href="http://magnoliadownunderchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/">Magnolia Down Under</a> - Love is all around us <br />
<a href="http://www.midweekmagnolias.blogspot.co.uk/">Midweek Magnolias - Valentine</a><br />
<a href="http://timeformagnoliachallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/time-for-magnolia-challenge-01.html">Time for a Magnolia Challenge</a> - Anything Goes <br />
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Hi everyone, hope your weekend is off to a good start. A large tag to share today and I've pencil coloured <i>Edwin with Daffodil</i> from the new <i>Little Easter Collection</i>, he's very cute! I cut him out and mounted him onto the tag with gel glue as I have a lot of dimension.<br />
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I've also used some of the new <i>Magnolia Doo Bee Pops honeycomb paper</i>
and I've used this cut with the Magnolia Doo Hickey flag die from the
Peony and Turquoise paper and edged the paper with white paint. I also
cut some of the Fern Doo Bee Pops free hand into a leaf shape and made a
stem from a thin piece of the paper for my sild daffodil to rest on.
The base tag is cut from re-cycled corrugated card, then a chipboard tag
cut with a Sizzix Ornamental die covered in Websters Pages paper and
under that I've cut three DooHickey mini doilies from white card, cut
them in half and placed in between the two tags.<br />
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<a href="http://tildastown.wordpress.com/">Tilda's Town</a> - anything goes<br />
<a href="http://stampandcreatewithmagnolia.blogspot.co.uk/">Stamp and Create with Magnolias</a> - spring flowers <br />
<a href="http://magnoliamaniachallenge.blogspot.co.at/2013/02/wir-sind-wieder-da-were-back.html">Magnolia Mania</a> - anything goes with the option of hearts but I didn't use hearts<br />
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week as today I'm able to share one of my Magnolia projects which
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yesterday with a little step by step on how I made up the tag. Tilda
blowing hearts is coloured with distress and watercolour markers and
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The image is matted onto white card which is corner punched and edged with barn door DI then stickles. There's a little panel under the image which is stamped with an x peg stamp and under that the background is embossed with a Tim Holtz clock face folder and sponged with various distress inks. I added the gorgeous little tea labels shapes dies (my current favourites!) stamped with the peg stamps and various DI colours. To finish I've added bakers twine a button and some pearl pen pearls.</div>
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Hi everyone, I'm back again today with a little bit of romance from the new and absolutely gorgeous 'With Love' collection even though I haven't really finished with my winter stamps yet, still some I need to use but I love cherubs and Bonny Tilda was calling :D. The element stamps in this collection are superb and I've been enjoying putting them to good use on this little Valentine postcard featuring 'Bonny Tilda', 'Flying Heart', 'New York' text, and 'Postcard' text.</div>
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I cut a piece of the Magnolia 'Love Postcards' paper, again the papers are very pretty in this collection to postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches and attached it to a piece of white card cut to the same size. The edges of the paper have been sponged with gathered twigs distress ink and then sanded back a bit to give a white edge. I painted over some gesso which was watered down to knock back the the colour of the paper a bit in the middle as I wanted to stamp and colour over the paper. </div>
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On the back I've created the writing part of the postcard with the text stamps again and then I've added some lines with a black pen for the middle and address. I sponged the edges and flicked on some watered down gathered twigs distress ink to give an aged look.</div>
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It's my turn to open the shutter for day 25 of the Magnolia Advent Calendar and I've created my version of the Nativity by creating a chipboard panel covered with watercolour paper for my scene which is coloured with distress ink and watercolour markers with my doodled scene around and in the background.</div>
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Hi everyone, another Magnolia card to share today featuring 'Tilda in the forest' from the Christmas Story collection and I imagine her going off to find her Christmas tree :). Tilda is coloured with distress and watercolour markers and then cut out.</div>
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I've used a Memory Box three die cut in two ways for this card, the die cut pieces on the background glued down over some bazzil card and embellished with white acrylic paint and stickles and then on the tag I've used the waste as a stencil where I've sponged through Dusty Concorde distress ink over the top of the Silent Night stamped background stamping..</div>
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I've added Magnolia DooHickey snowflake, flowers, sparkly gems, a wooden snowflake and lots of silver pearl pen dots and white pen dots for snow. I attached the tag to the card with some dimension tape over the background and some seam binding ribbon and then added the chit chat sticker to finish off.</div>
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Hi everyone, hope your week is going well and Christmas preprations almost done :D! Another of my Christmas cards to share today and this time with the very sweet Tilda with saffron buns, love her hat with the heart at the top! I think saffron buns are very traditional in Sweden and we were welcomed with coffee and sugar topped buns soon after we arrived at the Magnolia shop back in October, not sure if those are the same but they are delicious and reminded me a bit of our Chelsea buns.</div>
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Another easel card design with white bazzil card for the base and beautiful Magnolia paper for the top layer<br />
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Pretty ribbon, flowers, a die cut Christmas tree, the 'A Merry Christmas' sentiment, Magnolia Doohickey die cut snowflake and pearl flowers to decorate.</div>
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I'm entering my card into the <a href="http://midweekmagnolias.blogspot.co.uk/">Midweek Magnolias</a> challenge of 'home for Christmas' and <a href="http://tildastown.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/challenge-31-freezin-season/">Tilda's Town challenge</a> of 'freezin' season'.</div>
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Hi everyone and I hope you've had a good weekend. A card to share today with two gorgeous Tilda's, 'Jingle Jangle Tilda' and 'Tilda with two little gifts' from The Christmas Story Collection 2012. I also stamped the Christmas tree from the 2008 Christmas in two colours of permanent ink, brown for the base and olive for the branches. Everything is coloured with distress ink and watercolour markers and I've added the gorgeous Merry Christmas sentiment. I used the DooHickey poinsettia die for the flowers and the mistletoe for the leaves then faux stitched and stamped around the edges of the panel and mounted onto red and green card. To decorate the tree I added lots of little gems in various sizes and some stickles.<br />
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I'm entering my card into the challenge at <a href="http://magnoliadownunderchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/">Magnolia down under</a> which is 'Christmas' and the challenge at <a href="http://itsamagnoliachallenge.blogspot.co.uk/">It's a Magnolia Challenge</a> which is create a Christmas card.<br />
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Hi everyone, I hope you had a good weekend. A Christmas card today that I can share as it's already been received by my friend (I know, I'm never usually this organised :D). I've coloured Christmas Tilda with cat using distress and watercolour markers, faux stitched the edges, added stickles to the edge of the paper then mounted onto pink Bazzil card. I'm not sure of the name of this card design or where it orignated but thank you to whoever it belongs to, it's a great design. </div>
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I've used pink glitter card and Pion paper to decorate the card base, used the same paper to make the Magnolia DooHickey pointsettias and also cut the DooHickey mistletoe die from the pink card. Everything is edged with vintage photo distress ink to finish off.</div>
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This week at <a href="http://tildastown.wordpress.com/">Tilda's Town</a> the challenge is 'celebrate Christmas' so I'm entering that one too.<br />
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Hi everyone, hope you had a lovely weekend. A card to share today with the gorgeous new special Lucia stamp, she's really sweet and just how I imagine Lucia would be. I've painted her with distress ink markers amd watercolour markers and painted in my own Christmas tree background. </div>
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I used up a scrap of patterned paper for the background layer and DooHickey die cut flourish so I can't remeber the brand and I decorated with lots of stardust stickles, Magnolia gold berries, paper roses, lace, a wooden snowflake, pearl pen pearls, faux stitching and the peg letter stamps stamped sentiment 'rejoice'.</div>
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I'm entering my card into the challenge at <a href="http://tildastown.wordpress.com/">Tilda's Town</a> which is 'Anything Goes', <a href="http://marvelousmagnoliachallenge.blogspot.co.uk/">Marvelous Magnolia's</a> has a theme of 'Non-traditional colours - Christmas theme' and I'm hoping my mainly navy and cream colours will fit that. The challenge at <a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/">Cute Card Thursday</a> is 'girls only' so I'm entering that too.</div>
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Hi everyone, hope you're having a nice evening. A Magnolia card to share today with the gorgeous Tilda with puppy and she's very sweet and a Tilda that can be used all year round which is lovely.</div>
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I've coloured with distress ink and watercolour markers and crayons and edged the image panel with gathered twigs distress ink which is my new favourite brown! I made an easel card and used a Tim Holtz baroque die for one of the layers under the image panel. The base card and mats are kraft card that I've stamped with a Magnolia Christmas song background stamp and sponged with DI. The patterned paper is Magnolia and all the edges have been distressed before adding it to the card. I've made a panel using the merry christmas sentiment as the easel stopper and this has been punched with an inverted corner punch to give a book place effect.</div>
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To decorate I've added lots of Magnolia DooHickey die cuts, star dust stickles glitter glue, paper flowers, faux stitching, doodling, pearl pen dots, seam binding ribbon and glitted die cut stars.<br />
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I'm entering my card into the <a href="http://magnolia-liciouschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/">Magnolia-licious challenge</a> which is to 'add stickles or glitter', <a href="http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/">Cute Card Thursday's challenge</a> of Starry, Starry night, <a href="http://midweekmagnolias.blogspot.co.uk/">Midweek Magnolia's challenge</a> of 'oh Christmas tree', <a href="http://marvelousmagnoliachallenge.blogspot.co.uk/">Marvellous Magnolia's challenge</a> of 'traditional Christmas colours' and <a href="http://tildastown.wordpress.com/">Tilda's Town's challenge</a> of 'anything goes'.<br />
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Hi everyone, hope your week is going well so far. At <a href="http://magnoliadownunderchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/">Magnolia Down Under Challenges</a> this week there's a lovely challenge to make a Christmas ornament and as I've had this idea and the styrofoam ornaments for a while I decided to make a set with a little gift basket to put them in. I originally saw this idea on Pinterest done with news or book paper and thought it was a lovely.</div>
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I've used white tissue paper to cover the styrofoam which I stamped with the Magnolia Christmas song background and a Magnolia snowflake stamp in black ink. The paper was torn up and glued onto the forms with gel medium and while still wet I added lots chunky glass glitter and some white crackle paint on the round bauble. Embellishing has been done with Magnolia DooHickey pointsettia, fir branches, swirl and snowflake die cuts, Magnolia silvery berries and with some little painted wood embellishments and rusty bells. I used button twine held into the tops of the ornaments with various stick pins.</div>
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The box is a very straight forward design made from Magnolia Christmas paper and punched white bazzil card for the insert and the handle. I added lots of red paper tissue shred for the ornaments to rest in.</div>
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Happy Halloween everyone, hope you're having a frightful time :D!<br />
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My one and only halloween project is a little zig zag fold book created using the Tim Holtz ATC and corners die for the book covers which I cut from chipboard and then again from lilac bazzil card. In side are the Spellettes (possibly haunting in a venue near you very soon), four of the witch Tilda's from various autumn/halloween collections. I cut watercolour paper slightly smaller than the ATC x four pages and then mountain and valley folded it. Everything is watercoloured and I've doodled some spider webs in the backgrounds and used some peg stamps for the words. There's lots of stickles on the webs and here and there on the Tilda's too.<br />
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Close up and some of the sparkle is showing up.<br />
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The front cover is decorated with DooHickey die cuts from the tea labels set and also the tree which have been watercoloured and the tree has some added doodling. The book holds together with a ribbon stuck down under the bazzil card on the front and then wound round the back to knot at the side.<br />
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Hi everyone and it's good to be back after a couple of weeks of being out of action due to one thing or another, hope you're all keeping well.</div>
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First I'd like to share a tag I've made using the beautiful special stamp that is available only at <a href="http://doeading.nl/shop/special-stamps/8056-magnolia-tilda.html">doe@ding</a> in the Netherlands at the moment. This sweet little Tilda stamp was a gift from my lovely DT friend <a href="http://moniquelokhorst.blogspot.com/">Monique</a> via <a href="http://doeading.nl/shop/special-stamps/8056-magnolia-tilda.html">doe@ding</a> and I'd like to thank them both. A gorgeous Tilda to colour and I love the flower! </div>
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The Magnolia Open Weekend in Boras, Sweden was a truly memorable one for me, I'll never forget the experience and I'd like to thank everyone at Magnolia for inviting me, for all they did to welcome and look after us and for making a dream come true. To my gorgeous DT friends <a href="http://www.debbiedolphins-magnoliacards.blogspot.com/">Debbie</a>, <a href="http://loshakeratomagnolia.blogspot.com/">Albi</a>, <a href="http://moniquelokhorst.blogspot.com/">Monique</a>, <a href="http://lillemorsmagnoliablogg.blogspot.com/">Lillemor</a> and <a href="http://pysselsidan.blogspot.com/">Camilla</a> and to the lovley Angela and Albi's Mum Christina, thank you for making the weekend such a great one, it was wonderful to meet you all and thank you for your company, the laughs and friendship. Thank you Camilla and Lillemor for a great welcome to Sweden, I loved it! I also got the chance to briefly meet my team mate <a href="http://hannashobbyblogg.blogspot.com/">Hanna</a> who came along on Saturday, she's just as sweet in real life. </div>
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Thank you's done, I can say that the workshops went well and it was a pleasure to work with the ladies and children who came along. It was so good to meet blog friends Louise and Marika, what a treat and such lovely ladies! Lots of kisses (3) to you all :). </div>
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The line up before we started on Saturday morning and a little funny moment which was all about my invisibility behind the tree of course :D!</div>
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More photo's below but unfortunately I didn't get as many as I would have liked. My DT friends projects were incredibly beautiful and their work even more inspirational in real life. The Magnolia home shop is a dreamy place for all things shabby chic, the Christmas tree ornaments are just the kind that I like so I brought a few things home!</div>
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It was brilliant to walk around the shop and see some of the creations of my team mates in real life, they're all so very talented.</div>
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Back soon with my one and only halloween Magnolia project, I don't have much reason to make halloween cards but I love the halloween stamps so I have to make something! Catch up with you all soon.</div>
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Evening everyone! Here's the card for my Sunday workshop at Magnolia with the gorgeous Cozy bear this time. Again a nice easy card design so that we can concentrate on the snowy fir tree painted scene in the background.<br />
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Thank you for all the lovely messages yesterday and today and I'll be reporting back on the trip next week, hopefully with lots of photographs. It's been busy and I haven't been able to do any blog hopping but I hope to catch up with you all very soon. Have a great weekend and I can't wait to meet all my lovely friends and everyone at Magnolia in Sweden tomorrow :)<br />
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Hi again everyone and I just wanted to pop on to share the first of my make and take cards for the Magnolia Open weekend. This is the card for Saturday's workshop and as you can see a really simple design so that there's plenty of time to concentrate on creating the background scene. I've used the sweet 'Little Tilda' from the Little Christmas collection and she works well for any occasion I think. Two more sleeps :D.<br />
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Thanks everyone for your lovely comments as always, sorry I haven't been getting back to visit everyone, it's been busy lately. Enjoy the rest of your evening and back tomorrow with my second make and take card.<br />
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Hi everyone, hope you've had a good start to the week. I've been painting up some of the gorgeous new Christmas Story stamps and this is the very sweet Pixie Tilda on the background stamp snowy roof which makes it Christmas here :D, I absolutely love the stamps in this collection, well I always say that and I always do but there's something extra special about the Christmas stamps :).<br />
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I wish I'd taken a photo of the card from the side as it's very 3D which doesn't show unfortunately. The window is a die cut popped up over the magnolia background paper (wallpaper) and the little blind I've made using the tiny scallop Magnolia DooHickey die which is then concertina folded. Everything is painted with distress ink and distress ink Markers, watercolour markers and crayons and Tilda is cut out and popped up over the top with the Magnolia Let it Snow sentiment stamped and cut out as well. I've added lots of stickles, white paint and faux stitching to create the snowy night time scene.<br />
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I'm entering my card into the <a href="http://www.simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/">Simon Says Stamp Challenge</a> where this week it's 'anything goes'.<br />
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Only a couple more days and I'm off to Sweden for the Magnolia weekend.....I can't wait!<br />
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Enjoy your evening :).<br />
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Hi everyone, hope you had a great weekend and if you haven't already seen the Magnolia flyer above on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/magnolia.butiken">Facebook</a> or at <a href="http://magnoliainspiration.typepad.com/">Magnolia Inspiration web page</a> here it is for all my lovely blog readers.<br />
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As you can see Magnolia is having their annual Open event on 6th and 7th October and I'm very excited about the fact that I've been invited to attend. I'll be there doing make and takes and concentrating on creating painted backgrounds (a different background for each day).<br />
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I'm looking forward to meeting everyone at Magnolia and some of my lovely Magnolia Design Team friends, very, very excited about that :D.<br />
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So here is UK Tilda, ready on her scooter for the trip to Sweden (may be a plane will be quicker :D!)<br />
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Scooter Tilda is stamped and watercoloured and also paper pieced with paper I made by stamping a union jack flag stamp from an Artimeo London stamp set. The black cab is a Paper Artsy stamp as are all the London road sign stamps. Background paper is by Papermania and I also created a tag using a Magnolia DooHickey tag die and by making a collage with stamps from the London stamp set.<br />
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Enjoy your day and hopefully you have some sun....here it's nothing but rain for the last two days.<br />
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