Paddling

Hi everyone! Here's the sweet paddling Tilda from the new stamp club kit and of course because she has short curly hair, she's my favourite :D! I've watercoloured Tilda then doodled and watercoloured a little river bank of flowers behind her. I've used the new Tilda's ticket die which is tucked under the image, the paper is by Pion and I've added the stamp club kit sentiment,  faux stitching, stickles, flowers, ribbon and pearls to decorate.

I'm entering my card into the Magnolia Stamp Lovers challenge where the theme is butterflies and there are two in the image.

Enjoy your day :)

TOMIC 46 - Magnolia World + Doo hickey tag

Hi everyone! There's a new challenge starting on TOMIC today which is to use any stamp from Magnolia mini world, a doohickey tag die as the base for the stamp and then the tag can be part of a larger item. Hope you can join us for the challenge and as always there's a gorgeous prize to be won.

 I've used the cute mini world Tilda from the new stamp club kit and I stamped her onto the doohickey tag which is cut from watercolour paper. I watercoloured with various media, inked edges, added stickles and mounted the tag on to the blue card then cut around it to leave a border.

I made a gift box, pizza box style which measures four inches square, it's my favourite box to make as it's so simple and can be modified to different sizes very easily. I think the patterned paper is October Afternoon, but not too sure and after decorating the box with that I added the tag on top of a Spellbinders fleur de lis die cut, added ribbon, flowers, pearls and a beaded tassel at the front.

This is one of the rare occasions when all the sparkle of the stickles has shown up in the photographs but it shows up a bit too much :D...........can't believe I said that!

Beach Finds

Hi everyone, hope you had a good day today. Here's my second card with images from the new Magnolia stamp club kit and a gorgeous Tilda (loved her bobbed hair) and sweet Edwin. Two of my favourite Tilda hair cuts in this kit, bobbed and the short curly style so I was very happy :D! 

Same as yesterday's card for simple style and media which were distress markers, watercolour markers, watercolour crayons. Lots of doodling on this one...............the whole background. I've added some faux stitching, punched corners, pearl pen dots and then the sentiment which I stamped four times in green, red, yellow and blue ink.

Thank you for all your sweet comments as always, they're very much appreciated. Enjoy your evening.

A sunny day at the beach

Hi everyone, hope you had a lovely Easter! I've been having a colouring session with the new Magnolia stamp club kit and here's the first of two I've finished. The card is so simple it feels like cheating :D but for both of the cards I made it just felt like that's how they should be. 

I've created a beach scene and the gorgeous sitting Tilda (don't know any of their names yet) has been masked with the large shell from the kit, love her shoes! I added mini Tilda with life ring further up the beach and then the setting sun. Everything is water coloured with a mixture of distress ink markers, water colour crayons and water colour markers and I've added my doodling, faux stitching, the sentiment from the kit (doubled up on the word sunny), and pearl pen dots to finish off.

No such sunny day here....rain, rain, rain, all day! Back soon with the next card, enjoy your evening.

Bunny Tilda

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good start to the week. I have a Magnolia card to show today with the gorgeous bunny tilda. She's watercoloured, cut out and sitting on a die cut floral circle and I think she's very cute, I couldn't wait to colour her again this year....I like making Easter Magnolia cards almost as much as making Christmas Magnolia cards :).

I've used Magnolia pink stripe paper for the background and it's such a pretty pink too. I also added a doily die cut, a die cut circle from pink Bazzil card which is also embossed and I cut the flower circle again from Crafty Individuals paper and then cut just some of the flower to place over the white die cut. The butterfly is done in the same way, CI patterned paper for the bottom die cut this time and white Bazzil for the top. Added pen dots, gems, pearls and seam binding to finish off, oh and some stickles of course :).

I'm entering my card into MDUC where the theme this week is Easter.

TOMIC 41 - Feathers, flowers and sketch

Hi everyone, we have a new challenge starting today on TOMIC which is a lovely sketch by Lisa to follow and also to incorporate feathers and flowers. I hope you can join us and be in with the chance of a great prize from Magnolia.

I've made a card with the beautiful ballet Tilda, my current favourite :), love her curly hair and the ballet outfit! I watercoloured her with distress ink markers and the background with watercolour paint. The paper is by Magnolia and I've added cut outs from glitter card using a marianne die and die cut DooHickey star tags from fabric. Decoration is with flowers, feathers pearls, gems and lots of stardust stickles.

Enjoy your day.

Signs of spring

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good week. A card to show today with the sweet Celebration Tilda, I think she can work as a sitting Tilda but also looks as if she could be jumping up in the air so that's how I imagined her for this scene. Tilda and the scene are painted with distress inks and distress ink markers and I've created a handbag shaped card for my die cutting maching which I cut from blossom pink Bazzil card. I've added faux stitching, die cut letters, gems and stickles to decorate  and punched flowers which I think look like blossoms so I can enter Cute Card Thursday's challenge for this week which is 'signs of spring'

Have a lovely weekend!

TOMIC 39 - Sketch plus Happy Birthday text

Hi everyone! A new challenge on TOMIC starts today and this week we're celebrating Tilda's Birthday, so Happy Birthday to Tilda! Our theme this week is to follow a lovely sketch by Tina and to include 'Happy Birthday' text. More details on TOMIC, I hope you can join us and be in the running for a gorgeous prize from Magnolia.

This sweet Tilda is water coloured and I've used distress ink markers which are lovely as well distress re-inkers. The background papers are Pion and I've added Magnolia and Prima flowers and a DooHickey die cut fence. The birthday text is a white rub-on.

Enjoy your day!

TOMIC 38 - Friendship + DooHickey

Hi everyone! A new challenge on TOMIC starts today and this week there's our theme is Friendship (Friend or friendship text must be used) + a Doohickey die! . More details on TOMIC, I hope you can join us and be in the running for a gorgeous prize from Magnolia.

Ribbon hair Tilda is another of my favourite Tilda's :), I love her hair! I've water coloured and used some acrylic paint for the garden scene and wall I've painted in the background then edged the scene with a Magnolia flourish stamp and vintage photo distress ink, some stickles too on the distressed edges. The card is A5 in size and the shape created using a Sizzix on the edge doily die. I also used Magnolia paper for the background, part of a Magnolia friend sentiment that I've cut apart and then I've embellished with punched butterflies, gems, seam binding ribbon, lots of stickles and a rose.

Enjoy your day. :)

Sweet Princess Tilda

Hi everyone! Another Magnolia card today and this time previewing two more new stamps from the up-coming Prince's and Princesses collection...this is Sweet Princess Tilda and the castle background (not sure of the correct name for the castle background just yet).

I've painted using lots of bright colours for this fairytale scene and mounted the panel after faux stitching and distressing the edges onto a background of pink and then white card cut at the top with a Sizzex on the edge doily die. The letters were cut from the same pink card using a Sizzix strip die and I've added lots of flowers, lots of stickles and the words from the once upon a time sentiment which have been cut apart.

Hope you have a lovely weekend planned and thanks as always for your lovely comments. :)

Tilda's Family

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good day today! A card to share today with a stamp from the upcoming Magnolia 'Princes and Princesses' collection and this 'Tilda's Family', such a gorgeous stamp to make a card with for all those new little bundles of joy :)! 

I've water coloured the image and die cut using a Spellbinders die which I've altered slightly by cutting off the top and bottom and then faux stiched, distressed the edges and added stickles. The lace edge doily is by Marianne Design and I've used the pretty DooHickey heart swirl and the Peony flowers dies too. The flower is cut from fabric and teased into shape. The paper is by Magnolia from the Butterfly Dreams collection and to finish off the card I added gems, pom pom ribbon and some little roses. 

Enjoy your evening and thank you as always for all your lovely comments which are truly appreciated. Hoping to catch up with comments soon, life is hectic at the moment :)

TOMIC 37

Hi everyone! A new challenge on TOMIC starts today and this week there's a recipe to follow! . More details on TOMIC, I hope you can join us and be in the running for a gorgeous prize from Magnolia.

I created a card shape for my die cutting machine and cut the patterned papers to layer on top. Tilda with her rose is very sweet and I think can be used for many occasions. I watercoloured Tilda then cut her out  together with the sentiment which is a part of the sweet wonderful you stamp. Flowers and gems were my two types of embellishment for this one.

Enjoy your day. :)

TOMIC 36 Edwin + sketch

Hi everyone! A new challenge on TOMIC starts today and this week we're celebrating Edwin's Birthday! Our creations have to follow the lovely sketch by Tina and must include an Edwin. More details on TOMIC, I hope you can join us and be in the running for a gorgeous prize from Magnolia.

My card is mainly kraft card with a scrap of Scenic Route and Magnolia clouds paper for the DooHickey cut banner. Edwin is coloured with pencils and I added lots of faux stitching, buttons, white paint and stickles  to decorate.

Enjoy your day. :)

TOMIC 35 - Valentine + heart

Hi everyone and I hope you're having a good week so far. A new challenge starts today at TOMIC with a theme of Valentine + heart, so there has to be Valentine text and a heart somewhere on your creation. I hope you can join us this week, as always there's a gorgeous prize to be won from Magnolia and lots of gorgeous creations from my DT friends over on the blog.

I've used beautiful 'Tilda with cozy heart' another gorgeous Tilda from the 'Sweet, Crazy Love' collection and I've water coloured her, cut her out and added stickles for sparkle. I designed the card base with the word 'love' as the front of the card for my electronic die cutter and cut the base from white card then the layers from Magnolia paper. I also added the Doohickey 'Romantic Lace' border as the back layer of my card with pearl strings, flowers, pearl pen dots and the heart punch waste from the border die to decorate. Another one of my favourite Tilda's [there are so many of my favourites :D], she's so lovely to colour.

Enjoy your day :),

TOMIC 34 - Oval card and embossing

Hi everyone and whoops, this post failed to publish this morning! A new challenge starts on TOMIC today and our theme is to make an oval card and use heat or dry embossing. I hope you can join us this time and as always there's some beautiful inspiriation from my DT friends.

I've used sweet Valentino, coloured with distress inks and cut out. My oval card is embossed using a Crafts Too hearts embossing folder and I've sanded back the hearts to reveal the kraft core of the coredinations card. I used the Doohickey 'so wrapped lovely' die for the heart elements which are cut from silver glitter card and I trimmed out the hearts from the die cut piece then layered them over another oval of embossed card with some sizzex die cut numbers. The Doohickey romantic lace was used to cut more glitter card to edge the second oval and I trimmed slits into the border once cut to make fit around the oval.

Enjoy your day :)