Tilda's Flowers

Today we have had a new front door fitted and I have been up and down the stairs to answer various queries from the fitters. It's not exactly as I requested, but it should be altered next week in order to to comply. Never once, when having replacement windows or doors has the job proceeded in a totally straightforward manner. Hey Ho!

We have had to have lessons in how to get into the house using the locking mechanism in this door. It's a trifle more complicated than the last one!

On to crafting... this card is for a few challenges.

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Sugar and spice and all things nice

Paper Cutz - 3 Patterned papers

Cute Card Thursday - Monomania (shades of blue... apart from her hair)

Crafty Creations - Paper piecing (her jeans)

Digital Tuesday -Blue & White +1 (the papers are digi downloads)

Just Magnolia - Punch it out (flowers & word window)

Paperplay Challenge - Shiny Happy People ( the wings are glittery)

Stamp Something - Stitching (faux)

The papers are a mix of Pink Petticoat and Cuddly Buddly, with the denim paper being a free download from the Canon Scrapbook site.

The Magnolia image is mounted on a Nestie Label (4) and the fancy corners are Cuttlebug. The tiny sentiment is from SU.

Winter Birthday

This winter birthday card is for several challenges.

I used the sketch from Truly Scrumptious but I'm really sorry I forgot about the colour (black, pink , green) element of this challenge! It's such a fab sketch I may do another!

The recipe of 3 pieces of DP, 1 piece of ribbon and 3 buttons from A Spoonful of Sugar

The theme of 'Show us Winter' from Roses on Paper

What's New (tiny buttons) from Crafty Cardmakers.

Everybody Art - Snowflakes

The image of course is Magnolia coloured with Copics and the papers are from Cuddly Buddly as are my new miniscule buttons. (The only way I could pick them up was by poking my pokey tool into the holes!) The sentiment is Stampin Up.

I've just eaten almost a whole bag of chocolate covered honeycomb lumps. Talk about moreish. Hasn't done the old waistline any favours!

Take it easy Tilda

This week I have managed to get the Copic Colour Challenge done on time. The chosen colours this week are G00 Jade Green, RV21 Light Pink and B32 Pale Blue.

I used the blue and green together on Tilda's dress and shaded the flowers with all three colours before adding the Glamour Dust.

The chair is from a Whimsey Doodle set, printed onto some Clare Curd Signature Range paper. I cut off the legs of the chair to make the frill from another piece of the paper, using the paper pleating technique as described on the Just Magnolia Blog for their challenge this week.

I actually managed to go out today! We went (very slowly)on the snowy roads to the shops... my husband did the grocery shopping, I went to the Paper Mill shop. Quite a good arrangement I think you'll agree! Just managed to get a couple of bargains, which I will be having a play with this afternoon!

Distressing

I began this card this morning after looking at various challenge blogs. I decided to use the colours from Copic Challenges (as I had all the relevant colours in my collection) without realising that today is the day a new challenge is posted on that blog and by the time I came to upload it, my colours were out of date!!! How distressing is that?

The card itself is lightly distressed with chalk inks, overprinted with a crackle stamp and a little Glamour Dust added, none of which is terribly obvious on the picture. As the Creative Card Crew's challenge is 'Distressing' I'm feeling distressed enough to add it to that blog too. The sketch is from Create 4 fun and was great to work with! I made the sentiment on the computer.

I have just discovered the challenge at Your Next Stamp, where the theme this week is embossing, so this is for that challenge too. The papers are from Pink Petticoat.

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Embossed background

I'm on a roll today, having had very little inspiration over the holiday. It's surprising what a little quiet time can do!
This card combines these challenges.
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch
Creative Inspirations - Thank you
ABC Christmas Challenge - Angels
I thought that this card could be a 'thank you for a Christmas present' card (tenous link) but I think it will be useful!
The background is embossed with Cuttlebug snowflakes and swirls folders and the rectangle is cut out with a Nestie. The cloud stamps are from Unity Stamps and the sentiment was computer generated.

Beautiful Ribbon!

I received a length of this beautiful ribbon in a Secret Santa package from some kind person on the Cuddly Buddly forum. Isn't it simply beautiful!

As Tilda was holding a bunch of flowers similar to those on the edge of the ribbon, I thought that I would use it for her.

The challenges this time are:-

Just Magnolia - Sketch

Colour Create - Lemon & Lime
Crafty Cardmakers - Favourites of 2009 (this simply has to be my Copics, it took me ages to get them, but now I wouldn't be without them!)
Roses on Paper - Favourite medium (once more it has to be my Copics)
The additional challenge for Colour Create was to use Spring or Summer flowers, which I hadn't noticed until I came to link my card to their challenge, what a piece of luck that I had done this element too!

I thought that I was doing this for an angel challenge too, but then I remembered that it was supposed to be for ABC's new Christmas challenge, so this won't exactly do!! Never mind, I'll have to find another angel for that one!

The papers are Pink Petticoat and the Stampin Up sentiment is cut with a Nestie and mounted on a Cuttlebug tag.