Magnolia-licious September Photo Inspiration

Hello, Friends. I’m so glad you got a chance to stop by and see what I created for the Magnolia-licious Challenge. It’s time for our Photo Inspiration for September and our lovely team leader Candy chose this awesome photo. We want to see you use buttons on your card or project. 

The design team has some spectacular inspiration for you HERE and we would love for you to join us.

If you enter a project in the challenge you could have a chance to win a Special Surprise from Magnolia-licious. Check out the store as Diana has a vast selection of Magnolia stamps, lots of fun cutting dies, designer papers, and other goodies. She even carries the Magnolia Ink Magazine which is one of my favorite places I go for inspiration. 

My card features the adorable “Tilda with a Gift for You” from the Turning Leaves Collection. She's not available in the regular size in the store at this time but Diana reorders often so check back soon for this cutie.

Tilda is colored with Copics and I stamped some flourishes around her frame. Then I randomly added Liquid Pearls in White Opal. 

My DPs are from Prima’s En Francais collection. I love the blue and brown color combos in this collection which happens to be one of my favs. The inspiration photo encouraged me to create a fabulous Magnolia heart die cut covered in buttons. I added some seam binding to the heart for even more texture and used a strip of it behind my lace but it doesn't show up very well in the photo.

For the inside of my card I stamped part of Tilda on the message panel. This would make a great Birthday card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Magnolia; Heidi Grace

Cardstock – American Crafts

DPs – En Francais, Prima

Flowers – WOC; Recollections; Rolled Roses, Marianne Designs

Dies – Magnolia; Marianne Designs

Ribbon – WOC seam binding

Lace: Simplicity

Pearls: Liquid Pearls, Ranger; Recollections 

I’m entering this card in the following Challenges:

Make It Monday – Linky Party, Anything Goes

Tilda’s Town – I chose Fussy and Fancy

Crafty Catz – Buttons

Lovely hAnglar or Sweet Magnolia – Anything Goes

Now for the real excitement…Last week you may remember that I offered this sweet candy as my DT Debut with Magnolia-licious.

I entered everyone’s name that left a comment and posted my candy on their blog sidebar. I let my daughter, Abi help me out with the blind draw and she drew the winner who is:

 

Frances

 

Congratulations, Frances!!! Please contact me at cathylee.co@gmail.com by Sunday, September 30 with your mailing address and I will send your prize to you promptly. 

I hope I’ve inspired you to join us for the Magnolia-licious Challenge. Thanks for popping in to visit and I’ll see you tomorrow with another fun Magnolia card… 

Hugz,

 

Midweek Magnolias - Christmas in September

Hello, Friends and Happy Hump Day! The Midweek Magnolias Design Team has a new challenge for you and this week our theme is “Christmas in September.” So I hope you get out those lovely Magnolia Christmas stamps, papers and embellies to join us for the challenge. Head over to Midweek Magnolias for some awesome inspiration from the DT and leave some love on their blogs. You’ll have a chance to win a fabulous mystery prize from Magnolia Sweden and I’m told they are fabulous.

My card features the adorable “Little Tilda” from the “Little Christmas Collection” available at Magnolia-licious. This was an easy card to make with a simple design, some die cuts, lace, ribbon and flowers.

My cardstock is from Bazzill and the DPs are from Magnolia and Cuddly Buddly. I colored Tilda with my Copics in the following colors.
Skin: E11, E01, E00, E000

Hair: E35, YR23, Y23

Apparel: B97, B95, B93, B91, C3, C1, C00

 

I gave Tilda’s dress some white polka dots with my Sharpie Extra Fine Poster Paint Pen and used my “C Series” Copics for shading them. Silver Stickles adorns Tilda’s bodice and skirt lace and Stardust Stickles on her wings. I distressed Tilda’s frame and the tag with Stormy Sky, Distress Ink for a little extra color and definition with a few pearls on the frame.

Finally, I added my flowers and used my “Sweet Christmas Dreams” stamp for my tag.

The inside of my card has similar elements from the front with a sentiment from Hero Arts. 

Supplies:

Cardstock – Bazzill; the Paper Company

DPs – Magnolia; Cuddly Buddly

Flowers/Glitter Holly Berries – WOC

Dies Cuts – Magnolia; Spellbinders; Memory Box

Pearls – Recollections

Ribbon – Michaels; Simplicity

Distress Ink - Ranger

I’m entering this card in the following Challenges: 

Crafty Catz – Christmas

Stampin’ for the Weekend – Starting Christmas Early

Penny Black at Allsorts – Early Christmas Makes

Anything Goes Challenge – Early Christmas

I hope my card inspires you to join us this week at Midweek Magnolias. Happy crafting… 

Hugz,

I Brake for Halloween

Hi, Braker Fans. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time to show you my DT project for I Brake for Stamps. For my project this week I used a Halloween stamp from the store called “Halloween Scene.” This is just the right size stamp for a small treat bag filled with Halloween goodies.

I colored my image with Copics using some fall festive colors and attached it to a bag of candy corn and peanuts. Together they taste like a Salted Nut Roll candy bar. Yummy! These would make great party favors for the kids. I will be giving this one to my grandson, Ty.

I triple matted my image on Bazzill and The Paper Company cardstock using traditional Halloween colors. Then I attached it to the bag with Scor-Tape. It was as simple as that.

 

You can get this stamp and so many others at I Brake for Stamps online store. Use my coupon code SAVE10CATHY for 10% off your purchase.

 

See you next week…

 

Hugz,

Magnolia-licious Challenge - My Design Team Debut

Hello, Friends and Fellow Bloggers. I have some exciting news for you!!! I was invited to join the Magnolia-licious Design Team for the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog. I can’t tell you how honored I felt when Diana sent me the invite. It’s like a dream come true.

 

So without further ado, Happy Magnolia-licious Challenge Day! The design team has some spectacular inspiration for you HERE and we would love for you to join us.

 

You could have a chance to win this $25 Gift Certificate if you participate by following the theme and rules.

 

 

This is the inspiration photo for our color challenge. The lovely wallpaper with pink flowers and green leaves inspired my color combo.

 

My card features the lovely "Tilda makes a Blueberry Blanket" from the Turning Leaves collection. This stamp is available HERE in the store. Diana has some of the best prices on Magnolia products plus you get 2% store credit with your purchase. The store has a vast selection of regular and mini size Magnolia stamps as well as cutting dies, papers and lots of other goodies. My personal favorite place to shop.

The designer papers I used for my Tilda cutie are from Kaiser Kraft. One of the papers has a large fancy frame so I used it as my card shape. I added some green wide webbed weave ribbon (say that 3 times fast…LOL) for texture. My die cuts are from Magnolia, Memory Box and Marianne Designs. I added some flowers from WOC and I am “in love” with these darling white Hellebores; you are sure see them on more of my projects. My pink sheer ribbon is from The Ribbon Spot and adorned with a pearl heart button from Michaels.

The inside of my card features some elements from the front and I created my sentiment on my PC.

Supplies:

Cardstock – Bazzill

DPs – Kaiser Kraft

Flowers – WOC

Dies – Magnolia; Memory Box; Marianne Designs

Ribbon – Stamp Simply Ribbon Store; The Ribbon Spot

Pearl Heart Button - Michaels 

I’m entering this card in the following Challenges: 

Make It Monday – Linky Party, Anything Goes
Simply Magnolia - Anything Goes
Just Magnolia - Anything Goes with an option

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Now, for a little extra excitement…Drumroll please!

I made a pencil holder and calendar desk set that I am giving away as part of a Candy draw in celebration of my new DT position.

I made this Desk Set from the NEW Score, Fold and Create Scor-Pal Project Book carried by the Magnolia-licious Store. As a little twist to the design I added a block calendar on the side instead of the original design. In the book the desk set includes a little drawer set for things like post-it notes, paper clips and other small desk trinkets. So I used the instructions to create the base of my block calendar instead. I just love this book as I’m a paper engineer at heart and love creating 3D projects. This is the perfect book for me and it inspires me to create other projects that I may not have thought about before hence, the block calendar.

For this project I used Autumn Tilda with Pencils for the front of the pencil holder. I colored her with Copics and I also stamped her with Pink Memento ink which gives her a softer look. But I had to go back over some areas of the image with my brown Prisma pencil to add back a few details as they tend to get lost in the coloring process.

For the side of the pencil holder I used Editor Tilda with the same coloring process.
 

As an added bonus I’m throwing in a couple of Magnolia stamps as part of the Candy draw.

They are:

• Mini Tilda Unanchor from the Mini Summer Memories 2012 Collection and she is paired with Mini Flip Flop Tilda in the store
• Didgeridoo Tilda from the Australia Collection 2012

All you have to do for a chance to win is:

1. Leave me a comment
2. Post a photo of my Candy on your Blog with a link back to this post

I will be drawing the winner before the next Challenge date in two weeks and will make the announcement on Tuesday, September 25.

 

I hope I’ve inspired you to join us for the Magnolia-licious Challenge. Thanks for popping in to visit and good luck in the draw…

 

Hugz,

 

I Brake for Autumn Wishes

Hi, Braker Fans. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time to show you my DT project for I Brake for Stamps. For my card this week I used a cute digi stamp from the store called “Bear in Pumpkin.” Isn’t he cute?

My gorgeous Autumn DPs are from BoBunny and cardstock is Bazzill. I colored my image with Copics and used Walnut stain to distress around the frame while it was still in die cut. This leaves a nice white edge on the outside of the frame.

My sunflowers are Magnolia stamps and I put brown flock in the middle for some texture. Then I added a few festive ribbons fragments from my scrap stash and corner die cuts. The sentiment was printed from my PC on a Whimsy Stamps ticket stamp.

Supplies:

Stamps – IBFS, Magnolia, Whimsy Stamps

Cardstock – Bazzill

Designer Papers - BoBunny

Distress Ink – Ranger

Ribbon – American Crafts; Michaels

Die Cuts – Spellbinders; SCACD

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Make It Monday - Linky Party, Anything Goes

You can get this stamp sweet little bear stamp and so many others at I Brake for Stamps online store. Use my coupon code SAVE10CATHY for 10% off your purchase.

Hugz,

Midweek Magnolias - What's Cooking?

Hello, Friends and Happy Hump Day! We are in the middle of our week and I happen to be in San Diego on business travel. Trying to soak up some fresh Pacific sun and air. The Midweek Magnolias have a new challenge up for you and our theme is “What’s Cooking?”

 

For my card I decided to create a Peek-a-Boo card from one on my Magnolia-licious DT sisters, Norma who created an awesome tutorial right here. She is so talented and I would love for you to visit her, say "Hi" and leave her some love.

I used two Maggies for my card this week from the Magnolia-licious store, Burger Tilda and Kitchen Tilda. These two lovelies say “What’s Cooking” to me. I colored my cuties with Copics but I used so many colors I didn’t catalog them.

I used some pretty DPs from BoBunny - Ambrosia Collection and Bazzill cardstock for the base and scallop frames. I stamped "a little yummy for your tummy" on a frilly Marianne die cut for my sentiment.

When you open the card the second image slides into the frame and shows through the window like this.

This is a shot of the card inside fully open.

Isn’t that just sweet? I love this design and it is so fun to make. Norma has clear step-by-step instructions so I hope you give it a try.

Supplies:

Cardstock – Bazzill

DPs – BoBunny

Flowers – WOC

Dies/Punches – Spellbinders ; Marianne Designs

Seam Binding – WOC

Pearls – Recollections

Charms - Magnolia

 

I’m entering this card in the following Challenges:

 

Make It Monday – Linky Party, Anything Goes
Tilda's Town - Anything Goes

I hope my card inspires you to join us at Midweek Magnolias. Thanks for popping in to visit and have a great week…

Hugz,

I Brake for Cherry Blossoms and Bamboo

Hi, Braker Fans. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time to show you my DT project for I Brake for Stamps. I have some beautiful Asian Stamps from the store and they make great focal points or you can use them to create lovely background papers.

So that’s what I did with these this week. I used the “Mini Cherry Blossom” to create a background paper for my card. I randomly stamped it with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. For my focal point I used “Large Bamboo Stalks” with Peeled Paint and sprayed the stamp with Gold Glimmer Mist before stamping to give it some shimmer. Then I ditressed the edges of my Bamboo stamp with Scattered Straw.

Here’s is a close up so that you can see the glimmer effect. I typed a “Thank You” sentiment on my PC and added a little sheer yellow ribbon with a flower to finish the card. 

Supplies:

Cardstock – The Paper Company

Distress Ink – Ranger

Ribbon – The Ribbon Spot

Flower – WOC

Other – Glimmer Mist 

You can get this stamp and so many others at I Brake for Stamps online store. Use my coupon code SAVE10CATHY for 10% off your purchase. 

See you next week...

Hugz,