New June's Challenge for Magnolia-licious

Good morning peeps...today I'd like to share my new DT creation for this month's challenge over at Magnolia-licious...this month the challenge is to use lace and or bling on your creations....Enjoy!!!!

 

I truly love how this card turned out...I totally left the inside blank to...I figured this would be a perfect note card for someone...here are the products that I used that you can pick up at the Magnolia-licious on line store...

Polkadoodles Believe Stamp 

Lemon Craft Sense and Sensibility paper

Lady E small leaf die

Foamiran

white  pink

Vintage seam binding

Flower centers

Chipboard brick background

Metal corners

Isn't she gorjus.... I totally love the simplicity of this image...I was able to finally get the hair to work for me, kind of...lol...I used distress inks to do all of the coloring and a Tim Holtz snarky sentiment...

Well, this is all I have for today...hop on over to Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog to see what my team members have created...they have really rocked it again this month for the challenge....And make sure you take a gander over to Magnolia-licious on line stoip to stock up on all of your crafting needs....Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you at the challenge....hugs from a chilly Charm City....

Exciting News and Magnolia-licious Challenge--Lace

I would love to share my excitement with you all. I have been asked to be a part of the wonderful Magnolia-licious DT. After a long stint away from playing with everyone, I am excited to be back. Thank you Shawn and Kim. I look forward getting to know my team members. They are also looking to add more designers to the team if you're interested. I posted the deets in a post below this one if you're interested.

Now onto the challenge for this month...This month's challenge is to use lace on your project...any kind of lace....there's a chance to win $20 prize and be a guest designer next month. ..they have some awesome vintage and other types of lace in the store....So why not hop on over to Magnolia-licious  Challenge Blog and join in on the fun. And make sure you check out what my other team members have created..... Enjoy!!!!

Direct link to the challenge:  Lace Challenge

On this card I used paper from Lemon Craft -Fresh Summer (yellow pattern)
white foamiron (colored in with distress inks)
stamens
vintage lace
stamped sayings
......everything else was just things out of my very own vintage stash...lol...the little tea box holder was actually a valentines box that I painted and covered...it was the perfect size to house tea bags....

side view....love this lace....

I have to say that the foamiron flowers feel so so real when you touch them...I can't believe I am just finding out about this material....

little tea box

Well I hope you enjoyed my little post for the lace challenge today....I do hope you'll stop on over and check out the rest of the teams designs and play along with us....we would love to see you.....have a great day...hugs from Charm City....

BB Magnolia Challenge #4

I wanted to share a card I made for the BB Magnolia Challenge that I had made yesterday morning while DH was sleeping....I have to say that I truly like the outcome of this card. I don't get many of these, so this is dear to my heart....lol...my vision all came together rather simply...no fussing like normal (other than cutting the jar from my Cricut) or anything....lol....the challenge was to make an easel card and use an un-inked stamp....I have never used the haunted house stamp and Miss Tilda I got from a dear friend-- Sharon (thanks girl)...and I have been dying to use the haunted house ever since the sweet Miss Diana had sent it to me.....thank you so much Diana...I can see many uses out of this stamp...she doesn't have this stamp in the store right now, but she does have other awesome stamps there to purchase...not to mention a pre-order for the new wedding collection...so hop on over the the Magnolicios Store and take a look at what she has...you'll sure not be dissatisfied...... You all know how I just love to create scenes...so I thought this would be a great scene with both of these together....I cut the jar (at which is one of my fav. cuts) from my Cricut Expression machine (5.5" Doodlecharms welded together to make card--don't forget to flip one of them--out of black cardstock--blackout) and 2 separate cuts --blackout --(out of watercolor paper) for the outside top and bottom of card...Then a black shadow layer for the top....I did cut everything from watercolor paper so I could color it in how I wanted to to be except the shadow black.....I also made this into a pop-up card....I have wanted to make one of these again and thought this would be the perfect time.....I loved how the border of birds came out too...and the glass garland was white and I water colored that to make it blend in better using distress ink black soot.... Well if you get a chance pop on over to BB Magnolia Group and play along this week...we would love for you to.......that's all I have for today....remember tomorrow is The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge Day....make sure you come back to check out what the Dolls have done for this weeks challenge....it's going to knock your socks right off your little piggies.....lol.....have a great week ahead.....Hugs from a very cooler Charm City..... this is the front view with the easel card closed....I cut the jar from Doodlecharms on my Expression machine....

here's is the open view front....Miss Tilda and the Boo letters (Schoolbook cart) all pop-up when opened....I don't know if you can see the little birdies in the center of the alphas but I used MS bird border punch for those and the border around the outside.....

and hereis the side view......Happy Scrappin....

I Came, I went, I Shopped--Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge

I am so sorry, I just couldn't resist this for this card. When I put this card together I had no idea what I was going to put for the greeting. Or what I was going to put behind the fence. (I do that a lot, put the card together before I know what I want to use.) The only thing that came to mind was, let's go shopping. But I didn't want the same, boring greeting as I have used on previous cards and wanted to step it up a knotch....*smile*...so I was flipping through my Ultimate guide to the perfect word book, and came across this greeting and sentiment (posted behind the fence) and thought, how fitting for so many of us out there in blog land. If by some reason you don't have this book, I would highly suggest having it. I purchased mine at Michael's and I'm pretty sure they still have them. Anywhoo--I made this card for the sketch challenge over at Magnolia-licious Highlites blog. The every umber creative Claudia supplied the sketch for this challenge. So if you find yourself looking for something to do, hop over and do this challenge. I just hope I did it justice. I purchased my Maggie stamps ( Tilda with bike--beach fence and the ever so cool general store) stamps from the sweet Miss Diana over at Magnolia-licious Store. Come on, you all know you want to have these in your stash of stamps (if you don't already). They are so fun and versatile. You can use them in so many other ways than what they are intended for. Look at the beach fence--I didn't use that for a beach card, or the general store stamp if you want trim off the general store part at the top and use it for something else. Just a couple ideas.... Well we are off today for our niece's 4th birthday party. Oh how I Love little kid's parties. I just love to see the little one's having such a blast, laughing and smiling and getting all of that cake over their faces. Priceless memories....Enjoy!!!!

I used all distress re-inkers to color everything in....pop dotted the cute little Tilda up....and printed greeting off the computer...I also used those thingies from Karen Foster brads that have those loops so you can tie something together. I just trimmed those off. I really wanted these brads because of the texture to make it look like something you would see as a closure on a fence....and I just added stickles here and there to give it some interest.

here's the open view...I actually stamped the beach fence twice on each side to get the length I needed and just trimmed off what I didn't need...then matted it onto black card stock and trimmed but left the black card stock longer on the ends so that it would wrap around and underneath the matted store stamp...

I also added black card stock to the backing of these stamps. I just figured it made it look more finished. .....

Some really exciting news is that the design team is up over at Burtonesque Dolls Blog. We are gearing up for a hop next Tuesday April 27th at 12 am...so hop over and check out the amazing team that Betty put together. And don't forget to hop back on the 27 th to check out the blog hop. She's put together a prize package and I know the team will also be having candy that day on their blogs. This will be such an amazing journey with these dolls...and I can't wait.... every Tuesday will be a new challenge posted..so make sure you all come back for those---

Well--I hope you all have a wonderful day...I know we will other than the raining days ahead of us here...Hugs from a wet and chilly Charm City....

A Magnolia Challenge CArd

Happy Thursday evening everyone. Just a quick post for today. I made this card for the Magnolia Challenge Blog. It was a sketch this week. It turned out simple, but I really love the simplicity of it. I used distress inks to color her in (I'm really loving those reinkers...lol).....Enjoy.... Have a wonderful weekend. We are off to PARTY this weekend. We go to the beach for the St. Patty's Day celebration and get to see all of our friends down there and hang out with them. I sure do hope they will be doing the parade..it's suppose to rain all weekend so I'm not to sure they will still have it....well enjoy your weekend everyone....hugs from a soon to be very wet Charm City.....