An Easter card for my eldest daughter.
Card recipe:

DP is from my stash (had it so long I don't remember who made it)
Cardstock is Stampin Up in pale plum, perfect plum, bashful blue and night of navy.
Flowers are from wild orchid crafts and bizzy becs.
Sentiment is from Stampin Up.
Ribbons are also from my stash.

Tildes coloured using Copic's
E11, E00, E000, R20, B91, B93, B95, C1 and 0.

This is one of my favourite images. I'm working my way through the images I've been given as I only have a few of my own stamps. The ladies in the magnolia group are so generous. So thanks again!!!!

-wishing true happiness to you all!!

April Mingle...No peeking Marcia Duncan

Hey Marcia if you want your mingle to be a surprise no peeking ... It's going postal tomorrow!!!




















Card recipe:

Cardstock - cool carribean by Stampin Up
DP - retired set by Stampin Up
Pink grosgrain ribbon from my stash.
Flowers - cherry blossoms and wild rose from wild orchid crafts.
Tilda is coloured with Copics
E000, E00, E11, E79, E47, E31, BG10, BG13, BG15, R81, R83, R85.

Thanks for stopping by.

-wishing true happiness to you all!!

Card and anything but a card for Magnolia-licious highlights challenge

Hi all this is my card for challenge number one.....
fabulous EASTER-SPRING EXTRAVAGANZA CONTEST that's happening on the wonderful
Magnolia-licious Highlights Challenge blog
I have used an eclectic mix to do this card :
The dp's I've had around for a bit I think they are bella the cardstock is purely pomegranate and pixie pink from Stampin Up as is the inside sentiment stamp.
The front sentiment is Grace Taylor.
The brads,ribbon,charm and bling are just random bits from my stash.
The gorgeous cherry blossoms are from the wonderfulWild orchid crafts
Tilda is coloured with Copics
R85, R83, R81, C1,E27, E25, E11, E00, E000 and R20


I hope you like it!!!

And here is my anything but a card for challenge number three...




























I used a 12x12 piece of card stock that I've had a while stamped it with studio g clear stamps flower and the word enjoy in soft sky and also just the flower in taken with teal both are Stampin Up colours. I then scored and cut it to make a milk carton to fill with Easter Eggs.
My happy easter stamp is Stampin Up and I stamped it in taken with teal ink I cut it out using my creative memories cutting system the punched a scallop oval using my Marvy giga punch. Ribbon is from my stash. The beautiful flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and Bizzy Becs
Tilda is coloured with Copics:
BV02, BV04, E11, E00, E000 and C1.




-wishing true happiness to you all!!

Enormous Twisted Easel

I have finally finished this massive masterpiece. My mum's friend from her patchwork sisterhood asked for a card for her parents 65th wedding anniversary. I'm getting paid for this one!! She wanted it as big as I could make it. Well I decided on 12x12. I thought I'd go with the twisted easel as it offers more support to the card front than the standard easel.

I used 3 pieces of the backing board that comes with stampin up designer paper. I also used for the card front a piece of mount board from Eckersley's Art and Craft. I used some ivory shimmer card stock as my card base. All of the patterned paper is from a retired set from Stampin Up and it is my absolute favourite. The plain cardstock used is Stampin Up apart from the black one. The lace and ribbon from local Spotlight and the little heart pin is Heidi Grace.
Of course by now you would have guessed that the flowers are from that wonderful place ... Wild Orchid Crafts
I didn't have any purple flowers and I thought I would give colouring them with my Copics a go. I think they turned out OK.

I'm also entering this in the Magnolia- licious highlights challenge blog. In the April challenge as it's a Tilda and Edwin together theme.




























































For the centre circle on the front of the card I used week 132 sketch from Mojo Monday.

Would love to know what you think!!!
Thanks for stopping by.


-wishing true happiness to you all!!

Home Made Copic Storage

I had a lot of problems trying to find something to store my Copics in. I really need to go
check out Ikea!! But for now I needed something!! My collection was out growing my ziploc bag. Yes you read that right ziploc bag. So with trusty google I searched high and low for what people were using to store their Copics. I found some great and some not so great and some totally unique.
The best one I found was on this blog

http://mymagnoliaworld.blogspot.com/2011/02/copic-storage-instructions.html

So this was the one I used. I don't think mine is as flash, but it's definitely functional.

Midsummer Tilda

I made this birthday card on request from my mother in law. It is for her friends 80th birthday. I hope she likes it!!!

The cardstock and patterned paper are both from Stampin Up.The oval shapes are cut with creative memories cutting system. The gorgeous flowers are once again from the wonderful world of Wild Orchid Crafts
Cherry blossoms and a curly Wild Rose. The sentiment stamps are clear stamps from Studio G.
Midsummer Tilda is coloured with Copics: E000, E00, E11, E25, E27, E50, BG15, BG13, BG10 and R20. I added Kindy Glitz in Crystalina to her dress.
Mini tilda is coloured with copics as well but I can't remember exactly which I used similar to Midsummer Tilda except hair and wings.
Thanks for stopping by to have look. Would love it if you have the time to drop me a comment.


-wishing true happiness to you all!!

My Bestie's Birthday Card

I made this cute lil Cupcake Kiki card for my bestie Lana's 37th birthday. Cardstock is Stamping Up. I'm not sure who the patterned paper is by I have had in the stash a while. The gorgeous flowers are from the wonderful wonderful peeps at Wild Orchid Crafts. I used a curly wild rose and cherry blossoms. I kindy glitzed the centres of the cherry blossoms with crystalina.
Kiki is coloured with Copics: E000, E00, E11, E97, E99, Y21, Y26, R85, R83, R81, BG10, BG13, BG15 and R20.
Thanks for looking.


-wishing true happiness to you all!!

Sparkling Tilda

This little easel card is made with stamping up very vanilla and pretty in pink card stock. Assorted ribbon and lace from Spotlight. Curly wild roses and cherry blossoms from the wonderful Wild Orchid Crafts.
I coloured Tilda with Copics:
R20, E000, E00, E11, E27, E25, E31, R85, R83, R81 and Y000. Hope you like it.

-wishing true happiness to you all!!

Twisted Easel card

My first attempt with a twisted easel. Just a small one with a Tilda!!

-wishing true happiness to you all!!

December Mingle

Ok I think I've got it worked out again. So here goes... This is my December mingle.
I made a second copy of the image and cut out the wreath and Tilda's gloves, I pop dotted it to make the wreath stand out. Hope my mingle partner liked it.

-wishing true happiness to you all!!