Magnolia vs. Stampavie - Week 14

YAY...I am so excited that I got to play along this week with the Magnolia vs. Stampavie challenge....I love their challenges (school work just had to wait today...ha ha).....I got my creation done just in the nic of time! Woo-Hoo! This week was a color challenge, you needed to use chocolate chip, old olive, not quite navy, and bashful blue. Seeing how these are colors I normally don't use it made my brain think hard.....but I did have fun and found some new favorite colors to play with! I love it when that happens! Since I love to follow sketches when I create, I headed on over to the fabulous Katharina's blog and found THIS sketch to use as my starting point. Katharina makes the best sketches!!!

For this card I used Valentine Tilda who was colored with my Copics (real surprise huh?!). I got out my handy dandy Janome Mini Sewing machine for this card.....I just love that thing.....thanks mom and dad for the fun toy (they got me it for christmas)! Used my nesties (nesties and Tilda were purchased from Wish On A Scrap)! DP is Creative Memories, and cardstock is SU and textured CS from my stash. Flowers, ribbons and charm also from my stash. Used my Martha punch for my leaves. The small flower on the bottom was painted with December Sky Shimmerz Blingz for some extra sparkle.

Here's a close up of Miss. Tilda so you can see the coloring!
Then here is the inside....I decided to carry the sketch through to the inside of the card...can you tell I went crazy with my sewing machine today?!

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend! We are getting some snow here today so it's a good day to stay inside and craft....tomorrow is homework day....ICK!

Thanks for stopping by!

Magnolia vs. Stampavie Meets Friday Sketchers

This week over at Friday Sketchers is a fabulous sketch done by my friend Mumur! She does fantastic work...if you haven't gone to her blog you NEED to go and see her amazing work! Mumur's sketch was so much fun to play with!

Here's the sketch:

I tweaked the sketch just a tad....put the flower/flourishes on the opposite side otherwise my ribbon covered my pretty dp! The Magnolia vs. Stampavie challenge this week was to use a bow on your card! In this past week's SCS newsletter Pam Bassett showed her tutorial how to create a ribbon blossom! I have never done this before so I thought I would challenge myself to use it in this week's Magnolia challenge! I do think for my very first ribbon blossom it turned out pretty cool!

This card was created for my Mom's boss's birthday today! I colored Tilda with my Copics (of course). Cardstock was in my stash, dp is Deja Vue, I used stickles on Tilda's wings. Ribbon, flower, and jewels are from my stash. Remember Loreen at Wish On A Scrap sells the Magnolia stamps!

I carried the dp through to the inside. I used my martha punch and my corner punch (from Wish On A Scrap....gosh I really love these punches), and added one of my special angel charms as a finishing touch.

My Mom called me tonight and said her boss absolutely LOVED the card! That makes me feel so good when people treasure one of my creations!

Tomorrow is CBCC day....so make sure you come back to see my surprise for that!

Magnolia Vs. Stampavie Challenge 8

I want to thank everyone who sent me congratulations and best wishes for my "Chick Status" (if you haven't seen....my exciting news post is below)! It means a lot to me to know everyone cares! I am very excited to create for Courtney! Thanks again Courtney for asking me to join the peeps!

This card goes along perfect with today's post! Over at the Magnolia Vs. Stampavie Challenge blog this week's challenge was a sketch challenge....but there is a small twist! You need to make your card a Thank You card....so this is for each and everyone of you out there who support me, inspire me, and challenge me! You are all treasured friends!

Here is this week's sketch: I decided to use my Tilda with rose that I got from my Secret Angel in the Magnolialicious Yahoo Group! Thanks again Lisa! I absolutely LOVE her! I colored Tilda with my Copics, added stickles to her wings and lace on her dress. Then I used some pink perfect pearls and painted on top of the rose for some extra shimmer! It gave the flower a beautiful irridescent effect! Papers used were Dovecraft from the Hint of Pink pack, DCWV, SU cardstock, and some clearance papers that I got from Michaels.

Flowers are primas. Lace, beads, and charms are from my stash. Punches used were the negative from my Heart Corner Punch (from Wish On A Scrap), and my Martha floral boarder punch which I made into cute corners. I got this idea from one of my idols, Suzanne! You can see her awesome idea here!She is so creative, and her work is absolutely amazing! If you haven't gone over to her blog, click on over there and take a look. You won't be disappointed!

And if you take a close look at my charm, you will see it says Thanks! I thought that was a perfect touch!

Then of course we have the finished inside! I think this is my favorites inside done so far!

Hope everyone is having a good week! Tomorrow I am off to go and craft with my Grandma! We are going to take a card class together! I am very excited, and it's so special to be spending time with my Gram doing what we both love to do! (She's a very talented card maker!!!) I can't wait to come back and show you what we make! It's going to be a real treat, I promise!!!! I saw a product of the class and it's amazing!!!!

And I have a few more blog candy places for you:

Stop over by Simon...there is some AMAZING candy there!

Mumur has some WOJ Herb candy!

Monika some some fab give aways!

Lim has some Hanglar candy! Woo-Hoo...can't get them here!

AND don't forgot to head on over to the Wish Blog and get your challenge card entered to with a WOJ Lizzie with Box of Chocolates stamp...you only have until Sunday, January 11th!

Thanks for stopping!

Happy New Year!

This week at Magnolia vs. Stampavie there was a sketch challenge! I just love sketch challenges...if you haven't noticed! :) However, I was trying to figure out how I was going to interpret this one....I didn't have 3 Magnolias that I liked all together to use in each window (and I don't have any Stampavie stamps....YET...hope to in the near future...hee hee)....but I have Tilda with Vine and Basket that I thought would make a SUPER cute New Years card! Over at A Spoon Full of Sugar and Everybody Art Challenge their challenges were to make a New Years card so this was going to be perfect to use for all the challenges!

Here's the Magnolia vs. Stampavie sketch created by Donna.
And now for my interpretation of the sketch! I decided to rotate the sketch. Tilda is colored with my Copics which both are purchased from Wish On A Scrap. The red paper is Bo Bunny, and the black is some more of my wedding invitation paper left over. Ribbons, primas, brad, and spacer is from my stash. Tilda is double pop dotted to stand up off of the card. And the middle panel "New Year" is pop dotted up. I love all the dimension of this card! Wish I could share the 3D-ness with you!

And of course couldn't get away without decorating the inside of the card! Again paper is left over from my wedding invitations! I just love that paper....it's a very thick black card stock with lots of shimmer to it! I'm going to be sad when it's all gone! Good thing I still have a few pieces left to play with!

I want to thank everyone who comes and visits my blog and leaves such wonderful comments! I have met so many wonderful people from all over the world in the past 8 months, and I am so happy to call you all friends!

Sending my wishes to everyone for a happy, healthy, successful, creative and inky 2009!