Farewell...

Happy Monday Everyone!!!!!  Today is my son's first day back to school. Yay me!!! We had a wonderful summer together, but I'm ready to have my days back. At the beginning of the summer, we didn't have any trips planned. We were going to have a summer by the pool at home. As it turned out, we were leaving for a mini vacation every time I turned around and now I'm over it and ready for things to get back to our normal schedule. Unfortunately, I have mounds of accounting waiting for me to tackle. It'll probably take me a month to get caught up, but it has to be done. Fortunately, I am my own boss and I work from home, so I can set my own schedule and catch up at my own pace. That will still leave me with plenty of time in my craft room! Yay!

Anyway! Back in July, I entered my Little Mermaid Tilda card into the My Partner In Crafting Crime challenge and won. They invited me to be featured in a guest spot today and I'm very excited about it. I was asked to make a card with a 'Vintage' theme about it.

Here's the card that I made. It stars Farewell Tilda from Magnolia's Bon Voyage collection. I hope you like it!

FAREWELL

As I mentioned, I used Farewell Tilda and Farewell (sentiment) on this card. She is from Magnolia's Bon Voyage collection, which I absolutely LOVE!!! Isn't she just adorable??? The background flowers are an image from Tim Holtz's 'Spring Flowers' stamp set.

The dp's I chose are from Graphic 45 and cs is both Bazzill and Stampin' Up! If you haven't checked out the Graphic 45 papers before, then it's certainly time to do so. They now produce 8x8 paper packs in their gorgeous vintage collections and they are ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! The prints are smaller so they're perfect for card making. I spent a lot of time in their booth at CHA just studying their creations. Anyway, back to my card...The gorgeous peach flower and the lace are from Magnolia. The pearls, ribbon, ticket and corner piece are from my stash. I applied star dust Stickles to all of the lace on the image as well as to the flower petals.

I colored the image with both Copic markers and watercolors with Ranger Distress Inks. The details are as follows:

Copics - E00, 02, 42, 43, 50, RV21, R11, 20, W00, 1

DI's - black soot, walnut stain, forest moss, antique linen, tattered rose, tumbled glass, weathered wood

That's all I have for today. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed your visit! Did you check out the countdown to Sweden at the top of the page? I'm leaving in just over a month!!! OMGoodness! I can't wait!!!

Ciao,

Angie

What Time Is It?

Hi Everyone!!! This month we're celebrating a birthday! Yes, it is Diana Crick's birthday this month! This 'time' we were challenged to create a card and an altered item. Anything we wanted to do. I set off to check out local craft stores to see if I could find something that I hadn't done before. I just love what I found and I sure hope you like it too!

It's Time for a Birthday!!!

I had so much fun making this set! I didn't have a whole lot of 'time' this week, so I made my way into my craft room here and there whenever I could. I'm so glad that I finished it on 'time'!!! hehe. I'm sorry that the photos look a little fuzzy. I had to angle the clock so you could see the sparklies without catching an awful reflection on the cover. I haven't figured out how to get everything to focus when taking a photo of something on an angle.

I found this clock at Archiver's and thought it would be perfect! I instantly knew that I wanted to use 4 Tilda's for the 3-6-9-12 positions of the clock. I chose 4 images from the new Bon Voyage Collection: Traveling Tilda, Australian Tilda, Flight Attendant Tilda, and Tilda Goes Shopping. Aren't they adorable little faces!!! This is my favorite collection so far. I couldn't make up my mind about which ones to buy...so I bought them all! Anyway, I wish I could give you the coloring details of each one, but I failed to keep track since I was in and out of my craft room so much. I can tell you that the dp's are from K&Company. I cut the swirls from Bazzill cs using my Magnolia DooHickey cutting die (love them!!!). The ribbon and gems are from my stash. The purple flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the blue and white ones are from my friend and fellow team member, Mindy. Thanks Mindy!!! All images and their backgrounds were cut using Nestabilities. Lastly, I applied stardust Stickles to all of the flowers.

And now for the card...I decided to use both Tilda Goes Shopping and Edwin's Town. My idea is that Tilda would look as though she were walking down the street carrying some bags of goodies that she just purchased for her friends birthday. I really like how it turned out :-) I painted Tilda with color so that she would be more lively and stand out. I painted the buildings very plainly in beige/brown so they would be more of a backdrop.

Here's an angled view so that you can see the dimension of the embellies. The gorgeous purple corduroy ribbon and lace are both from my own stash. I used the same flowers and dp's as on the clock. All cs is once again by Bazzill. The metal flower and round clock piece by the bow are both by Tim Holtz. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't show the clock piece well. It has an antique finish on it and it's beautiful. The jewelled pin and blue gems are also from Mindy. I applied stardust Stickles to the flowers.

As always, I combined Copic markers and watercolor with distress inks on the images. Here are the details:

Copics: E00, 02, 43, 33, 50, 53, RV21, Y23

Ranger DI's: worn lipstick, broken china, black soot, walnut stain, spun sugar, tea dye, antique linen

I'm sending this card to a special someone, so I finished the inside. The doily is from my collection.

Here you can better see the sentiment, which is from Stampin' Up! Can a girl have too many sentiment stamps??? Don't think so! In fact, I think I need more!!!!!!

Well, that's all I have for today. I sure hope you enjoyed my projects. Be sure to continue on to Linda's blog for her awesome creations! Don't forget to start thinking about what you'll make to join in on the challenge!!!

Ciao,

Angie

Roses Are Red...

Hey There Everybody! I found myself alone this past weekend when my hubby announced on Saturday morning that he wanted to take our son to an amusement park for the weekend. Who was I to say 'no'? It wasn't easy getting them a hotel reservation on such short notice, but with persistance anything is possible!

I took advantage and made my way to my craftroom to finish a card with an image that I painted the day before. Here's my card. I hope you like it.

Roses Are Red 

She's Tulle Skirt Tilda and she's sitting on Elegant Roses. I paired them with dp's from Crafty Secrets 'Radiant' paper pad. The cs is by ANW Crestwood.

I used my circle Nestabilities to cut the image. I also used the Magnolia Vintage Tag die for a backdrop to the Stampabilities sentiment. The lace was gathered by hand on a 1/4" strip of Scor-Tape and tucked underneath the edges of the image. Diana of Magnolia-licious gave me some Scor-Tape this weekend at CHA to try and I'm ADDICTED!!! Thank you Diana!!! I've never used a tape with such a strong hold. I will never again use another tape product on my craft projects! The lace and string of pearls are from my stash. The flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts. The pearls in the corners are from Making Memories and I sprayed the entire card with a coat of pearl Glimmer Mist. Oh, I almost forgot, I applied icicle Stickles to the flowers.

I colored the image with a combination of Copic markers and watercolors with Ranger Distress Inks. Here are the details:

Copics: E00, 02, RV21, N1, 3, 5, 7

Distress Inks: shabby shutters, peeled paint, weathered wood, stormy sky, worn lipstick, barn door, spun sugar, black soot, walnut stain, spiced marmalade, scattered straw, pine needles

That's all I have to show you today. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my card today. I had so much fun making it!

Ciao,

Angie

A Warm Hello...

Happy August Everyone! Can you believe it's August already? It seems as though summer just began and now there's only four weeks left before the kids go back to school. Every year I am amazed at how quickly the time flies by.

As you know, I got back from CHA a couple days ago. It was my first time in attendance and I had a blast doing demos with Diana Crick at the Scor-Pal booth. While at dinner with the girls, Diana and I had a HUGE surprise to share with everyone and now I'm going to share it with you. Do you remember when I posted on my blog that my hubby gave me the go ahead to travel to Sweden if I could find someone to go with me???? Well.....within minutes of that post I had a response....and a serious one at that! Diana and I are headed to Sweden in October!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We've already booked our flights and I still can't believe that it's true! I'll be sure to take tons of photos to share with you :-)

Well, here's my card for today.  I hope you enjoy it!

A Warm Hello

For this card, I used one of my all time favorite images of Tilda. She's Tilda in the Sea and I think she is just darling!

When I began this card, I struggled while selecting the dp's. I really didn't want to use pink. I have no idea why...it just didn't feel right. For some reason, I turned to my scrap basket and decided to make this card using nothing but scraps. I came across these scraps and they just felt so warm and summery. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the manufacturers.

The ribbon is also a scrap from my stash and I think it looks so cheerful with the dp's. The flowers are from Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts. The brad is actually a light green and is by American Crafts. I used a Marvy punch for the pull tab and stamped a flower with a no-name stamp from my collection. The green gems were sent to me by Magnolia. I applied diamond and crystal Stickles to the flowers, the water, Tilda's dress and around the sentiment on the inside. I sprayed a coat of pearl Glimmer Mist over the entire card.

Here's the inside of the card. The sentiment is by A Muse Artstamps.

I colored the image using a combination of Copic markers and watercolors with Ranger Distress Inks. For some reason, I really struggled when coloring Tilda's dress. I originally colored it with watercolors and was soooooooo disappointed with it. I left if for a while and when I came back to it I decided to go over it with Copics. I figured I couldn't make it worse! At long last, I was done with it and I think it looks really good. I'm actually a bit shocked! The Copics were applied directly on top of the watercolor and the Glimmer Mist and were still super easy to work with. The Glimmer Mist still shows through! I LOVE MY COPICS!!!!!!!

Copics: EOO, 02, RV21, YR0000, 00, 65, Multi-liner black 0.1

DI's: scattered straw, broken china, black soot, dried marigold, walnut stain

That's all I have for today. Thank you so much for stopping by. I truly enjoyed showing you my work and I hope you enjoyed it too :-)

Ciao,

Angie

The Little Mermaid...

Hi Everyone! I'm leaving for CHA today and I really wanted to show you one more card before I left. I've been going crazy trying to find the time to ink up one of my new stamps from my Magnolia stamp kit. And...I found a way to ink up two!

I wanted to do something with some beachy colors...you know...the colors of the sand and the sea. Here's what I came up with. I hope you like her!

The Little Mermaid

This little beauty is Little Mermaid Tilda and she is paired with Seaweed. Both are part of the Bon Voyage collection. I just love them! I used dp's from KaiserCraft's Le Chateau Collection and Magnolia's Fairytale Collection. CS is both Bazzill and SU.

The gorgeous flowers are from Magnolia and Prima. I covered the water bubbles with raised water drops from Cloud9Design and they look sooooooooooo cool in person! The pearls are from Making Memories.

The twine was sent to me by Magnolia and was leftover from my magazine DT kit. I think it fits perfectly with this card. I added icicle Stickles to Tilda's attire and the flowers.

I colored the images using Copic markers and watercolors with Ranger Distress Inks. Here are the details:

Copics: E00, 02, 41, 44, 50, 53, RV21, Y21

Distress Inks: walnut stain, black soot, antique linen, tumbled glass, peeled paint, shabby shutters

That's it for today! Thanks so much for stopping by. I'm off to CHA! I'll try to send some photos if I can. If not, I'll load them when I get back.

Ciao,

Angie

Wishing you were here...

Hi Everyone!  I have a really fun nautical card to show you today.  I had soooooo much fun making this card.  I have fallen in love with easel cards because you can do so much with them.  When I saw the image of the lifebuoy, I knew exactly how I wanted to use it.  I hope you like it :-)

Here's my card...

Wishing You Were Here

Here's the front of the card when it's closed.  I love how it turned out. The squigglies are glitter and didn't photograph well. Believe me, it looks much better in person.

Here's the card when it's open. Beach Tilda is sitting on Pier Fence With Lifebuoy and she's missing her friend.

Here's an angled view so you can see the dimension of the card. I really like how this card turned out. The dp's are from TPC Studio's - Heartfelt Travel collection. The cs is Bazzill. I embellished it very simply with some shells that I found in my button drawer.

I colored the images with a combination of Copic markers and watercolors with Ranger Distress Inks. Here are the details:

Copics: E00, 02, 35, 44, 50, 53, RV21, W1, 3, 5, 7, C5

Distress Inks: black soot, barn door, faded jeans

The sentiment was printed on a laser printer. I added some glitter just to make it pop a little.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my easel card. I absolutely loved making it.

Edit:  It has been brought to my attention by a viewer that I have violated Magnolia's Angel Policy by enlarging the Lifebuoy.  My apologies to Magnolia for this.  It truly was not an intentional violation.  It never occured to me that an enlargement was considered a modification since the integrity of the image remained the same.  Going forward I will not make the same mistake.

Ciao,

Angie

Tilda with Gifts...

Hello Hello!  Well, I sure hope you're all having a great week so far.  It's been a bit cloudy and rainy the last few days here in Michigan.  The sun finally started shining again this evening and I think it's supposed to be gorgeous tomorrow.  I'm looking forward to a day by the pool with my son.  Maybe we'll end up with a few friends over too!

So, yesterday was torture because I lost my internet connection in the morning and didn't get it back til late last night.  My hubby was able to spend some time working on it last night and found a work-around the problem.  Thankfully it's been fine all day.  It's a really strange feeling to lose your internet connection.  I felt so disconnected from everyone and kept wondering what I was missing.

Hubby and I were discussing possible future vacation spots and I mentioned Sweden.  Can you guess why?  He wasn't interested in travelling that distance to go Magnolia shopping with me, but......he said I can go whenever I want!  Now I need to find someone willing to go with me.  Hmmm...think, think, think...

Anyway, I found a bit of time in my craft room this morning and pulled out my Magnolia wedding stamps.  I really like that so many of the images can be used for occasions other than a wedding since we don't attend many weddings anymore.  But, in this case, we're invited to attend another out-of-town wedding early in August so I decided to make a wedding card.  I'm really happy with the card.  I hope you like it too. 

By the way, I truly appreciate all of your comments.  Thank you all so much for visiting my blog and taking the time to leave me a little note.  It really means a lot :-)

Here's my card.  I hope you'll let me know what you think :-)

Tilda with Gifts

Isn't she precious?  How could anyone not fall in love with this image?  Who doesn't want to receive a mountain of gifts?  She's perfect and she's Tilda with Gifts.   

The dp's that I used on this card are also from Magnolia's Wedding Collection.  Now, I'm always a fan of Magnolia's paper designs, but this Wedding Collection is super fantastic.  I just love the regal patterns and the gold prints.  They're stunning!  I paired them with some leftover shimmery blue cs from my scrap basket and white cs from SU.  I cut the white cs trim around the image using one of the gorgeous new Magnolia DooHickey Dies - Tilda.  If you haven't seen these yet, you absolutely must check them out!!!  I ordered all four the moment I saw them and they just arrived the other day.  Yay!  I'm like a kid in a candy store! 

The blue/grey velvet ribbon is from my stash and is sooooo beautiful in person.  I wish the photo could capture the texture.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and my own stash.  I added crystal and platinum Stickles to the flowers and ribbon around the gifts.

Here's the inside of the card.  The sentiment is Wishing Two People from Magnolia's Wedding Collection and it's just perfect!  I stamped the sentiment using Encore Ultimate Metallic gold ink.  It was trimmed out using a MS punch around the page.  Almost forgot, the blue paper in the center is from Magnolia's Hoppy Easter/Spring Collection.   

 

So, I colored this little cutie using a combination of Copic markers and watercolor with Ranger Distress Ink.  Here are the details:

Copics:  E00, 02, 35, 44, 50, 53, RV21

DI's:  walnut stain, dusty concord, milled lavender, weathered wood, vintage photo

Well, that's all I have for now.  Thanks for stopping by.

Ciao,

Angie