Thursday 30 January 2014

Cosy Christmas Tilda & Apple Basket.

Hello, Crafty bloggers.
Welcome to my blog and  a big thank you to all my new followers.
I hope you are well?
I am feeling sad. My eleven year old Pug named George is very poorly.
To take my mind of things I have made a shaped Christmas card. My second one this year. Lol!!!
I have chosen Cosy Christmas Tilda and masked Cosy Christmas Apple Basket from the Winter Wonderland Collection 2013.


I have die cut a Spellbinders Nestibilites Opulent Oval with Neenah cardstock and stamped Cosy Christmas Tilda and Cosy Christmas Apple Basket from Sirstampalot onto the oval with Memento rich cocoa ink.
I have coloured the images with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils.
For the shaped card I have used 300gsm white Conqueror card and GoKreate large frames frilly #2.
The papers are Maja Design Vntage Summer Basics from Live & Love Crafts. 
The doily is Cheery Lynn Nautical Wheeler. I have inked around the edge with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink.
The pretty lace is from Ebay and can be found  HERE. 
I have used Doohickey dies. Spruce firs and lovely fence. I have inked the edges of the dies with tea dye distress ink and coated both with Snow-Tex from Live & Love Crafts. 
I stamped Magnolia Vintage Merry Christmas Postmark from Sirstampalot with Memento rich cocoa ink, cut around it and adhered it to the removable centre piece of the Nautical Wheeler doily.
I have also inked around the edges of both the sentiment and centre piece with tea dye distress ink.
The wooden stars on the bottom of the card are from Live & Love Crafts. 


I have used a selection of flowers for the arrangement.
They are blue Kort & godt rolled roses and chrysanthemums from The Ribbon Girl. 
A 25mm ivory wild rose from Wild Orchid Crafts and marshmallow frosted berries from
For the foliage between the arrangement I have used Cheery Lynn pine branches and Martha Stewart woodland branches. I inked the edges of the branches with tea dye distress ink.
I have adhered a 5mm white pearl to the centre of each of the rolled roses.


Here is a close up of Cosy Christmas Tilda with Apple Basket.
Do you think those apples look good enough to eat?
I sprinkled Frantage shabby white embossing enamel from  Live & Love Crafts and adhered a few 2mm white pearls around the image. I have used ArtDeco glamour dust on Tilda's pom-pom and dotted Tilda's cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen.


Inside the card is decorated with Maja Design paper and a Spellbinders Opulent Oval.



I hope you like what you see?



I am entering my creation into the following super challenges:



Thank you for stopping by to visit today and huge thanks for all the lovely comments.
They make me very happy.


Crafty hugs.
Donna xx












7 comments:

  1. Beautiful Christmas card Donna, just love it, especially your coloring with the pencils. Thanks for joining us @ Tilda's Town this week.
    Riet xx

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  2. Wow Donna, again a stunning creation! Everything's just perfect! Hugs,
    http://littlecreass.blogspot.be/

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  3. Such a darling card, wonderful colouring of Tilda and her fruit. Thank you for joining us over at Midweek Magnolias. Hugs Suzi x

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  4. Beautiful card, Donna. Tilda looks fabulous, love all the pretty die cuts. Thank you for sharing it with us at Midweek Magnolias.
    Hugz,
    Cath

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  5. This is gorgeous! Thanks for joining us at Magnolia-licious....hope to see you again next time!!

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  6. Hi Donna wow she is brilliant... I always adore your colour combinations...love the blue rolled roses and the stars are so cute ..hope your okay ;0) xxx

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  7. STUNNING card!! Your coloring is perfect.
    Thank you for joining us at with the ANYTHING GOES challenge at Magnolia-licious. I hope to see you again for the next challenge.
    hugs, Janiel

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