New Challenge At Simply Magnolia - Bingo.

Good afternoon, crafty blogger's.

We have a new challenge starting today at Simply Magnolia and this time it's
Bingo.
Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is
Crafty Ribbons. 

Here is the bingo board.

The board has rows of embellishments.

You must use items on your cards from one of these lines;

horizontal, vertical or diagonal. It must be three in a row.

If you are like me and love to add lots of embellishments to your cards you can go for a full house and use all of the embellishments on the board.

I have made a Spring time shaped card featuring Tilda With Daffodil Basket from The Little Easter Collection 2013 and I have gone for a full house.

I have die cut a Spellbinders opulent oval with Neenah cardstock and stamped Tilda With Daffodil Basket onto it with Memento rich cocoa ink.

I have coloured the image with Prismcolor and Polychromos pencils and inked the edges of the oval with Tim Holtz spun sugar distress ink.

I have surrounded the image with Frantage shabby white embossing enamel from

Live And Love Crafts. 

For the shaped card I have used 300gsm white Conqueror card and GoKreate large frames frilly #2 fromCuttingedgecrafts. 

The pretty papers are Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics from Live & Love Crafts. 

The white doily and lovely lace are from Ebay. You can find the lace HERE. 

I have adhered white 3mm pearls onto the doily and placed some pink organza ribbon behind the lace.

I have die cut a Cheery Lynn nautical wheeler doily and inked around the edges with spun sugar distress ink adhering the doily to the centre of the card and placed some cheese cloth on top before adhering the image to the centre with double sided sticky pads.

The fence is Doohickey lovely fence. I have inked around the fence with spun sugar distress ink and used my Woodware small butterfly punch and design paper to punch out the butterfly and adhered it to the fence.

The dragonflies are Magnolia Dookickey. I inked the edges and placed three clear rhinestones down their centres.

I have made the flower with 3 2" paper hydrangea blooms and inked the edges with spun sugar distress ink placing a pink brad through the centre.

I attached a length of 2mm silver plated curb chain to a silver plated split ring and attached it to the back of the brad. I placed another split ring through the bee charm and onto the chain.

The hydrangea blooms are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the bee charm is from The Ribbon Girl. 

I bought the chain and split rings from Ebay.

For the flower arrangement I have used blue Kort & Godt rolled roses, Kort & Godt chrysanthemums, beaded swirls and 20mm pink roses all from The Ribbon Girl. 

A 30mm ivory wild rose and 10mm white roses both from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

I placed a 5mm pink pearl to the centre of each of the rolled roses.

The wooden heart button and hemp twine are from The Ribbon Girl. 

In between the flower arrangement I have put some Cheery Lynn pine branches and some Martha Stewart woodland branches.

I inked the edges of the branches with spun sugar distress ink.

A close up pic of Tilda With Daffodil Basket.

I dotted Tilda's cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen and added Ranger white liquid pearls among the daffodils.

Inside the card is decorated with the design paper and a Spellbinders opulent oval.

I hope you like my card?

Our challenges are 2 weekly.

We would love you to come and join in with our bingo challenge.

My teamies have designed some gorgeous creations. Why not pop over for a nosey?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Tilda's Town Challenge #97 Spring. 

Midweek Magnolias Challenge #85. Lacey Lace. 

Dutch magnolia Lovers Challenge #77 Spring Is In The Air. 

Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog today and big thanks for all of the lovely comments that I recieve.

Have a great week.

Crafty hugs.

Donna xx

New Challenge at Marvelous Magnolia.....................Lets See A Doily.

Good afternoon, crafty bloggers.

We have a new challenge starting today at Marvelous Magnolia and this time our challenge theme is

Lets See A Doily.

We want to see a doily on your cards/projects. A nice easy one. Don't you think?

Our wonderful sponsors for this challenge are.....................
Hobbycutz
The Ribbon Girl
Tilda's Town

For my DT card I have made a shaped card featuring Special Stamps Collection Koala Hugs Tilda and have used a Cheery Lynn Nautical Wheeler doily die cut on the card for this challenge.

I have used Neenah cardstock to cut a Spellbinders floral oval and stamped Koala Hugs Tilda onto it with Memento rich cocoa ink.

I have coloured the image with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils and surrounded the image with a sprinkling of Frantage shabby white embossing enamel from Live & Love Crafts. 

I inked around the edges of the floral oval with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink.

I have made the shaped card with 300gsm white Conqueror card and GoKreate large frames frilly #2 from Cuttingedgecrafts. 

The pretty papers are Maja Design Vintage Autumn Basics from Live & Love Crafts. 

I inked the edges of the Doohickey Vintage Box Lacing Coffee and adhered it to the bottom of the design paper.

The doily is Cheery Lynn Nautical Wheeler doily. I bought the doily with a voucher I won to spend at Tilda's Town. I inked around the doily with tea dye distress ink. The pretty lace is from Ebay. You can find the lace HERE. 

The filigree corner is La-La-Land and the dragonfly is Doohickey. I have inked both with tea dye distress ink and adhered 3mm white pearls down the centre of the dragonfly.

I have made a double bow with sky blue handmade shabby seam binding from Live & Love crafts and adhered a flower shaped pearl to the centre.

The 60mm bark heart is from Live & Love Crafts and the Lilibet wooden hugs sentiment is from Hobby Craft. 

The flower arrangement consists of a 30mm ivory wild rose, 15mm tan roses and 10mm white roses from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

White chrysanthemums and marshmallow frosted berries from Live & Love crafts and blue Kort & Godt rolled roses, white beaded twirls and the birdcage charm all from The Ribbon Girl. 

I have placed Cheery Lynn pine branches, Martha Stewart woodland branches and a Doohickey Heart swirl between the flowers. I inked the branches with tea dye distress ink.

A close up of Koala Hugs Tilda.

I added Ranger glossy accents to koala's nose and dotted Tilda's cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen. I have also placed 3mm tan pearls around the image.

Inside the card is decorated with Maja Design paper and a Spellbinders floral oval.

Our challenges are 2 weekly and we would love for you to come and join in with the challenge.

My teamies have designed some gorgeous creations. Why not pop over to have a nosey?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Totally Tilda Challenge #92. Shaped Cards Only.

Lovely Hanglar Or Sweet Magnolia Challenge #90. Flower Power. 

Midweek Magnolia's Challenge #85. Lacey Lace. 

Deep Ocean Challenge #73. Lace & Pearls. 

That's it from me.

I am back on Sunday with my DT card for Simply Magnolia.

Thanks for stopping by and for all the lovely comments from all you lovely people.

Take care!

Crafty hugs.

Donna xx

New Challenge at Simply Magnolia............Birthday Wishes.

Good morning, crafty blogger's.

I am so excited to be here today as I have been selected as new DT member for Simply Magnolia. 

Thank you so much Tracy! 

I am so happy to be joining Tracy and the other talented DT ladies.

We have a new challenge starting today and the theme is Birthday Wishes.

We want to see a Birthday sentiment on your cards/projects.

I have made a shaped card featuring Magnolia Flower Tilda from the 2013 Little London Collection.

I have die cut a Spellbinders floral oval with Nennah cardstock and stamped Magnolia Flower Tilda onto it with Memento rich cocoa ink.

I have coloured Tilda with Prismacolour and Polychromos pencils and inked around the edges of the floral oval with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink.

I surrounded Tilda with Frantage shabby white embossing enamel from Live & Love Crafts.

I have made the shaped card with 300gsm white Conqueror card and Lifestyle Quickutz 

nesting frame #10.

The pretty papers are Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics from Live & Love Crafts I have inked around the edges with tea dye distress ink.

The white doily and pretty lace are from Ebay. You can find the lace HERE.

I have adhered 3mm white pearls on the doily.

I have  placed some cheese cloth behind the floral oval before adhering it to the centre with sticky pads.

I have inked the edges of the Magnolia Doohickey lovely fence and slender firs.

I have used Maja Design paper and  a Woodware punch to punch the tiny butterflies.

The Birthday sentiment is one of the every day grungy messages from Lily Of The Valley.

I have inked the edges of the sentiment with tea dye distress ink.

For the flower arrangement I have used a 30mm ivory wild rose and 10mm cream roses from 

Wild Orchid Crafts.

Kort & Godt cream rolled roses. Kort & Godt chrysanthemums and marshmallow frosted berries all from Live & Love Crafts.

For the foliage I have die Cheery Lynn pine branches and punched Martha Stewart woodland branches. I have inked the edges with tea dye distress ink.

I made the bow with 15mm aqua satin edged ribbon from my craft stash.

A close up of Magnolia Flower Tilda.

I have adhered a few 3mm white pearls around Tilda.

I have added ArtDeco glamour dust to the bow in Tilda's hair and the frill on her dress.

I have dotted her cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen.

Inside the card is decorated with Maja Design paper and a Spellbinders floral oval.

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is lovely Sandy from 

Live & Love Crafts. 

We would love you to come and join in with us.

My teamies have made some gorgeous creations. why not pop over to take a peek?

I am entering my card into the following super challenge;

A Creative Romance Challenge. Jenny's Bingo Game.   

Bottom line across. Pearls Glitter Bow.

Dutch Magnolia Lovers. Lace & Flowers.

Thanks for stopping by and big thanks for all the lovely comments I receive.

Crafty Hugs.

Donna xx

James - Umbrella.

Hello, crafty blogger's.

I'm back again today with another card. 

My card features James - Umbrella from Lili Of The Valley. 
They sell the cutest stamps along with gorgeous papers and sentiments

I have a small collection of stamps just sitting in my craft room waiting to be coloured so I have made a promise to myself to colour at least one a month and enter their super challenges.

Lili Of the Valley have a March challenge going on at the moment and it is Crafty Bingo.

Here is the chart.

I have chosen a diagonal line.

Doily, Lace and Flowers.

I have die cut a Spellbinders floral oval with Neenah cardstock and stamped James - Umbrella with Memento rich cocoa ink onto it.

I have coloured the image with Polychromos pencils.

I inked around the edges of the floral oval with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink and surrounded the image with Frantage shabby white embossing enamel from Live & Love Crafts. 

For the shaped card I have used 300gsm white Conqueror card and GoKreate large frames frilly #2 from Cuttingedgecrafts. 

The pretty papers are Nitwit Collections Country Lady from Lili Of The Valley. 

I inked around the papers with tea dye distress ink.

The white doily and pretty lace are from Ebay. You can find the lace HERE. 

I have placed some cheese cloth onto the centre of the card and adhered the image on top with sticky pads.

I die cut Memory Box Pippi butterflies with white Conqueror card and Frantaged them with shabby white embossing enamel. I inked the centres of the butterflies with tea dye distress ink and placed 3 3mm tan pearls along each of them.

The Birthday sentiment is one of the every day grungy messages from Lili Of The Valley. 

I have inked around the sentiment with tea dye distress ink.

Here is a photo I have taken with the tag removed.

The filigree corner on the card is La-La-Land and I have inked the edges with tea dye distress ink.

The tag is Magnolia Doohickey bloomy tag. I have stamped the small general sentiment from 

Lili Of The Valley with Memento rich cocoa ink and Frantaged each corner with shabby white embossing enamel. I have attached a butterfly charm from my stash onto a length of white shabby seam binding from Live & Love Crafts and tied it into a bow.

For the flower arrangement I have used Daisies, tulips and lilies from The Ribbon Girl.

I frantaged the daisies with shabby white embossing enamel.

The 15mm mixed brown tone roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the marshmallow frosted berries are from Live & Love crafts. 

For the foliage I have die cut Cheery Lynn pine branches and Martha Stewart woodland branches. I inked the edges with tea dye distress ink.

Here is a close up of James - Umbrella.

I could squeeze him! Lol!!!

I have added ArtDeco glamour dust to the puddle and rain drops.

I used a Woodware small butterfly punch and Country Lady paper to punch the butterflies.

I inked the edges of the butterflies with tea dye distress ink and used Ranger white liquid pearls along their centres.

Inside the card is decorated with Country Lady paper and a Spellbinders floral oval.

I hope you like my card?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Lili Of The valley Monthly March Challenge. Crafty Bingo! 

The Ribbon Girl March Card Challenge. Birthday. 

Papertake Weekly Challenge. Anything Goes.

Thank you for stopping by to visit my blog and big thanks for all your lovely comments.

They make me soooooooo happy.

I will be back on Sunday with another card plus some exciting news!!!

Have a great weekend.

Crafty hugs.

Donna xx

New Challenge Marvelous Magnolia - Add Some Green.

Good afternoon, crafty blogger's.

I hope you are well?

We have a new challenge starting today at Marvelous Magnolia and this time our theme is

Add Some Green.

We want you to add some green on your cards/projects.

Our wonderful sponsors for this challenge are................
Magnolia-licious 
The Rubber Buggy 
Stamping Tilda 
Scrapbook Boutique 

For this challenge I have made a shaped Mother's day card featuring Tilda Hiding Rose Bouquet from the new Lost & Found Collection 2013.

I have cut a Sizzix circle with Neenah cardstock and stamped Tilda With Rose Bouquet from Sirstampalot onto it with Memento rich cocoa ink.

I have coloured Tilda with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils.

I have inked around the edge of the circle with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink and sprinkled some Frantage shabby white embossing enamel from Live & Love Crafts around the image.

I have made the shaped card with 300gsm white Conqueror card and Lifestyle 

Quickutz nesting frame #10.

The pretty papers are Maja Design Vintage Autumn Basics from Live & Love Crafts.

I have inked around the edges of the papers with tea dye distress ink.

I die cut a Cheery Lynn Nautical doily and also inked around the edge with tea dye distress ink.

The pretty lace is from Ebay. You can find the lace HERE. 

I have die cut a Sizzix scalloped circle with the Maja Design paper and adhered the image on top placing some cheese cloth underneath.

I have die cut a Memory Box Isabella butterfly with Maja Design paper and die cut a Memory Box Pippi butterfly with white card and Frantaged Pippi with shabby white embossing enamel placing 2 white 3mm pearls down the centre.

The fence is Doohickey Lovely Fence. I have inked around the edge with tea dye distress ink. The tiny butterfly on the fence that I have punched with Maja paper is a Woodware punch.

The sentiment is a freebie from Birdscards.com. 

I have cut out the sentiment with a circle die and inked around the edge with tea dye distress ink.

I cut a small Spellbinders scalloped die with Maja Design paper and adhered the sentiment to the centre and then onto the inner piece of the Nautical doily die.

The flower arrangement consists of Kort & Godt rolled roses and chrysanthemums from

 Live & Love crafts.

I have adhered a 5mm white pearl to the centre of each rolled rose.

A 30mm ivory wild rose, 15mm olive green roses and white tulips all from Wild Orchid Crafts.

For the foliage I have used Cherry Lynn pine branches and Martha Stewart woodland branches. I inked the edges of the branches with tea dye distress ink.

A close up of Tilda With Rose Bouquet.

I have added ArtDeco glamour dust to tilda's frills on her dress and dotted her cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen.

Inside the card is decorated with Maja Design paper and a scalloped circle die cut.

I hope you like what you see?

The Marvelous Magnolia challenges are two weekly and we would love you to come and join in with us.

My teamies have designed some stunning creations.

Why not pop over to have a peek?

I am entering my card into the following super challenges;

Tilda's Town Challenge #94. Use Your Stash. 

Magnolia-licious Tuesday Challenge. Bling It Up! 

MDUC Challenge #230. Butterflies. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today and big thanks for all the lovely comments.

Crafty hugs.

Donna x