Sugar Bowl Challenge #17

Today, I've made a card for the Sugar Bowl challenge using a Gorjuss girl stamp. I just love these images as they are so much fun to color. I bought my gorjuss stamp from Funky kits. Here is my card:



She is just the cutest! One condition for the challenge was to make your own flowers using punches or dies instead of pre-made flowers. I made mine with the Spellbinder dies and used some brads to hold them together. I really love these spacers that I found to help embellish the flowers.

Ok, now I need to go and "referee" the children. Sigh... when does school start?

Summer Tilda and Edwin

Happy Monday morning! Here is a card I made for the August mingle at the MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS group. I will be sending this to my mingle partner real soon - hope she likes it.

Here is the inside:



This group is so much fun and has so many talented people on it. I love visiting their blogs or albums to see what they've created and getting inspiration. I've learned so much from them since beginning this card making/scrapbooking journey in April 2009.

Most of my stamps come from Diana Crick's Magnolia-licious USA store. Besides my obsession with Magnolias, I've discovered COPIC markers which are awesome to work with and can also be found at the Magnolia-licious store. They make anyone look like an artist.

Thanks for visiting!

It's been a long time since I've posted here but I have been so busy this summer with my family that it leaves me little time for making cards but I try to keep up with reading everyone else's blog and practicing with my copics and card layouts. I've seen alot of improvement since my first attempts.

I did find time to create this following card for the Christmas challenge at the Magnolia-licious Highlites blog. I had so much fun making it. It's a pop-up Christmas card that I hope will keep inspiring me as I look at it in my craftroom.





I had the christmas tree stamp, the couch from Alota Rubberstamps, the fireplace also from Alota Rubberstamps, and the Magnolia images (Tilda and cats). I used 2 circle nestabilities for the wreath and cut out a circle. Then covered it with green flowersoft. I used Liquid pearls for the berries on the wreath then tied a bow with ribbon. I popped out the tree and Tilda. I had to make the tree a bit bigger because it wasn't in proportion to Tilda. So I stamped the tree 2 times and attached extra branches to the other tree. I wanted the card to look like a living room so I used paper that looked similar to wallpaper. For the carpeted floor I just cut out a circle to look like an area rug for the middle of the room. Hope you like it! Ciao!