The challenge today at C4C is to make a Vintage or Shabby Chic card.Create a card or project with a vintage or shabby chic element such as distressing, lace, pearls, off white, aged appearance or a vintage image. So here is my shabby chic card:
Here are the details:
Stamp: Cupid Tilda from Magnolia-licious, Papers: by Magnolia from Magnolia-licious, flowers from Wild Orchids, Memento ink, copic markers, miscellaneous charms, lace, and embellishments.
If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C72. I hope you can play along with us! Have a great weekend!
It's time for another photo inspiration challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog, here is our photo brought to you by our talented teammate, Cabio:
So cozy, isn't it? Here is what I came up with:
Luckily I had this couch stamp which is what I took from the inspiration photo. I used the following images (both I got from Magnolia-licious):
Tilda Holding Heart Couch - link is for the mini couch as it looks like the regular size is out of stock right now.
I used a Magnolia Doohickey (Old Swedish Lace) for my border around the card. I used a Spellbinder die for the shape of my card and I used some yummy Basic Grey dp. My flowers and heart pearls are from Wild Orchid. My "love" sentiment is a chipboard piece from Make It Crafty that I colored red with Smooch paints.
I have an extra copy of the new Valentine issue of Magnolia Ink magazine. To be eligible, please leave a comment on this post, if you're not a follower of my blogs then please follow me here and at my Magnolia only blog: My Magnolias by Angela. I will announce a winner next Friday, February 11.
It's Saturday and time for another challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges! Today we have a sketch challenge for you. Here is the sketch:
And here is the card I prepared for today:
I used this KennyK image that I got from Whimsy. Isn't she gorgeous!? I colored her with the following copic colors: E11, E00, E000, R20, W3, W1, W00, E35, E31, YR23, Y23, Y21, Y000, BV13, BV11, BV000, B97, B95, B91, B000
My sentiment is also from Whimsy and I used Basic Grey papers. That checkerboard pattern is a Martha Stewart punch.
I will enter this card at the following challenges:
If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C71. I hope you'll play with us this week! hugs!!
This week at C4C, we need to create a card that has a "Thank You" sentiment and at Make It Colourful we need to use red on our card. So I combined these 2 challenges and created this card:
I love the spring/summer feel of this card full of lovely colours.
My scenery image is by Make It Crafty. If you love to colour, then these images are perfect for you! I decided to use Sugar Nellie's Gorjuss Girl today. I have missed colouring these images. Aren't they sweet!?
Also, at C4C our sponsor this week is Flowersoft! They sent us some beautiful new Flowersoft colours that I used on my image. If you play along at C4C, you could win a set of the new colours and flowersoft glue.
If you would like to play along with us at C4C, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C70. We would also love to have you play along with us at Make It Colourful - just add something red to your card. Thanks for visiting! See you next time!
We are back with a Color Inspiration for you at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog. Cabio has chosen the colorsgreen and orange. Here is what I came up with:
I made a "welcome to the neighborhood" card. Don't you just love that sweet little cottage from Alota Rubberstamps? I picked up all these stamps from Magnolia-licious. I used my spellbinder dies to frame my cottage and added some gems. My sentiment is computer generated. Here is a list of the images I used today:
I have received this award from my friends Ruby, Tracy, and Cabio. Thank you so much girls! So I have to share with you 8 things about myself. Yikes, I am so boring and I hate talking about myself but here goes:
1. My parents were born in Italy, so I am an Italian-American (please don't compare me to the folks on the "Jersey Shore show" though - eek!)
2. I would love to travel more (I have been to Germany, Austria, Leitchenstein, and Italy a couple times) but I hate to fly. It is my dream to visit Hawaii, Australia, and Great Britain (I have cousins living in England) but I fear I may need to be sedated for those trips... ;)
3. I sleep about 4 hours a night but wish for 8...
4. I used to be terrified of dogs but to make my kids happy we adopted a sweet puppy that I just love to pieces.
5. I have this desire to be artistic in any way possible so have dabbled in many different craft areas like cross stitching, needlepoint, knitting, polymer clay, painting ceramics, tole painting etc. until finally getting stuck on coloring with copics and making cards.
6. Hmm.. my real name is Angelina but I use my nickname Angela. I do not have a middle name.
7. I am a coffee-holic. Love it!!
8. I grew up in the 70's and 80's but totally LOVE modern music and sing along with my kids (to their embarassment). My little one always says to me, "please Mom, stop singing." :( teehee
Well, that was painful.. lol... I'd like to share this award with all my friends who stop by to visit me here at my blog. I appreciate the time you take to stop by and leave me a comment! xoxo
I have also received this award from my friend Regina. Thank you so much! I am supposed to pick out 3 things that make me different from everyone else which I think can already be answered by reading my list of 8 above.
Whew! What a long post! Well, thanks for dropping by and have a great day!
YAY! It's the weekend! This was a tough week getting back into the routine of getting up early, working, and the kids going back to school. Now starts the countdown to summer!!! Here is a card I made for the Make It Colourful Challenge which really has me longing for summer:
The challenge this week is to use warm or cold colors on our project. I chose the warm colors (red, brown, orange,yellow, yellowish green). My background images are digital images from Make It Crafty. I used MIC's Garden Picket Fence and MIC's Peaches of Plenty digi stamps. Zoe (MIC owner) has a wonderful video on how to manipulate your digi images using MSWord HERE which is very helpful. Check it out!
I used Peachy Tilda that I got from Magnolia-licious. Doesn't she work well with the peach branch MICrafty image? MICrafty also sells the those wonderful ornate chipboard corners that I colored brown with my copics and added an orange gem to. Unfortunately my photo of this card appears much lighter. In person the colors are much warmer and brighter.
I will enter this card at the following challenges:
Welcome to the Your Next Stamp January New Release BLOG HOP! We've got some fabulous new YNS stamps to showcase today! These new stamps are available to buy right now from the Your Next Stamp store along with all your YNS favourites. I am finishing up my guest designer position with this fun hop. Also Jen Del Muro will be joining us as a guest for YNS. Can't wait to see what she created!
If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Simonne's awesome blog, pleaseCLICK HERE to return to the start of the hop at Wendy's blog, as you don't want to miss these fab new releases! The hop starts today January 7, 2011 at 03:00 EST and ends on January 10, 2011 at midnight EST.
As always here at Your Next Stamp, we have a wonderful prize for you to win! One lucky winner will be drawn at random from the links in the linky list to receive a new release stamp package!
You will see that every stop along the hop has a linky list - this is the SAME linky list posted on every blog, so that you can enter the prize draw from any stop (although we hope you will visit all the blogs on today's hop!). The linky will update itself on everyone's blog when a link is entered - how cool is that? Please remember to only enter your name ONCE into the linky list during the hop - you do NOT need to enter your name at every stop and multiple entries will be removed. It's not a requirement for you to comment at every stop along the hop to be eligible to be entered into the prize draw, but the DT would sure love to hear what you think of their new release creations!
Karen is also running some special promotions, so be sure to hop on over to the YNS store once you've finished the hop. There is a fab clearance section, where you can grab a bargain or two, and Karen has also put together some special-priced bundles!!
So onto my blog hop creation! I have used Musical Ethan. Here is a photo:
I altered this gift box to match my card and filled it with chocolates, hence the sentiment. Isn't it cute!!? Thanks, Crystal! ;) I got my music note brads from Michaels and my little silver charms are from an old bracelet that my daughter doesn't wear anymore so she took the charms off for me to use for my cards. Aren't they great!? Here are a few closeup photos:
Here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:
So now it's time for you to hop on over to my friend Karen's blog as she is the next stop on our hop, but I'd love it if you left me a comment before you go!
Thanks so much for hopping with us today! I hope you enjoy our new release!
Hello everyone! I wanted to announce the winner of the Ivy Swing stamp that I used in my Make It Crafty blog hop post:
Here is the card I had made for that hop:
My winner of the Ivy Swing rubber stamp is Norma (From My Craftroom)! Congratulations Norma! Please contact Zoe so she can get that rubber stamp to you.
I'd also like to announce that Zoe has asked me to join her new challenge blog, Make It Colourful. I am so excited to join this talented group of ladies. I hope you can join us there as we will have lots of fun challenges and many tips and tricks about colouring to learn from Zoe and the rest of this awesome team! Thanks Zoe for inviting me to join in! I know I will learn alot from you!
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and may this new year bring you much joy!!
It was really nice to have the kids home from school this past 1 1/2 weeks. We got to spend alot of time together just hanging out without any responsibilities or activities to run too. Tomorrow it's back to school and midterms... eeek!
Today I wanted to share a Happy New Year card that I made:
I used Tilda and Edwin Dancing that I picked up from Magnolia-licious. The champagne bottle and glass also came from Magnolia-licious. The double heart and heart flourish on my card are chipboard pieces that I got from Make-it-Crafty and I colored it with a silver marker. I really love this set of chipboard pieces, there are many other sweet designs with this set. I cut out my letters and numbers with my Cricut Expression - hmm... now that I look at it, the letters weren't placed very evenly :(... I did have trouble placing these tiny letters down with glue... I hope you still like it?
Here are a few closer views of my card:
Well I wanted to share with you some unbelievable news that I received just before Christmas.
I have been asked to join the Magnolia Sweden Design Team. I can't tell you how shocked, suprised, and thrilled I was to receive such an amazing early Christmas present. I'm so honored to get to work with this amazing group of talented ladies. I had to create a Magnolia only blog. Here is the link: http://mymagnoliasbyangela.blogspot.com/. It would mean so much to me if you could take a moment and follow me there if you would like.
Well, thanks for visiting me today and for any comments your might leave me. Take care!! xoxo
What a cute mouse and perfect for a child's birthday card. I colored my image with copics and used a border punch for the presents and cupcakes. Hope you like it! Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!
