Summer Fun Bash Blog Hop w/ Magnolia-licious

**Please scroll down for my TOMIC post**

Hi there! Today I am participating in the Summer Fun Bash Blog Hop at Magnolia-licious.  If you've come from Barb's amazing blog, then you are in the right place. 

So, the design team and challenge blog design team have combined for this blog hop.  Please make sure you stop at each blog and comment and collect all the letters displayed on each team members blog and put the letters together to spell the sentence and send your answer to Suzanne sjdean0574@yahoo.com.  You have until July 31st to email your correct answer to Suzanne. The winner will be chosen randomly. The prize is 5 stamps from Magnolia-licious and a Summer Sand Bucket full of craft goodies. Here's a pic of the basket full of goodies:

There is also a  huge contest/challenge going on so please visit the Magnolia-licious Highlights blog for the full details.  But to sum up there are 3 challenge categories for you to participate in. The themes for your project should be BEACH, BARBECUES/PICNICS, and/or FISHING.  Your entry should feature Magnolia stamps and should be done and entered into the InLinkz by July 31st on the Magnolia-licious Highlites blog.  One random winner will win 2 Magnolia stamps of their choice from Magnolia-licious.

So the card I will feature today is for the Fishing the Day Away category. I was so excited to receive these 2 Tilda and Edwin fishing images. I think they are so CUTE!! I combined them with a few other Magnolia stamps. They are the Pelican and Ocean background both by Magnolia but not in stock at the moment at Magnolia-licious.

I love how this card turned out and that I was able to incorporate so many images together. These papers can be found at Love To Stamp and are by My Mind's Eye - Stella Rose. Aren't they gorgeous!? Love To Stamp carries so many beautiful papers and I picked up so many of them - they are reasonably priced too. My circle sentiment by Whimsy can also be found at Love To Stamp.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Paper Play - things with wings
Crafts and Me Challenges - summertime
Paper Shelter Challenge - for the birds
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Magnolia Down Under - create a scene
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - summer colors

Thanks for stopping by! Oh and by the way, My letter is the letter: u. Your next stop on the hop is Patti-Jo's fabulous blog. I can't wait to see what she made!  Have fun hopping and have a great day!

The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge - TOMIC #7

Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your summer? It's been fun having the kids home with me but I find myself with so little time to color while they are home. They are certainly keeping me busy with outings and playdates and some fun little projects. My oldest daughter, Elena, has got it in her head to redecorate her room. So, we've gone from purple peace signs to blue and white Nautical / beach themes (hmm.. I wonder if we'll be redecorating again for the winter).

So we've been scouring the shops for all things beachy and nautical.  Luckily we stopped in at our local Christmas Tree Store and wouldn't you know it, they had all things nautical and my daughter shopped till she dropped! ;)  We found this cute sailboat candle holder that she fell in love with.  When I saw it, the wheels in my head started turning and I remembered that our next theme at TOMIC is NAUTICAL and wouldn't it be fun to have Tilda and Edwin hanging off the side of the boat.  So instead of a card, this is what I made for this weeks TOMIC challenge:

Poor Edwin has gotten into a bit of trouble and there's hero Tilda saving him! LOL!  I cut out my letters with my Cricut machine with the Plaintin Schoolbook cartridge. I LUV MY CRICUT!

So the images I used today are:

Dangling Sea Edwin - Bon Voyage Collection
Tilda on Rope Ladder - Bon Voyage Collection
Sailor Tilda - Summer & Sea Collection

Unfortunately, these stamps don't seem to be available at the moment at Magnolia-licious but if you email Diana, I'm sure she can order them for you soon.

Copic colors used today are: C3, C1, C00, E11, E00, E000, R20, B97, B95, B91, B000, B0000, E35, E33, E31


Well, thanks for dropping by today! I hope you enjoyed my project for today and will visit again soon! Have a great day!

MIC Anniversary Celebration - Digi Winners of "Zoe All Excited"

Happy Sunday everyone! Just a brief post today to announce the 5 winners of the "Zoe All Excited" digi image.   Thanks everyone for your comments, they are so appreciated. The following names were pulled randomly from a hat by my daughter Christina:

Wendy

Shannah

Dobra

Shazza

Angela

Congratulations ladies!! Please contact Zoe at  http://www.makeitcrafty.com.au/card-making/pages/Contact-Us.html

Make It Crafty and Tiddly Inks Mix n' Match Release

Good morning everyone! Just a quick post today to let you all know that there is a HUGE Steampunk release going on with Make It Crafty and Tiddlyinks.

They are celebrating with a fun  I SPY game. Please head on over to HERE for the full details on how to play.

This is an amazing release with so many incredible images. I wish I had had the time to play along.  And the DT have outdone themselved with some incredible projects. I hope you'll take the time to give them a visit!

Also, for one week only they are offering you 15% off  the new release images!!  Just enter the code MIXNMATCH at either of the stores on checkout to get your discount! For the Make It Crafty release, please visit HERE. For the Tiddlyinks release, please visit HERE.

Thanks so much! Have a great day! xo

Little Darlings Challenge #3 - Buttons & Brads

Time for another challenge at Little Darlings Challenges.  Our challenge this week is to use buttons, eyelets or brads on our card. Here is my creation for this week:

This Little Darlings image is called Go Girl Go. She looks like she's having a blast! These Little Darlings images reflect so many childhood memories, they are really beautiful!

The gorgeous papers I used today are by Lily Bee Designs - Picket Fence paper pad and can be found at Love To Stamp.  I used a Magnolia Doohickey die - picket fence and swirl, flower found at Make It Crafty, Stampin Up flower brad,  heart button and "be yourself" charm from my stash.

I plan to enter this card at the following challenges:

Our Daily Bread Designs - red, white, and blue
Send A Smile 4 Kids Challenge - red, white, and blue
Allsorts - anything goes
Card Makin' Mamas - summertime
Bearly Mine Challenge - anything goes


Hope you like my card today! Thanks for taking a peek! :)

Magnolia-licious Challenge #17

Hello stamping friends! Our color challenge this week is red, white, and blue at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog.

So I created this card for our challenge:

I had this wonderful flag stamp from Our Daily Bread and thought it would go perfectly with Magnolia's Tilda in Star Dress.  I also used Magnolia's Shooting Stars stamp in the background as my fireworks but I don't think you can see it too well as my flag covers most of it. These fun patriotic papers are from BoBunny and I got them at Love To Stamp. I also used a few patriotic stickers that I picked up at my local Michaels Arts and Crafts.

Copic colors used today are: B97, B95, B91, B000, Y000, E11, E00, E000, R27, R24, R22, R20, C1, C00

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Ellephantastic - July celebrations (Independence Day celebration)
Our Daily Bread Designs - red, white, and blue
Send A Smile 4 Kids Challenge - red, white, and blue
If The Shoe Fits, Scrap It - patriotic
7 Kids College  Fund Challenge #25 - red, white, and blue


Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week! :)

Make It Colourful Anniversary Celebration

Happy Sunday to you! I have a long post for you today but I hope you will read on as I have a prize to be won if you hang in there with me! :)

This month at Make It Crafty we are having a birthday blast extravaganza! Make it Crafty is turning ONE and we have a huge challenge and fabulous prizes to be won if you join in!!

We are bringing you a reminder that the celebrations are going for the WHOLE month of July so you have plenty of time to play with us.

Today we are excited to be playing with two other international resellers of Make it Crafty products, Susana’s Custom Art & Card Design in the USA & Stempellädle Der Bastelmarkt in Germany.

To celebrate we thought, rather than a blog hop we would set a CHALLENGE using Make it Crafty products!!

There are FIVE challenge categories and there will be FIVE GRAND WINNERS! More about the 5 categories if you read on.

PLUS, there will be Random winners throughout the month!

There will be random winners throughout the whole month. The numbers have been pre-selected and as soon as an entry is added that matches that number they WIN! Winners will be announced soon after entry on the sidebar of Make it Colourful.

PLUS THERE’S MORE!!!

Zoe, the owner of Make it Crafty has a super duper HUGE Candy give away – choc-a-block FULL of Make it Crafty goodies!! AND I have heard a whisper that she is planning on having random giveaways on her blog throughout the month of July! All you need to do is leave her some love as she’ll randomly be choosing people who have commented on her posts throughout the last year!!

So I do hope you will celebrate with us this month and get into the Make it Crafty spirit of FUN!

There are 5 categories you can enter and you are welcome to create a card combining more than one category.

1. Merge as many Make it Crafty images into one scene.
2. The most creative combination of Make it Crafty images
3. Create a project using ONLY Make it Crafty rubberstamps
4. Create a project using ONLY Make it Crafty Laser cut embellishments. NO IMAGES!
5. And lastly, create a project with Make it Crafty images and coloured with Blue, Mustard/Yellow, and Brown (Make it Crafty Logo colours!)

******** CANDY ALERT ********

As a little special EXTRA, Zoe the owner of Make it Crafty, has told me that I can choose FIVE very lucky commenters to win this special ‘Zoe All Excited’ digistamp. Just leave your comment below and I will choose the winners on July 17th!

We hope you will join us in the celebrations!!


So I have made 2 cards to show you to fit into 2 challenge categories.  My first card fits into category #1. I have used 3 digi images for this one. They are: Lulu swings, Petals and Palings, and Peaches of Plenty.  I love combining different images to create one scene.  Check out Zoe's tutorial section on her blog for a tutorial on how to combine digi images on MS Word.

My next card fits into the 5th category - using MIC logo colors.  I used Siren Lorelie. She is gorgeous! Don't you love the pearl necklace she's holding? ;)

I used my scallop circle grand nestabilities to create my shell card. Also added stickles to give the mermaid some sparkle. I used MIC flower swirls chipboard cutouts as my seaweed. I got my sentiment made by Whimsy from Love To Stamp.

I had fun making these cards. I hope you liked them and can let me know what you think. Please stop by Make It Colourful and join in our month long challenge. I'll be looking for you! Thanks for stopping by!

Magnolia-licious Challenge #16

We have another photo inspiration for you for this week's challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog. Here is our photo inspiration.

I love these colors. So I made a center step card using these colors.

This pretty Tilda is Tilda in Garden from Magnolia-licious and my papers are from Prima Marketing called Annalee. I used the heart swirl doohickey die by Magnolia, a MS border punch and butterfly punch, and spellbinder die.  The rolled flower was made from an MFT die and I also used flowers from WOC.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Hooked on Craft Challenges - flowers
Art Impressions Stamps - handmade flowers
Stamps R Us - "there was a little girl"

I hope you can play along with us at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog.You could win a fabulous gift certificate to Magnolia-licious. See you there and thanks for stopping by!

Love To Stamp - 4th of July Basket

Today I have a 4th of  July basket to show you using this cute Little Darling's image "Nice To Meet You."

I used my spellbinder dies to create this basket and some stickers to embellish.  Isn't this Little Darlings' image too cute?  My papers are called Liberty by BoBunny and is on sale right now at Love To Stamp. Hurry on over to pick up your paper pack - they are perfect for 4th of July cards!

My image is colored with the following copic colors:  E11, E00, E000, R20, B97, B95, B91, B000, E35, E31, YR23, Y21, Y000, R24, R22.  I used my prisma colored pencils for extra shading and highlighting.

Here is my basket filled with some 4th of July goodies:

I plan to enter my project at the following challenges:

Pals Paper Arts - stars
Paper Play Challenges - stars and stripes
Shelly's Images - patriotic stars and stripes
Stamp Insanity - stars and stripes
Stamp Something - 4th of July
Totally Papercrafts Challenge - spots and stripes
Hope you like my project today! Thanks so much for any comments you may leave - I really appreciate each comment and love reading them! Have a great weekend! xo