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Hi everyone, I have another card to share with you. This one was inspired by a friend of mine and is in the mail and on it's way as I type. My friend has three daughters and all have been very involved in multiple school activities throughout the years, including Cheer-leading and Volley Ball. When the new "Winner Takes All" came available at Magnolia-licious I just new I had to have these two images and hopefully she will be able to use them in her scrapbooking. She just "launched" her eldest into college so I hope this card will cheer her up a little....

Their school colors are red and black - not as easy to work with as you might think - at least not for me!

Here is the card I designed for her using the school colors throughout...



Here is a close up of Cheerleader Tilda



A side view of the card...


Here is how I finished the inside of the card. I created a pocket in the salutation panel to hold the images that I colored for her...


Here are the images pulled up from the pocket and you can see how I colored them.



Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I always appreciate your visits...

Blessings and hugs,
Barb

Welcome to the Magnolia-licious Highlites Birthday bash Blog Hop. We are celebrating our fabulous Diana's birthday (which is actually tomorrow, August 24th) and we're throwing one bodacious Cyber Birthday Party. I'm in charge of the appetizer's and this is what I'm putting on the table...



Don't these look delicious? What a yummy way to start the festivities!!

Since this is still a blog hop you should have arrived here from the uber talented Janiel's blog. If not, please hop back to the beginning of the party hop by going over to the Magnolia-licious Highlites to start your journey. Lots of fabulous creations and lot's of fun party items to be found along the way. From here you will hop to Sharon Caudle's awesome blog to see her fabulous creation.

We were each asked to make something very special for Diana to honor her. She is such a fabulous leader, most generous with her Maggies and always looking for a way to give us all a break! So my mind began to just pop with ideas that I hope will let her know just how greatly appreciated she is, not just by her DT but by everyone who shops with her online. I made three special projects for her and I hope she will enjoy each one. Here are the three projects together and I will go through how each one was made followed by a recipe on each project at the end of the post. All the images are available from Diana at Magnolia-licious unless otherwise stated...if you can't find a particular image, just let Diana know and I know she will work her magic to get it into the shop for you! I'm telling you, Diana goes well out of her way to give us the best prices, the best service and the best discounted deals anywhere.




The first project I pulled together is a tin DVD case. I ordered a number of these several years ago and was down to my last two. These are so cool. They make a really great gift when you put personal touches on them. I thought about traveling to B.C to help Diana celebrate, but, well, that was out of the question. However, I knew that Tilda could travel and so I chose #262 Traveller Tilda (she is not available in the store right now) and sat her upon #625 Suitcase with Sign from the Bon Voyage collection (also not available) and masked them together. I knew I wanted to use Magnolia dp on this project too so I went hunting through my drawer and found these two papers from the Bon Voyage Collection also. I covered the seam of the paper with a strip of black card stock using my Magnolia Vintage Lace die and a piece of red ribbon. Notice that Tilda's purse uses the Zebra paper to match and that I've put 'TX' and 'BC' on the sign post. Oh what fun I'm having...



Here's a close up of sweet Tilda...



Now, on the inside I decided to put a party in the box. Sorry, Diana, I really tried to fit in some chocolate but nothing would fit. However, there is still some chocolate to come so don't despair!

I reversed the paper and finished off the middle leaving a pocket to stick stuff into. For the party I've included a balloon and three candles, but after these are removed you can put in little reminder notes, receipts or anything that just needs tucking in. (just not a candy bar!)



On the opposite side I've added a small notepad (which has had 1" removed from the bottom to fit the tin). I covered the top of the pad with more Zebra paper and stamped each and every page with Mini images of Tilda. I used #293 Tilda with small gift, #294 Tilda with a Balloon, #233 Congratulation Tilda, #241 Dancing Part Tilda and #3050 Tilda with Heart Lace. All of these mini images are available at Diana's store. Then to complete the ensemble I used more Zebra paper and inserted it into the barrel of the pen then tied a small piece of gingham ribbon to the pocket clip and wrote a note to Diana. This birthday note pad in a tin is perfect for slipping into your purse, you always have pen and paper handy and the tin snaps closed to keep loose papers contained.



Next I had been working on this idea for a Cupcake gift card holder, but wasn't happy with the results. So keeping the Styrofoam ball with the flowers and ribbon, I redid the bottom to my satisfaction and reinserted the ball. Instead of making a regular rectangular gift card part, I made mine oval and used a Mini Congratulation Tilda and Mini Tilda with a balloon again, masking together. I repeated the Spellbinder shape that I had used on then front of the Note pad tin. This doesn't slip all the way into the "Cupcake" as in the instructions, but I liked my idea well enough. I used a Micro binder clip to hold the images panel and a Starbucks gift card on the back. Red bows finished off this project.



Here is the cupcake with the images slipped all the way out...



And here is the cupcake with the gift card swiveled out. Diana, enjoy a good cup of coffee or two on me and think of me while you sip away...wish I could be there to share it with you.


My final project and little gifty for Diana is a altered Crystal Light container. I'm tellin' ya the ideas just kept on comin'!!!

I didn't have any of the original dp left, at least in pieces big enough to cover this oval shaped container. So I found some Magnolia stripped paper from the same collection which I thought would do. No more Zebra paper so I used some black and white stripped ribbon from my stash and used it to border the container. My image is #226 Birthday Tilda and here is where the chocolate comes in...first here is my altered container...



I managed to stuff three delicious Chocolate Biscotti with Chocolate icing into the container. I mean, what is a birthday without chocolate???



Fianlly, I had just enough scrap Zebra paper left to decorate the lid with and tie the piece into the rest of ensemble.



Okay, here's my recipe (excluding the images which I have already listed):

DP - Magnolia, unknown maker from stash
CS - Xpress It Blending Card, SU
Distress Ink - weathered wood, tattered rose
Copics:
Skin - E0000, E000, E00, E11, chalk for cheeks
Blonde Hair - E35, Y26, &23
Black Hair - C7, 5, 3, 1
All red clothing/shoes et al - R46, R14, R12
All other clothing - BG70, BG93
Suitcase - E40, 41, 42, 43, gold Spica pen
Cake - E25, 27, 31
Sign post - E35, 34, 31
Flowers - stash
Ribbon - stash
Stickles
Glossy Accents

I hope you're enjoying all the wonderful projects on the Blog hop and that you'll take the time to comment on all the DT blogs. Remember from here you're hopping over to Sharon's blog...

Thanks for hopping along with us as we celebrate Diana's awesome birthday!

Blessings and hugs,

Barb

Well even though the season is more than half way through, I'm quite passionate about following our Texas Ranger's Baseball team. They went to the World Series last year and lost, but they went. That's all that matters. And it looks like their well on their way again this year. My fingers are crossed.

When I saw that there was #206 BASEBALL TILDA in the "Winner Takes All" collection I just had to have her.

You will notice on my sidebar that I have two links for this collection. The first is for the Mini images and the second is for the full sized collection. Diana at Magnolia-licious, has the most complete collections and the best service. She offers in-store credit with purchases which you can spend now or save up and use it in one big shop. Please pop on over to her shop to see all that she has to offer.

Now, on to the card I made. I started with these papers from my stash and I think their from MME but I'm not really sure since I have cut most of my papers into 6X6 pieces. I found cardstock that matches perfectly and got busy pulling my card together.

Here is Baseball Tilda all ready to hit a home run! With me she already has...



I must point out that I used chandelier glass as part of my flower spray but I also add three individual ones to the edge of Tilda's panel. That represents 3 ball/strikes.

A good closeup on batter #1...



A nice view of the flowers. I used the silver ends from the chandelier glass to make some curly ques to add to the arrangement.



A side view...



The inside upper panel of the card. I used chipboard flourishes which I colored with my copic marker and then sprayed with Pearl Perfect Pearls Mist.



I've seen this done on several other cards where you stamp the image again on the inside but just leave it uncolored. I thought I'd give that a try here to see if I liked the effect....the jury is still out on this one!



If you're interested, here is my card recipe:

CS - Bazzill, Cryogen, SU
DP - unknown from stash
Corner adorners - stash
Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts
Perfect Pearls Mist - Pearl
You are a Winner sentiment - from this collection
Sewing Machine and thread
ScorTape, Mounting Tape, FabriTac, Jewel glue

Copics used -
Skin - E00,000,0000,11 Chalk
Hair - E25,27,30
Bat - E34,35,30
Clothing - BV02,31; E40,41,42,43
Shoes - C3,5; E42,41,40

Well that's all I have for now. Thank you so much for you continued faithfulness following my blog and letting me know what you think of my work...

Blessing and hugs,
Barb

I am flying around trying to get this card posted before we take off for the weekend! I just loved this unique Tri Shutter type card when I saw it over on Paola Levi's blog a week or so ago. On this link to Paola's she has the template for cutting and scoring this card.

I have used three precious images from Magnolia-licious and you can find them on their links: #249 TILDA WITH GIFTS, #293 TILDA WITH SMALL GIFT, and #294 BALLOON TILDA.

Here is my card partially closed...



Here is the card opened completely. You can see that I added some computer generated birthday wishes to each of the two inside panels.



Here is a side view showing the first part of the birthday wish...



Here is the second part of the birthday wishes...here's a hint - you have to sing it to the tune of "We wish you a Merry Christmas"!


Here's a quick recipe for my card:

CS - SU Sage Shadow and Cryogen White
DP - Melissa Frances from stash
Copics Used -
Skin : E0000,000,00,11 Chalk for cheeks
All Hair - E35, &26, 23
Dresses/hair ribbons/balloon - BG70, 93; RV91,93,95
Boots 0 E35,34,30,31
Buttons - stash
Ribbon - stash
Glossy Accents
Stardust stickles
FabriTac glue and Scortape
Crafters floss

I do appreciate your dropping by to see my new creation. Have and happy and safe weekend.

Blessings and hugs,

Barb

Happy Monday everyone. Boy have we got a challenge for you this month! You're going to love this one...our very own beloved Diana at Magnolia-licious is the hostess for this challenge and she asked us to make a card using paper only! That's right!!! No ribbon, no pearls, no ready made flowers! Yikes! You know me and my flowers and pearls...this was really a challenge.

So I tried my hand and making some paper flowers and found a great tutorial in one of the Magnolia Ink Mags. and went to town. My first few were not the best, but at least I had the method down pat.

I went looking for paper and found this adorable chicken paper in my Melissa Frances Kitschy Kitchen stack. How perfect! That clinched the deal on which Image I would use so I dug up #383 Oops Tilda with her broken egg . She was absolutely made for this paper. I tried to find the chicken by Magnolia, but no one seemed to have her so I remember a Chicken image from Whipper Snapper which has been on my shelf for over a year. Well it worked out perfectly too! Hip hip hooray! Now I was cooking.

I had seen several tent cards posted lately and I decided to give it a try too. But remembering that I had to use paper only I was a little stumped when I had to figure out a way to attach my sentiment. Usually the image or sentiment is suspended from the top of the tent with a small piece of chain, but of course that was out. Here is a side view of my Tent Card.


In the end, I decided to suspend my computer generated sentiment on a very thin slice of cardstock, fitting it between the two layers of my card front. Perfect!



Here is a close-up of Tilda. She is cut out and popped onto the front with dimensionals. You will notice that I cheated on this card (shame faced) Before I even knew what had happened I had done some sewing on the edges. I hope this doesn't disqualify me!!! :-(
Well lets move on....


Here is a pic of my cute little chicken. He fits so perfectly on this card that I was thrilled to remember him. I added a couple of swirls behind him to finish off that corner of my card.


Next I added my hand made Cabbage Rose made with the same paper and a coordinating one from the same stack. My small flowers were made with my SU punch and the tiny centers were made with my 1/16th in punch. The Marianne Leaf dies completed the setting. I also added a small arrangement of those little flowers in the opposite corner.



Here is an artsy view of the card...



Please drop by the Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog to see what all the other DT have done with this challenge and get your challenge card made up and entered for a chance to win a fabulous prize from Diana.

Blessing and hugs,
Barb