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The new Easter Collection "Hoppy Easter" from Magnolia-licious is just so delightful! I've been so wanting to ink them up since they arrived, but my days are very full lately. I also wanted to use some of my Magnolia DP which arrived with my images. They are just yummy!

I have used Friday Sketcher's Challenge #95 for my card this week. Here's a peek at the sketch...



I combined two images on my card. #441 Flower Basket and #3028, Tilda with Three Flowers, and maked the images so that Tilda was sitting neatly on the basket.

Here's my card...



Here's a close up of Tilda...



Card Recipe:

Card stock - SU
DP - Magnolia
Silk Ribbon - No Time to Stamp
Flowers - stash
Pearls/Pearl flourish - stash
Bunny Charm - from a dear friend
Leaves/Butterflies - MS punches
Circle Cutter - Creative Memories
Copic Markers
Stickles
Scor-tape and pop dots
Sewing Machine

The inisde of my card...



A close-up of the inside of my card...



Here are the Copics I used...wow! I used a lot...



That's it for today...I'm off to work on another card...

I was just so happy to be a part of the Whipper Snapper Team that I got carried away. Although we were only required to make a couple from each set, I made 6! So here are the final two.

First up is a heart shaped puzzle card:



Next up are 4 little note cards that I made using my CB embossing folder on the front, rounded the corners and used my Nestability dies for the circle shapes around the little bird image. I mached the birds to the ribbon and one of the circles. Inside each card is stamped a sentiment....

Today has been a very busy day. With the Christmas All Year Long Blog Hop behind me I started to work on a card with a new hAnglar image that was so generously sent to me. I had colored her last night but I needed to find a sketch to follow. So I turned to Friday Sketcher's Challenge blog and, voila, there was a sketch. Actually the challenge ends tonight so I might make it and I might not.

Here is the sketch...



I used the Out of the Box technique to cut out the frame around my image. I love this technique as it allows you to use a smaller Nestability shape and have a portion of your image coming outside the shape. However when I was cutting around the image I accidently cut a little too far around her foot. YIKES! What was I going to do so save my card. I surely didn't want to through this darling one out Thank goodness for flowers!

Here is my card...



Isnt' she adorable? I so wish these stamps were available in the USA. Only Sweden, Norway and Finland. You just have to know someone who knows someone who lives in those countries so they can order them for you. Arghhh! Or find someone who already has them and ask them to stamp you off a few. All the panels were stitched on my machine and then sponged with Versa Magic Sahara Sand Chalk ink.

Here is a close up of this image - I haven't got a name for her...



She is colored completely with Copic Markers except for her cheeks. I used chalk for the first time and I love the softer effect it achieves.

Here are the flowers that saved my card...



Once the outside of the card was completed I attacked the inside. My main difficulty was that I had pulled some dp from my scrap bin to make this card, and I only had small pieces of each pattern. The one I had the most of was the rose floral. So I only had enough of that left to do the inside with.

Here is the inside of my card...



For the upper part of the card I used a SU stamp set called Oval All, then used my Nestabilites Dies to repeat the same shape as the outside of the card. The stamp has tiny stars all around the oval which I covered with tiny pearls to repeat the pearl theme.

Here's a closer view of that stamped image...



I know many of you like to know what Copic Markers were used to color the image with. Here are all that I used, sitting beside the card...



Thanks for stopping in to see my latest creation...

It's that time of the month again! No, not THAT time...hehehe! It's time for the third Christmas All Year Long Blog Hop! Woohoo. I'm the fourth person on the list so if you have come here from Annabelle's blog your right on target. If you just jumped into the blog at my site, then please click on the link above and start with Julie's blog.

For this months' card I used Silent Night Tilda which you can purchase here. I purchased this gorgeous DP by Kaiser Scrapbook called Winter Wonderland. I just loved the beautiful flourishes in burgandy on a cream/gold/bluegreen background. And it matched beautifully with the silk ribbon I had on hand. So, yeah! I had all the elements ready to go.

Here's my card:



I used the Scalloped Edge Frame Die from Nestabilites to create the panel that Tilda is on. It has these pretty little notches all around the edges. I used my Bow Easy to make the bow and attached my one and only snowflake charm to it matching the gold theme with gold pearls in the corners of both my panels.

Here is a close-up of Tilda:



Here is the inside of my card:



I purposely cut the inside piece of dp so that the ornament on the paper showed just below the ribbon. I wove a strip grosgrain ribbon through my lace and then glued a bow of silk ribbon to the center.

My bottom panel was cut and then two corners were rounded and a gold pearl added to two of the corners. I stamped the Vintage Christmas stamp to the bottom corner. All my panels are sewn on my sewing maching.

My image was colored with Copic Markers and here are those that I used:



From here you want to hop on over to Cheryl's blog and check your her wonderful creation. Thanks so much for joining us today on the Hop and I hope you enjoy the remeinder of your journey!

I so enjoyed working with the Whipper Snapper images. Anna Wight is an awesome illustrator and I found the images lend themselves well to altered items also.

So here is a card I made using the Bumble Bee, group of flowers, and even the little Ladybut from the "Beautiful Day" set. My DP is just from my stash as is the ribbon. The sentiment from the "Think Happy Thoughts" set was stamped onto white cardstock and then I used my Spellbinders Fancy Labels Die to punch it out with. I also used my Spellbinders Ovals and Scalloped Ovals die for the shape on my focal image. I put a tiny bee charm to hand from the bow. I used Flower Soft on the flowers to give them dimension. All the panels were sewn on my sewing maching.



I really thought this little Turtle from the "Beautiful Day" set was so cute, but I was in a quandry as to how to use him. Then as I was digging through my stash of alterable stuff I found this one lonley key chain. It comes apart so you can add a picture, or a Turtle in behind the acrylic. Then it just snaps together. So I used him on one side and on the reverse side I used the sentiment "thanks for being you" from "Think Happy thoughts".




I still have a couple more to upload but will leave that for another day...

Thanks for dropping in for a visit and to see what I've been busy working on...

Now that I've got my studio up and running and I'm able to find all the little things I put away, I have been able to work on a card. I have just recently received these darling Magnolia stamps from Magnolia-licious. They are from the Fairytale/Prom/Wedding collection. Today I received even more images from the Hoppy Easter Collection - woohoo!

I love to take part in challenges, and since I'm soon going to be showing you my work for Stamptacular Sunday Design Team, I thought I might just have enough time for one of their challenges!

This week on Stamptacular they have a sketch for the challenge. I love to work from a sketch. It takes half the guess work out of your card making, and this one is delightful. Here is the sketch:



Here's the card I made, and I must add that I used scrap dp from my bin, rather than cut up a new piece of dp. I have so much that is readily available to me, and I just never think to use it. Duh!



I'm sorry to say that I can't tell you where I got the dp. It's been in my bin for a long time and I just found colors that worked together. I can tell you that my solid blue cardstock is SU Brocade Blue and the white cardstock is a generic brand.

Here's my card recipe,

Stamps - Magnolia Prom Queen Tilda, sentiment - Michael's $1 bin
DP - stash
Copic Markers
Spellbinders #11 die
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder
Flowers - stash
Pearls - stash
Ribbon - stash
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Pearl
Sewing Machine

Here are the Copics I used in coloring this darlin' one:



Here's a close up of my flowers and sentiment. You'll notice that after I took the original picture I added one more tiny red rosebud...



Here's how I finished the inside of my card...



Here's a closer view of Tilda inside my card...



Thank you so very much for stopping by to see what I've created.

I decided this past week to take a break from the DT projects I had been working on and play a little. How could I not, when my new order of Maggies had arrived in the mail? I was just itching to ink up one of them. I chose Tilda with a Tulip for my cards and used Friday Sketcher's Challenge for this week.

Wonderfully talented Jacque is the host of this week's sketch and it's just delightful. Thanks Jacque for giving us such a wonderful sketch to follow. Here's the sketch.



I went shopping at Joann's on Saturday and found a wonderful stack of paper, the only one they had, by DCWV. It's called The Luxury Stack and the paper (thick as cardstock) is Pearlized and Metallic. 48 beautiful 8X8 sheets! I chose to use pink and to accent it will yellow and black. I also purchased a new Fiskars punch which also embosses. It's a very pretty effect.

Here's my card...



I used the "out of the Box" technique with my Nestabilites for this image and I used a little Stardust Stickles on the base of the Tulip and hand printed the little tag. The pretty yellow ribbon was a gift from a friend. I love putting butterflies around my flowers, so there are three on the card, all punched from the pretty metallic/pearlized paper and painted with a little Stardust.

Here's a close up of Tilda...



My beloved flowers were all misted with Glimmer Mist (Pearl) and then touched up with some Stardust also. The branch punches are by Martha Stewart, the pearls are from my stash.



The inside of the card is quite simple. All panels inside and out were sewn with my machine. You can't see the embossing across the bottom of the note panel, but believe me it's there. I tried to get a close up but it was blurry.



Here are the Copic I used to color her with...



I'm so glad to finally have a card to post! I've been busy working on some, as you will see in just a few weeks.

Thanks for stopping by for a wee bit of a visit...