Hello Happy Tuesday Morning

Hello everyone!

I am my usual late self - it is 1:25 am here - but better late than never I always say.

It has taken me a while to get somewhat settled after my two trips away. The one to visit mom and the other to go camping with hubby in Tofino. Unfortunately it rained every day at some point and some times all day there, so I wasn't able to find my Sand Dollars :o(

There is much to do around the house both inside and out and lots of cards to make to catch up with challenges and obligations I have made. I should have several cards here in this next week.

Today I am showing a very late April Mingle Exchange. This card had to have a Magnolia stamp on it, 3 flowers, 2 ribbons and one button. Lisa if you are reading this and don't want to see it before it gets to you - don't read from here down!!! :o)

I was lucky to find one piece each of 4 pieces of Basic Gray Porcelain DP. I used most of them up on this card. I also used stickles in two colours - yellow for Tilda's wings and copper for her hair. I punched out the middle and small size of the deco flower - covered them in Versa Mark Ink and used sparkly chalk . A soft brown around the edges and a pretty peach on the inside. Then used some pretty brads for the centres. The smaller ones are fuzzy. My first ribbon is plain vanilla twill and the second is rickrack in peach over top. There is NOT one button, but two - if you can see them LOL . Tilda was painted with my Copics as usual, then cut out and dimensional stickers raised her off the small background of SU Vanilla card stock ( she was painted on Vanilla also ) I used a Copic to outline the edge of the Vanilla paper and then placed that on the floral paper, and placed that on the polka dot paper - my favourite! As you can see I used the awesome design paper as the base on my Vanilla card stock which I painted peach polka dots on around the edges. I sure hope I have mentioned all that I used......

Here is the front of the card:

Here is a close up :

Here is the inside:

It is great to be home again and I am looking forward to making lots of cards.

Thanks very much for taking a look at my blog - I so appreciate it :o)

Love Candy

Happy Mother's Day !!

Hi Friends

I am home once again. A lot behind in my card making, but hope to remedy that very soon.

Would like to inform you of a blog candy give away on Laurel's Blog. head on over and see her great work and good luck with winning the candy.

Have a wonderful day!!

Love Candy

I'm Home.........for a minute!

Hi so happy to be back and have a card to show you!

Returned from the trip to visit mom on Thursday late afternoon. Have been busy unpacking, doing laundry, cleaning house and PACKING again. We are leaving tomorrow for four days at Tofino on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. One of the prettiest places I know of.

Had to make a Mother's Day card to put in the mail on our way out tomorrow.

Hope you like this one. I just received my Gorjuss stamps when I got home and had to use one.

I had fun with the card but am disappointed with my white highlights cause I did something stupid but no time to redo the card :o(

Here is the front:

a closer look at Gorjuss:

The inside:

A closer look at the pearls inside:

Thank you so very much for having a look today. If I don't see you before Mother's Day ~ I wish you all a great day with your families!!!

Love Candy

One More Card

Hi there!

I was able to squeeze in one more card, in between packing and baking. Knowing I can't make any for 2 weeks is a killer.........

On this card I wanted to use up the last of the patterned paper I had. It is the old old paper that I have no idea where it came from, I also used SU Orchid. Tilda has some SU Dazzling Diamonds on her wings and there is a wee bit on the center of each flower. I have used some nice flowers from Prima and a crystal in the middle of each one. Also I made a few little leaves out of SU Old Olive paper.

Front of the card:

I have to laugh here because I was looking all over for a piece of plastic that went flying. Couldn't find it any where until I looked at this picture. Great Scott! At least I found it - it is in the garbage now!!!!

Closer look at Tilda:

And WOW the inside:

Hope you like it.

Thanks for looking ladies - see you in May............

Love Candy

A New Magnolia Card

Hi everyone,

As usual it is late at night here. although not nearly as late as most nights that I post to my blog!

I received a beautiful card today from Sharon Caudle and it was full of new spring stamps!! I was overjoyed and immediately started to make a card........however my husband continually interupted me today and I could not get it finished the way I wanted to.

I am going to the mainland on Friday for a while to visit my mother and take her to some doctor appointments so am trying to get the house organized and get clothes washed for packing etc.

He went out and bought a new truck the other day!!!! Now we have been having to go here and there to sign papers and get money and appointments etc. So I am way behind on all the things I have to do. He couldn't have done this at a worse time -but I am sure you all know about this kind of thing with your own husbands!!!!!!!!!

Anyway I could see my card was not going to come together but I had to get it finished. So here is the result.

The front of the card:



Here is a close up of Edwin:



And here is the simple inside:



This card was coloured with Copics, white card stock was used for the base of the card and the rest of the paper is from : DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies. I also used MS butterfly punch and that was all for today.

I would like to thank you all for your wonderful comments on my last card and I hope to follow this one with a much better one real soon.

If I can't post again before Friday. I will be gone for a bit more than 2 weeks. I will be able to check my mail, just not blog. I will be home again around May 8th or so.

Lots of Love,
Candy

Hi Once Again :o)

This evening I have made a Magnolia Card for one of the people in my group.
This one has several things on it I have never done before - so I hope the lady will like it?

I have used Gina K 120lb card stock for the actual card base. Then used SU Whisper White for the rest of the card. The Gina K is so thick it is hard to cut with punches if you want to do a good job.

I guess we shall call this my 'White' Card. There is a touch of colour but very little.

I painted Miss Tilda with Copics , used a very soft purple ribbon for her to sit on. Today I made my own flower to see what it would come out like. I stamped a background stamp of tiny flowers on all the pieces before I put the flower together, and I also went around all the edges with a matching Copic pen. I wanted just a 'hint' of colour on this card. I have used my oval scalloped Nestie, my polka dot Cuttlebug embossing folder. Some beautiful new ribbon from SU, as well as a button from my stash., The inside of the card is very very old paper I had, that I thought would look nice with the plain work on the outside.

Here is a picture of the full size front of the card:


Here are a couple of close ups : you will notice that this time I left a small amount of white card stock all around Tilda when I cut her out - that is because I wanted to take my very light mauve Copic and put that as a shadow around her. It is barely noticeable in the pictures - but it does look nice on the actual card............



Here is one of my first hand made flower:



And of course the inside of this one:



As you can see it is a real departure from the last three cards that I have made!!!!

Thank you to everyone who comes to take a peek. I so enjoy hearing from you all.
Hope you all have a good week, now that holidays are over and it is time for back to school and work........

Love Candy

Delicious Blog Candy!!

My friend Kim has great blog candy available until April 22. Run and check it out!! Good luck to everyone!
Love Candy