HOWDY!!! How about a Square Dance?

Howdy all!!
Ever feel like Square Dancing? Tilda is all decked out and ready to dance!!



She is finally home and ready to get going. Got herself a brand new dress and petticoats. Her hair is pulled out of her face and she is ready to : DO-SI-DO!!

For this card I used SU River Rock card stock ( out dated now ) which I brushed with SU Real Red Ink - I found some unknown red and white plaid from my stash and added SU Bella Rose Paper with the Red Roses. I stamped Tilda with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured her with Copics. I used Ultra Find Glitter Ritz for her wings in Stardust as I was trying to keep things in the silver tones reminiscent of the 'old west'. I used two Prima flowers one red and one yellow and used silver stars for the centres of the flowers. Tilda was stamped and then cut out with my largest oval Spellbinders Die ( I only have the small set ). I put gathered red gingham ribbon on the back of the die and it is raised up on deep dimensional stickers. I then put lots of the tiniest silver flat backed pearls all around the die and I added four large ones in each corner. I have to applogise for the state of Tilda's hair on this card - my white pen, which has never worked correctly, did a bad thing for me so I had to cover up my highlights with lots of white to fix it!!!! :o(

On the inside of the card I used the same two DP's and cut the Bella Rose paper with a new border punch ( to me ) from Fiskars called - Dotted Wave. For the writing panel I simply cut a small square in keeping with all of the squares on this card and I pierced in each corner. On the left hand side I added another flower in the red and yellow, added a SU yellow glitter brad and a cow boy boot charm I was lucky enough to find in my stash from my quilting days!! Four more large silver pearls were added in two corners.

Here are the Copics I used on this card.

For her face I used :EOOOO, EOOO, EOO, and R21 for her cheeks;

C1 and C3 were used for her belt buckle; Hair, belt and boots : Y11, Y21,YR24; Dress and Hair Ribbon : R24, R27, R29; her blouse and socks were : YG91; YG95.

I am happy to be home again - it has been a very busy summer for me and extremely hot! Last Saturday I was able to take the Copic Certification Course on the mainland, so travelled there and back over 3 days.

Peanut had her operation on Monday and did very well. She is so tiny that when we picked her up she was very confused and sleepy from being put to sleep; so the whole of Monday afternoon, evening and over night I had to sit with her on my lap until she was finally awake enough not to fall and hurt herself. She is as happy as can be today and everything is great!! Last night I had my first decent sleep in over a month!! I am looking forward to many more LOL LOL

Thank you so much for looking at my card today. I hope you are all very well and enjoying the last part of summer before the children go back to school.........

Love Candy

Please meet Keisha!

Hello!

I have bought my first digital stamp image. Her name is Keisha, and she is from Mo Manning at: http://www.digitalpenciltoo.blogspot.comi/. I love her to death - hope you do to :o)

This little girl was so much fun to colour!!! I hope I have done her justice. I am sorry she has a hair over her face - I did not notice until I took the pictures - OH MY! It is gone now !

Here are a few close ups for you :o)

This card is for a special couple and it took me a while to decide on colours etc. But I am happy with what I finally decided on. Because it is for both a woman and a man I wanted it to have blue as well as pink in it.

I had a piece of pink card stock that had dimensional lines in it ( don't know where it is from ) so I used that for the card base, and ran the lines horizontally. I also had a piece of white with dimensional tiny hearts on it. I painted that whole piece with Pink Shimmerz and when it was dry I painted over the tiny hearts one at a time so they were darker. I used SU's lovely white Organza Ribbon and wrapped it around the heart paper and tied a big bow. I printed 'Keisha' onto Gina K's 120 lb. white card stock. After she was coloured I cut her down to size and placed her onto SU's Tempting Turquoise. One side of it was cut out with MS small Heart Border Punch. I attached the turquoise on an angle over the heart paper. I also stamped the sentiment with Tempting Turquoise ink, and with SU Marker in the same colour, ran it around the cut out which was done with the SU new Scallop Oval Punch.

On the inside of the card I used Imaginisce - Tiptoe Through Tulips. I cut borders on both pieces with MS larger Heart Punch and placed them on the Turquoise paper. I then stamped the second sentiment onto white card stock , bordered it with the turquoise and placed it on the Tulip paper....... both sentiment stamps are from the same set: ' Card Sentiments' from 'Clear Art Stamps'.

Here are some pictures of the inside of the card:

As usual I coloured with Copics. I am sorry I forgot to take a picture of them but these are the ones I used:

Face: R32, E33, E35; Hair: E09, E29; Dress, Hair Band, Shoes: R30, R21, R32, R0000; Basket: Y11, Y23, E33, E35; Flowers: Y15, BG0000, BG01; Leaves: G21, G24; Ear-rings and nail polish were also R32. I used Stickles: ear-rings and nail polish: Fruit Punch, Centre of Flowers: Yellow, Dress, hair band, ribbon and shoes: Cotton Candy.

Gosh that is a lot - I hope I have remembered everything!!!

I just wanted to show her to you as I had so much fun making the card today :o)

Love to you all and thank you so much for the wonderful comments you leave me.......

Candy

Blog Candy Available at Kerry's!!!!

Hi everyone :o)
Just came from Kerry Donovan-Cashttp://threecloversdesigns.blogspot.com/2009/08/daydreaming-and-thank-you.htmley's Blog. Wonderful Blog candy there. Martha Stewarts Loop Border and Corner Punch!!!!!!!!! Good luck to all.........
Love Candy

Happy Monday Morning!

Hi everyone - sorry it has been so long since I have posted. Life sometimes just doesn't go the way you would like it to. I have had some troubling things happen in the past while that have taken me a while to get over. Now our miniature doxie is very ill, and needs an operation to survive! Last week our son, Shawn and his family arrived. We had a full week of fun with him, his wife, Rhonda and our two wonderful grandchildren.

So the sad story is I am WAY behind in my Rain cards for two people on the Magnolia-licious Group. They were due in July but I wasn't able to get them made. I have started with one here and will do another tomorrow and then do the August Rain.............I can't say I am sorry enough to the two ladies who haven't yet received their cards.

Since I haven't got the new Summer Stamps as yet, and so many are making gorgeous cards with them. I decided to go in another direction and make a Halloween Card.

I had some fun with this one - I think Edwin is a doll in his costume :o)

Here are some close ups for you:

Here is the inside of the card: Left side -



Right side:

And for the first time I have taken a picture of the Copics that I used!

I always thought that I used so many and that was incorrect - but I now see other girls use about the same amount - so decided to show them also.

RECIPE:

Stampin' Up basic black card stock - 11" X 5 1/2 "

Orange DP that came with the Halloween Paper - I cut it 5 1/4 sq. and then used Orange Peel Stickles around the four edges of the paper. It was then attached to the black card.

I then cut the DP made by Bo Bunny ( 2008 ) and fussy cut the corner that I liked the best at 5" sq and used the Orange Peel Stickles to fill in parts of the pumpkin eyes, noses and mouths - but not all - just the part that was bright orange in colour.

I also fussy cut another DP that came with the Halloween set with my largest oval Spellbinder ( I only have the small set ) used demensional stickers to raise it off the background DP.

" Halloween Edwin " was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with my Copics and cut out. He was also raised with demensional stickers. I added Diamond Stickles to his hair, his bag and his Dracula Coat.

Don't you think the bat is the cutest?? All Magnolia stamps were purchased from Diana - and her address is on the right hand side of my blog. I painted the bat with Copics also and used the same Diamond Stickles to add interest to him.

For the inside of my card I used the same DP as I used for the oval on the front, for the left side. I stamped the bats (from PrintWorks) and the Halloween Tree with owl from SU - Set House of Haunts - with Stampin'Up basic black ink and then used clear embossing powder and heated it to make it shiny. The right side of the card was left black and I just added a bat sticker for the jotting place, plus two corner stickers to match the DP.

Hope you think this is a fun card. Many big thanks for looking at my blog today. I love to hear your comments on how I am progressing in my work :o)

Love, Candy

SALE at the Town Scrapper

Hi once again today............
I am thrilled to hear from Phebe at 'The Town Scrapper'. She has asked me to stay on as a DT Member for one more month! I hope I can do justice to this honour............She has sent me some more stamps. So be watching for some new cards coming. I hope to be able to squeeze time in between visiting with my son, D-I-L and grandchildren and start them soon.
****SALE at 'The Town Scrapper'. Magnolia's on until Wednesday - August 5th for 35% OFF. *****
Phebe still has a great selection of The Butterfly Collection, plus ~ large spider web, Halloween Bag, Bat, old type fence, Band aide Tilda, Eiffel Tower, Ink Cap Mushrooms, Cat, Sheep, Snowman, large cupcake with bow for sitting images on, and some others.........you must get in touch with her. Also some of her accessories are on for 40% off!
Remember Sale Ends August 5th.........!!
Good night - Love Candy

I am home again ~ and I have made a new card!

Hi everyone! Gosh it is good to be home again. I picked the hottest weather to go to visit mom in this time!! But it has been even hotter since I got home this past Saturday! Yesterday we had the all time high in BC for that day : a whopping 110 !!! Can you say H O T ????

I am soooo hot that I made this card for a Magnolia Challenge I saw online and now I have forgotten which Challenge Blog it was for LOL LOL.........I do know it is due today, but that's about all! ~ Oh my.......I have it now - it is "Just Magnolia Challenge" !! Many thanks to all my friends who have sent me the information and to my blog as well. You are so very special!!!!

Anyway I have many Raining Cards to make for my Magnolia-licious Group and am far behind because of being with mom since the beginning of the month. I made one the day before yesterday and was supposed to mail it yesterday, but it got ruined in the heat over night! BOO............so this is my second attempt for the poor gal it was going to.

This time it is plain without much glue on it so it can't melt away.

This is one of my all time favourite Tilda's and would you believe I don't own her. My lovely friend Jacque Beddingfield stamped me some images of her and this is the first time I have been able to stand to give her away. I am on a mission to find and buy this Tilda..........

Today I have used Whisper white card stock from SU; a beautiful watermelon from my stash of DCWV Glitter Stack and both DP are from another DCWV Stack called Nursery - Baby Girl. I have been wanting to use it forever and my Baby Boy Stack as well!!

Colouring has been done with my wonderful COPIC's again! My sentiment is a very old rub on from Imaginisce, and the white pearls are from MS.

I decided to pierce my glitter paper down both sides today and then I have hand sewn. I have skipped a hole between each stitch. I used MS fancy border punch, my second largest oval Spellbinder ( I only have the small set ) and Diamond Glitter for her wings.

Hope you like Tilda holding her Teddy Bear - I love her:

Here is a close up:

And some of the details:

I will have to post the inside at a later time - sorry I have been called away.......

Love you all and really would be happy to hear comments on this one :o)

Thanks - have a great weekend. A Holiday one in BC, Canada.

Candy

Party Tilda

Hello! I can't believe it is Saturday again and I haven't made a card all week!!!

I sat down today and finally made one of my favourite Magnolia's. I have used Party Tilda for this card. I used Stampin'Up DP as well as SU Card Stock : Purely Pomegranate and So Saffron. I have used SU jeweled brads - Pink large and yellow small. MS leaf punch and one of her flower punches and some other punches for the other flowers. SU Dazzling Diamonds for the stars and Tilda wings. I coloured with Copics. I am sorry I don't know who made the fuzzy brads in yellow.

This little girl is celebrating a Birthday so I hope you like her :o)

Here she is:

Here is a closer look at just Tilda:

Here is one half of the inside. Sorry - I wrote on the inside before I remembered to take the picture and don't want the special person to see it.:

I hope all you gals in the USA have had an enjoyable July 4th. And the gals in Canada enjoyed Canada Day earlier in the week :o)

We are very very hot here - so hope everyone else has lovely summer weather as well, for all your holidays that are coming up real soon.

Thanks for visiting me - I would love to read what you think of this card :o) . You girls are so nice to visit :o)

Love Candy