Magnolia Inspiration

Good Morning!

Today is the new Inspiration Challenge at Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog

Here is our Inspiration Picture:

Isn't it wonderful? I love the peaceful winter scene.

Chrissy choose the theme again this month and what she has asked for is mostly WHITE on our card with a little bit of colour.

Please take a trip over to the Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has made this time......

This is how I have interpreted the Challenge:

Here is a close up of Tilda: I have used Crystal Lacquer on her tear and the buttons on her boots -

Here is the bottom of the card:

And here it is with the sentiment part open:

I have used Fairwell Tilda from the Bon Voyage Collection. She is number #215 but unfortunately isn't in stock at the moment.

I have also used the DooHickey Dies: Swirl#4 and Doily Flowers #8 . Everything is from Diana's Store. The very best place to buy all of your Magnolia images at the very best price and the biggest inventory as well. If something is out of stock a quick email to Diana will have it in for you in no time :o) Diana also carries the MINI MAGNOLIA'S and is the only store in North America to do so. They are SO wonderful and addicting too!!! :o)

I sure hope you will join us at the Challenge Blog and enter a card, cause this time Diana is giving away a $25.00 Gift Certificate!!

Recipe:

Christmas Cuttlebug embossing folder - lightly coloured with Copics

Dazzling Diamonds used on the roof tops and snowflakes and background sprayed with Frost White Glitter Mist.

New Cuttlebug embossing folder that embosses and also cuts out the middle piece - sprayed with Irridescent Gold Glitter Mist

Sizzix Ticket die

Sentiment: computer generated by me

Rhinestones from my stash

Misc. Crystals from my stash

Copics:

Skin - E0000, E000, E00

Cheeks - R20

Dress/ Hankie - R0000, R000, R01, R02

Apron/Socks - G0000, G00, G02

Boots - E41, E42, E44

Boot buttons - C5 - C7

Hair - YR04, YR18, E13, E99

Thank you so much for coming to see me today.

I may not be back until after Christmas. We are leaving in about 6 days for Vancouver to spend the holiday with our son, D-I-L and Grandchildren.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2011 :o)

Love, Candy

It's Tuesday and another COLOUR CHALLENGE with the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog

Hi everyone!!

It's MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS CHALLENGE BLOG: COLOUR CHALLENGE TUESDAY

You don't want to miss this wonderful Challenge from Design Team Member CHRISSY LE.

Chrissy has chosen the colours GREEN, BLUE, and PINK.

Here is the picture we have for the Challenge:

I am sure you won't be surprised to learn that I made another Christmas Card.

I really enjoyed Chrissy's Challenge - I think I am into untraditional Christmas Colours this year LOL

For my card I have used images from the 'So Snowy So Jolly Collection 2009'

Tilda Singing Carols #3007; Snowy Circle #482 and Noel #457 Gosh I am sorry but all but the 'NOEL' seem to be out of stock at the moment, but I see Diana has lots on order for you.

Here is my card:

Tilda was stamped onto Cryogen White paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink then stamped again onto a piece of 'Eclipse Masking paper'. I cut her out of the masking paper and laid her on top of herself * chuckle; then stamped 'Snowy Circle' over the top of her.

My Design Paper is digital from 'Bearly Mine'. My two card stock papers are from 'SU' : 'Taken With Teal' and 'Green Galore'. The design paper on both the inside and outside of the card have been painted with white acrylic paint on the sides, then touched over with my Versa-mark ink pad and sprinkled with white embossing powder and heated with the heat gun - just wanted to 'jazz' it up a bit more :o) * After I had done this, I received my Magnolia Ink Magazine:

'Merry Christmas', and read an article in it about doing this very thing*.

You will notice the circle that Tilda is standing in, as well as the inside of the card, have been distressed a lot and then inked with 'Tim Holtz': 'Tattered Rose'. I used 'SU' white 5/8" Organza Ribbon and coloured it with my Copic YG17. I tied a triple ribbon on my Bow-easy from which I attached 3 coloured jingle bells. I have used a bunch of 'SU' Dazzling Diamond Glitter on the snowflakes, the fur on Tilda's coat and hat and her wings. Her boots have Crystal Lacquer on them. I then sprinkled 'Polar White Flower Soft' on and around the bottom of her boots.

The very outside circle of the writing panel was made by cutting 1/2" strips of my Design Paper and punching it out with a pretty 'SU' Punch.

I hope you love the work your Design Team has done for Chrissy's Challenge!

Please pop by the blog to see everyone's work.

Won't you please join us again for this challenge? This time ' The Lovely Diana' is giving away another $25.00 Gift Certificate!!

Love, Candy

Copics used:

Face: E000, E00, E21

Cheeks: R20

Coat and Hat: B01, B04, B06

Snow Flakes: BG0000, BG000, BG10

Wings: R0000, R000, R30

Song Sheet and Hair: E50, E51, E53, W1, YG25, YG17,R08

Mittens and Stockings: RV32, RV34,, RV95

Fur: C0, C1, C3, C5

Boots: C3, C5, C7, C9

Highlight around Tilda: YG0000

Hi everyone!

How are you all doing? Are you out of breath yet from trying to get everything ready for Christmas?

I am LOL.......a few unexpected things this year as my daughter-in-law broke her shoulder!

Also I am still making gifts - I am usually finished by now - but not this year :o(

I have a couple more cards today.

One is for my Grandson Brandon - I used a hAngler & sAngler Image this time, and think he is so cute for a 7 year old :o)

Oh Oh I see his name tag fell down - it says: Brandon!

Here is a closer look -

Here is the inside -

I used White 'Sparkly Fluff' on his hat. Crystal Lacquer on the candy cane and lots of

'Twinklets'' on the snowflakes :o)

Here is my second card. This one is for a friend so I will not be able to show you the inside. All of these cards have to be mailed first thing tomorrow morning!!

This one is another LOV Image that I love so much.

Here she is a bit closer for you -

On this card I used some lace I had from my quilting days and a snowflake charm from my stash.

The beautiful flowers are from Diana at Magnolia-licious and the 'leaves' are punched with MS punch.

I hope you all take some time to sit and relax and find some 'me' time during the hassle of getting ready :o)

Thanks for visiting me.

Love, Candy

Sunday November 28th

Hello!

Well I have spent my week making the Christmas Cards that I send to everyone. It turned out to be a bigger job than I expected this year. Couldn't get out because of snow etc. so had to scrounge

my room to see what I could come up with. Managed to borrow a die from a friend and that helped a lot. But BOY what a lot of work.

After telling you all that I can't show them to you cause people haven't received them yet LOL LOL

I can show you two other cards that I made this weekend. One Saturday and one today.

This first one is for my Granddaughter, she is 4 :

Here is another closer of the bunny. This is a Lilli of The Valley Image, 'The Night Before Christmas'. I LOVE all of their stamps :o)

Now hold on to your hats folks cause this next card is not a 'Candy' card at all.

I couldn't resist though making this one ~

Are you surprised??? This is a Kenny K image. Here are a couple more pictures

for you:

Here is the inside:

Sorry no colours for these ones - I'm in a hurry. Still have several more to make for the special people in my life, like my Grandson, Mom, and good friends.

The paper used for Mariah's card were digi papers from NitWits and the papers for the 'Sexy Christmas' were from Basic Grey - 'Jovial Collection'.

The afternoon is still early at my house so I'm off to write in those Christmas Cards I made and get them mailed for December 1st!

Hope to see you soon :o)

Love, Candy

First INSPIRATION CHALLENGE

Hello, Hello and Happy Tuesday :o)

It's time for our Inspiration Challenge on the NEW MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS CHALLENGE BLOG.

Here is the picture I chose for the DT to work with.

Oh it made me feel so much like Christmas time and I wish my home looked like that! I really liked the unusual colours and all the sparkly gold. I know it is untraditional, but I think that is why I liked it so much.

Do you know there are only 31 more sleeps till Christmas?? * giggle

It is so exciting to be on the Magnolia-licious CHALLENGE BLOG!! It is very hard to wait for two weeks to go by to show you our cards....we work ahead of time and my card has been ready for 1 1/2 months :o)

Here it is:

The images I chose from Diana's store are:

Sneaky Tilda #3060 from 'A Merry Little Christmas' Collection 2010 and the 'Christmas Tree' from Winter 2008. I can't find the tree in the store at this time - sorry. I believe if you ask for it, Diana will try very hard to get it for you :o)

I am sure when you see my card you can tell right away that I got MY inspiration from the all the pretty colours and the gold stars.

I made my card a bit bigger than my usual 5 1/2" square so that I could use my new Spellbinder Dies -Label 10. I had to use the largest size to get my images to fit inside and then I backed it with shiny thick gold card stock and cut it to mimic the shape. I was so fortunate that my friend Corrie took me to Nanaimo to Michaels. I was able to find this beautiful ribbon, which is actually transparent except for the wonderful coloured sparkly polka dots. I also found the colourful rhinestones there and used a lot of them as decorations on my tree :o) The tree top star was from my stash.

The base of my card is 'Tempting Turquoise' card stock from SU. I used a 'MS' Punch Around The Corners - Bubbles' punch set. On top of that I have a square of the shiny gold paper, then a base of white card stock. Onto the white paper I have adhered 'Bo Bunny's - Winter Joy Magic' design paper. Then 'Green Galore' SU' card stock cut in a strip with the ribbon around it.

On top of that I have raised my gold and white cut paper with my images with 3D tape. On the upper right corner I used both the small and large star punches from 'SU' and punched them out of the gold paper again and attached one 'Imaginisce' snowflake.

I am sorry that in the pictures all of the gold looks copper coloured :o( I didn't know what to do about that in my pictures.

This card opens from the bottom up.Here are some pictures of the inside:

Top -

The DP is more of the 'Bo Bunny' Collection, which has been distressed with SU 'Tempting Turquoise' Ink. I used my Spellbinders Fancy Labels to make the blue part of my sentiment area, then stamped and cut out the white piece. The sentiment is from SU a set called 'Snow Swirled'. I punched two small MS snowflakes and coated them with MS Course Glitter and also put it around my sentiment.

The bottom part of my card is quite plain with lots of room to write a greeting:

I have put the Course Glitter around the white paper here as well. The blue paper was die cut with Spellbinders 'Eyelet Squares'. It is adhered to the white card stock, but you can also see the edge of the gold paper that is on the base.

I really hope you will join us once again on the Magnolia-licious CHALLENGE BLOG.

We had a great response to our Colour Challenge and are simply thrilled that so many of you joined us :o)

The WONDERFUL DIANA CRICK has a great new gift for our Inspiration Challenge, that I am sure most of you would LOVE to own.

It is the MISTLETOE BORDER DIE! Here is a picture of it:

My Copic colours follow.

Love Candy

Stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Copics:

Flesh - E000, E00, E21

Cheeks - R02

Hair & Lace - E50, E51, E53

Wood - YR21, E33, E35, E37

Tree - YG25, YG67, G21, G24

Pants - B91, B93, B95, B97

Shirt & socks - BV0000, BV00, BV01, BV02

Both ribbons - R30, R32, R35

Parcel - Y11, Y21, Y23, YR24

Happy Birthday Uncle Bill

Hi!

Saturday already!! I can't believe the week is over.

I made this card Wednesday for my Uncle Bill who will celebrate his 90th Birthday November 24th.

There is nothing to buy him. I just wanted him to know how much I love him and haven't forgotten his very special day!!

It was hard to pick an image for him......I thought something as simple as possible would be the best.

I used Basic Grey design paper called 'Mellow'. Card stock are both from 'SU' :

'Kraft' and 'Summer Sun'.

All paper edges were distressed with Tim Holtz : 'Vintage Photo'.

I don't think I will bore you with my Copic colours this time.

It is almost evening and supper has to be made :o)

Here's a close up of Edwin:

Enjoy your weekend - see you Tuesday with another Challenge on Magnolia-licious CHALLENGE BLOG!!

Love, Candy

I've Got An Attitude?????

Hi!!

What a wonderful surprise I received the other day from

Linda Weber!!

She sent me this award :o)

You must go and visit her blog. Just click on her name above.

You can find all the specifics right here

This is all about the wonderful friends I have made since I have started blogging. Great ladies who have given me help and advice and are happy to listen to my questions and have become some of the most special people I know!!

If you follow the directions that come with this award, you will receive a $5.00 Gift Certificate from Digi's With Attitude!

One of the rules is you must tell 3 unknown facts about yourself!!!

1. I am weird

2. I would stand up to anything or anybody for my family ( and have done so )

3. I cry nearly every day

Now I have to hook up to 5 deserving Bloggers and I am so happy to do so:

1. Sandy Dehon at 'SimplySandy-Sandy' for having the courage to start her first blog YESTERDAY and also post her first card in a challenge - WAY TO GO SANDY!

2. Sharon Caudle at Gramma's House of Cards - for all the help and confidence she has always given me.

3. Bev Rochester at 'All The Things I Love'- for giving me beauty to look at every day.

4. Cheryl Rowley at 'Cottage Creations' for showing me the beauty of Copic Colouring

5.Mary Giemza at My Cards ~ My Passion....my therapy for being one of the most prolific and beautiful card makers I know. Also for being a friend to me.

Hope you ladies have fun with your Award :o)

Happy Monday to each of you ~ Love Candy