Trying a post this evening

Hello everyone - I am trying to see if I can post something to my blog.
Sorry to be a pain here!

new cards

Here are some pics as promised. Enjoy

Hi everyone! Thanks for hanging in there with me during this time of problems with my blog! I have managed with the help of a friend to get these pictures of my latest Magnolia card entered.

This is a sketch challenge at the Magnolia-licious group, for the month of March.
I had fun doing this one and love Edwin with his tulips.
The design paper is from Imaginsce and is called 'Tiptoe Through Tulips.
all the plain paper is from Stampin'Up and as you can see I have used several 1/2 pearls. There is actually a pearl in the bottom left corner behind the arm of my holder. I used Ranger Distress Ink on the oval behind Edwin.
Love Candy

A card - finally :o)

I made this card Tuesday I think and have been trying to post it ever since.

I have been wanting to make a round card for a very long time. Unfortunately I don't have a large round cutter and only have the small Nesties. So this was the only way I had of doing it. I look forward to being able to make a bigger one very soon. I hope the size doesn't take away from the love put into making it.

Hello everyone!

It has been a long time since I have posted anything!

Part of that reason is because I took a week off from card making and redid my craft room. What a huge job that was! We have lived here for 2 1/2 years and this is the third time I have done it. This time I am very happy with the results. It has given me more free room in the middle of the room and narrower storage places so the room seems a lot bigger. Now my work table no longer has my computer and printer on it and I actually have the whole table to work on instead of the aprox. 16" by 12" I was working on before!

The second reason is because my blog has not been working. I have no idea why not. This will be my 4th try at loading pictures. That is the part that isn't working.

I am going to sign off this part now so you at lease know I am alive. Then will write again immediately to try to post my photos. If you don't find any - then it still isn't working and I will need some help from someone????

Thanks for coming - Love Candy

Hello everyone!!

Well it is in the middle of the night where I live - almost 3:00am as a matter of fact. I will just quickly post this Tilda card I made way last week some time. I really didn't think it was good enough to post but I have been talked into it by friends. So here goes.

This card was made of white card stock on which I drew the background. I then stamped all the different images and cut each one out. Including the skipping rope which was sooooo thin. Then I glued them on to make a scene. Tilda is the only thing that is slightly pop - dotted. I needed her rope to be glued down flat so it wouldn't break. I then put the card front onto a pink background and put my white dots around the edges.

Here is a picture of the entire card:

Here is tha close up of several places :

Unfortunately I accidentally deleted the picture I had of the inside of the card - but i did put matching flowers that I had painted with my copics.

So that's it for me for now. I am hoping to clean up my art room AGAIN this weekend. Trying to get rid of a lot of things I don't use and make it much more tidy and easy to find things.

Hope you all have a great weekend. Thank you all for the wonderful comments you are leaving me. Makes me feel wonderful!

Love Candy

Hi everyone!

Guess what I made? Another Magnolia card? You got it, LOL !!!


This is a colour challenge for February at the Magnolia-licious site. I am very late in getting it done! :o(


The colours we were to use are all SU colours: Rose Red; Regal Rose; Old Olive; and So Saffron. Some of the girls got it done very early and didn't seem to have a problem - well they didn't say one way or another !! LOL

I had a problem. There was no way I could use all of my plain coloured paper and that is mostly what I have from SU. So I got out the colours and went through all of my paper from YEARS ago until I found some that had the correct colours in it. That was a job in itself - I am sure many of you know what I mean LOL LOL!!!!


In the end my card is made with Rose Red, I have cut Regal Rose with my Fiskers border punch and layered that on top. I found a tiny checkered paper of So Saffon and white - this is layered on top of the Regal Rose but it is terribly hard to see the checks. Next I found a lovely design paper that actually has all of the colours in it plus a few more. Unfotunately the other colours where purple and blue on butterflies but ended up being completely covered by Tilda.

As usual Tilda has been coloured with Copics - tonight however she has a paper pieced dress with all of the required coloures in it. Her basket has been filled with one of MS puched leaves in Old Olive and I have added several flower shaped brads in the required colours as well. I decided since you couldn't see my So Saffron layer well; to stamp and cut out the sun in that colour and I have just shaded and highlighted parts of it with Copics. Parts of the sun and Tilda's wings have been glittered, and her boots have diamond glaze on them.


Here are the photos. The front of the card in full:


A close up of Tilda:


A close up of the sun - take a good look - it is raining to beat the band here!



A close up of her basket:








~ and the last photo of the inside of the card:




I hope you like it! Good night all. Have a great week!
Love Candy

Hello - It's still Saturday - just LOL

I had tons to do today but was determinded to get at least one other card done. This too is a Magnolia card - sorry for those of you getting tired of them! There are many more kinds I want to make but this was a very short month for me and I got behind in my challenges :o(

This was another Sketch Challenge from the Design Team and is simply called February DC #2. Please note on the right side of my blog is all the information you need if you wish to sign up or buy Magnolia Stamps.

Again all of the DP and Card Stock is from Stampin'Up I have finally got some paper and am enjoying using it!!! This set is called "Cutie Pie"

I used my Nesties to make the oval circle and stamped the oval with

my Alot a Rubber Stamps - I love them! Painted both the oval and Tilda with my Copics of course; giggle. The ribbon is so pretty and I found it a long time ago on sale at Staples! I used my star punch from SU and also a saying from Stampin'Up that I was able to buy way back in September. I used 3 flower brads from my very old stash.

Here is a look at the entire card:

It is a very 'busy' card for me!

Here is a picture of the verse close up:

Here is a close up of Miss Tilda herself:

One of the star on the right hand bottom:

And another of the inside. I didn't go wild here this time as there was so much on the outside of the card.

I hope you like this one and are having an enjoyable weekend. It is pouring with rain tonight where I live, but that means it is warming up at long last. We still have snow on the ground and the ground is frozen!! Hopefully this is the start of warmer weather for us.

Take care of yourselves!!

Love Candy