Happy 4TH Birthday MDUC

Hiya :D

It's Happy 4th Birthday to us over at MDUC this week!! WOW 4 years and Ive been apart of it for 3-ish years. I just LOVE the MDUC girls. We are like a little cyber family and Ive been lucky to meet 2 of them. :D

 

For my card Ive used 'Wrapped Tilda' from the With Love Collection 2013 painted with DI's

The oval Ive diecut with a new spellbinder die and Frantaged the edge with Shabby White.

and Ive sneaked a nuber 4 on there too.

Also Ive used NEW Magnolia Dies Feathers....Going to LOVE these

For the rolled flowers I used a Marianne die

Butterfly is Spellbinders

Papers are Magnolia

and of course ribbon, lace and Tulle is from the Ribbon Girls

 

Thanks so much for visiting me and have a great weekend

hugs

 



Special Moments

Hello

Look what will be on its way very soon ,if not already :D

 

Beautiful Cover of a Doo Bee Pops Tilda Bride and another free Mini World stamp I hear.

Im sure to be stalking my postie once again!!Ooooh cant wait!

 

They do come around so fast and my projects for the next one are boxed up ready to post to Boras. Im not normally as organised as this.

 

Also a BIG thankyou so much for all your yummy entries into my Candy Challenge and there's still a few days left. I'll be stopping by tonight and this weekend for a closer look :D..Ive loved spending time hopping and saying Hi on your blogs and seeing everyone who visits me. Sometimes you wonder who you are posting too, if you know what I mean :D...so now I feel its all worthwhile...OOooooo what did we do before we had the internet??? .

Better go...getting my hair cut this morning

Byeee for now

Hugs

 

Make Your Own Embellishments

Hiya

Today to share is a little Tutorial.

I know we all like to use embellishments on our cards and there are some beautiful ones available to buy, but I get more satisfaction when I make my own.

I feel then the card is totally 'Handmade' with Love.

  

Here Im showing you how I made the frames and corners I keep being asked about and they are ever so easy.
There are LOTS of different Air Dry Clays on the market. This one Im using at the moment is a Martha Stewart one. There are different colours available but I mainly use white but also have Blue, Red,Brown and Yellow as they are the main mixing colours.

Using a little bit of clay, roll into a sausage and spread evenly around the mould, pressing firmly so that the pattern engraves in the clay.

Once all covered make sure none is overlapping the edges.

 

I then pop straight out and make another. I must admit the first time I did this I was scared I would spoil the frame as it wasnt set, but the moulds are so flexible it just popped out.Leave on a flat surface and allow to dry.

Then once you have become more brave try mixing. Here I used a tiny ball of red to make Pink

 

I even attempted a flower and attempted two colours in one mould.

 

 I always spend hours making embellishments and flowers, then they are just at hand for your projects

 

Once finished and set, which can take a few hours I then paint. I usually end up painting white anyway, but they do look nice with a different colour showing through.

 

Hope you liked this tutorial..Back soon with another :D

 

 

DONT FORGET MY CANDY CHALLENGE HAS STILL A WEEK LEFT HERE

 

also new cards are being added to my Etsy shop HERE

 

Big Hugs

 

 

 

 

A Recycling Tutorial using Alcohol Inks

CLICK HERE FOR MY ON GOING CANDY CHALLENGE....STILL 9 DAYS LEFT

 

Hi There

 

Well Im here at last with a few tutorials you have been asking for. I know I have neglected my blog recently, but life gets in the way at times :D

I promise there is more to come over the next few weeks.

 

This one I did quite a few years ago and it had got lost. I have now put it in the tutorial tab above. 

 Do you have a recycle bin at home and just throw all your cans away? Well here's what you can do with them.

 

Very carefully cut of the tops and bottoms (the edges can be quite sharp so be careful)

 Using an embossing folder run through your Cuttlebug or Bigshot.

On the picture below I then coloured with Alcohol Inks.

Also different cutting dies work great too. Here I embossed using Cuttlebug Embossing folders and cut out using Cuttlebug Butterflies and coloured using Tim's Alcohol Inks.

I love how this has turned out.The alcohol ink colours here were Meadow and Sherbert Pink.

 

Im just in the middle of preparing a Tutorial with my Melting pot. Its been great to get it out and have a messy old play again.

Also I'll be back in a couple of days on how to make your own embellshments.

Hugs for now

 

Ribbon Girls Challenge

FOR MY CANDY CHALLENGE CLICK HERE

Happy Sunday Everyone

I hope you are all having a good one so far.

Today is the start of the Ribbon Girls card challenge and the challenge is Ribbon or Twine.

 

Ive used Tilda Watering from Little Easter Collection 2013 and the Stonepath from the Butterfly dreams Collection

As always Ive painted with Distress Inks. The flowers of the stonepath ive used Frantage. They were the perfect flowers for this.

 The Roses I made myself. Just love doing these.

Dies I used were Go Kreate for the shape of the card

Magnolia Twisted Swirl and Tilda's Tag

Dragonfly is Memory Box

Papers are Pion Alma's Sewing Room from Live and Love crafts

 

 

Cheesecloth, Button Twine, Cream Chrysanth Kort & Godt flowers, Blue Fluted edge ribbon, Jacqueline Ivory Vintage Style Lace, White Ruffle Edge Sheer Ribbon, White Beaded Sprig and Park Bench Charm is all from the fabulous Ribbon Girl shop. All I can say when I visit their shop is WOW....believe me Im addicted..

 

Challenges Im entering into are

 

Tilda's Town-F & F or U &E

MarvellousMagnolia-Use one or more punches

Midweek Magnolia-Shabby Chic

Simply Magnolia-Anything Goes

Stamp and Create- Spring and Pastel Colours

 

Thankyou so much for looking and dont forget to enter my challenge Candy before you go

Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

OOOoooo Look!!

Once Upon aTime collection 2013

Hopefully coming soon :D

 

Also My Challenge/candy is growing with yummy entries. Dont forget you can enter without a card too...Dont be shy!! HERE

 

Have a great weekend

Hugs



Ribbon Girls Magnolia Challenge

 Hiya again!

Im so late again...

I should of posted this this morning...

There's a new challenge over at The Ribbon Girls Magnolia Challenge and this week anything goes.

I was asked to do a baby boy card for a lovely lady and as I dont have many baby stamps I thought  Baby Edwin was perfect.

Also from the Ribbon Girls shop I used Blue Rolled Roses, Tulle,Cheesecloth, Blue Velvet Lace and Jacqueline Ivory Vintage Lace.

Dies used are Heart Banner from La La Land, Magnolia Star Tagand Go Kreate.

 

Thanks for looking

hugs

 

Pink and Lime at MDUC

 Hiya

OMG! I nearly forgot about my post tonight for MDUC.

This week we want to see Pink and Lime on your cards:D 

Talking about this week ....Where has it gone???? I cant believe I havent blogged all week. But I think you know by now what I'm doing when Im MIA!!! :D 

 As some of the group weren't too keen on this colour combo , I was really pleased how mine turned out. I used one of the Mini world Magnolia Beautiful Tilda and painted with DI's.I bought quite a few mini's when I visited Sweden last October.

She fit perfectly into one of my Air Dry clay frames I made earlier.

Apart from the Lime flower the others I made into rolled roses.

Papers are a mixture of Prima and Magnolia.

Im entering this into
Stamp and Create with magnolia-Spring and Butterflies

Thanks so much for looking

hugs

Magnolia Doo Bee Pop Cupcake

Hiya

Today to share is a Magnolia DT card Ive made using the new Doo Bee Pops Papers!

 

I really dont know how I am going to post this to Sweden without it being ruined!!! But I will find a way :D

Once I attached together (with a shed load of glue!!) I sprinkled with Stampendous Frantage Mica flakes and added white paint.

The stamp I used I think is also by Stampendous.These products are all available at The Stampman

 

 The Doo Bee Pops are a honeycomb paper and are available in all sorts of colours ar Sir Stampalot

Ive painted Tilda with Distress inks.

DooHickey Flag and Fairytale Tag.

Papers are Maja

 

Ok now to find a box :?

Thankyou so much for looking

Hugs



Midway Reminder at CLP

Hi There

Its midway reminder over at CLP sketch Challenge so there's still a couple of weeks to enter.

 

To share today is a DT card for Magnolia Sweden of one of their new Easter stamps, 'Tilda With Mr Rooster' all available at Sir Stampalot

I painted with Distress Re-inkers

Again I made the frame from Air Dry Clay

The beautiful Paper is also Magnolia from the Easter Collection

Have a great weekend everyone :D

Hugs