Liebster Blog

I have received a lovely award for my blog from Charlotte!

The idea of the Leibster Blog Award is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs. This helps to spread knowledge and readership.

It was a lovely surprise to receive this award from Charlotte, Thank You so much!

To accept the award, you have to :

1. Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you, Please pop over to her blog and have a look at her gorgeous creations!

2. Post the award on your blog.

3. Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate.

4. Leave a comment on the blogs of the 5 people you have chosen to let them know.

It wasn´t easy to choose only 5 blogs as there are so many talented crafters out there, but finally I decided to give it to these talented ladies:

Deb - Deb's Paper Creations

Julie - Paper Stamps Inks and Flowers

Denise - Passion for Paper

Shell - Tale's of Michelle

Suzie - Suzie McFloozy's Musings

Please go and visit these talented ladies and their blogs to look at all the lovely projects!

Magnolia Down Under - Sketch Challenge

Happy Mother's Day to all the Aussie Mum's today!

I do hope that you've all been very spoilt... my dear husband gave me amongst other things a box of HIS favourite chocolates..... wasn't that nice of him! I've used this weeks challenge to make a Mother's Day card for my Mum.

Our challenge at Magnolia Down Under was set by our lovely DT Lori  who has come up with a gorgeous sketch (with optional doohickey and doilies) to inspire you with:-

This week we have a $20 voucher to give away from our generous sponsor:-

This week I've chosen this gorgeous Ballerina Tilda and teamed her with the beautiful new Vintage Summer Basics 6x6 papers from Maja Designs. I've used two different DooHickey Dies the flourish and new border and my doily die is from Cheery Lynns.

Tilda is coloured with copics and I've added some stickles to her tutu. The sentiment is from SU and the flowers and seam binding are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:-

CES Challenge - Anything Goes

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Something for Mum

Charisma Cardz - Pink & Girly

Stampin for the Weekend - Layers Challenge

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Colour Create - Green, Brown, White & Purple

Good Morning,

My apologies for the lateness of my Colour Create Challenge post - it's been one of those weeks!

This will be our last Colour Create Challenge for a little while so I hope you'll join us this challenge. Our talented DT Edna has chosen the colours and they do look beautiful. Edna's optional extra this week is to add a Metal element and this is the picture she's chosen to inspire us with:-

We are very fortunate this challenge to be sponsored by:-

and this is the beautiful prize up for grabs, some gorgeous metal embellishments:-

I've chosen to use this gorgeous Magnolia image, she's one of my favourites of the latest release. The papers are from Maja Designs, I've painted my metal corners with a little white acrylic paint and the rest of the items where all from my stash.

Tilda is coloured with copics and I've added a little liquid pearls and some dimensional  magic to the water at her feet.

I'd like to enter my card into these challenges:-

Just Magnolia - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Cute Cute Cute

Thanks for stopping by

Magnolia Down Under - Bon Voyage

Good Morning Everyone,

Time for another challenge at Magnolia Down Under and this week we'd like to see your use your Magnolia Bon Voyage stamps... if you don't have any don't worry because any stamp will be okay if you have a travel or Good Bye theme! Our lucky winner this week will also have a chance to join us as a Guest DT for May.

I've chosen this cute little Asian Tilda and decided to make a bookmark. My paper is from Creations in Paper who recently closed their storefront and are now web based only. The metal corner and poppies are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I've used my Magnolia DooHickey with them. The tiny paper flowers were coloured with copics and I've added a small pearl to their centre. I've also made a window from vellum behind Tilda and added a little dragon fly charm which is more visible in the pic below.

I'd like to enter my bookmark into these challenges:-

Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Punches and Dies

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Wild Orchid Challenge - Spring is in the Air

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

A favour for a friend...

Hi everyone,

 I just received a message from my thoughtful DT friend at Colour Create ~ Mina who's asked us to spread the word about her lovely friend called Steph who is running the Belfast Marathon on the 7th May in aid of the Macmillan Cancer support.

 To quote Mina "her life and the life of her family have been touched by this horrendous disease and Macmillan helped them to get through it...there is not one of us who hasnt been touched in some way by it and the Macmillan support are amazing and so deserve our help...Steph is going to be dragging herself all that way around the marathon bless her but is really struggling for donations...heres the link to her just giving site and you can even donate using paypal (thats what I did)...even 50p/cent or £/$1 in fact any amount would be fantastic...thank you all so much"

As an added bonus Mina has a fabulous candy on offer that you can enter and as an added bonus if you donate she will let you enter again! Congratulations Mina on the 1500 followers :)

Here is the link to Mina's Blog, so if you can help by way of donation or help by spreading the word on your blog I'm sure Mina and Steph would really appreciate it. If you wish to donate follow this link to Steph's page.

Thanks so much :)

 

Colour Create - Pink, Kraft & White

Hi Everyone,

Time for another Colour Create Challenge and this time it's our lovely DT Kerry who has chosen the colours of Rose Pink, Kraft and White with the optional extra of masking! Sadly this will be Kerry's last challenge with us as she is stepping down from the DT, we'll miss you Kerry and wish you all the best :)

Here is the inspirational picture Kerry chose for us:-

The prize for this challenge is a candy package of some Prima paper & flowers, an embossing folder, some metal words and gingham bows.

I was so happy that my new Magnolia Stamp - Lily Rose the Dragon and the matching paper arrived in time for the challenge! The colours were just perfect for Kerry's challenge.

My image is coloured with copics and I've masked my Dragon image and added the castle background stamp from the Fairytale Collection. I've also used my Oval Spellbinder Nesties, the label and border dies are from Magnolia and the other pattern paper is Maja Designs. The pearls, ribbon, button and floss were all in my stash.

I'd like to enter my card is these challenges:-

C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Animals

Simon Says Challenge - Anything Goes

Midweek Magnolias - Open Theme

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Stitching

Simply Magnolia - Two Magnolia Images

Thanks for stopping by and I hope  you'll join us at Colour Create!

Happy Birthday Allan

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick post of the card I made for my bosses 60th Birthday! His two main loves are tennis and fishing and I had the two Edwins that I want to use but could work out how to use them both on the card. I really left it until the last minute to work it out but I think this worked out okay :)

I used the fishing Edwin image on the outside of the card, complete with the message in a bottle!

The inside of the card features this pop up image of Tennis Edwin :-

I must apologize for the quality of the photos but we were heading out to celebrate just as I finished the card and it was getting very late and quite dark :(

I'd like to enter my card in these challenges:-

Midweek Magnolias - Use 2 Characters

Papertake Weekly - A Stitch in Time

Cupcake Craft Challenge - In the Deep End

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - A Man's Card

Thanks for stopping by,

Magnolia Down Under - Flags and Banners

Good Morning,

Time for this weeks challenge over at Magnolia Down Under and this challenge we'd like to see you make a flag or banner or add one to your card.

We have a fabulous prize of on offer to tempt you with, our regular sponsor Tilda's Town have a $15 gift certificate for our lucky winner this week.

I've used my SU Banner Punch to create these mini banners from the gorgeous Magnolia Duck Paper that I just love! The lettering fonts on the bottom of the card a from my Quickutz and I've strung them together with some twine and added the flowers.

This cute little Edwin is from the Prince and Princess collection and is coloured with copics, I had intended to add a touch of stickles to his crown but I forgot..oops!

I'd like to enter my card in these challenges:-

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Male Themed Card

Charisma Cardz - Fancy Fold

Magnolia-licious Challenge - Baby Theme

Thanks for stopping by...