Saturday, March 31, 2012

MDUC #140

EASTER
This week at MDUC we are celebrating EASTER!  We'd love to see your Magnolia Easter cards and in this case I used the new "Princess of the Valley" image with the Easter lily.  CUTE?!!  Yup.
I even drew in the stone wall she's sitting on!  OMG I was so happy with how it turned out as I don't draw very often.  Even my stickmen are atrocious.  LOL!  I also followed the sketch in the Magnolia Ink 2nd edition on page 66 created by Alberto.  Nice sketch!

This week I'm entering my card into the following:
Have a great weekend all!! Hugs!
Stamps:  Magnolia "Princess of the Valley" and mini "Easter" sentiment and Stampendous written script stamp.
Paper:  Magnolia "Prince and Princess" and "Sweet Crazy Love"
Embellishments:  Wild Orchid Craft flowers, raffia and pearls, TH flower ribbon, misc sunflower charm, Prima flowers
Punches:  Magnolia grass, fence, swirls, and tag.  MS butterfly punch and Spellbinders scalloped oval die.  
Copics:
E70, 71, 74, 77, 79 - Hair 
V91, 93, 95, 99 - Dress and shoes
RV55, 63, 66 - Pink collar and top of shoes
T0, 2, 4, 6 - Brick wall
E0000, 000, 00, 11, 13 Skin and RV10 Cheeks
G40, 82, 94 - Easter lily
Y00, 11, 17 - Crown

Saturday, March 17, 2012

MDUC #138 and CLP Sketch

I`m a bit short of time this month so I thought I would combine both the MDUC challenge and this month`s CLP sketch challenge and what a wonderful combo it turned out to be!! 

This week at MDUC we are challenging you to use old treasure and recycle items such as corrugated cardboard, screws or whatever is unusual for your creation.  So you`re looking at mine thinking ok what has she used?


The ribbon is from a pair of laze around pants that I cut off because it was prettier to use for cards and I never tied it up anyway.  LOL!!  I tell you since the day I bought them I knew exactly where it was all going.  In my craft room!  LMBO!  



Check out this gorgeous sketch!!  You still have 16 days left to enter this challenge for the month and who can`t use a sketch?!! 


I just wanted to mention that I tried the Scandinavian way of coloring using Copics....yes Copics!!  I used Suzanne Dean`s tutorials and wow they were very very helpful!!  I also used Camilla and Kim for  inspiration so I had to hand out credit to those amazingly talented women.  I must say this is one of my favorite cards that I`ve made in awhile and I think that`s because I learned something new and it worked!! 

I`m going to enter my card into the following challenges:

7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes**
Deep Ocean Challenge blog - Butterflies**
Saturday Challenge - Doilies**

HAPPY CREATING!!

Stamps:  Magnolia "Tilda Catching Stars"
Paper:  Prima `Nature Garden`
Embellishments:  Doily, Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, Prima wood buttons, Prima flower, Stickles, Dollar Store butterflies, Pink Paislee wood balloon, Scrapper`s floss, misc ribbon and Tim Holtz journaling tag.
Punches:  Magnolia doohickey`s for the leaves and banner.
Copics: Y000, 11, 17 old Star
E000, 00, 11, 13  Face with R21 for cheeks
E27, 31, 41 Hair and shoes
R0000, 00, 20 Clothes


Saturday, March 3, 2012

MDUC #136

BUTTONS & BOWS

I love Saturday's!!  Welcome back to our new challenge at MDUC!!  I have SUCH a hard time with bows and really have to push myself to use them, which is funny because a lot of people use them on every card they make.  They do look gorgeous tho!! 


I hope you can join us and check out the inspiration from the DT at Magnolia Down Under challenge blog.  The ladies have outdone themselves AGAIN!!

I'm entering my card into the following Magnolia challenge:

Magnolia-licious  - Picture Inspiration

HAVE A WONDERFULLY CREATIVE WEEKEND!

And don't forget about my outrageous blog candy!