Creative Inspirations Challenge #17 - Stitching

Hey all, Happy Sunday! Love Sundays, but don’t they go quick, fastest day of the week for me. This is another scheduled post, so please Mr Blogger, be good to me and post it!

This card is for Creative Inspirations, which is a challenge I have never entered before. They would like to see some stitching on your cards, whether it be real of faux. Well I think with me being addicted to the sewing machine I could have quite easily entered all my cards for this one LOL. Just love stitching. I have gone all pinky with this card too, its a kinda modern twist to vintage and I quite like it. This little Tilda is actually a crimbo one, but I have sorted disguised the little bit of holly in her hair and Voila!…… a birthday stamp, LOL…...I like to get the most of my stamps. She was a gift from a very, very kind lady, along with yesterdays cutie Tilda too {thanks sweetie, mwah}

What I have used:

Image – Magnolia coloured with distress inks
Papers – Laundry Line
Flowers – Wild Orchid Crafts and Hobby Craft
Sentiment – Elzybells
Pins – In Stock Here
Lace – In Stock Here
Ribbon – Stash
Gems – Pm
Tools – Sewing Machine, Stampin Up Slot Punch, Distress Inks, Glamour Dust, Glimmer Mist, Nesties. Martha Stewart Doily Punch and Leone Em Punch.

I have glimmer misted all the flowers and sprinkled them with glamour dust, the camera has really picked up the sparkle on them today.

For a change the inside I have made a little pocket, which the tag is sitting in, and perfect for adding so money of a gift voucher too.

Many many thanks for stopping by again today, so very much appreciated! Enjoy your Sunday, hope that it is restful for you all and you get a bit of crafting in. Try and catch you tomorrow if I get back early enough to craft.

Much love to you all!

Hugs Tab xxx

Stamp with Fun Challenge 15 Shapes or Punches

Morning all, hope that you are enjoying the start to your weekend. This is a scheduled post, so fingers crossed Mr Blogger shares it with you LOL. Whilst your reading this, I shall be on the beach with the Hound watching him having a swim in the sea, he loves it. Hates rain with a passion, but loves a good old swim, go figure,eh? LOL.

Anyway, today's card is for Stamp with Fun challenge, which is to use shapes or punches, nice and easy one for me. My shapes are squares, rectangles and ovals. The pins are in stock here. The big silver decorative one, I have bent slightly and then squashed the head a bit so it sat nice and neat on the card, its got quite a large head on it this one, I just love the beauty of it. {I gave it a whack with the rolling pin LOL, not very nice, but needs must LOL}

What I have used:

Image – Magnolia coloured with Distress Inks
Papers – K&Co
Flowers – Stash and Hobby Craft
Sentiment - Elzybells
Lace – In stock Here
Pins – In Stock Here
Gems and Pearls – PM
Tools – Sewing Machine, Glimmer Mist, Glamour Dust, Distress Inks, Nesties and Leone Em Punch.

Here is a close up of the flowers and pins. All the flowers have been glimmer misted and whilst wet I have given them a sprinkling of glamour dust too. Boy do these beauties sparkle!

Well thanks for stopping by today, will hopefully pop over to see you soon. Enjoy your Saturday whatever you up to and I will see you tomorrow for another post.

Much Love to you all!

Hugs Tab xxx

Just Magnolia Challenge #14 - Buttons

Good Morning all, hope that your well today and enjoying the fact its FRIDAY…….yayyyyyy! I’m super excited cos I’m off to the seaside tonight to see my Pop……..oh and to have a little mooch around a rather large craft shop too……hee hee {Tara you know me to well, hun LOL, you knew I would be going, didn’t you LOL}

Today sees the start of another challenge over at Just Magnolia, and this week we would like to see some BUTTONS on your cards. Ooooh I do love buttons, they are just the perfect embellishment to add to your cards. This weeks challenge is sponsored by Hobbycompleet "De Duif”.

For my card I decided to ink up that cutie little Magnolia hummingbird, when I first saw this in the Pet collection I knew I just had to have it, it is so sweet! I got the mini ones too, cos they are perfect for the insides, don’t you think? The sketch is from Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge. Its so nice being able to enter some of this fab challenges again at long last, lovin’ it!

Oh before I forget, I have managed to source the large pins that I have used on this card for the website, they are in stock here, along with a few others too.

Here’s what I have used:

Images – All Magnolia coloured with Polychromos Pencils
Papers – EK Success and I NEED MORE LOL!!!!
Lace – In stock Here
Pin - In Stock Here
Buttons and Charm – Stash
Flowers – Hobby Craft and Wild Orchid Craft
Pearls – PM
Tools – Sewing Machine, Glimmer Mist, Glamour Dust, Leone Em Branch Punch, Nestie and Distress Inks

I have added some Glamour Dust to the wings and it sparkles so much, I love it!

Here is a close up of the flowers and pin. All the flowers have been Glimmer Misted with Iridescent Gold, my fave one!

I have carried the sketch through to the inside, and added more flowers and little dinky hummingbird.

Well thanks for stopping by today so I can share my card with you. Hope that you all have a fab weekend, whatever your up to. I have some posts scheduled for over the weekend, so fingers crossed Mr Blogger lets you see them LOL.

Enjoy your day and don’t forget to nip over to the blog to check out the gorge creations made by the DT, truly yummy!

Hugs Tab xxx

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #60 Meets Little Doraline

Morning all, hope I find you all well today! Those rain clouds that I was on about yesterday never did actually empty themselves LOL, but it remained overcast all day. I wish the sun would come out to play :o( Anyway’s I’m , looking forward to the weekend as I have a trip planned to North Wales to see me Dad, really can’t wait for the break and to breath in some sea air :o)………mmmmm bless

Today’s card is for SFS challenge, which is a fab sketch, I also thought I would turn it into a Motivet DT card too. Look at that cheeky little Doraline, tucking into those apples, hee hee, she is just adorable. The apples I have coated with Diamond Glaze to make them nice and rosie, but I don’t think the camera has picked it up, oh well. All the flowers have been glimmer misted and the distressed with old Paper Distress Ink. I have stitched the watercolour card and it has given it a look of fabric, and I love it.

For everyone that asked about it yesterday, the brand is Daler-Rowney Aquafine Georgian 250grm watercolour paper. It’s the whitest that I have found so far {doesn’t look it in the picture, cos I have distress it, I now go figure LOL} and it is quite course, almost like canvass, but it is very forgiving and if you make a mistaken you can easily correct it.

For this card I have used :

Image – Motivet Doraline with Apples coloured with Distress Inks
Papers – PM Regency
Flowers – Hobby Craft and Wild Orchid Craft
Pearls – PM
Pins – In Stock Here
Pearl Trim – Strash
Tools – Sewing Machine, Martha Stewart Flourish Punch and Leom Em Punch

Here is a close up of the flowers, I just this vintage flowers, and when you spray them with glimmer mist, they just twinkle away…..so pretty!

Anways that’s all for today, thanks for stopping by and thanks for all your divine comments. Don’t forget to stop by tomorrow as a new challenge at Just Magnolia starts. Don't forget to join in the Just Magnolia Monthly Challenge too.

Enjoy your day folks!

Hugs Tab xxx

Friday Sketchers Challenge #60 – Meets Motivet DT Card

Morning peeps, hope that you are all fighting fit today! The rain clouds are all in position today for us, so just waiting for the down pour to beginning LOL……oh what happened to all the sunshine we had, I thought that we were in for a good summer, lets hope August is better, eh?

Today I want to share with you a cards that I did for this weeks Friday Sketchers, which is sponsored by Motivet Stamps, so I thought perfect opportunity to incorporate the sketch into one of my DT cards for Motivet too. This little cutie chappy that I have used is called “Dexter on a Bike”……..isn’t he just a sweetie! He has been coloured with distress inks, on some new watercolour card that I have recently bought. I love working on white watercolour card, and most of the time it is quite creamy looking, but after having a good old scout round, and a little word with my pal Bev, I managed to get some. It is quite a rough one though, I think Bev's is smoother, but I like it, it almost has the look of fabric, especially when it is stitched, which I will show you in tomorrows card.

For this card I have used:

Image – Motivet Dexter on a Bike coloured with Distress Inks
Papers – DCWV edged distressed with Old Paper and Frayed Burlap
Buttons – In Stock Here
Sentiment – Studio G
Glass Gems – Dew Drops
Tools – Sewing Machine, Distress Inks and Martha Stewart Punch

Well I hope that you like sweet Dexter, why not pop over to the challenge blog and have a go at the delish sketch, you are in for the chance of winning some of these mighty fine Motivet Stamps.

Enjoy your day, come rain, hail or shine!

Hugs Tab xxx

Just Magnolia Monthly Challenge – A Brown Paper Bag

Morning all! Hope that you are all well today.

Boy have we got a fab challenge for you today, over at Just Magnolia Monthly Challenge we would like you to make a card from a Paper Bag, yes that’s right, a Paper Bag LOL. Rach came up with the awesome idea, and I loved making mine, so much so I have ordered some more bags to have another go with. So thanks sweetie! Now this challenge is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and they are offering a whopping $50 to spend in there online Store, how cool is that?????

I apologise now for the amount of piccy’s there are, but I wanted to show you everything, and boy there is a lot of parts to this card LOL, so here goes!

Materials :

Images – Magnolia all coloured with Poly and Prisma Pencils
Papers – MME Laundry Line, they are all glittery and I used 2 whole sheets…tut tut!
Lace – In Stock Here
Pins – Large ones stash {will be stocking these soon too} and the small ones In Stock Here
Flowers – Hobby Craft, Prima and Stash
Pearl Trim – Haberdashery Shop
Pearls – PM
Tags – Cuttlebug Die
Buttons – Woodware
Sentiments – Studio G and Elzybell
Tools – Sewing Machine, Nesties, Leone Em Punch and Martha Stewart Flourish Punch

Close up of the flowers, I have given them a squirt of glimmer mist to make them sparkle.

Here’s the inside, this is the first time poor Edwin has had an airing, don’t really do many men's cards, but I thought he worked well on the inside of this card.

If you leave the end of the bag open you can hide little treasures in there, I have made a few tags to hide in mine.

These are the little tags, just love this watering can, it looks so nice on its own. The sentiment is by Elzybells and I think it works perfectly on a Magnolia card, because Tilda and Edwin are Angels.

Couple of close ups of the tags, you can see the sentiment better if you click on the piccy.

……..and finally here is a piccy of the back, so I have well and truly decorated all 4 sides LOL.

Well, are you still with me after all those piccy’s LOL! Hope you enjoyed having a look at my paper bag card, why not pop over to the challenge blog and check out everyone else's, they are too gorgeous for words.

Much love to you all!

Hugs Tab xxx

Whiff of Joy Challenge #38 – Sketch by Katharina

Afternoon all, hope that you all had a fab weekend!

Today I want to show you a card that I did yesterday for the Whiff of Joy Challenge. This weeks challenge is a fabulous sketch by Katharina and I loved using it. I decided to ink up one of my older WOJ images for a change, and this little Melinda is one of my faves. Have you seen the new WOJ Fall kit going on sale for pre-order this Friday, looks like it is definitely a must have. Been awhile since I joined in the WOJ challenges, but I found some time to take part, at one time I used enter this every week with out fail…….if only there were more hours in the day LOL.

The pleated flowers, I have made myself out of some velvet ribbon and a few pearls. I just love the ones that Maya Road do, but struggle so much to get hold of them, …like gold dust! So me being me thought, lets make some LOL. Really easy to do, just a case of stitching down one side of a length of ribbon and then gathering the stitches up and stitching together. Finishing off with a little pearl in the middle……voila one pleated blossom.

Materials :

Image – WOJ coloured with Distress Inks
Papers – Basic Grey Periphery
Flowers – Made from Velvet Ribbon by me LOL
Pearls – PM
Pins – In Stock here
Lace – In Stock here
Tools – Sewing Machine, Martha Stewart Heart Lace Punch {In stock Here}, Distress Inks.

Here is a close up of the pleated blossoms, they really were a pleasure to make!

Well that’s all from me today, thanks for stopping by, so very much appreciated! Catch you all tomorrow for Project of the Month at Just Magnolia Monthly Challenge Blog, the DT have been working really hard and you are in for a real treat!

Much love to you all!

Hugs Tab xxx