Playtime creations

Flowers and Butterflies

I have been crafting with two of my favourite things, flowers and butterflies.

I have made a flowerpot card, something I have been meaning to do for ages.

Luckily for me this fits perfectly for our new challenge at Simply Magnolia,

'In the Garden' which is sponsored by Tilda's Town and you must use flowers and butterflies.

I have used Tilda with Ladybug from the Chasing Butterflies collection.

Paper is also Magnolia, Vintage Birds.

Dies I used are Magnolia, Doily flowers, Vintage flower and leaf, Dragonflies,

Wild strawberry, Leaf and Swirl.

There are heaps of fun challenges at the moment, I am entering

Live and Love Crafts Challenge - Birthstones (July/Ruby)

The Ribbon Girl - June Colour challenge

Marvelous Magnolia challenge - 2 stamps or dohickeys

Magnolia-licious & Wee stamps challenge - Lucious Lace

NEW!! A Creative Romance - Anything Goes

Midweek Magnolias - Favourite colours

Crafty Catz challenge - Let's go Pink

Magnolia Down Under - Anything Goes

Because you're special!

At last I have finished my card for the Layers and Lace challenge at Simply Magnolia.

Last week my son turned 15 and with family and friends over I just didn't find any spare time to craft.

I'm really pleased with how this turned out and I love this mix of colours.

Ingredients: Stamps Tilda with Heart Balloons, the free mini Tilda from Magnolia Ink magazine,

and postage stamp and text form Whimsy Stamps, Everyday mini postage stamp sentiments set.

No specific patterned paper here just loads of Frantage!

Dies I used are from Magnolia, Bloomy Tag, Tilda Ticket, Tilda Lace and Dragonflies.

I would also like to enter the following challenges,

Magnolia Down Under Challenges - Bling It Baby!

Wild Orchid Challenges - Lots of Layers

Midweek Magnolias - Anything Goes with an option of Vintage or Frantage

Enjoy your day,

New DT card

I'm very excited today to share with you my very first DT card for the Fashionista Challenge

The theme for this challenge is Magnolia Creations, which suits me perfectly.

I have coloured 'Waterlily Tilda' with copics and created an easel card.

Text stamp is also from Magnolia and the papers are Graphic 45, Secret Garden Collection.

Dies include, Magnolia - Heart Tag, Swirl, Dream Tag and Swirly Lace.

Spellbinders - Deckled Rectangles Large and Labels Eighteen.

Memory Box - Butterfly.

I am entering these fun challenges too!

Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog - All About Butterflies

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge - Summer Fun

Lovely HAnglar or Sweet Magnolia Challenge Blog - Shabby Chic or Vintage

Card Mania - Shabby Chic

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Summer scene

The Ribbon Girl June Card Challenge - Add a Diecut

Have a wonderful day!

Candy winner

Hello to you all and a big WELCOME to my new followers.

Thankyou to those of you that left me such lovely comments on my last post.

They were wonderful to read and very much appreciated.

Simply Magnolia's new challenge has begun and this time it's

Layers & Lace

We are kindly sponsored by Stamping Tilda and Pretty Little Ribbon Shop

I have to admit I don't have my card organised yet, so I will share it a little later this week.

As the blog hop has finished I have let Random.org do the work for me in choosing the winner of my candy, and the lucky lady is

ROSALIE

Congratulations Rosalie, please email me your postage details and I

will get your goodies on their way.

Simply Magnolia Challenge and Blog Hop

Wow Ladies! Do you know that May 16th Simply Magnolia turned 2!!

That asks for a celebration, don't you think??

Well so did we, so me and the other DT ladies put together a Blog Hop....what else would be better for our birthday than celebrating it with you all and giving away some yummy goodies?!

For those of you who aren't familiar with a so called Blog Hop here are the rules to play along:

1. Each of the DT ladies listed have some yummy candy for you on their blogs

2. To have a shot at that candy you need to leave a comment on that Blog Hop post/Inlinkz

3. Be a follower of Simply Magnolia, or become one
Easy!!

To make sure you don't get lost while you're hopping, here's the list to lead your way
Simply Magnolia Challenge Blog

Tracy (YOU'RE HERE)

Besides our birthday hop, we still have a new challenge for you of course!
This time we like to see your 'Edwin Only' creations.
This challenge is sponsored by Scrapbooking Allsorts, The Ribbon Girl and Stamping Tilda! WOW!
You have until Saturday the 1st of June to enter this challenge, good luck!!

Here is my card I created for the challenge.
I came across the 'Just Add Ink' challenge blog and loved their
current 'colour combo' challenge so I just went with it!
I am also entering the challenge at Tilda's Town which is to use a background stamp.
I have used 'Edwin with his Airplane' and masked it on top of the 'Travel Luggage'

Medium - Copics

Papers - Kaisercraft, Little Toot collection

Martha Stewart star border punch

DooHickey dies - Star Tag and 1 part of the Dream Tag

Border stamps are Kaiser and Justrite.

Charm and Twine from The Ribbon Girl

My candy consists of this card and all that's pictured below aswell as some other little goodies.

Just enter your name using Inlinkz and you could win, Good luck!

Pretty girly

Hello, I have a new card to share with you, this one I made today. If I continue to make cards at this rate my house is going to be a mess, I keep telling myself I'll clean tomorrow,

but crafting is much more fun!

I have used

Justrite Stamps from the Elegant Frames set

Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles and Labels Twenty

Some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, the sewing machine charm, twine

and remaining flowers from The Ribbon Girl

Netting lace and ribbon reel from Maya Road

Pearls, button and ribbon from my stash

Pearl pins I made myself

I am entering the challenges at

Justrite Friday Challenge - Sew Good

Wild Orchid Challenge - 3 or more different flowers

The Ribbon Girl May Challenge - Add a button

Vintage/Shabby Chic

Hello, I had been very lucky to be chosen as a Guest Designer for the Fashionista Challenge Blog, Thanks girls! And then the big news, Rina asked if I would like to be a Fashionista DT member, well of course I said YES, how exciting.... Yay!!! Thankyou Rina for asking me to join you.
Their current challenge is Vintage and/or Shabby Chic.

This is the card I made using Magnolia's 'Cuddly Siblings' stamp and Stempelglede text stamp.

Paper is Basic Grey, Capella and I've inked the edges. It was lots of fun to make and I love how the flowers look and to top it off my frantage sets arrived in time to have a play.

I will have to learn not to be too heavy handed with it though!

Cheesecloth and most flowers are from The Ribbon Girl. Chipboard clock is made by Scrapmatts.

Inside the shaker part on the card I have used Martha Stewart white gold metallic glass microbeads.

I checked out the following challenges when creating this card and would like to enter,

Papertake Weekly - Sketchie free for all (I used an oldie, sketch#49)

Fussy and Fancy Friday challenge - Anything Goes

Stampin for the weekend - Die cuts and/or punches

City Crafter Challenge - Colour combo

Fashionable Stamping challenges - Anything goes

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything goes

Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes

Card mania challenges - Flower Power

Hope you like it and have a great day.

Shaker card

Hi to you all

It's a new challenge over at Simply Magnolia today and the challenge is to create a shaker card.

We are also being sponsored by Scrapbooking Allsorts. Make sure you see what
the DT have created too, they are so clever!

I only made this card this afternoon, (talk about leaving it to the last minute) I already had my image coloured and was very pleased when I found the sketch at Magnolia Down Under challenges. It suited what I had in mind and left plenty of room for embellishing, it probably helped to get my card completed quicker too as I had a direction!

I used my copics and the following goodies,

Stamp - Tilda with Wedding Gifts and Stamp It text 'Circle for you'

Paper - Magnolia and also decorated with frantage.

Dies - Spellbinders Oval, Floral Oval, Labels Twenty Two

Magnolia Memory tag, Bloomy tag and Romantic lace.

Pearl beading, lace and charm I purchased from The Ribbon Girl.