Magnolia Tilda Sends Birthday Wishes

Happy Tuesday, Dearest Readers,

Did you have a fun holiday weekend? Welcome to the unofficial start of summer! It's burgers and hot dogs on the grill tonight! Might as well get that grill in gear for the summer! I love hot dogs cooked on the grill. There's something about the flavor that is better that way!

Today begins a new challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog! This is a great challenge, and I know so many of you will join in because the theme is

Create a Birthday

Card!

How's that for a fun theme? There are so many Magnolia stamps that would be perfect - especially the new Zodiac Collection!

For my inspiration card, I chose to use Tilda with Big Ice Cream from the 2013 With Love Collection. Honestly, I think the ice cream looks like a cupcake with ice cream on top! LOL It is a darling stamp regardless! LOL Here it is:

I loved the colors of the paper I used. It's from My Mind's Eye (Howdy Doody) and has pale green, pale peach, and lemon. It just reminded me of ice cream colors. The cupcake die is from Marianne Design. I love this die set! The interior of the card is finished on both panels to match the front. The card stock is Bazzill. Tilda has been colored with Distress Inks.

Magnolia-licious will be carrying the new Limited Edition Doohickey Club! I've preordered mine, how about you? You can find the info HERE. I can't wait for them to come!

Thank you for visiting! I hope I gave you a little bit of inspiration! I hope you will come back soon. Oh, I almost forgot - there's a Blog Hop nest week! I hope you will check out the projects my amazing teamies have created with a Summer theme!

XO,

Chris

Sneaky Tilda and Napoleon Together

Happy Sunday, Dearest Readers,

Can you believe that May is almost gone? Where is time going? The older I get, the faster time seems to fly by! I have to tell you, that is scary to me! I want to be around for a while! LOL I'm not ready to check out just yet! LOL

It has been so windy for the past couple of weeks. That is a sign of Spring around here. Some gusts have exceeded 70 mph! We did have a couple of branches break off our trees. At least it didn't snow here! A town 40 miles up the road got 10 inches of snow a week and a half ago. The weight of all that snow just wrecked so many trees there. We were lucky. We got rain. They are higher in elevation than we are, so it was colder.

Well, today begins a new challenge at the Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog. The new challenge is…

BINGO!

Here is your Bingo board:

The usual rules are in effect - diagonally, vertically, and horizontally. For my card, I chose to go across the top - lace, sentiment, die cuts or punches. Make sure you tell us what row you are doing, OK? Here is my inspiration card for you:

I love this shade of blue! It is soft and perfect for Spring! I used Bazzil card stock, Magnolia Sneaky Tilda masked with Magnolia's Napoleon, the cat. Both stamps are from the Animals of the Year Collection. I used an older Martha Stewart Border Punch that was just collecting dust, dies by Spellbinders and Cheery Lynn, and flowers from my stash. The patterned paper is by First Edition - Up, Up, and Away. I also used Pop Dots to elevate portions of the design. Here are additional images:

I hope you will leave a comment to let me know what you think! I'm very pleased at how it turned out. I love when I surprise myself! LOL

I hope you will join the new challenge at the Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog. Bingo Challenges are such fun to do.

Have you heard that Magnolia is going to have a Die Kit Club? Yup! It'll be like their Stamp Club (seasonally), and be offered several times a year. Magnolia-licious is offering the kits at such a wonderful price. However, there is a limited quantity, so check it out as soon as you can. Just follow the link above. I can't wait to see what dies are in the kits! LOL

Well, that's about it from the hot desert of Southern Utah! I love that you visited and hope you will come back again real soon!

XO,

Chris

Honeybee Tilda in Sunny Yellow

Happy Tuesday to you, Dearest Readers,

How are you today? How was your Mother's Day? I hope it was a special one. Have you been busy creating wonderful things? I've just been working at creating cards so that I don't get behind! Life is good!

A new challenge begins today at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog! Today, our new challenge is -

Create something in

Sunny Yellow!

What a fun challenge! I love yellow, for me, it is probably the most difficult color to photograph. I have chosen an older stamp duo for my card. Want to see it? LOL Here it is:

For my card, I used Pion papers from a couple of collections as I was going for the color. I also used two Magnolia stamps from the Summer Memories Collection. The Tilda is called Honeybee Tilda. Diana does not currently have her in stock, but if you are interested, just contact her. The large flower stamp, Summer Daisy, with the background included, is in stock. You can find it HERE. You know, I was thinking about how cute some of the new sitting Tilda stamps would be as a great pairing with this Summer Daisy stamp. Hmmmm...

I wanted to go "shabby" with this card because of the papers' colors. I inked and distressed the edges, added some Shabby White Fran-tage, a very pale yellow lace and seam binding, a hidden tag, flowers from my stash, some glitter, and a bumble bee embellishment on the bow of a hidden tag. I love how it turned out!

The interior has also been finished in Pion papers, die cuts, flowers, seam binding, etc. I have to finish the insides when I make a card! I tried just doing the front and it was more work to later add, and remember, all the products I had previously used when I did the front, LOL! **YIKES! - my memory is to far gone to do that! **

I hope you will leave a comment below as well as on the blogs of my fellow Teamies! One name will be drawn from those comments. That person will win something wonderful from Diana!

Check out the new goodies at Magnolia-licious:

Prima Chalk Edgers- Great range of colors and priced just right! Check these out!

Exquisite Flowers by Magnolia - Oh my gosh, these are fabulous! You really need to add these to your flower collection! Wait until you see the color and variety Diana has in stock!

Sensational Summer Kit - What a wonderful collection of coordinated goodies - Magnolia stamps, Magnolia mini stamps, Magnolia paper, ribbon, flowers, doilies, and other perfectly matched embellishments! I bought this kit, and it is fabulous!

Well, that's about it for today! Thank you so much for dropping by! I hope you will come back real soon! Don't forget to check out Magnolia-licious! Have a wonderful week.

XO,

Chris

My Wild Rose Birdhouse Stamp Transition from Winter to Spring

Happy Wednesday to you, Dearest Readers,

I hope this post finds you happy and well! Let's see - what's good to share? Well, my little hummingbirds are as happy as can be! The feeders are being visited constantly. Now, I am going to say something, and I hope you will understand. Last week, or maybe the week before, the first hummingbird showed up where last year's feeder was placed - just beyond my scrap room window. There was no pole, nor was there a feeder. He just went right to the spot and stopped in mid air, fluttering his wings, where the feeder was last year! Then, he flew under the patio cover and fluttered by my window as if to tell me to get off my tushie and get out the feeder and nectar! Of course, I dutifully did that! Now, here is the thing. The hummingbirds fly south every Fall to where it is warm. This can be over 1,000 miles! When I think of how huge this planet of ours is, how the heck can a hummingbird find the exact spot the feeder was placed last year let alone find my back yard? The fact that this little guy went right to the very spot the feeder should have been told me he was one of last year's visitors. I am always amazed at life's miracles! So, that is my hummingbird story for now! **grin**

Well, it is my turn for "W"ednesday at the

Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog!

Today, I am featuring a tag that I made with Wild Rose Studio's Birdhouse stamp which you can find here.

I wanted to get more bang for my buck with this stamp. How? I just modified the stamp so it would work for Spring and/or Summer. I did this by deleting the snowflakes from the air around the birdhouse, deleting the snow on the birdhouse rooftop, and changing the colors of the flowers. I also took all the little dots that are in the grass area around the birdhouse and colored them to match the flowers' colors. I was so surprised at how nicely that turned out! They look like flower buds now! (Shhh - I think I'm getting better at coloring wood, too! LOL) I don't think it looks wintery now. The addition of the Prima daisies helped me a lot, as well!

I inked the edges of the image mat and papers in brown. The papers are Pion Vintage Garden (in a light and dark teal green colors). I used a Marianne Design corner die on white Bazzill for the top and bottom tag caps. I also added some matching teal crinkled seam binding, a Magnolia Doohickey Die - Heart Swirl - which you can find here. The sentiment is also Magnolia. It is a mini stamp which you can find here. I love this little sentiment stamp and thought it would go perfectly with the birdhouse stamp.

Check out the new goodies at Magnolia-licious:

Prima Chalk Edgers- Great range of colors and priced just right! Check these out!

Exquisite Flowers by Magnolia - Oh my gosh, these are fabulous! You really need to add these to your flower collection! Wait until you see the color and variety Diana has in stock!

Sensational Summer Kit - What a wonderful collection of coordinated goodies - Magnolia stamps, Magnolia mini stamps, Magnolia paper, ribbon, flowers, doilies, and other perfectly matched embellishments! I bought this kit, and it is fabulous!

Well, that's about it for today! Thank you so much for dropping by! I hope you will come back real soon! Don't forget to check out Magnolia-licious! Have a wonderful week.

XO,

Chris

Things with Wings Challenge with Magnolia's Large Butterfly

Happy Sunday to you, Dearest Readers,

I don't know why I begin most posts with a description of our weather, LOL, but we got RAIN! You have no idea how much we need water! The lakes are down - some done by 50 feet due to the drought. We've had very little snow in the mountains again this year, so the water is low - that's the water we use in our homes. So, when it rains, I am so very happy!

Today begins a new challenge at the Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog! This time, we would love to see **drumroll please**

Things with Wings

That should be a fun one to do, yes?

I'd like to share my creation with you. This time, I chose a very little used stamp - it's the Magnolia large (huge) butterfly. I haven't seen many gals use it over the years. I think it came out in 2011 in the Butterfly Dreams Collection. You can find this lovely stamp here. Here is my creation:

I chose to create an easel card. The image has been colored with Twinkling H2O paints so it has a metallic finish. I also used Magnolia pink dotted paper as part of the background paper. The butterfly paper is from my stash. I pulled flowers from my flower bucket, die cuts from my various dies, gorgeous rose lace, and a beautiful white lace butterfly. The sentiment is Magnolia. I used a Spellbinders' banner die for the sentiment and elevated it on pop dots. I also took the butterflies and the tag in the envie behind the butterfly and applied shabby pink Fran-tage. The sentiment on the bottom was created on my computer. The laser cut frame is from a wonderful little shop called Stay True to God. I covered the frame in Stickles Star Dust. I also used it to edge the sentiment banner. Here are additional photos:

I had graduation in mind when I created this. I'm not sure it would work, though. When might you use this card? Leave a comment below. I'll select one and send that gal a special something from me!


Have you checked out the new goodies at Magnolia-licious:

Prima Chalk Edgers- Great range of colors and priced just right! Check these out!

Exquisite Flowers by Magnolia - Oh my gosh, these are fabulous! You really need to add these to your flower collection! Wait until you see the color and variety Diana has in stock!

Sensational Summer Kit - What a wonderful collection of coordinated goodies - Magnolia stamps, Magnolia mini stamps, Magnolia paper, ribbon, flowers, doilies, and other perfectly matched embellishments! I bought this kit and it is fabulous!

Well, that's about it for today! Thank you so much for dropping by! I hope you will come back real soon! Don't forget to check out Magnolia-licious! Have a wonderful week and create a masterpiece for the Things with Wings Challenge at the Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog!

XO,

Chris

Matryoshka Tilda Sends Mother's Day Wishes

Happy Tuesday to you, Dearest Readers,

I hope you had a blessed Easter! Was it warm and sunny where you are? We had a beautiful day! The heat is on as are the pollens that cause my allergies! Yuk on both counts! The air conditioner is running already to keep the house cool!

A new challenge begins today at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog. The new challenge is easy peasy -

Anything Goes!

You are free to create something that floats your boat! LOL! It can't get easier than that, huh?

I had not inked up my Matryoshka Tilda yet and thought it would be perfect on a Mother's Day card. Here she is:

I just love this stamp! I think the image is so very, very sweet. I'm hoping that someone will think this is just the right Mother's Day card for them! It'll be in my Etsy shop later today. The interior panels are also finished to match the front of the card.

This card features:

Stamp - Magnolia Matryoshka Tilda from the Moscow Collection - available at Magnolia-licious

Glitter - Stickles Star Dust

Derwent Watercolors

Dies - Spellbinders and Whimsy Stamps

Seam Binding and flowers from stash

Paper - Maja Designs Sofiero

Ink for edges - Color Box Antique Pewter


We would love if you left a comment on any of the DT blogs! One lucky person will win a special somethin', somethin' from Diana!

Check out the new goodies at Magnolia-licious:

Prima Chalk Edgers- Great range of colors and priced just right! Check these out!

Exquisite Flowers by Magnolia - Oh my gosh, these are fabulous! You really need to add these to your flower collection! Wait until you see the color and variety Diana has in stock!

Sensational Summer Kit - What a wonderful collection of coordinated goodies - Magnolia stamps, Magnolia mini stamps, Magnolia paper, ribbon, flowers, doilies, and other perfectly matched embellishments! I bought this kit and it is fabulous!

Well, that's about it for today! Thank you so much for dropping by! I hope you will come back real soon! Don't forget to check out Magnolia-licious! Have a wonderful week and create a masterpiece for the Anything Goes Challenge!

XO,

Chris

Tilda in Evening Dress is Feelin' Flowery!

Happy Tuesday to you, Dearest Readers,

I hope this post finds you healthy and happy! Spring winds, here in the desert, are just stirring up my allergies! The other day, we had huge gusts of wind. As I sat at my craft table, looking out the window at the trees bending in the wind, there were waves of yellow pollen blowing across our yard from the pine trees in the back. It looked like the wind had turned a bright yellow! My nose is not very happy! **sniff, sniff** LOL

Today begins a new challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog! The challenge this time is

Feelin' Flowery!

I wanted to do something a bit differently than my usual. Tell me what you think. I hope you like it.

I wanted to make a more adult looking card. I chose the colors black and silver with a few touches of white. I had this older Edwin stamp in my collection. When Tilda in Evening Dress came out, I knew they would be a perfect pairing. I gave Tilda a dress of silver glittered cardstock. Edwin needed a mustache so that he looked old enough to be serving drinks! I wonder if I should have given Edwin a gray mustache instead of a black one. Hmmmmm...

There is a black mat behind the image mat and then a silver foil cardstock mat behind the black. You can't really see it in the photo.

I had a bit of fun with the Fran-tage, too. I have two kinds of white Fran-tage. One is just white and the other has gold flecks. Since my card has no gold, I had to think creatively. You may be able to detect bits of gray in the white melted Fran-tage. I applied the Fran-tage first. Then, I added silver embossing powder on the top. It was fun watching it melt into the white.

The paper behind the polka dotted paper is black with silver foil swirls embossed on it. I used it for the interior of the card as well. I added some silver metal elements. I thought the metal heart with the embossed flowers on it was a perfect match for the direction I was taking with my card.

I added a variety of silver flowers. The stamen cluster is silver metallic, and the calla lily is also silver metallic. The larger flowers are silver metallic looking, too. They have lovely crystal centers. I took my silver ink pad and carefully inked the edges of the white orchid in the lower right. Lastly, I added a beautiful silver metal trim. The trim's flowers are metal with a shiny cloisonne type center. That trim is just gorgeous IRL. Finally, I added glittery touches to the "sparkles" around Tilda as well as the champagne.

I hope you will remember to leave a comment on any of the DT gals' blogs as well as the Challenge Blog. For each comment, your name goes into a drawing for a weekly prize. The winner is announced each Wednesday on the Challenge Blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you will join the Feelin' Flowery Challenge! It's so perfect for this time of year!

I hope you have a great week!

XO,

Chris