Get In Shape - Magnolia v Stampavie Challenge

Donna at Magnolia v Stampavie has challenged us to make a card from a shape other than a square or rectangle for week 19. I've often looked at all the fun shaped cards that are available, but not bought any. Having seen the lovely new Easter images I decided to use the church window on my card and to shape the card to echo the arch.

After a few false starts I came up with this shape and used it on a rainbow coloured glossy card that I bought at my first card craft show. Tilda and the window are painted with H20s and watercolours, the sentiment is stamped in Stazon. The gem flowers came from the Hobbycraft sale in January, I think they work well with the colours in the images.

Quite a simple card, but fun to make, thanks for the Challenge Donna :)

Magnolia vs Stampavie Challenge Week 16 - Lace & Pearls

What a fun challenge this week at Magnolia/Stampavie from Bev: Lace & Pearls. I decided to make a Tilda ATC. I'm not sure how much Tilda is a lace and pearls gal :) , so I kept her to neutral creams mostly. The background has flower stamped onto it, with Pearl Stuff centres. There is heart lace along one long side and two pearls on the opposite corners. Omunted onto bronze shimmery card to frame it.

Magnolia vs Stampavie Challenge Week 13

The sketch at http://magnoliameetsstampavie.blogspot.com/ this week looked deceptively simple, but had a lot of elements to play with. I watercoloured Tilda with chrysanthemums and matted her onto tan card and then onto a green print. The white background looked a little stark so I used tapestry stamps around the edges and a Stamps by Judith grass stamp at her feet to soften it. The brown lace is from my sewing stash, no idea where it came from!

The sentiment is a Penny Black stamp, copper embossed and the swirly embossed images are from Paper Artsy stamps that were free with my Craft Stamper subscription. I used an embossing pen to put a line of dots above the image, all the patterned papers are from the Stamp Attic. Oh, I added some Stickles to the centres of the chrysanthemums and the flowers at the edge of the paper, as well as to Tilda's hair ribbons and hat.

Magnolia vs Stampavie Challenge Week 12

Week 12's challenge over on the Magnolia vs Stampavie blog is a colour challenge: to use only the colours cocoa, pink, sage and white. I have just the paper for this challenge, which came from Auscraft before it closed down - it could have been made for this challenge :).

I coloured Tilda with Copics, I'm getting on better with these now I have a supply of glossy cardstock to use. Quite a few of the colours used came from the pens that I won in the Christmas/ New Year Magnolia/Stampavie Challenge - thanks! Tilda's wings are glittered with clear Stickles. She's sitting on a plain sage oval with the dark brown flip side of the stripy paper edging it.

The flowers are from the Stamp Attic and again, I think they are just right for this challenge.

Magnolia v Stampavie Double Trouble

This week's challenge is to use at least two Tilda/Stampavie stamps. I've used three and made a bookmark for a young lady called Laura, who I think bears more than a passing resemblance to studious Tilda :). She has her dog, Tiffin, sitting beside her as she thinks about what to read next. Bookmark is from Bazzill Bling paper, overstamped with little flowers from Stamps by Judikins, with paper from the Stamp Attic behind Tilda. Tilda and images were watercoloured, her spectacles have glossy accents on them.