Stamp Something - Green & Cream, An Award and Some News!!

Good morning!! Well as the title of this post suggests, I have quite a bit to share today. 

First is my Stamp Something DT project.  This week our theme is Green & Cream and we are being sponsored by Bunny Zoe Crafts.

and the prize up for grabs is a Tilda Coloring Egg stamp from the Hoppy Easter Magnolia Stamp Collection and the wonderful Bow Easy tying tool. ( I seriously want that bow easy.. can I enter?? lol)

I used Magnolia's Sweet Tilda for my card. She is available on Bunny Zoe Crafts HERE. I've coloured her using distress inks and added a little dot of inkessentials gel pen to highlight her cheeks. 

I followed the sketch over on Magnolia-licious Highlites, added a charm as requested by Creative Inspirations, handmade my flowers for Crafty Creations and it also fits into the Fussy and Fancy Friday challege "Green".

My papers are also from Magnolia and I have edged them with forest moss distress ink. I added some cotton lace and tied ribbon over it then I placed 2 pins down into the bow securing them underneath with glossy accents. 

hmm, I recently saw a tutorial on how to do these handmade flowers.. I will search for it and post a link. The wonderful Michelle showed me how to make them :) So simple! 

Please don't forget to pay my teamies a visit and leave them some love. Links are over there -->

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I am honoured to accept this wonderful award from Nilla. 

I need to pass it on to 6 other ladies whose blogs I really enjoy..

Mandy

Evonne

Jeanette

Jacqui

Heather

Kellie

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Now my news!! 

The wonderful ladies over on ABC Challenges have invited me to join their DT as a permanent member!! My first submission will be next Wednesday,  March 17th and I am so excited! Please do check it out, I'm sure you won't be disappointed :)

Friday Sketchers and more...

This week the sketch on Friday Sketchers is by Claudia Rosa. My card also fits some other challenges....

• Stamp with Fun with their theme 'Spring'
• Simon Says Stamp's challenge - 'Girly' 
• Paper Jewels with 'Gotta have Bling' and inspiration from a piece of jewellery on their blog. I chose this piece:
  
  

I used another fab Bildmalarna stamp called Flying Tossa. I've coloured her using distress inks and added an adhesive pearl for the button on her coat. 

I've blinged up my card using Prima pearl swirls, stickles and self adhesive pearls. The large flower on my image has been coloured with Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet and then I added a touch of stickles to the petals. I just adore these new pink inks. 

Papers: BG Sugar Rush & Bazzil cardstock

Image: Bildmalarna 'Flying Tossa'

Tools: Distress inks, circle nestabilities, cuttlebug, x-cut 3D butterfly punch, star dust stickles.

Pearls, flowers, ric rac, adage ticket and pearl swirls from my stash. 

Thanks for looking and have a great day. 
Sandie
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It's Candy Time!!

As promised, to celebrate reaching 20,000 hits and over 90 followers on my blog, I am putting up some deeeeelicous candy to thank all you wonderful ladies for visiting my blog and for leaving such supportive comments.

Please don't forget to read the 'rules' at the bottom of the post :) 

 

First,  a breakdown of what's in my candy.....

1 x Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Nestabilities

1 x Bo Bunny "Clearly Mixed Up" Acrylic Album 

  

1 x PK "Chocolate Drops" Glittered Skittles

5 x Deep Ivory Gardenia

5 x 2-Tone Baby Pink Roses 25mm

5 x White with Pink Centre Roses 25mm

5 x Ivory Roses 25mm

5 x Lt. Mocha Brown Roses 25mm

10 x 2-Tone Pink Roses 15mm

10 x Ivory Roses 15mm

5 x 2-Tone Old Gold Cherry Blossoms

 

1 mtr - Ivory Guipure Lace

1mtr - White Cotton Lace 

1mtr - Delicate Coffee Scalloped Lace

1mtr - Salmon Scalloped Lace

1mtr - White Scalloped Lace

1mtr - Cream Cotton Lace

0.5mtr - 1" White Ric Rac

I am also adding a small selection of mini tags, pins & charms/spacers from Whiff of Joy, Tabby Crafts and The Hobby House.

Now the boring bit... the rules!!

•  To try to reduce spammers I will ask you to put your favourite type of embellishment after your name in Mr. Linky.... (e.g. Sandie-Ribbon)
• You must put a post or a picture link in a prominent place on your own blog, linking back to this post.
• It is not a requirment to become a follower of my blog, please do so only if you enjoy my work. 
• If Mr. Linky has gone AWOL please try at a later time. It's just impossible to combine comment entries with linked entries so it is ONLY entries via Mr. Linky which will be eligible for the drawing. 
• I will ship internationally so this is open to everyone. 
• This candy is open until 11.59pm (GMT) on March 31st, which means plenty of time to add some extra candy should the sun keep shining in my window putting me in a Spring mood ;) I will announce the winner on Apr 1st.

Crafty Angels and some challenges

We have a great challenge over on Crafty Angels this week. Evonne has picked the theme and she wants to see butterflies on your creations. 

I followed Sketch Saturday's sketch, Whiff of Joy's theme of 'Coffee & Cream', ABC Challenges want some PaperPiecing, Crafty Creations want Monochromatic and A Spoonful of Sugar are asking for Beads so I am entering into these challenges also :) 

My papers are (again) PM Nostalgia Warm and they've been inked and edged with Brushed Cordoroy distress ink. I've paperpieced the image with the same papers. 

The sweet image is from Whiff of Joy, as is the sentiment. I used 3D pop dots on the image to give the card more dimention

The gorgeous flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts and as always they have been stickled to add some sparkle. 

The tiny butterflies are from a Craft Tonic punch set I bought 'way back when' and it's been in the back of a cabinet ever since, lol.

Thanks for looking and have a great Monday!! Don't forget to check back later, I will be adding CANDY!!!

Just Magnolia Challenge

Hi everyone! I hope you are all having a great weekend :) 

This week Just Magnolia are having their special Monthly Challenge and it involves making a tent card. I'd never heard of a tent card before but LOVE paperfolding so I was really looking forward to doing the challenge.

I am also entering it into the Simon Says Stamp challenge which is Mother/Girly and I don't think I could get much girlier than this card, lol.

I coloured my Tilda using some of the new TH inks - Victorian Velvet and Bundled Sage. For the skin I used Antique Linen & Tattered Rose and for her hair I used Brushed Cordoroy. 

 

The sentiment is a Studio G and I stamped it with Victorian Velvet, then I added a small rose to the centre and stickles around the edge.

All of my flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts

 

Papers: BG Sugar Rush, Coredinations

Image: Tilda (Winter Kit)

Tools: Circle, Oval and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, McGill Pine Leaf punch, Distress Inks, Stickles, MS TwoDot punch, X-Cut 3D Butterfly punch, Ink Blender, Scoring Board.

Ribbon: American Crafts.

Stampin' for the Weekend / Stamp Something

Good morning all. Can you believe we are into March already. The months are just flying by!! It's still pretty cold here, not much sign of Spring at all :S

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As I'm nearing 20,000 hits on my blog (woot woot!!) watch out for a little celebration candy in the coming week -  as a big THANK YOU to all you wonderful bloggers who take time out of your day to come visit me. I love reading your comments and visiting all your fabulous blogs too. 

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Today I have 2 DT cards to share. This is quite a long post so grab a coffee and pull up a chair, lol.

First up is Stampin' for the Weekend and the challenge for this forthnight is to make a momochromatic project. 

At this stage I think we all know what Monochromatic means but just in case.. 

"Monochromatic colors are all the colors (tints, tones and shades) of a single hue" 

So basically it's one colour but different shades of that colour. These are the colours I used :)

Our sponsor for this challenge is:

and the prize up for grabs is a $25 coupon for the store. (You can click on the blinkie to be taken to the store)

We have a fabulous new guest DT member, Heather from Rica's Haven, and she will be joining us for the month of March. Please do pop over to leave her some love :)

I am entering this card into a couple of challenges
Stamp with Fun as I used their Sketch
Papertake Weekly with their challenge "Brads, Buttons, Bows & Bling"

Papers: Papermania Nostalgia Warm, Coredinations cardstock
Image: Mo Manning "Rae with Journal"
Tools: Distress inks, circle & scalloped circle nesties, cuttlebug, swirls embossing folder, star dust stickles.
Ribbon, brads and button from my stash. 

Next up is Stamp Something, and our challege this week is Girly Somethings.

We are sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs and the team are showcasing these wonderful digi images so please do visit the blog to see the other samples.

My image is coloured with copic markers and I've added some stickles to the bubbles. I inked the edges of the flowers and dirstress the papers with Victorian Velvet.

I will be entering this also into Simon Says Stamp Challenge which is Mother's Day or Girly. 

Paper: Daisy D's - Maybe Baby Collection & PM cardstock

Image: Sassy Studio - Bubble Bath

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Tools: Distress inks, MS 2Dot scallop punch, stickles

Thanks for visiting me today and have a wonderful weekend!!
xXx

Crafty Angels DT & challenges

 

This week on Crafty Angels we have a Photo Inspiration challenge for you. We also have a new DT and I am joined by two very talented ladies,  Shirley and Evonne.

This is the photograph that we'd like you to take your inspiration from...

And here is my entry.....

The photo reminded me of BG Indian Summer and I had a couple of 12x12's that I'd bought recently at a crop. I paired it with dusky pink cardstock and distress inked it with Vintage Photo. I coloured Tilda using distress inks and then I added stickles to her skirt and glossy accents to her hair bow. The heart border was made using my heartlace punch. 

I am also entering this card into the Just Magnolia Challenge,  Friday Sketchers as I followed their sketch and another entry for ABC Challenges - O is for One Paper.

Papers: BG Indian Summer & Bazzil cardstock

Image: Magnolia's Tilda

Tools: Distress inks, McGill pine leaf punch, MS Heartlace punch, stickles, glossy accents. 

Flowers, ribbon, brad & pearls from my stash

Have a great Monday!! 

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