Ribbon Girl Magnolia Challenge ...

Happy Easter!  Today I'm sharing my Easter card I made for the Ribbon Girl Magnolia Only Challenge which was to add flowers

I used:

Magnolia stamp coloured with Copics

Papers from a Tilda paper pad by Panduro

Distress Ink

Alphabet stamps

Pearl organza rose trim, flat lace, pearl flower flatbacks, a memo pin and liquid pearls all from the Ribbon Girl

I'm A Home Owner ...

... well technically it's a second home but I would have to have some Alice in Wonderland magical potion to shrink myself to fit into it!  A few weeks ago I spent a very happy weekend crafting in the countryside with 7 of my friends. We hired a lovely cottage in the middle of nowhere in the Yorkshire Dales - I don't know what was worse, the car journey there in the dark on the Friday night over the moors wondering if I was going to plunge down a ravine or drive into a wall because it was so dark and totally relying on my SatNav to guide me left or right or the journey home on the Sunday in the daylight when I could see exactly what I almost drove into!!  Anyway ... whilst we were there my lovely friend Gail showed us how to make the cutest little chipboard houses - and this is mine!

Gail had seen something similar on the 2GypsyGirls blog and had a go herself and because it was cute we obviously wanted to have a go ourselves so badgered her until she told us how to :)

I added the little doggie when I got home, he looks just like my Haggis

I used:

These digital papers from Nitwit Collections

Lace, pearls, bead string and liquid pearls from the Ribbon Girl

The little doggie is a Christmas Tree decoration from Harrods and the window and arch of the doorway was cut with a Tim Holtz sizzix die

Tag ...

I went away for a lovely weekend a few weeks ago with 7 other crafty friends and I made this tag as part of my secret fairy gift swap

I used scraps of paper (all my friends use up their scraps and always laugh at me because I am not a scrap collector, I always throw everything out when I'm finished a project but I am trying hard to keep some things for another day!) and lots of circle and scalloped circle punches and the butterfly was made with a few more punches ( I opened a drawer the other day that I have not been in for a long time and found all these punches that I'd forgotten about!!) 

Then I raided the Ribbon Girl shop for pompom trim, lace, braid and organza rose ribbon, seambinding, pearl trim and that beautiful diamante and pearl embellishment. The little metal label holder is from Stampin Up - I found that in the drawer with the punches too!

A Birthday Card ...

I have a birthday card to share today

I have used my favourite papers at the moment - gorgeous digital Nitwit Collections paper, totally delicious I could wallpaper my house with this!!

The lace, organza flower trim, liquid pearls, pins and ribbon are all from the Ribbon Girl

I used my new favourite die - the LaLaLand heart banner die and some Doo Hickeys and a Martha Stewart punch and I painted all the edges of my layers and distressed the edges.

I would like to enter this card into the Magnolia Down Under Challenge blog

Ribbon Girl Magnolia Only Challenge ...

The new challenge over at The Ribbon Girl blog is Magnolia Only - Anything Goes, so nice and easy :)  I've made my card for a friend who has a birthday next month using paper scraps (some MME and others were digital) and my current favourite Magnolia Stamp. The ribbon, braid and cute rolled rose are from The Ribbon Girl and the dies are Doo Hickey flowers, Spellbinders frame and La La Land banner. I spelled out her name with my wooden alphabet stamps and then everything had the walnut distress ink treatment and I added Platinum Stickles for the glitter

With Love ...

The new challenge over at LHSM is 'With Love' ...  I used my new lovely dovey Magnolia stamp

Ribbons, lace, stickles, charm and pin from Ribbon Girl

Hearts and Flowers at Papertake Weekly ...

Urgghh, I've been under my quilt since Saturday with a horrid chest infection. Still poorly so very short post today

All the flowers and ribbon and bits and bobs are from Ribbon Girl (of course!), I've made this card for the Papertake Weekly Hearts and Flowers Challenge 

Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly ...

It's an anything goes challenge at Papertake Weekly this week with the option of including lemon/yellow

I used:

The cutesy Magnolia stamp schoolgirl with her pencils - I love this stamp!

Ribbon, lace, pompom trim, pearl trim, stickles and flowers from The Ribbon Girl

Party Girl ...

I do like to make CAS cards, I just don't do it very often ... I should make more of an effort :)

I used:

Scraps of paper from this kit

Stardust stickles and heart shaped adhesive pearls from Ribbon Girl

Alphabet stamps, distress ink and dress punch

I'm entering my card into the Less Is More challenge of kraft and cream

Card for a friend ...

It's sketch week over at Papertake Weekly, follow the current sketch or have a go at one of the older ones. I used the current sketch  #75 for my card and my card ... well it might just be my favourite card ever! Even better is that it was made for a very special and inspirational friend x  Special cards for special people are always the best don't you think?

I used:

More of the papers from this gorgeous digital kit and the script paper I dug out of my odds and ends box

Coloured my Magnolia with Copics and added extra sparkle with Stickles

All the flowery bits and bobs as well as the pleated satin, ivory rose organza, vintage style lace and ivory faux silk is from the Ribbon Girl shop

I inked all the edges with walnut ink and added even more stickles to make it super sparkly.

The little stick pin up at the top is a Tim Holtz pin, a perfect place to tie on a little scrap of pretty lace or ribbon - love those!

Well that's me done for now, not long until the weekend thank goodness and then only 2 more weeks at work and I have a week on holiday - hoorayyyyyy :)

Ribbon Girl Magnolia Only Challenge ...

There is a new challenge over at the Ribbon Girl blog today and it's the start of a new regular Magnolia Only challenge.

The challenge is to use ribbons and lace so nice and easy for the first challenge! There is a fabulous new Design Team to share their creations so please pop over to the blog to see who they are and what they've created to inspire you and see what the prizes are too ;)

I used lots of lovely goodies from the Ribbon Girl - vintage style laces, pearl bead trim, beaded swirl, gardenia flower and beaded berries, top stitch thread and stickles glitter glue 

Pion papers from 3D Jean - I just got the new Pion Collection from there this week and can't wait to use it!

The birthday sentiment is spelled out with tiny alphabet stamps and everything has been inked with Distress Inks then glittered with more of the stickles

A Christening Card ...

Last week amongst all the snow we had up here we were supposed to be going to a Christening but as there was no way of getting the cars out of the street we were properly snowed in and so couldn't get there. This is the card I'd made for the little one who was the star of the day, it was such a shame that we couldn't celebrate the day with her

I used:

The most gorgeous digital papers from this digital kit by Kristin Cronin Barrow - her papers are always fabulous

Cheesecloth, lace, organza rose ribbon, pearl bead trim, stickles and decorative pins all from the Ribbon Girl

Walnut ink, spellbinders dies, letter stickers and that gorgeous golden plinky plonky stuff that I have in my stash

I'm entering this card into these challenges:

Midweek Magnolias - Anything Goes

Tilda's Town - Celebrate

CLP - Sketch

Inky Chicks - Bingo (ribbon, image, pearls)

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I'm late ...

I'm late - this post should have been up on Tuesday but I couldn't add photographs to my blog posts! I've missed loads of challenges and been too busy to try and fathom out what went wrong but I've installed Google Chrome and now I can play again!

I have a card to share for this weeks Papertake Weekly challenge, the challenge is 'tie up your loose ends' so add a bow and this is what I made:

I used: Magnolia stamp coloured with my Copics

Taffeta ribbon, velvet lace, decorative pins, and crystal bead string all from Ribbon Girl

Colour Challenge at the Ribbon Girl Blog ...

A new colour challenge at the Ribbon Girl blog and it's one of my favourite colour combinations - pink and ivory. Check out the blog for the details and some amazing projects from the Design Team

 

I used:

Pink box pleated ribbon, pink beaded trim, pink velvet lace, floral cluny lace, pink loopy trim, dummy charm, liquid pearls, stickles and blossom flowers all from Ribbon Girl

Hanglar stamp coloured with Copics

Doo Hickey and Spellbinders dies

Making Memories alphabet stickers

 

 

 

Lovely Hanglar or Sweet Magnolia challenge ...

We have a new challenge over at the Lovely Hanglar or Sweet Magnolia challenge blog and this week the challenge is to create a card using ribbon or lace. I've dug deep into my box of older Hanglar stamps for this card

I used:

satin ribbon, pearl button, cluny lace, pompom trim and pearl bead trim all from Ribbon Girl

October Afternoon papers

Hanglar stamp coloured with Copics

Spellbinders, Doo Hickey and Go Kreate dies