Milk Choc & Turkish Delight Christmas

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all well, today I have a gate fold card to show you for the brand new Maggie Lovers Challenge Blog , Bron from Shopbron has started this new challenge for all of us that love our Maggies, now the theme is pink & brown or red & brown and as I said in my last post I would normally use the traditional red & green for chrissy! But that's what challenges are all about isn't it, to challenge yourself, and I did manage to fit in a little red & green, I couldn't help myself lol.

This is For You Tilda from the Sweet Christmas Dreams Collection, isn't she cute! and you can get her at  Shopbron I stamped tilda on Cordenons white cardstock, it's beautiful paper it feels like silk and is also available at Shopbron. The DP is from Nitwit Collections and the xmas tree is a clear stamp that I have had for ages. The flowers are from WOC, pearls from Kaisercraft.

For the inside I stamped the xmas tree again and added a little verse from Stamp-it.

I'm sort of heavy with photo's this time , I was trying to pick up the Kindy Glitz - Crystalina ( I hope you can see it ) also how the card opens. I coloured tilda with copic's and prisma pencils, I really like the combination of the two colour mediums together, I seem to be able to get better results when I use both.

Copic's & Pencils

Skin - E0000,000,00 Henna pencil

Hair- E25,30 Dark Brown

Shoes- E43,42,40 Dark Brown

Dress- R81,0000 Pink

Present- G20 Dark green -R14 Tuscan Red 

I hope you like my Christmas card, I would like to enter the following challenge

Maggie Lovers Challenge #1 - Theme Christmas Pink & Brown or Red & Brown

Hugs 

Milly

Hi Everyone,

Happy World Cardmaking Day for yesterday!!! I bet papers were flying in a lot of places around the world yesterday, if you are anything like me and maybe havn't made many cards lately then it was like I just had to make one for the special day lol. Which brings me to my post today, LOTV are having a special fun give away!

You can enter your favourite LOTV card or create a new one to win some absolutely gorgeous LOTV stamps.

I have created a new card with Milly Me and my Dog it's just the cutest, I love this image and as soon as I saw it I had to have it. I have coloured the image with copic markers and prisma pencils and teamed it with Kaisercraft DP called Tea at Elsie's collection, the flowers are from WOC and the lace is from my stash.

Here is the inside of my card done to match the front.

You have until the 8th October to enter soooooo jump over to the LOTV Ideas to Inspire Blog and read all about it there. 

Thanks for stopping by and for all the wonderful comments you leave me, they truly make my day!

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Love Nest

Hi Everyone,
Wow it's been a while, life has been getting in the way of crafting lol, it happens sometimes, I do have a card to show you today, as soon as I saw this image I just loved it, it's from Die cuts & Doodles a site that I have only just found, and so glad I did. Suze has digital downloads available and is extremely helpful and every image Suze creates is gorgeous, so jump on over and check it out.

I coloured the image with copic markers and prisma pencils and added some soft clouds using a template from Bev Rochester and used the beautiful Miss Nelly papers from Kaisercraft, the die is Lace from Cherry Lynn Designs and suited the image perfectly I thought. The flowers are from WOC and the gingham ribbon is from The Craft Queen. I created a panel for the inside with the same DP papers but left the rest blank as I want to use this card in the future for a relative that is moving into a new home.
Thanks for stopping by today, I hope to get back to doing  some challenges soon (that's if life will let me lol). I hope everyone is well and happy!
Hugs

LOTV Giveaway

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick post to let you know that LOTV Ideas to Inspire Blog are having a give away of there new release Christmas stamps, they are totally gorgeous so hurry over and enter now.

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Just because you’re you

Hi Everyone,
Today I have a Maggie card for you following the great sketch at Cute Card Thursday
I used one of my all time fav’s Sweet Tilda and coloured her with copics and I little bit of prisma pencils. Over at Magnolia Down Under Challenges they want to see texture, so I used this great DP, it’s like quilting, very hard to explain and I hope you can see in the photo, but the paper is sort of raised, any whoo I will stop trying to explain it and just show you the pic, I have had this paper forever and can’t even remember where I got it. I teamed it up with Making Memories Note Worthy.
  Everything on this card has had a really good dose of Walnut Stain distress ink, and I love how it gives that vintage feel. Just Magnolia are playing BINGO this week, which is great fun. I chose Ribbon & Lace / Flowers / Gems , the flowers & lace are from WOC and the pearls are from Kaisercraft, the sentiment is from Verve stamps. I also used spellbinder Heart circle die, and did some faux stitching around tilda, this is the first time I have done this, and didn’t do that well at it I am afraid lol.
Lots of room on the inside for a loving message to someone special. I think it’s important to leave plenty of room so the person giving the card can say how they feel.
Copic’s & Prisma pencils used
Hair E44,42,40 Shoe’s E44,42,41 pencil Dark brown , Dress R0000, 01,11,12 pencil Light umber, Skin E0000,000,00,R01.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Cute Card Thursday #179 – Sketch Time
Magnolia Down Under Challenges #111 – Texture
Just Magnolia Let's Play Bingo! – Ribbon & Lace / Flowers / Gems
I just thought I would let everyone know Karen & Kylie both have some Candy at the moment, If you click on there pic’s at the top left sidebar you can check it out for yourselves, and who doesn’t need some of those yummy sweet things lol.
Ok that’s all for now, Big Hugs

Dinosaur Birthday

Hi Everyone,
Hope you all are well and happy today, I have just finished a card for my great nephews 5th birthday, and I am a little over excited about it as it’s the first time I have coloured an image with just pencils, now I know it’s not perfect but I think I am getting there. Normally I would use a combination of copic markers and prisma pencils, but today it’s just the prisma pencils ( I will list the colours I used at the end of this post ).

Isn’t he the cutest dinosaur you have ever seen! I got him from Whimsy stamps and he is called Thunder Lizzy by Crissy Armstrong you can get him HERE. For the DP I used Nit Wit Collections Jungle Zoo Too, I thought those leaves looked like a place a dinosaur would be, but then again I am no expert on dinosaurs lol.
Crissy has a challenge on at the moment with the theme K.I.S.S which means Keep It Simple Stamper and I thought this card suited that for a little boy who loves dinosaurs.
I have done the inside to match the front, the brads are from Kaisercraft and the ribbon is from my stash.
Here is a close up, I sponged around the image with Memento Summer Sky.
Prisma Pencils used – Crimson Red, Black, True Blue, Pink Rose, Sienna Brown, Grass Green, Burnt Orche, Peach Beige, Apple Green.
I would like to enter the following challenge
Sundays with Crissy Challenge #20  - K.I.S.S – Keep It Simple Stamper
Before I go I just wanted to mention Dana’s Blog, I have been following Dana for awhile now and she has lots of great info and tutorials on colouring with pencils and copics. You can check her blog HERE , if it wasn’t for Dana’s tutorials I would probably still be in a muddle with my colours lol.
Hope you all have a great day, thanks for stopping by and all the wonderful comments you leave me. I appreciate them very much.
Big Hugs

Crafty Sunday

Hi Everyone,
Well this morning when I got up I had no intention of entering any challenges, but when I had a look around the blog world my brain went into overdrive and that was it! I have spent all my Sunday morning crafting, and what a lovely way to spend a Sunday lol.
I have created a card with a Magnolia stamp called Tilda with Hawaii Flower from the Butterfly Dreams Collection and I must say she is one of my favourites, and she fits perfectly with the MDUC flutterbys Challenge, the girls would like to see butterflies this week.

The lovely girls at Bunny Zoe Crafts Monthly Challenge would like to see Easel Cards and you still have heaps of time to enter this one, while you are there check out the candy on offer and all the new products that are coming in, it’s all very exciting YAY. Ok back to the card, the brown DP is digi from cuddly buddly and the pink DP is from Kaisercraft Blushed collection ( it’s an oldie but a goodie ), the CS is Bazzill.
Tilda is coloured with copics( list at end of post ) , the beautiful flowers are from WOC, I really love those browns ones they are called Walnut colour and I used a MS Branch punch. The borders are done with a Magnolia Doo Hickey die Old Swedish Lace. I used a lace doily from my stash with spellbinders Circle Hearts Die although it got hidden a bit with flowers . The white lace is from the Craft Queen, and I can’t remember where I purchased the butterfly charm.
Here’s the inside, with the very pretty lace butterfly which is also from the Craft Queen.
Just Magnolia would like to see funny sentiments this time, and to be honest I had a bit of trouble with this one, but I came up with this
and turned it into a little tag to go in the butterfly pocket, or you could always take the tag out and put a gift voucher in there instead.
So I hope you are still with me on this one, lots of photo’s and lots to talk about, here is a close up of the darling.
Copic’s used
Butterflies – BG 000,10 N2
Dress & Socks – R0000, 81 , E 41 Light Umber pencil
Flower – R0000,81 G20 Y00
Shoes – E44,42,30
Hair – E44,42,41
Skin- E0000,000,00,R01 for the cheeks 
I hope you all like my butterfly inspired easel card with the funny sentiment, I had a great time making it, and besides I hadn’t planned anything else for today, and it’s not very nice outside all overcast and windy brrrrr.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Magnolia Down Under Challenge #110 – Flutterbys
Bunny Zoe Crafts Mothly Challenge #15 – Easel Cards
Just Magnolia Challenge Blog #120 – Funny Sentiments
Thanks so much for visiting me, have a great week everyone.
Big Hugs