Glittering Tilda for I love promarkers Birthday!

Hi, Thank god its Friday! What a week, its been so busy and i have not been feeling that great with my kidney pain etc so i am looking forward to having a nice weekend and thats the kids off school for 10 days. At least i can get up and ready without having to rush to get to school on time!

Onto my card. This was made for for the Magnolia Stamp Lovers challenge which is Glitter this time. My Tilda was coloured in with Promarkers and i have edged her all dress in Glossy Accents and glamour dust. This week at I love Promarkers they are celebrating their 1st Birthday!! They have a Birthday blog hop and a Birthday card challenge going on. The papers are the Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose ones that came free wiht my magazine. I made the white frame from a cut from my Cricut Wild Card Cartridge and i embossed it with a floral embossing folder. The larger flower is a home made one and the others are from Papermania. The green vines are from my Potpourri Basket Cartridge and have 

also been given the Glossy Accent and glitter treatment! The charm and chain, buttons, pins and lace were from my stash and the sentiment was from a pack of clear stamps i have and inked with the pink ink.

Heres the challenges i would like to enter with this card;

http://magnoliastamplovers.blogspot.com/ - Glitter Challenge

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/ - Birthday Card!

http://stampwithsarahkay.blogspot.com/ - Buttons and Lace

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/- Buttons

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ - Hearts and Flowers

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/ - Frame it

http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/ Oh So Charming!

Thanks you as always for visiting my blog and wish you all a lovely weekend!

Feeling Blue?

Hiya, I am definitely feeling blue tonight...we have got more snow falling!! I am so fed up with it, hope it doesnt come to much and has gone by the morning. We still have a bit of snow still lying thats not melted from the last time.

Tonight i am entering this card into a lot of challenges so i will just list and link them all at the end.

The sketch i followed is from the Unscripted Sketches Challenge Blog. The challenge was "2010 Review" in which you are to choose a past sketch from the list. I picked this one......

My Tilda is coloured in used Promarkers, i love the sitting Tildas, they just look so cute sitting there with legs dangling! I have added glossy Accents and glitter to parts of her dress and bow. My roses were out my stash and i added the twine and leaves to them and added glitter. The paper I used in the background is a glittery one from the "Slice" paper pack. I really like the papers i got in that pack. I usually find i only like a some of the papers out a pack and then the rest get left to gather dust but i will use all the papers in this one!

My metal brad is one i have had for a long long time..i bought it on my very first craft supplies shopping spree but forgot all about it until i cleaned my drawer out! I did put a new brad in the centre of it as it had a white one in it and it didnt go with my cream card! My butterfly is punched from Vellum and rubbed to shape it slightly. My sentiment is cut from my Wild Card Cricut Cartridge and again coated with Glossy Accents and Glitter.

Here is the challenges i am entering into tonight...

Stamp Something - Glittery!

Our Creative Corner - A Thank You Recipe (Blue, Cream, Metal and Vellum)

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Blues Challenge

Allsorts Challenge - Thank You

Unscripted Sketches - 2010 Review (Past Sketch)

Totally Tilda - Ribbons and Roses

Just Magnolia & hAnglar - Anything Goes

Thanks for having a look.

Hope you all have a good night!

Bag of Gold!

Hi, Another horrible day today here, its been raining most of the day. I think the snow is not far behind!

Anyway here is todays creation! I decided to make a gift bag which fits in with the challenge at Die Cut Dreams Challenge Blog where they are looking for anything BUT a card. The Totally Tilda Challenge is where my colour scheme came from, they are looking for Glitz and Gold creations for this challenge. I found some lovely gold mirror card that has a mat finish in my paper drawers and it was perfect for embossing. I embossed the gold layer with my floral embossing folder and cuttlebug and layered it onto brown cardstock. I used my Martha Stewart deep edge punch and gold ric-rac on the brown layer and added a gold heart button. I coloured Tilda in using Promarkers but i never had a gold Promarker to hand so i had to use Mustard instead. I think it looks ok!!
 The flowers i made from scratch. What i do is take a scallop circle and cut the scallop edge off. I have added a few pictures below to explain! Once i have the scalloped strip i gently curl each scallop to give them the petal shape. I then wrap the strip tightly around a quilling tool  and let it relax just a little until you get the size and shape you would like then use a dab of glue on the end to keep it from uncurling. To finish it off just pull some of the "petals" gently into shape until you are happy with it. I got this idea from the new x -cut quilling  flowers dies that are out and just love to make my own flowers.

(Cut the scallop edge off )

 ( Using a quilling tool wrap tightly then let it relax very slightly and glue)

(Once glue is dry pull the "petals" into shape for finished effect)

Sorry its such a long post tonight! As always here is the list of the challenge blogs i am entering.

http://totallytilda.blogspot.com/ - Glitz and Gold. 

http://diecutdreams.blogspot.com/ - Anything but a card.

http://magnoliastamplovers.blogspot.com/ - Punch challenge.

That's me off to bed! Thanks for looking!