Just One Bite, Please :-)

Hello, all.. Well.. just a few more days til school starts for my son Lucas. I am trying to find a nice school present for him but i am not successful. I should have bought him that watch at Disney land. What did you get your child as a special keepsake for the big first day? Here in the USA i have never seen those big candy bags in cone shape that we had in Germany. So, with the other stuff iam almost set. Just a pair of new shoes some "nice" clothes, Target and have some pics taken and oh not to forget the 30!!! glue sticks he is going to need :-)

 Stamps: Magnolia "Tilda in Cherry Dress" 2008
Papers: Basic Grey "Lemonade", Stampin up (Purely Promegranate, Kiwi Kiss all retiered)
Embellishments: Charms were a gift from my friend Carole she got them at Elaines store. I have ordered before with Elaine and her store is a pure treasure chest :-) and her customer service just fabulous. Have you seen that Elaine is looking for some DT Members? Iam not sending in :-) i just like Elaines store and thougth i would let you all know about it.
, the ribbons are by stampin up and for those who do not know.. my friend Carole is a Stampin up Demonstrator in the UK. You could contact her if you like to order some stuff here.
Tools: Fiskars Daisy Border punch, Circle Nestabilities, scalloped punch from STampin up for the "bite" mark
copics used: R20, R81, R83, R85, R39, R59, yg05, E000, E50, E31, E00, E11, Y21

Boy Oh Boy

 Hello and i hope you are back from a wonderful weekend. Over on "Stamp with Fun" is a fabulous new Challenge posted.. for this week you can go all creative using your Nestabilities or your punches. On my card i have used some My Minds Eye paper with a punched border and used all sorts of Nestabilities and combined those. Almost forgot, the tag is made with Provo Crafts Tiny tag die.

 Stamps: Magnolia Traveler Edwin, Sentiment by Stampin up (Just so Sayings)

Embellishments: all Stampin up (Hardware and ribbons)

Tools: Big Shot, Nestabilities (circles, Pinking circles and label)

Thank you for visiting me today.

This posting is sheduled iam until August 1 on vaccation

Delicious!

Hello happy Memorial Day :-) are you prepared for some good BBQ with friends and family? Well.. my card has nothing to do with meats and sausages lol but what about a yummy dessert? Strawberries and cherries :-) I have found this cute paper a while ago in my store and i had to have it.. oh btw.. i have seen some cute new papers from BoBunny cat and dog themed.. i bought some of this paper as well in anticipation of the Magnolia pet Collection WHEN IS IT COMMING OUT? lol

Since iam planning on listing this card over on Ebay and i bought quite a lot of this Design Paper so i thought i could make a matching envelope (use "the Enveloper) for my card. If you have not seen my picture tutorial on 5. January you could check it out here. It is very easy and fast but it gives your card just a tick more "specialness" lol.. is this a word???

Stamp: Magnolia, Tilda in Cherry Dress (Kitchen Collection 2008), Sentiment: Stampin up "Thanks a tons" retired

CS/DP: Doodlebug Design Paper, Cardstock: Stampin up: Real Red, Pink Passion, Bazzil Bling for base

Tools/Embellishments: Nestabilities "Blossom", Word Window punch, Retro flower punch, Martha Stewart: pearl stickers, Strawberry felt stickers, Prima Marketing, Making Memories, Pink Jute received from Carole (thank you!)

Paper used behind Tilda and to color Tilda on: 89 lb Cover weight CRYOGEN WHITE

Copic Sketch used:hair: E50 (for blending and highlights), Y21, E31clothes: BG01, BG02, BG000 (for blending), R24, R27, R30 (for blending), R81 (also for Airbrushing), R85, YG06,skin:R20, E00, E11, E000 (for blending)

to make handmade envelope: "The Enveloper" i would also recommend to purchase the remoistable glue for your envelopes. In the past i have closed my envelopes with Mono Multi glue. I am very very happy with this glue.. however i find it not good enough for envelope boxes due to the heavy layers and embellishments i use. I have found that Scor tape is just PERFECT. I used it on everything.. on the altered note books i made because this is supposed to be an item that you USE.. i actually tape down the ribbon with it. That stuff sticks!!

okay.. last but not least the card was made using the the challenge over on Stamp with Fun which the very talented Nikki has created for this week a sketch and sponsors the blog! Thank you sweetie.

oh and some of you asked where i found that Cytrogen white CS (89lb!!) i spoke about yesterday... you can find it here.

For A Special Teacher

Hello ... i hope you have had a wonderful Mothers Day! My card for today was made using this weeks sketch over on "Stamp With Fun" Challenge blog. I went with the Magnolia school collection because this week in Lucas school the moms started to talk about to collect some money that we could buy the teacher a gift by the end of the school year.

I used some papers out of the "girl" line from the Prima Markeing "Fary Tale" line. The girl who wins my RAK packet on the Friday Sketcher blog will also recieve several sheets of this paper in her package. I really like it because the patters are small and work well for cards and they are kind of shabby chic:-)

Stamps: Magnolia "Travel/School" Collection 2008 (desk, books and Tilda), apple big - Party Collection 2008

Sentiment: Amuse Art Stamps,

Papers: Prima Marketing "Fary Tale" and flowers

Embellishments: Making Memories, Stampin up, Tim Holtz

Other: Nestabilities: large square,
Copic Sketch, Memento. Airbrush System, Neenah Ultrasmooth white CS

Happy Mothers Day

Hi :-) how are you today :-) This is my card for the "old" Magnolia Challenge. My sweet friend Bea came up with this stamp. Don't you love this one? If you have her as well we would love you to join this challenge. She would make a wonderful Mothers Day card. You could visit Bea's, Carole's or Jaquelines blog and check out what sketch they used. Thank you so much for swinging by today.

oh and one quick reminder.. as promised i will pick a winner from all my subscribers for some goodies. Iam gathering already some stuff. There are going to be 4 new Magnolia stamps, 2 sets of Stampin up, Scorpal and more.. The reason why i would love to pick a winner from the subscribers is simply because it will be easier for me. I can just import the data into Excel and have random org pick a person.

Please take a look at my friends cards who also have created a card using this image. If you like to join in our challenge each week.. feel free to use Carole's, Jaqueline's, Bea's or my blog to link your creation.CBC+J players are:Carole's StartdustGemsRibbon, Bea's Megastamper blog, Jaqueline's Creja Kaarten

Stamps: Magnolia with apron from the "kitchen Collection" available at Magnolia-liocus
Paper: Basic Grey was sent to me by the talented and kind Irina Blount

Embellishments/Tools: Nestabilities (all new Nesties are now in stock at 7 kids College fund) Stampin up, Making Memories, Martha Stewart "red glitter" and pearl stickers

Be Mine

Hello and happy Tuesday. Wow.. my husband was off work yesterday and i still was able to finish this card using the ISMAKI sketch for this week. If you check out the site.. the sketch requires you to have 3 circles and 3 flowers in the upper right corner. I loved that new red Making Memories paper and one side looks just like the paper doilies Magnolia has sent me in my last DT kit. If you like the doilies i have seen some in heart shaped or regular round at Michaels in the backing section.
The 3 flowers are punched out Whisper White paper and i airbrushed the flower fist with E31 and than the edges of the petals just with a hint of R 22. All the DP papers are airbrushed with this color as well. On each scallop of the big circle i added a drop of red Stickles to match the sparkly heart embellishment.

this is a close up of the main image.. i had to brighten it really up so the subtle shimmer on the flower petals and on Tilda's apron and socks would show a little bit. I used for that a glitter pen - which is nice especially if you have whites on the clothes. you can add with that interest and depth to the clothes.

Here are the supplies i have used for this card:

Stamp: Magnolia "Tilda" Kitchen Collection

DP/CS: Making Memories, Whisper White (airbrushed to almost Very Vanilla using E31), Hero Arts red Rhinestone stickers, Martha Stewart for Pearls and round heart embellishment, Stampin up red Taffeta ribbon

Thinking of you

this card is sold to my friend Crissy! Thank you once again :-)

Hello and a happy Thursday. Today's challenge for you to follow on the "Cute Card Challenge" blog is to use something you had for Christmas :-) I can not tell you.. but i had the hardest time with this challenge. This card was made yesterday morning because the first idea i could not translate at first. The first thing i had in mind when i read the challenge..."use what you had for Christmas" was FOOD - lots and lots of food and sweet treats lol :-). As said i had still by yesterday morning no clue where to get started. I picked out some pretty papers that caught my eye, this one is from Basic Grey "Bittersweet" Collection and Imaginice and started on the layout. I knew i wanted to use one of the 3!!! Nestabilitie sets i received from my generous friend Carole.!!! xxx After that i needed a image to add to my label, i remembered this cute Tilda from the "Kitchen Collection" . This cute Tilda has heart stitched on her apron. Wonderful.. she is lovely and can be used on so many occasions.

The sentiment is a set from Stampin up, it is called "Fresh Cuts" and i heat embossed that onto the pink Basic Grey "Bittersweet" paper with black detail embossing powder. After that, i used one of my Glitter pens, did you know that Alota has them for sale as well, to give the flowers (behind Tilda) and her dress and socks the subtle sparkle. All over i think this card is quite elegant and could also be used as a Mothers Day card.

The inside is kept in the same style as the outside. I wanted to keep the layout the same. The sentiment here is also with black detail embossing powder created. I used 4 pink rhinestone stickers in the inside to keep the theme the same. Last but not least i used the fabulous "Grunge" stamp set that i got from Kristine, to frame the label where the text can be written on. It is not very visible because i first airbrushed this panel with a pink Copic marker and than used SU Classic ink "Going Grey" with the stamp (stamped once off) to add the swirls.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every of my friends for the wonderful cards and presents big or small that you have sent my boys and for me. It truly warmed my heart during this time. Hugs!!! xxx

Take A Note

This little post-it holder is made with the Raspberry Ribbon kit for next month. Hope you will like it. I have one more card to show using all the wonderful ribbons you will get.

This project is pretty much self explaining, right? The only thing you might want to know is how i made the chipboards so white. I used first my Stampin up white craft pad but it did not give me enough coverage so on top of that i sprinkled white Detail embossing powder and embossed right on the chipboard. Worked out fine.
The back was decorated fast but i simply did not want to leave it plain.

Magnolia stamp: Raspberry Ribbons and Chipboards, Serenic Route, EK Retro flower Punch, 7 Gypsies jump ring, Making Memories rub-ons

and the wonderful gems are sent to me by my friend Carole!!

Thanks for dropping me a line today, i would love to read from you once iam back. Thank you!

Made With Love

This week on Cute Card Thursday we want you so show us cards showing any kinds of foods or cup cakes. When you click over to the blog.. you can definitely tell that many of us fell in love with this cute Tilda :-)

I made a Triangle-Fold card. It has been a very long time since i have made this card. The size of my card is 5.5 x5.5. Cut two sheets of 8.5 x 11 to 5 x 10 fold in half and glued together. From there i you just work the same way as you would do with the small size you find on SCS the tutorial. My piece of chipboard took a little more work and attention :-) this piece comes in plain grey like most of the chipboard's do. You will receive these with the new Raspberry Ribbon kit. I used my Craft Whisper White stamp pad to give it the base color - than i added white embossing powder, shake excess off and added one layer of Dazzeling Diamond Dust - than heat embossed everything. It looks really nice and sparkly. The backside of the chipboard is just plain white covered with ink. Tilda is colored with Copics. On Cupcake and wings is Stickles.
I totally LOOOVE the pearl stickers Carole sent me as a gift :-) they are sitting really on my desk in front of me - i want to use them on every project. lol you will see when i show you my second card using the Raspberry Ribbons chipboard piece.

Here is a peek of the inside. Since the challenge said "foods" i wanted to use also the matching cupcakes image. Again.. Carole came to the rescue!!! :-) she sent me a while back some images of this stamp. :-)

Least but not last.. the back of the card. I have to show you this... When i received Kristine's absolute stunning birthday card i noticed how pretty she not only decorated the inside of her card... no she even spent time to work on the back as well. Not to compare with my card. I simply stamped on the DP. Kristine really adds a design with patterned paper to the back of the card and than stamps the circular stamp over it. It looks soooo cool. I needed to know were she got the fabulous stamps with her name and blog. She shared with me the name of the seller in Malaysia and i pretty much ordered the same stamps she used on her card lol and of course some more :-) The stamps are nice prized, the seller is super nice plus shipping was fast. Love it..

Now to the supplies:

Tilda with cupcake Kitchen collection

CS: new SU colors: Kiwi Kiss and Pink Pirouette matches so wonderfully the Basic Grey 6x6 sugared paper collection

Chipboard piece: Rasberry Ribbons

Ribbon: Kiwi Kiss double sided Very Vanilla

Swarovski Crystals

Personal stamps used on the back made by Loongchai Malaysia

Communion - Confirmation

I love this card.. can you tell? :-) so many pictures :-) This cute Tilda stamp is just perfect for Christmas cards or as i thought on my first card using her as a Communion / Confirmations card. The image in the front is watercolored - the dove in the inside of the card is colored with Prisma color pencils - because the paper i used is a vanilla color and Copics do not work on this paper. The card was inspired because i recieved the the new Rasberry Ribbon kit and I wanted to create a card where the ribbon show and there are not many other embellishments used. All what i added are 4 tiny Swarovski chrystals to "adhere" the square panel visually to the card. Tildas wings have a thick layer of Stickles so they are after drying a little 3-dimensional.

Stamps: Tilda in the Heavely Collection

Ribbons: Rasberry Ribbons September kit

Papers: Bravo Burgandy, Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel, K&Company

Coloring: Stampin up re-inkers, Prisma color pencils, shimmery Pebbles chalks

This is my sample card for Pretty Pressings Sketch Challenge with prize

back to school

Stamps: All Magnolia Heavenly Collection 2008, Apple is from the Party Collection. Paper: K&Company, Night of Navy, Celery Green, Bazzill Bling
Coloring: Stampin up Re-inker
Embellishments: Stampin up Hodgepodge, Silver string for the apple, Celery Green RibobnSentiment: Computer generated

Iam very excited that Diana Crick from Magnolia-licous and Scor-Pal Products is sponsoring us this week over on the Friday Sketcher blog. With Magnolia stamps from the "Paper-Doll Collection" and some Basic Grey Magnets so you can dress your Tilda the way you like. Diana came up with this fun idea. How fun to craft a little take-along toy for a girl.

For the sketch for i created this week. I was very inspired to come up with a card / sketch to use with the stamps i got from Diana Crick (magnolia.us@shaw.com). Please feel free to add your focal point picture or your sentiment were ever you wish. We are curious what you will come up with, dont forget to link your card on the Friday Sketcher blog. If you are there.. dont forget to check out the other "Sassy Sketchers" creations for this week.

My friend Bernie left a comment on yestedays card about cutting out the cattails. :-) No, they are not THAT much fun to cut out but if you have the right tool it is possible with a decent amount of time and effort.
I was lucky that Michelle told me about it and actually sent me one of these wonderful knifes. I use it ALL the time! Michelle is not only DT member for stamp companies and challenge blogs! She is also in the Fiskars Nifty Fifty! If you do not have this tool.. you defenetly need it :-) I have seen at Target for about 6 Dollars.

Here is a pic the sketch:

I was yesterday awarded by wonderful ladies! Iam grateful that i have met all of you! Check out sweet Shawn's blog, Madge and also Lisa's blog and work! Thank you!

Thank you - I absolutely love it!

Hello and happy Saturday. Wow.. what a week, i was able to show 9 cards this week and iam also working on a tutorial for Pretty Pressings. I got an invitation from Beate Johns (SCS) to show this project on September 17. on the weekly tutorial section, but i have decided that i will pass this invite and just have the tutorial on my personal blog. The pictures on SCS have to be in a certain way and due to the size, language and scoring lines of the project it would be a struggle for me to get it all right. I hopefully have it all ready to show on Pretty Pressings next weekend. It is a wonderful gift idea and perfect for the upcomming holidays! I ordered especially for this project all the wonderful Magnolia stamps with from the "cherry-line" but in my head are already other ideas as well :-).

What do you think about this layout? Kind of different? :-) Pauline sent me one of the cherry stamps in my DT package and i wanted to use this image in the front of my card and in the inside. I made this card for my wonderful friend Carole.... she has been a really good friend to me in the past, she helped me so much... not only this :-) she moved "mountains" to get for me a very rare kit you can only purchase in Sweden for my upcomming birthday. I was trying to get this for myself and told her about it so thats why i know already what iam getting lol... Thank you so much Carole! For everything... love ya! xxxxx

EDIT: Ups, i just noticed this black dot on the side of Tildas head.. i dont know.. it is not on my card.. it must be something that got cought on the glitter when i took the picture. sorry about this.. it looks messy :-(

Here is how the decorated inside of the card looks like with lined envelope. I added to the cherries here some pink stickles - this does not show really well on the picture.

Close up picture... i added stickles to the outside of my pink panel and around the white circle were Tilda is sitting on to give the circle sort of an other layer.

Stamps: Magnolia (Cherry and Tilda) from the Heavenly Collection 2008
Sentiment: Stampin up retired Hostess set: Thanks a tonn
Technique: sponging and watercoloring
Coloring: Tombow marker, white gel pen, Stampin up re inkers (celery, pretty in pink, blush blossom, rose red, creamy caramel, so saffron)
Paper/CS: DCWV Nanna Nursery Girl, Celery, Whisper White, Rose Red
Embellishments: Pink and Clear Stickles, pink pearl stickers, Rose Red and Celery ribbon
Tools: Stampin up nesting circle punches and word window punch, Nestabilities, Sewing machine

Cupcake anyone?

Edit to add: This card is sold. Thank you so very much Christine!
Happy Wednesday my friends. A little late this morning with my card... i finished last night and had to take pictures this morning of it. My husband took the boys out and i had time to use my Stampin up reinkers to color the new Magnolia Cupcake Tilda. She is soooooo cute :-) well.. they all are lol. The piece underneath the card is going to be the decorated inside of this card. I just have to adhere it. I just thought it is easier to take a picture of it. In addition i decorated a matching evelope to use with this card. Love it ... :-) especially ...lol.. my personal challenge..:-) no Prima flowers :-) and i like it. I added Stickles not only on Tildas wings, the top of the cupcake sparkles as well. Sewing is done in dark brown and a blue to match the flowers in the floral part of the Designer Paper.

Stamps: Magnolia new Heavenly Collection 2008
Flowers: Stampin up free SAB 2008 Friendship Blooms set
Papers: Basic Grey and Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip and Bazzill Basics
Coloring: Twinkeling H2O, Stampin up Reinkers, Prisma Color Pencils, white gel pen
Accessories: Stickles, pink Taffeta ribbon, silver Hodgepodge Stampin up

Traveler Tilda

Hello happy Tuesday! This is the last card i made last week Tuesday for Magnolia to sent to Sweden. I think you can see that i was under pressure to have the cards mailed. Magnolia wanted to have cards back to take to a tradeshow and of course i wanted to hold my promise to have the 8 cards ready as soon i could. Well, i hope it is okay. I worked on this card with scraps i had left from a previous card. What i liked was that long piece of paper had this "sparkely" baroque pattern and it worked quite nicely for the trusty ol' sketch. lol

Stamps: Magnolia (Traveler Collection 2008) Stairs (previous collection)
Sentiment: Retiered "Party Punch" Level 1 Hostess Set
Paper and CS: SEI and SU Chololate Chip, Bashful Blue
Coloring: Copics and Copic Airbrush System
Embellishments: Flower and Ribbon from Magnolia Sweden

School Fun

Stamps: Magnolia Heavenly, Travel and School Collection 2008

Hello, have you had a good weekend so far? I am so lucky.. .:-) I finally found the picture of the card i made for the Pretty Pressings sketch a couple of days ago. I thought i added the card into the Magnolia envelope without taking a picture of it :-) (iam getting oooooold) I just found the picture on the harddrive - perfect this way i do not have to publish a card using the same image as used on yesterday's card.

I used on Edwins vest Copic color G99 - it is the same color i used on Tilda's dress in "Winter Wonderland" and i think this is one of the most difficult colors to work with. For some reason i can not blend this color nice and it "streaks" more than the other colors. If i go over it to get the streaks out it get very very dark. I like the color but it is challenge for me to use this marker especially when i have to color small areas in.
Now for the winners of the Magnolia card kit. Random Integer Generator has picked:

6 CraftyB from the U.K.
123 Mada from the U.K
56 Andrea from Germany
31 Wendy Patross
149 Sharon from the UK

Timestamp: 2008-08-17 14:10:05 UTC (i counted several times and had my husband confirm)
Congratulations to all 5 of you!! Can you please contact me with your adress? You can claim your prize until Tuesday morning 8.00 am Michigan time. Thanks to everybody else, for posting here and on your personal blogs!! I appreciate it very much. I have to go now and buy my sons school supplies :-) love Claudia

Memories

Stamps: Magnolia Sweden (Traveler Tilda and luggage), some DP, Prima flowers lace and big brads can be purchased here

Gosh ladies.. you are so nice to me!! 41!!! comments on my card yesterday??? I can not believe it!! This makes me really happy, that you liked the card. I was barely online the last couple of days, cause the boys have a bad summer cold. My little one takes this always a bit harder than my older son. I have had barely sleep cause they wake up at night and cry. Most of you know how this is.
This card is one of the 8 cards i sent to Sweden. I used a piece of scrap paper (the one with the little roses) I had from a previous card and two Designer Papers (the flower and the script DP) recieved from Magnolia. I had a bit trouble to pick up the wonderful greens from the paper with my Copics but I think it is fine. In the USA i have not found ANY source yet were i can buy such beautiful lace ribbons Magnolia sents me - so i keep every tiny little piece of snip of it :-) I think the solution to use two pieces and in the middle the flower is not too obvious? The circular "Memories" stamp was found at Michaels in a acryl "Travel"themed stamp set (set i think of 10 or so) on clearance for 4.99 :-) If you liked that "Berry" label i used on my "Berry Cute" card the other day, you should go and pick some up. Michaels has discontinued these cause now all the Halloween items are on the shelfes and i had to go to two other stores to find 2 more packages. :-) I used this "Traveler Tilda" set to make this "vintage" style card but she looks so cute in a more contemporary style too - I would like to show you this version tomorrow. I hope it is okay if i show two days in a row a card using the same image??

remember tomorrow i will also pick 5 winners for some Magnolia stamps, DP prima flowers ect.

Second Grade

Here is my card for Cute Card Thursday's Challenge... the theme this week is: "Soft Furnishings" (must say... i had a bit trouble understanding what to use lol) english is so different than the US english.. so i went with the ribbons cause i do not have any fabrics at home. I just checked the Challenge blog and there is more info what you can use on your card.

The school chalk board was first colored with grey copics and than i embossed with white detail embossing powder "2 nd" (Stampin up set) "grade" is die cut from CS using Cuttlebug Alphabet Die. I really like this card especially since it is a boy card without using any flowers (my personal challenge :-) Oh.. all the elements are added to Bazzill Bling CS... love these at the moment very much and i think in this case it looks kind of like a wall .. just looks nice with the texture and the shimmer.

Stamps: Magnolia new School Collection 2008

Sentiment: In my thoughts (congratulations), 2 nd (i need to check on this set)

DP: K& Company, SU Night of Navy
Embellishments: Hodgepodge, Epoxy sticker, SU ribbons

Tools: Word window puch and Cuttlebug Alphabet dies

I got yesterday 2 (yippeeeee) awards from Kelly (my daily dose blog :-) und a german blogging friend Ninchen! Thanks to both of you. I would like to mention now much i enjoy reading Heathers blog and Tienekes blog... (dont get me wrong.. no award... i just like their blogs!) maybe you want to check it out?

Have you seen my sketch i added yesterday to my posting???? I really would love to see what you create... maybe you can combine it with the Cute Card Thursday Challenge??? if not.. come and see what Murielle has made for the Friday Sketchers! Murielle's sketches are FABULOUS... i used this sketch already 2x and it is awesome !

Berry Cute

Oh my gosh... have you ordered your new Magnolia stamps yet? They went yesterday online on the Magnolia site! My friend Carole sent me a email right when the stamps were posted and i ordered a couple more of the cute "Berry Tildas" and some more of the accessories for the "School line". This card is made with the sitting "Cherry Tilda" Magnolia has sent to me. I really loved that beautiful blue polka dot paper i got and i was careful to cut it closely for my card yesterday so i will have some scraps to use on a second card. Here is the outcome:

Stamps: Magnolia Cherry Tilda (So Heavenly, Travel and School Collection 2008)

DP: Blue Polkadot, all laces from Magnolia Sweden

DP/CS: Berry Paper: last years My Minds Eye Winter collection, SU Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla

Other: Button: Making Memories, Hemp and Pearstickers (sent to me by Carole), "From the Garden of" is a sticker from Martha Stewart... it is inteded to be used for home made jam jars :-), Rub-on: "Cute Berry" found at Joann's

sorry about the upload of my text and pictures.. if i add my picture the way i used to - you are unable to click on it and it will show big.

"He Said - She Said" New Magnolia Collection

Good morning.... my 3 card using the new line of Magnolia stamps is finished :-) This little girl is from the school collection (believe). Now if you click on the picture you notice that she as this little wrinkle between her eyebrows. That makes her sort of looking grumpy. I thought this image will look very nice with that "7 Gypsies" tag Magnolia sent me a while ago. After the card was finished i looked for Magnolias i want to add to the stamps Magnolia sent to me and i noticed that online the image does NOT have this wrinkle. So i simply stamped a few more of this style Tilda and than carefully cut with a sharp siccor this line of rubber off. It stamps now just the way she looks online.

Supplies and stamps: all can be found at Magnolia Sweden
(i did get that beautiful brown paper from my friend Kristine she told me that it is a Collage sheet)

I would like to add something today...

My wonderful husband made the new outfit for my blog. I told him that i want to change it soooo many times... he had no time to help me because of all the work we had at home. Than i contacted the lady my dear friend Michelle Oatmann recommended but she is busy for more than 6 months and it is quite pricy. After telling my husband how much it costs... :-) he sat down and worked on the outfit. He used all free brushes from the web. If any of you is interested - iam more than happy to share the sites.

I also had a few private emails when i will make some cards for STAMPAVIE! All what i can tell you is that mine and an other girls DT first package got lost in the mail. Iam in contact with Heidi and Stewart and they assured me that they will sent me the Sarah Kay stamps with the new line they release in the next mail to the US. I am myself very dissapointed - especially since i saw all the wonderful cards you all create with these stamps but i have to wait. :-)

Happy Toughts

Edit to add: Dear Maria C. from Canada could you please contact me again? i can not reply to your email. Thank you

How was your weekend so far? Iam late this morning with my card :-)
This is a card i made with mostly supplies Magnolia sent to me. All the CS and patterend papers are from Magnolia Sweden and of course the very new images from the travel line :-)

I stamped SU's Happy Thoughts circular sentiment with Craft White ink on the shimmery brown label but it does not show too well. Key is from Joann's, other Hardware is retired Stampin up Hodgepodge.

I make it short today.. thanks for visiting me:-)

oh.. my hubby made the new blog layout for me .. not quite done.. but i think it does look already quite nice.