Hope your day is filled with sunshine

Hi there… back with a card that really says “Spring” to me…. soo not matching the weather we have in Michigan. It is driving me nuts! Monday was ice rain and schools were closed, the next day it warms up to almost 12 Celsius, than it freezes again. I am such a mess, when the temperatures go up and down so quickly.

Anyhow… I have made this card for a very sweet lady. I think I have mentioned her name a few times on my blog… the card went to Pamela N., she is not a blogger, we have “met” online and she is such a sweet person that I just thought this card for her would make her happy.

Stamps: Little Darlings Saturated Canary Collection Walkie
Sentiment: Lili of the Valley and Whiff of Joy
Papers: Little Darlings Rubberstamps “Summer Sorbet”
Dies: Spellbinders Label 10, Magnolia Heart border

{PS. I just noticed that Sir Stampalot has some Little Darlings Saturated Canary stamps discounted)

At least a little somethin’ somethin’

I can post today hahaha… I have found those photos on my hard drive and I remembered it has no been published in Magnolia Ink –so I can post this on my blog! I altered  this Prima Marketing tin for the “Pet” issue.

gee.. WHAT THE HECK was I thinking to add this cross to the tin lol.. it almost looks like its supposed to be a urn well. would not that be something DIFFERENT?! hahaha.. need inspiration for some weird stuff – come to my blog lol

okay now lets try to overlook that cross, shall we? because what I was trying to make was a treat container!  (not that I would ever use this think as such wink)

anyways… here are the supplies I used
Stamps: Magnolia “Tilda with Kitten”
Sentiment: Stampin up
Papers: Stampin up
Flowers: assorted Prima Marketing/Recollection/ WOC
die: Lovey die
Oher: cross dollar bin Michaes

I am on my final day of the Garage sale.It has not been too good for me. Its always so much work and lifting and its money wise never really done for me but I had a good time with Karen and I got rid of 3 kids bikes which took just space away. Today I want to try to sell 2 more bulky things and I will done. There went my “free and fun” kids free week. I can not believe it. I did not make it once to the movies.

LOVT peek

which is no longer a peek anymore lol.. I bet you have seen this cutie already. I think it was all of our favorite when we saw a peek of the new designs. This one is called “Blooming Day” and the teddy stamp comes with a matching sentiment. Usually I do like my sentiments on the front of the card but it did not work out, so I tucked the sentiment to the inside on a tag.

Papers: Magnolia ink through Sir Stampalot

Lili of the Valley goes Origami

Today I have a little quick gift card holder to show you. Its fairly quick made and perfect for gift giving and those little cute Lili of the Valley images. I had made it initially to give this my son’s teacher. I might put a tutorial up on my blog soon, how to make this. I am just so busy with my trip and the reno in my house has not even started yet.

To decorate the outside of the holder I used a image from the forth coming Cute Companion set – lots of sweet images and matching sentiments and in the inside I used one image of my favorite set Daisy Trio.  Finished the holder up with a sentiment tag, also by Lili of the Valley.

Thank you my dears.

love

Teddy Daisy Trio Gift Set

Today I want to show you a little gift set I have prepared to take home to my mom with some pretty things inside hope she will like it.

Stamps: Lili of the Valley: Teddy Trio Daisy
Dies: Magnolia So Wrapped Tilda’s lace, Spellbinder lacy circle, circle Nestabilities, Grand Square Spellbinder
Paper: Magnolia Design Paper Yellow plaid

Garden Fairies Gather Here…

This card is currently pending – but might become available for sale tomorrow.

Hello ladies… so excited to use those new Magnolia stamps. OMG.. I love this Fairy! I added a few older Magnolia stamps to the background. Unfortunately I was not able to pull the direct links to those stamps for you. They are older – released in 2007 I guess??? Adding the vines, was so easy and there is not much more coloring involved (just the masking took some extra time) and it does look like so much “MORE” if you know what I mean.

All missing lines after removing the mask can be easily fixed with a Copic Multi pen. I like my 0.05 mm one the most.
I wanted the card to be a bit darker – enchanted I guess loved the purple Maja papers with it. Too sad I am almost out of this lovely paper.

Stamps: Magnolia Sweden – Available trough Sir Stampalot
Garden Fairy Tilda – soon
Vines can be found in Collection with the gnomes.. I forgot what it was called and I can not find the link to it
bobble flower same collection
Dragonfly Farm Collection I believe 2007 – “Brunte” Magnolia’s horse was in the same collection
Sentiment: Papertrey Ink
inside:
Ferns 2007 Collection
Sentiment inside: Garden Fairies come at dawn, bless the flowers than they are gone – Elzybells – retired
other: Recollection felt vine
Butterflies: Pink Paislee
Papers: Maja Design

Here is a shot how I decorated the inside.

Again, the fern stamp is from an older collection.. I think the gnomes or forest Tilda and Edwin was in that collection. I totally forgot what it was called.

Here is a shot to show those cute butterflies a bit better. I added those to that felt vine stem I got at Michaels. The butterflies are by Pink Paislee.. I got them from my friend Rosa Armstrong, the vines can probably be found in a Prima Marketing Collection. Recollections is I think the daughter company from Prima. – Hope I was able to help you, with the infos where to get the things I used today.

Ciao my lovelies!

Dreaming

this card is in my etsy boutique here

Hi ladies.. sorry today I have a bunch of photos to show. I wanted to have 1 shot of the this card to show that all though it is a easel card how flat it actually folds. I like to add flowers and other embellishments, so the card stands up nicely however the added bulk makes such a card always harder to wrap and mail.

I always loved Magnolia’s pretty tulips.. however the focal point image does get quite large, but it’s nice if you just want to go with a simple card layout. I think there is not much space to worry about adding layers. giggle.. thinking of Danielle right now.. we were talking in Ottawa about all my layers. I know it got in the past months a bit out of control.

Other than that.. pretty simple. Around Tilda I used a Warm Grey 50% to make her stand out against the background but added carefully some blue, to freshen the look a bit.
The large tag was given to me by my friend Rosa A. for Christmas, I found it perfect to tuck under the ribbon, for personal handwriting.Stamps: Magnolia Rubberstamps Honey Bee Tilda – Soon to be released – available through Sir Stampalot
Tulips
corner stamp
Papers: Magnolia Rubberstamps
cutting dies: Magnolia Rubberstamps (heart tag – dreamy tag) Sentiments: Lili of the Valley and Stampin up
ribbons, crochet lace, yellow pins (can be found in the yellow ribbon kit – I love it.. I am on my second one already) and hardware are from the Ribbon Girl shop)

I am back home…

- I’ m there for you! for your consideration this card is listed on Etsy.-

I have had a fabulous time in Ottawa. It was amazing to be able to meet my dear friend Danielle. OMG.. she is just such a sweet person. When I went upstairs to surprise Danielle in her room and she opened the door it was like we knew each other for a long time. We just chatted a storm . We did mostly sight seeing things… Ottawa is just such a wonderful historic city, reminds me a lot about Germany, the way the old buildings look. On, I believe Tuesday we did in the morning some coloring but of course we chatted mostly about markers and stamping because hubby was not around. Danielle knows A LOT about all the different medias and honestly I learned a thing or two from her.

We came home later than expected and when I came home I had to take care of all the laundry and the house. Pewh.. I did had a cat sitter and covered most of my furniture with sheets but boy.. I think the “stinkers” had a fight or two. I just pulled the links out for this card and noticed all the pretty new Magnolia dies Sir Stampalot has up now… wow.. what a bank breaker. I want most of them

Stamps: Magnolia “Tilda Princess of the Valley… – through Sir Stampalot
Dies: Tilda Tag Magnolia – through Sir Stampalot
Sentiment: Stampin up
All papers: Stampin up!
All ribbons/charm: The Ribbon Girl,
other: flowers (some are by Wild Orchid Craft, some are Hobby House), “Hobby House” swirls and pearl stickers, butterfly die cuts by Unique hobby products

Spring Cleaning

Hello friends.. have you started your spring cleaning??
Don’t you just love to do laundry
awwhhh… all the wonderful things we are responsible for in the house thought this sweet image drawn by Krista would be quite sweet to give to Mom or just somebody who does a lot for us. Iam always so grateful if somebody can help me out watching the boys if I have to go run someplace. It’s really the little things that matter the most

I am so excited…we are currently in Ottawa, Canada and I am meeting my dear friend Danielle there. whoohoo… iam looking so forward to meet her in person and have a great time with her. If everything worked out the way planned it, we had dinner together last night and probably hang out today and colour some images in, in our hotel in Ottawa. Maybe we get some sightseeing done too.Defenetly we will have fun. I will share some photos later this week. I hope to be back home on Friday or Thursday night.

Stamps/Digi image: Krista Smith “Wash Day”
Papers: ??? I forgot
Crochet lace: The Ribbon Girls
Sentiment: Stampin up
other: Cuttlebug/buttons and flowers from stash

Bring Back Beautiful Challenge Team ~ Flourishes

Hello again! Today I would like to share with you my first Design Team card for the Bring Back Beautiful Challenge! I am so excited to be invited to participate for Flourishes in this monthly challenge and also along with those wonderful talented Designers. Have you seen the wonderful Flourishes stamps? I love, love, love the all the flower sets the company has. OMG, how exciting to be able to do something different than cute cards.  For the ones of you who have not been on any of the Flourishes sites, it may be nice to know that Flourishes has several Challenges – you could check them all out going from the store site to all the Challenges, that are currently running. Bring Back Beautiful Challenge is a challenge that runs always 1 entire month, starting Mondays.


For this month’s Bring Back Beautiful challenge, we’d like to honor those in our lives that bless us with their friendship with THE BEAUTY OF FRIENDSHIP. The challenge is just that simple – make a card or creation with a friend in mind! The Bring Back Beautiful Team did an amazing job showcasing all the ways you can send off some caring thoughts to those special people in our lives.

Flourishes stamps are clear acryl stamps – I love those cute little bunnies in the grass so much, so before it was too late to use this year I wanted to make a simple Spring card with “Spring has Sprung” to sent to dear Janice. I stamped the image onto Copic x-Press Cardstock with Memento ink and it stamped all details the very first time perfectly. Got to love that!!!

For more inspiration for this months challenge you could go to
Betty
Beate
Heather
Kathy
Julie
Iwona
Yvonne

If Wishes could make you well…

Hello ladies.. a little late … my card for Just Magnolia. For this week we would like to see Spring themed cards.
Sweet Debbie asked me to make a “Get well” card for one of her dear friends, who underwent surgery. I hope she is feeling much better soon.
Thanks for seeing me today, Luv
Claudi

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda with flower pot … Butterfly CollectionSweet Home – Apple and Cherries CollectionDies: Magnolia “so wrapped lovely” Dream Tag/ Tilda tag

Paper: My Minds Eye
Sentiment outside: Stampin up! Sentiment inside: If wishes could make you well…. you’d be better already – Stampin up!
Stamps: Stempelglede
Ribbon: Stampin up, Crochet Lace: The Ribbon Girls

Wishing you Rainbows & Sunshine & some snapshots of my life

Hi there.. I wanted to show you a card with one of my very first Saturated Canary images. Got this cutie I think with my first batch of digis in fall and never used her. Now since it is Spring I have to use her before an other season passes Went a little nuts on the embellishments in my opinion, for some reason I could not stop adding and adding and adding…

If I had time to make a post it note to cover her.. I think I would have liked some airbrushed clouds behind her.. I really would have liked that!!! It was just too much hassle with a digi image to figure out how to get it on my post it note to cover her.

Stamps: Saturated Canary” Let it Rain” Printed 33%
Magnolia: Sentiment
Paper: My Minds Eye “Jack and Jill”
Ribbon: Stampin up and The Ribbon Girls (Hemp and gorgeous lace)
Flowers: Recollections (Michaels brand) – Wild Orchid Crafts
r 22/00/12/20/24 W:4/0/00/5/2 E31/34/37/50/00/13/000/00 YG00/21/23/17  Y21/38
Warm Grey 90%, Black, Slate Grey, Mediterranean Blau, Espresso, Crimson Lake, Olive Green, White Gel pen

Today I would love to share some pics with you I took as I walked by to get the photos of the memory card.

Here is Pixie on her new favorite spot the kids bedroom  – I took one of our bookshelf's from the living room, flipped it over and have it in front of the large picture window. Most of our kids books fit perfectly in.

She loves her new spot with the best view in the house I had to give her a little towel so she is nice and comfy

On Sunday we went quick to the local garden store to purchase a couple of rose bushes to replace a evergreen bush in front of the house, which died and we found these wonderful Orchids. I absolutely love them, they were originally 35 bucks each and I got them on sale for 15.00 each. They are really pretty and tall. I almost want to go and get some more. I have no green thumb with Orchids lol
this is what I started last night after I had to open the entire work I did in the morning. what a pain in the neck.. I purchased the wrong pattern (kids size instead of baby size) you think I noticed that right away???? oh yes.. and than when I did.. I ordered again and got by accident the French version… what a start. The lady was really nice, she refunded me the money of the French pattern.