Girly, you rock!

Hey, friends! Welcome to the Monthly Magnolia-licious Blog Hop! So glad you've come! I'm the start of the hop so let's get going! Our queen, Diana, asked us to use this Right Through My Heart stamp for our project! She is currently 30% of in the store! Of course she can be used for Valentine's Day, but I decided to use her as a "You go, girl" /"Power of women" type of card. Please keep reading for prize details near the end of the post. My eggplant card base is 5.5" square. Everything else was driven by the DCWV paper "Once upon a Time" I love the sparkle and the greens and purples in it! I had other patterns to use, but I just didn't want to cover this one up! Because of that, the rest of my card is pretty simple! The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I used more Eggplant and Hunter green swirls.

If you make a card with this image and send it to Diana at magnolia.us@shaw.ca you will have the chance for one of TWO randomly chosen prize winners (prize is a stamp!) OR you can win a special secret prize that Diana hasn't disclosed to any of us! It's sure to be GOOD! Details are on the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog.

Now you can head on over to Angie's Blog to see what she has cleverly created with this image!

If you're still reading I expect your hoping for colors and here they are1

skin E000, E11 and R20

hair Y21, E97, E25, E33 and E29 (same for sandals except for Y21)

Quiver YG93 and YG97

Her dress BV31, BV13 and V17

around image W00 and W2

Thanks SO MUCH for coming by today! I hope you have the chance to hop around!

LLWWC26 is all about RED!

Hi to all of you! Well, yesterday was a busy day, but aren't they all!? Todays Lala Challenge, in honor of Chinese New Year is to use RED as the predominant color on your card. No problem, right! This is Lotus and she definitely has an exotic look to her! I'm not very good with different skin tones, but she could be used for many different looks, IMO. I used Graphic 45 paper from my stash to go with her red outfit. I used R24, R46 and R59 to color her clothes and E42 for the neutral color. I used E33, E25, E59 and E49 for her hair.

So, we would love for you to participate this week. Please use any images you would like, but if you have Lala Land Craft images we would love to see those on you card. Details are on the Lala Land Craft Blog

You can also leave a comment on each of the posts below. The prize-a Mo's digital Pencil Image (Tuesday's post) and something from Magnolia (Monday's post).
thanks for checking out the Cottage today! Hope you're having a good week!
Cheryl

Tilda with Lilacs

Good Thursday morning! I wanted to do a scene card with this "older" Tilda stamp, but didn't have the time so this is what I came up with! Actually, I kind of like it. The focus is on Tilda and it's a great stamp that I had never inked up before last night! Can you believe it?! The Tilda with Lilacs and the sentiment as well as the bench came from Magnolia-licious.

I stamped Tilda with Memento Tuxxedo black on Papertrey white Card stock and colored her with my copic markers.

I've found yet another compulsion which is quite popular now-BUTTONS! The are a terrific embellishment for the center of flowers or alone like on this card. Now I need embroidery floss in every color just in case I don't want to use a neutral color. Oh no!

Copic colors: I'm so sorry-I cannot find the paper on which I jotted the colors! I should always keep my notebook nearby, but don't. It will turn up, I'm sure and I'll edit to add them in.

Thanks for taking a look at my little blog! I have some great readers out there!

Cheryl

Edited to add: found my paper! copics used are; YG91, YG03, E31, E35, E25, Y06, V12, V04, V15, V06, V09, C1, c3, C5