IT'S SEPTEMBER'S CHALLENGE!!!

Can you hear me screaming?! It's in disbelief that it is September! But, wait, good things do happen with Magnolia-licious at the beginning of every month! The lovely and talented Sharon Caudle has brought us an easy challenge with many interpretations! Make something (with your Magnolias, of course) using a fall theme and fall colors! The Mag Highlites has the complete info on the challenge! The challenge is open to interpretations (did I already say that?) I don't normally buy into writing stories with my Magnolia cards, but I can justify what doesn't seem to be a 'fall' card at all! School is on my mind and I am a primary teacher, sooo, primary colors in the paper. My 'cover' Tilda can be the mother who must send her kids off to school.

She may be sad on the outside, but open the card ....
And she's rockin' with happiness (if she's lucky enough to be a stay at home mom!)

The jar I've added to the card is to hold M & Ms for medicinal purposes!

I found the card (Origami diamond fold) on my friend, Julia Aston's blog this week! She made a cute one with a Sweet N Sassy bear. She was kind enough to link the card's creator, Wendybell, who calls it a Funky Fold card. I've linked both girls' blogs for your entertainment. the card is so cute-takes one sheet of 11" square paper and the pointed top tucks into a pocket behind the focal image! When I mad my first one the diamond did not sit in the middle. That bugged me a bit so I changed the measurement 1/4" so that it would. Not sure if I wrote them down correctly when I watched Wendy's video, but let me know if you want the measurements I used. Hope this makes sense!

Finally, a view of both. I'm loving my new camera (which replaced the one I lost), but these were somewhat difficult to photograph. I take the blame for any problems!

Oh, the stamps are #270 ROCKING TILDA, #532 ROMANTIC WINDOW, #219 LEANING TILDA and #356 WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE. They are all from the BEST store for Magnolias on the planet-Magnolia-licious! Owned and managed by Diana and her family who all care about the customer. I'll link to the HOMEPAGE and you search stamps by name or number if you're interested!

Thanks so much for coming by!! You can see inspiration from the rest of the design team on the Mag Highlites blog! Check it out!

I'd also like to participate in the following challenges:

Magnolia down Under (texture)

Creative Card Crew (anything goes)

Die Cuttin' Divas (Fall)

Craft us Crazy (fall. fav embellishments)

Paper Sundaes (Magnolia)

Have a wonderful day! Cheryl

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR DIANA!! (cyber style)

YOU are cordially invited to attend the festivities to honor our own Diana! I'm the very end so if you want to hop our party you can begin at the official start-Suzanne's Blog! (Be sure to return!)
If you've come from Maureen's Blog you are on the party track! The complete line up is also listed on the Mag Highlites blog!
I'm bring the table and the party chair for the party! Here is the table! Aren't the colors so fresh and pretty!? I {{heart}} them!

photo source
And here is the party chair! (Only I have brown hair so I think I'm the one sitting in it waiting for Diana to open gifts!)

Sorry about the blurriness of some photos-I am very challenged in this area!

Along with #377 Traveling Tilda in her chair there is a card showcasing #233 Congratulation Tilda! Both are from Diana's wonderful store-Magnolia-licious. I see that just the minis are in stock to order immediately, but if you want the full sized ones that I've used just contact the birthday girl and she will surely help you!

Here is the link to the ladder back chair. I realized after I finished that I should have lined the underside somehow, but I hope you'll forgive me for that oversight! But, can you see the houndstooth I used for her chair pad? I used the Spellbinders dies for Sunflower 2 to make my sunflowers. Diana is the sunshine in so many people's lives so sunflowers seemed appropriate! The leaves are Creatibles from Marianne.

The whole card.

And, finally, a close up of Tilda so you can see her pretty paper pieced party dress!

Diana truly is the best and she means a great deal to the design team.

We all hope you enjoyed our birthday party for her today! (Her birthday is actually tomorrow, Aug 24, so you still have time to wish her a happy day!)

Thanks for hopping!

Cheryl

SUMMER FUN BASH BLOG HOP-TODAY!

Hello and happy Monday! Yes, it is a happy Monday! The Magnolia-licious DT and the Magnolia-licious challenge team have partnered again for a HOP and a CHALLENGE!! The blog hop starts with the lovely and talented Sharon and you should have been to Maria's Studio for inspiration before coming here. Our projects (and YOURS!) are to be part of a theme which includes SUMMER FUN-think Beach, BBQ, Picnics or Fishing! I used non Beach stamps for my Beach themed project! Please go to the Magnolia-licious Blog for what you can create to enter AND to see the amazing prize worth over $100.00!! Keep reading too, 'cuz I have a letter for you at the bottom of my post! It's part of all the excitement.
I've made a 4.25" card using Tilda with Heart (#3008 in THE STORE). The stamps may not match but the My Mind's Eye papers do!! I loved the summery colors! For my commercially made (purchased on ETSY) box I used #264 LYING TILDA. She is dressed again after a day at the beach

collecting SHELLS!! Only my shells are chocolate and will fit perfectly in the box! don't ya love 'em?

A few more photos! I went a little crazy!

The candy fit perfectly into this glassine bag which will roll up and be packaged in the box!

the close up!

My letter is M
Now please hop on to the talented Suzanne, be further inspired and get another letter! At the end you can use the letters to create a 3 word sentence. The rest of the contest details are HERE when you're fininished hopping!

Thanks for swinging by! Happy day and happy summer to YOU!

Cheryl

WEDDING MARCH errr, HOP!

Can't you just hear the music to the Wedding March!?! The design team has gotten together to show you wedding themed cards and projects which also feature Scor-Pal!
As it turned out we did not have to build an ark yesterday, but the rain made it possible for me to work inside on my project. I NEVER seem to be able to finish things early!

But, I am so glad you came by today! If you've joined me from the talented Maureen's Blog you are in the right aisle! If not, you could start over at the Mag Highlites Blog for the complete list. The start of the Blog Hop March is at Janiel's blog! She has a wonderful project to share!

It's so exciting for me to be able to make a wedding card and gift because we have a family wedding in THREE WEEKS! Our nephew is getting married to a wonderful girl! Jessica's girls are wearing eggplant so I started there with my colors. I love rich Sahara Sand with whites and creams so I used those for my neutrals. I don't really think Cale is wearing a brown tux, but it seemed a good color for my work.
I am always so inspired by Norma, so my project is a nod to her talent~from her I copied the flowers and the Step Easel type of card. So talented is our Norma! I know many of you have made these!
Of course, another wonder of our stamping world is Diana, Queen of Magnolia! These stamps are from her great store! Here's the link to the mini and regular sized BRIDAL COUPLE (158)
The regular sized LOVE CAKE is also in the store right now! Diana is expecting NEW stamps in any time now, too!

I tried to keep the coloring very simple and here are my colors:
E00, E00, R30 and E11
E50, E33, E37, E47 and E08 (Yes, Cale is a redhead!)
E42, E25, E33
RV91, (#, (%, RV66 and 69
The new E81 (Ivory) is all I used on the cake and her dress (with 0 blender) Great color!

I used the lace on the bottom to look like a lace table cloth (and I can enter in the Just Magnolia challenge! make it lacy!)


My Small Pizza box is directly from the Scor-Pal site and directions are EASY!! This could hold some pretty filler and cash or a gift card. It is 4" square.
I would be lost without by Scor-Pal and Scor-Buddy! They are never far from me when I'm papercrafting!


And couple more pictures!
Below-so you can see the sides of the box!

Now, you'll be Marching off to Angie's beautiful blog to see what she has been up to! I know you'll enjoy it!

If there's anything you're wondering about my project that I haven't explained, just let me know!

I think I've gone on long enough and you want to be on your way! If you'd care to leave a comment you can be entered for a chance to win 3 Magnolia images and maybe a couple of other things that I love!! Entries will close on Friday night, May 20!

Thank you!

Thanks so much!!!

Hugs, Cheryl

Pretty Pallette #5 Guest!

Hello! I have a box to show you today! I made it to go with the colors Lisa Kind chose for the Pretty Palette #5 Challenge! She chooses awesome colors for the challenge and posts on Sunday each week! We'd love to have you join us in #5-Green, Orchid and White-the colors from the logo Lauren uses at My Time Made Easy. This shot makes it a bit difficult to tell that it is a box, but I'm more challenged that usualy when I try to photo 3D items! This great template is called Creative Card Candy . And when you buy this template pattern and directions you also get a small square box template! Neat! This box is 7.5" x 3.5 inches!

My wrap around is made in green cardstock and the one inch deep box is made from orchid cardstock. I used MME for the cover stitched to some purple cardstock. I kept my nestabilities label in the die and ran it through the Grand Calibur with an Impressabilites plate. Tilda (#356 WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE) is colored with my copics and cut out and raised on thin dimensional pieces. I used Scor-tape to make this very sturdy box hold together well.

E000, E11, R30 and E00 for her skin.

E50, Y23, E25 and E37 for her hair

E34, E37 for her boots

V01, V12, V15 and V17 for her dress and the flowers

G20 and YG93 for the green leaves and Y23 and YR12 for the paper on the flowers.

Thanks for coming by! We hope you will give some thought to these colors and join us in the Pretty Palette Color Challenge!

Cheryl

Spring Hop-Mini Style!

Hello! The Magnolia-licious team is happy to be back with our monthly blog Hop! Welcome! You are hopping through Spring projects made with Magnolia Minis! If you've come from the blog of the fabulous Barb Hardeman, you are doin'great! You can also go to the Mag Highlites blog for all the details!

This fun little box is a gable box made with an 8.5" x 11" sheet of cardstock! here is the link to the directions on SPLITCOAST

I always use my Scor-Pal and Scor-tape to score and adhere boxes! The new Scor-Pal has 1/4" score grooves!

Here is the LINK to the whole collection of Mini magnolias but I used the following stamps:
#3027 CHICKEN TILDA, #399 BUNNY TILDA, #517 MINI BENCH, #657 SPRING TREE

My project bases are Pale Plum from SU. To create the scene, I stamped the spring tree on xpress it card stock. On another piece I stamped bunny tilda. Then I masked her and stamped the bench. I cut the bunny and bench out as one piece and adhered it to my tree scene. I used a craft knife to cut the 'holes' in the bench and then my Cutterbee scissors as usual to cut the image out.

I took a lot of pics because I just couldn't seem to get a good one!

And now, dear friends, please hop along to the very talented Suzanne Dean's blog!

I know she has something wonderful to show you!

Huge appreciation that you came by today!

Cheryl

Japanese Tilda VASE!!

Hello! Like many places we celebrate stafff birthdays at work. I have a treat to take tomorrow for one such birthday. I decided when we were in Wegman's on Saturday to get a tablecloth, plates and napkins to dress up the table. I didn't want to spend a fortune so bought a plain burgundy table cloth and plates but found some pretty Oriental floral napkins to go with them. I decided I could make a matching centerpiece! I colored up Japanese Tilda and placed her on one of the panels of the box I made from a pattern designed by my friend, Tracy (Inkydoodles). It holds an 8 ounce canning jar .

What you see is the result and I'm so pleased with it! I think the card stock is Rose Red (embossed with a CB folder). Then there is a layer of Blushing Bride on my Kraft box. I trimmed the edge with a pink border punch edge.

I went to the attic and dug out some cherry blossom stems that I put out in the spring. Not this year, 'cuz I cut off branches to stick in my vase! These pics show what the whole centerpiece looks like! Not bad for a little inspiration and a small amount of work!

One more pic, GOSH, she is CUTE!!

I'm doing this post Monday evening so I can get my treat ready in the morning! Hope you have a great Tuesday!

Thanks so much for all your visits! Please remember to enter your name (link) for the Sunday Sensations over at Jacque's Blog! You have until midnight Tuesday to do so for Magnolia-licious Money!

Cheryl

Santa Tilda Ornament

Hi! I've just been given the gift of a SNOW DAY! I'm thrilled and I have so much to do as everyone else does! I decided that the first thing I would do (no, I never go back to bed!) is to get a blog post up with one of my beloved Maggies! This is an ornament I made using a chipboard coaster cut with one of the Ellison dies at school! It is perfect for sitting little Tilda on. She is from the Christmas collection last year and I don't see her in stock. (so sorry!) Here's the link to the greatest store (and store owner!) in the world though~ MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS
I give credit where credit is due-I have Suzanne Dean to thank for the copic color ideas as she used them last week and I loved them!! I'll relist them below for you here.

And, here she is in the tree! That's shimmer paper from Papertrey ink and lots of stickles! Then I ran it through the CB snowflake folder and sponged it with Blushing Bride ink. There is Fun Flock on her hat brim and ball.

Thanks so much for coming by! I'm off to get started on more Christmasy things!

Wishing you a great day!

Cheryl

Copics used BG10, Bg11, BG15, RV10, RV13, RV14, RV17

Her hair is E51, Y21 and E35

skin is E000, E00, E11 and R30

Tiny Treats Box!

Hello! Well, we've had snow, snow and more SNOW! Monday was terrible and we had school anyway! I think there were many unhappy parents because yesterday we found out EARLY that school was canceled for the day! (DH Dave calls me from the radio station as soon as he gets the call!) Love that guy! I didn't have quite the day I'd planned on when I heard the news but I did manage to get this box made for a friend of mine. She ordered it on Monday so I think she'll be surprised when I have it for her today! This box was created by my friend Tracy Harp for Cornish Heritage Farms. You can travel to her blog entry where she has the link to the tutorial for this cute box that holds one of the 8oz. canning jars. Those jars can hold so many goodies!

I used Papertrey Ink's 2009 Autumn tags (wreath) and Tiny Treats Christmas (snowman) for my front medallion. The paper as you probably recognize is Basic Grey Jovial (looove it!)

The string on top is tied through a large red button which is adhered with Scor tape. And to create the box itself I couldn't be without my Scor-Pal!

(I just heard there is a new one coming out soon with 1/4" marks!!)

Congratulations to Diane Zechman (cookie stamper) who has just been named to the Scor-Pal design team!

Have a great day!

Cheryl

JOY frame

Hello and Happy, happy December! The Magnolia-licious team has our monthly project challenge for you as well as some inspiration which may help you get started! You can find all this on the Magnolia-lcious Highlites Blog
If you hang around just a few minutes I'll show you a little of my process as I approached this "new to me" project!

Here's the finished frame! Sorry that I couldn't get a good photo.

I decided on a short word-JOY-first. I bought a 5x7" picture frame at Kohl's. Then I cut 2 sizes of letters from construction paper at school (from the Ellison machine). I had NO IDEA what kind of layout I would be using!

Next I chose a couple of stamps from the Merry Christmas 2010 collection. I TRIED to arrange my letters and the stamps to work in the frame. No luck! I just couldn't get any balance to my design. It had to be one stamp centered. I hope everyone can tell the word is JOY!

The photo above is the paper that comes in frame and it gave me the idea to do a border.

I decided that the outside would be one inch strips and measured all accordingly. I knew where to place them because I had take the glass out of the frame and traced the size the piece needed to be on Kraft card stock.

Once the pieces were laid on I KNEW I had to sew them in place and would have a patchwork quilt!

Here is my colored image (beautiful Tilda with hanging star- #3083). she is place with the trial construction paper letters.

I finally cut the letters from banana card stock, stamped them in banana ink with the linen background stamp from SU and did fake stitching on them. No way could I stitch them for real!

And a finished close up so you can see that she does have some sparkle!
If you got through all this, Thanks!

Have a great day!

Cheryl