HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANGIE!

Hello!! My sincere apologies!! I don't know where the time has gone! I try to create and... NOTHING!!  No MOJO!! But...I made Angie Hunt a b-day card..finally.  I saw this card from Kittie747 and knew I had to have this Tim Holtz brick wall!

I cut it from Very Vanilla and sponged with the same colors Kittie used, Fired Brick and then Vintage photo inks. I envisioned a vine going up the lattice on the side of a brick building.  I'm not sure I achieved the effect I wanted, but when I place adorable Edwin (#117 from Magnolia-licious, the BEST store for Magnolias!!mini version is in stock) in front of it, I was happy with the results!  I hope you (and Angie) like it too!

I hope I'm remembering correctly that Angie has a little boy. I'll bet he's giving her a special Valentine today!
Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!! Dave is taking me out to our favorite restaurant tonight! Yep, even though it's Tuesday! Can't wait!
But...it's of too work right now!
Hugs, cheryl

copics- blues B93,m95 and 97 and just a little blender
Reds R24, 29, 46 and 59.
hair E41, 43, 44 and 47

Things I Love!

I had this card done yesterday and ready to post, but it was not to be! So here's my list of Things I Love:
Saturday mornings that give me time to finish a card! Basic Grey Curio paper! Paper roses that I learned to make from a simple circle! Magnolia images-Large and mini!! Dancing-Not so much! And, of course, most importantly my DH, Dave!
I think this will be his valentine this year! (For the inside, how does. "You make me feel like dancing?" sound?

The image is #3073 MINI Tilda and Edwin dancing. It doesn't seem to be in stock so I've linked the larger one. The roses are from a card made to show the new Spellbinders dies. I'll have to look again for the link. Link now connected below!! The layout is loosely based on a recent Mojo Monday sketch.

Close up of my roses! The whole card is 4.5 x 5.5", by the way. Kim Crawford showed me how to make the Rose HERE! Scroll down and you'll come to it!

My colored image, but I'm so sorry, I forgot to keep the colors. I've had it colored for a while to go with Cosmo paper. When I chose this paper I just added some R59 to get a deeper toned red! I love that about copics!

Thanks for coming by! I love that you did! Happy Sunday to you!

Cheryl

Hold on to Each Other!

Hello and best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2011~ Dave and I saw the new year in quietly at home after a fabulous dinner at our favorite restaurant. And, since it's January 1st the Magnolia-licious team has a NEW CHALLENGE for you! It was my turn and I thought with all the cooking many of us have been doing that we should leave the kitchen for our craft rooms/studios and cook up a new card with a recipe! I'll apologize right now for the poor photos~I just can't seem to get a crisp shot of this! Anyway the recipe is like the countdown for the New Year! 4 flowers, 3 designer papers, 2 Magnolia images and 1 ribbon! There is some wiggle room for variations but that's the basic recipe for this month! Hope you like it! Details and great design inspiration is already posted on the Mag Highlites blog for you, including PRIZE information!! Thank you, Diana!!

I tried a lot of photos and finally just had to pick some and get going! I used My Mind's Eye papers from last years Valentine collection called Beloved. There are so many great patterns!

I can't find this stamp anywhere on Magnolia-licious! I know that Sharon Caudle used the same image so I'm hoping that (genius that she is) she knows! Will post when I find out! The sentiment came in one of the Sweden kits in 2009. I KNEW Sharon would track it down~this is image #304 BROTHER AND SISTER. Diana says it will be in stock in a few weeks!

I used a lot of colors so here is the list:

Eooo, Eoo, E11, R30

BG10, Bg72 and BG78

R30, R21, R24 and R29

Hair Y21, E99, E25 and E29

E42 and above browns on shoes.

Y21 for her sleeve. E42 for his sleeve.

I love that today's date is 1~1~11!! Hope you have a Number 1 kind of day!!

Hugs, Cheryl

Deck the Halls!

Hello! This is the card I planned on posting Monday, then Tuesday.... and here it is Wednesday already! Finally the card is done and photographed! Thanks for coming by!
I also wanted to take part in letting you know (if you don't already!) that there is a new challenge blog for Magnolia-licious stamps with a new Design Team! There will be TWO challenges a month that will be in addition to the challenges on the Mag Highlites blog! The very FIRST was posted today and here is the LINK to the blog with ALL the details! Hope you can get on board with this new team! They are AWESOME!
This card uses Lightning Edwin (#161) from the Merry Christmas 2010 collection over at Magnolia-licious. He was lots of fun to color! I added stickles to his lights and then Glossy Accents on top of that-so there's sparkle and shine!

For his skin I uysed E000, E00, E11 and R30

The browns are E33, E31, E25 and E37

Blue jeans are B41, B95, B45, B99

Green sweater YG11, YG13 and YG17

I kept the rest pretty simple with a little stitching, sponging and embellishments! Thanks for coming by to see what I've been up to!

Hope you have a great day!

Cheryl

Magnolia-licious August challenge! (and the winner is...)

Good morning! Our challenge this month is a T Slide card and is brought to us by Mindy! Here is the tutorial link on SCS-T Slide Card. I recommend watching the video so you can see how it goes together. The cutting and score lines are a little tricky on the written tutorial.
Another thing to be careful of is where you put the focal image and the end (and the size of it). I had to take mine apart because I wanted it centered. It can't be centered because the card won't open fully unless the edge is on the score line of the dp. If you want it centered, make the focal piece about 3.5" wide.

The Pier Fence with Lifebuoy (#615) and (#122) Edwin w/ binoculars and (#413) Pelican are available for Pre Order from Bon Voyage Collection, coming soon!

You can see here that the inside says "Ahoy!"

Since I took so many pictures, I won't prattle on today! We hope you will join us during the month of August and try this challenge. One lucky participant will will your choice of TWO Magnolia images from Magnolia-licious!

NOW FOR MY BLOG CANDY! RANDOM.ORG HAS CHOSEN COMMENT NUMBER 16 AS THE WINNER!

JENNIFER, THAT'S YOU! PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH YOUR ADDRESS AT

drowley6@stny.rr.com as soon as you can!

If I don't hear from Jennifer by Wednesday, i will choose another winner! Thanks to ALL for the nice comments!

have a great day! Cheryl

p.s. colors used

E000, E11, R30

E55, E25, E29

C3, C5, c7

Y18

R17, r29, r46, R59

B21, B41, B45, B99

Kids Say the Darnedest Things!

I love that show with both Art Linkletter and much later, Bill Cosby were the hosts! I made this journal for the next Magnolia-licious Big Birthday Bash challenge for the Yahoo group's 2nd birthday celebration! I've linked the blog, but the new challenge isn't posted yet so I won't spill the beans! My little journal fits the challenge so you'll have to guess for now!! I'm okay with being a little early-I missed the BLING challenge completely so I didn't want to miss this one!

They are making the $1.00 journals at Michael's cuter than ever, but nothing is better than covering one for a one of a kind gift! It is so easy to bend the binder wires and slip the cover off and then to put it back on that you've gotta try it! I've used one of my favorite Edwin's (maybe even my FAVORITE!) and colored him up in bright colors to match the Bo Bunny paper.

My idea with the journal is for my nephew and his wife (We're seeing them today! Yeah!!). Their little guy is 2-1/2 years old and I think it would be fun for them to have this journal handy to write some of the funny things he says as he learns about language! (It doesn't hurt that Roberta's favorite color is orange, either!) What do you think of this idea?

You can also let me know what you think of the little "nose" shading I've given Edwin. Does it work or look silly?

Here are the copics I used:

Skin E000, E11, E30

Jeans BG10, BG72 and BG18

Lizard: YG21, YG23, YG17

Sneakers R22, R29, R46 and R59 with a little Y17 at the end for the orange highlight.

Shirt (had a tough time with this!) Y21, YR12, YR15, YR18

Pretty in Pink!?

Hi and welcome to the Magnolia-licious monthly Blog Hop! We are so glad you're here! If you came by way of the very talented Jacque of Jois de Vivre, you're on the right track! If you want to start at the beginning that would be the amazing Claudia at Pretty Pressings. Our goal was to entertain you with lots of pink! Well, I just may be a little off track with mine! EDITED TO ADD: APOLOGIES! PLEASE START WITH THE FANTABULOUS KERRY OVER AT THREE CLOVERS! She's got the most romantic card and evokes memories!

My plan was to be funny and do this as my SECOND card with one sporting Tilda as my FIRST! Well, that joke was on me as DH and I finished my craft room this weekend leaving precious little time for actually MAKING cards!! I had this guy colored up from a couple of days ago so quickly got him onto a pink card!

Of course, my Edwin image came from MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS and I think he is so versatile! He's number 107 and is in stock! My dp is retired SU Raspberry Tart with a card base of Purely Pomegranate.

My pink copics are R81, R83, R85

Blues are B21, B41 and B45. His skin is E000, E01 and R20.

Thanks so much for hopping and stopping here and now your next stop is the wonderful Suzanne Dean over at ScrapBitz.

If you would like to leave a comment I would love to send this card out to you with a little pad of Basic Grey paper as a thank you for visiting! Please join in on our theme and create your own card for a chance to win a load of pink stuff, including stamps, I'm sure! You can see the prize and upload your card at our blog-Magnolia-licious Highlites!

Again, my thanks!

Big Maggie hugs,

Cheryl

Edwin's Thinking of You!

Hi! Here's the card I said I'm not too sure about. I colored up Edwin and the Heart on Sunday and then couldn't find paper or a layout ! Happens to me far too often! Finally, on Monday night I found this small heart paper on the back of another design and it looked better than the ones I'd been trying. The card base is 4.5" x 5.5"

Here he is close up!

Thanks for the great comments on all of our snow! I loved reading about the weather in other parts of the world and read them all to my DH!

Some of you are sweet enough to suggest that I do a tutorial. I'm sorry, but I really don't know how to do one. When I color I just blend like crazy with the blender or with a lighter color and keep a light area somewhere on the piece.

The colors on this card are:

E000, E01 and R20

Hair-I'm sorry, I didn't keep track.

Jeans B41,

Pinks R81, R83, R85, R89

Shirt, socks and arrow point E41, E43, E25

Around heart W00. W3

Stencil brush surrounding Aqua Mist.

Take Two!

I was disappointed that in my previous post this card couldn't be enlarged (and thanks, Candy!)
so I decided to upload just the card again. I really have NO IDEA how Blogger works!
Thanks! Cheryl

Please take a look tomorrow-there is a La La Land Blog hop with new images and I get to show off a really cute one! See ya! Have a great evening!

Edwin's been Framed!

Hi stampin' Friends! I've finished my card for the Magnolia-licious monthly challenge and looking at it makes me sooooooo happy! This challenge was given to us by the very talented
Sharon Caudle.
Thanks, Sharon, this was lots of fun! When Sharon posed this challenge I chose my image right away and since I had just organized my Mags and found this wonderful Winter Fence I was ready to start! I chose my dp last and just colored Edwin in pretty typical "boy" colors. My card base is Kraft-it's my "go to" color when I don't know where I'm going with a card. It matches EVERYTHING!

I cut Edwin out and put him on dimensionals. I tried masking the image, but Edwin's "snow trail" is part of it and it just didn't look right. I think looks better standing out from the scene anyway. There is liquid applique and sparkle (stickles) on the snow.

My Edwin and fence came from Diana at MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS.

Both images are IN STOCK Now! The fence is #571 and Edwin is #147. How great is that! Just put the numbers in the search box and you'll see them.

The pine bough is also from Magnolia Sweden, but you can ask Diana to order it :) It is quite small, but I stamped it a few times.

Claudia has written an excellent tutorial for this kind of card. You can find it linked up at the Magnolia-Highlites Blog where we also hope you'll go to check out the other Fab Mag designers work and send us your own frame card!

(On SCS this type of card is called a Recessed Window and a tutorial can be found in Resources).

I've used copic markers for coloring-no surprise there!

E000, E01 and R20

YG91, YG93 (jacket) YG21, YG93, and YG97 for tree branches.

B21, B41, B45, B97 and a ittle B18

E33, E25 and E29 9fence sled and boots

BG0000, Bg10 for the snow

The sky is Ballet Blue ink (SU) which is brushed on with a dry stencil brush. Then the fence area is filled in with a little of (copic) B41 to match the sky.

Sorry, if I gave more information than you ever wanted about this card!

Have a great day!

Cheryl

Edwin or Santa?

Good morning! This is the card I made for our Magnolia-licious November sketch. No one has more Magnolia-liciousness in her than our Kerry! she created this sketch for us and isn't it great! Love a card where I can use 3 patterns of paper! Thanks, Kerry! Details are at the Magnolia Highlites blog. Please join the design team and create your own card with this sketch for the chance to win a Magnolia stamp from Diana! There are some new Santa images coming from Magnolia to Diana's store. This is a "Santa" from last year. Or, I think it could be Edwin because he actually has JEANS on!! I decided to color them red anyway, but I'm thinkin' maybe it's Edwin dressed as Santa?
My card base is Kraft card stock and the dp is from a small pad by DCWV that I got at JoAnn's. I love the rich colors and teal with red and green! Oh, my, it's great! I used some SU snowflakes from a couple of different sets and there's lot of SU glitter on his tree. (I just couldn't get a good picture this morning!)
The tag is cut from cardboard on my cuttlebug with a Sizzix die that has three sizes of tags. I just sponged the edges with distress ink.
My card is 5X 5". Colors are listed below.

Note to Jenn-thanks for asking about the snowflakes. I don't know how to contact you, so I will look for Anna Wight's post on how to make them and post it here as soon as I get the chance! 'kay?
Have a great Thursday!!
Cheryl

Skin: same as usual (see other posts)
redsR17, R29, R37 and R59
BG72 and BG78 for mittens.
I'm not sure of the greens 'cuz I kept adding until I got what I wanted (Sorry!)
Boots, E33, 35, and 37
Fur is just a touch of E42

Who is that wrapped man??

It's Edwin, of course! My So Spooky collection is in the house!! They are Magnolia-licious!! I had to ink one up right away and he was so EASY to color! Diana has reported that she just got more beautiful Magnolias for her store and that most images are in stock for you! Here's the Magnolia-licious store
in case you want to go look right now! I think my card is also Clean and Simple so you can also head over to Magnolia-licious Highlites to check on our challenge to create your own CAS card to win a stamp from Diana!

I used E42 and E43 to color Edwin's wraps and various shades of yellow and orange (Ys and YRs) for the pumpkin. The sentiment is from a hostess set by SU! the dp is Cosmo Cricket from last year called Nevermore.

I think this card will be for our terrific nephew who was a Halloween baby-28 years ago!! Hi, AJ!! My sister and brother-in-law raised a great kid!!

Thanks for stopping by. Mo's challenge team has a new challenge up for the week-to make a fancy fold card-that's anything except the traditional fold in half card. You can get the details

HERE. If it's not there yet, I hope you can check back later.

Have a great day! The weekend is almost here!

Yeah! Cheryl

Tilda and Edwin AND CAS

Hi and welcome to the Blog Hop where the Magnolia-licious design team is showcasing our efforts at Clean and Simple Cards. It's a litttle hard to get your mind around,but once you get going it's kind of fun!
The hop started at Kerry's excellent blog-Three Clovers Designs, so you may want to start there to be certain you see all the samples. Youwould have arrived here fromthe fabulous Becca at Amazing Paper Grace
I CASEd Kerry for this one. She showed us a similar layout witht he ribbon tags and I used it! Thanks, Kerry! I think I've said before how much I love this Tilda-she is a three season gal! I had her colored up ahile ago when I made another card (I'll check for the post when I get a chance-colors may be listed there!) Many of the new Tildas have bigger eyes. I like that look so when I finished this (older) Tilda I used my black copic pen to enlarge and darken her eyes. It can add a real pop to them. I darkened Edwin's below because they just didn't stamp as dark as I like them. Try it!

I actually made this Edwin card before the Tilda. I think it shows you CAN use dp on a CAS card. I just kept the layers and "scenery" to a minimum. You know I love my dp.

For Edwin I used copics:

E000, E01, E93

BG10. BG72, BG0000.

YG01, YG25

E43, E25

Y17, YR15, YR16, YR18 ( I TRIED to keep the number of colors to a minimum, too!)

thanks for visiting! Your next stop on your travels will be the wonderful

SHARON!! When you're finished, please head to the Magnolia-licious highlites blog for the details on winning a Magnolia stamp! If you make your own CAS card that's what you could win!

Grandma's House of Cards

I know you'll love what she has to show you!

Have a great day!

Cheryl

Vampire Edwin

Good Saturday morning! Yeah, no work today!! Isn't if frustrating when we get these views of new Magnolias, but know it will be awihle before we can get them?! It is to me!
But, we can't forget the Tilda and Edwin's that haven't seen much use because we got them late last year!
I'm pleased with this card IRL and sorry by photography doesn't show off the deep rich Basic Grey paper colors that I tried to match in my coloring. I used a piece of the BG Eerie (6x6) paper to cut my background for behind Edwin.

I hope you like it! We're off to the LSS (1 hr away!) today and this is for the owner!
Have a great, autumn Saturday whatever you do!
Hugs to you all!
Cheryl

Edwin appears in the August sketch!

This sketch was designed by Becca and I must just say, Becca you kicked my butt with this one!
I was working with Basic Grey paper on another project and was inspired by the little piece you see on the left. I wanted to use more of it, but I thought Edwin would get lost in the pattern!
So last night I colored Edwin to match the colors of the paper and the leaves to put behind him. Both images are part of the Animal/Pet collection which are in stock now for great prices at Magnolia-licious

if you want to go take a look! Join our Magnolia-licious yahoo group for further discounts!

I thought the second picture was a fun one! Look at the shadow of Edwin's lizard's tail! Yep, it's a sunny day!

I had the card put together so I made paper punch fake brads. I put Crystal Effects on them after they were glued onto the card.

This card is 5 1/2" square which brings up something I've been meaning to mention for awhile.

It can be difficult to fit our beloved Tildas and Edwins onto a nestability shape. I OFTEN to to my Petite ovals! I have the classic (straight edge) in the large and the small. There are several choices for ovals which are larger than the regular ovals! I also have the scalloped edge ones to go with the straight edge. Most of mine came from

7 Kids College Fund. Please see link to right and go to the Spellbinders section.

I hope you can see the sparkle on the lizard! My favorite Stardust stickles.

Here is my close up and I actually wrote the colors of markers down!

Here they are:

Hair Y21, E55, E25

Skin: E000, E93 and E01

Pants: E55, E57, E59

Lizard YG91, YG93, YG97 and YG0000

Leaves YG0000, YG91, YG93, YG97, YG99

Shoes YG91, YG95, YG97

Shirt: YR07, R17, Y38, YR07, R14, R24, R29, R59, YG25

(I just kept adding color until I got what I wanted!)

I've just gone to Random.org again because I did not hear from my Blog Candy winner and it's been days!

The WINNER now is number 63!! My winner is kat9 from Minnesota! She says she visits everyday! I hope so!

Kat please contact me at drowley01@earthlink.net so I can get your address!

(Did you know a set of those petite oval nestabilites is one of the prizes!)

Well, that's it for now! Have a wonderful day!

THANKS so much for visiting!

Cheryl

Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog hop!

Our challenge was to make an Edwin card! Sometimes he feels so neglected!
ETA: We are giving away TWO $10.00 gift certificates to Diana's store! Just make any Edwin project and link your creation to the Magnolia Highlites blog (link is on my sidebar) by July 25! Good luck to all~ We hope you'll join us for this one and dust off (or order) those Edwin images!

I used the Shabby Chic fence and Ediwn in cap for mine! I think he looks like he's outside on a summer day and will find some mischief to get into!

It's not many little boys who have patches on their jeans that coordinate with their shirts and hat! LOL! Please travel to the excellent Suzy's blog for your next inspiration! And since I'm preposting I'm not sure who started the blog! You can find this out on Suzy's too! You don't want to miss anything!

ETA: I just read that the Blog Hop started with Jacque. Jacques's Joi de Vivre.

thanks so much for stopping by! I very much appreciate it! Be home soon!

Have a great day and weekend!

Cheryl

The Graduate!

Good morning! I apologize for being so long between posts! Just busy with end of the school year stuff. Here is Edwin the graduate from my friend, Diana!

Here's the site you can shop on:

Magnolia-licious If you like Edwin stamps just put "Edwin" in the search box and you'll see what Diana has available. If you don't see what you want just email and ask her about it!

Well I colored Edwin with my copic markers:

E000 and E01 for the skin with E93, my new favorite for glowing cheeks!

His robe is C1, 3, 5 and 9 (all the cs I have!)

The black and gray dp is from Basic Grey-can't remember the collection, but it's the one with the oranges with gray and black. I combined it with my solid red in Pure Poppy from PTI.

This card is for a 5 year old who graduates from kindergarten today! He's the son of the aide with whom I work (and my very dear friend!). Now Eileen is my age (well, 7 months older! and I'm 51 for another month! She had Collin at 47 years old! She is wonder woman, I tell ya! We have worked together in a Special Education class for 15 years! We joke that we've lasted longer than most marriages! She and I won't be working together next year (thanks to administrators who think they know everything!) and it's like losing my right arm and getting divorced all at once. With luck, we will still be in the same building.

Okay, enough of my wandering! Congratulations to my little friend, Collin, the graduate!

Hope you have a day to celebrate!

Cheryl

FS123 Edwin's out to play!

I don't give my Edwins enough chance to get out and play! Today's featured stamper on SCS is Sumtoy. I chose a card she made in April. The link is in my splitcoast gallery, but it had the angled panel and the card had motion. That's what I wanted to CASE. I don't know about you , but it is SO hard for me to angle a panel like this! I think I have a need to make everything nice and square to the card base! Anyone out there like that?
Thanks to Sumtoy for giving me a push out of my box (literally!)!

Lots to show this week! Monday is the Copic Creations Challenge and Wednesday is a Blog Hop for Angel's Landing! Hope you can stop back for a visit!

And...I'm so happy to say that I heard from Linda S. and I have a winner! I'm putting a little package together for her today which includes the Post It notepad and box.
Thanks for playing, Linda!

It is a gorgeous day here in Western New York, a perfect day, in fact and I'm headed to the deck to read for awhile!

Cheryl

Recipe: Edwin chasing butterflies from Magnolia-licious.
DP from Cosmo Cricket and Bo Bunny
Vintage cream and so Saffron

Memorial Day 2009

I thought today was a good day to post the Edwin card that I finished. It's Memorial Day in the U.S. and we have so many Service men and women to thank for the sacrifices they made for our country. I colored Edwin with my copic markers and used Kraft, Night of Navy and Papertrey Poppy Red for the card. My dp is from Basic Grey-the Boxer Collection. It's beautifu Reds and Blues gave the perfect touch to the card. The cross piece reminds me of semifore flags I've seen used. This card is 4 1/2 x 5/12.

I have such a long learning curve! I have finally figured out a little bit about editing my photos so hopefully they will look somewhat better. There is so much to learn!

Here's the coloring close up and the colors are listed below! Thanks for coming by today.

God Bless America!

Markers used: B41, B21, B34, B36, Y21, E31, E33, E35, E37, R05, R35, R17, R46, R39

April Sketch for Magnolia-licious!

Here's my card for Diana's April sketch challenge over at the Magnolia-licious store. You can also see the creations of the rest of the design team. Suzanne and I happened to choose the same image! She created the sketch herself and it was so fun to work with! The stamps are from Diana's Magnolia store, Old Bench and Is this your Egg? I used two old SU stamps as well, the chicken wire and the sentiment. My card base is Kraft and I used PTI's Poppy red for mounting. the dp is from Graphic 45. I used both sides of one paper from the Playtimes past collection. the paper is called Hopscotch. My card is 5"x 5". I sponged like crazy with Vintage Photo distress ink. Edwin is colored with copic markers. (Did you see my new Designer logo on the sidebar? Yeah!)
I made the chicken scratches around the paper edges with my small black pen.

Here's Diana's sketch.

I don't fuss a lot with the insides of my cards, I just don't have the time! I usually try to do something to add a little interest, though. Here I used more of the papers from the front and the chicken footprints from the old SU set, Best of Cluck. I continued the prints on the top half of the inside of the card. I think I will also add my "chicken scratching" around the nestability frame before sending this.

Here are my markers. My husband and I bought the Ciao sets before the sketch became so popular (they were cheaper, and I wanted A LOT of markers!) so of course the color is not on the cap :(

Below is a list of the Ciaos I used.

E25, E31, E33, E35, E000. E01, E47, E51, E08, R20, Y21, Y17, R17, R46, B12, B24, B97

I really like how this card came out and hope you've enjoyed your visit.

Thank you so much for "Chicken in" here today!

Cheryl