Tilda, her bunny and Just Magnolia challenge

Hi! It's really crunch time, but I love the Just Magnolia sketch for the week so I'm risking being late for work! Here's Tilda and her bunny which is up for preorder and expected VERY SOON inm the Magnolia-lcious store!
Also present are those wonderful 'tropical colors' that I told Nancy Parker would be appearing in cards. They are helped along by the awesome MME Mable papers!
I hope you have this paper because then you can get a better idea of the colors! They photographed so differently! The paper is SU Apricot Appeal, not orange! It is sponged with pumpkin to give it depth.

#363 TILDA AND HER BUNNY!

A close up of my rose, which I am quite happy with. I used the flower die from ZMy Favorite Things and PTI felt. But then I sponged it with pumpkin too to give it a peachy color! I heart it! The leaves are also cut from felt using a Magnolia-licious doo hickey die.

I know I can dress this card up a bit more with a ribbon and/or sentiment int he top left corner, but I hope you like it as it is!

I WILL post colors, but I really have to link to the sketch site and get to work! Thanks for coming by!

Cheryl

For you...

Well, I guess Monday has to come sometime! The weekend went very quickly! I keep pulling out flower stamps to color for my samples with I Brake for Stamps images! This one is called POPPY. Actually I posted an orange flower just last week! A tulip. Our poppies come out here in June and are orange so I colored this orange, too! Then I wanted to make the rest of the card different so I built this black frame and began working from there.
Remember, you can use my code SAVE10CHERYL for 10% off your order!
My My Mind's Eye Mabel paper is close by on my table so I turned to it for a pattern to use. I kind of like the finished card and hope you do too!
(I'll try to do better at keeping track of copics for you!)

And this is the simple inside of the wedding card I posted yesterday.

Wishing you a great Monday!
Cheryl

With this ring...

Hello, wonderful friends! Dave and I had a wedding to go to yesterday! We {{heart} weddings because it makes us think of our own day and vows!
The bride is a coworker of Dave's so we don't know the couple extremely well. The occasion called for a nice card and a gift of $! Sooo, I spent Saturday morning making this card for them. I have had this stamp (Wedding Couple)for awhile since my friend Michele introduced me to Lili of the Valley stamps last fall. My nephew is getting married in June so I ordered the stamp in case I wanted it for their card. So happy I got to use it sooner!

Our invitation had dark blue on it so I went with blue as a focus color on the card. Then I wanted some kind of elegant paper and went looking through the many places that I have paper stashed in my studio! I found this older pattern by MME and went from there. Even though the card had white I decided the cream paper and linen colored ribbon added a nice touch.

I photographed the inside, but forgot to post it. I used the same PTI lace edge die inside and made a pocket for their gift.

I'll add a photo into my next post to show you.

Off to do some more crafting today! Maybe I'll get ahead which would be a pleasant change before the busy week starts!

Thanks for dropping by!
Have a great one! Cheryl

Contest Kick -Off!!

Have you seen the new out there? Diana is having an Easter-Spring Extravaganza Contest with REALLY BIG prizes!! You have lots of time to create up to THREE projects for entry to win! Please visit the link above on our Design Team blog for all the details!Despite the fact that we could get up to 6 inches of snow today I am SO into spring papercrafting projects! ETA: I don't mean to whine about a little snow. I'm so sorry for the people in Japan and am hoping and praying for those in Hawaii and in the Pacific. I've used an image from the few images that were released in the Butterfly Dreams collection. This is #252 TILDA WITH HANGING RABBIT. I do love bunnies and have for many, many years! I have a stuffed one that I got for Easter as a child. The more realistic looking ones are my favorites! I like the white ones but am more partial to the brown or multicolored ones so I had to color Tilda's bunny!

I used last week's Friday Sketchers challenge sketch.

I just wish I'd finished my card in time to enter! This week looks like another great sketch!

My paper is from Stampin' Up-Springtime from the current mini catalog. I love that it has a 'kraft' color to it, called Crumb cake by SU. My die cut pieces are from some February releases by Papertrey Ink.

I'm pretty happy with this card except for her hair. I just could not get it the way I wanted! Anybody else have trouble with get the hair consistently right? I think I need to go back to my basic colors and retrain myself!

Anyway, thanks for visiting! I'm so glad you did and don't forget to check out Diana's contest!! You'll be glad you did!

Have a wonderful day!!

Cheryl

Simple tulip

Hello! Still getting back into the groove, but here's a card I made with one of my I Brake for Stamps images. I do love the flowers of spring; tulips, hyacinth, crocus and daffodil! Can't wait for the real ones! This one is called simply, TULIP, and I guess that describes it! I used white, apricot appeal and apricot appeal dp from Stampin' Up to keep the card clean and crisp. I didn't shadow or 'ground' the image which is really strange for me. I may still need to go back and add a ground color! I started out CASeing a card for the SU Featured stamper (last week, I think) and went with what the artist had done on her card . You can use my code SAVE10CHERYL to get 10% of your order!
I used copics on the image, as I'm sure you know. The colors are as follows:
YGo1, YG01, YG25
Y21, 31, 35 and 38
YR16, E19 and E08
(A sweet follower, Nancy Parker, asked if I would be influenced by the colors I saw in the Caribbean for awhile. Nancy, I think so!!)

thanks for coming by today! Have a great day! See you soon!
Cheryl

Finally Framed!

Hello and happy, happy Saturday! I have my Monthly Magnolia-licious card done! The excellent Janiel has given us the challenge for March! It is to include a frame somehow in your project and use the rest of the recipe she gives us as well. (bling or pearls, ribbon or trim, flowers, and, of course a Maggie image! You can read complete details on the blog HERE! For my card I used #275 TILDA WITH LACE JEANS from the new Butterfly Dreams collection. I think she looks like she's leaning over to look at the flowers coming out of the ground or at some small creature on the ground. My flowers are #427 LAZY SUMMER FLOWERS and a small ladybug which is probably from one of the kits from Sweden. I looked and looked for my snail and had all kinds of images out to try in my scene before settling on these two. The possibilities are nearly endless!

My paper is from My Mind's Eye (I've mentioned how much I love the new Stella and Rose patterns!). I made a frame with directions from Linda Duke when she previewed some of the new Spellbinder's dies we are all waiting for! The link is on my laptop which my 'computer guy' (my nephew A.J.) has right now. I'll link the directions when I can get to them again. I believe I linked them before on my blog when I used this idea on a card. One of my favorite parts is the little scrap strips I found on my table and added! They are the reverse side of the flowered paper! My card is 5.5" square.

Tilda is again raised with gel glue so there is quite a bit of dimension to the card.

Okay, please consider playing along with us! You have all month to do so!

Thanks so much for looking!

Cheryl

I'm Here!

Hi friends! Thank you to all who did not desert me in my long absence! Dave and I had the opportunity to go on a Caribbean cruise for our mid winter break! We had a wonderful time, but it's good to be home! There has been so much catching up to do and, of course, back to work! Now I've got problems with my laptop overheating so it freezes when I'm in midpost! I'm working on our desktop now but I don't have any photos of cards on this computer so I'm unable to post a new card until I get one made!

In the meantime I wanted you to know I'll be back to crafting as soon as I can ! Here is a picture taken from our tour bus on Tortola in the eastern Caribbean sea. We are high up overlooking the island of Virgin Gorda. I have never seen water so blue! I think the picture looks fake and I was there!

Anyway, this is all I have to leave you with today, but I am working on my Magnolia-licious frame card between catching up on laundry and bills! I hope to post it tomorrow (Friday) morning! Then I can come around and see what all of you have been creating with this great challenge!

Until then, thanks so much for stopping by!

Cheryl