Magnolia Card

Hello all you lovelies. Shanna here and I get to inspire you all with more inspiration today! I just love making Magnolia cards. Some are always better than others but this one today is a true FAVORITE! 

I colored her with copics to match these My Mind's Eye Papers. 

I found some lace and some Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers that really set this off perfectly. 

Items Used:

Magnolia Rubber Stamps - Tilda with Rose Lace Dress from the Pink Lemonade Collection

Copic Markers

Copic Paper

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

My Mind's Eye 

Cancer Tilda

Shanna here and now it is a new Thursday and I thought with June right around the corner (and me being a Cancer) I thought it appropriate to play along with this image. 

She is colored up with copics and paired with some older My Mind's Eye papers.

I added crackle accents to the bubbles to add texture and create a fun vibe on my card as well.

I finished the card off with some Wild Orchid Crafts. 

Items Used: 

Magnolia Stamps - Cancer Tilda Zodiac Collection

My Mind's Eye Papers

Copics

Copic Paper

Wild Orchid Craft Flowers

Magnolia Stamp Inspiration

Shanna here with a new inspirational post. I have a new card to share. I haven't played with lace in a little bit and thought to give it a go! 

Does this card not say Spring??? I love the soft colors of the paper and I tries to color the image to match it. 

I finished off the card with some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and I still have tons more. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Items Used:

My Mind's Eye papers

Magnolia Stamp - TipToe Tilda from the Animal of the Year Collection

Wild Orchid Crafts

Copic Markers 

Copic Paper

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Sneaky Tilda

It is a new Thursday inspiration here today for you all. I just love Magnolia stamps don't you?

Of course tryingly hand at purple, I am still having a problem with coloring this. I will get better I promise :) I love my new watercolor pencils so hoping to get better at that too so I can try coloring with a new medium. 

Don't forget to keep coming back! 

Items Used:

Magnolia Stamps - Sneaky Tilda Animal of the Year Collection

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers

Black Soot Distress Ink

Authentique Papers

Aries Tilda

Welcome to a new day of inspiration. I have been sharing some of my Magnolia cards a lot lately. I felt so bad having these pretty images just sitting there waiting to be colored. 

She is colored with copics to match some My Mind's Eye papers and embellished with Wild Orchid Craft's flowers. 

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you get to come back again!

Item Used:

Aries Tilda Zodiac Collection

My Mind's Eye Papers

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Pet Lovers

Welcome to a new Thursday inspiration provided by me - Shanna. 

I decided to go ahead and share another Magnolia inspirational piece. I love how the colors turned out bright and happy in this card. I don't know about you but I am so ready for Winter to be over!

I colored the image with copics and pulled some paper to match. I also finished off the card with some Wild Orchid Flowers. 

Items Used:

Magnolia Stamps - Tilda with Chanel Puppy - Animal of the Year 2014 Collection

Magnolia Paper

Wild Orchid Craft Flowers

Copics

Copic Paper

Memento Black Ink

Warm Winter Wishes

Good morning to you all!!! Shanna here with an inspirational post for you all to enjoy. 

I am telling you I cannot stay away from these Magnolia images and isn't she perfect for this time of year. It is brrrrrrrr cold here. Just a week ago our waterline froze! Yes that cold!!

So I wanted to wish you all warm wishes!

I colored this Magnolia image with my favorite, copics. Then paired her up with some Echo Park papers, and embellished her with some flowers and snowflakes from my stash. 

I couldn't help adding a little Stickles either. Who doesn't love a little sparkle int he wintertime. 

Items Used:

Magnolia Stamp - Ice Tilda from the Sweet Christmas Dreams 2011 Collection

Echo Park Papers - Winter Wishes

Copics 

Copic Paper

Distress Ink - Black Soot

Wild Orchid Craft Flowers

For You at Christmas

Hello everyone. Shanna here and I am excited to share a new card with you today. 

I created it for Loves Rubberstamps. 

I colored this lovely new Magnolia I recently added to my collection. 

Items Used:

Magnolia Stamp - Waiting For Christmas 2014 Collection - Sparkle Pointsettia

Copics

Copic Paper

Memento Tuxedo Black

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Sensational Sunday Inspirations

Good Morning Stampers!

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

This last week has been a doozy at our house with getting sick and Dr Appts. I have some time off for the Holidays coming up so it will be a rush of playing catch up with the store, emails and house work and all that fun stuff after being sick :(  At least we are hopefully getting over the sickness BEFORE Christmas instead of during! 

I wanted to remind you that this week on our challenge blog will be the start of our HOLIDAY BLITZ! We have NUMEROUS amazing prizes and will be drawing lots of winners so you will want to be sure and play along with us! It will be a two week anything goes theme that starts on Tuesday!

Because I have been sick and have almost all my crafty stuff packed to move into my new craft studio we will be sharing a project from one of our Design team ladies :) 

Today I chose this Christmas Cutie from Shanna Shands...

Isn't this super adorable?? Shanna's coloring is gorgeous as always! This image is from the new Christmas line called Waiting For Christmas which I will be listing in the store hopefully this week! 

Here is what Shanna used on her project:

Items Used:
Magnolia Stamp- Waiting For Christmas Collection - Cozy Tilda (Coming Soon)
SugarPea Designs - Have and ICE Day (Coming Soon)
Authentique Papers - Festive

Copics

Copic Paper

Memento Tuxedo Black

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers
Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Now let's hop along and see what the Design Team ladies have in store for you...

Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Blog - You are here...

Dangina
Joni

Nina

Nikki

Lydia

Blankina

Thanks for stopping by!

Laura!

Warm Winter Wishes

I hope you all have been having a wonderful week. Shanna here today to share a Magnolia card for you all. These images are just so fun to color and so darn cute to play with. 

Not really too much to say about this card today except I had fun trying to color the pleats in her dress. Not sure I succeeded to the point of some. I would so love to see Alyce color this image so I could get a better idea of how to color the pleats! 

I colored the image with copics YAY! And I remembered to distress everything!

I also finished the card off with a sentiment from a new release set from SugarPea Designs!

Items Used:

Magnolia Stamp - Waiting For Christmas Collection -  (Coming Soon)

SugarPea Designs - Sweet Treats Christmas (Coming Soon)

My Mind's Eye - Joyous

Copics

Copic Paper

Memento Tuxedo Black

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

A Thank You Card

Good day everyone out there in the bloggy world.

I love love love this image. I love the blue and got to use some new papers I have in my stash.

I colored the image with copics and I love how that turned out. I got to use some flowers from my stash too and embellished them some butterflies as well. 

I created this as an easel card and raised the sentiment to create a pop up for the stand.

Items Used:

Magnolia - Virgo Tilda

MFT Stamps - Pretty Poppies 

MFT Die-namics - Decorative Doily Duo

Magnolia Die - Heart Swirl

C.C. Designs - Leaves Cutter Die

My Mind's Eye - Pretty Things

Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers

Sensational Sunday Inspirations + Candy!

Hello and Welcome to the Sensational Sunday Blog Hop!

Hope you all are having a great weekend so far! We had a little scare Friday night. We were woke up at 1am by our smoke detectors. Apparently our bananas had fallen over and was pushing the toaster button down so the toaster was on. It ended up getting so hot that the plastic on the top started melting! Good thing we were home because it would have eventually started a fire. We had to open the windows to get the smoke out. Pretty scary, but at last we know our alarms worked!

I have a busy next few days off planned! First...shipping a TON of orders out and then I am hoping for some crafty time! Things didn't quite work out for me last week to get crafty time so keep your fingers crossed for me :)

This week the winning comment to be in our JUNE WINNER candidates was chosen from Nikki's Blog using Mr. Random...Here are your random numbers:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

8

Timestamp: 2014-06-08 04:31:00 UTC

That's you, Mel who said, " Oh what a gorgeous card, I love the flowers! really pretty design.
many thanks for joining us at A Creative Romance, Mel. xx "

Who is in the July drawing so far...
1.Annie Rose
2. Mel
3.

Here is Nikki's Gorgeous Design Last week:

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Now let's hop along and see what the Design Team ladies have in store for you...

Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Blog - You are here...

Dangina
Joni 

Nina

Indah

Nikki

Lydia

Blankina

Thanks for stopping by!

Laura

No Line Coloring

Hi everyone. Shanna here for another day of inspiration. 

I used this technique called no line coloring. I colored her up a while ago before taking a class on how to color like this. I haven't fully looked at this class to know exactly how to do it. I have tried the no line technique before and was successful to my liking. So this was another try at that time. 

Items Used:

Magnolia Stamp - Tilda Hiding Heart

Bo Bunny - Love Letters

MFT Die-namics - Sentiment Strips

MFT Stamps - Poppies 

Copics

Copic Paper

Thanks so much for stoping by today. 

Tulips!

Happy Friday Friends!

It's Athina here, happy to be back to share a little inspiration with you!  I have been on vacation this week, just hanging out around the house.  It has been really nice to not have a lot of extra stress and worry.  I spent all day yesterday and part of the day today sifting through my craft room.  I have purged things to donate, share and trashed some things.  After all of that, I still had several totes that got packed up and put in storage.  My room doesn't look the same at all.  It looks so bare, but I left out plenty of supplies so I could continue to create until we move.  I have a sneaky suspicion that there is a hoarder living in my craft room....  After all the cleaning and packing, I could not locate that hoarder... Hmmmm.....

I decided to do a CAS card today, one of the hardest for me.  But I just love the Tulip Wheelbarrow image by Magnolia and feel that it really does not need much else to go along with it.  They are colored with copics and matted on burgundy and brown cardstock.  I colored white ribbon to match the tulips.  Added a charm and some dew drops.  It was that simple.

Supplies used:

Magnolia - Tulip Wheelbarrow

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copics

Make sure to come and join our Girly, Glittery & Glam challenge this week at Loves Rubberstamps!  Also check out the New Items in the store this week by C.C. Designs, Make it Crafty & A Random Fan!

That is it for me today! 
Blessings until next time...
Athina

Too Cool!

Happy Friday Friends!

It's Athina here, happy to be back to share a little inspiration with you! So happy it is Friday!  And better yet, I am off on vacation next week.  I just plan on packing some more of the house up and some little projects to get ready to sell.  Later in the week we have plans to visit an antique flea market.  I am so ready to chill and relax and forget all the stress of work, even if just for one week!

Well, today I colored up Magnolia - Cool Edwin, he is a fun little guy!  I paper pieced his shirt to add some fun to it.  You see the little flags, well they are made out of washi tape.  I seen this the other day on Pinterest and thought I should give it a try.  I wish I would have seen that before our washi challenge a few weeks ago. 

Supplies used:

Magnolia - Cool Edwin 

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copics
Simple Stories - Awesome

Lawn Fawn - Retro Triple Pack Cord

Brushed Corduroy - Distress Ink

Make sure to come and join our Anything goes challenge this week at Loves Rubberstamps!   I promise you it will be lots of fun! 

That is it for me today! 
Blessings until next time...
Athina

Gemini Tilda

Good morning. Shanna here today to inspire you even more with a Spring like creation. 

I couldn't wait to create with this adorable Magnolia stamp. This stamp is so popular and I thoroughly enjoyed coloring it with my copics. 

I paired the image with some older MME papers and embellished it with some lovely flowers and lace. 

Items Used:

Magnolia - Zodiac Collection - Gemini Tilda

My Mind's Eye - Howdy Doody

Black Ink

Copics

Copic Paper

Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers

Distress Ink Walnut Stain

C.C. Designs Cutters Leaves Die

Loving Spring!

Happy Friday Friends!

It's Athina here, happy to be back to share a little inspiration with you!  I am so glad it is Friday!!!  Do you have any big plans for the weekend?  We are planning some more yard work and planting some flowers for spring.  I read somewhere that if you put newspaper under your mulch it will keep the weeds away and it will degrade in time.  So I have saved my newspapers and I am going to give it a shot.

Well, I realized after I made my card that I used the same colors that I used for the challenge on Tuesday.  It must be my favorite right now.   I used   Magnolia - Tilda with Daffodil image colored with Copics.  The background papers is by My Minds Eye.  Let me tell you a little trick.  I did not have ribbon to match the card.  So I took white ribbon and used my R85 Copic to color the ribbon.  It now matches perfectly!  Great trick.  You only have to buy white ribbon when you have copics!!!

 

Supplies used:
  Magnolia - Tilda with Daffodil

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copics
My Minds Eye

Make sure to come and join our Fancy Fold challenge this week at Loves Rubberstamps!   I promise you it will be lots of fun!  Also make sure to check out the store for some fun new Random Fan images that have been added!

That is it for me today! 
Blessings until next time...
Athina

Happy Easter! Inspiration by Athina

Happy Friday Friends!

It's Athina here, happy to be back to share a little inspiration with you!  Hopefully a lot of you have today, Good Friday, off work.  I will be working, but many people are out of the office, so it will be a good day to get lots caught up.  Do you have any big plans for the Easter weekend?  We are having a family dinner and Easter egg hunt.  It is always lots of fun and great to spend time with my family.

I made a cute little Easter basket cut out with the Silhouette.  I have some handmade goodies to go in the basket, but I can't share those with you just yet.  So be sure to check my blog next week to see what will be inside.  It is for a very special lady in my life.  I hope she likes it!!!  I used   Magnolia - Tilda & Her Bunny, a perfect image for the basket. I finished it off with a ribbon, charm and some Wild Orchid Crafts - Flowers.  The sentiment is by C.C. Designs - Be Happy.  It was so simple and fun to put together. 

 

Supplies used:
 Magnolia - Tilda & Her Bunny

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copics
C.C. Designs - Be Happy
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Stormy Sky 
Wild Orchid Crafts - Flowers
My Minds Eye

There you have it! It goes right along with our fun challenge this week at Loves Rubberstamps, spring or Easter.  So come on over and play with us!  I promise you it will be lots of fun!

That is it for me today!  Have a blessed Easter weekend and we will see you back next week.
Blessings until next time...
Athina

The Bunny Prince

It is a new Thursday! That means you get to hang out with me (Shanna) today.

I loved creating this project. I love how basic it looks and how colorful it is at the same time adding the flowers for pops of color.

I tried to keep it really simple. It is so easy peasy. The image is sweet and great for any occasion. I have been on this springy kick here lately!

Items Used:

Magnolia Stamps - Bunny Prince  (Lost and Found Collection Coming Soon)

MFT Stamps - Big Greetings

Magnolia Papers

C.C. Designs - Leaves Cutters

Copics 

Copic Paper

Black Ink

Wild Orchid Flowers