So onto our new challenge. As the weather is starting to warm up here in the U.K., (well it was lol) we thought we would go with the theme of .....

SUMMER
(this can be in the format of anything to do with summer from flip flops, beach, sunglasses, deck chairs, flowers, gardening, the list is endless and don't forget to add in a Tilda or Edwin).

Please remember to follow the theme or your creation won't be eligible for the top 3 or winners prize.

This time we are sponsored by Sandy from Live and Love Crafts who stock the most beautiful products.

If the words vintage and shabby chic makes your heart beat faster, you will find your haven at Live & Love Crafts!
Live & Love Crafts is a UK based online store that ships WORLDWIDE. The store is owned and operated by Sandra Mathis, a crafter who is as passionate about the vintage style as she is about customer service and providing a good shopping experience. Live & Love Crafts prides itself on having a website that is easy to navigate with excellent product images. Orders are dispatched fast; usually on the same day received.

Live & Love Crafts stocks a wide range of products from well-loved vintage brands such as Maja Design, Pion Design, Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts, Kort & Godt, Prima, Melissa Frances, Maya Road, and the Tim Holtz/Ranger product lines.

The store has a vast selection of laces, ribbons and trims, an assortment of over 200 charms and metal decorations, as well as many other unique embellishments that you can't find elsewhere. To help you save on costs, the charms/metal decos can be purchased singularly and all trims and ribbons are sold by the yard/meter. If you’re looking for products that will inspire and a one stop paper & embellishment shop, look no further than Live & Love Crafts!

I am still struggling uploading cards, it has as bag as I thought - I it would be horrible .  I have used the sweet Tilda and coloured her with the us Sketch Copics

A Material & Tools;

Image:  Magnolia

Medium: Memento ink  Tuxedo Ink Pad,  Sketch Copics

Papers:  Simon Says WHITE CARDSTOCK 120 LB Base Weight, Simon Says  Sea GlassDies:  Magnolia -  is now a coupe (the round the border and two flowers  from their make!! Spellbinders Floral Ovals,  Memory Box Frame  Simon Says Strin of Hearts

Miscellaneous:  Flowers many from stash, Gauze Ribbon, 

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring, Scotch ATG Tape Glider, Fiskars - Stamp Press, 

I should have listed up as many destails I am have at the moment and will add up for more soon!!

Heather xx

LIM........Three stamps!!

I've managed another card - it took me a little les then I notmally did, sandly it is not the best photograph than I usually did, that I usually need to get things softed out!!!

The imags are from Magnolia  = the one from the photgraph from Africa, (2109 I think) and I coloured them with Copic Markers,  I have listen and linked what is available below where all is possible!.

A Material & Tools;

Image:  Nagnolia - Afri20190c - (2109)

Medium: Memento ink  Tuxedo Ink Pad,  Copics -  

Papers:  Simon Says WHITE CARDSTOCK 120 LB Base Weight,

Dies:   The sentiment is an olde one from A.A. Design by 

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring Board, Scotch ATG Tape Glider, Fiskars - Stamp Press, 

Challenges

AAA  -   CAS/Modern/Nearly Clean - #62 Anything Goes (W2 of 2)
Come and Get It -   Things With Wings"

LHOSM...........Flowers!!

Our challenge this week at LHOSM is......

Flowers, a

Sponsored by...

Lifelong crafters Mother and Daughter, Mary and Andrea were tired of having to buy full rolls of ribbon and lace when they only needed one metre.  Because they love ribbons and all things pretty, they decided to open their own online shop in 2010 and make small quantities of beautiful products easily available to all crafters. Mary owns the shop and runs it on a day to day basis as well as keeping the website updated while Andrea looks after the social side,  The Ribbon Girl Blog and the Design Team. They specialise in supplying small (or large) quantities of ribbon, twine, gorgeous vintage style lace and seam binding ribbon, tiny pom-pom and ric-rac trim, all sorts of buttons, fancy pins, a multitude of charms, pearl and crystal flourishes, wool felt squares, seasonal and unusual embellishments, mulberry flowers, sticky tape and accessories to card makers, crafters, scrapbookers and cake decorators. They stock only the best quality products and only offer for sale goods that they would personally buy and use themselves.

Mary
info@ribbongirl.co.uk

 This week I gave used the sweet Tilda, colouer with Copic Markers and used my flowers with  packet of Mixed colours. 

Material & Tools;

Image:  Magmolia  -  2015

Medium: Memento ink  Tuxedo Ink Pad,  Copics -  Copic Markers,

Papers:  Simon Says WHITE CARDSTOCK 120 LB Base Weight, Kaiser Craft -  Pink Gelato

Dies: My Favorite Things - Leafy Flourish, Martha Stewart Butterfly 3-1, Martha Stewart Pippi Butterfly, La La Land Filigree Corner

Accessories:  Mixed flowers set, Ribbon, Pearl, 

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring Board, Scotch ATG Tape Glider, Fiskars - Stamp Press, 

Challenges

Lovely hAnglAr or Sweet Magnolia...........Anything Goes!!

                                 Now onto our first challenge of the year which is the ever popular:

Anything Goes

We are very grateful to Magnolia-licious for joining us as our new sponsor this year and they are starting us off for our first challenge:

Magnolia-licious

The very kind and generous

Diana is offering 

 a special prize

for one lucky winner!

Magnolia-licious is

Your source for all Magnolia, Wee, Saturated Canary, From The Hollow-Fairy Stamps,

Candibeans Stamps, Dollhouse Collection from Little Darlings Stamps

Alota Mini Stamps,  Wild Rose Studios and Penny Black stamps.

They also have a wonderful selection of dies from various companies like Memory Box,

Magnolia doohickey, Sue Wison dies,  La La Land, Cheery Lynn,

 Marianne and many more!

As our challenges will now be monthly we will have two teams posting, the Lovely Hanglar team followed by the Sweet Magnolia reminder team. So to start us off here is some beautiful inspiration from the Lovely Hanglar team:                      

I'm late - I've just lost the internet again!!  I just said a couple of days ago - the horrendous rain has slowed down and I should be stop losing my internet - HAH - I've lost it twice for most of the day during the last couple of days, my TV and phone also went walkabout!! I am not changing my server again, I shall just sit waiting for things bet better!!

I've used the sweet Tilda on  Neena Environment Desert Storm with Prisma coloured pencils. I've listed and linked  the materials below.

Material & Tools; 

Image: Magnolia - Tilda from the Sweet Christmas Dreams collection:Penny Black Clear stamps Season Gifts

Medium: Memento ink  Tuxedo Ink Pad,  Presma colour Prisma coloured pencils,

Papers:  Simon Says WHITE CARDSTOCK 120 LB Base Weight,  Neena Environment Desert Storm, Kaiser Craft Pink Gelato papers.

Die:  Simon Says Snowflake Border, & Stitched Flakes, Memory Box Frostyville Border

Miscellaeous:  Prima  Flowers Snowflake Paste, Aleene's Glitter Snow

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring Board, Scotch ATG Tape Glider, Fiskars - Stamp Press.

Challenges

Lovely Hanglar or Sweet Magnolia Challenge and DT Call

Our new challenge at LHOSM is.................

GLITTER IT UP!!

A very quick and simple card this week - I had a disaster and had to make a new card.  

The story of my life this week .

I used the Tilda from the 2014 Christmas set. I coloured her from Copic Markers  and added the sentiment with from the same set.

I fortunately found some glitter card which matched the image perfectly - and that was it - card made very quickly instead of my usual a couple of days.

Lifelong crafters Mother and Daughter, Mary and Andrea were tired of having to buy full rolls of ribbon and lace when they only needed one metre.  Because they love ribbons and all things pretty, they decided to open their own online shop in 2010 and make small quantities of beautiful products easily available to all crafters. Mary owns the shop and runs it on a day to day basis as well as keeping the website updated while Andrea looks after the social side,  The Ribbon Girl Blog and the Design Team. They specialise in supplying small (or large) quantities of ribbon, twine, gorgeous vintage style lace and seam binding ribbon, tiny pom-pom and ric-rac trim, all sorts of buttons, fancy pins, a multitude of charms, pearl and crystal flourishes, wool felt squares, seasonal and unusual embellishments, mulberry flowers, sticky tape and accessories to card makers, crafters, scrapbookers and cake decorators. They stock only the best quality products and only offer for sale goods that they would personally buy and use themselves.

EAC..........Music

I've used one cute Tilda from the Magnolia 2015 set today , coloured her with the Copics and added the Sentiment from the Magnolia set 2015.

Please excuse the dreadful photograph - dark days, winds and pouring rain are lousy,  I used daylight bulbs but need to set them up a lot better!!

Material & Tools:

Image:  Magnolia - A Lovely Christmas 2015 set

Medium:   Memento ink Tuxedo Black,  Copic Markers,  Distree Inks Stormy Sky

Papers:    Simon Says White Cardstock 120lb,  Magnolia Papers

Dies: Elizabeth  Craft Designs Bunch of Flowers

Punches: EK Successs - Pine branch

Miscellaneous:   Lace,

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring Board, Scotch ATG Tape Glider, Fiskars - Stamp Press.

Challenges

Lemon Shortbread  -  no digital projects Always Anything Goes (Week 2)
Through The Craft Room Door   -  Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion   - Always Anything Goes
Marvelous Magnolia  -  (Week 1) Christmas

Everybody Art Challenge...............Singing in the Rain!!!

I missed last weeks EAC - I made a calendar with all my DT's challenge listed........I got last weeks EAC mixed up and 

I've made it this week with the cute Tilda in London and coloured in the usual Copic Markers,

Material & Tools:

Image:  Magnolia - London Tilda

Medium:   Memento ink Tuxedo Black, Copics Copic Markers

Papers:   Simon Says White Cardstock 120lb, Bazzill Candy Pearls

DP's: Maja - Coffee in the Arbor 

Dies: Spellbinders Eleven, Signature Dies - Lace,   Marianne - Creatable,  Crealies - Sentiment panel 

Stencil: Simon Says - Raindrops

Miscellaneous: Ribbon, Flowers and leaves - stash, 

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring Board, Scotch ATG Tape Glider, Fiskars - Stamp Press.

Now I'm waiting for my computer man to sort out my Windows which has had a 'hissy fit'/

A New Magnolia!!

This is Tilda from one of the 2015 set.

I made this card for lovely  hAnglAr or sweet Magnolia (LHOSM) Challenge but we have taking a summer break and will be back at the beginning of September.

This little Tilda seems to be pink  - when I look at an image for the first time it just shouts me as which colour it should be, the trouble is I can't use any other colour!!

Is it just me or or do other people get stuck in to same colour with a image!!

I've listed as may materials as I could.

Materials and Tools

Image:  Tilda - from the 2015 set.

Medium: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers,

Papers: Simon Says Stamp White cardstock 120lb , 

Dies: Spellbinders Floral Ovals, Memory Box Tiffany Frame, Magnolia Doohickeys Ferns, lace etc.

Miscellaneous: Pearls, The Ribbon Girl 23mm Pink Organza Ribbon, Prima flowers and others.

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring Board, Tonic Studio Guillotine/Paper Trimmer, Scotch ATG
Tape Glider, Fiskars - Stamp Press.

Challenges
Paradise of Stamps  -  Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl -  Add Ribbon
Marvelous Magnolia  -  Anything Goes

House Mouse & Friends - Mid-week Challenge

Our Hostess this week is the fabulous LOLS and our theme is.....   

House Mouse and A Friend
any friend, it could be another House Mouse, Gruffie, Happy Hopper or even Tilda! as long as one of the friends is a House Mouse. You can also choose the Anything Goes option.

Our sponsors are....... 

Stampendous!

Winner will receive a Fabulous $20 Value Reward Card

(Winner must be a USA Resident, it's Territories and, or, Canada)

and

PIZZAZZ  APLENTY

 

  Winner will get a surprise package of embellishments from Pizzazz Aplenty (of Judy's choiuce(, worth $15.00.

I've just received my Magnolia set and couldn't wait to colour them.

Then I needed what to use for my House Mouse & Friends challenge - I kept looking at Tilda and wondered what she was doing just sitting there.  Eureka - She's sitting there for the little baby Hoppers to play Leap Frog.

The images are all coloured with Copic Markers and Distress Inks with the background........ the images together are pretty large so I have leave a CAS design with sentiment only - the top one is computer generated, the lower one from the set.

Materials and Tools

Image: House Mouse - Happy Hoppers - JSHM064,  Magnolia - Tilda from Summer 2015

Medium: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers,

Papers: Simon Says Stamp White cardstock 120lb ,  Prima Spirit
Dies: MFT Stitched FlagsSentiment:  Sentiments - computer generated & from the image set.

Tools: Martha Stewart Scoring Board, Tonic Studio Guillotine/Paper Trimmer, Scotch ATG Tape Glider, Fiskars - Stamp Press.

Challenges