Springtime Green

G’day and welcome J

Today’s make is my first ever make with a Magnolia stamp… I happened upon a Christmas magazine while at the shops and it had a Christmas Tilda with Puppy on the front so happy Newsagent and happy me! Hehe  Now on stamping her I realized she loans herself to all year so here she is.

 

This is one more of the Mad March birthdays down… lots more to go!

A few challenges in this card… in no particular order… well ok… in the order they are written down on my notepad…

Cupcake Craft Challenge… Sparkle… beautiful sparkly bella brad on that flower just finishes it off nicely!

The Crafting Café… favourite colour… Green!  The colour of my garden J

Lej Designs Challenge blog… Spring… Real Spring to me was when I was in England… the white snow would melt and vibrant green shoots would burst out of the thaw with tenacity and throw out delicate flowers.

Flourishes .org has a challenge of using Cardboard which worked brilliantly to give my leaves texture and add interest.  I will use your stamps when I can manage to buy one :-)

CardMakingMamas have a challenge of using Green…. I think I might have covered that one!

Emmas Cards UK has a challenge of vintage… now I am hoping this is vintage enough as it all reminds me of old times (and Aunty Nora with her doilies)…

Materials:

All cardstock/paper/doilies right from my stash!

Stamps: Magnolia Christmas Tilda with Puppy; “Happy Birthday” stamp from Papercraft Inspirations stamps Issue 72.

Flower: Stampin’ Up! Punches.

Leaves: Create-a-flower Cuttlebug die and Spellbinders leaves.

Spellbinders Circle and Scalloped Circle.

Brad:  Bella!

Inks: Memento “New Sprout” and “Pear Tart”; Black ink – Memories Dye inkpad.

Pencils: Faber Castell

Crop-a-dile Corner Chomper.

Thanks for stopping by… happy crafting…

Sarah x

Sky-blue-pink-with-polka-dots!

Todays make is a card to enter The Ribbon Girls March Challenge.  The must have is “twine or ribbon” so since yesterday I had to explain to my dear Husband and Sons WHY I received a bag of bakers twine by post from a lovely friend it seemed bakers twine was the order of the day! (Thank-you Sam!)

The challenge is also sponsored by Lili of the Valley which made me go digging in my stash!  A while back I bought a magazine and with it came a whole heap of gorgeous printed images from… you guessed it… Lili of the Valley so I decided to use those since I haven’t got my hands on any of their stamps as yet!

I am also entering this in the Cupcake Crafts Challenge for *Sparkle* as the cardstock is pearlescent and the brad is as one of my darling boys pointed out "pretty, pretty, shiny, shiny."  So I hope that qualifies as Sparkle :-)

In Mad March we have a whole string of birthdays so that is my focus this week… get them all done and posted. My Nanna’s birthday is one of the first so I picked out a beautiful Lili of the Valley image that lended its self to the colour that my Nanna used to tell us was her favourite… 

Sky Blue Pink with Polka dots!

So this is my interpretation of that with bakers twine featuring down the side with a happy birthday slider so it’s a little tactile and interactive.

I used:

Image: Lili of the Valley

Flower: Stampin’ Up! Punches.

Brad: Making Memories “Paperie Rouge”

Leaves: Create-a-flower Cuttlebug die and embossing folder.

Slider: “Fruit and tags” Cuttlebug cutting die and “Happy Birthday 2x2.75” embossing folder.

Patterned Paper: “The birthday brights” from Australian Simply Cards Magazine.

Punch: Martha Stewart Doily Lace.

Spellbinders Circle and Scalloped Circle.

Souffle white pen (for lettering).

Faber Castell Pencils for colouring the stamp.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah