A cute Sugar Nellie ......

I love my new Sugar Nellie stamp - I made this card for the challenge over at the sugar bowl challenge blog, 'clean and simple' following the sketch. 

I coloured her with copics and added loads of Stardust Stickles

I usually add as much stuff as possible to my cards, but to comply with the 'clean and simple' aspect, I only used one small paper flower with one purple two tone pretty blossom (from The Ribbon Girl) and I cut two leaf and heart branches with my Magnolia die.  Then the whole card was lightly sprayed with irridescent sparkle!

See you all tomorrow with a new challenge at Papertake Weekly and the Jingle all the Way to Christmas challenge at the Ribbon Girl!
This card has also been entered into the PanPastel Challenge

Mary G x

Tilda is in the pink .............

Here is a Christmas card in a non-traditional colour  - yes, it's salmon pink!  I've coloured the Magnolia Tilda in with pink copics and used loads of stickles to make her glitter.  I've gone to town on this card and even stitched around the image and frame!

I didn't need any excuse to get out my brand new Magnolia heart branch die to enhance my flower arrangement (small rose and some white pretty blossoms), and even managed to squeeze on a gorgeous snowflake cut with my new Magnolia die (I got a mistletoe branch and the snowflake in one pack - it'll be beans on toast for the rest of the month lol!!)  The background paper looks like sheet music, but toned in with everything.

I used 38mm white guipure lace and pink twill stripe ribbon to finish the card, plus some self adhesive clear sparklies and a light spraying of irridescent glitter from Crafters Companion  - looks even better in real life!  I popped one clear gem into the middle of the delicate snowflake, it really is very pretty and I can see it will be used lots.

Guipure lace, twill ribbon, pretty blossoms all from Ribbon Girl

I will enter this card into the Just Magnolia challenge which is to use pink - I think this fits the bill!! Also into A Gem of a Challenge .

Warm wishes ............

Well I got the weather wrong yesterday, as it seemed calm and cloudless when I got up but a while later it was blowing a gale again and showered most of the day - hoping for calm weather soon to get the big pots on the back patio emptied and refilled with the rest of the winter pansies and primroses.

These three little cuties from LOTV are gorgeous aren't they? I kept the colouring very simple, just coloured the spots and stars on their little frocks with Copics in various greens to tone with the background paper, and added loads of stickles to the holly wreaths on their gingerish bonde hair. The 'warm wishes' sentiment is also from Lili of the Valley 

The image was matted onto red card then white and added a big, beautiful red silky crush ribbon and bow and I even managed to tie the bow using Andrea's patented method - she must have shown me hundreds of time and I've no idea how it worked this time, perhaps I've got the knack at last lol!  I added a silver filigree corner and some clear stick on gems from stash, plus plenty of Stardust Stickles.  You can't have too much bling on cards, especially Christmas cards!

The flowers today are a small poinsetta and white steph (WO) and some white pretty blossoms with green leaves (Martha Stewart Punch) and holly leaves in various greens cut with a tiny die from Papertrey Ink.

I made this card for the current 'Warm and Cosy' Lili of the Valley challenge here

Back tomorrow, and if you haven't popped over to the Ribbon Girl Blog yet, the challenge is Lilacs and Greens, and at Papertake Weekly it is Spooky Hues

Bye for now

Mary G x

Winner of Papertake Weekly Blog Hop Prize

The winner of the £10 voucher to spend in the Ribbon Girl online store is you

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Please contact me to arrange your prize

and there is a new challenge on the Papertake Weekly blog which is to make a card using 3 shapes

 - here is my card

This cute image is from LOTV and I coloured her with Copics.  The sentiment is from Pink Petticoat, printed onto Safmat before sticking to plain white card matted onto a scrap of the striped paper from the semi circle.

I used a square for the background, a semi circle at the left hand side, and a rectangle in the centre - also added my favourite magnolia doohicky swirle and made a pretty little paper flower by punching plain white paper then adding a two tone purple pretty blossom and tied a lovely bow with the 25mm orchid large spot satin ribbon - flower and ribbon both from Ribbon Girl 

So what are you waiting for -  pop over to Papertake Weekly to see the awesome projects from the Design Team and to find out if you have won a prize in the birthday blog hop!

Mary G x

Gently falling snow ......................

'Let it Snow' is the current LOTV challenge and I used one of their very useful die-cuts showing a bird house with snow gently falling for this Christmas card in traditional clours

I added Stardust Stickles to the snow on the image, a 38mm gold glitter mesh ribbon and some 12mm gold lame ribbon (both from the Ribbon Girl)

The background paper was left over from last Christmas and I used a LOTV stamp for the sentiment which was cut out with a nestie.  The white Christmas rose and tiny leaves are from WO and the red berries, small roses and pretty blossoms are from Ribbon Girl.  The last embellishment I used was a few self adhesive gems - I do like a bit of bling and shimmer!

I will enter this card into the

LOTV 'Let it Snow'

Hannah and Friends 'Glimmer, Flowers, Dies'

The ABC Challenge 'Anything Goes'

and here's a sneaky of my little sewing project - more tomorrow

Mary G x