Tickled Pink Stamps BIG REVEAL!!!

Hello my ladies,
it's time to crack open this secret
Kellie of Tickled Pink Stamps
has been keeping for the past few months
and reveal a new line of
quirky, creepy, cute stamps
to the world!!!

Lil Lolita's!!!

These little sweeties are adorable,
and I am so excited to be creating alongside
the wonderwall of talent Kellie has put together!!
Through the next 5 days,
Tickled Pink Stamps BLOG
will be revealing each of the new
Lil' Lolita images
with gorgeous samples produced by
The Pink Ladies!!

The first showcasing of our darling IVY is extra special, because not only are we revealing the first of a series of 5 Lil Lolita character images to the world, made for and sold exclusively by Tickled Pink Stamps, but this is also the debut of our monthly Tickled Pink Stamps Monthly Challenges. This month is a sketch!! So without further ado, here is my creation with the darling Ivy taking center stage!!


When I first laid eyes upon these images, I think I "ninnied" like a pony, a strange squeal of delight in some capacity, a school girl, a kid in a candy store, my son when the ice cream man drives by, excited!! Here's a close-up of my interpretation of the image:


Fun, I say!!
Head on over to the
Tickled Pink Stamps BLOG
to see the samples that have been created,
they are gorgeous!!!
Thanks for stopping by to take a looksie,
have a great weekend!!
Stephanne

Creative Inspirations Colour Challenge!!

Hello ladies and possibly a gentleman,today is Wednesday and that means it is time for a new challenge over at
Creative Inspirations,
and it is an interesting one for you,
a COLOUR CHALLENGE of
ORANGE, PURPLE and HOT PINK
Oh yes, this one is a doozy for ladies who like to stay on the neutral side, and I MUST ALSO ADD that we are stringent about our colour combo, the only other colours we are accepting are skin tones, hair and white on your projects. Have fun!!!
Nat, our fearless leader over at Creative Inspirations has been super cool about letting me hold back a project to coordinate with another project in the works that I will be posting this weekend, and here is a litte snippet of what I'm brewing up.


What could it be? What is that???
I hope I've spiked your curiousity while at the same time showing that these colours CAN work together, lol!! Wanna know a little secret? I was recently invited on as a guest over at Kellie Winnells Tickled Pink Stamps and there is a big reveal to be made this weekend, yep, little aforementioned snippet is coming back into play. Head on over to Tickled Pink Stamps store blog HERE to get in on the action and maybe, just maybe... see how you could be in the running for some NEW RUBBA!!! So I got my Pink Jacket on, ooh, it fits just right, lol!! And I hope you will come back and visit me this weekend as I have several posts to come.

CLP Challenges debut!!!

Hello Friends,
Today is a wonderful day,
the first of the month,
and that means that the amazing Chelsea
of Crafting Life's Pieces
has a new sketch for us to play with!!!
But wait, wait wait!!!
She recently decided to move her sketches
from her personal blog to a new challenge blog,
CLP Challenge Blog,
she was looking for a few crafty ladies
to join her in her new blogging adventure
and I thought I would try my hand at joining,
and woohootyhoo, I did!! Thanks Chelsea!!
Chelsea, myself and many uber-talented ladies
made the debut today, check the line-up out HERE
So without further ado, today is LAUNCH DAY,
here is my take on her gorgeous sketch!!


I won the lovely Belle with Laundry during a recent Belles and Whistles bloghop for their latest release, yay!!! I've wanted to ink her up since she arrived and finally, the time is here. Belle is coloured with, what, Prismacolor pencils. Those oven cleaner fumes have really done a number on me.... Basic Grey DP, except for the heart patterned paper, that is MME, the lush ribbon is from Elise, LOVE IT, thank you!! The flowers are stash, as are the lace, ribbon and pearls, and the little banners, well, yeah, I made them, I had to write out my sentiment as my printer is OUT of ink, not even a drip left, I bled her dry.

FORGOT TO SAY: This is for my mom for Mothers Day, I don't know any moms who've gotten away without doing loads and loads and loads of well, everything, including laundry, so I thought this stamp sorta says MOM, in a good way though, hahaha!!


Well, seeing as this is already late, the big reveal has already taken place, I better just get this posted!! I also thought I would join in at PaperTake Weekly, they want us to do something different. I coloured in pencils, that has become unusual. I do hope that we'll see you over at CLP Challenges, such gorgeous, versatile sketches!!!

Take Care,
Stephanne

Easel Card Overhaul for Creative Inspirations Easel Card Challenge

Hello my ladies, it is Wednesday,
time for another challenge at
Creative Inspirations,
and as the title indicates,
it's an EASEL CARD challenge, yahoO!!
Quick, what do Michael Jackson and Tilda have in common?
Will it be a nose joke??
She's not wearing one glove, so that can't be it...
Why, it must be those shoes then!!
And R.I.P Michael, or Aruba,
whichever theory you're privy to believing.
Just funny how anytime something BIG
is happening here in American politics,
Michael Jackson pops up,
been touching kids in their no-no's,
dangling babies off a balcony,
turned himself white, for the love of Pete.
It's him, or Brittany Spears.
"Brittany, things are getting hot here in Congress,
we're gonna need you to flash your cooter,
that will take their minds at ease as we
pursue this ever-pointless War on Terror."

Woah woah woah.
I don't do politics.
This is why.

Soooooo, how have you all been? Well, I hope!!
I finished that revamp I eluded to in my last post,
make no mistake about it, I am cheating!!
Using the same project for different samples.
Naughty, I know,
but most of my stuff is still inaccessable
and time has not been on my side either.
Now before I launch into another rant,
let me show you what you're here for:


This is Sweet Tilda coloured in distress inks and glittered with Stickles and Icycle Stickles, she's layered and popped up on foam dots, with her "aura" a lovely shade of Faded Jeans, the delectable papers are from Magnolia as well, not from them, they are FROM Kellie aka Wafflelicious of Tickled Pink Stamps, they are BY Magnolia, phew, it's getting late. That delectable ribbon and bow, oh yumminess, the fabulous Elise sent them my way, as well as some of the flowers you see here, thanks again Sugarplum.


I took some pearls strings and smooshed them ever-so slightly to make flourish-esque shapes and cut off some of those neat Dollar Store sprigs I recently scored and glued some into my little flower pile, the sentiment is a little section of a Penny Black sentiment, the "love" charm is by Blue Moon Beads and the "made with love" heart charm I bought from 7 Kids and I can't remember the name of the company that made them.


Well, thought I should tell you all that I inadvertantly chemically aggravated my sinus passages with oven cleaner, CLR, Comet and Clorox used within a relatively short proximity of time and in a seperate state of affairs, had to take my son to the hospital because he has/had aqcuired a disturbing bacterial infection. Aren't we a fun bunch. So add that to my pile of good times, lol. I apologize for being a crappy blogger, there are many MANY visits that I'd like to make, but find myself without the time to do it right. You know me, a simple, "Nice Card" comment won't suffice. As for me and my chemical joys, well, inhaling houselold cleanserss for hours on end with already irritated sinuses is never a good idea, really, so that is how I am doing... As of about 4 pm today, I was able to walk without weaving and my ears seem like they will stop ringing soon? I hope.

Sooooo, I used this months Magnolialicious sketch, and that about wraps it up. Wow, now that is a waffle!! I hope you all are doing well, I've been running through my Google reader each morning checking out the little snippets of beautiful projects everyone is making and can I just say WOW!!! Lovin' it!! So much Tilda lately!! Who could resist? Certainly not me!! Until next time!!
Stephanne

Charmed, I'm sure!!

Hello lovely ladies,
welcome to another fabulous challenge at
Magnolia Down Under
where every week is a new adventure!!
This week we are hosting a Charm Challenge,
so I hope you will have time to create with us,
this week is an easy one!!



I am not sure what is going on with my computer and blogger but when I upload my work, it disapears!! This has happened twice in the last week and it pisses me off because make no mistake, I am hurriedly crafting to make "deadlines" just to have my projects vanish? What gives? Was up til 2 am last night working on this, it's gone missing!! Either that or I've been fired and no one has told me yet. Let's see if this post disappears too.

I am not going to go a type type typing up a novel just to have it disapear too so for now that is all, image and paper by Magnolia, all from the shoppe once known as Magnolia Down Under. Now let's see, will this post or won't it? Just let it be said that I will be dressing this card and this post up a bit more in the very near future.

Creative Inspirations Sketch Time!!!

Hello out there!!
How has everyone been out there in Blogland?
Hopefully all is well and good,
lots of crafty, creative time I hope!!
It's Wednesday and you know what that means,
a new challenge at
Creative Inspirations
is up and running,
and a wonderful challenge it is, indeed!!
Nat has whipped up one of her World-Class sketches for you all to enjoy and there is a delectable bundle of ribbon as the prize this week, not to mention samples that go above and beyond the realm of gorgeousness and into some outer limits dimension of lusciousness.
Too much?
What can I say, I love run-on sentences...


Here's my take on the sketch, of course I am missing a sentiment and instead have some lovely flowers on here, this is Fairy Tale Tilda from the new collection layered up to 4 times in various spots, painted with distress inks and Stickled in Crystal. The DP is DCWV, the laces are a fine selection of scrumminess from my friend Elise, as is the GORGEOUS red flower, the doiley was sent to me in one of The Amazing Sues fabulous rescue kits, the flowers and pearls are from my stash and the sprays of irridescent shapes are from The Dollar Store, yay!!! Went in for gloves, came out with so much more, lol.


I'm also going to pop this in over at
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge,
which is A DAY OUT,
Stamp Something
wants to see LAYERED SOMETHINGS,
and over at TotallyPaperCrafts,
there is a SPRING challenge.


And here's another picture of my little layered something playing outside in the lovely spring flowers, lol. She was stamped 4 times, I cut the wings out, glued the torso directly to the base image and left the wings loose, I then glued a few layers of the wings in on the inside tips only, so if one wanted to, they could make her wings flutter, I spliced top layer Tildas arms open at the sleeve and slid a cutout section of her arms and the frog into the sliced section, the arms and the main image are popped up on foam dimensionals, the mounts for the body loads thicker than those used for her arms and frog.

Well, it is past my bedtime, and tomorrow will be another busy day, lots to do, not nearly enough time to do it in, we all know how that goes!!
Take Care, my friends, drop me a line if you'd like, I'd love to hear from you!!
Stephanne

Creative Inspirations Brown, Blue and Green!!

Hello dear friends,
I am running behind with the post,
but here is my project for this weeks
CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS
this week and we have a good one for you, COLOURS!!
BROWN, GREEN and BLUE!!


Dear Edwin and his, eh hem, rooster... Edwin is sitting on an apple bucket, and I've used the chickies accesory stamp, painted with distress inks. My delightful paper is MIA, so I used regular cardstock and wow, what an experience... The DP is K & Company and the cardstock is Bazzill, Kraft and Guacamole, my faves!! Does that top corner look naked? Eh, too late to worry about that!!


I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Weekend, I'd love to hear what you did, if you'd like to humour me and leave it in a comment here, especially you ladies with young kiddos or young grandbabies, any funny stories? My kids had fun hunting for eggs, then rehiding them, again and again and again and again. Saturday night, my son and I were walking into our house and there was a bunny outside sleeping, and he excitedly exclaimed, "It's the Eastew Bunny!!" Too cute.

I've been a no-show lately, wanna know why? I bought a house. Yay yay yay!! Now I am in the process of packing and cleaning and cleaning and scrubbing, and running after my toddler and cooking and working and cleaning and cleaning and woops, while I was typing this my toddler ran out the front door again and cleaning and cleaning and... My hubster and I will do the actual moving this weekend, and then I have to go back to my apartment and clean it up before I turn in the keys. Yes, I will clean it, most people say just leave it, not me. I'll be haunted by it, gotta be spotless. Yes, OCD, for anyone thinking it, lol.

So wish me luck. I am trying to find a way to keep my blog fun while I am out of commision through the next couple of weeks, maybe a candy? A wacky story or two?
Take Care Friends,
Stephanne

Happy Easter!!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend with your families and loved ones!!
Stephanne

My Sentiments Exactly....

Good morning, good evening, good afternoon,
whatever it might be for you,
I am here to show you my project
for this weeks challenge over at
Creative Inspirations,
which is

SENTIMENTS
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ugh!!! I loathe sentiments!!!
If you are a regular visitor to my blog
you already know this...
When a sketch calls for a sentiment
I put bows or flowers there instead,
needless to say, this week is a challenge indeed.
To play along, you need to let
a sentiment take center stage.
No stamped characters or images, just text.
Good time to break out the
too-scrummy-to-cover papers!!!


Not much to say about this one, DP is BG, I used MS doily punch, EK Success fern punch and Fiskars scallop shears. The stamp is Penny Black and I stamped in Sepia Archival ink before distressing in Old Paper. Charm, ribbon, pins and flowers are from my stash.

Basic Grey challengesTutti Frutty
Secret Crafter Saturday Pink, green and flowers!!

So there has been some concern about my relationship with my sewing machine and I figure I might as well be honest with you all and tell you what's going on. Since the needle-breaking hissy fit, I left her out on the counter, I look at her every now and then, and I think, geez, should I even bother to try and switch that needle out once again, I mean, I don't need that kind of sass!! She just kept on with her silent treatment and it came down to this: Enough is enough!! So I stuck her white sheath of a cover over her and put her in the corner. I thought I heard her whisper, "No one puts Baby in the corner" but realized it was time to get a grip, no one talks to me but my cat....

Until next time friends!!
And if for some reason I don't post
between now and the weekend,
I hope everyone has a
wonderful and joyous Easter!!

Take Care,
Stephanne

Tilda peeps over to Magnolia Down Under's Stitches Challenge

Hello to all of you,
I hope you have had a wonderful weekend so far,
lots of relaxing and crafting I hope!!
It is time for another challenge at
Magnolia Down Under
and this week we challenge you to use
STITCHING,
real or faux or even paper
on your creations!!
There's a delish prize lined up from
BizzY Becs,
be sure to stop by and see what the
impressively fabulous design team girlies have crafted,
and then get to work on your stitchy Maggie project.


So those who regularly read the smut I push off as blogging know that my sewing machine and I are having a fight. It's nothing too severe, she will get over it if I listen to her needs, show a little sensitivity, maybe buy her some new thread or a fancy cover.... Just in time for the stitching challenge!! I keep breaking the needles, think the tension is off or something, I'll be trying again, but she is still mad so she might continue on with the needle breaking bullspit. I guess what I am trying to say is that I used faux stitching on my project, with protest.


I have coloured this lovely Maggie, kindly stamped for me by The Fabulous Sue Drees, with distress inks and Stickles, the pot that Tilda is sitting on is a built-up Penny Black image, I masked off several different PB stamps to arrive at that pot, as well as a Magnolia fence from the Shabby Chic collection. The checkered paper is K & Co. and the floral is Prima. I've folded some doilies to act as borders for my image and sentiment, sentiment is computer-generated, Blackadder font, my fave!! I took inspiration from Linda The Funkie Junkie and had a go with a button, somehow running lace through it makes it okay, buttons can be fab, oh yes, they can be fab!! Thanks for the inspiration Linda!!


Some of you will notice that my project is a little different than what was posted at MDUC. Dear Tab at 7 Kids College Fund sent out my emergency Maggie order of a couple older Easter images to pass the time while I anxiously wait for the new release..... These little chicks came this afternoon so I got to work completing my project, thanks Tab!! A lot of my cards turn into easle cards I just never update the post.

Sooo onto challlenges:
Fussy and Fancy: Easter
Just Magnolia: Sketch

more to come but my ass is sore from all this sitting, will finish this up in a bit!! Thanks for coming by and visiting, I hope your weekend is going wonderfully!!
Stephanne

Time for a sketch!!

Hello friends,
it's time once again for our
wonderful Wednesday challenge over at
Creative Inspirations
This week we have a lovely sketch by Nat
and a delish prize from Bunny Zoe up for grabs,
I hope you'll stop by, better yet,
I hope we'll see you there!!


Here's my version of the sketch, I used a fabulous image from SCACD, this stamp is called Bunnie!! The plaid DP is MME and the stripes Graphic 45, I had a disaster with my sewing machine this afternoon if anyone is wondering why my outer layer is about 15% sewn, I'm not incredibly sure where the rest of the needle went, but before it broke off it ripped the shieeot out of my paper!! The little flowers and leaf are Prima and the fern punch is by EK Success, I left them unglittered and unglitzed because I was liking the rustic look of the colours.



And here be some challenges!!

Everybody Art Ostern
Secret Crafter Spring Has Sprung
Stamp Something Distressed Somethings
Stamp With Fun Ostern
Stampin' For the Weekend Easter

Thanks for looking and I hope
we'll see you at
Creative Inspirations
this week!!
Stephanne

Magnolia Down Under BlogHop Candy Winner!!

Hello lovely Bloggers,
Wow, I am completely blown away by the response from you all out in Blogland to our 1 Year Anniversary Birthday Bash at
Magnolia Down Under Challenges!!
It is always heartwarming to see so many people participating, and of course, all the wonderful comments you all took the time to leave for myself and fellow design team sisters was incredible!! I'd like to thank you all for joining in on the fun, I hope we'll see you all participating at MDUC in the next coming year, as there are some fabulous challenges and prizes lined up and I'd love the chance to reciprocate on some of that comment lovin' that I received!! Enough waffling, here's what you came to see, right!?!?!

The winner of my candy, chosen at random by "Random Number Generator" is #29 - Lorraines Creations
Please do get in touch with me via email, which you can find on my profile, and add something event-specific in the subject line like, "GIVE ME MY CANDY!!!" so I don't delete it by accident, so much spam!!

Thanks again everyone for making this event such a success!!
Enjoy what remains of your weekend!!
Stephanne

Cream and Green Tilda Creation

Hello Happy Bloggers,
How are you all this fine day in March?
The day after St. Patties Day,
I posted yesterday and how rude of me not to say
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!

I am back with a creation,
I've needed some crAft-therapy moreso than usual,
it's slightly cheaper than going to a shrink,
so without further ado, my FINAL project for
Magnolia Down Under Store


My 6 month Designer position at MDU is up and as the observant girls have noticed, Magnolia Down Under has gone, well, Down Under, in the decision to sell exclusively to Australia, it seemed only fitting that the Design Team be Aussie-exclusive too, so I'm off like a dirty shirt, like a bad hat, like Aunt Mildreds gurdle on a hot Summer day, a withered rose, a a a a.... It has been a delight, an honour and a great pleasure working for Waffle, and I will DEFINITELY miss the happy mail every new release, thanks for the experience and the opportunity to represent your store, dear Waffler!! And an aside here, this is the store we're talking about and not the challenge blog, I will still be creating with MDUC.


This is the adorable Honey Tilda and her honey pot from the Magnolia Raising The Ceiling collection, along with many of the other treasures sent to me from the wonderful Kellie, owner of Magnolia Down Under, you can find the stamps, both size laces, the cutie patootie charm, the gardenia, leaves, doileys and pearls sprays at the shop, click the link above to check out what is in stock at MDU.













Challenges:
Simon Says Splash 'O' Green
Stamp Something Cream and Green Challenge,
sketch from Magnolia-licious Highlites
Saturday Spotlight You're So Slick!!! (jar and wings)

Thanks for stopping by,
I hope you've got some fun crafty things
planned for this weekend.
Take Care,
Stephanne

Spring Fever!!! Creative Inspirations Colour Challenge!!

Hello everybody!!
It is Wednesday and that means
we have a new challenge lined up for you at
Creative Inspirations!!
It a colour challenge of
GREEN, YELLOW and WHITE!!
For a laugh, I will tell you that I put in the code for white font, lol, then thought, well what good is that gonna do over my white blog, duh!!


Penny Black is like comfort food to me, when I need to reach out for something that will warm my heart, I get out a PB stamp. The flowered paper is BG and the checkered peice is DCWV, the ribbon is by May Arts, the MS doily punch was used to make the matting for the teddy, the lace is from my stash and there is some sewing going on.


Teddy is coloured in distress inks and the flowers are dressed up with Stickles and a Spica pen. The flowers are an assortment from my stash, spritzed with gold Smooch then StarDust Stickles was added. I ripped off the leaves and babys breath of an old floral stem from Michaels bridal department and stuck them in with the glamourized roses.


And how about some challenges to play along with:
Cupcake Craft Challenges is going green!!
Friday Sketchers well....
Fussy and Fancy is looking for GREEN!!
Penny Black Saturday Challenge Spring Colours
Secret Crafter has an open theme to celebrate their new EXCLUSIVE stamps, woohoo, congrats to you all!!!
The Pink Elephant wants to see our Spring creations

Thanks for stopping by my blog,
I hope that wherever you are,
you are getting some good weather!!
Take Care,
Stephanne

Magnolia Down Under 1st Birthday Bash CANDY Bloghop!!

******UPDATE: CANDY CLOSED*********


Hello there Magnolia Lovers and Welcome to the 1st Birthday Blog Hop for Magnolia Down Under Challenges....!!

We are so excited and thrilled to become 1! Who knew that when Magnolia Down Under Challenges started with only 3 members it would be bigger and better a year on. We are all SO EXCITED that we have decided to do a birthday blog hop and whats better is that all the DT are offering CANDY! To be eligible you have to hop on to each Design Team Member and leave them some comment lovin affection ;) Winners will be announced on Magnolia Down Under Challenges Blog at the end of the challenge and also on the personal DT blogs on whom won their candy. Be sure to check back on the 20th to see if you are the lucky lady or gent!!

If you've just happened across my blog and didn't start at the beginning of the Blog Hop, click HERE to go back to the first stop, but if you have hopped over from Nicole's, then you are on the right track!!


I've coloured in distress inks, did the wonderful circle cut-out shadow effect doily accent combo that I have been overusing lately, the papers are BG and Graphic 45, charm, pins, and flowers are from my stash.

And here is the cancan I am offering to one lucky hopper!!


There's my card, which I will personalize for the winner, unless, of course, it happens to be your birthday, then we'll leave it as is!! The stamp used on my project is the same image in the candy, yours is new though, there is some Stickles, a Copic Spica glitter pen, an assortment of charms and flowers, pearls stems and lace, lace lace!!!! Gorgeous gorgeous lace by Prima and some of that fab stuff that Kellie stocks at Magnolia Down Under!!

Thanks for stopping by.... Now head on over to Tanja's to continue on with the hop!!

Take Care,
Stephanne

DT-Magnolia Down Under gets charmed with Creative Inspirations!!

Hello there friends,
it is Wednesday and that means
we are hosting a new challenge over at
Creative Inspirations
which is to use CHARMS on your project!!


I've been itching to get my mitts into the wonderful kit that Kellie from Magnolia Down Under sent me to create with. The adorable stamps are from the Raising The Ceiling collection, all items used can be found in Kellies shop here, except for the charm, although Waffles is now stocking charms, do check them out!! She's got these cute little baseball caps that would be perfect for our darling Edwin creations!!


I've coloured in distress inks on watercolour paper and stamped the images onto regular CS, cut out a circular shape, shadowed the image in Faded Jeans and then placed the cut out watercoloured images in place. I covered the glass area of the honey jar in Diamond Glaze and Tildas wings are Stickled in Crystal. And apparently, I need to go back and colour the bee...

Thanks for stopping by and I just want to say thanks to all of you who are kind enough to stop by and leave me blog love in my most stressful times. I am missing so many fun challenges and fabulous inspiration from you all lately and while it bums me out, I know I will be able to return to blogging properly soon, so thanks for sticking it out with me, I appreciate it.
Take Care,
Stephanne

Hello, I "ruff" you,

**** *** **** ** **** ****.
First person to fill in the blanks to the song lyrics and name the band in which I am attempting to adapt my darling doggy creation to wins a surprise!!
So, finish the song, name the band, do it first, win a little sumthin' sumthin'.
I encourage you to leave a response even if there is already guesses because they could be wrong and maybe they wont want the surprise which means I go to the next on the list. ***Closed***


G'day folks,
it's Sunday in OZ and that means
it is time for a new challenge at
Magnolia Down Under Challenges
This time around we have a delicious recipe for you:
*3 Papers
*3 Flowers
*2 BUTTons
*1 Bow

There is a scrummy prize on offer this week
as well as pure visual bliss
in the form of design team samples,
I hope you can take a look.

DID YOU KNOW:
Magnolia Down Under Challenges
has moved!!!
Follow the link provided to catch up on all the
Magnoliarific happenings!!

And in further DID YOU KNOW news,
it is not too late for you to hop on over to
Magnolia Down Under
and get in on Kellies weekend sale,
she's offering 15% off her entire inventory of stamps!!
That includes Hoppy Easter pre-orders too, wowie!!



I just deleted my boohoo rant and am back with a few tender morsels of details. This creation was made with the adorable Wilma from Magnolias Raising the Ceiling Collection, I bought it at Waffles store, you can find the link above. I masked off the rose that she has in her mouth so that one lovely pooch could dominate the creation. The papers are Basic Grey, the image was coloured with distress inks and cut out, popped on top of a circled image that was shadowed in Faded Jeans, I felt that in itself was enough, I wanted those rosey cheeks to pop!! The flowers are from my stash, the buttons are from the super duper Princess Kristy, and the lace and gingham is from my stash. Did I skip something? I hope not!!



Challenges entered:
Everybody Art sketch
Fussy and Fancy's
The Movies Challenge,
Old Yeller is the movie because who wouldn't
become friends with this lovable dooooogie.


Hope we'll see you there this week at MDUC!!
Signing off for now,
Stephanne

Oh Baby, Lace, Pins and Pearls!!

Hello Everybody,
I hope all is well with you
and that you have been having some
sweet crafty time for yourself!!
It's Wednesday and than means
it is time for a new challenge over at
Creative Inspirations,
and a gorgeous one it is,
we'd like to see you use
Lace, Pins and Pearls
on your projects.
A challenge for some,
nearly a guarantee for me,
I love the frilly stuff!!


I've had Elisabeth Bell curiosities for some time now, she makes the cutest little animals alongside her adorable dollie-like images, so I had a little spend over at Susana's Custom Art and Card Design. I happened to stumble over there on release day for the third sampler Elisabeth Bell has made for Susana's shop and this image is called Oh Baby from that collection. How lucky was that??!?! And what's even better, my order was processed that same day and I received it 2 days later, now THAT is service!! Also from SCACD are those little coral hued primas, they are the ones in the middle of the flower medley.


Papers are from DCWV, lace, pearls and pins are from my stash, I coloured the image in distress inks and the dress has been Stickled where I thought there ought to be some light reflection going on, it's polyester, lol. I cut out the image and adhered it to a circle with a shadowed image underneath, gives good dimension. And I guess that's that...

Other challenges I'll pop this in at:
Cupcakes Craft Challenge Round and Round
Saturday Spotlight Clean it up!!

Thanks for popping in,
I hope you will have some crafty time this week
so you can join in with the challenge at
Creative Inspirations,
a yummy prize is lined up for one lucky contestant
and the Design Team has prepared a
feast for your eyes to be inspired by!!
Take Care Friends,
Stephanne

Magnolia Down Under Challenges has moved!!

Hello happy bloggers, thought I would leave a little linky-loo for
Magnolia Down Under Challenges
as the challenge blog was recently moved from Wordpress to Blogger, I hope to see you all there!! This week there is an Easter Challenge taking place and the design team has made some truly inspiring creations to check out!! And Aussie girls, if you haven't already secured your new Maggies from their Easter collection, be sure to pop in over at Magnolia Down Under and let Kellie tempt your pallette with gorgeous stamps and embellies!!


So I know I am on the low-end as far as posts go ordinarily as it is, but I guess this is worse or less than normal. I have been having a hard time lately, too much going on all at once, my time-management has taken a crap, I find myself coming over here to bloghop and just staring at the screen. Boohooing aside, I will have some creations to share this coming week, and I hope to get back on the horse with commenting as soon as I can get my golden tongue back in full swing. Until then, I will leave you a little something to look at.
Lover Cats.


Take Care,
Stephanne

Creative Inspirations Monochome Challenge--More Calender...

Hi there lovely bloggers,
today is Wednesday,
time for a new challenge
over at Creative Inspirations.
This week, we'd like to see your
Monochrome Masterpieces!!
Make something using various shades
of the same colour!!
We have a delicious prize from
Dotty About Crafts this week
and the works from the DT are exquisite,
I hope you can stop by and take a looksie,
better yet, join in!!!


I've used a Whiff of Joy image that Sue stamped for me, she also supplied the doily and fabric flowers, Sue to the rescue, once again!! This is my second go with WOJ but already, I feel a great love coming on, lol. The DP is K & Company, punches used are martha stewart and ek success retro flower and fern. I've distressed in Faded Jeans and the shadowy aura looking background with a Milled Lavender Brushed Corduroy mixture. I picked up that most excellent shadowing technique from Mary, you will find loads of inspiration and techniques on her blog My Cardz, My Passion, My Therapy, and although my cloudy background thingy isn't nearly as fab as what you'll find her doing, she was definitely the source of inspiration behind it/them. More handmade scrolls, hahaha, I likes what I likes... April will have a weekly pull-off type of calender rather than the list on other pages. The raindrops are gooped in Stickles and I went inside the circles on the embrella with a white gel pen, then I distressed the entire embrella in Old Paper to give it some age, then I added Liquid Pearls in pewter to the hardware. The pictures all stink but I can't seem to get it right, I will have to call this one a loss and move on with life, lol.


Challenges for this one:
ABC Challenge where O is for One Paper
Stamp With Fun is stitching this week,
sketch is from The Pink Elephant.



I have Stefancyfied my May calender page, and since it fits the monochrome challenge as well, I figured I'd share it. Again, haha. There's tooshie Tilda, coloured in distress inks, the flowers are a medley, I can't remember there are so many mixed together now, eek!! Some punches, oak leaf and branch by Martha Stewart, a scroll, of course, and viola. My son helped too, do you see all the slice marks on the calender area? He ran this through the paper cutter a couple of times, thanks buddy... They are so fast when it comes to what they AREN'T supposed to touch!!



I hope you'll have time to pop your entry in over at Creative Inspirations this week!! Thanks for your visit,
Stephanne