Christmas ALL year long Magnolia-licious blog hop!

Welcome to the second Magnolia-licious Christmas all year long blog hop!
If you just happened upon my blog, you can start the hop at Julie's blog ~ if you arrived here from Leonie's blog, you are on the right track =)
Without further ado ~ here is my Christmas creation =)



I just love this stamp of Tilda! I used Smooch accent ink on her wings and paper pieced her dress ~ which was a little trickier than I anticipated since I wanted to keep the dress in one piece =) I don't think the picture shows it, (since it wasn't sunny out) but the dress and the paper that Tilda is matted on are both from the DCWV Glitter matstack, so they are *very* sparkly =)
And in case you are wondering, yes, that is real snow next to the card ~ when I went outside to snap a picture it was snowing! I can't say that I was all that happy to see it.....I'm ready for some weather that is sunny and ABOVE 50 degree ;-)

~*~Deets~*~

Stamp: Christmas Angel
DP: Fancy Pants Holly Jolly, DCWV Glitter matstack
Ink: Copics (E25,E00,E31,E29,B91) Spica pens (yellow, clear) Smooch accent ink, Memento Tuxedo Black, Colorbox Chalk ink in Rouge.
Embellishments: Misc. ribbon and button, Karen Foster Scrapper's floss.

Thank you so much for hopping by! Your next stop is the talented Lori! I hope you enjoy the blog hop with all the wonderful Christmas images....maybe it will inspire a few early Christmas cards =)

Tuesday Morning Sketchers

Tuesday Morning Sketchers posted another great sketch (can you tell I love sketches?!?) =)
Sketch:

My card:


~*~ Deets ~*~

Stamp: Plant your own garden
Paper: BG Wisteria (I just had to use a flowery paper with this quote!), DCWV Glitter matstack, Bazzill Bling
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Embellishements: Misc. ribbon and rhinestone, Prima flower.

Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge

Over at Lord Have Mercy! a new sketch was put up on Tuesday....and I found the perfect word art stamp to use with this sketch =)
Sketch:

My card:


~*~ Deets ~*~

Stamp: Twenty years from now
Paper: BG Junebug, Bazzill bling, DCWV Glitter matstack.
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Lime colorbox chalk ink.

Friday Sketchers

Once again it seems like it is taking me FOREVER to blog the challenges I've been doing during the week!
At Friday Sketchers this is the sketch for the week:

And here is my take on the sketch:


~*~ Deets ~*~

Stamp: Because you are my friend
Paper: K&Co., DCWV Glitter Matstack
Ink: Tuxedo Memento Black, Rouge colorbox chalk ink
Embellishments: Misc. ribbon and button, Karen Foster's Scrapper's Floss

LOVE ME DO Blog Hop!

~ Welcome to the LOVE ME DO Blog Hop sponsored by Stamping Bella! ~

If you've just happened upon my blog, you can CLICK HERE to start from the beginning at Bloggabella.
If you hopped here from the amazing Dawn's blog ~ you are on the right track! =)

I couldn't decide which ONE stamp to use, so I inked up two of the new lovey-dovey-valentiney stamps =)

Starring in the first card is Valentina!

Her ribbon and the bow on the box have been paper-pieced using DCWV Glitter matstack...nothing like doing a little paper-piecing to make you FULLY appreciate those little sharp tipped scissors! =)

~*~ The deets ~*~

Stamp: Valentina
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics (E00, RV11, E18, E19), Spica (pink)
Paper: K&Co., DCWV Glitter Matstack
Embellishments: Misc. ribbon
Sketch: Just Us Girls

Up next is the ever-so-sweet ELOISE has a heart basket!


~*~ Deets ~*~
Stamp: ELOISE has a heart basket
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics (E00, Y23, Y21, RV11, BG10, B63) and Spicas (turquoise, pink, purple, red, clear).
Paper: K&Co. DCWV Glitter Matstack
Embellishments: Prima flowers, Kaiser Pearl, Karen Foster Scrapper's Floss, Misc. ribbon and button.
Sketch: Lord Have Mercy!

How about a prize? In addition to the fabulous eye candy, we have decided to hide a prize somewhere along the hop! One pre-selected blogger will draw a random winner from the comments on her post, and the winner will receive a $25 Gift Voucher to Stamping Bella!!! The fun part is...we're not telling you who it is! So as you hop, make sure you leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win!! We will announce the winner on Friday in the Splitcoast forum. MWAH!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to the *very* talented Michelle's blog!

Love & Hearts

I loved the sketch that was posted on the JUGS blog ~ I don't use a lot of circles in my cards, so it was fun to dig through my stash of stamps to find *the* one that would work perfectly =)
The sketch:

The card:

Valentina's bow and the ribbon on the box have both been paper-pieced with DCWV glitter matstack paper (LOVE it!) ~ I've discovered the more I paper-piece the more I appreciate a good sharp scissor with a sharp point! =)

~*~ The deets ~*~

Stamp: Valentina
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics (E00, RV11, E18, E19), Spica (pink)
Paper: K&Co., DCWV Glitter Matstack
Embellishments: Misc. ribbon

A Little Love!

Today I combined two challenges to make this card ~ I used the LOVE theme from Cute Cards Thursday and the sketch from Lord Have Mercy!
Here is the sketch (I rotated it for my card)

And here is my lovey-dovey (hee hee) card =)


~*~ Deets ~*~
Stamp: ELOISE has a heart basket
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics (E00, Y23, Y21, RV11, BG10, B63) and Spicas (turquoise, pink, purple, red, clear).
Paper: K&Co. DCWV Glitter Matstack
Embellishments: Prima flowers, Kaiser Pearl, Karen Foster Scrapper's Floss, Misc. ribbon and button.

Favorite PMS stamp

I don't know if I can pick just *one* image that is my favorite, so I''m going with my favorite quote stamp =)

Deets ~
Stamp: I do love
DP: BG Bittersweet, Bazzill Bling
Ink: Tuxedo Memento Black, Copics (black and pink)
Embellishments: Prima flowers, Kaiser rhinestones.

Makeup for the Weekend #15

The challenge for the weekend on the PMS blog is to create a card with pink and lots of bling (talk about my kind of challenge!)

Deets:
Stamps: I used one of the January release stamps ~ Isabella (she is so sweet!)
DP: K&Company, DCWV glitter matstack
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics (RV11, RV34, Y23, TR23, R20, E00), Spicas (pink).
Embellishments: Crystal Stickles, Misc. butterfly shaped rhinestone, misc. ribbon.