Tulip Tilda and a MAGNOLIA-licious Sketch Challenge

Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope everyone’s week has started out great!

This stamp, Tulip Tilda, has been waiting a couple of weeks to be inked. And I finally made the time. I also purchased some of the new Magnolia roses. These paper flowers are marvelous and well worth the expense.

I originally created her for the MAGNOLIA-licious Highlites March sketch challenge. This is the wonderful sketch:

And then I started some blog surfing and came up with seven more challenges. They are:
Nichole Heady Spring Schemes Challenges: I chose Betsy Veldman's color scheme;
Cooking it up with Katie Challenge #12: Use the Decoupage/3D/Paper Tole technique and use metal;
Cute Card Thursday Challenge 103: Celebrations;
Magnolia Down Under Challenge #37: Birthdays;
Magnolia Stamp Lovers Challenge #6: Die Cuts;
Cute Daisy May Challenge: Anything Goes;
Flutterby Wednesdays Challenge #100: open challenge; butterflies, fairies, or angels, a must (Tilda is an angel).

The other details for this card is:
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up!, Papertrey Ink, My Minds Eye;
Flowers: Magnolia roses and Hobby Lobby Wedding supplies;
Ribbon: Silk leaf from Papertrey Ink;
Punch: Martha Stewart;
Distress Inks in Peeled Paint and Tea Dye;
Sentiment: Stampin’ Up!
I have also used various Spica and Gel pens.

The Copics I used are:
Smock & shoes: YG21, 25, and 67;
Dress & socks: RV09, 10, and 17;
Tulip: YR01 and 07, RV 09 and 10, YG 25;
Skin: E00, 11, and 13, RV21;
Hair: W1, E34 and 47.

I hope you enjoyed reading and thanks so much for stopping by!
Aletha

Christmas in February

You say, “Christmas again!” Hey, it’s still snowing everywhere, why not?

Seriously, let the fun begin! This is my first blog hop and this is your second stop if you started at the top. If you want to start at the beginning just go to our blog Magnolia-licious Christmas All Year Long. There should be a list of every one participating.

The next participant is Barb Hardeman. Be sure and check out her Christmas creation and blog. And, I want to say thanks to Barb for sending me the link to the tutorial on making easel cards. THANKS, BARB! She’s right...I am hooked on this design. It really adds something to the finished piece. The easel card would be great for Mother’s Day cards.

If you like Magnolia rubber stamps check out Diana’s online store. And talk about service, they are tops. They are also taking pre-orders on the Hoppy Easter Collection. Hop on over and check out all the new designs.

This is not only a blog hop for me. I am also participating in three challenges. They are:
Papertake Weekly Challenge #35 is this sketch

Magnolia Down Under challenge is to make an easel card;

Cooking it up with Katie’s challenge is something girly, paper piecing, and using two designer papers;

And Cute Card Thursday's challenge is ribbon.

Now my creation.

I used the stamps Tilda with Christmas Cracker and Poinsettia. Isn’t she adorable. I have never been one for cuteness in my art, but I am having so much fun with my cute and whimsical phase. They are also a lot of fun using Copics.

Other supplies are: distress inks in Walnut Stain, Peeled Paint, and Fired Brick, wire ribbon, paper poinsettia, The Wizard with dies, stickers, flat back pearls, scrapbook paper from Stampin’ Up!, gel and spica pens, Copic Markers, foam tape for the dimension.



These are the Copics I used.

If you have any questions or you just want to contact me email me at ajsdesigns@cox.net.

Thanks for hopping over. Now check out Barb’s art work.

Aletha

Gotta Love the Bunny!

With this little creation I am entering three challenges. These sites are first-timers for me.

The challenges are:
Creativity Challenge #15 at The Play Date Café;

Monday Sketch Challenge #124 at MoJo Monday;

and, Spots and Dots challenge #98 at Cute Card Thursday.


I so hope this passes for the Monday Sketch Challenge. When I started out everything was going fine until I realized that the main image is hiding the sketch design. Just take a closer look and you can see the sketch (maybe squint). The Play Date Café Creativity Challenge is with color and I feel like I hit that okay. The beautiful color combination was chosen by Sandi, a retiring member of Play Date’s Design Team.

This is my first Tilda that I have colored with Copics and to actually finish a piece. I tend to color a lot of the images and then let them set. These little angels are perfect for Prismacolors and Copics.

I purchased “Tilda with bunny” several months ago from Diana, a US-based online store of Magnolia stamps. In my opinion…Diana’s store and customer service is top notch.

In this picture I am trying to show you my work with the Copics and all the paper punch work.

Take a look at these MAGNOLIA-licious blogs. They have a few challenges you may be interested in. Here’s the list of a few blogs that have caught my attention: MAGNOLIA-licious Highlites; MAGNOLIA-licious; MAGNOLIA-licious Christmas All Year Long. There is also a MAGNOLIA-licious Yahoo group you can join.

Thanks for coming by again. Hop on over to the blogs that I have mentioned and take a look at what other talented artisans are creating. I hope everyone has a fabulous week of creating!

See you soon,
Aletha