Rose Scent Tilda for The Ribbon Girl

Hello!

I'm here with a DT post for The Ribbon Girl.

It's been rather a long time since I coloured up a Tilda, I've almost forgotten how lol, 

so I thought I'd have a play with Rose Scent Tilda.

I don't find red the easiest to colour with distress inks, if you aren't careful it looks pink and if you try and build too much depth it can bleed very easily as it's highly pigmented, but it didn't turn out bad today.

The papers are old ones from the Siri's Kitchen collection and I thought this kitchen tile design could easily give the impression of bathroom tiles which then tied in with my image.

I used lots of yummy embellishments from The Ribbon Girl and I've listed them below with links to take you directly to them in the shop.

Cheesecloth

Ophelia Lace

15 mm Burgundy Satin Ribbon

20 mm Burgundy Open Roses

35 mm Burgundy Roses

30 mm Ivory Wild Roses

Ivory Hip Rosebuds

Rose Leaves

Coat Hanger Charm

3 mm Red S/A Gems

6 mm Pearl and Diamante S/As

That's it for this morning but I'll have a little something to share with you later today.
Thanks for visiting!

Pisces Tilda

My goodness it seems ages since I coloured up a Tilda. On top of that this Tilda has been in my stash for around 2 years now...eeek!

So she really does deserve an outing doesn't she?  I coloured her up with my Distress Ink Markers and matched her to these pretty papers from Maja Design.

I'm not 100% sure I like the way this came out if I'm honest, it's one of those things where I liked the finished card but then after seeing the photographs I'm a bit underwhelmed.

I do like the diamante swirls though, as I think they kind of look like splashes of water.

I can't remember all the colours I'm afraid as I didn't write them down, but I think I used Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Seedless Preserves, a mix of Blueprint Sketch and Wilted Violet (I think) and possibly Shabby Shutter for the lily pad?

The Ribbon is from The Ribbon Girl and the flowers are a mix of The Ribbon Girl and Wild Orchid Crafts.

That's all from me for today, but I'll see you soon! 

Magnolia - Olive Tilda

Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. I've been having lots of fun crafting this weekend and have been playing with some mixed media and all sorts, which you will get to see later.

For now we have a new challenge at The Ribbon Girl and as usual for the 2nd challenge in the month the theme is

Use Any Image

So you can enter anything you like, cards, layouts, altered items etc...as long as it has an image on. This could be stamped, printed, photographic, the choice is yours.

For my card this time I thought I'd use one of my Tildas. These get less of an airing these days and I have to admit that this is the first time this little beauty has seen any ink...ooops!

I coloured her with my distress ink markers, and matched her to some older Maja Design papers from my stash.

The Ribbon Girl products used

Cheesecloth
Clementine Lace
Vintage Seam Binding Lady Lavender
9 mm Plum Velvet Ribbon
20 mm Cream Open Rose
10 mm Cream Open Rose
Hip Rose Bud 2 Tone Lilac
Beaded Berries Ivory/Cream
Beaded Berries Lilac/White
Beaded Stamen White
8 mm Ivory FB Pearls
6 mm Ivory FB Pearls

This card is for sale in my Etsy Shop, just click on the Icon below to be taken there



I do hope you can join in with us, you could win one of the following







and have your card shared on the Ribbon Girl blog.

That's all from me folks, I'm off to enjoy the rest of my Sunday, have fun!!

Magnolia - Rose Scent Tilda

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Here in the UK our weekend is a little longer this week, as it's a bank holiday on Monday for May day, so a little extra crafting time for me. 

I'm here today with a post for The Ribbon Girl. 

I used Rose Scent Tilda, I think she was from 2014, she's a lot of fun to colour. I rarely use the yellow and blue combo, but I've had this crystal embellishment in my stash for an age and I thought it might be fun to choose some papers to match.

So I coloured up Tilda with my distress ink markers and broke out the Pion Papers.

The yellow is from Pion's Colour Pallete and the patterned paper is from the Beloved Son collection, see you can use it for your girly cards too lol.

I cut the shape with one of Go Kreate's frilly frame dies. Then I fussy cut her out and popped her on an MFT oval and scalloped oval frame.

I added lots of yummy embellishments from my stash and The Ribbon Girl. I've listed links to the products from The Ribbon Girl below.

Cheesecloth

Ophelia Lace

Windsor Blue Vintage Seam Binding
16 mm Willem Blue Velvet Ribbon

20 mm Dusky Blue Open Roses

10 mm Dusky Blue Open Roses

Cherry Blossom Antique Blue

Pretty Blossom Pale Lemon

Beaded Stamens Blue/White

If you pop across to The Ribbon Girls blog, they have an Anything Goes card challenge starting today and some lovely prizes on offer from Maja Design, The Ribbon Girl and Lily of the Valley. Why not join in?

That's all from me for now, but I'll be back later with the 2nd in my 'A Year in Crafting' series.

Have fun! :) xx

Shaped Card Tutorial Video

Hi everyone, I hope you had a great Easter. I'm back to work tomorrow but before that I can finally share with you my video tutorial on how I made my recent card using Bubble Tilda.

The video is below, but first here is a list of materials and equipment you'll need to recreate this.

Equipment

Bone folder

Die cutting machine suitable for cutting large dies.

A blending tool or small sponge.

Scissors

A Bow Easy or similar bow tying tool, (unless you can tie good double bows by hand).

Glue Gun (or you could use a crafters glue).

Pokey tool or toothpick (if you're not using self adhesive pearls)

Large and medium shaped dies.

A fancy 'frame' die.

A leaf die.

Some clips or pegs.

Materials 

Your coloured image, Cut out with a round die.

2 pieces of A4 white cardstock

Small pieces of blue and green cardstock.

Design paper

Cheesecloth

Lace

Satin ribbon

Pearl trim

A fancy embellishment.

An assortment of paper flowers. 

Flat back pearls

Walnut distress ink pad

Button twine

Masking/stencil or washi tape.

Glue

Scor-tape

Adhesive foam tape.

You can see the video here

That's all for now, I will be working on the next part of my Distress Ink Colouring series next weekend, and will be moving onto colouring clothing, so I hope to have that ready for you in a week or two.

Happy crafting! :) xx

Tilda in Evening Gown - Deep Ocean Challenge

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well. I'm looking forward to Easter and a few days off work to recharge the batteries.

Today we have a new theme over at Deep Ocean Challenge and this time it's 

Favourite Colour Combos

Well, this was very hard for me, because although I do have a yen towards purple tones, I don't really have a favourite colour combo, and when it comes to crafting I really love to change it up as much as possible because it gets boring colouring with the same tones or to match the same papers all the time.

So in the end I thought hey...I'll stay neutral, and plumped for neutral grey/white/black shades.

So now I have a confession.....I bought this Tilda when she was first released.....over a year ago! and I have only just coloured her up. How shameful is that? Worse than that, she isn't the only un-inked stamp in my stash ....sigh...

Oh well at least she's seeing the light of day now lol

So this is Tilda in Evening Gown, and I've given her a bit of a glamorous treatment, I think she deserves it after that long wait don't you? 

I used some older Maja Papers, these are from the Crea Diem collection. I edged all my layers with Walnut Stain distress ink. The 'clock' is cut with the Dewdrop Circle die from LDRS Creative, and I used a stamp from Kaisercraft to stamp the clock with grey ink.I used the same stamp on the edges of my framed image.

She's coloured with distress ink markers. I added lashings of Wink of Stella to her dress and the surrounding sparkles and you can actually see it (kind of) for once in the pic above, though it still doesn't show how shimmery it looks. I thought this was the perfect sentiment for her.

To finish I added some lovely embellishments from the Ribbon Girl and a few from my stash.

From the Ribbon Girl

Charlotte Elizabeth Lace
Ivory White Magnolias
Ivory Wild Roses
Small White Lily
White Chrysanths
Round Medium Diamante Buckle

This card was sold to a colleague to give to her mother on mother's day recently in the UK.

That's all from me today but there's plenty of exciting stuff in the pipeline so stay tuned and don't forget to join in with our challenge for the chance to win a lovely prize :) xx

Magnolia Stamps - Bubble Tilda . New challenge at The Ribbon Girls

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend. I've been crafting a lot and the rest of the time I've been dancing around the house like a demented loon.  Why you ask?
Well I've been THAT excited!. Those of you who know me on Facebook will know that I posted about being excited about something on the 11th March. Well I can't reveal all the details which still have to be finalised, but I can reveal that I'm going to be jetting off to Orlando, Florida for a few days in September, because I've been asked to teach at a Craft Retreat! How exciting is that?!!

Oh my goodness, I just cannot wait, September seems so far away. I'll keep you posted once I know the full details.

But enough of me and my *squeeeee!!* exciting news and on to my card for today which is for the new challenge over at The Ribbon Girls.

Our theme is as always for the 2nd challenge of the month, is Anything Goes with an Image.  So you can make what you like, how you like, but it must use an image.

This is Bubble Tilda and you probably recognise her from a colouring video I did recently. So if you want to know the colours I used to colour her, you can find them on my YouTube video

I also made a video showing you how I construct this card from start to finish and I should be able to share that with you soon. I was hoping to have it ready for you when this card went live, but I have been a little busy and distracted with other things this weekend and so haven't finished editing and uploading, which take a lot longer than making the actual video!

My card is embellished with some beautiful flowers from the Ribbon Girl.

I also made a fab bow from this beautiful ribbon.

I used the following Ribbon Girl items

Cheesecloth

Clementine Ivory Tulle Lace

Dusky Blue 25 mm Stain Ribbon

6 mm Ivory Pearl FB Trim

Dusky Blue Button Twine

40 mm Pale Pink Daisy

30 mm Blue Wild Roses

20 mm Open Roses

Cherry Blossom Antique Blue 2 Tone

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels

Sweetheart Blossom Baby Pink/White

20 mm Open Rose Dusky Blue

10 mm Open Rose Dusky Blue

Beaded Stamen Blue/White

11 mm Ivory FB Pearl

8 mm Ivory FB Pearls

6 mm Ivory FB Pearls
Pion Design Linnaeus Botanical Papers

I do hope you can join in with us, there are some lovely prizes up for grabs.

First prize:  £10 voucher for LOTV

Second prize:  £10 voucher for The Ribbon Girl

Third prize:  Mystery prize from Marianne Designs

Well that's it from me today, I have a video to edit!

Happy crafting! :) xx

Distress Ink Speed Colouring Video - Bubble Tilda

Hi everyone, I'm back with another video for you. This is how I colour Bubble Tilda from start to finish. It's a speed colouring video so no talking, but I've added notes throughout the video on what colours I'm using etc to make it easy to follow.

I hope you like it, I've been working on filming a shaped card tutorial from start to finish, using this coloured image, so I hope to have that ready for you next weekend.

Want to see a sneak peek?

It's not giving much away is it? He he, you'll just have to wait till next weekend to see the finished card.

Thanks for dropping by :) xx

Christmas Candle Tilda - The Ribbon Girl

Good Morning!

I'm sharing a card for The Ribbon Girl DT today.

This is (I think) my last Christmas Card share until I start on making new ones for this year, (hopefully a bit earlier than I started last year).

I used Magnolia's Christmas Candle Tilda, this Tilda is one from 2014, but she's one of my most favourite Tildas of all.

I coloured her with my distress inks to match these lovely Pion Design papers, these are from the Days of Winter collection.  

Colours: Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Hickory Smoke, Victorian Velvet, Aged Mahogany, Pine Needles, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Hickory Smoke.

I used quite a lot of Aged Rose Frantage around my image.

I used some gorgeous Ribbon Girl embellishments, plus a couple from my stash, and finished off with a few small snowflakes from La-La Land Crafts.

I decorated the inside with one of the matching 6 x 6 sheets.

30 mm Ivory Wild Roses

Pink Sweetheart Blossom

Cheesecloth

32 mm Clementine Embroidered Tulle Lace

9 mm Colonial Rose Velvet Ribbon

4 mm Flat Back Ivory Pearl Trim

25 mm Grape Satin Ribbon

12 mm Flat Back Ivory Pearl Flowers

8 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

6 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

Well that's all from me today, but I'll see you all soon.

Happy crafting! :) xx

Magnolia - Snowy Tilda

Hello everyone!  Are you nearly ready for Christmas? I'm not...but I'm getting there. I'm about 70% done on presents, have got a lot of the non perishable foodstuffs and finally am getting on top of my Christmas cards....yes I know...but better late than never right?  Although work is still busy, it's starting to get to the stage where I can see the top of the hill now, I think by next week I may just be skiing down the other side ...wheeeeee!!

Anyway...... so I made another Christmas card. This one is using an older Magnolia stamp called Snowy Tilda...and ...don't fall over but, I re-visited my Copics. I may have to do this more often because I almost forgot how to use them lol.

I did paper piece her dress because I wanted the lovely texture in the paper that made her dress look knitted, but it doesn't show up too well in the photos.

The lovely papers are from Lili of the Valley, the the Large Snowflake die is Die-namics from Dies to Die for as are the gold glittery twirly things. I took out the yellow stamens from some of the flowers and added these red beaded ones from my stash.

The large red rose is from Kaisercraft and has been in my stash for quite a while.

The rest of the embellishments are from The Ribbon Girl and I've linked them below.

25 mm Veronica Ivory Flat Lace

25 mm Grape Satin Ribbon

Ivory White Magnolia Flowers

20 mm Burgundy Open Rose

Christmas Snowflake No 4 Charm

Ivory Button Twine

That's all from me today, but I'll be back at the weekend with more Christmas cheer to share :) xx

Magnolia - Divine Tilda

Hello crafty friends. It's time for a new theme over at Deep Ocean Challenge and this time the theme is
'Shabby Chic'
A great theme for me as I love a bit of shabby chic style.
It seems an absolute age since I coloured a Magnolia stamp, my poor Tildas are feeling very neglected.  So I dug out little Divine Tilda and coloured her up with my DI Markers to match these gorgeous new papers from Pion Design. I've listed items used along with links at the end of my post.

Pion Design Linnaeus Botanical Journal - Images

Pion Design Linnaeus Botanical Journal - Writings

Pion Design Colour Palette - Pion Purple I

La-La Land Feathers Die

Die-namics Insert It 3 x 4 Notebook Paper

50 mm Ophelia Ivory Lace

9 mm Colonial Rose Velvet Ribbon

Cheesecloth

Ivory White Magnolia Flowers

Apple Blossom Mixed Pastels

Lilac 30 mm Wild Roses

Cherry Blossom Lilac/White 2 Tone

Ivory 20 mm Open Rose

Pretty Blossom Pink

6 mm Ivory Flat Back Pearls

Butterfly from Karla's Kreative Korner

I hope you like my make for today, why not join in with our challenge, we have a great prize on offer from

and don't forget to check out the rest of the teams fabulous makes!

See you all soon! :) xx

Bingo Grid at Totally Tilda and Friends

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you're enjoying your weekend. Today it's time for a new post over at Totally Tilda and Friends and it's a very sad post from me because it's time for me to say goodbye to my teamies. Unfortunately with everything going on in my life currently and my health not having been so good in recent weeks, I've had to make the tough decision to make a little room.

I would like to take the time to say a HUGE thank you to Susie, Mummy and all my fabulous teamies for taking the chance a year and a half ago on a bit of a noob and making me feel so welcome. It's been the best time and soooooo much fun and I'm really sad to be leaving, but I will be keeping in touch with all my gorgeous girls through blogland /Facebook and who know's maybe you'll see me back here in the future if  time permits.

Anyway, enough with the sad stuff before I cry and on with the theme.  For this challenge the theme is 

Bingo 

Mummy (Christine)  has done a super grid which I've shown at the end of my post, and you can do any line, vertical, horizontal or diagonal. Or you can do all of them for a 'Full House'

I've used Virgo Tilda, and I've coloured her with Copics using the faint line technique. I've had her partially coloured up for a while now so I thought I'd finish her off to use on this card.

I can't remember what colours I used for her hair, but it looks like it was a selction of E40s the skin was E13, E11, E00, E000 and R20. The outfit was RV91, RV93, RV95 and RV99

I hope you like my make and that you're inspired to make something and join us!

You could win a fabulous prize


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This is the grid I followed


I took the diagonal line from top left to bottom right.
There are lots of other gorgeous inspirational makes from my lovely teamies  on the blog, so make sure you check those out!

That's all from me today, but I'll be back on Monday with the La-La Land Crafts Inspiration Team.

Have a lovely Sunday, bye for now! :) xx