'Twas the night before Christmas......

Hello,

This is my lastest ever Christmas card of 2009 you will be relieved to know!

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. The background is distressed with weathered wood and the paper and snowflakes are edged with walnut stain. I have added stickles to my image and flowers. The snowflakes I have covered with dries clear glue and covered with ultra fine glitter.

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a most fabulous Christmas and a very Happy New Year! This year has meant so much to me, as your support and caring has totally blown me away. I have so loved meeting you all through my blog and count my blessings every day to know you all!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!

With much love

kim x

Last Saturday before Christmas....

Hello,

Time is marching on towards Christmas hope you are all ok.

My card today is another Christmas card. I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. I have masked Tilda in front of this sweet fence. The background is distressed with vintage photo. I have also used vintage photo to distress my paper edges and snowflakes. The snowflakes are quickutz dies and a martha stewart punch. The sentiment was sent to me by the fabulous Tab thank you so much sweetie I love it!

Thank you so much for looking and have a wonderful weekend!

love

kim x

It’s beginning to feel and lot like Christmas……..

 

Hello,

Well I hope everyone is ok. I have been dying to use this sweet image and now I have. I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. The flowers are EK success punched. I have distressed the edge with vintage photo and  added stickles. The small dots are liquid pearls.

Thank you so very much for looking. I would like to send a big hug to my amazing daughter who has nursed and cared for baby Isabella while she has been so poorly with German measles and a dreadful ear infection.  My heart goes out to all you wonderful, selfless Mothers who love and care for your babies and children when they need you the most. You are all absolutely 100% phenomenally wonderful!

love

kim x

Marvellous Monday.......

Hello,

I hope you are all well. My card today is another Christmas card. I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. The background is distressed with walnut stain and I have added my cannot live without stickles. The paper is also edged with walnut stain and some stickles. I have stamped swirls around the paper with antique linen. I have also distressed the flowers and sprayed them with glimmer mist. The heart has been glimmer misted also after some distressing.

I hope you have a great week as we get ever nearer to Christmas (gulp).

Thank you so much for looking.

love

kim x

paper 300gsm

skin - antique linen, tattered rose

clothes - milled lavender, walnut stain, black soot

shoes - vintage photo

socks - black soot

all my materials used are in the labels section for this post.

Friendship card....

Hello,

I have made a card for someone who is so very sweet and lovely. I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. I have distressed the papers with Tim's distressing tool and distressed them with vintage photo. The flowers are punched with EK Success retro flower. The tiny tags are quickutz. I have added lots of stickles to my card.

Thank you so much for looking and have a wonderful weekend!

love

kim x

paper 300gsm

skin - antique linen, tattered rose

hair - walnut stain

clothes - weathered wood, antique linen

heart - frayed burlap

black soot for shading

Wrapped Tilda for Christmas....

Hello,

I am still making Christmas cards! I really hope that you all have yours done and dusted by now!

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. I coloured the ribbon behind Tilda with frayed burlap and then sprayed some glimmer mist onto my craft sheet and picked that up with my paintbrush and coloured over the frayed burlap. This has given it such a gorgeous shimmer. I have added touches of stickle glue to her.

I have glimmer misted the flowers and then added more stickles.

The paper I have stamped snowflakes onto and around the edges. Then I have distressed with frayed burlap and stickled the edge. I also went around the edge with a pricking tool.

Thank you so much for looking and I hope your Christmas preparations are going well.

love

kim x

paper 300gsm

skin - antique linen, tattered rose,

hair - walnut stain, black soot

clothes - black soot, fired brick

A card for Christmas.....

Hello,

I hope you had a great weekend. I am in full swing Christmas card making mode. Next year I am definitely going to start early. I have so many more to make. My Magnolia image has been coloured with distress inks. I have added some stickle glue and the background is distressed with old paper and edged with walnut stain.

I have mounted the stamped sentiment onto a nestie shape and added liquid pearls. The flowers have been stickled.

Thank you so very much for looking. I would like to say a big, big, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your comments. You are so very lovely, huge hugs and kisses.

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen, tattered rose

hair - brushed corduroy, black soot

clothes - pine needles, weathered wood, scattered straw

shoes - vintage photo

socks - black soot

mistletoe - fired brick, shabby shutters

cookies - tattered rose

black soot for shading

Hello,

Hi,

I hope you are all well and having a great Saturday.

Today I have a Christmas card that I have made using the Magnolia So Jolly under the Mistletoe collection. I have coloured my image with distress ink pads and masked Tilda onto a table. I have used clears dry glue and sprinkled fine glitter onto this to get extra sprinkly spronkly on Tilda's fluffy trim. The background is distressed with tattered rose and I have die cut my shapes with nesties. I have added liquid pearls onto the scalloped circle.

I have glimmer misted my flowers and added stickle glue. I distressed the edges of my papers with Tim's distressing tool and distressed the edge with vintage photo and added gold stickle glue.

I wish you all a fabulous weekend and thank you so much for looking!

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen, tattered rose

hair - walnut stain, black soot

clothes - tattered rose, walnut stain

shoes - vintage photo

trim - black soot

table - frayed burlap, black soot

table cloth - tattered rose, stained walnut

Just Magnolia - Masking.....

Hello,

I hope you are all well and are looking forward to the weekend!

This week there is a new challenge at Just Magnolia. The challenge this week is masking. For my card I have masked three Magnolia images. Tilda, Presents and Basket of presents. I have coloured them with distress inks. The background is distressed with tattered rose and I have stamped Magnolia snowflakes in sepia versafine around the edge and distressed the edge with walnut stain.

I have added stickles to my image too. The paper has been distressed with stained walnut and I have added liquid pearls to the scalloped edge which was made using a fiskars border punch. The Magnolia hearts I distressed with tattered rose and vintage photo and edged with walnut stain.

Thank you so very much for looking and a big, big, thank you for all your comments they mean so much to me! I wish you a wonderful weekend. I have the family for Sunday lunch so looking forward to that. Please do go and see the rest of the DT creations they are just amazing!

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen, tattered rose, hair - antique linen, stained walnut, clothes - tattered rose, milled lavender, stained walnut, weathered wood, black soot, basket - frayed burlap, black soot, presents - tattered rose, fired brick, weathered wood, milled lavender, broken china, antique linen, tea dye, shoes - tattered rose, vintage photo, stained walnut, dusty concord

Just Magnolia - Sketch by Mina.....

Hello,

I hope you are all well. This week has just gone like lightning! Today is the start of a new challenge for Just Magnolia. We have a sketch for you designed by the fabulous Mina to follow. Thank you Mina this was brilliant to play with.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. I have put some dries clear glue on Santa's beard and hair and then sprinkled glitter over this for a fine shimmer. I have distressed my background with weathered wood and then stamped snowflakes around the edge with old paper. I have distressed the edges of my papers and card with Tim's distressing tool and then distressed them with vintage photo. I have also distressed my flowers with vintage photo and added stickle glue.

Thank you so very much for looking. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

love

kim x

inks used.

skin - antique linen and tattered rose

clothes - fired brick, black soot

shoes - vintage photo

lamp - frayed burlap, spiced marmalade

sack - scattered straw

hair - weathered wood

Simon Says... Thinking of you!

Hello,

I hope you are well and having a good week so far.

Today is the start of a new challenge for Simon Says Stamp. We have a new theme which is Thinking of You. I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. I have distressed the background with antique linen and vintage photo. My flowers have been sprayed with glimmer mist. I have distressed my papers and flowers with vintage photo and added stickle glue.

Please go and visit the rest of the SSS dt as their creations are just so gorgeous!

Thank you so much for visiting me I am off to teach a class at Crafts U Love today and meet some wonderful crafters!

love

kim x

skin - vintage photo, tattered rose

clothes - milled lavender

hair - brushed corduroy

wings - tattered rose

What a fabulous day.......

Hello,

Wow! what a fantastic day I had at the NEC! It was my absolute privilege to meet Jacqui and travel with her by train up to Birmingham. You are just as wonderful in real life as I thought you would be. Thank you so much Jacqui for being my travel buddy. I was so excited and happy to be asked by Barbro and John of Magnolia to demo for them in the morning. It was also my great honour to be demoing with the most fabulous, sweetest, all time brilliantly talented Tab!

Thank you so much to John and Barbro who were kindness itself. It was just the greatest pleasure to meet you both. I was just amazed to be part of such a special day. So big, big thank you's for letting me spend some time in the magical world of Magnolia!

I still can't believe that I actually met so many crafters in real life! These were some of the girls I met Marlene and Rach and their Bambino's. Bev, Marcea, Dawny P, Caz, Kim, Kim, Mel, Shirley, Jo, Tara to name but a few. It was incredible so sorry if I have missed you out, but it was a crazy day! I also met up with the Crafts U Love stand they are just so lovely Paula, Geoff and of course the wonderful, wonderful Tracy!

This is one of the projects I brought to the show. Tab had the most to die for creations too oh it is just wonderful to actually see them and hold them!

This is how my Advent calender started with these small matchboxes.

Two Bind-it-All covers.

I covered the covers with paper then I painted the matchboxes with gesso.

I then painted them inside and out with crackle paint.

I then distressed them with distress ink.

I then glimmer misted them inside and out.

I then punched out circles and stamped numbers onto them. I punched out little hearts and using pins attached them to my boxes. I cut off the pin inside and added paper to cover. I then stuck them altogether and put the top and bottom on.

This is the finished top of my calender. I have sprayed my flowers with glimmer mist and added stickles.

Here is a close up of the top.

A better view of the finished draws.

My completed Advent Calender.

Thank you so much for looking. To everyone I missed at the show I really hope that I can catch up with you another day.

love

kim x

Just Magnolia Monthly Challenge - Distressing...

Hello,

Today we start a new challenge for Just Magnolia. This is the beginning of our monthly challenge sponsored by Simon Says Stamp you could win $50 to spend in their store!

This month's challenge is distressing and the most fabulously talented Chris Dark has very kindly made a fantastic tutorial for us. Thank you Chris you are so inspiring and your card is stunning.

I have made a wall hanging. I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. I have distressed my edges with Tim's distressing tool. I have sprayed my papers with glimmer mist.

I have used a grungeboard hinge and painted crackle paint over this and then sprayed it with glimmer mist.

I have edged my papers and flowers with vintage photo. I have added loads of stickle glue over my project. My sentiment was so very kindly sent to me by the delicious Tab. Thank you so much big hugs and kisses.

I stamped the snowflake out onto acetate three times using brown stazon and then covered it with dries clear glue and sprinkled glitter over them. Then when they were dry cut them out and pined them together with a pearl brad.

Thank you so very much for looking and I urge you to go and check out the stunning creations by the Just Magnolia DT. I would like to say a big, big, thank you for all your sweet comments they really touch me thank you so much!

I will be going to the NEC in Birmingham on Saturday and I am so very excited about meeting everyone who will be going. Lots of the Just Magnolia girls will be there and I have never met them before. Tab, Bev and Marcea will be demoing on the Magnolia stand. I am also going to have a little go (yikes). It is going to be wonderful to meet them! I really hope that I can catch up with lots of you it will be fantastic to actually meet you in person as I think you are just the best on line community in the world!!!

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen, tattered rose

hair - brushed corduroy, antique linen, old paper, black soot

clothes - antique linen, weathered wood

Magnolia Winter Stamp Club...

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to post that it is the last day to order this year's Winter Magnolia Stamp Club images. Please notice ! StampClub will not include any stamps from So Jolly, Under the mistletoe or So Snowy Collection 2009 .

I would hate for any of you to miss out!

love

kim x

Just Magnolia - Monochrome.....

Hello,

I hope you are all keeping well and have had a good week.

We are starting a new challenge today at Just Magnolia and the theme this week is Monochrome. I have chosen to use shades of brown for my card. Do go and check out the rest of the DT their cards are to die for!

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. I have distressed the background with antique linen and vintage photo. I have sprayed my flowers and paper with glimmer mist and distressed the edges of flowers and paper with vintage photo.

Well, I wish you all a wonderful weekend and I would like to say a humongous thank you to everyone who has left me comments they are so appreciated and mean so much to me so thank you!

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen and tattered rose

clothes - antique linen, vintage photo

parcel - frayed burlap

hair - brushed corduroy

black soot for shading

Simon Says....All That Sparkles!

Hello,

Hope that you are well. There is a new challenge at Simon Says Stamp. The theme this week is All That Sparkles. Well, I just love this challenge as I totally love my sprinkly spronkly on my cards!

I have coloured my image with distress inks. I have added stickle glue star dust to my image, swirls and flowers.

I have edged my Magnolia papers with vintage photo. Then using glue that dries transparent I glued all my edges then sprinkled glitter over all of the glue and let it dry.

You will get a better idea if you click on the picture.

Thank you so very much for looking and enjoy the rest of the week.

love

kim x

inks used

skin antique linen and tattered rose

hair brushed corduroy, old paper and black soot

clothes milled lavender, weathered wood

shoes vintage photo

black soot for shading

Just Magnolia week 28 - Martine's sketch...

Hello,

Oh had a little glitch this morning trying to upload my post. Thank goodness all is well now!

A new challenge starts today at Just Magnolia. We have a fantastic sketch for you to follow byMartine. Thank you so much sweetie this was a dream to follow and I will love to use it again! Please go and see the rest of the DT's cards they are stunning.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. The background is distressed with antique linen and edged with vintage photo. I have also edged all my papers with vintage photo. I have sprayed my flowers with glimmer mist and added some stickle glue to them and some of my image.

I have added liquid pearls around the edge of my nestie shape.

Thank you all so much for looking and I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who sent me get well wishes. I am now on the road to recovery. Steroids are a wonderful thing! Thank you so much I really appreciated them and they really made me feel so much better!

Have a great weekend.

love

kim x

skin: antique linen, tattered rose

hair: brushed corduroy, black soot

clothes : aged mahogany, tattered rose

shoes: vintage photo

spoon: frayed burlap

Simon Says....Get Well Soon!

Hello,

Today is the start of a new Challenge for Simon Says Stamp. The challenge this week is to make a Get Well card. Which is very apt for me as I am a poorly person at the moment. Having a bad asthma episode. I hope I will be on the road to recovery soon.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. The background is distressed with tattered rose and edged with vintage photo. I have distressed my papers with Tim's distressing tool and then I have heat embossed some of the edges with embossing powder. I have also added some stickle glue around my card too. The heart has been coloured with distress inks and sprayed with glimmer mist. The lace has been distressed with vintage photo.

The rest of the team have made some gorgeous cards for your inspiration and we have a very special young lady Hanna who is joining us in the designer spotlight I am so delighted to say.

Thank you so very much for looking.

love

kim x

Just Magnolia Challenge week 27 - Bright and Zingy....

Hello,

I hope that you have had a good week and are well.

Today is the start of a new challenge for Just Magnolia. The challenge this week is Bright and Zingy! Please do have a look at the rest of the DT their creations are stunning.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. The background is distressed with spiced marmalade. I have used crackle paint on my circle and star. I have added liquid pearls around my circle. The flowers are sprayed with glimmer mist. The leaves are cut out and positioned with silicone glue. I have added stickle glue to my image, leaves and around the edge of my card. The Magnolia sentiments I have stamped with versamark and brushed perfect pearls over this and set with water misting.

I wish you all a most fabulous weekend! Thank you so much for looking and take care.

love

kim x

inks used.

antique linen, tattered rose, brushed corduroy, milled lavender, spiced marmalade, frayed burlap, vintage photo, black soot, mustard seed.

Magnolia DT - Halloween

Hello,

I hope you had a great weekend.

Today I have a Magnolia dt card using the new Halloween just released images. Well I have fallen for this little sweet Edwin. How adorable is he so cute! I have coloured my image with distress inks. I have added stickles for some spooky sparkle. The toad stalls and grave stone I have sprayed with glimmer mist. I have added clear crackle glaze to the bones on the sentiment.

Thank you so much for looking and have a great week!

love

kim x

inks used

antique linen, tattered rose, black soot, brushed corduroy, weathered wood, aged mahogany

Just Magnolia - Week 26 A Sketch by Mina....

Hello,

Nearly at the weekend now! Today is the start of a new challenge for Just Magolia. This week we have a fantastic sketch by the fabulous Mina. Thanks Mina so love using this and will definitely use it again.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. I have distressed the background with antique linen and edged with vintage photo. The circle and scalloped circle are nesties. The punched border is a fiskars punch.

Thank you so very much for looking and please do go and check the rest of the dt their designs are just awesome!

I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

love

kim x

inks used

antique linen, tattered rose, brushed corduroy, spiced marmalade, dried marigold, shabby shutters

Halloween Magnolia- DT card......

Hello,

The sun is out at last! Hope the weather is good where you are too.

I received my dt kit from Magnolia and the Halloween images are just so adorable! I have coloured my image with distress inks. I have also added stickles. The background is distressed with milled lavender and edged with dusty concord.

I have torn and distressed my paper with tim's distressing tool. They have been distressed with mustard seed and spiced marmalade. I have also glimmer misted them and added stickles to the edge. I have heat embossed the scull and crossbow sentiment and distressed with milled lavender and mustard seed. The pumpkins are 3d with silicone glue they have also been glimmered.

Thank you so very much for looking and enormous hugs and kisses for all your wonderful comments. They mean so much thank you!

love

kim x

inks used

antique linen, tattered rose, dusty concord, milled lavender, frayed burlap, vintage photo, brushed corduroy - pumpkins spiced marmalade, mustard seed, shabby shutters

A Monday Hello,

Hello,

Hope you had a great weekend. I had a wonderful day on Saturday teaching at Crafts U Love. I met the loveliest, sweetest ladies thank you all so much for making my day so enjoyable. A big, big thank you to Tracy and Heidi for looking after us all.

This is one of the cards we made.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with distress inks. The background is distressed with tattered rose. I have distressed my papers with Tim’s distressing tool and inked the edges with vintage photo. The circle is die cut with a nestie. I have sprayed my circle and flowers with glimmer mist. I have added stickles to my image and the edge of my papers.

I wish you all a wonderful week and thank you so much for looking.

love kim x

inks used – tattered rose, antique linen, brushed corduroy, frayed burlap, vintage photo

Just Magnolia week 25 - Special Monthly Challenge - Flowers....

Hello,

Can you believe that it is Friday already and October! Wow this year is so speedy!

Today we have the start of a new Monthly challenge at Just Magnolia. Which is sponsored by Heidi at Simon Says Stamps. The prize is a gift voucher of $50 to spend in the store.

The challenge for this month is to use a Handmade flower on your project and a Magnolia image.

We have the honour of Michele of My Little Space on the WWW giving us an amazing tutorial on how to make her stunning Handmade flowers. Thank you so much Michele you are truly talented and have given me so much inspiration!

I didn't have any punches to make my flower. So I stamped a flower image onto grungepaper and cut it out. Then I distressed it with fired brick and sprayed it with glimmer mist. After I made my flower I then added distress stickles to the petals. The tutorial I found to make my flower is here and it is by the most amazingly inspirational Wendy Vecchi.

I have coloured my image with distress inks. I masked Tilda onto the rolling pin. The background is distressed with tattered rose. I have added some stickles. I have used some liquid pearls on my swirl. The papers are distressed around the edges with vintage photo.

The Just Magnolia dt have made the most stunning creations and out of this world flowers please do go and check them out!

Thank you so very much for looking and I wish you all a wonderful weekend. I will be teaching at Crafts U Love tomorrow and I am so looking forward to meeting up with some fantastic crafters!

love

kim x

inks used - tattered rose, antique linen, brushed corduroy, weathered wood, milled lavender and black soot for shading.

Magnolia bookmark......

Hello,

I hope you are all well. Today I have a bookmark to show you that I made for my sweet fellow Magnolia DT member Hanna. I won a competition that Hanna was running on her blog to win a card made by Hanna. I was so happy to have won this and when I received it, it was out of this world beautiful. This bookmark is just a little thank you.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with Ranger distress inks. The Magnolia delicious papers have been distressed with Tim's distressing tool and then sprayed with glimmer mist and the edges have been distressed with vintage photo. I have added some paper artsy swirls around the edge with versafine sepia. I have added crackle paint to the heart and tag and spritzed them with glimmer mist. The letters are cuttlebuged.

This is the back of the bookmark. I have stamped my Magnolia heart keyhole with versafine sepia. Coloured with distress ink and sprayed with glimmer mist. I have then added stickle glue around the edge. The scalloped oval is a cuttlebug die and distressed with vintage photo.

This is the card that I won from Hanna. Isn't it absolutely beautiful. Thank you Hanna I will treasure this.

Thank you so much for looking. Have a wonderful day and take care.

love

kim x

inks used - antique linen, tattered rose, brushed corduroy, fired brick, faded jeans, weathered wood, frayed burlap

Just Magnolia Week 24 - A Colour Combo....

Hello,

Today is the start of a brand new challenge at Just Magnolia. This week the challenge is to use the colours Pink and Grey with the option of Black.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with Ranger distress inks. The background is distressed with tattered rose. I stamped my swirls with Versafine grey and then added silver stickles. The star is a cuttlebug die.

I have used a sakura clear glitter pen to faux stitch around the edge of my papers. The border is punched with a Matha Stewart punch. The flowers are Prima. My Hero arts sentiment is stamped with black versafine.

Thank you so much for looking. Have a wonderful weekend. My Son's German girlfriend is arriving to stay tomorrow and I am having the family around for a Sunday roast going to have lots of cuddles with Luca and Isabella can't wait!

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen, tattered rose

hair - black soot

clothes - worn lipstick, tattered rose, black soot

Tremendous Thursday......

Hello,

Hope your week is going well. My card today is coloured with Ranger distress inks. My background is coloured with faded jeans. I have masked my Tilda and added stickles to some of my image and the butterflies.

I have distressed my flowers with frayed burlap and sprayed them with glimmer mist. I have distressed my Magnolia papers with Tim's distressing tool and distressed them with frayed burlap. I have stamped my Magnolia sentiment with versafine sepia.

Thank you so very much for looking and a huge thank you for all your lovely comments and support it really warms my heart thank you!

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen and tattered rose

clothes - tattered rose, faded jeans

shoes - vintage photo

flowers butterflies - faded jeans

leaves - shabby shutters

banner - weathered wood

hair - brushed corduroy

shading black soot

Just Magnolia Bev’s sketch – week 23……

Hello,

Today starts another challenge for Just Magnolia. This week we have a wonderful sketch by the one and only fabulous Bev. I loved your sketch Bev thank you so much I will definitely use this again. The rest of the JM dt have made the most beautiful cards please do go and check them out.

I have coloured my Magnolia Tilda with distress inks. The background is distressed with weathered wood and edged with frayed burlap. I have also distressed my papers with these colours.

I have distressed my flowers and leaves with frayed burlap and added stardust stickles. The charm on my bow is from the candy I won from the amazing Hanne thank you Hanne I am still using so much of your fabulous candy.

Thank you so much for looking and I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

love kim x

inks used: skin-antique linen, tattered rose hair-brushed corduroy, antique line, black soot top and apron-weathered wood, broken china, trousers-weathered wood shoes and basket-frayed burlap blueberries-weathered wood,dusty concord

A Magnolia Wednesday.......

Hello,

I hope everyone is well and your week is being good. I have made a card today using my Magnolia stampclub kit. They are just so super adorable and I am now officially in love with the new Magnolia papers. They are just everything I love in a paper. Wonderful designs, delicious colours and amazing quality yep definitely in love with them.

I have coloured my image with distress inks. On the knife and fork that I masked Tilda onto and the pears. I have also added some silver glimmer mist it gives such a gorgeous shimmer. The background is distressed with tattered rose and edged with frayed burlap. I have dotted around the edge of my image card some liquid pears.

To stamp my sentiment. I first inked up the sentiment with tattered rose. Then using versafine sepia I just ink the wording. Then added some stickle glue in stardust. I have used Tim's distressing tool to distress the edges of my papers and distressed the edges with frayed burlap.

I have had the pleasure of receiving this award from the lovely Nina. Thank you so much I am just delighted to have been given this by you!

I would like to pass this award onto everyone who visits me as a thankyou for all your wonderful support! Thank you so much for looking.

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique line, tattered rose

dress and handles - aged mahogany

cutlery - black soot

blouse, socks - tattered rose

hat - weathered wood

shoes - frayed burlap

hair - brushed corduroy

Magnolia Wall Hanger......

Hello,

Today I have made a wall hanger which I am going to swap with Ann. Ann is so mega talented and I am feel so happy that we are doing this and can't wait until I receive Ann's creation.

I have coloured my Magnolia image with Tim Holtz distress inks. I have distressed my background and papers with tattered rose and edged them with walnut stain. I have also sprayed my papers and flowers with glimmer mist. I have added stickles to my image and flowers for some sprinkly spronkly.

The lace was a gift from the sweet and wonderful Vanessa. Big hugs and kisses I just love it.

I have crackle painted the grungeboard hinge with picket fence and distressed this with tattered rose. Then I have sprayed this with glimmer mist. The Martha Stewart butterflies I distressed with walnut stain and covered them with stickles.

Thank you so much for looking and I wish you all a wonderful Sunday and a great week!

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen, tattered rose

dress - tattered rose, weathered wood, vintage photo,

socks - tattered rose

hair - brushed corduroy

black soot for shadow

Happy Birthday Heidi……..

Hello,

I hope you are all well. I have made a card for Heidi from Simon Says Stamps as she is celebrating her birthday and I would like to join in the celebrations as Heidi is just the loveliest lady. 

I thought I would also join in with the Simon Says Stamps challenge and have made my card using the sketch by Iris. Unfortunately, I am too late to enter as I have missed this deadline. Never mind I still loved using your sketch Iris thank you.

I have coloured my Tilda  image with distress inks. The background is distressed with tattered rose and edged with vintage photo as are the papers which I am in love with from Magnolia. I have added stickles around my image and liquid pearls on the oval behind.

The flowers are distressed with vintage photo and sprayed with glimmer mist. The little butterflies are a tiny punch and I have added liquid pearls in the middle. 

 

I have also been given this award by the lovely Poppy.

Thank you so much Poppy you are so sweet to think of me.

Well thank you so much for looking and take great care.

love kim x

inks used

face – vintage photo, tattered rose dress,shoes,scarf – tattered rose, top, slip and socks weathered wood, black soot, spoon – frayed burlap, black soot, hair – brushed corduroy, antique linen.

Hello Weekend....

Hello,

Today I have made a card using the Magnolia Summer Lazy Days Collection.

I have coloured my image with distress inks and have distressed the background with weathered wood.

The flowers and leaves are quickutz dies and have been distressed with frayed burlap. The borders have been stamped with sepia versafine.

Today I am off to Crafts U Love to spend the day teaching and meeting some lovely ladies. I wish you all a wonderful weekend.

love

kim x

inks used

Weathered wood

broken china

frayed burlap

mustard seed

shabby shutters

tattered rose

fired brick

antique linen

black soot for shadow

Award....

Hello,

I have received this award from the lovely and very talented Lyn

Thank you so much for your award Lyn I am delighted and honoured to receive this from you.

I would like to pass this onto all of the visitors to this blog as a thank you for your wonderful support to me.

Have a great weekend.

love

kim x

Papertake Weekly Challenge.......

Hello,

I hope you are are well and having a good start to your week.

Today is a very special day for me as I have the absolute honour of being the guest for this week's Papertake Weekly Challenge. Thank you so very much girls for inviting me I am thrilled to join you all, and Dawn it was a such a pleasure to use your wonderful sketch I am so going to use this again!

Here is Dawn's fabulous sketch.

I have coloured my image with distress inks. The background is distressed with tattered rose. I have masked this sweet Tilda so that she is sitting on the strawberry. The Magnolia's are from the Summer Lazy Days collection. That beautiful lace is from the lovely Bev thank you so much sweetie I love it! The heart is die cut using the cuttlebug.

Well, thank you so very much for looking and please do go and check out the cards made by the uber talented Papertake Weekly dt they are just amazing! Thank you so much Dawn and girls for this wonderful opportunity!

I would like to say a huge big, big, thank you for all your comments. I am so very grateful for all your support from the bottom of my heart.

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen, tattered rose,

dungarees - tattered rose

t shirt - weathered wood

shoes - antique line, frayed burlap

strawberry - fired brick, shabby shutters

leaves - shabby shutters, pine needle

Hello,

Thank you all so much for entering my Magnolia Blog Candy and spreading the word.

I have put the numbers into Random org widget thingy.

The winning number is 122

The winner is Sarita!

Please could you email me your address Sarita and I will send this straight off to you.

love

kim x

Magnolia Blog Candy!!!

Hello,

I hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend.

Magnolia have so very generously sent me some extra stamps from the Summer Lazy Days Collection. So I thought I would celebrate the start of my Magnolia Only blog and offer these as blog candy! I have also added some of my favorite flowers that I love to use on my cards for you.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and spread the word on your blogs. It is open to everyone and I will post worldwide.

Candy now Closed

Good luck!

love

kim x

Just Magnolia Monthly challenge - August....

Hello,

Today is the start of a new monthly challenge for Just Magnolia. For the month of August. The challenge will be to make a 3d card. The amazingly talented Debby has given us a most fantastic tutorial which has been such a wonderful help to me so big thanks Debby.

Also this month's prize is a very generous $50!!! donated by our monthly challenge sponsor Simon Says Stamps how great is that!

I have coloured my Magnolia images with distress inks. The background has been distressed with tattered rose. I have also added stickles to Tilda and the butterfly for some sprinkly spronkly.

Here is the card from a funny angle to see the 3d effect more easily.

Thank you so much for looking and please go check out the other most gorgeous cards made by JM's dt!

love

kim x

Distress inks used.

skin - antique linen, tattered rose

hair - antique linen, scattered straw, black soot

dress - milled lavender, black soot

blouse - black soot

trousers - weathered wood, black soot

shoes - milled lavender, antique linen

bike and flowers - milled lavender, dusty concord, scattered straw black soot

butterfly - milled lavender, dusty concord, tattered rose

Magnolia Stamp Club reminder......

Hello,

I thought I better remind you just in case you were planning on ordering the Magnolia StampClub Fall Collection of stamps. That the last day to order is the 16th of August. I would hate for you to miss out.

Here is a sneek peek for you!

Also, Magnolia are giving you the chance to win Halloween stamps and patterned paper's here's the link to go see!

love

kim x

Just Magnolia week 17 - Martine's sketch....

Hello,

Can you believe it is Friday already! We have the start of another challenge on Just Magnolia. This week we have a sketch by the wonderful Martine. Thank you so much for your great sketch Martine. Please do check out the JM's dt cards they are divine!

I have coloured my card with distress inks. I have distressed the background of my card with antique linen. I have distressed the papers with old paper.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for looking.

love

kim x

inks used

skin - antique linen and tattered rose

hair - antique linen, old paper, black soot, brushed corduroy, frayed burlap

blouse - antique linen, black soot

top - weathered wood, black soot

shorts - antique linen

socks - black soot

shoes - weathered wood, black soot

Splish, Splash, Splosh......

Hello,

Today I have a Magnolia dt card I made using the Lazy Summer Days collection. I have coloured my image with distress inks. The frame was made by embossing a nestie shape onto my card. I have masked Tilda onto her bathing ring the background is distressed with milled lavender.

I was also asked if I could list the colours of inks I use when colouring my image. So here goes I hope you will find this useful.

skin - antique linen and tattered rose

bathing suit - milled lavender and black soot

water - weathered wood and black soot

hair - old paper, brushed corduroy and black soot

ring - shabby shutters and black soot

Thank you so much for looking!

love

kim x

Your so sweet - Magnolia dt card.....

Hello,

Hope your weekend is going well. I have woken to a most beautiful day so I hope that the weather is being kind to you too.

This is a Magnolia dt card using the Lazy Summer Days kit. I have coloured my image with distress inks. The sentiment is stamped out in versafine sepia, distressed with tattered rose and sprayed with glimmer mist. I have die cut the flowers using quickutz. The butterfly and small roses were in my dt kit.

I have been given this award from the lovely Linda. Thank you so much for thinking of me you are so very kind.

Have a wonderful Sunday and thank you so much for looking.

love kim x

Just Magnolia week 16 - Distressing....

Hello,

I hope your week has been a good one and that you are looking forward to the weekend. We have a new challenge for you over at Just Magnolia. This week's challenge is one of my favorites Distressing. So loved doing this challenge and you should see the rest of the teams work just so gorgeous.

I have coloured my image with distress inks. I have distressed my background and papers with old paper and frayed burlap. I have also sprayed glimmer mist onto my card oh I just love this gorgeous effect here is a close up so you can see the fabulous glimmer.

I have added frayed burlap to my flowers and heart. I have also distressed my grungeboard hinge using distress embossing powder. The leaves have been punched out using my new Martha Stewart punch on I love my new purchase might have to be getting some more of these.

Well thank you so much for looking and have a wonderful weekend!

love

kim x

Surfing Tilda Magnolia DT card.....

Good Morning,

I hope your week is going well. Today I have a card using the new soon to be released Summer Lazy Days collection from Magnolia. I have coloured my image with distress inks. I have added some stickles and I have stamped the sun with versamark and then brushed some perfect pearl powder over this to give a shimmery sun. All the papers and detail were in my Magnolia DT kit.

Thank you so much for looking!

love

kim x

Jungle Tilda......

Hello,

I hope you all had a great weekend. I would like to say a very big thank you to everyone who came and said hello at my demo and classes at Crafts U Love. It was a joy to see you all. You are just so very lovely and it made my weekend! A very big thank you to Paula and Geoff and all the staff at CUL who really looked after me big hugs!

This is one of the cards I made for my demo. I coloured Tilda and the hummingbirds with distress inks. I also sprayed the birds with glimmer mist. I have distressed around the edge of the flowers with tattered rose. The corner dots are liquid pearls.

Thank you so much for looking.

love

kim x

Just Magnolia week 15 - Tab's Sketch...

Hello,

Today we start a new challenge at Just Magnolia. This week we have a sketch to follow by the most brilliantly talented Tab.

I have coloured my image with distress inks and have distressed the background with tattered rose. I have masked my image and stamped the Magnolia flowers in the background and added stickles for some sparkle. I used Tim's distressing tool on the edges of my paper and distressed with vintage photo. I have stamped onto one of my flowers polka dots and and distressed with vintage photo. The heart is a little punched shape.

Well, I wish you all a most wonderful weekend. Claire and I say a very big thank you for all your get well wishes for baby Isabella. She is so much better now you would not believe it. So sending big hugs from us to you all, your support meant so much. Thank you for looking!

love

kim x

Summer Days Magnolia DT card.....

Hello,

I have made a card today with a new image sent to me in my Magnolia Summer Lazy Days DT kit. She is just so adorable I really loved inking her up and colouring her. I used distress inks and added stickles to the flowers. I have distressed the background with broken china. The flowers are sprayed with glimmer mist. I have quickutzed the leaves.

Before I go. An update on my Saturday baby sitting 10 week baby Isabella. Poor baby was not happy at all, couldn't put her down at all, crying, then sick all over me. We didn't realise she had swine flu. Poor Claire has been out of her mind with worry trying to get the temperature down. Just as she was on the cusp of going to hospital it broke and I am so very happy to report she is on the mend now.

Thank you so much for looking.

love

kim x

A Sketch by Camilla...

Hello,

I have made a card today as I wanted to join in the stunningly talented Camilla's competition she is holding on her blog. I so loved using your sketch Camilla thank you so much it was wonderful to work with.

I have coloured my image with distress inks. The background is distressed with antique linen and frayed burlap. I have also added some frayed burlap to my flowers.

Thank you so much for looking and I hope you are enjoying you day!

love

kim x

Just Magnolia week 14 - Buttons....

Hello,

Hope you are all well. Nearly at the weekend now! Today we have the start of a new challenge at Just Magnolia. The theme this week is buttons. I have coloured my image with distress inks and added some stickle glue for a little sparkle. The background is distressed with mustard seed and broken china. I have quickutzed my flowers and distressed them with frayed burlap. My fellow dt have made the most beautiful cards so please do go a have a look you won't be disapointed.

Well I wish you all a wonderful weekend. We are having a birthday celebration for my amazing daughter Claire. I will be babysitting for the first time baby Isabella keep your fingers crossed for me!

love

kim x

Tilda's Adventure.....

Hello,

I have made a card today using images from the new Magnolia's Pet Collection.

I have coloured my card with distress inks. I have masked Jungle Tilda and stamped the waterfall background behind her. Then after I had coloured my card I masked Tilda again and sprayed glimmer mist over the background to give a soft shimmer effect. I added some stickleglue for a bit more sparkle too.

I have distressed the background with broken china and frayed burlap. The rest of the papers are distressed with frayed burlap.

Thank you so much for looking!

love

kim x

Second Monthly Challenge Just Magnolia Altered Paper Bag....

Hello,

I hope you are all well and enjoying the start to your week. Today we have the start of a new challenge on our Second Monthly Challenge at Just Magnolia. We were given the idea by our very own amazingly talented Rach to alter a paper bag. Well, panic or what! This is what I came up with and in the end I really enjoyed myself. So, thank you so much Rach for your brilliant idea.

The front of my bag I coloured my image with distress inks and distressed the background with antique linen and frayed burlap. I stamped my borders with frayed burlap too. I used the nestie die cut for my sentiment. I have distressed my flowers with frayed burlap .

These are pages from the inside. Again I have coloured with distress inks and added ribbon and lace to my layers.

These are the tags that I have tucked inside my bag. I cut some bazzill for my tag shape and distressed everything with antique linen and frayed burlap. The heart I have distressed with frayed burlap and then sprayed with glimmer mist.

This is the back of my bag I die cut my shape from my nesties and sprayed the background with glimmer mist. I then stamped onto vellum and cut out my butterfly then ran this through the cuttlebug to emboss it. Finally adding some stickle glue for glitter.

Well thank you so much for looking and I wish you all a wonderful week. Please do go and have a look at the rest of the DT's work it is just amazingly fabulous you will be overloaded with inspiration!

love

kim x