Inspired by a song–On the Good Ship Lollipop

We have a new challenge starting today at Totally Tilda and the theme is Inspired by a song. You need to think of a song title and make a card or project inspired by the song title itself, not something the song reminds you of. Your card must clearly represent the song and
you must clearly mark your post with the name of the song ....

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I loved watching Shirley Temple movies when I was a little girl and one of my favorite songs was on the Good Ship Lollipop which is what I have fashioned my card from. I made a circle easel card and cut the center out to make it look like a life preserver. I then wrapped ribbon around it and mounted it to the front of my card. I colored Tilda with Copics and added flowers from Wild Orchid crafts.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting. Be sure to hop on over to Totally Tilda and check out all of the Tildarettes creations.

Blast from the past

Meet Desiree from Make it Crafty. She is one of the adorable ladies from an older collection, 60’s Girlfriends. I felt like coloring a scene today so I used several elements from the Urban collection also from Make it Crafty. Working with the 60’s girlfriends reminds me of being a teenager and this scene brings back memories of those days. Remember boomboxes as they used to be called? You hardly see them anymore and really no reason to with cell phones and iPods.

This is a full picture of my scene. The scene turned out like I imagined but then I didn’t know what to do with it on a card so decided on a clean card with the scene being the focal point. I couldn’t just set the image on the DP so I added woven fibers (and for the life of me I cannot remember what it is called …. ugh) behind the matted scene. It’s still a little plain but there is a lot going on in the scene so just left it as you see it.

I colored my scene with the following Copics:

• Skin – E11, E21, E00, E000
• Hair – E49, E47, E37, E23
• Clothes – E55, E53, E51, E50, BG99, BG96, BG93, BG90, R29, R24, R22
• Chain link fence – C6, C4, C2
• Brick wall – E09, E13, W4, W3, E51, E50
• Sidewalk – W6, W5, W3, W2, W1
• Boombox – T8, T6, T4

I am entering this in the following challenges:

• Digi Haven – anything goes
• Crafting with dragonflies – card for a girl
• Digistamps 4 Joy – to be young again
• Papertake Weekly – anything goes
• Through the Craftroom Door – anything goes
• Color Me Creative Classroom – brown hair

Thanks for stopping by and visiting.

Totally Tilda DT Call

Yes, it is that time again. If you are a visitor to my blog you know that I design for Totally Tilda but the term is nearing it’s end. This is one of the most fun, best bunch of ladies I have had the pleasure of being a part of and I would like to continue on. If I do not make it back that is OK too because it has been a memorable year ….. so before I show you my card I want to send a shout out to all of the lovely Tildarettes and say thanks for the memories .

So, the theme for the DT call is Summer and as soon as I saw the theme I knew what I was going to do because to me summer is sunshine, lovely scenery and barbecue’s. It is a time for family and friends and just enjoying the lovely weather so here is my take on the challenge.

The supplies I used on my card are:

• Burger Tilda
• Flowers from Wild Orchid
• Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon
• Papers from TrimCraft – Family Ties
• Magnolia Doohickeys tag
• Make it Crafty Blending card
• Rainbow – Dandelion digi stamp from Make it Crafty
• Aussie barbecue digi stamp from Make it Crafty
• Copics 
• Pearls

This is a close up of Tilda.

I colored her,  and the scenery with the following Copics:

• Skin – E11, E00, E000, R11
• Clothes – R27, R24, R22, E31, E30
• Hair – E33, YR23, YR20
• Scenery – R27, R24, R20, YR16, YR14, YR12, Y17, Y15, Y13, G07, G05, G03, B26, B24, B23, C3, C2, C8, C7, C6, C5, C4, C3, C1, E51, E07, E04, E99, E97, E95, E93, Y38, Y35, Y32, B000, YG67, YG63, YG61, YG95, G29
• Distress markers – Shabby Shutters, Pine Needles, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Crushed Olive

Thanks for stopping by and visiting. Wish me luck!

Congratulations!

It's that time of year ... summer and weddings. My daughter recently got married so I used the adorable Just Married Car. 

I tried a new technique, at least for me, by adding a sunset in the distance. I started with my darkest color and just kept blending them out finishing with my lightest color (listed below). After I colored the sunset I colored the background. All in all I am pleased with the outcome. Why not try something a little out of your comfort zone, you might be surprised by the outcome. After all it's all about creating, doing what you love and having fun in the process.

Make it Crafty supplies

Just Married Car digi stamp

Blending card

Other supplies

Copics

Characters - E11, E00, E000, E27, E25, E23, E49, E59, E57

Car - R85, B18, B16, B14, R27, R24, R22, C7, C6, C5, C4, C3, C2, C1, E55, N8, N6, N4

Sun and sky - YR18, YR16, YR15, YR12, Y17, Y15, Y13, Y11, B0000

Ground - W7, W6, W5, W4, W3, W2

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Hello Friend

Today starts a new challenge at Totally Tilda …. Going Postal. For this challenge we want to see your Tilda creation with a postal theme including postmarks.

Our generous sponsor is Bunny-Zoe crafts

And the Prize is

I chose to create an Easel card with Bright Tilda.

I used the following materials:

• Spellbinders Card Creator Fancy Postage Stamp 
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Vintage Photo and Tea Dye
• Tim Holtz Collage 8 x 8 paper
• Bright Tilda
• Flowers and pearls from Wild Orchid 
• Copics
• Make it Crafty blending card 

A close up of Tilda

• Skin – E11, E00, E000, R12
• Clothes – R89, R59, R56, N7, N5, N4
• Flowers – YG95, YG93, R24, R22, R21
• Hair – E35, YR24, YR21
• Ground – W5, W4, W3, W2

Thanks for stopping by and visiting and be sure to stop on over at Totally Tilda and enter our challenge.

Imagine the unimaginable

On Mother’s Day, Zoe of Make it Crafty gave the Facebook group this wonderful digital image. Her name is Lilli Faye and she will be available in the store soon. I had some time today so wanted to color her up. Now let me tell you, several times I about started over but decided no, keep going. I wanted to try the sheer coloring that I haven’t done before and although it is not perfect I kept moving forward. I decided when I started her wings (the last part) that I liked how she was turning out. So glad I kept going forward. I am really happy with the outcome too. Here she is all finished and mounted on a card.

I’m not one to deviate from the norm but I am glad that I did with this one. As I was coloring her I thought I will probably try her again but do a different skin color …. hmmm, wonder what color.

I printed her on to Make it Crafty Blending Card and colored her with the following Copics:

• Skin – E11, E00, E000, B66, B63
• Clothes, hair and wings – B69, B66, B63, B60, YR23

I added some Tim Holtz Rock Candy glitter to the insides of each wing for a little glamour. For the ribbon on the side I used Make it Crafty Fancy Ribbon Sliders and Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dauber – Pearl. The papers are by Papermania – Burleigh collection.

I would like to participate in the following challenges:

• Digi Makeover Challenge– anything goes
• Get Inky! – glitter
• No Matter Which Challenges – things with wings
• Di's Digis Designs – winged things
• Stampin’ for the weekend – monochrome
• Crafty Ribbons – anything goes with ribbon

Thanks for stopping by and visiting, have a great week.

On a roll

I would like to say that I am catching up with my scrapbooking but that wouldn’t be the truth but I did manage to get three pages done yesterday .

This page is one of my granddaughters, who by the way is now five (gulp), when she was about 1 month old.

The main piece in this project is Spellbinders Parisian Accents dies. I used the long die strip and the corner pieces to make the frame around the picture and then the circle for the smaller pictures. I also used Spellbinders Standard Circles Small to cut out the small pictures.

This is a close up of the frame around the picture.

And also the small picture frame.

Do you scrapbook and use your Spellbinders dies on your pages? I love doing this because it gives the pages such elegance.