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

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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.

More than one fold

It’s midway into our More Than One Fold challenge at Totally Tilda. Our wonderful sponsor this time is

The Ribbon Girl

Prize on offer from The Ribbon Girl

is a £10 voucher to spend in store..

I was looking for patterns out in blogland and ran across Tara’s Craft Studio on Pinterest where there was a card like mine above. I loved the look of it but couldn’t find instructions for it. After I looked at it a little more I decided I could calculate the measurements, I did and it turned out fantastic!

This is the card opened.

Materials:

• Spellbinders Fancy Tags 2 
• Spellbinders Labels 10
• Tangle Tilda
• DP by Stampin Up
• Lace and flowers from my stash
• Pearl strings from Wild Orchid crafts
• McGill Pine Punch 
• Scor-tape 
• Make it Crafty blending card
• Copics 
• Memento Ink – Desert Sand

I colored Tilda with the following Copics:

• Skin – E11, E00, E000, R12
• Clothes & Cake – B97, B95, B93, B91, R85, R83, R81, E43, E42, YR21
• Hair – E27, E25, E23, E21

I would like to participate in the following challenges

• All sorts – Happy Birthday
• Crafts for Eternity – shaped
• Crafty Catz - Fancy fold or two
• It's A Magnolia Challenge:  Anything Goes

Meet Peyton Myles

Today I would like to introduce you to my newest grandson, Peyton. Peyton was born on May14th and I had the privilege of being there when he came into the world.

I am trying to find the time to scrapbook more as my grandkids are growing by leaps and bounds. I hate to admit it but I am very, very far behind.

I made a page today, Peyton’s first page of his album.

It’s always hard for me to do a boy scrapbook page but I like the way this one turned out. I am trying to do more with my card making supplies on my scrapbook pages and it is so fun! I love it!!

I used Cog Works and Steampunk Hearts chippies from Make it Crafty as my accent pieces. I colored them with Tim Holtz Distress Paints – Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Chipped Sapphire, and Pearl. After I applied the Vintage Photo I daubed the other colors on and wiped them down before they dried to give it that smudged look. I also inked the edges of the papers, photos and ribbons with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo. The It’s a Boy ribbon was white so I covered it with Antique Linen. I cut out his name using the Mistral font on my Silhouette Cameo.

Here is a close up of the chippies … so fun to work with!

Thanks for stopping by and visiting!