Featured Stamper - Heather's Birthday Card

In January each year we celebrate Elvis's birthday along with my Dear Hubby's birthday.  This year he received a super Magnolia card from our son and his wife.  Heather created another Edwin card using Copic Markers.  This time it is Edwin With Binoculars ....

Heather also used "Rowboat" another Magnolia image.  Both images are cut out and attached to the card.  Edwin is up on Dimensionals.  I hope you enjoy a few of my "featured stampers" cards.  Happy Stampin'

Featured Stamper - Heather's Christmas Card

This is a card we got from our Daughter-In-Law for Christmas.  She has discovered Magnolia stamps and Copic Markers.  The snowflakes are a MS punch.  Here is her card ....

The background paper is the now retired "Bride" DSP by Stampin' Up! and she has added Dazzling Diamonds glitter as well.  Edwin on a Sled is so cute. Thanks, Heather, for the great card.

Magnolia Card - Loving Couple

I had such fun creating this little gem!  It is for the Magnolia-Licious Challenge Blog Colour Challenge to use Pink, Red and Black!  Here is my card using "Loving Couple" by Magnolia Stamps ... .... .....

I stamped the image on Cryogen Irridescent White cardstock in Memento Black and coloured it with Copic Markers.  Here is a picture of the image close up ........

and the ribbon and bow treatment on the left hand side......

a view kind of sideways so you can see that this will definitely NOT mail in an ordinary envelope ....

This is the inside top ........

and inside bottom .....

I used the following supplies (mostly Stampin' Up!) ...
Cardstock:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Pretty In Pink, Real Red Glimmer Paper
Paper:  Sending Love Designer Series Paper (retired) with LOTS of bling!!!
Ink:  Pink Pirouette
Other:  Diamond Stickles, Heart Embossing Folder, Fancy Tags Nestie, Black Flower swirly thing from Walmart, Whisper White Organdy Ribbon, Stampin' Up! Pink Satin Ribbon Flowers, Heart Stick Pins by My Yellow Bicycle, Peony Nestie
Colouring: Copic Sketch Markers
Thanks for visiting today, I hope you have a great day!  Happy Stampin' and Maggie Hugs!
..~**~.. . ..~**~..   Glenda Mollet

Edwin With A Hat - Magnolia Card

Another colour challenge over at the Magnolia-Licioius Challenge Blog, this time the colours are Orange and Green.  I just made an orange and green Magnolia card HERE is that post, but I can't use a previously posted card, so I created another one today.  I used Edwin With A Hat and Clover Banner from the 2009 Fortune Collection......

I dug out my Island Oasis designer series paper (Stampin' Up!).  The colours in it are Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive, so those are the colours I used to colour the images on my card.  I stamped the images in StazOn black onto Stampin' Up! Watercolour Paper and used Stampin' Write Markers and an Aqua Pen to watercolour them.  This time I tried something a bit different that what I normally do, I went over the area to colour with the aqua pen first, wetting the watercolour paper a bit.  Then I dabbed on the colour with the brush end of the marker.  Then using the aqua pen I moved the colour around to where I wanted it.  I really like the results.  Here is a closer picture of Edwin, he has Star Dust Stickles on his buttons  ......

and one of the Clover Banner ......

I used Star Dust Stickles on the dots and the swirls, then Crystal Effects on the clover leaves. And this is the inside, not very fancy, but I kind of aimed this card towards masculine, the stamp is one of Yvonne Albrighton's (sorry can't find her on the net any more to provide a link), I put a Basic Rhinestone in the center of each clover leaf    ......

I loved my unexpected "snow" day today.  We had about 10 ins of snow overnight, which caused my morning class with the Sunshine Club Ladies to be cancelled.  So after some shovelling, and a walk in the snow, I created this fun and sunny card.  Thanks so much for taking time to look at my card today, I sure hope you have not been having the severe winter storms that are happening so much this year.
Bye for now. . . . . . . . .   Glenda Mollet

Magnolia Card - Edwin With Egg Basket

I coloured this image a while ago, but have just gotten around to putting it on a card.  This card was hard won, let me tell you.  It started out to be something completely different than this.  The only thing was the colours as I already had the image coloured and the DSP chosen.  After 3 incarnations, this is the end result  ... ... ...

I used some retired DSP in Baja Breeze and some new Stampin' Up! colours - Cajun Craze and Early Espresso.  The image is a Magnolia Sweden image called Edwin With Egg Basket from the 2010 Hoppy Easter Collection.  I stamped him in Stampin' Up! Basic Black on Stampin' Up! Watercolour Paper.  Then I coloured him using Stampin' Write Markers:
Hair:  Chocolate Chip
Skin:  Blush Blossom
Shirt:  Baja Breeze
Pants:  Cajun Craze, with a bit of Chocolate Chip around the middle
Basket:  So Saffron, Cajun Craze and Chocolate Chip
Boots:  Chocolate Chip
I also used Stampin' Up! punches, ribbon Stamps and Basic Pearls.  I just realized I have him floating in mid air, so will have to go fix that by putting some colour around him.  I will post a revised picture when I get it finished.
Here is an upclose picture of the coloured image ... ... ...

Ok another picture for you today.  I am in Tofino, BC on the westcoast of Vancouver Island.  The weather here has been simply amazing.  Here is a picture from last night's sunset.......

and one from today ... ... ...

Bye for now, I know it is quite long some times, between posts, but when I don't post, I am busy getting ready for classes, travelling, or spending time with our special Grandson, James.
... ... ...   Glenda Mollet   ... ... ...

Christmas All Year Long - Magnolia Blog Hop - September

It's the 25th of the month, and that means another Christmas All Year Long Blog Hop using Magnolia images.  It's also a great way to get some Christmas Cards done for very special people! 
If  you arrived from Deb Zachrich's blog, you are on the right track.  If not, go back to the Magnolia-Licious Christmas All Year Long blog and start at the beginning to see all the great creations.
My card this month uses Edwin as Santa's Helper.  This is one of the cards I created for my new class "Magnolia Monday" where I am showing stampers different methods of colouring using Stampin' Up! Markers, Water Colour Crayons, etc.  It is also Mojo Monday #155 sketch.
Enough already, here is my card.... .... .... ....

All supplies, except the stamped image and the Stickles, are Stampin' Up!  I used  the new Candy Cane Specialty Designer Series Paper for the striped piece, the scallop oval piece, and the presents piece on the top.  It has red bling on the stripes!  Whisper White, Garden Green and Real Red are the cardstock colours I used.  Edcwin is sitting on a stripe of Real Red Satin Ribbon.  I used the Tag and Small Tag punches to punch out for the sentiment, then I did not have one to fit it.  So I just hand wrote in the sentiment I wanted.  Two of the new Glimmer Brads in the top corners finish off the card.  I love all the new blingy products in the new Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalogue, oh my!!!
Edwin is stamped in StazOn ink, on Water Colour Paper, and coloured in with Stampin' Write Markers and an Aqua Pen.  Then I used lots of Star Dust Stickles on the fur parts of his costume.
Here is a closer picture of Edwin.....

Thanks for joining our Blog Hop today.  Your next stop is  Jessica Hammond, and I know she has a fabulous card all ready for you.
Happy Stampin' .... .... .... .... Glenda Mollet

Heartbreaker Edwin Magnolia Card Share

Wow, can't believe I've had such a productive day, this is card #4 for today!!!  The first time I saw this stamp I knew I needed to adopt him.  I was so enamoured of the stamp, that I told my friend Candy that I needed to adopt him and was going to order him.  Good thing Candy was on the ball as I had already pre-ordered him!!!!  I coloured this image quite a while ago and finally go around to creating a card out of it.  This is for the Magnolia-licious April Sketch Challenge.  Here's my creation.....

And here is a picture of the flowers upclose.....

And this is an upclose of the bling I added to the leaves, the background paper and the paper under the butterflies........

And this is the inside, its very plain.........

I am very limited in the supplies I can use, I only have what I brought with me in 4 shoe boxes, and 3 plastic containers.  Its quite interesting to figure out some "pretties" for a card like this with limited supplies.  I do not own any of the fancy flowers so I have to create all my own.  I did buy some flower punches and this uses 2 of them.  The greenery is the branch from the Stampin' Up! XL 2 Step Bird punch, and the branches are a MS punch.  I used 5 layers for the bottom strip.  The first one is Chocolate Chip, then Bashful Blue that has been embossed with Irridescent Ice Embossing Powder (SU).  I put these together and punched the edge of them with the SU Curly Label punch.  Then my new MS butterfly punch, then another layer of Bashful Blue (outlined with a clear glitter pen) and finally a strip of Sweet Pea DSP.  So many layers made me have to pop Edwin up on double dimensionals!  The background papers are Sweet Pea DSP from Stampin' Up!. I made up some Shimmer Paint Spritz with 70% Rubbing Alcohol and Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint (SU) and liberally spritzed it all over the small backround piece, the flowers, all the greenery, and inside on all the DSP pieces.  It really looks shimmery in real life.  I sure wish there was some way to take a picture to show all the shimmer, but you will just have to take my word for it.

The flowers are 2 sizes of daisy punches - 2 layers of each size - in bashful blue and apricot appeal.  I put a round fire rhinestone brad in the middle of each one, then spritzed well with my shimmer spritz.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog, I appreciate each visit and all the wonderful comments you leave.  I wish I had time to reply to each one of them, but please know how much I enjoy reading them.

Bye for now.................Glenda Mollet