Christmas All Year Long - Magnolia Blog Hop - January 2011

Welcome to the very first Christmas All Year Long blog hop of 2011, showcasing Magnolia stamps.
If you have arrived from Danielle Champagne's blog, you are on the right track.  If not hop back to the Magnlia-Licious Christmas All Year Long blog and start at the beginning.  You don't want to miss a single one of these awesome cards.
Here's my submission for the blog hop - Snowy Hugs .....

I used all Stampin' Up! cardstock, designer series papers, ribbon, and markers to colour the image.  The DSP is retired as is the Sage Shadow cardstock.  Here is a list of what I used, including a colouring list:

Stamps:  Snowy Hugs - Magnolia stamp, Stampin' Up! sentiment

Ink:  StazOn Black, Sage Shadow

Paper:  Wintergreen DSP (retired)

Cardstock:  Sage Shadow (retired), Always Artichoke, Watercolour paper, Whisper White

Other:  MS Snowflake punch, SU XL Tag and Lg Tag punches, My Minds Eye Lucious Rhinestones, Liquid Applique (snow on trees), White Flocking (fur on hats and coat), Stampin' Up! White Organza and White Organdy ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Star Dust Stickles

Colouring:  Stampin' Write Markers, Aqua Painter

Colours:  Trees - Mellow Moss; bench - Cajun Craze, Going Gray; Coat - Real Red, Bravo Burgundy; Pants - Brocade Blue; Snowy - Bashful Blue; Buttons - Early Espresso; Boots - Basic Gray, Going Gray; Mitts - Going Gray; Face - Blush Blossom, Pretty In Pink; Broom - Close To Cocoa, Chocolate Chip; Hair - Daffodil Delight, So Saffron, Close To Cocoa; Sky - Ballet Blue; Path - Cramy Caramel, Close To Cocoa; Rocks - Close To Cocoa; Light Post - Basic Gray, Summer Sun

I hope you are enjoying our Blog Hop, your next stop is Jessica Hammond.  Hop on over to see her awesome creation.  Thanks for visiting, have a super duper day!!  Glenda Mollet

Magnolia Card - Tilda (new) - Mojo Monday 172

Ahhhh, I had such wonderful time creating this card.  I love it when I get time to create a card just because.  I wanted to make a card for this week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 172.  I love these sketches, they work so well with all different kinds of cards.  Here is the card I made this week .... .... .... ....

This is one of the new Magnolia stamps that I got recently.  This Tilda is not even released yet so I don't know her name.  She is one of the cutest ones so far, tho.  I love the balloon.  I stamped her with half of Open Gate from the 2010 Hoppy Easter Collection.  When I got this stamp, I cut it in half so I could use it singly, or spread it apart further.  Here is a different view .......

You can see a bit of the 3D effect I did on the flowers that are growing up the fence.  I stamped the 3 open buds again on watercolour paper, coloured them and popped them up on dimensionals.  Then I added a teeny, tiny pearl to the center of each one.....

I punched a piece of Orchid Opulence cardstock with a MS punch (the latticey one) then slipped a piece of Old Olive cardstock behind the lattice part.  Then I ran some Old Olive 1-1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon around the card.  Tilda was stamped on watercolour paper using StazOn black ink, then I coloured her with Stampin' Up! Markers and an Aqua Pen using a watercolour technique.  Then it was time to cut her out. I used the "out of the box" technique and the largest round nestability.  The black circle was cut using my Circle Cutter Plus.  Here is a closer view of Tilda .....

I used a mixture of companies for the supplies for this card.
Stamps:  Magnolia - Tilda (new), Stampin' Up! Happy Birthday from Messages For Mom
Ink:  StazOn Black
Designer Paper:  Stampin' Up! Cottage Wall (retired)
Cardstock:  All Stampin' Up! - Naturals White, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Orchid Opulence (retired), Basic Black, Watercolour paper
Other:  Punch - Martha Stewart: Lattice; Punches - Stampin' Up!: Modern Label, Movers and Shapers Die, Circle Cutter; Nestabilities - largest circle. Old Olive 1-1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Crystal Effects, Basic Pearls, dollar store rhinestones
Colouring: Stampin' Write Markers, Aqua Pen and Watercolour Paper (all Stampin' Up!)
I also did a bit of 3D-ing on the inside. I stamped the Old Olive swirl on Naturals White cardstock, then stamped the flowers in Orchid Opulence and Rich Razzleberry (stamped off once), cut them out and popped them up on dimensionals.  A few Basic Rhinestones were applied to the middle of each flower.......

There you go, another Magnolia creation!  Now I can't wait to get some birthdays so I can start to give these little sweethearts away.  This one will be my Maggie Monday class card in March, so she will be around a bit yet.  If you want to come and create this card, just email me and we can make arrangements.
Bye for now ... ... ...  Glenda Mollet

Morning Cup - Mojo Monday 169

Merry Christmas Everyone!  Ho Ho Ho .... .... ....

When I saw this week's Mojo Monday 169 sketch, I knew I had to create something with it.  I recently got the Stampin' Up! set "Morning Cup".  I know, I know, what took me so long.  Well I am basically a "floral" card maker, but all at once this set hit me and I had to order it.  It is really fun to create cards with it.  I made my December Thank You cards out of it as well.  Here is the Thank You card I created . . . .

I bought the wheel, Take A Sip, as well and had a lot of fun using it too.   And here is the card .. ... ....

I used my very favourite designer series paper, Elegant Soiree!  This paper is like comfort food to my eyes.  To create the scalloped corners on the DSP, I used the Scallop Circle Punch, then added Basic Rhinestones on the curves.  I did a watercolour technique on the stamped images with Stampin' Write Markers and an Aqua Pen.

Here is the recipe for this card (all Stampin' Up!):

Stamps - Morning Cup, Occasional Quotes

Ink - Basic Black

Markers - Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive

Paper - Elegant Soiree DSP, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Watercolour Paper

Other - Aqua Pen, Marina Mist Taffeta Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/8" Circle Punch, Corner Rounder Punch

Season' Greetings to you and your family, and I hope all is well in your corner of the world!

Glenda Mollet