A Big Bunch of Love

Happy Monday Friends,

I thought I would start the week with a big bunch of flowers for you.

This adorable Tilda is from the

Sweet Christmas Dreams Collection - Tilda with Winter Flowers

She is a favourite from the collection and I love how she is sooooooo perfect for so many other occasions not just Christmas.

Speaking of favourites, I love love love these new

Doohickey Dies from Magnolia - Edwin Lace and Vintage Mistletoe

and I have also used an old favourite Bon Voyage Foliage.

I hope you have time to play with your Magnolia stamps this week.

It would be great to see you enter our challenges over on our TOMIC Blog sometime soon too.

TOMIC Challenge # 32 - Pink & a bow

Happy New Year to all my gorgeous Blogging Friends,

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

I apologise for not blogging much lately, I have had a few health problems again. I finished up at work just before Christmas and now hope to have a bit more time and energy to enjoy playing with my Maggies and visiting all your wonderful blogs for some inspiration.

Anyways enough about me, it's time for a new Challenge at

TOMIC - Challenge # 32

Monochromatic pink + bow 

this week we want to see pink as your main colour.

You can use touches of other colours too, but be sure that

pink remains the main one.

We also want you to use a bow somewhere on your creation,

it can be as an embellishment, a chipboard, a ribbon, a charm.

I hope you will join us this week, you could be the lucky winner of Magnolia's surprise package.

Magnolia Supplies:

Stamp - Tilda with Heart Balloons - Sweet Crazy Love Collection.

Doohickey - Romantic Lace (Border) & Tilda Tag

Paper - Pink Plaid - Sweet Rainbow Collection

Other supplies

Flowers, Doily, Lace, ribbon, pearls & other dies  from various companies

Coloured with Copics - Pinks R85, 83, 81, 00, 000, 0000.

I love this sweet Tag - Doohickeys - Tilda Tag & Romantic Lace

I hope you will stop in at TOMIC to see all the other Design Teams gorgeous creations.

TOMIC Challenge 25 - Animal Mania

Oops, I thought I had scheduled my post.

Please accept my apologies for my very late post.

I hope you had some fun and joined in with our

TOMIC Challenge 25 - Animal Mania

use any Magnolia Animal and Magnolia Paper to be in the draw to win.

I have used Tilda with Lace Jeans & Magnolia with Butterfly - both from

Magnolia's Butterfly Dreams Collection

Papers & Doohickey are also from Magnolia

Coloured with Copics.

Thanks for joining.

TOMIC Challenge 22 - Create a Basket

Happy Friday Friends,
Just in case you haven't been by TOMIC's latest challenge this week, it is to make a basket. I hope you will stop by and have a look at the Design Teams inspirational baskets, so many different styles to choose from and Kianel has made a tutorial. It's not my turn this week, but I love the idea and decided to join in at the last minute. This time of year they come in very handy for those extra little gifts full of little Christmas goodies, and what better selection of adorable images to use then Magnolia's newest collection - Sweet Christmas Dreams 2011.

Sweet Christmas Dreams Text & Holly - Christmas Love

Sweet Christmas Tilda

Halo Tilda

A Little Gift Tilda - this one is perfect for so many occasions

Side View

View from the top

In this photo you can see some of Magnolia's Doohickey Dies - Bon Voyage foliage

Flowers from Wild Orchid Craft & Prima

So  many photos, but so many wonderful new stamps in this gorgeous new collection - Sweet Christmas Dreams 2011. I couldn't decide on just a few, so I have so many more still to come very soon. Thanks for looking, have a great weekend. 

Happy Halloween Friends,

Not many Aussie's celebrate Halloween, but I admit I do have a little bit of a devil in me and love to colour these adorable images.

Even though this adorable Magnolia image, Brother & Sister is not a Halloween stamp, I thought they were the perfect choice, Tilda looks a little afraid of the big scary haunted house and brother Edwin is giving her a supporting little hug, so sweet.

Stamps - Magnolia Brother & Sister - Autumn 2010 Collection

Text - Magnolia - So Spooky Collection 2009

Haunted House - Kraftin Kimmie

Doohickey Dies - Heart Swirl

Flowers from Magnolia, Wild Orchid Crafts and Prima

Coloured with Copics

Wow, have you seen the gorgeous baskets this week at TOMIC, the Design Team have excelled once again, so much inspiration, it is not my turn this week but I will be be back to join in the fun, such a perfect gift for those yummie Christmas goodies, hope you will join in also.

TOMIC Challenge 19 - Magnolia Forever

Welcome Magnolia Lovers,

It's time for another TOMIC Challenge

(The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge Blog)

Challenge # 19 Magnolia Forever

 We ask you to use a sitting Tilda/Edwin & a Doohickey Die Cut

This week should be a nice easy week for you, there are so many to choose from. Did you know Magnolia are famous for their sitting images. The hardest thing this week, was deciding which adorable image to use and of course I love their Doohickey Dies, I have used 4, it should have been 5 but I forgot to put my leaves on bahahaha. If you would like to be in the random draw to win a fabulous surprise pack from the Magnolia Sweden then start stamping, you have until next Saturday to be in the running.

Magnolia Stamp Tilda with Butterfly Jeans - Butterfly Dreams

Magnolia Doo Hickey Dies - Angel Wing, Tilda Lace Die (Border), Scalloped Tag, Butterfly Swirl

Magnolia Designer Paper - Turquoise Plaid

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts, Friendship Text - Kaisercraft

Colouring - Copics

I hope you will stop by to visit the other Magnolia Design Team, they have made some amazing creations with lots of inspiration and it gives you a chance to play with your adorable Maggies.

OMG, look at this sweet Snow Angel,

meet Tilda with Snow Heart

she is from Magnolia's latest Christmas Collection -

Sweet Christmas Dreams.

TOMIC Challenge 15 - Chocolate & Cream

It's time for another challenge on over at TOMIC

(The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge Blog)

Welcome to TOMIC Challenge # 15

Chocolate (brown & cream)

Now who doesn't like chocolate, I just wish I didn't like it sooooooooooo much. I hope you will join us this week, you could be the winner of the surprise package of Magnolia goodies

Magnolia Stamps

Tilda with Cowberry Muffin - So Heavenly Travel & School Collection 2008

Chocolate Box - Tin Boxes - A little Yummy for your Tummy Collection 2009

Magnolia Doo Hickey Dies - Rose Leaf

I used my Cricut Die Cutting Machine and the new Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge. You can fill it with cakes or leave it out insert and fill it with chocolates or some other delicious goodies.

The double choc chip muffins tasted better than they look.

I added the recipe inside the lid.

I have coloured it with Copics, airbrushed the background, hoping to give it an aged/much loved look about it. I added some lace, beautiful flowers & bows, added the adorable Tilda panel, making a wonderful gift box to fill with delish goodies for someone special. I have not been a big lover of brown before, I don't know why because now I love it and you should be seeing a lot more of it in the future.

I hope you will stop by to visit the other Magnolia Design Team, they have made some amazing creations with lots of inspiration and it gives you a chance to play with your adorable Maggies.

Happy Spring - Beautiful Tilda

Hello Everyone,

I hope you have all had a wonderful week. The beginning of September started off beautifully here in Australia with some magical spring weather and it just happens to be my favourite time of the year.  In honour of spring I've used some pretty spring coloured papers and this fabulously magical Magnolia image - Beautiful Tilda, from the Butterfly Dreams Collection. She has been sitting patiently waiting to be inked.

I haven't made an Easel Card for a while, so I thought it was time and I found some gorgeos new papers from Kaisercraft from their Miss Nelly Collection and just adore them. I don't always remember to write down my Copic Colours or include a list of all my crafting goodies, but if you want any info, please don't hesitate to email me.

Magnolia Stamps

Beautiful Tilda - Butterfly Dreams Collection

Wishing You (Text) - Sweet Rainbow Collection

Magnolia Doohickey Dies

Bon Voyage Foliage, Heart Swirl, Vintage Leaves, Dragonfly 

Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Close up to show the dimension
Sorry for so many photos but I love this adorable image

Have a great weekend, I will be back on Monday with my TOMIC Challenge Creation, I hope you will join me.

Thank you for being my Rainbow

Hello Everyone,

Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend. I've made a quick project this weekend, a tag from the Tim Holtz Alterations collection using some of the my Magnolia stamps from the Sweet Rainbow Collection. You could use this for a bookmark without the bulky flowers but I made it for a friend to send to brighten their day. I love love love the The Rainbow with Clouds stamp and text they always make me smile everytime I use them. The text reads

"Thank you for being my Rainbow on a Cloudy Day".

Magnolia Stamps - Sweet Rainbow Collection

Tilda in Summer Rain

Rainbow with Clouds

Thank You (text)

Magnolia Doohickey Dies

Bon Voyage Foliage, Heart Swirl, Romantic Lace & Scallop Tag

Sentiment - Good Thoughts - Tim Holtz Collection 

it reads - "Life is not about waitng for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain".

Tim Holtz embossing folder

I have tucked the Magnolia Scallop tag in behind the sentiment & written a little note to my friend.

I've used Copics and lots of sparkly stickles

(The photos came out a little brighter than they are IRL, the winter days are not my favourite for photographing my projects. )

TOMIC Challenge 12 - Magnolia Ink Birthday

Hello Magnolia Lovers,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAGNOLIA INK MAGAZINE

Hope you have had a wonderful weekend. Today is the start of a new challenge over at TOMIC. This week we have a very special celebration, we are celebrating the birthday of Magnolia Ink Magazine. The theme of Challenge 12 - Recycling as Magnolia use recycled paper for the magazine.

There will be a very special prize from Magnolia to celebrate. Hope you will join us & don't forget to stop by the other Design Team members to see all their amazing creations.

I used a breakfast cereal box, the cardboard weight is perfect for my tissue box. I love the finished result and I will definately recyle more often.

Meet Nurse Tilda Magnolia's newest collection - Winner Takes it All

I have also used Magnolia Paper from their Sweet Rainbow Collection

Magnolia Doohickey Cutting Dies, Rose Leaf, Vintage Flowers & Leaves & Heart Swirl

The flowers are from both Magnolia & Wild Orchid Crafts.

For my tissue box I used a tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers here.

My Cricut came in very handy to cut out my tissue box. I find working with imperial fractions a bit tricky, so I converted the fractions to decimal and loaded the dimensions, cutting them with a program called SCAL, making it so much easier.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing all your fabulous creations this week.

 

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Hugs Jodie

TOMIC Challenge 10 - Masking

Happy Monday Everyone,

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. Thanks for dropping by. There's another challenge on over on  TOMIC  Wow, Challenge 10 already, where has the time gone - This week we are asking for MASKING. I hope you will join in, if you need some help, Camilla has made a step by step tutorial for you and don't forget Magnolia Sweden will send a lucky Maggie lover a surprise package selected by random.

 I know I need lots of practice, I normally cut my images out then pop them up on foam tape for dimension. I inked up some old favourites from the Bon Voyage Collection. I love to shop as most girls do, so I couldn't resist these adorable stamps.

Magnolia Stamps 

Tilda goes Shopping & Boutique Window - from the Bon Voyage Collection

Romantic Lace, Vintage Flowers & Leaf,  Bon Voyage Foliage, Scallop Tag - Doohickey Dies

Gorgeous Magnolia Mini Papers - Sweet Rainbow Collection

Flowers Wild Orchid Crafts

 coloured with Copic Markers

Thanks for joining this wonderful challenge, don't forget to visit the other fabulously talented DT Girls for some inspiration. I can't wait to see what you come up with & hope you will join us next week.

Rocking Tilda

Happy Wednesday Friends,

I'm back with my promised card to share with you. This is Rocking Tilda from Magnolia's Sweet Rainbow Collection.  I remember when I was little, I had a sparkly pink hoola hoop just like it, but I was a bit unco and spent most of my time trying to keep it from falling to the ground.

 The gorgeous papers are from the same collection, I love the pink gingham paper, it will be another favourite. The rainbow paper has such pretty colours and reminds me of gelato icecream, yum. I also love love love this sweet "Wishing You" text, it will perfect for so many occasions and the  fabulous Doohickey Dies I've used are Swirly Butterfly & Heart Swirl

I dusted off my Cricut to make this little matching purse, I'm sure this would brighten any little girls day if she received this with a little gift - I used the Forever Young Cartridge. The beautiful flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the flower border is a Martha Stewart punch.

I hope you'll join the new challenge Stitching Real or Faux this week at TOMIC The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge, the girls have made some more amazing creations with lots of inspiration.

It is long overdue for some blog candy, pop back in a few days and I will have something posted.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

Mini Magnolia

How sweet is the little flying fairy, she stopped by for a rest in the tulips.

Hi Everyone,

I hope you have had a great week, we've had days & days of heavy rain, but today it's lovely and sunny, so this is a quick post, so I can go & enjoy some sunshine.

I made this adorable Watering Can with a couple of my Mini Magnolias. I spotted this tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers a while back and have been meaning to give it a go. I noticed Hanna my Magnolia Teamie made one and oh my goodness how amazing is Hanna's (& she is only 15 yrs old) of course mine is not as beautiful, but I had fun making it all the same.

Mini Tilda with Many Hearts - You are So Special Colletion

Text - Sweet Rainbow Collection

Mini Fairy? - Fairytale Collection 2010

Doohickey Dies, Romantic Lace, Swirl Butterly, Bon Voyage Foliage & Romantic Tag

I hope to have another little project to share with you tomorrow, it's almost finished.

I hope you have been by to visit the The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge, the girls have made some more amazing creations with lots of inspiration and will give you a chance to play with your adorable Magnolias.

I love this text - Wishing You - from the Sweet Rainbow Collection

I can see it will be a favourite

TOMIC Challenge # 6 - Make a Scene

Happy Monday Everyone,

There's another challenge on over on the TOMIC Challenge blog. It's not my turn this week, but I put my hand up to help them out this week. Challenge 6  Make a scene - dimensional. This was certainly a challenge for me, I'm not very good at combining stamps, but the other DT's have created some amazing scenes for inspiration for you all.

Here is a side view to show the dimension - I stamped Rainbow & Clouds twice, for dimension. Tilda was stamped 3 times, parts of her were popped up for even more dimension. 

Magnolia Stamps - Tilda celebrates Mid Summer, Rainbow with clouds & Wishing you (Text)

all from the Sweet Rainbow Collection

Heart Swirl, Roantic Lace & Bon Voyage Foliage Doohickey Dies

Papers & Flowers from Magnolia

Thanks for joining this wonderful challenge, I can't wait to see what you come up with & hope you will join us next week.

Miss you Already

Travelling Tilda, Suitcase with Sign, Miss You (text)
from the Bon Voyage Collection

Rose Leaf & Heart Swirl - Doohickey Dies

Hope you are having a wonderful week. I've had this card half finished on my desk for a while. I love this rich paper from Prima, it's Christmas range, but I thought it would work well for the vintage look I was after.

I cut both the suitcase and Tilda out to give some dimension, hope you can see it in this photo.

I've coloured with both Copics and Prisma Pencils.

The frame is by Tim Holtz

and the flowers are a mixture of handmade & from Wild Orchid Crafts.

All other dies are from MFT & Spellbinders.

Inside I've used the very versatile Magnolia Loving Border Stamp from the You are so Special Collection. The pocket can be used for a rubber stamp, chocolate, gift card or tag with a special message.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you'll join us at TOMIC for the new challenge this week, I've had a sneak peak at the Magnolia Girls creations and they are amazing.