Magnolia Monday #12 - It's a Sunny Tilda with Sunflowers!

It's another new week and that means another Magnolia Monday!
This week I have brought out an old Tilda stamp and that is Tilda with Sunflowers and I think she looks wonderful in this color combo.
I'd love you to link up below with your Magnolia Monday creation, remember the theme is always Anything Goes as long as it is Magnolia on a Monday!

Challenges:
Digi Doodles Shop - Anything Goes
Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Sketch
Anything Goes - Pick Of The Bunch (flowers)
Ribbon Carousel - Stitching (and ribbon)
Just Magnolia - Buttons, Bows and Blooms
Wags N Whiskers - Buttons and Bows
One Stop Crafts - Vintage
Ruby's Rainbow - Vintage
Bloggers Challenge - Embossing
Magnolia Down Under - Bingo! (I chose Flowers, Pearls and Lace)
Crop Stop - Lace (3 entries only)
All That Scraps - Photo Inspiration (wooden porch with sunflowers, white, shabby chic style)
Totally Tilda - Pearls, Swirls, Ribbon and Lace
Emerald Faeries - Lace (3 entries only)
7 Kids College Fund - Texture

Card Recipe:
Image - Tilda with Sunflower
Paper - K and Co Watercolor Bouquet Paper Pad
Medium - Copic Markers
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Sentiment - Michaels $1 Spot
Buttons - Stash
Lace Fabric - Joanns
Ribbon - Wrights
Bow - Offray
Pearls - Recollecions
Swirls - Sizzix
Border Punch - Martha Stewart

I used one of my new favorite techniques on this card and that is using a piece of lace fabric over the whole of the designer paper background. I think it adds a soft, subtle look and turns a good card into a wow one!
I really hope you've liked this one and will come over and share your creation too!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #76 - Sketch and/or Strawberries and Cream

It's another Once Upon a Wednesday at The Pixie Cottage and this week we have the theme of "Strawberries and Cream".
We'd like to see the obvious and the not so obvious with this theme. You could use strawberries and cream as images or maybe as the colors of, this is a little stretched but, a tennis themed card as Wimbledon is on and strawberries and cream are a Wimbledon favorite! LOL

Challenges:
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Lexi's - It's A Bugs Life (Bee's)
Crafty Calendar - Things With Wings
Bloggers Challenge - Things With Wings
Simply Create - Fly With Us
Ruby's Rainbow - Flowers
Deep Ocean - Flowers
Hooked On Crafts - Flowers
KB Cute Monday - Flowers
Ooh La La - Summer Flowers
Cupcake Crafts - Cooking Up A Storm
Craft Your Passion - Use Red
Scrappy Frogs - Red
There She Goes - 3 Dies or Punches (Spellbinders and 2 Martha Stewart)

Card Recipe:
Image - Kitchen Mouse by Lisa Schmidt
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - K and Company Berry Sweet
Border and Corner Punch - Martha Stewart Deco Shells
Die Cut - Spellbinders Eyelet Circles
Flowers - Hobby Lobby
Stickers - Sweet Treats by Sticko
Chipboard Accent - Colorbok
Ribbon - Unknown

This was the great sketch we worked with.

I found these cute little "puffy" stickers for just $1 at Walmart and thought they were perfect for the centers of the flowers and of course they add to the strawberry theme! We can't wait to see your creations this week over at The Pixie Cottage!
Katie

The Pixie Cottage Challenge #67 - It's A Royal Wedding

It's Wednesday so it means another challenge over at The Pixie Cottage!
As always we have 2 parts to the challenge and you can choose either or both to play along with.
We have a fabulous sketch and our theme this week is "It's A Royal Wedding!"
We'd love to see anything from a Wedding Card, something with Princess, Crowns and Castles, or even something celebrating the British Royal Family!

Challenges:
Sparkles Forum - Anything Goes
Thrilling Thursday - Anything Goes
Stampin For The Weekend - Wedding
Totally Papercrafts - Wedding
Die Cut Dreams - Wedding
Fab N Funky - Wedding (10 combined challenges max)
Crafty Cardmakers - Royal Wedding (10 combined challenges)
Kaboodle Doodles - Here Comes The Bride
Bloggers Challenge - Ribbons and Lace

Card Recipe:
Image - Love Endures All Things by ARTish
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper - Julianne by K and Co
Doily Die - French Pastry by Cheery Lynn Designs
Roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
Pearls - Recollections
Gold cardstock - American Crafts
Sentiment - K and Co

This is the great sketch! Remember you can use the sketch or the optional technique or both.

I paper pieced the train on the Wedding dress and I colored the pearls on the spray with a Copic to make them gold to match the others.
I really like how this card turned out and hope you can come along and join in with us at The Pixie Cottage!