Candy Winner and Special Announcement

Good morning my dear friends! First of all, I'd like to apologize for being away for so long but I promise it was for a good reason. A beautiful baby girl is on her way and mommy had to take very special care of her! I am now 15 weeks pregnant and feeling much better. I'm very thankful to God for this miracle and to my husband, son, parents, family and friends for their love and support. Now, I'm so happy to share the good news with you, my crafty friends!
 

I know this has been a long wait, but it is finally time to announce the winner of a $12 Saturated Canary gift certificate.

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No. 4, Maria Therese

Congratulations Maria Therese!!! Please contact me with your e-mail address to send your candy.

Thanks for visiting! See you soon,

Paola

First Anniversary Candy Winner and More Candy

Hello my dear friends, I would like to thank you all for entering my First Anniversary Blog Candy and for leaving such sweet comments.

So, the random winner is

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No. 65 Tina

Congratulations Tina!!! Please e-mail me with your address so I can get your candy out to you.

But my First Anniversary celebration doesn't end here. From now on and for the rest of the year, I will have a monthly Blog Candy for my blogging friends.

This time, I'm offering a $12 voucher from Saturated Canary. To enter, the "rules" are the same:

1. Become a follower if you like my artwork ("candy only" blogs are not accepted).
2. Add the picture of my candy to your sidebar and link it back to my blog.
3. Add your name to Mr. Linky

I will draw a winner on August 1st. Good luck everyone! (This Blog Candy is open worldwide).

Summer Canvas Book

Hello friends, I'm back with another Magnolia creation. This time I've made a Summer Canvas Book using these beautiful stamps from Magnolia's latest collection, Summer Memories. This project was so much fun to create but also very time consuming. I took lots of pictures to capture all the details, hope you enjoy them!

To make my Summer Canvas Book, I used two 8" x 8" stretched canvases that I first painted with blue acrylic paint. When it was dry, I applied a thick coat of  Distress crackle paint, picket fence. I then decorated the backside of the canvases with My Mind's Eye and Teresa Collins pattern papers. I love using the backside of the canvases because the wooden frames create niches that give dimension to my scene. Before I stared adding all my dimensional objects, I hinged the canvases together. 

I water colored  my images with Distress Inks. For the first scene, I used Tilda Offshore, Edwin Waiting for Fish, Memory Shells and a hand-drawn beach background. 

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I love decorating with 3-dimesnional objects like this Tim Holtz corked vial that I filled in with golden microbeads and  a cute little cut-out fish.

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I used Magnolia Cloud Doohickey die and Tim Holtz Scrollwork die cut to simulate some waves. 

The sentiment is from Magnolia stamps and the metal charm from my local craft store.

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For the second scene, I used my beautiful Pearl Tilda and Oyster with Pearl. I machine stitched around both scenes, using a scallop stitch pattern. 

Although it's hard to tell from these pictures, I applied Stickles to Miss Tilda and her cute sea house. And I also added some liquid pearls around the oyster.

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The gorgeous flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and the acetate and cardstock cut outs are K&Company.

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 These little sea shells prefect for my project are from my local craft store.

I would like to enter:

TOMIC: 1st Anniversary, Anything Goes  

MDUC: Bingo (charms, die-cuts, paint)

Deep Ocean Challenge: Sewing

Tilda's Town Challenge: lazy days of Summer

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Joy's Summer Inspiration

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Paola

 

Today, Tomorrow & Forever

Hello all, this is my last card as guest designer for The ABC Challenge. Thanks ladies for inviting me to join your talented design team this month. The challenge this time is "R" is for Romance. I made this card for my husband on our anniversary, isn't so romantic?

For my anniversary card I used this gorgeous First Kiss Sarah Kay stamp. The papers are My Mind's Eye and the flowers Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts.

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I colored my First Kiss image with Copic markers: Skin: E11, E00 and E000. His hair: C7, C5 and C1. Browns: E59, E57, E33, E31 and E50. Blues: BG18, BG15, BG11 and BG000.

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Paola

Just Walking On Sunshine...

Edited To Add: My paper bag won Top 5 at Tilda's Town Challenge!

Hello my Maggie friends! It's time for a new challenge over at IAMC. Our theme this week is to decorate a paper bag using Tilda and/or Edwin of course! I've colored my beautiful Waterlily Tilda inspired by my talented friend Wendy. She combined canvas and Copics and the result is stunning. I just LOVE the look of my sweet Tilda stamped on canvas! 

The gorgeous aqua blue background paper is Bo Bunny, I've also used Melissa Frances and My Mind's Eye pattern papers.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and two epoxy stamp stickers from K&Company.

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I die cut my little butterfly with Magnolia's Doohickey Swirl Butterfly and decorated it with Tim Holtz's  metal arrow.

The cloud is also Magnolia's Doohickey cutting die and the sentiment stamp from the $1.00 rack at my local craft store. LOL.

To color my sweet Tilda on canvas I used my Copic markers but I used considerably less ink compared to what I normally use to color on paper.  Skin: E11, E00, E000 and R20. Hair: E57, E33 and E31. Dress and Hair Bow: BG18, BG13 and BG11. Water: B00 and B000. Pink: R22, R20 and R00.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Midweek Magnolias: Romantic and Chic

Deep Ocean Challenge: Swirls

Tilda's Town: Water Fun

Magnolia-licious: Photo Inspiration

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Paola

Happy Retirement!

Happy Mother's Day to all my dear friends celebrating this special date! 

Today we have a new challenge over at IAMC. It's Bingo time! I have used lace, pearls and dies for my Happy Retirement card. My Tilda with bath cap on her bath tub are just perfect for it!

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I would like to enter:

Just Magnolia Challenge: More than one stamp

Magnolia-licious: Color challenge

Deep Ocean Challenge: What a wonderful women

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Paola

Teddy Bo Happy Birthday Card

Edited To Add: My Bo Birthday  card won Top 3 and GDT at ABC challenge!

Hello friends! It has been quite a while since I colored one of these gorgeous Teddy Bo images. I had lots of fun coloring Birthday Bo for this card I'm sharing today. I wanted to use bright and bold colors to celebrate Jacob's first birthday.

I really wanted to keep this card clean and simple to highlight my main image. The papers are DCWV, All About Boys collection.

I found this mini bingo cards from Jenni Bowlin Studio at the Scrapbook EXPO last year. Isn't this one so perfect for my card? The cute little buttons are from my local craft store.

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I colored Birthday Bo with my Copics. Fur: E37, E35, E31 and E50. Blues: B29, B26, B24 and B21. Apron:YR18, YR15, YR12 and YR00. Chocolate frosting: E59, E57, E53 and E50. Greens: YG17, YG13 and YG11. Shadows: C5, C3 and C1.

I would like to enter:

The Teddy Bo challenge: Button UP

Simon Says Stamps challenge: Happy Birthday

The ABC challenge: O for Orange

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Paola

First Anniversary Blog Candy!

Almost a year ago, on June 22nd, 2011 I started this blogging adventure. It has been amazing to meet so many talented and wonderful people. To celebrate and to thank you for all your lovely comments and loyalty,  I'm offering some sweet candy.

My First Anniversary Blog Candy includes:

• Princess Tilda Magnolia Rubber Stamp
• 5 custom made decorative pins
• Hot pink SMASH book
• Making Memories tool kit
• Tim Holtz 8 charms set
• Martha Stewart's adhesive tab and roll
• Prima Marketing Shabby Chic 4 piece resin treasures
• Prima Marketing orange floral embellishment
• Copic various ink re-filler (B04)
• Copic sketch marker (B00)
• 24 piece pearl embellishments
• Ranger liquid pearls (Bisque)
• Ranger mini mister bottle
• WOC assorted flowers

All you have to do to enter is:

1. Become a follower if you like my artwork ("candy only" blogs are not accepted).
2. Add the picture of my candy to your sidebar and link it back to my blog.
3. Add your name to Mr. Linky

I will draw a winner on June 22nd. Good luck everyone! (This Blog Candy is open worldwide).

Congrats Mom To Be Card

Edited To Add:  My Mom To Be card won Top 3 at Midweek Magnolias!

Hello friends, I'm back with a new card for It's a Magnolia Challenge. The theme this time is:  Monochromatic. We want to see your cards using one main color. I chose pink to say Congrats to my dear friend Julia with this card. She is having a baby girl and I thought my "Mom To Be Tilda" would be perfect for it. 

The papers are My Mind's Eye. I stitched and inked all the edges. For the tag I used my Magnolia doohickey die: "Bloomy Tag". The beautiful Baby Carriage charm is from Embellishments.de. 

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The gorgeous flowers and metal corner piece are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the leaf was cut with my Magnolia doohickey die. 

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I colored Mom To Be Tilda with Copic markers. Skin: E13, E11, E00, E000  and R20. Hair: E59, E57, E33 and E50. Pinks: R35, R32, R00 and R000. Shadows: W5, W3 and W1.

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I would like to enter the following challenges:

Totally Tilda Challenge: Stitching

Deep Ocean Challenge: Use Punches/Dies

Midweek Magnolias: Open Theme

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Paola

"Tiny Dancer" - Happy Birthday Ballerina card

Edited to add: My Ballerina card won Top 3 at Totally Tilda and Deep Ocean challenges.

Good morning! I hope you're all having a lovely week. Today, I'm sharing a card I made using my beautiful "Tilda with Ballet Shoes". She has been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks now, but last night I just had to ink her up. I think this is my favorite stamp from the new Prices & Princesses collection. I love her little tutu dress, her ballerina shoes, her hair... she is just too sweet!

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I also got to use my new Spellbinders Die cut: Floral Ovals. Gorgeous isn't it? The flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and the pattern papers are My mind's Eye. I only used one base layer to enhance the beautiful 4" wide lace I placed across the card.

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I made my own decorative pin with pearls and a decorative base from my local craft store. My beautiful tag was cut with Magnolia's Heart Doohickey die. I decorated it with some ribbon, lace, a tiny rose and this cute little ballerina charm.

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Miss Tilda was colored with Copic markers: Skin: E13, E11, E00 and E000. Pink: R35, R32, R00 and R000. White: C5, C3 and C1. Shadows: W5, W3 and W1.

 I also added a couple of little pearls for Tilda's earrings and some Crystal Dust for some sparkle on Tilda's ballet shoes and tutu! 

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I would like to enter the following challenges:

Just Magnolia: Lovely Lace

Totally Tilda: Happy Birthday Tilda

Deep Ocean Challenge: Song Inspiration (Tiny Dancer - Elton John)

Thanks for visiting!

Hugs,

Paola