Totally Tilda Halloween Challenge Reminder

This is just a little reminder post that the Totally Tilda Challenge Halloween Special ....

.....with 4 different prizes......

....is still running until October 31!!!

You don't want to miss it!!

I just love Tilda in orange and her cheeks so rosy!!

Can you tell I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my silver stickles & orange rhinestones!!!

The large black leaves & the large orange flower are from Dollarama!

The little silver clip beside Tilda is from CTMH (I think).

The raffia ribbon I got from Bunny Zoes' Crafts and the orange 'boo' ribbon over top of it is from Really Reasonable Ribbons.

The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and is designed by Raindrop Echo.

Follow all the links to bring you straight to these great places to buy your crafting stuffs!   

Challenges for my card:

Magnolia Down Under- sketch

Stamp with Fun- Halloween

The Crazy Challenge- Halloween

A Spoon Full of Sugar- BOO!

Stamp Something- Halloween Something

Stampin' for the Weekend- Fall/Halloween

Sentimental Sundays- black & white plus ONE (orange)

Really Reasonable Ribbons challenge- Halloween

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge- photo inspire (see below)

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

Merry Christmas..........Love from Edwin XOXOXO

So I got my surprise Magnolia Fall Collection the other day and have been aching to ink one up, just waiting on a great sketch....and it came at Just Magnolia.

First thing I did, cuz like I said I was oober excited, was color up my image, then I had to find papers to match.Turns out they are all MISC. papers and the tag end matched them perfectly (not sure where the tag end came from, but hey, who's complaining!! ) haha.

I have entered several challenges all listed over at the Steel Magnolia's blog, pls feel free to pop over there for some more Magnolia inspiration!!

HOWEVER...............before you go.....

I simply had to write about this one special challenge I am entering.

It is over at Mami Doodles (until Oct 28) & the challenge is to make Thanksgiving & Holiday cards. This challenge runs alongside Vera's Caring Heart Card Drive.

For more information of this drive pls click the link provided.

In short, the card drive is organized to collect cards for elderly people living in care homes & assisted living complexes.

This drive is inspired by Vera's mom who said, "Sometime as much as the elderly understand that it might be necessary for them to live in care center or nursing homes, it's still not an easy thing to be away from your family or being away from their home. It can be lonely and some of them might not even have anyone who would visit them. Would be nice if you can get a bunch of cards send to them".

Vera is hoping to collect cards & have them in her hand by November 15 in order to get them arranged for delivery for the appropriate holidays! She is giving away prizes, as well, for each card you send, the more times your name goes into the draw....................

For more information (ie- address of how & where to send your card, what to write inside the card, inventory list of sent items, etc)....... PLEASE CLICK HERE! & send your cards today!!! I just did!

Other Challenges for my card:

Tuesday Throwdown- anything goes

Top Tip Tuesday- anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers DT- Use a freebie!

At Crafty Cardmakers for the next two weeks we want you:

To use a Freebie.

Find a freebie image you stored in your computer from a site you happened to stumble across at one point or another or perhaps some free papers, embellies or blgin & make a card with it!

I have chosen to use a freebie offered at the  Some Odd Girl digital stamp store.

Her name is Tiny Tia.

I fell in love with her immediately!

I started off with a scallop die cut from Susie Sugar's Die Cut Dreams Store. Yellow...I know , crazy right, but I knew I wanted to use this little piece of fabric along the side (which I cut off my daughter's skirt that is too small for her anyways) & thought yellow would fit best. Then I found the pink girly paper and what goes good with pink, but brown which is also on the fabric.....so here we are!

I added WOC flowers and a pin from CTMH in the center knot of the fabric, a heart doily behind Tia & a SU punched butterfly out of the sentiment that says "you made my day".

Some bling, glitter and pearls around the scallop edge, pulls my little creation together.

We also have our spotlight challenge of FANCY FOLDS going on right now (for 1 more week) so you may as well get in on all the action and make a fancily folded creation with a freebie and enter into both linkies!!!

Come on down, we'd love to see you  at the Crafty Cardmakers challenge!!

Challenges for my card:

Some Odd Girl- use fabric

OSAAT- anything goes, embellish with favorites......( I love ALL my embellishements, specially my bling)

OCC- at least 3 diff embellies (fabric, flowers & a pin)

Stamp Insanity- live free & die cut

ABC- F for flowers

Craftalicious (10th)- anything goes

Incy Wincy- Pink & brown

Creative Inspirations DT- Fall/Halloween

At Creative Inspirations for the next two weeks we want to see your:

Fall/Halloween Creations.

Our sponsors for this challenge are:

AND

........our very own Jenni of Cardmad Fairy Creations.

I chose an image frrom Some Odd Girl. This image is called "Rawr Tobie".

I colored my image with watercolor pencils, baby oil & blending stumps.

 I added a piece of fabric under the orange ribbon.

I embossed the orange paper with an embossing plate of bugs and insects that I got at Wal-Mart!

The bracket and BOO words are chipboard that came as is.

I added some ghost stickers and a bit of silver stickles.

The sketch is MoJo Monday.

A very colorful creation I know!!! Craziness!!

Please stop over the Creative Inspirations Challenge blog and take a look at the other inspirations set up by the DT!!!

Challenges for my card:

Some Odd Girl- use fabric

Stamping Vacation- embellish it- use brackets or parenthesis

Stamping Vacation- occassion oasis- Halloween

Tellen's place- trick or treat

Stamp Something- Halloween something

Pile it on- Kid's themed Halloween

Tilda Sitting Pretty

 

I made this set for a few different challenges. At Magolicalicious Highlights (which I won last month- WOO HOO!! ), they are wanting to see a fall creation while incorporating a brown paper bag!  How fun is that! As you can see I took pictures of the poor paper bag, before and after! What a mess, that poor little bag! haha! Card layout is from Creative Inspirations sketch.

For my card, I colored Tilda up & realized she needs to be sitting on something, so instead of cutting her out, I just drew a tree branch under her & added some leaves that I punched out of the brown paper bag with my MS leaf punch. I then dapped the leaves in orange, yellow, brown & green ink pads before adhering them.

I also used the brown paper bag as the backing beneath the lace ribbons as well as for the homemade flowers on both the card & tote bag in the top right corners. I used my scallop punch to punch out 3 scallops & I squished them up after spritzing them with water. I tried to place them to it looked pretty, then added a button center & stickles.  

The buttons on the card & the bow in Tilda's hair allows me to enter my card in the Sir Stampalot Challenge of Autumn breezes with buttons & a bow!!

The tote bag was a spur of the moment decision whilst searching thru the Splitcoaststamper resources list. This tutorial was on top & I could NOT stop myself from downloading the template they have available. Click HERE to get to the direct link.

I figured the little tote would be the perfect match for my Tilda card. I stamped on the yellow cardstock with a CTMH stamp set called Key To My Heart.

I added a little tag which is a Sentimental Sunday Freebie this week & cut out the other Tilda image and placed her on the tag. With this I can enter my card into the Magnolia Down Under Challenge of Tag it!

I am headed over to post this at the Steel Magnolia's blog so feel free to pop over there as well to see some more GREAT creations by the other Steel Magnolia Girls!!

Kenny K- KRAZY!!!! !!

A QUICK REMINDER OF THE PRAIRIE FAIRY FUN FRIDAY CHALLENGE GOING ON FOR 1 MORE WEEK.......................................TICKETS/TAGS !!! GET TO IT!!!

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Whilst blog hopping the other day I noticed the challenge going on at Kenny K's Krafy Girlz Challenge Blog.

I hopped over, then hopped again to their store, where there is a GREAT special going on; that I just couldn't pass up, so  these 2 cards are the result of my 'impulse' buy!

My first card has the image Mrs. Clause on it.

Isn't she 'joyous'.....heehee!! (Gawd I wish I had boots like that! )

I colored her with watercolor pencils, blending stumps & baby oil with my SU markers highlighting the darker areas. I added liquid applique & glitter to the "fuzzy" parts of her outfit. I also added crystal effects to the santa sack and bells on her thigh.

Ticket is from Sentiments 4 You......where the very talented and lovely Lynn has candy to be won. The more followers her store gets, the more candy get's added!!!

At the Kenny K's Krafty Girlz Challenge the theme is Christmas, where, of course I am entering this little beauty.

I have used the sketch from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long & am also entering this card in the Die Cut Dreams Christmas Challenge where they have a recipe of 3 DP, 2 embellies & 1 colored image.

Other challenges I can enter my card in are: All Sorts (song inspiration- Santa Baby), Bah! Humbug (cuties), A Spoon Full of Sugar (winter wonderland), & Digital Tuesdays (sew special).

Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree, for me

Been an awful good girl

Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa baby, a '54 convertible too, light blue

I'll wait up for you dear Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Think of all the fun I've missed

Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed

Next year I could be just as good

If you'd check off my Christmas list

Boo doo bee doo

Santa baby, I wanna yacht and really that's

Not a lot

Been an angel all year

Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa honey, one thing I really do need, the deed

To a platinum mine

Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa cutie and fill my stocking with a duplex, and checks

Sign your 'X' on the line

Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Come and trim my Christmas tree

With some decorations bought at Tiffany

I really do believe in you

Let's see if you believe in me

Boo doo bee doo

Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, a ring

I don't mean on a phone

Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight

Hurry ... tonight

Ohhhh Santa Baby


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Now this second card is a little of a different nature. Imagine my surprise when my friend calls me the other morning & says "it's my husband's birthday today"...............woo hoo!! A par-TAY!! So I go and whip up this card! A cross between a birthday/halloween card. The sentiment portrays this as well! So take it for what you will ...........people DO dress like this for halloween you know!! lol

The sentiment tag again is from Sentiments 4 You.

Challenges for my card:

Sentimental Sundays (tag it)

OSAAT (use your digis)

Cards for Men (birthday)

Tuesday Throwdown, Pile it On & Papertake Weekly (3 of something- 3 columns, 3 ribbons, 3 skulls)

Creative Craft (trick or treat)

Creative Cottage (halloween)

Midnight Madness (sketch)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sweet Pink Candy

Jacque's Joie de Vivre has some pink candy to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Here's what she had to say:

And now to help me celebrate the end of my PINK JOURNEY and to remind you of the importance of awareness, I would like to offer the first of my several PINK SWEET STUFFS this month. But first I need to ask you to do a BIG favor for me!! One of my past DT sisters from Belles 'n Whistles has just found out that she now has breast cancer...Elise Dinolfo, a lovely and vibrant 38 year old lady with a 4 year old little boy!! Please drop by her blog and leave a little bit of love along with alot of heap big hugs...I would love for you to let her know that I asked you to drop by!!!!! She will need all the love and support which each of you gave to me as I was going down that bumpy road!!!! Elise had not yet reached the magic age of 40 so had never had her first mammogram yet...she found those scary lumps herself. So ladies, do you now see why I am on the soapbox begging ALL of you to have the necessary testing and do those regular self-examinations...Breast Cancer does not show favorites at any age!!!!! Thank you sincerely!!!!

Candy available until Oct 15!!

Have you checked your BREASTS today?!!?!

Autumn Tilda

Yet another stamped up image from my girl, Mrs. Susie Sugar (aka- Clairee) that I was dying to color up!

I tried coloring her face with some different copics this time. Darker than my norm, but kinda suits the paper just fine. Paper is from a paper pack called "Teen Prints"......very rustic, autumny feel for sure!

I distressed  the heck out of the papers with my new TIM HOLTZ distresser. I LOVE it, but wonder, do you push away from you or pull toward you, when distressing the edges?? Advice pls people!

 I used my hubbys handy-dandy sewing machine to add some depth & texture.

AND............

............used some of my NEW RAFFIA LACE !! OMG I have seen this stuff on so many creations, I just had to get my hands on some!! So I BOUGHT it, I bought it.....shh hhh don't tell hubby....pttfpt.....he knows already--- too late.

So what I have done here is stamped one of each sentiment from a SU set & distressed them accordingly, making the owner of this card the sole decision maker as to what the card is going to represent- then have extra sentiments to spare. I chose to put this specific sentiment on it, as to me, Autumn is WONDERFUL! Especially with our weathe being 25-30 degrees lately!!

And what would our lovely Tilda be without some glitter & gems!

I also have this card  posted at the STEEL MAGNOLIAS BLOG....if you haven't been there yet, you HAVE to come by & see the new look..........it is so FREAKIN' AMAZING!!!

Challenges for my card:

The Stampman- Autumn

Craftalicious- Anything goes

Saturday Secret Crafter- distressing

Crafty Sentiments- Autumn

Charisma Cardz- Autumn

Challenge up your life- Autumn

Kaboodle Doodles (11th)- fall colors

Stampin' for the Weekend- Autumn inspiration

CLP- sketch for October

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Totally Tilda DT- Special Halloween Edition-

Mwahhaaahhhhhaa..............(evil laugh).....BOO!

Welcome to the  Totally Tilda Special Halloween Challenge!

Crack out those Tildas with broomsticks & pumpkins & get crafting.

I opted to use the Pirate Tilda, cuz really....there is no end to the costumes out there.

Heck any of the Bon Voyage Tildas could be costumes too.

I colored her hair green to make sure it was abundantly clear this is for a Halloween card!

I used a large scallop Die Cut from Susie Sugar's Die Cut Dreams Store as my base & layered + layered + layered my cardstock + ribbons over top of it!

I decided to hide my sentiment & the next picture shows where.

This sentiment, by Raindrop Echo Designs, is available at the Whimsy store right here.

This charm came in a set of 4 from a Wal Mart pirate collection!

Fits this card perfectly.

Please stop by the Totally Tilda blog for some more great inspiration & to leave the girlz some love cuz you don't wanna miss out on these prizes.......................YUP, I said PRIZES!!!

THERE WILL BE FOUR WINNAS......HAND SELECTED BY THE PERSON GIVING OUT THEIR PRIZES!!!!!

Fairy Pickles- aka Roberta of  Prairie Fairy Designs with a Custom Blog makeover:

((for examples of her work check out  here, here, here , my blog (where you are right now) & the Totally Tilda blog.))

Lynne with some Sentiment Treats from her Sentiments 4 You store (that's where I got my custom signature from)

Susie Sugar with a Christmas Die cut package from her Die Cut Dreams Store.

Nikki -of  Bunny Zoe's Crafts with the Tilda with Flag stamp

NOT ONLY THAT- We will be having TWO TOP 3 Winnas!!!

Somebody stop the madness!!!

Bwahhahaaa!

Challenges for my card:

Shirly2Girls (TTT)- spooky & the word BOO

Digi's with Attitude! Challenges- metal

CRAFT- shaped card

Stamp Insanity- trick it or treat it

Craftalicious- anything goes

Let's ink it up (10th)- Halloween colors

Introducing.....................

.........STEEL MAGNOLIAS...........

Our Mission Statement...

"Five Girlfriends, one great addiction. We were brought together in Blogland by Paper craft and our love of Magnolia stamps. Join us for our daily dose of Magnolia inspiration at Steel Magnolias where our Friendship is as strong as Steel !!?"

Who are these 'Steel Magnolias' you ask?

We are Me (Corry-Free-4-ever), Lori (Just Ducky), Roberta (Prairie Fairy-aka-Fairy Pickles), Trisha (T-Bear's Touch & the infamous Susie Sugar (Sassy Designs by Susie at Die Cut Dreams).

We have created a blog dedicated to our dear, sweet Magnolia stamps.

We hope to inspire you daily with magic & intrigue!

Susie has been very busy over there, gathering a crowd....

so please come on over & check it out!

We'd love to see you!

Here's a sneak peak of my card posted at the Steel Magnolias Blog.....

Your just gonna have to come over there and check it out!

Totally Tilda DT- Traditional Christmas Tilda (use Red & Green)

At Totally Tilda for the next two weeks we want to see :

TILDA DECKED OUT IN TRADITIONAL 

CHRISTMAS COLORS

** REDS & GREENS**

Once again my special Tilda Girl is colored with watercolor pencils, baby oil & blending stumps! Glitter added to her dress. I cut her out and popped her up on a snowflake embossed white piece of cardstock.

Red & gold ribbon strips on the left side are from the dollar store! Perfect for Christmas Cards. Sentiment is from SU!

Wanna know what you can win at Totally Tilda for entering our Traditional Christmas Tilda Challenge?!!

Your just gonna have to head on over there &  FIND OUT!!! (heehee)......While your there, you may as well leave the girlz a bit of love too!  

Challenges for my card:

Simple Doodles- winter warmers

Freshly  Brewed- anything goes/girly

Anything goes (5th)- Christmas

Elephantastic (9th)-anything goes

AiFactory (9th)- embossing

City Crafter (5th)- any holiday

AND FOR ALL YOU TOTALLY TILDA CHALLENGE LOVERS......

WE HAVE A SPECIAL CHALLENGE STARTING WITHIN THE NEXT 6-8 HRS AS WELL......

HERE'S MY SNEAK PEAK AT IT!!!

STAY TUNED!

And as a final shout out, I just recieved my custom Signature yesterday courtesy of Lynne at

Sentiments 4 you!

A fraction of the cost as other companies & just as PERFECT!!

Head over there to check it out for yourselves!

Have a great day!