TOMIC - Challenge 22 - Create a Basket

It's time again for another challenge at TOMIC.  Our theme this week is to make a basket.  So I scoured the internet and came across several basket tutorials on Splitcoaststampers. In the gallery I saw the cutest picnic basket but there was no tutorial on how to make it.  I could have purchased a template for $6 or $7 if I wanted but decided to just try and make it on my own.  So here is how it turned out:

I cut several 1 inch strips of yellow paper. Then I brushed the edges with some dark brown ink so when I weaved the strips together there would be a little color dividing the strips. I have 5 rows vertically and 3 rows horizontally. I used a spellbinder die for the lid. I think it turned out really cute.  All I have to do is add a rectangular piece of cardboard or chipboard to the inside of the basket and then I can put some Christmas cookies or some muffins/quick breads and give it to someone as a small gift.

This cute Magnolia image is from the new Sweet Christmas Dreams collection and she is called Tilda With Candy Cone. I colored her with the following copic colors: E11, E00, E000, R27, R24, R22, R20, C9, C7, C5, C3, C1, E35, E33, E31, G21, G20, YR23, Y23, Y21, Y000. I used the poinsettia doohickey die from Magnolia and also some WOC flowers to help embellish this project.

I will enter my basket at the following challenges:

Just Magnolia - christmas
Christmas Inspirations - christmas and die cuts/ punches
The Ribbon Girl - jingle all the way to Christmas


Well that's it for now. Hope you liked my project today and can let me know what you think. Thanks for visiting!

Little Darlings Challenge - Anything but a Square Card

Good morning everyone! Today at Little Darlings Challenges, our challenge is to create a project that is anything but square shaped. So I created a rectangular treat bag to give to my daughter's friend.

I filled it with some of my favorite candies! Yum! I can't wait for Halloween so I can raid the children's candy - teehee!

This sweet trick-or-treater is called Snappy Dresser. Isn't he adorable? My sentiment is a digi image from Whimsy stamps and I used K&Co Halloween papers for my treat bag.

I will enter this project at the following challenges:

My Craft Spot - see through projects, use acetate
Crafty Boots - Autumn or Halloween
Addicted to Stamps - Halloween
Allsorts - Halloween
Fab n' Funky - hubble bubble toil and trouble


Hope you enjoyed my project today and look forward to reading any comments you may leave. I really appreciate your kind comments - they make my day. Hope you can play along with us at the Little Darlings Challenge blog this week. Thanks for visiting!

Magnolia-licious Inspiration Challenge

Happy Fall Y'all! That's what this inspiration photo says to me:

What do you think of our photo inspiration challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog this week? Doesn't it scream fall to you? The leaves here where I live are just beginning to change color now and it looks like the colors will be beautiful this year.  Here is the card I made for today's challenge:

My stair step card today is choc-ful of images that I picked up from Magnolia-licious.  Here is the list of stamps used:

Tilda in Autumn Leaves
Is This Your Egg? - Edwin
Scarecrow Tilda - link to mini stamp
Row of Trees - stamped out 3 times and cut out

I also got this house from Magnolia-licious but it doesn't seem to be in stock at the moment (I believe it's an Alota Rubberstamps stamp).  The fence / pumpkins is from MIC - Eerie Scene Digi Stamp. 

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Colour Me Creative Copics Challenge - fall/halloween theme and must use ORANGE
Craft Your Days Away - Halloween colors
Wags n Whiskers - Fall colors
Totally Tilda - autumn leaves

If you want to play along with us at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog, just create your fall card and upload it to Mr. Linky over at the Challenge blog.  You could be the winner of a gift certificate to Magnolia-licious and pick up some of those sweet new Christmas Maggies!  See you there!

MIC Birthday/Christmas Blog Hop Winner

Good morning! Just popping on quickly to announce the winner from all the comments I received on the MIC Birthday/Christmas Blog Hop.  My winner is NINA.  Congratulations Nina, please contact me with your address and I'll get this stamp out to you soon.

See you next time!

Little Darlings & Scor-pal Blog Hop

Hello everyone! Today Little Darlings has teamed up with the Scor-pal DT for a blog hop. We used our scor-pals in combination with our Little Darlings stamps and here is the project I created for this hop:

I made an individual cupcake box. Wouldn't it be fun to give away this treat box at Halloween parties with a yummy cupcake inside? My scor-pal made this project so easy to create. I think I use my scor-pal every day - it is invaluable.

These papers are by Debbie Mumm and I've had them for such a long time. The designs in this paper pack are so cute, I wish I had another pack of these papers.

I couldn't resist using this LD image again - this one is my favorite from the Fall release. This image is called Autumn Friends and you can find it HERE.

Here is the order for the hop, please make sure you start at the beginning:

Score-pal
Angie
Katie
Ruby
Sara
Gini
Louise
Myrna
Lisa
Mindy 
Janiel 
Steph
Angela -- YOU ARE HERE
Love to Stamp

Scor-Pal is giving away a Scor-Buddy to a lucky commentor and also Love To Stamp will be giving away the entire new fall release to a lucky commentor. Don't forget to visit the Little Darlings Challenge blog tomorrow to leave a comment . Have fun hopping!

Magnolia-licious Color Challenge - Green and Blue and Clear/White

It's time for another challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog. Our challenge this week is to use the colors green, blue, white/clear on our project. Here is my card:

This is Swimming Tilda, I've had this image colored for awhile and couldn't wait to use it and the colors worked well for this challenge.  I first got this idea from Paola's awesome blog HERE . I used a flower soft diplay globe and added some Robin's Nest baubles to simulate air bubbles and turned the card into a shaker card. The seaweed is from Make It Crafty - chipboard cutouts.  The flowers and ribbon were in my DT package from Magnolia.  These papers worked perfectly here and I got them from Love to Stamp  and are by Pink Paislee (Hometown Summer) and Jillibean Soup (Spotted Owl) paper packs.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time - anything goes
Crafty Cardmakers - anything goes
Just Magnolia - anything goes

I hope you can join us at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog, you could be the winner of a $25.00 gift certificate to Magnolia-licious. Please visit the challenge blog to see all the other fabulous creations from my talented teammies! Have a great day!

Make It Crafty Blog Hop Reminder

Just popping on to remind you that the Make It Crafty Christmas/Zoe’s birthday blog hop ends on October 12 with candy available on all the DT blogs so don’t miss this one. You have one more week to get your birthday card uploaded for a freebie image giveaway. There are also some awesome giveaways on Zoe’s blog.  Click HERE to start the hop. The DT has really out done themselves, you don’t want to miss it! 

Thanks! Have a great day!

Blog Candy Winners!!

I am back today with the winners of my blog candy.  Thanks to everyone who participated. Your comments about my card were so sweet and I enjoyed reading them very much!

I used Random.org to pick my winners this time.

For Candy #1 - Coldwaters2
For Candy #2 - Angelique (anlou)

Congratulations! Please contact me so I can get these stamps out to you. You have until Wednesday to contact me before I have to choose another winner.
I can't believe  I am almost to 1000 followers. I think I will assemble more blog candy as a thank you when I get to 1000 so stay tuned!!

Have a great week!