Poppy Tilda on a stroll

Hello,

I like to share with you a little Garden Sign I made with Sir Stampalot’s exclusive Poppy Tilda.

The sign is made from wood and it is quite heavy. The sign is painted white and I stamped with Stampin ups “wood grain” background stamp and Vintage photo over the entire sign. A little sponging on the edges and added into the outer ridge some brown Stickles to make the details pop a bit more.

I than stamped with Memento my beautiful new sentiment I got from Tammi as a gift for Christmas. Tilda was stamped onto Copic Express paper and colored in with Copic markers.I needed something to ground Tilda on, so I tried my luck with Magnolia’s new DooBeePops paper in green (Fern) and cut the paper out with Magnolia’s grass border die. Embellished with just a few additional supplies as ribbons, butterfly stickers and made a little flag with Magnolia’s flag die.
The ribbon was adhered with some really strong glue to the entire backside of the wood so it will hold the weight of the sign when hung.

Thanks for swinging by!

Love

Poppy Tilda on a stroll

Hello,

I like to share with you a little Garden Sign I made with Sir Stampalot’s exclusive Poppy Tilda.

The sign is made from wood and it is quite heavy. The sign is painted white and I stamped with Stampin ups “wood grain” background stamp and Vintage photo over the entire sign. A little sponging on the edges and added into the outer ridge some brown Stickles to make the details pop a bit more.

I than stamped with Memento my beautiful new sentiment I got from Tammi as a gift for Christmas. Tilda was stamped onto Copic Express paper and colored in with Copic markers.I needed something to ground Tilda on, so I tried my luck with Magnolia’s new DooBeePops paper in green (Fern) and cut the paper out with Magnolia’s grass border die. Embellished with just a few additional supplies as ribbons, butterfly stickers and made a little flag with Magnolia’s flag die.
The ribbon was adhered with some really strong glue to the entire backside of the wood so it will hold the weight of the sign when hung.

Thanks for swinging by!

Love

Gruen, gruen, gruen sind alle meine Kleider…

Hello friends, sorry I usually don’t write my blog in German but with this one I just had to because the tin I made just reminds me always of this old German lullaby my mother used to sing to me when I was a child.

I kept the green tin from one of our Christmas chocolates from “Sanders”. First I thought I would keep the tin to use it on a project for this years Christmas but than St. Patrick's Day came to mind and I started to look for matching papers (I used Magnolia ink Mini “Green Love” and “Calla of Paris”). My mothers favorite color is green and am going to sent the tin to her around Mothers Day to Germany, I will add a handmade green scarf with a lime green Pandora charm.

Here are a few detail shots.
I used a lace around the tin that has a flower pattern and an other thin ribbon to look like the flowers are growing from grass. Hemp was added too and I tied a bow and topped off with a orange button. Several flowers were sandwiched with leaves and a die cut from a Magnolia flower die.

The rim of the tin is decorated with a string of pearl stickers, I did not have the exact width of ribbons and I like that the green of the tin still shows through. To make the tag I used Magnolia “So Lovely” die several round circle punches to cut my sentiment out and added little dots around it with some Liquid Pearls. Most of my embellishments have some Stickles on them.

Here is a close up shot of the coloring.

Additional supplies used:
Stamps: Magnolia tulip Tilda
Papers:(I used Magnolia ink Mini “Green Love” and “Calla of Paris”),  page from a old German book
Die: Memory Box
orange satin ribbon, silver charm, metal corner
Copic markers

Have a lovely Sunday

Time to reflect and DIY project

Hi there today I would love to show you a little notebook. I stamped with heart Tilda and Magnolia’s “Love corner” with Vintage photo and colored the image in with Prismacolor pencils. It does look so simple but honestly this kind of technique takes me so long. (there is an awesome article in one of the older Magnolia Ink magazine written by the very talented Chris Dark!!) For me the process of coloring this image was a healing one. I just had found out that day (Valentines Day) that a family member of mine passed away. I had lots of time to reflect. Simple, but this little book means a lot to me.


I added some Stickles around the edge of the book and added some lace and bakers twine to the spine. I kept one end of the twine longer to add a heart charm to it – it can be used as a book mark. Also used is a small red button and pearls.

Anyhow.. life must go on, Niklas needed the day after Valentines birthday card for his teacher and I totally forgot all about it. In the morning I quickly stamped the large Magnolia butterfly on some paper and had him color in with some pastels. He added some wind (black swirls a cloud and his own smilie face). At first he did not even wanted to make the card but once he had one for his teacher after school he told me “SHE REALLY Liked my card” he was happy. I think this butterfly is really quite cute to have for kids crafts, the large areas make it easy for the little ones to color in.

since I was not able to blog last week I wanted to share the little project I made with my kids – we have to make each year about 50+ Valentines to be exact 58 this year. I have tons of broken Crayola crayons. This year I soaked all those broken pieces we collect each year in warm water, let the kids peel off all the wrappers, I took off the little pieces.

added them all into a silicone tray – I have seen nice small ones (my hearts are quite big and needed lots of crayons) at Michaels and Target for just $1 and put them on low heat for about 10 minutes in the oven. They all melt nicely and came easily out of the form after I cooled them for about 10 minutes outside.

Here is a close up shot of the finished gifts– I let the kids added into each baggie some chocolate and a crayon heart and I tied with ribbon close. I stamped the sentiments and had the kids punch out the matting and had them write their names to the back of the tag . Next time I would maybe add a nice sentiment for the crayon… like “You color my world” or so … I just ran out of time with making almost 60 of these in time for Valentines day.

Thank you for your visit.

Love