He has made EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL in its time

I coloured beautiful Tilda while talking to Min.  It is really good to have her home, sitting in the family area and talking to me about her life in London, her studies, her friends and her trips to Wales and Canary Islands.  

I used the coloured Tilda to make the following card for  the following challenges : MSL Challenge - Ribbon

I learned how to tie the collar bow from Becca of Amazing Paper Grace, she made the most amazing and pretty bows and flowers.  

Materials used : 

1.  Beautiful Tilda coloured with copic markers

2.  ODBD stamp : He has made Everything Beautiful in its time

3.  Pattern paper : Magnolia, cardstock : DCWV, glitter paper : American Crafts

4.  MS punch

5.  Spellbinders nesties

6.  Distress inks

7.  Ribbons and flowers : Hong Kong

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爱 - Love

I am so happy to discover a new brand of dies, designed in Singapore, KUTZ a complete Singaporean brand!    I bought quite a few dies, including the chinese characters : love, joy, and happiness, plus a few other really pretty embossing dies.  Thanks shifu for bringing me to Krafters Paradise!

I used the love die and cut it on foam paper here together with will you be my valentine Tilda and made this pretty cheery card for the following challenges :-

1. Just Magnolia week 95 - Mina sketch
2. Magnolia Stamp Lovers - buttons and blings

 I used some blings on the leaves and the flower to make it more dimensional

Materials used :

1.  Be my valentine Tilda coloured with copic markers 

2.  Pattern paper : mix and mend wee bundle, cardstock : DCWV - tropicals

3.  Spellbinders nestie

4.  Kutz : love die

5.  MS punch

6.  Blings : tickled pink bling - my mind's eye

7.  Magnolia doo hickeys 

8.  Buttons : Hong Kong

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Happy Birthday

This will be a very short post as I still have to do the background on my canvas to prepare for my painting class tomorrow.    I received the magnolia  hearts doohickey last night and wanted to use them but instead use the ms heart punch instead, and i do want to play with my doohickey, so I shall not spend too much time on this post.

This happy birthday card is made for the following challenges :

1.  Just Magnolia week 94 : love you
2.  Magnolia Stamp lovers : pastel challenge
3.  Samuel Taylors monthly challenge : copic chic/promarker gal - anything coloured with copics or promarkers

Here is my card :

Before I list the materials used, I have to credit Becca of Amazing Paper Grace for her tutorial on the "tie a pretty collar bow" which I learned to make the above, I stuck a satin purple flower in the centre as my collar bow wasn't tied very nicely and there was a gap in the centre.   Go check out Becca's blog, she has the most amazing and awesome creations with spellbinders and ribbons.  

Materials used:

1.  Magnolia stamp : birthday Tilda coloured with copic markers

2.  Pattern paper : Li'l Davis Designs : little one - lullaby

3.  Happy Birthday stamp : ODBD 

4.  MS heart punch

5. Stickles : icicle

6.  Ribbon and purple satin flowers : Hong Kong

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This is the season for love

I pondered for the longest time which pattern paper to use for this card, I coloured snowy hug pink and blue and I have the perfect pattern paper from magnolia vintage Christmas, hanging ornaments but I was so reluctant to cut the paper because I love it so much.    Well, Christmas is the season for love, I will use the pattern paper I love, to send love to a love one, which is also the reason why I made a pop up love inside the card.

Here is the card I made for the following challenges :

1.  7 kids challenge 9 : non traditional christmas colours

2.  DCD challenge #45 - use a die cut

A pop-up for inside the card

Materials

1.  Snowy hugs coloured with copic markers

2.  Pattern paper : magnolia vintage Christmas hanging ornaments, cardstock : K&Company berry pink rose stack, glitter paper : KI memories

3.  Sizzix dies : frame w/hearts & flowers, Tim Holtz movers and shakers - baroque and love and  snowflake embosslit

4.  Flowers and lace: Wild orchard crafts

5.  Ribbons and buckle : bought from Hong Kong

6.  Crystals swirls : prima 

7.  Distress ink  spun sugar

8.  Stickles : waterfall and crystal

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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you

Yay, I am literally over the moon!   Vincent is finally back after 3 long weeks and I won top 3 at Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club challenge #41!  What a happy day for me :-)  I have not won any challenge for quite a while and am soooo happy to win!

And I dropped by made with love again this afternoon after church, today being the last day of the sale and I am so upset the heart bigz extra long die is out of stock!  Haiz I should have bought it on Friday when I was there!   And I promptly spent more $ buying a 3 D platform spinning die!

So when Vincent was clearing the mails and paying the bills, I made this card with all the dies I bought from made with love for the following challenges :-

1.   Pocket full of posies challenge 10 - winter bouquet
2.   Totally Tilda challenge 9 - Icy Christmas - blue and silver

Here is my card :

 The inside of the card which I used the 3d platform die to cut the platform and use it to "spin" my sentiment

 A peek at how the card closes with the spinning platform folding nicely into the centre

Materials used :-

1.  Tilda with scarf coloured with copic markers

2.   Pattern paper : DCWV winter wonder stack, cardstock : DCWV glitter stack and KI memories glitter

3.   Sizzix bigz 3 d spinning platform extra long and accordion album extra long dies

4.   Spellbinders pendant : Fleur de lis 

5.   Sentiment stamp : stampabilities

6.   Baby blue satin flowers and ribbon : bought from HK

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Wishing you the joys of the season : hope, joy and love

I am working on my paperbag album and have not been making cards!    So with my new purchases yesterday from made with love (a local craft store offering a storewide 40% discounts), I made this card for Die cut Dream Christmas club challenge #41 christmas crackers

Here is my card :

Materials used :-

1.  Warm & Cozy Tilda coloured with copic markers and caran d'ache colour pencils

2.  Pattern paper : DCWV the christmas stack with glitter

3.  Cardstock : AC cardstock pastels, heavy weight

4.  Magnolia doohickey dies : vintage tag

5.  Sizzix dies : movers and shapers : hope, joy and love

6.  Martha stewart punch

7.  Crackers cut-out : cricut cartridge celebrations for the smaller three crackers, the big cracker which tilda is sitting on is cut with free hand.

8.  Glitz stickles : champagne, star dust

9.  Poinsettias : wild orchid crafts

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Magic mushroom and a purple and Black Tilda card

I brought Jer to see Dr See and she asked him for a magic mushroom so that she can get well immediately! Dr See is one of the most caring doctor I know and he does not have any magic mushroom, but he did give jer plenty of medicine and rang me to check on her and give me further instructions on her medication!   Get well soon Jer and relax, big smile and big hug, I love you and aunty Ying sends her regards to you :-)

All the talk of magic mushroom makes me think about purple and black, so I made this after I came back from calligraphy class today - a purple and black Tilda card for the following challenges :-

1.  Magnolia Stamp Lovers challenge - purple and black
2.  Sunday Sketch & Stamp challenge #40 - Mandy's sketch
3.  A spoon full of sugar challenge 128 - relish to embellish

Material used :

1.  Tilda with cherries coloured with copic markers
2.  Pattern paper : dovercraft designer paper pack - charcoal prints
3.  Cardstock : popular
4.  Paper flowers : wild orchid crafts and gifts from Wichit (bought in Thailand)
5.  Spellbinders nestie
6.  Swirl pearls : Prima

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Tilda and Edwin

I finally met up with Lina today to pass her the magnolia stamps!    Have fun with them Lina :-)

I was really happy when I received my cozy autumn collection of magnolia stamps last week and love them to bits!!   I have to ink up this Tilda and Edwin stamp immediately.    I have lots of fun colouring this pair and when Vincent saw the coloured images, he said they looked like both of us when we were dating!  

Here is the card I made with the coloured images for the following challenges :-

1.  Sweet Stamping challenge 48 - ribbons
2.  ABC challenge - F is for flowers
3.  Little red wagon challenge 50 - something old/something new

Materials used :-

1.  Magnolia stamps : brother and sister coloured with copic markers (new stamp just received)

2.  Pattern paper : Cosmo cricket pixie-Licious mini deck 

3.  Card stock : Popular (local stationery)

4.  Martha stewart punch : monarch butterfly (bought this a while ago but have not been using it much)

5.  Ribbon : recycled and saved from advertisement flyer

6.  Flowers : wild orchid crafts + gifts from Wichit (bought in Bangkok)

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Red and Green Christmas card

I bought the graphic 45 cards and merry Christmas tags a couple of weeks ago and finally I have a chance to use them to make red and green Christmas card for the following challenges :-

1.  Totally Tilda - traditional red and green Tilda Christmas
2.  Alphabet challenge x for x'mas
3.  Magnolia down under challenge 67 : tag it

Here is the traditional Christmas card :

Materials used :-

1.   Tilda with Christmas tree (from So Jolly collection) coloured with copic markers

2.   Cardstock : DCWV 

3.   Pattern paper : basic grey jovial

4.   Merry Christmas tag : graphic 45 Christmas past tags collection

5.   spellbinders nestie

6.   Magnolia doo hickey cutting dies - doily flowers and Tilda lace

7.   Poinsettias : wild orchid crafts

8.   Paper stars and ribbons : bought from HK

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Another birthday card

I made another birthday card today, this will be for JDA  (a local craft store) 10th birthday.   I am also entering this card for the following challenges :-

1.   Just magnolia week 76, 2 x 2

2.   Crafty Catz challenge 53 - Magnolia/Tilda week

3.   Magnolia stamp lovers sparkling challenge (I hope my glitter on Tilda gift boxes and dress is sparkling enough

Materials used :-

1.   Tilda with gifts coloured with copic markers

2.   Pattern paper : KI memories, party, specialty cardstock paper pack with glitter

3.   Cardstock : DCWV bright stack, core-dinations whitewash collection (which I embossed with cuttlebug happy birthday embossing folder and sand it to reveal the darker core colour.

4.   Paper roses : Wild Orchid crafts

5.   Ranger stickles : lime green, turquoise, crystals

6.   Viva decor glitter liner : Peridot

7.   Viva decor pearl pen : cream

Edit (I forgot to include this when I first posted)

8.  Happy birthday cut-out from cricut create, wild card cartridge, JDA - Don Juan cartridge

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Mirror mirror on the wall

Here is another card I made today after my calligraphy class.    I coloured this snow white Tilda a long long time ago when I first bought her, but I have never gotten to make a card with it.  

This is a really simple card for the following challenges :-

1.   Magnolia stamp lovers lace challenge
2.   Totally Tilda challenge 6 - glitter and sparkle

Materials used :

1.   Magnolia stamp Tilda coloured with copics
2.   Pattern paper : pieces of scraps from stash
4.   Cardstock - from local stationery : Popular
5.   Flowers : Wildorchid crafts
6.   Ribbons bought from Hong Kong
7.   Glitter : Martha Stewart
8.   Spellbinder nestie
9.   Ranger stickles : Yellow

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My baby

The minute Liz saw my stamped image of Tilda in bath, she said it looks exactly like Jer when she was a baby.    So I decided to make a card for Jer as she is the cutest and sweetest baby!

Here is my baby (she is still my baby at 18) :-

And here is the card I made while Liz, Jer and Vincent were watching TV for the following challenges :

1.   Oldie but Goodie challenge #1 - new beginning (since this is a baby card, it is a new beginning)

2.   Just Magnolia challenge 72 (which is based on a sketch)

3.   Pocket full of Posies challenge #6 floral fantasy 

Materials used :

1.   Tilda in bath coloured with copic markers (face/skin - E0000, E000, ROO, R20, basin - R81, RV000, bubbles : B000, B01, B52)

2.   Cardstock : DCWV and gemstones pearlescent, pattern paper : DCWV : baby girl stack

3.   Papermania border stickers and sentiment stickers.

4.   Flowers : wild orchid crafts

5.   Ribbons : Hong Kong

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You make my heart flutter

I love the Crafty secrets paper I bought recently that I kept looking at them, but cannot bring myself to use them.   I have the pastel, classic and radiant stacks.   So, what good are my stash if I don't use them to create, so here is a card I created with a pattern paper from the radiant stack.

I made this card for the : Magnolia Down under challenge no. 33 - feather, fur or fins

Here is my card :

Materials used :-

1.      Charleston Tilda coloured with copic markers

2.      Cardstock : DCWV, pattern paper : crafty secret radiant stack

3.      "You made my heart flutter" mini stamps Inkadinkado

4.      Spellbinders : fancy tag

5.      Feathers, lace, black ribbon, satin flowers : Hong Kong

6.      Stickles, crystals

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Pink Tilda

Time flies, the girls' summer holidays are almost over!   Cassie left for London today and I will not see her for another 3 months, she will be back for Christmas.    Liz will be leaving in less than 2 weeks!   She too will be coming back for Christmas.

Since they will both be back for Christmas, I decided to make a Christmas card today, to remind myself that before I know it, Christmas will be upon us!

My pink Tilda christmas card is for :

Die Cut Christmas Club Challenge 33, Christmas Tilda in Pink 

Here is my card which I made right after sending Cassie to the airport :-

Material used :

1.    Tilda on sledge coloured with copic markers.   I used the puffy velvet fabric marker on the fur hood and fur cuffs.   These markers are really cool, I applied onto the area I wanted to have a puff up 3 dimensional effect and use a heat gun on it, voila, it puff up very nicely.    I wish I have a white colour to use as snow though.

2.    The trees are from magnolia winter wonderland, coloured with distress ink and I used Stampendous fun flock (cotton ball white) on the trees and the tip of the pink snow flakes to achieve a 3 dimensional effect for the snow.   

3.     Cardstock : DCWV,  pattern paper : papermania Deck the halls.   

4.     Snow flake cutout with cricut merry tags cartridge

5.     Flower : Wild orchid crafts

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