Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Magnolia DT Card~ Magnolia INK #2 Magazine Front Page Card~Tilda Chasing Butterflies~How to make a Magnolia Tilda Card



GOSH!! The title is super long :-)) Oh my...I have waited too long to show you this card which featured on the front page of Magnolia INK #2 Magazine.....have you seen that?? I bet you have...but today I want to show you the whole card and a tutorial how to make a Magnolia Tilda card:-))

The card is very simple indeed and took me an afternoon to complete it.Thus...it's easy and simple to make a pretty-Scandinavia-Magnolia cards...as long as you know some tips....OK, here we go....
All Materials from Magnolia rubberstamps, Sweden,except Ice stickles from Ranger, pearls from Prima Marketing
A) Tilda:
1) Stamp Tilda and flowers on Neenah white paper as the picture shown, you can stamp them on any white color paper as long as the color do not blur when you do your coloring.
2) Color Tilda with any color medium that you are comfortable with. For this Tilda,I colored it with Steadtler Color Pencils, blended with paper stumps and sansodor.
3) I used Vintage Photo distress ink to color the soil, add more water if you want light color and vs.
4) Stamp butterfly on the left hand side of Tilda. Stamp again on scrap paper, color it and cut out.Glue on the stamped butterfly, fold a bit to make it dimensional.
5) Sponge the edges of whole white paper with Vintage Photo distress ink ( this is my favourite color:-) and sponge more inside the card.
6) Mat the white paper on a light green cardstock, slightly bigger than it. Set aside...waiting to be use later....my cute Tilda;-))
(B) Label
1) Stamp Label on the Neenah white paper. Sponge Vintage Photo distress ink on it. Write some wording...I copied from Internet. Set a side.
(C) Card base ( I am so sorry that I totally forgot about the sizes of all the papers I used on this card...so sorry)
1) This is a 6"x6" card. I use burgandy color cardstock as the base.
2) Cut the ladybug patterned paper slightly smaller than 6"x6". I think maybe 5"x5"...oh...I really forgot...
3) Cut the green patterned paper bigger than the light green cardstock that you set aside before (that has Tilda on it)..Punch the right hand side with Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch.
4) Cut three burgandy gingham ribbons and adhere on the back of light green cardstock as shown on the picture. Two ribbons at the upper side and one on the bottom.
5) Mat the light green cardstock on the green patterned paper.
6) Place two ribbons( polka dot burgandy ribbon and sheer burgandy ribbon) on the ladybug patterned paper.
7) Adhere the whole green patterned paper( there has light green cardstock with Tilda on it) on the ladybug patterned paper ( with two ribbons on it).
8) Adhere the stamped label beside the green patterned paper.
9)Place all the flowers, leaves, rhinestones,pearls as shown on the picture. I punched the leaves with Martha Stewart punch.
10) Put some Ice stickles on flowers, label and butterfly.
Viola ! You have your very cute Magnolia Tilda card.
Some tips for you:
!) Use light patterned papers. Magnolia patterned papers are recommanded.
2) Use flowers...flowers...and flowers.....
3) Use distress inks to sponge the edges of papers....Vintage Photo, Antique linen, tea-dye ...
4) Use rhinestones, pearls, stickles to make it more elegant and stunning.
5) If able, make the card full with layers......
Further reading:
1. Distress Ink coloring:
2. Copic Coloring:


I do hope you have fun to make the Magnolia Tilda card as I have and I wish that this mini tutorial can help you a bit:-)) Please forgive my poor English in this mini tutorial.:-)

Happy Magnolia-ingggggggggg!!!!!!!


Monday, March 29, 2010

Welcome to Magnolia INK #3 Magazine


Hi my dear friends,

I know you are waited so long for the new Magnolia Ink Magazine!! Here it is !!! You can order directly from Magnolia Website !!!! Our very talented DT Lillemor did the fabulous job on the front page!!!! Grab it before you late!!!



Saturday, March 27, 2010

Magnolia DT Card~ Ladybug Tilda


Hello my friends,
Finally I can show my superstar here today !!!! She is ..................Ladybug Tilda!!!! I love her very much......so today I made this card with a challenge too...it had been a long while I didn't participate in challenges, so I take this opportunity to join Just Magnolia. There is a sketch that we need to follow and I think it's quite easy !

All materials from Magnolia rubberstamps except Red Gardenia flowers, mini roses from Prima Marketing, lace and sticker from my stash.

Hope you have a great weekend as I had...and tonight I want to make something ...DIFFERENT !!






Friday, March 26, 2010

Magnolia DT Card~Tilda with lamb and rabbit:-)

Hi my dear friends,

How are you today ? I am so glad that today is friday !!! Yipee! I plan to make cards tomorrow and I called it Ying's Crafting Day ~~but...anyway... I know..I know I am very late in posting Easter card:-(( and I am so sorry I keep you coming and coming...waiting and waiting for viewing my new cards...

I am so glad and appreciate all your stop at my blog......There has some ladies/men( ?) that come frequently from many places like Dallas~Texas, Birmingham, London~Great Britian..and many many more visitors around the world that come to my blog almost daily...maybe a routine for you :-)) But...I am so sorry that I don't know who you are....maybe you can leave me a comment and say a word of Hello...because I do LOVE to know and be friends with all of you !!! Thank you very much for visiting me!

OK, back to my card today...do you notice that I changed my card style a bit ? Honestly, I do not know my card style...but I do know that I usually use many embelishments for my card, right? and...may I know if there has any peach color Easter card?...

Stamps and yummy patterned paper from Magnolia rubberstamps,mini roses and pearls from Prima Marketing, the gardenia flowers I bought from my dear DT friend Tab in Great Britian,pins from Making Memories.

I wish that you have a great weekend tomorrow whatever you do and thank you for your viewing !




Sunday, March 21, 2010

Magnolia DT Card~Tilda with Spring Bundler


Hi my dear friends,
Today I wish to show a card with you...oh my...this is really a hard work for me and Magnolia was really challenging me !!! With black, green patterned papers and black flowers, I was totally LOST !! I was encountered my comfort zone and thank God I eventually finished this card...wish that you are not laughing at me with my bad combination of colors!!

All materials from Magnolia, and this stamp is from Hoppy Collection.Mini roses was given by my friend, Magnolia DT Tab, yummy lace from Made With Love , Singapore.
Color medium: Copic Ciao Markers,distress inks.


Hope you have a great Sunday!









Saturday, March 20, 2010

Magnolia DT card~~You are special...and some report


Hi my dear friends,
Here is another weekend :-)) Phew....I am so tired after the Singapore trip from 13-16/3. We have been to many interesting places for my kids, for example Singapore Zoo, Singapore Flyer,Sentosa and Science Centre. My kids had so much fun and for older kid( my hubby and I ) we were so tired as we didn't have much energy like our kids:-)) hahaha....Here I share two of the pictures that we took at Singapore Flyer and Singapore Zoo.



Back to the card that I made today...well, I have so much inspiration to make cards after I back from Singapore too...I met Yenni Natalia, a Singapore cardmaker and she brought me to my candy stores~~~ rubberstamps/scrapbooking stores like Made of Love, Laines Paperie, Junior de Artist and Spotlight in Singapore, I wish that I could bring all the supplies back to my room.
This card I made with my last Magnolia DT kit, except daisy flowers given from my dear DT Tab from England, when I purchased some supplies from her, she is so sweet and I am so satisfied with her fast delivery.The creamy lace is so yummy which I bought from Singapore:-)
Hope that you have a very pleasant weekend and thank you for your viewing!

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Magnolia DT Card~ Tilda Carrying a Lamb ( Hoppy Easter Collection 2010)


Hi my dear friends,
How are you today ? I hope you are fine with whatever weather you have:-) Our weather here is SUPER HOT with some temperature about 36-38 degree celcius !! So, this is a good time for me to stay in my crafting room to make some cards! But, I just manage make one card today...due to my "Distress ink-coloring-experiment"!! I took a whole day to make this card and I feel pain all my body now:-(( LOL
I feel proud to manage color the Floral background with distress ink...this was my second attempt using distress ink and it was so FUN and I must admit that I am addicted !!
All materials sent by Magnolia except small roses and pearls from Prima Marketing.
Floral background colored with Distress ink:Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint, Broken China,Worn Lipstick, Mustard Seed, Black Soot.
Tilda carrying a lamb colored with Copic Ciao Markers.
Hope that you have a great weekend and happy stamping. Thank you for your viewing and your nice comments.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Magnolia DT Card~Chocolate Heart Box


Hi friends,

I am so sorry that I am late in posting and making my Magnolia DT cards for you to view! I don't know if your situation is similar with me, when my kids have exam then I have NO time to crafting as to accompany them to make the revision...am I a bad mom? Oh..I really don't understand the education system nowadays although I am a teacher!!! HAHA !!! LOL


OK, here is a card that I made without Tilda. Magnolia's accesorries stamps are great and we can make the cards with or without accompany of Tilda too...( not like my son...always need my accompany to encounter his exam...LOL...)


This stamp is from Right Through My Heart Collection and you can purchase here.All the materials sent by Magnolia to me . Can you see the chandelier garlands?It's so beautiful and it's the newest embelishment from Magnolia, I think you can purchase from many online stores if you aren't live near with Magnolia shop, Boras, Sweden.
And...this is my first time to color using distress inks:-)) I had so much FUN !!
Until next post hope that you have a great day !