Magnolia INK Magazine: Turning Leaves

Grab your copy here: http://www.magnoliaink.nu/

Congratulations to my sweet DT, Debbie Dophin for the frontpage card:-)) Great Creation !

Happy Magnolia-ing !

Magnolia Shabby Chic + Scrapbooking News and Reviews Magazine Featured Artist + Blog Candy Winner

Hello my friends,

How are you ? Hope that you enjoy your summer holidays to the fullest:-))

Today I want to show you a card that I made for a friend birthday and I and made it for Scrapbooking News and Reviews Magazine Featured Artist For July.

I made a step by step tutorial for the magazine> How to make a Magnolia Shabby Chic Card, if you have subscribed the magazine online, then you can view my work there:-)) Here is:http://www.scrapbooknewsandreview.com/

Painted Tilda with distress ink pads. Patterned paper from Melissa frances.

I used cheese cloth, trims, paper flowers to decorate.

You can notice I used Magnolia doohickey dies on my card. I stamped the sentiment stamp" especially for you" on the dies cut and distress with ink pad .

I cut a piece of corrugated paper and painted with gesso and crakle paint then embossed with Stampendous Enamel Shabby embossing powder, I love the effect."-))

Oh yes! I almost forget the important thing ! I want to annouce the blog candy winner for my previous post !!

She is .............................................

Melissa_Melz

Please contact me, melissa within one week, if not I will draw another new winner.

Thank you very much for all your support, hope that you can inspired and making more and more Magnolia cards!

You are my STAR !

Hello my friends,

I have a project to show you.

It's a canvas board altered project.

I painted the canvas board with gesso then applied some distress inks.

It's always my fun time to play with altered stuff.

I painted Tilda and Edwin with distress inks.

Decorated the whole project with beautiful and yummy embelishments, which mostly sent to me as gift from my sweet teamy, DT Yulis from Indonesia. Thank you very much Yulis=))

There is so many details and steps to altered this project, if you are interested and keen to know about it, how about a tutorial/workshop from me with different theme ? How do you think ? Just let me know=))

Stamps:Soccer Edwin, Basket Tilda ( The Winner Takes it All 2011),Old Valentine Letter( Valentine Collection 2009) Grunge Collection(Stempelglede)

Embelishments:

Magnolia doohickey dies -( grass, flags),paper flowers-I am roses, Prima Marketing, trinket(webster pages), Crackle Accent- Ranger, Crackle Paint-Ranger, Ice Stickles-Ranger, raffia and fabric wording from my stash.

Canvas Board size: 7"x5.5"

Good News !! If you leave a comment here, then you will have chance to win a secret package sponsor by Magnolia with rubberstamps, patterned papers and flowers=)) Just to thank you for supporting me on my crafting journey ! I will annouce the winner ( one lucky winner) on my next post...I am not sure when....haha...

Happy Magnolia-ing !

Follow Your Dreams ~ The New Magnolia INK magazine

My very sweet teamies, Camilla H and Lillemor are the cover girls, how gorgeous !

You can get it here :

                                                                 www.magnoliaink.nu
                                           

Magnolia Vacation Survival Kit

A very simple box that I made myself and turned it into vacation survival kit.

I love to travel so that I need something to hold my little stuff, you can make one for yourself too:-))

All materials from Magnolia product except paper flowers from Prima marketing and I am roses, Thailand.

A close up. I handwriting some words too.

"Vacation" from unknown stamps.

It's always great to back at home but at the same time we missed our holidays too !

Hope that you have a great vacation in the coming summer holidays !

Back from Vacation;-))

Hello my dear friends,

 I miss you all !

I just back from my vacation in Perth Australia. We had a very relax and fun holidays :-))

Hope that I can get the my normal life and start to create !

Here I share some of my photos I took in my holidays. Enjoy.

Ying with awake Koala:-) I was so lucky to take photos with these huge koala.

Ying and Wombat

at Pinnacles, 3 hours drive from perth city.

at vineyard, Swan Valley

at fremantle.

Waterlily Tilda~ Have a Sunny Day

So sorry that I was absent from blogland and away from craft table recently. Hope that you don't think that I don't craft anymore:-))

Tonight I have a new card to show you, which I made specially for a lucky person and a store that located in Hong Kong, the lady was so kind that asking me to show her customers my magnolia cards:-))

I used Magnolia new collection ~ Sea Memories, Waterlily Tilda. As usual I colored with distress inks.

Patterned paper from K&Company and Pion Design.

Paper flowers from I am roses, Thailand.

Did you noticed I used some roses fabric tape? I cut them into triangle shape and adhered on the flags.I also used a mini envelope which I think is cute enough! I bought all these yummy stuff from a nice lady from Korea.You can visit her here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/WonderlandRoom

Spool buttons, stamps and flags from London Market, Pinkpaislee.

Sentiment stamp from Magnolia Sea Memories collection too.

I used a piece of doily and cheesecloths on my card too.

Hope that you get inspired and I wish you all have a Sunny day !