Christmas Angels!

Hey all!  Happy Saturday! That's right-it's time for another challenge at DCD Christmas Club and we are sponsored by Prairie Fairy Designs. So, use an  angel on your creation and you can win some fabulous digis from Prairie Fairy's site. I just love this Holly fairy image-I've used her a few times already- she's just so darling sitting on those berries and her curly hair!
I'm entering the following challenges: Christmas Stampin' All Year Round ( Use your favorite image), Stamp Something (Things With Wings), and  Amber's Crafts and Stuff (Use a digi). Hope u like! xox Trish:)

Bicycle Mimi!

Hey gang!  We've been enjoying nice weather here for the past few days-haven't had to wear a jacket- I raked my front yard  and half of the back last night and can hardly move my arms today. Good thing I finished this card on Mon. night LOL! This super cute image is from Penny Black and her name is Mimi with bicycle or bicycle Mimi-I can't remember, but she's adorable and I think she fits perfectly with these Bo Bunny Vicki B papers! I love the colors in this collection!

So, I've been watching crocheting tutorials on You tube, as I've used my last crocheted flower on this card. To be honest, I think I can do it, but I'm scared to attempt it-anyone know where to buy little ones like this one and not on e-bay, 'cause they look huge there, as well as expensive.

I'm entering the following challenges with my card: Tuesday Throwdown (Use Eyelets or Brads), Anything Goes Challenge (pink and brown), Stamping Scrapping Central (Anything Goes), I Did It Creations! (1 image, 2 DPs and 3 embellies) I used ribbon, brads and flowers;  Hope u like! xox Trish:) 

Butterfly Tilda!

Happy Monday to all! Are we all stuffed from all the Easter ham and turkey? even though it was mouth-watering at first-I'm starting to feel sick from the leftovers!! Here's a cutie I wanted to share with you. This is Butterfly Tilda and I tried to make her a red-head for a change.  Thanks Lori for letting me use her-she's beautiful!! I colored her when I had the girls over for a coloring/crafting night, on Good Friday. My papers are from K & Company. I'm entering the following challenges with this card: Just Magnolia (Sketch),Stamp Fairy ( Sparkle,3DPs, 2 punches or dies), Get Hippity (Spring/Summer), Fabulous Fridays (Birds/Butterflies), Flutterby Wednesdays ( include a butterfly/fairy/angel). Have a great day! xox Trish

Paper-Piecing-Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!! I wish everyone a relaxing day filled with family, friends and lots of laughter! We had our big supper last night along with the big Easter Egg Hunt outside with all my nieces and nephews, as well as my kids-it was great and the weather was co-operating for a change too! My stomach still feels full from all the good vittles and candy!

Now onto the challenge: Over at Totally Tilda, this fortnightly's challenge is to use paper-piecing in your creation! We are being sponsored by fellow DT member, Lynne-who has some digital sentiments up for grabs as the prize. Check out her shop: Sentiments 4 You. Doesn't Tilda look adorable in her two-tone dress? I was going to leave her dress green and Bertie, fellow DT member and Prairie Fairy herself suggested I add a pink bib over top. Much appreciated!! The papers are from K&Company.

I'm entering the following challenges with this creation: Magnolia Stamp Lovers (Flowers) Let's Ink It Up (Stitching), Stampin Sisters in Christ (Make a Round Card), Just Us Girls (Any template, Springtime) Fussy and Fancy (Springtime), Fairy Knoll (Easter or Spring), ECP Challenges, Crazy 4 Challenges,  Craft Your Days Away and Sweet Stampin' (Easter).

Have a "Hoppy" Day! xoxo, Trish :)

Raise the Bar GDT-NauticalTtheme and Use Stripes

Hey all-Yes another post for Friday. I was pleased to learn that I was a winner at Raise the Bar challenge last week! So, I'm guest "Bartending" this week. I've never used this super-cute magnolia image of Edwin-but I just think he's adorable!! I think this card would make an adorable B-day card for a boy-it would have gone perfect in my son's last bedroom, as he had a nautical theme when he was younger. I asked if he wanted to keep it and he just rolled his eyes "Noooo!" he groaned! LOL. I'm entering the following challenges with this card: Papertake Weekly (spots and stripes), Bunny Zoe's Crafts (One for the Boys), Craft Your Passion (Use dots), Crafty Cradmakers (use Red, White and Blue and/or a Wedding Card). Hope you like! xoxo Trish

April Showers Bring May Flowers!!

Hey all! It's Good Friday today and I am soooo happy that we have the day off today! This fortnightly's challenge at Fairy Fun Fridays is to incorporate flowers in your project. I used this super cute image of the little duckies for my project. I even tried to make a tag like the Magnolia doo-hickey tag punch, it turned out cute even though it's not the real mcoy.  I'm entering the following challenges: Ai Factory (Flowers in Bloom), Crafty Purple Frog (Texture and Ribbon), and  Samuel Taylor's Challenge (Distressing). Hope u like! xoxo Trish:)

Follow the Leader!

Hey all! I just fell in love with this image when I saw it at Pollycraft's digi site. I posted a card in February with these same ducks and I had to have these little guys too! My papers are from Cosmo Cricket and another collection called Grandma's Kitchen, but I don't remember the paper company. I'm entering  Truly Scrumptious' challenge (Vintage), Creative Card Crew (Spring), Paper Pretties (Pink, Green and Neutral), Kaboodle Doodles,  Heart 2 Heart (Easter or Spring) and Going Grey with Scrap-Creations (use a digital image). Hope you like! xox, Trish

Happy Easter Tilda!

Hey all! yes, I'm posting another Tilda card-but this new Magnolia collection, Butterfly Dreams is just so cute, I can't help but want to show them off. 

My good friend Lori also posted a card earlier today with eggs in the perfect shade I could have and should have used, but what's eerie is that I cut the styrofoam eggs last night and took a break from completing it, because my lower back was aching so much! Turns out I have a kidney infection-not very wise of me to leave it so long!! It would have been cool had I finished it, because we are always using similar colors or the same image, and we would have posted similar cards on the same day! LOL!
 I bought these eggs last year at Dollarama thinking that one day I would use them and when I saw a challenge with 'egg" in it-I just knew!! Great minds think alike.
This image is Tilda with Rubber Boots and I added some liquid glass so they would gleam. A lot of you may think-yellow boots, but there's a story behind this. A few weeks ago, I took my daughter to go buy rubber boots. There were tons to choose from and so many cool styles, and what did she pick-the plain yellow ones!! My four year-old niece even tried to convince her with some pink ones-but she didn't bite! Her reason was that nobody would pick yellow ones, therefore nobody in her class would have the same ones. Well, low and behold, doesn't one of her classmates show up with the identical boots and in the same size!! She was appalled!
Well, she's still loving them and made sure that her name was written on both sides of the inside of the boot and under the heel!!
I'm entering the following challenges: Cupcake Challenge (Lots of Layers), Pile it On (Use a rubber stamp) Oohlala Creations (aqua and bling) I used stickles and pearls; Paper Sundaes (texture), Tiffany Doodles (use Turquoise) Creative Inspirations Paint (Eggs) Die Cut Dreams, Dream Valley Challenges, Stamp'N'Doodle, Magnolia Down Under, Scrappy Frogs, Magnolia Stamp Lovers, Craft Your Days Away, Shannon's Sentiments, Magnolia-Licious Highlites  (all Easter challenges), and then Stampacular Challenge (Use stamps-Magnolia), Sentimental Sundays (sentiment). Hope you like! xox Trish

Follow the Sketch in Black and White!

Hey gang! Yay-it's the week-end!! I've got some important NEWS to share: Over at DCD's Christmas Club blog, there have been a few changes: the challenge will now be held every fortnight instead of every Saturday. So, now you have extra time to get your Christmas creations uploaded to the blog!

This challenge is based on fellow DT member, Karen's sketch and to use black and white in your papers/image or both. Can't wait to see what you come up with!!

I'm entering Alphabet's Challenge (X is for Christmas), Delicious Doodles (All Stitched Up), Christmas Cards All Year Round (Use an Oval shape), Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge (Ribbon and Gems) and Little Miss Muffet Challenges (Glitter and Shine).

I'm off to the city now to get all our Easter goodies and supper fixings. Can you believe it snowed here last night??? We got 2cm of this dreadful stuff and to think it was 15 degrees this past Monday-Unbelievable!! Snow-Snow go away, come again another, I mean NEVER!! LOL
Hope u like! xox Trish

Make Your Own DPs and Sketch

Hey all! Is it almost Friday yet? LOL-This week has seemed so long!! It was 1 C on Monday and it was -9C on Wed., but it felt much colder because of the wind!! It's a  little bit warmer today, but when will Spring be here???
To perk up my mood  I used this cute image of Tilda-so Spring-like with her rabbit in front of her!! I decided to enter Magnolia Down Under's Challenge and I made my own papers for this card-which was hard-because anyone who knows me, knows that I am the queen on Design Papers-love 'em, can't live without them.

So, I am going to show you what I did. For the background paper first paper, I used ink and sponged/rubbed  it on in a swirl motion and then stamped flowers on the paper. For the next paper-I stitched diagonally using different colors of thread and different stitching. It actually looks pretty cool.

I also followed Just Magnolia's Sketch and am entering this week's challenge if I'm not too late!!  I'm also entering the following challenges: Creative Inspirations (Easter), Creative Belli (Eggs/Bunnies),Stamping Royalty (Spring), For Fun Challenges (Use at least 3 of the colors:Blue, Pink Yellow, Green) and Freshly Brewed (Cute and Sweet)Hope u all like!xox Trish

Canadian Cowgirl! Tildas from Around the World!

Howdeeee! What a great challenge at Totally Tilda to tell you about!! You need to use an image of Tilda from around the World on your creation! I used my favorite stamp, Cowgirl Tilda that I received as a B-day gift from my dear friend, Susie and she is still one of my favorites!! I used these Debbie Mumm papers available at Micahels. Flowers are from WOC. I'm entering the following challenges: Stampacular Sunday (Girls and Swirls) Tilda's rope is a definite swirl, as well as the stems on my flowers!!, Crazy Challenge (Just add Flowers), Paper Playtime (Anything Goes)  Hope u like! xox Trish

Make a Christmas Scene!

Hey gang! It's time for another challenge over at DCD's Christmas Club. We are being sponsored by our lovely Lynne, fellow DT member, who has some digital sentiments as the winning prize from her shop, Sentiments 4 You. She also provide us with the lovely cricle sentiments to use on our cards. This week, you need to use a Tilda image as well as another stamp or digi background to make a Christmas Scene. I used Prairie Fairy's image of Lonely Tree to accompany this adorable Tilda! My papers are from Basic Grey's Jovial Line. I'm entering the following challenges: Samuel Taylor's Challenge (Distressing,) Outlawz-Tuesday Color challenge (Turquoise, Brown and Distressing) and Christmas Inspirations (Christmas Scene) Hope u like! xox Trish

Chook,Chook- Nursery Rhyme Theme

Before I forget: Congrats to my good friend and fellow Fairy member, Corry, who just won at Just Magnolia! Way to go girl!! Have fun spending at Simon Says!! So proud of you!! xox

Hey all this fortnightly's challenge over at Fairy Fun Fridays is to get your card inspiration from a Nursery Rhyme. I used this new and super cute image of Gilly, from Prairie Fairy called "Little Chicks" and my Nursey rhyme is Chook, Chook. Here's how it goes, as I didn't learn this one until I was in school:

Chook, Chook

Chook, chook, chook, chook, chook,

Good morning, Mrs. Hen.

How many chicks have you got?

Madam, I've got ten.

Four of them are yellow,

And four of them are brown

And two of them are speckled red,

The nicest in the town.

I'm entering the following chalenges: Tuesday Throwdown (Spring), Crafty Cardmakers (Yellow as main colour), Dutch Dare Card Challenge (Spring has Sprung), The Rubber Cafe (Spring/Easter), Freshly Brewed (Flowers),Raise the Bar (Cute Little Chicks), Paper Cutz Challenge (Chicks, Bunnies or Eggs) Crafts for Eternity (Colour/Picture Inspired)and Simon Says Stamp (Spring/Easter Colors).  My sentiment is from Paper Trey Ink. Hope u like! xox Trish

Fairy Merry Christmas!

Hi gang! Happy Saturday! I am still at my sister's in the city, using her computer and I had to copy and paste my piccies, so they aren't the originals-they seem kind of blurry-maybe it's just me!!

I have a funny story to share with you. 2 nights ago, my sis, my son and I were going to shop and I found a green gumball on the passenger seat, so I popped it in my mouth before my sister sat down. It was hard, so I crunched down hard and this liquid squirted everywhere in my mouth and the taste was so awful that I opened my door and spat everything out onto the street! To my horror, I realized that it wasn't gum, but a paintball! I had yellow liquid all over my mouth and I ran out of the car and grabbed a handful of slushy snow on the curb and shoved it in my mouth to clean it out and spat like crazy the taste was so awful. I then ran back into her house and drenched my face in the sink!! I still have the acrid, sour taste in my mouth. They were laughing hysterically, but I was absolutely mortified!! It's funny now-but I thought I had perhaps poisoned myself at the time!! Oh, the humanity!!LOL

 This week's challenge at DCD's Christmas Challenge is to create a Fairy Merry Christmas card. We are sponsored by our lovely Prairie Fairy this week, so the winner will win 5 images of their choice!

The papers I chose are from the Jovial collection from Basic Grey. I wanted to use the other side of the paper with the poinsettias, but I liked this side better. Hope u like! xox Trisha