New Magnolia's are in the house

Hey all, just wanted to give everyone a heads up, we just got in our next shipment of stamps.

August Date For Exchange

Hello All

I have the date for the Card Exchange - Sat. Aug. 15th. We will be having a Play day with Elizabeth using QK and Stamps from 1pm -3 pm. There will be sales and sweets, please Bring your basic tool kit. (Trimmer, sissors, foam tape, glue pen, and misc. glues) Kelley Grace Returns in September with the stamp of the month. Have a great weekend
Elizabeth

How long ago was my last post?.....I'm a bad post-er!!!

Well I do believe this posting thing should be taken away from me......we are coming up to our next card exchange and I haven't even posted the picture of last month's.......until today that is.

What was our last month's exchange theme?....oh yeah, I remember now! It was Chalking and what great cards everyone made too.

I have been so bad; I haven't even done the last two or is it three challenges for the Just Magnolia challenge blog.....will have to remember what they are and do them for myself , since the challenges are over for the past weeks. I will just have to get myself a little more organized and back on track. I have no excuse or reason why I have been so lack in my duties as post-er or doing the challenges......just time has gotten away from me....but hopefully I will get back on track here. So without any further delay.....here are the cards from last month's exchange.

Sketch at Just Magnolia - week 8

Wedding invitations are done, the card exchange cards are done...what else was there to do but do the Just Magnolia challenge for this week......I'm way ahead of the game....and posting too...WOW-I'm amazed at myself.....Okay so enough praising myself. This weeks challenge was a sketch challenge and its going to be another that I use over again.....I really enjoyed making this card. I thought with school almost being finished that this would be a good "Thank you" card for a teacher, although I personally have no kids in school anymore, someone may need one and I can offer this one to them. I coloured Tilda in with prismacolor pencils, on the desk I used distress inks to give it that wood feel, the pattern paper was from my stash(I have no idea how long I have had this), the sentiment is from Quickutz "thank-you" bundle, I also added some Quickutz photo corners and flowers. I cut the desk out with nestabilities. Thanks for looking and have a good week.

Animals and Insects - Just Magnolia

The challenge for this week over at Just Magnolia is to use animals or insects on the card. Here is mine, a sitting Tilda coloured with prismacolor pencils, I stamped a dragonfly on her t-shirt; the stamp is a Judith's stubby which I coloured in with a Sakura pen to give the dragonfly some glitter effect, used stickles on her wings.The dragonflies are from Quickutz and are popped.Used my nestabilities to cut the ovals and then I cut out the Tilda and popped everything. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado and the DP is from a DCWV stack - "the Pocket full of POSIES". It's a simple but fun card.

Getting in SHAPE!!!

For this weeks challenge over at Just Magnolia is to make a shaped card...."its not for squares". So here is my card - I made a wine bottle shaped card and I used Bartender Edwin, coloured him in with prismacolor pencil and cut him out with my nesties, popped him on the bigger label(which is also popped) which is edge in gold krylon pen, the bottom layer is embossed with the script embossing cuttlebug folder and also edged with the gold Krylon pen, to give it that wine label look. I punched a circle again edged in krylon gold and added a grape button, added some flowers with Bella baubles and some spiralled wire, added ribbon and a sentiment; on the drinks added some glossy accents to make them look like glass. Cheers to all.

Almost Forgot...3rd post of the day!

How could I have forgotten this post, the reason for the blog in the first place.....our card exchange. This is for the May card exchange that took place on Sunday, May 3. Our theme/challenge was colouring using pencil crayons or markers. I wonder if all that colouring took us back to our younger years? Again it was a great exchange and a fun get-together with the group. Nice job everyone!