Magnolia Family Album

I received my copy of the latest Magnolia Ink magazine a couple weeks back. If you have seen it, there was a contest for making a family project representing your family in Magnolia images. Today I am sharing my project. I worked hard to get it submitted, but every time I sent the email, it would come back a day later saying it couldn't be sent, the mailbox was too full. I was never sure until the magazine arrived if they ever really got it. Since it wasn't published, I can share it with you here.

When I first read the contest request I immediately thought of the old tin-type photographs in the beautiful little metal folios lined with velvet. That is what I tried to recreate here.

I had great fun altering Edwin to be bald, because my husband is balding!


My daughter is in the purple dress, I am in the pink one, and
the image I used for my son and my husband is the same
Edwin, I just altered it and drew my own bald head.

It was difficult to photograph the depth inside the folio.
The family poem came from my scrapbooking days!
I colored all of the images with my Copics,
cut them out,
and mounted them at various distances off the background.

Thanks for visiting--please leave me a comment, so I know you were here!

Fiftieth Birthday Card

Later this month, my sweet hubby is reaching the half century mark. I have made this card in his honor, for a couple of challenges. It was fun and glittery!

CHALLENGES:

Magnolia-licious Highlites--Folding Pop-Up Card
Magnolia Down Under-- One for the Boys
PaperPlay Thursday--Your Number's Up!

This Edwin is supposed to be holding a butterfly net, but I always seem to make him different! He is called "Chasing Edwin" and is available from the Magnolia-licious Store.
I made up the "newspaper" in Microsoft Word, the candles are from Stampin' Up, colored everything with my Copics, and the flame on the candles is Star Dust Stickles. That stuff should come by the gallon!

Here is a side view, so you can get a sense of the pop-up construction.
There is a great tutorial on the Magnolia-licious Highlites challenge blog,
from Splitcoast Stampers that makes it really easy.

My honey thought the card was quite fun!
Next I am working on chocolatey...

In Remembrance...

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD
(1872-1918)
Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.



Details on these cards are found HERE.

Just Magnolia Week 56 Challenge

My dear sweet husband asked me to do a card for a couple at work who are getting married in the near future. As he is always willing to do anything for me, this was more than a pleasure! Plus, I have a couple of challenges this will work for.


This is Jane's sketch from the Just Magnolia Challenge for this week. You can see it HERE.
I had this image inked on the cold press watercolor paper from last month, when I made my anniversary card, and I was excited to try my Distress Inks again.

I am especially fond of using the Stickles "Stardust" on the veil!

My sentiment is computer-generated.
I like it so much, I am thinking of turning it into a rubber stamp.

Here are the ingredients:
Tilda and Edwin, Bride and Groom--Magnolia-licious Store
Papers--
Cosmo Cricket--"Something Special" (green swirls)
Sei--"Claire" (brown dots)
DCWV--"Floral #3" (solid green), Luxury Stack (off-white damask)
Stickles
Pearls
MS scalloped eyelet punch
sheer champagne ribbon
distress inks

Here is a view inside:

In addition to Just Magnolia, this is also being entered in the PaperPlay Challenge--Wedding Celebrations and Stamp Something Challenge--Two of something.

Thanks for the visit. I am so humbled by the great people who have stopped to see what I have been making, and your sweet comments. You make my day!

See you soon!

Calm Seas

Happy Monday!
I had a beautiful Mother's Day, spoiled rotten by the kids and the hubby! I hope all the other moms out there were just as fortunate!
Today I have the chance to share a card That I made as a submission. It wasn't chosen for the magazine, but now I am free to share it. I will also be entering it in the Cute Card Thursday "Boyz-to-Men" challenge this week.


Edwin is colored with Prismacolor pencils, and the background paper came with that wonderful compass and map pre-printed! I used brass grommets in the 4 corners and knotted some twine into them. the card itself is kraft cardstock, as is the cardstock that the Stampin Up! sentiment is stamped on. Edges are inked and distressed, and I've added some sea shells collected on our annual summer trip to Maine...there is even a whole sand dollar! Edwin is standing in some real Maine beach sand (if you know Maine, there aren't many sandy beaches...mostly rocky shores!)
I really had great fun making this card...I hope you like it!

Edwin Searching

So, if you are here hoping to see my next Copic adventure, I am afraid you will be disappointed. In my excitement to mail off my recipe cards, I mailed the package without taking a picture of the bookmark! Oh well! Instead, today I have a challenge card to share. Edwin was begging to be used!

The challenges that are included are:

Just Magnolia--anything goes
Cute Card Thursday--Sketch 109 (see below)
Magnolia Down Under--charms
Stamp Something--charms
Paper Play--no patterned paper
Colour Create Challenge--burnt orange, black and cream

[Andrea's Sketch]

Edwin, miniature butterflies/dots--Magnolia Stamps
Dragonfly, stripes--Stampin' Up!
Colored with Prismacolor pencils
One lonely "Search" charm that has been waiting for the right project!
Stickles
Brass star nail headsScrap of ribbon



Close-up of the charm

I hope you get a chance to check out these challenge blogs and have some fun making cards for one or more of them. For me, it is a great way to try new techniques, and I build up a stash of cards for different occasions.