Magnolia Spring/Easter Blog Hop

Welcome to the 1st Spring/Easter Magnolia Design Team Blog Hop.
If you just came from Kylie's blog, then you are in the right place.

The theme for this blog hop is Spring or Easter.
Here, I have Tilda with Mister Rooster from the Little Easter Collection.  The sentiment and designer paper is also from Magnolia. The image is colored using Distress Ink Reinkers.

Your next stop is Neline's blog.
Be sure to leave a comment on each blog you hop to,  for a chance of winning one of the 3 prizes from Magnolia Sweden random.   Each hop will last a week.

Here's the Blog Hop list incase you are lost!

Claudia
Debbie
Diana
Janny
Kylie
                          Mae   You are here!
Neline
Paulina
Pearl
Sandra
Tanja
Yulis
Yuri

Happy Tilda

Hello again Magnolia fans! 
I have a card to share with you and I used Happy Easter Tilda from the Little Easter Collection. And as I was going thru my 6x6 paper packs, I saw one old/retired MME paper pad and I thought it would be a nice to use it for the image I chose.  I actually made 3 other sentiments for this card because the image is so versatile that you can use it for any "happy" occasion.

I used DIs to color Tilda and the swirl stamp is also from Magnolia. I really love the older stamps especially the accessory and background stamps and this swirl stamp is one of my favorites.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I used Viva Decor Pearl Pens for the pearls.

The ribbon is from my stash and so is the lace, brad and charm. The DooHickey dies I used were Scalloped Stitched Lace and Tea Label Tags

Don't forget, Once Upon a Time Collection is now available in your favorite stores.
And the Dies that come with this collection is coming soon too!

I hope you like my card today. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Easter

Hello my lovelies!
First of all, I want to wish you all a Happy Easter!
I have an Easter card to share with you today.

 I used Tilda with Egg and Chicken from the  Little Easter Collection. She is one of my faves from this collection and I just love coloring her hair. I think I stamped more than 6 of this image, just to colored her hair.

Distress Ink used:

Skin: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo, Spun Sugar

Hair: Walnut Stain

Dress/Shoes: Weathered Wood

Basket/Eggs: Spun Sugar, Shabby Shutters, Wild Honey, Milled Lavender, Tumbled Glass

Chick: Scattered Straw, Spun Sugar

Grass: Shabby Shutters

For the pull-out tag, I used Vintage Tag and Wings DooHickey Dies. I painted the  wings with Crackle Accent. The sentiment is also from the Little Easter Collection.

The lovely flowers and white leaves are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the Cream Berries are from Magnolia.

I used Frantage Embossing powders for the eggs. The Lovely Fence, the Grass, Tag and the Butterfly are  DooHickey Dies.

Other supplies used:

DP: Magnolia

Small wooden spool

ribbon, lace, seam binding, cheese clothe

gesso, Viva Decor Pearls

Thanks for dropping by my blog today and I hope to see you again soon.

Have a Wonderful weekend!

Tilda with Mr. Rooster

Hi everyone! 

I have an Easter Card and a story to share.

OK, so here's Tilda with Mr. Rooster from the Little Easter Collection. But I like to call him Franklin.  He reminds me of the chickens we had back in the Philippines.  A few years ago, we went back home to the Philippines for a month long vacation.  And whenever we go home, my ultimate goal is to eat everything that I can't eat or buy here in the States. The local fruits, delicacies, my Auntie Marina's dishes and some native chicken soup or dish.

Our family friend brought us sweet potatoes, cooking bananas, huge mangoes,  jack fruit and all kinds of native fruits. He also brought us 4 native young chickens. Yes, live chickens...2 females and 2 males. And I thought, this is gonna be 4 delicious chicken dishes. (OK I'm not going to all the gory details about how a live chicken would end up in our dinner table)

As soon as my son saw the chickens, (he was 6  at that time) he was so excited too.  But my excitement was different. I could smell the aroma of my favorite chicken soup just looking at the chickens.  And I couldn't wait to get those chickens in the pot.

The following day, I heard my son playing and talking to the chickens and giving them names.  Chickie, Kenny, Daisy and Franklin. Franklin had red and black feathers.  As soon as I heard their names, I knew I was never gonna see those chickens in the pot. He played with them everyday...fed them, and  took care of them. He even reminded us every day not to hurt his chickens. Whenever he found feathers on the ground, he would interrogate everyone and ask "Who pulled out the feathers? And whoever did it should put them back!"

My son loved the chickens especially Franklin. He begged me to bring Franklin with us back to the States.  And he even offered to share his passport.

At the end, I never got my chicken soup. And the memory of Franklin and the gang still remains.

Anyway, back to my card.

I colored the image with Distress Ink Reinkers and I use 2-3 different colors for the feathers.
 And I also added some sparkle using Spica pens.

Skin: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo

Hair: Walnut Stain

Dress/Bow/Shoes: Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick, Black Soot

Rooster: Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Wild Honey, Black Soot, Broken China

Back ground: Antique Linen

Wild Orchid Crafts for the flowers and  I also rolled up some roses. I used Glimmer Mist on the red rose. The feathers, lace, ribbon and seam binding are all from my stash.
DP is from MME Miss Caroline Dilly Dally

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Thank for visiting my blog today. I hope you like my card.
I'll be back on Friday with another card!

Have a wonderful day!

PS: By the way, if you wonder what happened to the Franklin and the gang? Oh yeah...they were in the pot as soon as we flew back here! :)

DBP Easter Egg

Hello my Lovelies!

I hope you are all doing well and getting ready for the weekend.  I have another DooBeePops projects for you today. Easter is just a little over a month away and Easter projects that comes in mind first usually has something to do with eggs and bunnies.

So my project today is an Easter egg ornament ...well half an egg. And I used the Orchid White DooBeePops Honeycomb paper.

 On the back side of the  egg, I used Tilda with Egg and Chicken stamp and inked her up with Distress Ink Reinkers.

I lined the side with lace and pearls and decorated the egg-side with pink and lilac ribbons and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I hope you like my Easter project for today. There are several colors of the DooBeePops Honeycomb paper and I'm sure you will love making projects with them.

Have a safe and wonderful weekend!

DooBeePops and Tilda with Watering Can

Hello Magnolia Friends.

I'm back for another card using the latest DooBeePops Paper from Magnolia.

They sent me a few colors and this is the card I came up with.

I made it simple and matched the colors I have with some paper I had in my stash.

For this card, I used Tilda Watering stamps from the Little Easter Collection and I masked her with Tulip Walkway from the Butterfly Wishes Collection.

 I made some tulips using the DooBeePops paper and I was glad I had some DP that matched the DBP paper I have on hand.

I also made a trim using the DBP paper and lined in across with seam binding. I think it's a nice way to use it the way we use lace or trim.

There are several beautiful colors of this DooBeePops paper and I am sure you are going to enjoy playing with them.

Little Hoppy

Hi Magnolia lovers!
I want to share with you a simple and easy-to-make Easter Card. I have used some stamps from the latest Little Easter Collection ( Little Hoppy with Buttercup and Best Easter Wishes to you Text)
I also used the new DooBeePops paper and I really had fun with them.

To make this simple card, I used plain pastel cardstock. Die cut the edges using DooHickey Tilda Lace die and I also used the DooHickey Grass.

I cut the DooBeePops paper into egg shapes to make my easter eggs.

Here's a closer look at the Easter Eggs. I wanted to make them bigger but I was afraid they would get squished in the mail when I send it to Sweden.  :)

I hope you like my simple card today.

Thanks for dropping by!
Have a nice day!

Mae