August 2012 – Page 2

It’s Tilda’s Town Challenge day and my week to play. The challenge is…Shabby Chic! I love collecting stuff to do shabby chic but it’s challenging to me… coming up with a balance and yet some feeling of collage type designing too!

This is Secret Tilda… A Christmas image from the Merry Little Christmas Collection. She’s in stock HERE!

Tilda’s Town is an awesome place to shop! Free shipping world-wide and discounts by order amount too! Love that!

I used a NEW Marianne Design Heart die… LOVE the dainty scallop border… more heart shapes in the set too… and a snowflake! Check it out HERE.

Tilda is stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers. I started out with her pants, colored gray T3 all over… then I colored over that with R35, then pulled in R37 and R39 for the creases. The shirt and bow I colored gray T1 on first and then did the reds the same way as the pants.

I used some pattern paper from an old collection by Cosmo Cricket called Wonderland. Flowers by Prima… buttons from SEI…seam binding is hug snug I colored with Copic Various refills…Border die is Edwin Lace, link below.

Today’s TIP! I machine stitched around the panels on this card. I finished pulling the ends to the back side and taped them down… turned them over and it hit me… I didn’t change the thread color! UGH! White isn’t very shabby chic… so I used the brush tip of a copic marker, E51 to match this paper and just pulled it along the thread! YEA! Sometimes a gal has to be so creative! lol

Thanks for stopping by and hope you can play along in this week’s Shabby Chic Challenge HERE @ Tilda’s Town Challenges!

Linking up to…
Midweek Magnolias – Use two punches/dies
Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes
Ribbon Carousel – stitching
Sweet Stamps – Stamped Background, I stamped on the Marianne Design heart die cut with a music stamp but it’s really hard to see!
Christmas Stampin -Anything Goes

GRANDSON NEWS Flash… won’t be long and Cedryk will be coming home! (could be in a day or two!) So thankful! We’re shouting from the rooftops here! = )

Stamps and Such…

Edwin’s Lace	Stamp Storage Panels	Stufftainers/thick	BM sbing TH distressor	SB.com foam squares	SB.com Distress ink	SB.com Ink blending tool
SB.com ink blending tool foam	ink blending tool spinner	Letraset Cartridge paper	Memento Rich Cocoa	SSS Copic Markers	Copic Sketch markers DB	sss mono multi
Tombow Mono Multi Glue	Avon Rose Prima	Quick Stik	QK Magnetic Wand	QK Magnetic die holder	Cuttlebug – Amazon	Hug Snug Seam Binding
hemp cord	Perfect Layers tools	Fiskars Fingertip Craft Knife	Stamp a ma jig SB.com	Ranger Craft Mat SB.com	Advanced Tape Glider SB.com	MS Scoreboard SB.com
Versafine Onyx Black large ink pad	12×12 Tonic Guillotine Trimmer	EK Success Scissors- Stuff 4	McGill Stylus Set (SSS\|AMZ)

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I was just looking at my blog stats and you know how it is… one place leads to another on the internet! So glad I found this though! I have this punch (still unopened). They used it for this paper chain and I love how it looks! It’s going to have to come out of the package now!

This picture is from HERE. I doubt that I ever make paper chains but if you click on the link you’ll see how this looks flat and how other punches look too! Fun! This site also tells you what size to cut your card-stock. I see potential for cards!

I wonder if EK Success or Martha Stewart came out with any new punches at CHA? Such a weakness! lol

I’ll be back on Friday with a Magnolia card for Tilda’s Town!

Our daughter and new grandson are doing well! Won’t be long and they’ll be home! YEA!

ttul!