Summer is here again - at least at MDUC

Hello everybody! 

Good middle of the night (Thank God for scheduled posts ;) lol)) 

We at Magnolia Down Under  are so exited to wish you all a huge welcome to this our first challenge of the year. The theme is SUMMER DELIGHTS and we hope you can join us. We have decided to change our dear blog a little and spiced it up with additional challenges in our new Facebook group. If you wish to know more please read this. 

Summer delights sounds to me like a perfect challenge to join after all those christmas cards. I hardly made any this year but as some of you know summer is my fav season of the year so Im always ready to make one of those. 

Ive used one of the Tilda's from last years summer stamp kit club. She has never seen ink so that was a natural choice. I inked her with my Copic sketch markers. 

Dp from Magnolia. The tulips is also from Magnolia as is that lovely sentiment. All other flowers are WOC. The BEAUTIFUL and utterly elegant Blue crystal and diamante embellie is from the The Ribbon girl. 

Please, don't forget to head on over to the MDUC blog to see amazing work by my lovely fellow dt members. 

Thank you so much for looking :) 

Love 

Bella (and some pics of my new room)

Hello everybody! 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! 

As I write this Im a little bit in a "come back" mode ;) I can hardly believe it BUT seems my room is all ready! At least construction wise. Im still decorating and thinking long and hard about where and how I want my stuff displayed.

Heres some pictures of my new place: 

As some of you may know there is no room inside our house for a whole room that I can have all by my self so we started thinking outside the box. My husband had an idea that I quit fancied. He had thoughts about turning our outside garden storage area into a craft room. We have isolated it, painted it, added a new door, windows and new wooden floor. It doesn't look much but I looooove it! Finally I have my own place AND…I can lock the door ;) lol! 

Here´s a picture from inside with my new desk. 

I will buy a shabby office chair as soon as I get the time ;) 

My sewing machine has its own area on the desk ;) 

 I want some of my stuff near and dear but I want some of the things that I don't use that much to be "covered" up so it doesn't look to messy and cluttered. Im so not a fan of clutter! I have placed all my small decorations such as Embossing powder, buttons, Kort go godt flowers (the ones in containers) resin pieces, prima stuff and so on. I have also finished my ribbon organizer. It looks great!  

Here´s some pictures of that (they are on Insta with the rise filter thats why they are a little yellow) 

So enough about my new room ;) 

Here´s the very first card I made in there :) It features beautiful Bella from Saturated Canary. 

She is inked with my Copics as I have found I have no watercolor paper left!? OMG! Major catastrophe! ;) And I also have no glue!? Even bigger catastrophe! I have to admit Im still no huge fan of using my markers. I just don't think Im good enough with them. But as my friend says: I need to practice more often so maybe its a good thing I have no paper ha?

If you have made your way all they way down here Im proud of you! 

You guys are THE bestest followers!! 

Love you! 

Thanks for being here :) 

One more (Magnolia) princess on Sofiero

Hi there friends and followers! 

Welcome to my blog and todays posting is all about my weekly inspirational post over at Live and Love Crafts blog. This week is all about our fav color combos and well..I knew it had to involve pink cause otherwise it just wouldn't be me ;) Ive worked a lot with the amazing Sofiero paper collection from Maja Design lately and it involves a lot of green as well and since I love the papers so much green is growing on me. 

Ive once again chose to work with a little Magnolia princess. My inking is done with my Copics and is hugely inspired by my lovely, very treasured friend Jane of Jane´s lovely cards. Im so impressed with the way she inks and Ive been wanting to have a go at her technique for a while. She explained it to me and it was noooooot easy. Mine doesn't resemble hers a lot but Im pleased any ways. My Copic inking is hopefully improving a bit because i practice a lot ;) 

The papers are by Maja Design and its a limited edition collection so if you haven't bought yours yet you should before Sandra runs out! 

Since Im such a sucker for flowers I´ve been going a little nuts using the new WOC flowers that are new in stock! Omgosh! Sandra bought all the right ones! :) YAY!! 

And there are two more items I feel I have to mention, look at that amazing little cloudberry! Its eye-catching - love it! And that beyond beautiful princess rhinestone charm was just a must on here. Let me tell you it involved some serious "am I going to use it or not" issues. If i used it I wouldn't have it anymore and then I realized I can just buy a new one! lol ;) 

I hope you liked todays make! 

Lots of love, 

LLC theme: "What a wonderful world" + Big news and CANDY!

Hi there friends and followers! 

Its finally sunday again and my turn to host the Live and Love crafts challenge blog. This week we have been inspired by a song and its not just any song its "What a wonderful world".

You can listen to it here: 

Isn't that a lovely version of this amazing song? The lyrics are so beautiful I think. As I listen to it I always get a feeling of happiness so I chose to work with the Tilda image I find to be most happy looking. She´s taking a leap into the air because she cant stand still ;) 

I colored her with my Copics and what do you know, my hands automatically went for the lilac markers ;) lol! 

Around her I´ve used some shabby white frantage and as I can be pretty literal about things in my crafty life I was turning my LLC box up and down looking for a charm I knew I had and thought would work really good with this theme. It called earth but heck, I can call it the world if I want. I also knew I had to once again work with the amazing vintage lilac patterned papers from Pion Design. They were part of the "Alma's sewing room collection".

I worked with an awesome sketch that is this weeks challenge with the lovely ladies over at The sketchy challenges: 

As always you can find all the products Ive worked with at the end of this posting. Before I head off I want to show you some close ups: 

Do you fancy the roses? They are by WOC and listen carefully cause big things is happening over at the Live and Love crafts store right now! Sandra has decided to stock the most gorge WOC flowers! Here´s some of them: 

Dont they just remind you of the sweetest candy? Scrapper candy is the best! 

AND...Sandra also offers some CANDY over at the Live and Love crafts blog: HERE!

I wish I could join that candy but I wish you all good luck! 

Thank you so much for being here with me today! 

Love

My feet is in the sand..and I feel a sea breeze coming in..

....although this card is not much of a beach scene. No Tilda's in swimwear here ;) Although..this is us leaving the beach after a day of lovely swedish sunny weather. We are biking on our way home and oh! Theres a ice-cream bar! And we just had to stop ;) 

(Oh...well..I´ll stop the lie you just caught me with, sorry..you girls know me to well...okay so we wouldn't exactly bike home...we strolled along the beach...OH OKAY!!!! So...we took the car! ;)) rofl! 

Welcome to my place! 

Im here to tell you all about our new challenge over at Magnolia Down Under. This week its Camilla H s turn to chose a theme and I just knew right away she would pick an awesome one!! Its OUR FAVORITE THINGS time! 

So you might think I would go with one of the oldies and goldies you've seen me use from time to time and you're right..I could have. But, really I haven't been this exited about a Magnolia stamp release as I am about the Sea breeze in some time. I mean Im always loving them but these are just..breathtaking. So they became favs immediately ;) Its been a while since I built a scene too and its something that I love as well but strangely I don't do that very often. As I finished coloring these lovelies it came to me..OMGosh! There´s hardly any space left for me to put my pim pim! (embellies) How will I survive? And with this lovely theme you probably can imagine me going wild just taking EVERYTHING out and putting it on there. Well, my scenery kind off limited my choices. So I just added some flowers because well if I hadn't I probably wouldn't have survived ;) I looooooove these lilac flowers they are just BEYOND gorge! The big rose bud was a gift from my lovely friend and now theme picker, the adorable Camilla H. She bought them at the Magnolia store in Borås for me and Ive been clinching on to them hoping the will never fade. They wont of course, they are not real - dah! But they might run out and I wouldn't like that - at all. But I decided to dig in and deck out ;) Oh phew! And...the PRETTY PRETTY pink lace was a birthday gift from another stunning friend I could never live without, miss Elise. Since its my fav I had to use it but now Im left with just a teeny tiny bit that I cant use for anything. Feel sorry for me..I asked where she bought it and she bought from Ebay. Ive been hanging around since may and I cant find it! Im not a quitter though so Im still there browsing the laces and hey...as it turns out there are other ones...he, he, he! 

The little lock is also the last piece of a Melissa Frances resin embellie pack. Gosh, LOVE IT! Its soooo shabby.  They don't come shabbier that this! No shabbotaging necessary! 

I also added some cheese cloth - cause otherwise it just wouldn't be made by me. Some crackle paint, picket fence and tattered rose and well...some gesso too. Let alone the stickle star dust - its on there too. Some buttons, the clock die from Sizzix - oh that is neat! A magnolia sentiment on a die by Spellbinders and a gold charm. 

Well, as I went into this project I was taking my (now a days HUGE ;)) LLC container out because in that store is all of my favs but as I had picked everything out I challenged myself into not using them so I will use my other stash too. I feel sad for the other stash just laying around ;) BUT as it turns out there where two items I couldn't stay away from..its Sandys own seam binding (yes! its handmade by Sandy herself) . I SERIOUSLY cannot live without it and of course...the Fran-tage had to go on here too! So my plan didn't exactly work out in the end - but Im happy with the card ;) lol

And.now Im left with a desire to work my LLC stuff again - soon! So will have to make another card tonight ;) lol (Maybe plan worked out anyway??) 

Well...now you MUST be soooo tired with me rambling on and on about my thoughts and stash. Ill just leave you here with some close ups and the hopes of your survival! rofl ;) 

Oh..before I go...just a little reminder to stop by the MDUC blog because as always my teamies outdid themselves again! As I went to add my creation my heart skipped a beat and I had to pinch my arm - Im so lucky to be part of this swell swell team!!! 

Crafts and me for LLC

Hi everybody! 

Welcome to todays posting for the Live and Love crafts blog. 

Its been a while ha? Im sorry! Really I have sooooo many cards just waiting to be made but still...I cant help myself from enjoying summer thats happening outside. As I have finished this post we are all going to the beach. I looooove summer! 

Speaking of summer I think my inspirational card is quit summer like, don't you? At LLC our july theme is anything goes still but we were all invited to use digital stamps by Crafts and me and I chose to work with this utterly gorge mermaid called Sheriella. She is inked with my Copics. 

The papers are just...well......Im experiencing a lack of speech here because I really cant explain how much I adore them! They are from Maja Designs latest collection called Sofiero. I used two 12*12 sheets, called "Strolling down the rose path" and then the backside of "Enjoying the lovely fragrance". The roses are divine I tell you! I have sooooo many sheets at home ;) 

I ve also tried using the mermaid charm for the first time, its so cute! Of course I have created a gallery with pictures of all products Ive used for you, as always you can find it at the end of this posting. 

I hope you like my make and find it inspiring, now I need to head out for some fun in the sun! 

Lots of love, 

Tilda and her rabbit for LLC

Good morning crafters! 

Today its sunday and its my turn to host the inspirational post in the Live and Love crafts blog. 

Since its summer and july we are on a special schedule where we are taking turns and is hosting every other day instead of every day. This also means we have the perfect theme ongoing throughout the  month and that is Anything goes. 

I felt like making a card but not a regular one ;) lol So I turned on my Silhouette Cameo and made a tag pocket card using a template from there. The image is from Magnolia and I inked her with Copics. 

Around her I added two different colors of Frantage, shabby green and aged ivory. I some of the shabby pink to on the beautiful wooden butterfly. I also added some stickles star dust to Tilda's flowers in her hair. The papers are part of the Maja Design collection Vintage Spring basics. The beautiful pearl are by Melissa Frances. Sentiment is from Stempelglede - its my absolute fav one! 

As always I added all of the products Ive used on this card to a gallery at the end of this posting. 

Thank you so much for checking in with me today. I hope you'll like todays make.

Lots of love, 

Friends are sisters we choose (GDT Noor! Design)

Hi crafty friends and welcome to my place! 

Im so hugely exited about todays posting :) A few weeks ago I was asked on Noor! Design as a gdt by lovely owner and designer Jolanda and Im still doing the happy dance. I really adore their products and Ive been using some fabs on this one. Firstly the beautiful frame around Tilda, its been available through the swedish scrap store Moas pyssel but I believe its currently sold out. Look at those cute adornments (I made mine in pink)  that is also included in the die pack. I have also used the beyond gorge butterfly edger. Here´s a better close up of them all:

Im telling you they sell really quickly so if you want one you should hurry up ;) lol 

I have once again inked up a Tilda using  my Copic Markers and Im loving it! It is so much fun! This adorable little Tilda was part of the summer stamp club kit that I ordered from Magnolia. The papers and the pink flower is also from Magnolia. The turquoise roses are by Prima, the rest is from WOC. The Frantage is "Aged ivory". Sentiment is once again from Little Darlings. The charm and seam binding is from Live and Love crafts. Isn't that rudder just amazing?