Hello and a Happy Monday to you all! Did you enjoy your weekend? I am hopefully on my way driving home the 10.5 hour drive from Michigan to Virginia today--yikes. Then I will get home and "die" for a few hours so I can get up and be productive on Tuesday, hee hee. I am actually home for a few weeks this time and then gone almost all of June with 3 travel locations for classes (including Vegas me thinks) and then a 2 week beach vacation in Hilton Head, SC. NO groaning please! LOL! I know I just got home from Maui BUT that is not a normal spring break trip for us and because spring break was so late it kinda all got mushed together. We go to SC every summer for 2 weeks and rent the same house on the beach---it is a family-only event (no friends much to my daughter's chagrin, hee hee) and we really relax and enjoy each other. BUT I do work while I'm there LOL but only late evenings so no one gets mad at me. South Carolina will be my home state in a few years---after the kids graduate I have BIG plans to move down there. I like the slower pace of life and the much warmer and milder winters of course--I feel like it was meant for me to live there! So five more years and I will be SC bound for good, LOL!
NewsBitz:
-New locations of Copic Classes will be up this week on my site
www.cmcroad.com to include Ohio and possibly Las Vegas. If you are interested in classes in Ontario in August the registration info is up and I am amazed as usual and thankful but the spots are filling up very quickly so act now, LOL!
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Winners of the last Blog Candy are..................
TIARA MOORE,
CHRIS CHRISTENSEN and
PAM BROWN!! Please email me with your choice of a $25 Gift Certificate to either Magnolia-licious, SCACD or 7 Kids College Fund and congrats to you all!
-Have you subscribed to the mini-magazine
"Through the Craftroom Door" I publish with my friend Marti yet? If not go to our site (it is open to everyone to visit) and see what we are all about. IF its handmade then we talk about it, if its new in the craft world then we will probably be chatting about it--so come see us!
-My Magnolia-licious DT sister
Mindy Baxter NOW has a class at the
CMC Classroom featuring only Magnolia stamps, copic instruction and how to mask and create scenes. You can register
HERE and class invites will be sent out this Thursday!
**Blog Candy Below for you!!**
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The Wedding March Hop!
Today the
Magnolia-licious DT has a fun
"Wedding Themed" Blog Hop for you that includes using some awesome
Scor-Pal projects as well. Since May & June are the busiest and most popular of wedding months we thought it was appropriate to work on some great wedding Magnolia projects. You can find more Blog Hop details on the
Magnolia Highlites Blog as well as a way to join in on the fun! I made a card using some beautiful stamps and a matching purse/bag that could be given to the Flower Girl (or bride) with a nice treat or gift inside. See
HERE for a complete selection of Magnolia wedding stamps from
Magnolia-licious!
I used the most beautiful stamp from Magnolia--I think it is just so sweet and its called
"Bride & Bridesmaid #3051". A perfect image for the bride or for the flower girl me thinks. My papers from
Basic Grey's "Capella" really created the color combo of creams and soft aqua blues. The scrolls are from Marianne Designs and then I accented them with
Prima roses and pearl sprays. The corner brackets were made using a MS border punch and then I accented them with
Ranger Liquid Pearls in platinum that look like small pearls.
To color my image I used my Copics along with the Colorless Blender as a sort of paintbrush to create the very soft faded colors. I used E43,E42,E40 and BG72,BG10 for their dresses. Hair was done with E37,YR24,YR21 and E50 for the bride and then YR24,YR20 & E35 for the flower girl. I accented the flowers with stickles and added more
Ranger Liquid Pearls to the bride's necklace, flower sprays and hair clip.
For my
Scor-Pal project I used some great instructions for different purses/bags that you can find
HERE! If you have never visited the
Scor-Pal Project website, you are in for a treat--100's of great projects that you can make with your Scor-Pal. I use my Scor-Pal everyday and work right on top of the mat each day as well---to me it is one of my top 10 must haves :) I used the same papers for my purse and embellished it in the same manner as my card. To keep the purse flap closed I used a Basic Grey large magnet which I keep stocked in my craftroom at all times! This purse would be a great way to give a small gift to your bride or flower girl to thank them. Very easy to make and so fun too!
Blog Candy for U: Now to thank you for stopping by and always leaving such wonderful comments, I am giving away
3 Magnolia stamps of your choice from Magnolia-licious along with a pad of this fabulous Basic Grey paper. Just tell me (cuz' I'm curious and nosy and love a great story, lol) --
"What is your favorite Wedding memory--either from your own wedding or someone else's?"
and I'll share mine with you soon as well (and yes its FUNNY, hee hee, another Suzanne moment for sure). Leave your answer on this post only by Friday and I'll pick a winner!
Now you need to hop on over to my very talented friend Mindy Baxter's Blog HERE to see what fabulous-ness she has created!
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