Tilda challenge - a sketch

This week's Tilda and Co challenge is a sketch, and I can't resist a sketch. I am on holiday at the mo,dog sitting for my Mum and Dad so I am working with a limited stash so not as much variety of papers and stash to play with.

Anyway I rotated the sketch due to the images Ipicked and came up with these ...

For this one, I watercoloured Tilda using my Promarkers and matted her onto cardstock. I used K and Co papers and faux stitched them. The ribbon and ric rac ae from my stash. The ribbon already has the stitching on it. I finished it off with some Prima flowers and a bit of red wire.

For this one I watercoloured Tilda and matted her onto cardstock. I used K and Co papers again, and faux stitched them. I added lace, Prima flowers and red wire.

Sorry the photos aren't brill - something to do with the light here in theLake district, as in there isn't much as it is raining!
Thank you for looking.

Tilda and co challenge

This week's Tilda and co challenge is ...

Chocolate, Pink & white...

So go as Chocolate Crazy as you like.

I am not a big fan of chocolate, prefer cheese and crisps. However my closest friend, Christine, is so I have made this for her. This Tilda looks a little like her daughter did when she was small.

I have watercoloured this lovely Tilda given to me by Vicky in pinks. I have used brown cardstock and embossed some of it using my flowers folder, and papers from Basic Grey's Twoo Scoops pack. The lace and wire is from my stash, and the text from a K and Co paper.

A simple card with little fuss and no flowers!!! (some of the poor people that get conned into buying my creations don't like flowers!!)

Tilda embossing challenge

The Tilda and co challenge this week is to use embossing, of any kind on your card.
I love this Tilda and have matted her onto Kand Co papers and added a red bow. I used my D'vine swirls and border folders to embosed some red cardstock. I added the ribbon and green flowers to finish. I have kept it simple so the embossing can be seen.

Blue Tilda

The challenge over at Tilda and Co this week is to create a card using just blue and white.

I have used cardstock and embossed it using my cuttlebug embossing borders. The dotty papers is DCWV adhesive matt stack. The flowers are thanks to Vicky (and Beth for taking them off the card Vicky sent!) and the swirl is from a sizzix die. I have added gems and brads from my stash.

Tilda sketch

The Tilda and Co challenge this week was a sketch. Having done the pastelly, floral card for the Sarah Kay challenge I decided to use something a bit bolder for this one. I have used Papermania's Floral Retro papers and brown cardstock and brads. No other embellishments as the papers are a bit fussy!

Fishing Edwin

I blinked and realised it was the end of the week and I have hardly done any crafting this week. we are off for a weekend away so I have done a quick card this afternoon while the girls are catching up on some zzzzs.
I have combined the Tilda and Co challenge (to use bugs) and the Friday Sketcher challenge.

I cut Edwin out and replaced his fishing wire with silver wire. The papers are all K and Co Hopscotch, and I have used dragonflies, brads and ribbon from my stash.

Right off to finish packing the car and get some tea in the girls.

See you all after the weekend.

Grungy Tilda

The Tilda and Co challenge this week is:
Distressed Tilda
Make her Distressed looking, a little rough around the edges, a bit of grungy!
So stay clear of these cute pastel colours if you can help it and get down and dirty with tilda!

I have had great fun with this and was in a bit of a mess myself by the end!! I have made it for a friend's daughter who is a bit grungy herself. Smeg, as we sometimes call her, is more into red that purple, but I didn't have the right papers for that!
I have distressed the edges of the card, the image and the purple corrugated paper. I have inked the edges of the image and papers. I love the effect of the purple floral paper when its inked. As Ellie was on hand to help, she inked up and scrunched the lilac paper, oh and dropped the flower into the black ink, so the flower is inked too! I added black thin ribbon and brads as Smeg likes studded bracelets etc.
The only let down was the colouring - I really struggle using black in such 'big' blocks. I did colour Tilda's hair in purple and black streaks - fortunately not something Smeg has done ... YET!!

Thinking of others

The challenge set by Tilda and co was to make a something as a gift. It is a friend's birthday soon and so I have made a wallet card for her.


The wallet card is made using K & Co double sided paper. I have used Swing tilda for the image on the front, an organza bow and and K & Co accent.
The tag and gift card/voucher wallet fit into the slots behind.

The gift tag is made from Papermania cardstock and die cut.
I have used Tilda with a heart present and 2 of the goblin spell anemones. The stamp is from a See Dee set I have.
The gift voucher wallet is made from an ATC wallet template and is decorated with the same stamp,and ribbon as the gift tag. The image is Tilda with a basket.
I have tried to match all the Tildas so all the elements flow.

Tilda and Co challenge

This week's challenge over at Tilda and Co is a sketch created by Lorraine. As I am in the process of making baby cards, I thought I would do a ...baby card using an image kindly sent by Lorraine. Many thanks Lorraine.

The papers are from K and Co and I have used cream cardstock. I love the delicate scrolling and swirling pattern in the paper and thought it would work well on a baby card. Tilda is matted onto pearlised blue card, and then cream. The ribbon is from my stash and the yellow flower is by Making Memories.
The wording will be added later.

So thats 7, only 8 to go!

Tilda and co challenge

Challenge 21...

TORN/TEAR

We would love to see your Torn/Tear work

This could be a simple little tare on a part of your work or the main focus, Have fun and just go crazy! Tear your wonderful Papers get them used!

This was a great challenge - I have used up some of my scraps for this.

The card has a very purple theme to it!! The background card is pearlised lilac and Tilda is watercoloured in lilac. I can't remember where I got the papers - I think the outer ones are K and Co. I have used purple faux stitching and two large Papermania flowers with purple gems in the centres to finish the card off.

I am really pleased with this card.

Tilda and Co challenge

Challenge 19*
It's time for a bit of black and white theme, ideally no other colours to be used on you work.
(but if you are struggling with this then your magnolia image ( or 1 of if using more than 1 )may have 1 more colour of your choice.

I loved this challenge - it gave me the opportunity to use these papers from DCWV Glitter Stack. I have been struggling with what to do with these papers!!

I have used 3 papers and layered them to create a flowers and stars and a path.

I chose 2 Tildas - Summery Tilda and Tilda with Flower (in Wellies). I have given them black hair - can't make my mind whether I like them with black hair! and shaded their dresses/flowers/wellies.

I stuck a thin satin black ribbon onto white organza and made a bow.

I am amazed at how effective this card looks.

Hope you like it.

PS - not sure I like Tilda's feet - they look just a bit big to me!!

Tilda and Co Challenge Card

This week's challenge is:

Decoupage Tilda & Co
Now for this week..... I would love to see you decoupage with your magnolia stamps.
This could be as simple as having a Tilda or Edwin, that is holding something, you then stamp that image out twice, cut out the item he/she is holding and then layer it up with foam pads or silicone glue, to give a 3d effect
Or you could go totally wild and build up lot’s of layers.

I am not very keen on decoupage - but have been experimenting with some of my stamps over the last couple of weeks, so I was quite inspired by this challenge.

This is my offering:

I have used 3 images of Tilda and heart parcel and watercoloured them.

I have given her dress and face 2 layers and her hair 3 layers. I have used foam pads - I hate them with a passion as I find the backs really difficult to get off!!

The backing papers are from the Papermania Retro Floral pack.

The ribbon is from a blouse!!

I have added plasters to her knees as I think she has that tomboyish attitude that means she'll have plasters on her knees!!

I hope you like it.

Tilda & Co challenge card

The Tilda and Co challenge this week is:




For this week's challenge it's a bit of a double up, I Would like to see you use Eyelets if possible ( if you do not own them, then you can leave that part out or use brads)Along with anything Natural, Could be fibres, Leaves, Straw, Twigs, Papers etc as long as it is Natural with Eyelets ( if you have them )

I don't own eyelets (yet) so I have used brads for that part of the challenge.

I have used mid brown mulberry paper which I have torn to fit on the card. Tilda is watercoloured, and I chose complementary colours for her top and hair.

The matting and layering papers are all from Papermania's earth tones pack. I added a cream and a green skeleton leaf to add to the natural theme. Four mid brown brads (papermania) are used to fix Tilda to the papers.
The faux stitching is done using a brown marker - its not the best I can do but I've lost my paper piercing tool so I had to do it with a needle - more realistic I suppose!!
I have modified the sketch from this week's My Paperworld Challenge for the layout.


I am pleased with the overall effect, although there is one error due to a sneaky sneeze.

Tilda and Co Challenge - Girly but Blue

Ok this is more in my comfort zone - not too girly and not too pink!!


I see Tilda as being very much like my girls - tomboys at heart ...so ... here is my challenge card.



I have coloured Tilda in mid blue and given her lilac touches (the wellies, flowers and lace). She is matted onto blue cardstock to contrast with the backing paper which is Papermania. I have mounted everything onto a pearlised blue card and added an organza blue ribbon. The simple die cut flowers have clears gems in the centre.

This is very much an image of my older daughter - trying to be cute but loving the wellies too much!!