Wednesday 25 January 2012

PINK TILDA ICE/BALLET PRINCESS

Good Morning to all my Crafting Friends

Here in the usually sunny South Africa, more precisely Pretoria, we are experiencing a few days of over cast weather and after the very hot days that we had, it is so nice to have the cooler weather.  I must admit, I love Spring and Summer, but I love weather like this even more.  It is ideal crafting weather, not to hot and not to cold and should there be rain falling down, that is even better.

Now for my card.  I will enter this card into the Magnolia-licious Challange.  This is the first time that I have coloured the image and then cut it out with a Spellbinder die with a piece of the image that is "hanging out".  I was a bit unsure of how to do this, but I am very happy with the result.

The scalloped "silver" circle is made from a piece of "material" like paper that is used in the Air Conditioning industry.  This is something that I received from a gent that is working with me and he knows that I love things like that - he knew that somewhere, sometime I will have use of it.  I just loved the way it worked out.

My Card with  Pink Tilda ice / ballet princess.  I have not coloured her in pink (as her name suggests), but I love the red and blue colour combination. 


This is a close up of Tilda.


The dragon fly is a peel-off, I coulered it with a red marker, then I used Blue and Red gems on the body and little pearls on the wings.



I hope that you will all have a wonderful day and many, many inspiring ideas.  I must apologize for the shadows in my photos, they do not look as good as usual, but I forgot to take the photos at home and I really wanted to post this post this morning and here at work the lighting is not so very good.

Hugs,
Marika

12 comments:

  1. Sweet card Marika. Thanks for sharing :o)
    Hugs,
    Cabio

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  2. This is really lovely Marika. This is one technique I have not yet tried myself, but you've now encouraged me to go for it. Good luck with the challenges, nice to see you so active in blogland. hugs Sharon

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  3. Marika, what a lovely card. Seeing this particular Tilda bring back memories. This was the very first Tilda I every saw and she made me want to find out more about her. Now of course, I'm a Tilda addict..LOL. Love the scalloped circle.
    Thanks for coming over to play with us at the Magnolia-licious Challenge.
    Hugs,
    Norma

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  4. Very pretty Marika
    hugs Julie P

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  5. Very pretty! I like the dragonfly too.

    Karen

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  6. Beautiful card Marika!!!! Beautiful design!!!! Great job on this card!!!!

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  7. Stunning card and the dragonfly is super.
    Francy

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  8. Super pretty...love the dragonfly!
    Rene :D

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  9. Pretty card, Marika. Tilda looks lovely and that dragonfly is so cute.
    Hugz,
    Cathy Lee

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  10. Great card I love the silver paper that you
    cut out it really adds the your beautiful card
    Hugs Linda

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  11. This is beautiful Marika! This is one of my favorite older Tildas! Thanks for joining us this week at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog. hugs, Angela

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  12. Sweet card! Thanks for playing with us at Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog. Hope that you join us this week for the next challenge!

    Hugs,
    Tracy Valure

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