My Altered Maggie Cube

Hello friends... we had a public holiday in South Africa today, Heritage Day and the day was supposed to be spent with family and/or friends braaing, in other words, ...barbequeing...   It was a real scorcher in Cape Town and if this is a taste of what we can expect for Summer, then I'm afraid it's going to be a real hot one!

Well, what's a girl to to on a public holiday, but shopping as well... I visited one of my favourite local scrapbooking shops, The Scrapbook in Durbanville.  Whilst browsing I met another blogfriend, Charmaine, who was giving a class.  Whilst the ladies were busy, we had a nice catch-up session!  Nice seeing you again Charmaine... I hope you're reading this, as I'd like you to see what I've done with the cube I bought this morning....

OK, without further ado... excuse the long post, but I've just got to showcase each and every side of this cube which I've altered on instruction from my daughter Kendall.  She's been wanting one for ages and I never thought I'd complete it in 1 day... It's taken a couple of hours, but oh how I loved doing it!!!  As I've mentioned before, I love working with a blank canvas and seeing what I'm going to come up with and I must say, I'm very happy with the way this Maggie Cube came out !

I painted the cube in a distressy sort of way, seeing that we were going with a shabby chic/vintagey theme here! I then took my Colour Box cats eye ink and inked around the edges of the box.

Had some glossy pebbles in my drawer which I just glued to the bottom of the box, to give it some height!  I then spent the rest of the afternoon colouring and making 5 different 'pages' as it were to adhere to every side of the box and the top... here we go, hope you like these little Maggies!

Kendall chose the stamp for the top and the colour scheme.

Here's Tilda with Many Hearts

Just wanted to show you what it looks like from this angle

Here's Hello Little Butterfly.  As you can see I'm loving my clouds right now.

Next we have the adorable Tilda with Heart

The butterflies are MM's Paper Reverie Butterflies (No. 36019). Loved using them.

And here comes Beautiful Tilda

As you can see Kendall is a Blue girl, whereas I love my Pink.

Thought I'd end with a close up on the top of the box again

Shew, thanks so much for staying until the end of this post. I really hope you've enjoyed viewing my altered Maggie Box, as much as I enjoyed making it and would love for you to leave a comment if you liked it.

Happy crafting, hugs Sharon x

 

Tilda with Many Hearts...

Hello friends... thanks so much for all for your visits and lovely comments, I so enjoy reading them.  Thank you too to the lovely new faces that have joined my Creative Friends list... I am so pleased you found something of interest here at Sharon's Kardz Korner and I look forward to popping around and visiting you too...  

Today I am showcasing the gorgeous little Tilda with Many Hearts again.  She is a relatively new purchase from 7 Kids College Fund and I am so enjoying colouring her in different colours and this time I've chosen lovely lilac and teal... I hope you like it...

These are not colours I use that often and looking at them now, I quite like them. I'm finally using some of those flowers I have in my jars.  The heart shaped pearl was a gift from Amelia and came in very handy here.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Bunny Zoe - Pearls
Just Magnolia - Anything Goes (add a Button)
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Ribbon

Thought I would share a peek of the inside too.  Kept it very simple this time. I should use my border punches more, as I see so many of you talented crafters doing.  I just seem to forget about them in my drawers... I have however used my EK Success floral punch again with some card candy from Crafty Emma's Store. 

I hope you've all had a wonderful Sunday.  It's back to the old grindstone for me tomorrow (LOL), so for those fortunate enough to stay at home... enjoy your crafting.  I'll only be able to get back to my craftdesk in the evenings.

Wishing you all SUPER week ahead, hugs Sharon xx

Tilda with many Hearts...

Firstly, a very warm welcome to my new Creative Friends, always nice to meet you.  I am so pleased you found something of interest to make you want to join my little corner in cyberspace.

Happy Sunday everyone... may you experience a most blessed day. This is the day I usually set aside to listen to my collection of Christian CD's.  I have quite a few favourite songs, viz. Who Am I, What If His People Prayed, If We Are The Body by Casting Crowns.  I also enjoy listening to Avalon's Testify to Love, Give It Up, Everything To Me, Adonai and... many more.  If my Christian friends know of any artists who sing wonderful Praise and Worship songs, please let me know, so that I can go look for their CD's in our Christian bookshops... thanks.  It would be nice to listen to something new for a change.

I managed to make another Maggie card for you this morning... I am showcasing our gorgeous little Tilda with many Hearts for the first time today.  Before I went to bed last night, which was way past midnight, I had coloured her in, put all the papers together so all I needed to do was put it all together this morning... I already had a picture in my head how I wanted this card to turn out, strange but true...doesn't happen THAT often...LOL

The papers I've used are from bits and pieces of scraps left over from making other cards, so I have no idea who the designers are.  Used my flowers again... added that lovely organza heart ribbon for effect and some pearls in the each corner.

The base of my card is white, I layered some soft lemon coloured cardstock onto that to give a nice border and then found a lovely soft pink and lemon coloured paper to place on top of that.  I also managed to find a nice piece of love script paper to use, to fit in with the theme.

Tilda was coloured using Copics. You can just see a peek of the inside of the card, which I've managed to decorate as well. Nice to finish the insides too.

Thank you for your visits and comments, thank you for providing loads of inspiration and I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday.  Next weekend is a long weekend for us South Africans, being Monday, 21 March... yippeeeee   You know what that means... lying in a little bit longer and just chilling and relaxing and of course CRAFTING!!!

Take care, hugs Sharon x