Friday, October 8, 2010

Tilda Sweeping

The leaves are falling at my house and need to be raked. I wish this little angel Tilda would come take care of mine. With at least 7 big trees and 4 apple trees plus several small smaller ones there is a huge amount of leaves to take care of and now that the kids are gone that leaves (pun intended) me with all the work. I'd rather stamp. 
I made this card from a paper bag. The Magnolicious Highlites blog challenged us to make a fall card using a paper bag. I love this style so I just had to do another one. I just got the swirling leaves from Magnolia and had to use it. I thought what a perfect thing for Tilda to be sweeping at this time of the year - leaves. The dp is lemonade from basic grey. Tilda's dress is paper pieced and high lighted with copics.Tilda is popped up with foam tape.  The pile of leaves at the bottom is done with flower soft - the regular autumn and the fine citrus. The leaves at the top are some buttons I got at Target's see spot save section a while ago. Here is a picture of the middle of the card. 
I added some punched leaves to spruce it up. (had to use a tree word). This card is also for the Halloween challenge at stamping scrapping challenge central here.

Here is another card I made recently,
This little nelliphant is from whiff of joy. I used a scrap of paper that I had made criss crosses on and then cut it out with nestabilities and then punched holes and cut out another pink oval so the darker pink would show through the holes. The elephant is colored with copics. The flowers have fine flower soft. After the glue dried I added some glitter glue to the center. I tried to do it before the glue dried but the flower soft kept coming right off.
Hope you enjoy my creations today. I love reading any comments that you are kind enough to leave.

20 comments:

Rene said...

Oh how cute!!! Love those leaves and that ribbon holding your flap down! And how cute is that elephant?!?!?!

Myrna said...

Peggie, Tilda is adorable. Love the Flower Soft on the ground. Our trees still have their leaves we just have the neighbors leaves! LOL

Rosie said...

Oh Peggie, great cards from a paperbag! I've got to try it...just never seems like there's enough hours in the day! Love the details and embellies! Hugs, Rosemary

Barb Hardeman said...

Yeah! So glad you picked up the challenge! I love how you created your paper bag to be "opened". Very cool! Your Tilda is darling and I love the flower soft leaves! The little elephant card is adorable. Super job on both!
Hugs,
Barb

Teri said...

Peggie, I love your card!!! She is so adorable and your style of card is great!! Love your coloring!! Our leaves aren't down yet, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time!!!! Thank goodness, my husband knows I'm just not an outdoorsy girl, so he'll probably just rake them himself!! LOL!!
Teri

Madge said...

Love your card! It is so sweet - haven't seen that particular Tilda and don't know how I could have missed it.
Rubber hugs, inky wishes, Cricut chirps and Cuttlebug squishes,
Madge

Candy said...

LOVE your paper bag card. Your design is great!
Beautiful colouring of Tilda and all those leaves and Tilda sweeping them is perfect for this time of year!!
Sweet little elephant card too :o)
Hugs ~

Christine Riley said...

So sweet, I love the touch of flower soft that you used, what a great idea. Love the little elephant card too!
Hugs, Christine

Leonie said...

O Peggie she is so cute! i had never seen this style before! i love it! Love the leaf buttons too! And your elephant is just way cute!
Hugs leonie

LINDA W. said...

Peggie your Tilda is so very sweet
with her broom sweeping the leaves..love the use of flower soft
I haven't tried it yet..love the paper pieced dress and your coloring.
Hugs Linda

marsha said...

Wow! I can't believe you used a paper bag! Your Tilda is just too cute, I could use her inside and out!
Hugs,
Marsha

Christina said...

These are wonderfull cards Peggie! Looks great!
Hugs Kristel

Lisette Morris said...

I have never seen this Tilda, she is adorable. Fantastic card!

Sylvia said...

Hi Peggie, both of your cards are beautiful. Love the colors.
Hugs Sylvia

Kathy Gerace said...

Love your paper bag Tilda card. Great job coloring and creating the scene.
Kathy Gerace

cabio's craft corner said...

Both are cute cards Peggie. Love the cute closure on this paperbag card and the fun elephant image is sweet!
Hugs,
Cabio

Unknown said...

Hi Peggie...this card is just darling. Love how you have Tilda sweeping leave. Sooooo darling!! Pat Frank

Alicia said...

Great job with the challenge hard to tell it is a paper bag.

Dena said...

Peggie! Oh I love that sweeping Tilda! What a cutie!!! The little leaf embellishments are perfect. Your elephant card is cute too!
Hugs, Dena

Jeanette said...

Both your projects are wonderful!
Love them both!
Hugs Jeanette :)