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I am mother to four and my wonderful dil Lisa recently blessed us with our first grandchild. I share my life with my indulgent husband, and my love of hobbies

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Free time- ME time!

Me time is when i get up to date with a few of my dt commitments and family is all taking care of themselves, kids included and i get to do what i love- CRAFT!  I got myself an airbrush system and have been itching to use it, but am also terrified and intimidated, but decided that i would give it a tentative try today, first time ever that i have turned it on or tried anything like this so be kind.  I masked a few clouds in the sky behind my image, i know. too soft, and then i added little hills in the grass that are hardly visible and then added a few blades of grass over that since you could hardly see the little dips in the grassy field, ah well, better luck next time.
I followed the sketch on:  Magnolia down under
Paper pieced the dress and the hat, adding a few shadows, so it fits the bill for Totally Tilda challenge,
Sketchy colors wanted blue beige and white
Stamptacular Sunday want you to "Pile it on" which is what i normally do, so no problems there, at least five layers.
Cupcake craft also looking for loads of layers

Stamp and scrap want you to have a tag somewhere on your creation
Papertake weekly spots and stripes, her hat and dress and some of the dp have stripes and spots.
Wow i dont think that i have ever managed to squeeze a card into so many challenges, and really this was a complete fluke.  I used "Tilda in rubber boots" item # 3005 available from Diana's store Magnolia-licious.
the tag was cut using a new Marianne Creatable die, the image i used a Octagon Nestie to cut it out with.  All the embellies, flowers,  ribbons, pearls and charm are all from my stash.
have a great week
smiles
Paola

40 comments:

  1. Love your Tilda in rubber boots Card. Beautiful colors and great embelishments.

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  2. Fabulous card! I love layers!
    Hugs,
    Nancy

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  3. Another beautiful card Paola, love the colour combo and those sweet embellishments
    Hugs
    Suzi x

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  4. VERY pretty card Paola!!!! Love your embellishments, esp the hat!!!!

    justme,
    laura

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  5. Totally adorable my friend. Love the paper piecing! Sorry skype didn't work for me today. It's hard getting into a rhythm again. I'll try again tomorrow.
    <3
    Barb

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  6. Hi Paola, love your card, it's full of gorgeous details. Colours are great too. Happy Easter, hugs, Frea

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  7. Beautiful, Paola!!! I love her and your paper piecing and coloring looks awesome! Oh my gosh, I adore that hat charm!!!!! Fabulous card. Happy Easter!!
    hugs, Sharon

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  8. Gorgeous card Paola, love the color combo
    Louise :)

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  9. Hi Paola!
    wow! those colors are glorious. You got Tilda's hair just right. I love the charm hat. so perfect for this card. You colored the sky beautifully and the grassy hills look terrific. The design papers are gorgeous and love that tag. Your paper piecing looks great too.
    Hugs Maz

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  10. Beautiful card Paola , love love love the background and grass .

    Lovely and sunny here , Enjoy your Easter hunny xx
    hugs
    maddy x

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  11. ooh love that little hat charm and your cloudy sky looks great!! ♥

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  12. Wow beautiful card love the flowers and the butterfly tilda is so cute too excellent job!!!!!!

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  13. Paola that is just so cute great job on the clouds....Happy Easter
    Hugs

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  14. Fabulous card, Paola. Pretty embellishments.

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  15. Are you kidding me?!! SEVEN challenges...you crack me up! I can keep track of more than TWO! LOL! And your talent STUNS me! This is absolutely GORGEOUS!! I love everything about it!! Your colors are just scrumptious. I just remembered that we were going to Skype...arrgghh! Sorry! Another day...I swear!! Sending you lots of hugs! Pat

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  16. Such a beautiful card!! Lots of bells and whistles here!!

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  17. Absolutely gorgeous and I love how you hid the tag!

    Thanks so much for playing with us at SSDS!

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  18. Absolutely beautiful!

    Hugz,
    Julie

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  19. You are entirely to hard on yourself! I think you did a great job with your airbrush. Of course, the rest of the card is terrific! Glad that you got some "me time".
    R/

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  20. Paola, this my dear is absolutely grand .. are you sure you got them all?? I bet I could find a couple more for you LOL.. simply love this card and you have so much on it. Amazing how much we can put on one little card, isn't, but all your embellies are so perfect and in the perfect place and your coloring is done so beautifully.. just a gorgeous card..
    Hugs, Jean

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  21. lovely card, with great details

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  22. Beautiful card Paola. It's such a pretty sketch and the hat charm is super cute. Great pick with this image :o)
    Hugs,
    Cabio

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  23. Great card!!! It just makes me want to get in my stash and create. Thank you for sharing.

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  24. Wonderful card Paola i love the colours and the beautiful image and your papers are perfect thanks for joining us at papertake weekly.
    Angie x

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  25. A totally gorgeous use of our sketch Paola - your work is always fabulous!
    xXx

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  26. Stunning as always paola .
    There is so much happening but its all good!

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  27. This is fab!! love the colours and love her spotty dress - just gorgeous!! thanks for joining us at Totally Tilda this time :)
    Hugs
    Lynne xx

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  28. You did a lovely job on your airbrushing! Do not be so hard on yourself. I could easily make out the clouds. Very pretty card.

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  29. How adorable, Paola! Your airbrushing tentative is a thorough success if you ask me, no idea why you are not satisfied, the clouds and teh grass look amazing and seem so real! Great paper-pieceing result on Tilda's dress and I just love all your embellies, make this card so elegant and fancy!
    I just love everything about it!
    Hugs, Iulia

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  30. Gorgeous card Paola! Love the paper pieced dress.
    Hugs,
    Pam:)

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  31. Oh..my your card is beautiful!!!
    ♥♥♥
    Thank you for joining us at Sketchy Colors this week - good luck!
    Hugs Anne

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  32. Lots of lovely layers and a beautifully coloured image! I like your grass (it looks like the grass in my yard!) and I think your clouds are very British. Seriously - our sky does usually look like this! Thank you for joining in with us at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge! Hugs, Lesley

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  33. Adorable!!! Beautiful details!
    Thanks for joining us on SSDS!
    Tammy, DT

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  34. Gorgeous card, Paola! Love the papers and your Tilda with rain boots. Great job on drawing in the grass! Love everything about this card!
    Hugs,
    Cami

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  35. Stunning Tilda creation great paper piecing lovely colour combo..thanks for sharing with us at Totally Tilda chall this time.

    smiles Christine TT DT & gilries xx

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  36. Oh wow Paola! I love the take on the sketch. Cute tag too. I love your airbrushing.
    A gorgeous card! Thanks for playing at MDUC this week,
    Hugs
    Kylie xx

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  37. Absolutely wonderful card, love the colors!

    Thanks so much for joining our Magnolia Down Under Sketch Challenge this week!

    Hugs Tanja

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  38. Wow hun your airbrushed background is amazing! Gorgeous card! thanks for joining us at MDUC, hugs, Jane x

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smiles
Paola