Tilda In Her Garden with Freebie Ginghams

If you looked in on WOYWW on my Wednesday post (HERE) you would have spied on my workdesk (dining table) that I'd been doodling again. The idea is, to make a few of my own digi backgrounds, which could then be used with other digi's or stamped images.

I finished this last night and made it into a card. I've coloured it with ProMarkers and put (Christmas) Party Tilda on the front on her way to a birthday party. The original drawing is a lot bigger than this one. This picture's a little too small for Tilda to stand on the path, because if she did she'd be taller than the tree! (Giant Tilda!! Don't worry she can't eat you, she has no mouth!! as hubby keeps pointing out!) But we won't mention that! My other idea is, if you print the background out twice you can then cut out the tree and make it 3D. I've done this with another one of my back grounds (Here) The happy birthday sentiment on the front of the card was a freebie from a set of clear stamps from a craft magazine, I'd forgotten I had them, so it's being used for the first time, as is the black and white heart brad, which is from Woodware. The black diamond pattern was made by a docrafts xcut punch. First time I've used that too, mainly because it cut the card, where the MS punch didn't. (and it was only about £3.50!) I've also added a smidgen of micro glitter on Tilda's pocket.The black and white gingham paper is a freebie from Activity Village That link will lead you to the 'darks' where you'll find about 16 pages of dark gingham colours. If you change the word 'darks' in the web address to Pastels, you'll get another 16 pages of pastels, and if you change it again to brights, you'll find even more!
The font inside the card is also a freebie (Of course!) and is called Clarence but, if you type it into Google you get a different font , so, I've found it's 'other name' arctic 2 and you can download it HERE
Hi and a very big (((wave))) to two new followers!! Wipso who's a WOYWW fan too, she has an amazing blog where she does fantastic things with fabric and you can learn all about 'dumfing'!! Her tiny handmade 'dumfed bear' and poppy pictures just have to been seen so please go and have a look!!! Big welcome to Jay Freshwater (I stop here and reach for my book, the one with the cats on...that name rings a bell!) It's Purple Hat!! Who I know from TrimCraft Forum, she's a fab crafter and I know I must owe her a trillion RAK's. ( I now feel very guilty coz I haven't been over to TrimCraft in ages!) No link to your blog yet Jay so I'll just Google you...here you are PurpleHats Shed Jay also has a link to Operation Shoe Box, which is 'an oranisation that encourages people to fill shoe boxes with a range of useful and everyday items that mean a great deal to the troops'.
Wow really long post, even tho half of it appears to be missing. Ah!! No, it's there, I've just typed it in black!! (idiot!) Anyway, I'll only do a short post tomorrow...(I'm such a bad fibber!)

Challenges
Just Magnolia- Anything goes
Stamping Sisters in Christ- flowers (Tiny hand drawn ones!)
Sew Many Challenges-Anything goes
The Creative Cottage Challenge- Going Green
Passion for ProMakers- In The Garden