CHA Relay Day 3

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Good Afternoon,

Just a quick post to share my card for Day 3 of the CHA Relay. Although the Relay has been cancelled, it was sure fun to play along. I also played along with The Color Dare which was to use Old Olive, Not Quite Navy, Bordering Blue, Certainly Celery and Soft Suede.



I was skeptical about the color combination but I truly love how this card turned out. These are wonderful colors to put together and I am grateful for the challenge and the out of the box thinking.

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TGF's CHA Relay - Day 2

Whoo-hoo! I am back with my card using Wild Sprouts Charlotte...



I used the sketch featured on Lord Have Mercy ! - awesome, easy and fun sketch to play with. I added a bit more with the stitched ribbon and the flower ribbon brad. Before I printed the Charlotte image, I added a text box so I could include my sentiment without it being a separate piece. I love yellow, red and orange together - so hot!! You can just hear Charlotte sizzle!! Ttsss...

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More TGF Fun

Good Morning! Remember when TGF had the 12 Days of Sketches last month? Well, this go 'round they are having a CHA Relay! I am so excited, knock on wood, I was actually able to upload my card in the Galleria! I hope I continue to have this good fortune when I upload Day 2's card. But I wanted to share my Day 1 card with you.


Oooh, Mer Ian is truly fintastic! I kept the card pretty clean and simple. I colored Mer Ian with Copics. I used my good old trusty Creative Memories circle cutting system, but wanted to add more dimension like what is easily achieved with Nesties. I don't have plain circle Nesties, so I cut a smaller circle (the blue blade) than what I cut Mer Ian (the green blade) using a scrap piece of card stock and then centered the stamped image behind the opening and applied the ink using a sponge. I removed my template and viola - instant Nestie technique without the die. Then using the red blade I created a mat using Taken with Teal. Then I ran a scrap piece of Bashful Blue through the Cuttlebug with the Swirls embossing folder. Before I adhered it I dragged SU!'s Whisper White Craft Ink over the swirls to give the look of foamy waves. I did this week's sketch from The Sweetest Thing. Added the sentiment from Down by the Pond and then added a few pearls. Cute!

I hope to be back later today with Day 2 - it's an adorable Wild Sprout image!

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Still thinking of snowmen

Good Morning! Happy Saturday to you!

Actually I made this card to send to a friend. She said to try out this technique of putting alcohol inks on aluminum foil, then emboss it, then highlight it with black Staz-on Ink. Well, I don't own alcohol inks but my sister does, so she did that part for me. I did the rest. What do you think?


I am so pleased with the results! I used TGF's Keep Cozy snowman. I cut the starburst shape from Brocade Blue using the Cricut/SCAL. Then I punched holes in the spikes. I did a little faux stitching, colored the image with Copics and added a bit of white organdy ribbon. Voila! Easy card with great results.

I also made this with the current All That Scraps Challenge in mind which was to create a card with a snowman.

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Christmas Countdown

Good Morning! It's Monday and we're counting down the days to Christmas. We're actually done with the shopping, sort of and the tree got decorated last night.

Beginning Friday, December 18th, The Greeting Farm is doing a 12 Days of Sketches challenge. You all know how I love sketches! So of course I jumped on this. I am very frustrated though because for some reason, I can't get into TGF store (my hubby will like that) or the Galleria to upload my cards. But here's the card I made with the Day 1 sketch that was provided by Cindy Haffner.

This is Elf Anya - I so happy when I was able to get her on the recent one day sale that Marie had. I have to admit, I often have a hard time with traditional Christmas colors, but with Anya's face - who cares about the colors! LOL


My card is a pocket card and quite by accident. I had a piece of left over card stock that I had printed out some digi stamps and had cut one image out in a circle shape. That part became the notch to the pocket card. The Happy Holidays sentiment is from Keep Cozy set and the inside sentiment is from All The Scraps.

Now, today I am back in my craft room. I have two sketches to work on, Tuesday Morning Sketches work to do and I am planning on just enjoying my markers today. I wasn't in the craft room at all since Friday afternoon. I had a Christmas gift I had to finish and I finally did yesterday morning - but then Sunday was filled with laundry, movies with my hubby and decorating the tree. Oh, but I did promise the kids a snowball fight today!

So Cute

Hi there! I'm really late today because I usually have a MyGrafico Monday challenge card today, but I am so excited that MyGrafico has agreed to sponsor my Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge blog, so we've combined forces. Martha, myself and the rest of the team will be posting tomorrow.

So I didn't get much done in my craft room, so I've been busy working on a card this morning and I have developed a habit. I love Netflix and especially the Watch Instantly option. After the kids go to school it's really quiet around here, so I put on a movie. I generally try to put something on that I've seen before so that I am free to just listen. However, sometimes that doesn't always work. Haha!

Anyway, so here's my card to participate in Anyone for Anya and The Pink Elephant challenges. Anyone for Anya has a great sketch and TPE has a recipe; dots and punch tag. I also challenged myself to use more out of my stash. I've had this card stock for a long time from Papertrey Ink and the ribbon - so now it's time to put it to good use.


What do you think? I colored the image with Copics. I can't tell if this outfit is pajamas or not, but she does look comfy! The card stock is Summer Sunrise and Lemon Tart from Papertrey, Summer Sunrise polka dot ribbon, also from Papertrey Ink. The dp is something I picked up at Michaels. Image is Dress Me Anya and Dress Me Anya Wardrobe.

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Teen Sensation

Hello and Happy Tuesday!

I'm back to work today which is sort of hard after a fabulous weekend. Even hanging out at the in-laws for a short time wasn't half bad, even though my father-in-law ended up stabbing me with a fork trying to get a big, black spider off of me. He didn't puncture my skin, but it hurt for a bit and I wore potato salad dressing for the rest of the day.

I have found another really great blog for challenges. I made this card to participate in Crafts 4 Eternity's Sketch Challenge #33 - this is a really great sketch with so many possibilities. This also makes my design for one of my groups for the Monthly Card Challenge. Gotta love the 2-fer creations!!

Oh yes, not to forget the best part of the challenge... they are digi-stamp company, too, and are releasing a new set of teen images. Very cute. They are giving the digi-stamp set to a random winner. So part of the challenge is to create a teen style card. So Miss Anya partying at the mall was a perfect choice. So the monthly card kit, the sketch and the theme all worked together perfectly!

I used chocolate chip for the base, then Very Vanilla that I embossed with Spots & Dots. The decorative paper that was sent in the kit is The Paper Studio and other dp used is from a retired set from Stampin' Up! - time to stop hoarding and start using!!! I colored Miss Anya using Prismacolor Markers (Deco Pink, Cream, Light Olive Green, Buff, Light Walnut, Dark Umber and Cherry) - I wanted to create her to be a girl that can either be tanned... or Hispanic... or African-American. I love Buff for those skin-tones. And I used the wonderful (but sometimes tedious) technique of paper piecing.

I hope you like her and will try the challenge with C4E. Thanks for visiting me today.

Home, Sweet Home

Hello! I hope you're enjoying a wonderful holiday weekend!

The card I made last night is truly Joni-inspired. I know you all have seen her amazing magazine holder houses. I am participating my in friend Susan's Any Card but an A2 size swap and everything else I tried failed... miserably! So, then it occurred to me, try a bird house... how hard can that be. Well, I found a great template and then hated it. Finally I came up with this:



An angle cut on this side and that and I had a A-Frame house. Add a scalloped straight-edge and now I've got a Gingerbread roof. The painful part of this is the windows - lots of cutting, but I think it came out really cute! It needs curtains, but I just couldn't bring myself to do more cut work. At this writing it did occur to me how I can accomplish curtains pretty easily. This card is my proto-type. It would be cuter with embossing on the window-box. But anyway, then I used Reeta from the Wild Sprouts collection and the sentiment from For Someone, both from The Greeting Farm.

Reeta is colored with Prismacolor markers (Eggshell, Tulip Yellow, Light Walnut and Avocado).

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your Monday!

Mom & me & me...

Hi all! Happy Monday!

I have a fabulous set of cards to share with you!! As I've shared with you before I host a monthly card swap and each month is hosted by one of the participants who have to send paper and images. I am so happy when the hostess sends a bit extra to cover the mishaps that can happen. SGC was the hostess for May and sent along this great paper and Skater Ian by The Greeting Farm. I didn't have any mishaps, but was so happy when my kids got involved.

Here's my card...


(yes, I actually used eyelets... a lot of them!)

Hollyanne (11)...



Levi (10)...

(Levi had a blast with the eyelets! Why not, it requires tools, therefore it's a man-thing.)

Before I get in trouble with my daughter, she picked out the font which is called Rita from Dafont.com.

Thanks for visiting with us today!

Hi & Thank You!

I was given some really exciting news last week. I can finally share it with you because I have something to show, too.

Last week or a week and half ago, Marie from The Greeting Farm posted on her blog the sneak peek for her new releases that were to become available May 1st. It's single stamps of these adorable little girls named Dahlia, Annika and Reeta. But her post was asking for suggestions to name the collection of stamps. So there were lots of great suggestions. I had suggested Sprouts. My idea was loved and used! They added another word to it, so the new collection is Wild Sprouts.

My card uses Dahlia and the sketch is from Oz-somestamps and the dp is all mine. I designed it. I was playing with some ideas and buh-lieve me, I am not an artist. But I was playing and came up with this. I thought it looked cool. A bit retro, but still sort of neat.

Anyway, I wanted to post this card quickly because I've had my stamps since Friday and hadn't been able to play yet. But this is my Thank You to Marie for picking my suggestion and sending me all three little girls, too! I am truly appreciative.

Modern Sugar Blvd Reveal & I am sooo JEALOUS!!

Good morning and happy Sunday to you! I hope you're having a spectacular weekend.

Today is another Modern Sugar Blvd. release and I am so excited to finally be able to show you my project. I'm not sure if you know it or not, but altering something is just not my forte. I am not like Joni who can turn a magazine holder into a village! So when I was told we had to do something other than a card for the MSB round two of the DT call, I got a whole lot nervous. But I bought a 4 pack of Frappucinos and then dove on it. Here's my altered project: The perfect cleaning kit!


This is step 1 - Clean a little. Meet Sparkling Clean Gal. On this side of the frap box is a bottle of Endust and a dusting cloth.

Here's my favorite side:


Step 2: Relax a lot! This side is a bottle of nicely chilled Mocha Frappucino and a Hershey bar. I printed Sparkling Clean Gal again, turned her mop handle into a chocolate bar and cut part of the bucket out. Using a little digi image from The Greeting Farm, I covered up the mop bucket with a little friend.

And speaking of The Greeting Farm...


This is my sister Karin who met Marie from The Greeting Farm yesterday at Scrapbook Destinations. She sent it to me via email with the subject line being "Live from Scrapbook Destinations" - I am sooo glad my sister went to meet Marie for me. She said she is just an absolute sweetheart. I'm jealous but am so happy to finally see her beautiful face.

Enjoy your Sunday and don't forget the challenge. Happy shopping at Modern Sugar Blvd.!

Club Anya Blog Hop

Hello!! Welcome to the Club Anya blog hop! I am so excited to be able to participate in this! What great fun this is going to be. Unfortunately, I have to join you all later - Wednesday night is my daughter's dance classes night. In the meantime, here's my card. I hope you like it - I had a lot of fun making this and lost a little bit of sleep over this design.



I was able to get the Miss Anyas set at the last Farmers Market (I was so excited that Marie had posted early) and I hadn't inked up a single girl until last night. With Springtime here and watching daffodils bloom, tulips are close to blooming season, too! This little Miss was perfect for the type of card I wanted to create. I also have wanted to try to create a landscape after drooling over TGF's recent Guest Designer Birgitt's design. Oh my goodness - what an inspiration she is!! But I had to go the digital route to create a landscape and searched through many photos on the internet. Isn't this one just lovely?

I stamped Miss Anya on Stampers Select card stock from Papertrey and colored her with prismacolor markers (Limepeel, Eggshell, Canary Yellow, Crimson Red and Orange Yellow, Buff, Light Mocha and Deco Pink). I have to order more of this card stock. WONDERFUL!!

I cut the scenery with Nestibilities Label One and then pulled out an oldie of a tool - Magic Matter to create the white mat. Embossed Mellow Moss with the birds Cuttlebug folder and added some rich gold organdy ribbon. Added a simple sentiment made from PTI and TAC stamps.

Thank you for visiting me during this party! Enjoy the releases and the prizes! Come back to visit me some other time.


Psst - Come back tomorrow, I have some very exciting news to share.

Super Challenge Saturday is here!!

Good Morning! It's a chilly, but sunshiny Saturday and it's challenge day!

Hop on over to Joni's blog A Sticky Situation for all the details. It's going to be tons of fun and there is a prize!!


The challenge is cartoon character color inspired cards. I chose Cinderella: blue, pink, a touch of black and the glitz. I think this card came out great! It's also my first Anya card. I hope you likey...

I used Whisper White for the base, bashful blue, pink pirouette and glitter cardstock. The Greeting Farm's Dress Me set Anya. Then with some pink polka dot ribbon to the side and I discovered I really love stamping sentiments directly on ribbon. This technique works better on non-textured ribbons, but I love it anyway. And of course, no Melissa card is complete unless it has ribbon AND something Cuttlebugged on it. I used a combination of Copics and Kohi-noor pencils to color her.

This is a close-up (I love my hubby's camera) of the sentiment. It's a TAC stamp that I received as a gift. It has 3 stamps - "Dream" "Wish" and "Inspire" -- but no name of the set. It's perfect though. Then I topped it with primas and bling. Not bad for first thing this morning with no coffee.


I hope you enjoy my card and that you participate in the challenge. I look forward to seeing your art.