Hey pumpkin!

Hello my fellow stampers!

It's Monday and that means a brand new Mystery Monday challenge over at Club Anya & Friends! This week Kim has chosen a beautiful card by Rimna for us to CASE. Not only that but it is also preview time for the new TGF Halloween digis that will be available for purchase on the 15th!

For my card I used the new Pumpkin Ian digi both 'as-is' and altered into a girl pumpkin by swapping in Cute Troop Anya's head to give him a little buddy from the patch... LOL! Now the two of them are ready to waddle from house to house on Halloween night as they trick-or-treat for sweets. I gotta say I just love their roley-poly cuteness! ;)

And you will definitely want to hop on over to the CA blog to see cards from my fellow DT gals featuring all of the fab new digis! And while you are there don't forget to check out the challenge and start planning a card for it!

Toodles!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and PTI
paper/bat- Making Memories
digi stamp- The Greeting Farm (Pumpkin Ian)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Cute Troop Anya), Studio G (sentiment), Crafty Secrets (spider web)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox black pigment
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R20
Ian hair- E31, E35, E37, E59, E79
Anya hair- E50, Y32, YR31, Y21, YR24
clothes- YR20, YR12, YR14, E31, E33, E35, YG93, YG63, YG67, E44, E47, E49, YR04, YR68, YR18, E08, Y35, Y38, YR15

It's a princess party!

Good morning friends, please scroll down for our SNS candy winners!

Are you ready for a new Monday Mania challenge over at CA&Friends? This week Berenice is hosting and she has come up with a challenge that I think will appeal to the princess in each of us! It's a princess party theme in honor of her birthday today... "Happy Birthday Berenice!" and a little added sparkle doesn't hurt either. ;)

I thought this challenge was the perfect opportunity to show my Princess Anya some love since my older stamps have a tendency to get a bit neglected as the new ones join the family. It doesn't mean that I think she is any less beautiful than the day I bought her though and that feeling is just reinforced as I start coloring her up... oh Princess, how I missed you old friend. :)
I did change her up just a bit by wiping away her closed eye face with a baby wipe before stamping and then using my light box to trace Fleur Anya's smilie eye face onto her... click here for a more detailed tut on this technique. Now Princess looks all happy and excited to attend the ball, don'tcha think?



Oh, here's a little something that I just had to share... remember me saying that I'm not much of a cat person? Well I don't know if this photo changes my mind or not, LOL! You see, my sister recently moved into a new place and she couldn't take Oreo with her so rather than see him have to go to the pound he has found a new home here. He's a funny guy who likes belly rubs and apparently card making too... he's gotten into the habit of joining me anytime I sit down to create and generally leaves me about this much space to do my thing. Crazy cat... now if only I could blame the messy desk on him somehow! ;)

TTYL!
Supply list:
cardstock- Cardstock Warehouse and PTI
paper- Imaginisce (princess), Autumn Leaves (Cuteworld stripe), Making Memories (blue)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Princess Anya and Fleur Anya), Verve (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox creamy brown chalk ink
Prima flowers
Kaiser Craft pearls
Making Memories crown
Ranger Stickles
Copic Spica glitter pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R20
hair- N3, N5, N7, N9, 0
dress- R00, R11, R21, R32, R43, 0, G0000, G000, G00, YG03

Let it snow...

let it snow, let it snow... but not really! LOL

Welcome to the weekend friends! I am making some time to stamp today and I hope you get to enjoy the same. :)
Today's card is for the Club Anya Mystery Monday challenge hosted by Kris which is to create something 'icy looking'. As I've mentioned before, I'm not a big fan of the white stuff but the cool, crisp color palette sure does make for some pretty cards so I was all for playing along. ;)
I was also totally inspired by Suzi's card that she created for this same challenge and her idea to make an Ice Queen, which was brilliant! So I just had to do my take on it because I loved it so much. Thanks Suzi!
For my version I altered a Dressy Miss Anya by wiping away the bows in her hair, the bottom part of her short dress and her legs then I drew in the long gown and added long sleeves and her scepter as well. It's hard to tell in the photo but I added a lot of sparkle and texture to her with clear Copic Spica pen on her hair and the lightest parts of her dress with white flocking on the trim. Even the light blue background paper that I punched the border from has a cool sheen to it. So this is just one of those cards that is always going to look better in person, sigh. Oh well, I'm still really happy with how it turned out and loved the challenge. :)
Thanks for stopping by!Supply list:
cardstock- Georgia Pacific
paper- unknown (shimmery blue) Fancy Pants (snowflake)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Dressy Miss Anya) Technique Tuesday (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black, Doodlebug swimming pool and Versamark clear
American Crafts Zing white embossing powder
Doodlebug white flocking
Ranger Stickles
Heidi Swapp bling crown
Martha Stewart aspen snowfall border combo punches
misc gem and ribbon
Copic Spica clear glitter pen
Copic multiliner 0.3 pen
Copic markers:
skin- E50, E51, R20, BG01
hair- B0000, B00, B01, B04, B06
dress- BG0000, BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07

Pattern me not

Well hello my lovelies! Can I just say that I feel completely recharged today and ready to take on another crazy week... I think it was finally getting to watch my beloved Glee that did it for me. ;)
So raise your hand if you absolutely adore Kurt. I do! I do! LOL For me it started with the football game episode (an instant classic in my opinion) and was totally cemented when he sang Defying Gravity... sigh. I really hope this show has a very long and successful run. :)

Now, onto other fun things. This week's Mystery Monday challenge over at Club Anya was issued by Rachel and she really threw me a curve ball with this one... absolutely no using pattern paper of any kind, you couldn't even stamp your own patterned background! Gasp! I know, I know, I was at a loss too, was it even possible? ;) Well, not being one to back down from a challenge, especially when I've been called out by name, I decided to apply my 'using pattern paper scraps' personal challenge to using up some of my cardstock scraps this time. With my trusty Slice die-cutter in hand I went about cutting out some snowflakes... can I help it if they kinda created a pattern once I glued them down? heeheehee ;) Everything on here is cardstock Rachel, I swear!
And did you see? Did you see? Yep, that's the super duper elusive Elf Anya that the fabulous duo of Erin and Kristina so kindly provided me images of to play with! I LOVE her and will continue to beg and plead for Marie to re-release her so that I can have my very own rubber version of her someday. Ahhhh a girl can dream...

One more thing before I head off to work today, I haven't heard back from the winner of my last Sweet November blog candy yet and I would really like to give it a home SO... if I don't hear from the winner by next Saturday I will be drawing a new winner and announcing her that day. Hopefully we can find Tangle a nice place that isn't cluttering up my ever messy table. ;)
Take care!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill, DCWV, Cardstock Warehouse and GP
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Elf Anya)
ink- Colorbox dark brown chalk ink
Kaiser Craft gems
Slice die-cutter (Mistletoe card)
Cuttlebug embossing plate
Copic Spica glitter pens
Copic markers-
skin- E00, E11, R20, R22
hair- Y32, Y21, Y23, YR21
clothes- R46, R59, R89, YG00, YG03, YG95, E55, E57, E59, G20, YG63, YG67, BG11, BG13, BG18, R30, R32, R43, Y21, Y26, Y28

Hope your Halloween is a scream

Greetings and salutations to all you crafty 'ghouls'! LOL
I know not everyone celebrates Halloween but I hope your day is frightfully delightful. :)
Our downtown business association gives out candy tonight so I will be donning my fancy witch hat and candy corn jewelry after work to spread joy and cavities to all our local kiddies... always fun to see the streets lined with the different little characters.
So seriously, how could I not post a Halloween card today? Especially when the Mystery Monday challenge at Club Anya is all about Halloween this week too. Now I realize that I don't technically qualify since I used Sprouts rather than Anyas but I had this idea to turn Hugh and Dahlia into a pair of zombies so I just had to run with it. ;)
I did have to alter Dahlia a bit to get the look I wanted... got rid of the flowers and pattern on her dress, changed her mouth and added the skully barrette. Hugh on the other hand looked perfectly zombie-ish as is, LOL! I can't even tell you how much fun I had coloring these two as pasty faced little un-deads and the new Basic Grey paper made a cool yet kinda creepy backdrop for them.
From here on out I will be diving full force into Christmas cards, still need to get more made before the end of November but I thrive under a deadline. ;)
Now to end this post with my best maniacal mad-scientist laugh in honor of the day... BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA! :)

Supply list:

cardstock- Bazzill and GP

paper- Basic Grey (Eerie)

stamps- The Greeting Farm (WS Dahlia and WS Hugh) Studio G (sentiment)

ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox blackbird chalk ink

Heidi Swapp tulle

Imaginisce epoxy brad

Kaiser Craft gems

Copic multiliner pens 0.1 and 0.3

Copic markers:

skin- E000, E70, E71, G82

hair (hugh)- E43, E44, YG97, YG99

hair (dahlia)- W1, W3, W5, W7, YG99

clothes (both)- C3, C5, C7, C9, YR21, YR23, Y38, YG21, YG23, YG95, E44, E47, E49, E40, E41

Seeing stars

Sheesh, another late post from me today. Sorry 'bout that... I was enjoying a morning out. It's pretty gorgeous outside today, the perfect fall morning. :)
Thanks for all the help yesterday with my Glee drama, I'm hoping to make some time this evening and get caught up... I can't wait!
My card today is for Margie's star challenge over at Club Anya. As soon as I read what the challenge was I knew I was going to do a Halloween card, stars and Halloween just seem to go hand in hand to me... especially when I had this paper in mind to use. ;)
The only altering I did was draw up a witch hat for Princess Anya, oh and a couple lines at her wrists for longer sleeves.
Well, even though it's my day off I've got quite a lot to do so I should probably quit procrastinating and get down to business.
See ya tomorrow... same bat time... same bat channel... ;) Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and GP
paper- SEI (purple) Frances Meyer (ooooooold star paper)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Princess Anya) Hero Arts (Halloween sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox blackbird chalk ink
Heidi Grace spider rub-ons
Making Memories paper bat
pearls
Ranger Stickles
Copic multiliner 0.3 pen
Copic markers:
skin- E00, E11, R20, V15
hair- YG01, YG05, YG09, Y06
clothes- V05, V06, V09, C3, C5, C7, C9, YR04, YR07, YR09, Y35, Y38, YR18

Hello Monday...

Looks like things are still wonky in blog land this morning... joy of joys. Oh well, I'm feeling like I'm constantly on the run this week so not much time for posting anyway. Still, I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that blogger gets it's act together soon.
Today's card is actually for last Monday's Mystery Monday challenge hosted by Angie and it was to use punches. I had intended to use a bunch of punches but when the card finally came together yesterday I only ended up with one... the word bubble was cut with my Slice. Oh well, I still enjoyed the challenge! :)Oh and I mixed Matey Anya's head with Skater Ian's body to create this little skater chick. :)
Off to work now, see you tomorrow!

Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and GP
paper- KI Memories
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Skater Ian and Matey Anya, Autumn Leaves (flourish)
inks- Memento tuxedo black, Tim Holts Spiced Marmalade distress ink and Colorbox blackbird chalk ink
Making Memories alpha rub ons and Just Chillin' Slice die cut
Around the Block dragonfly brad
string
Copic markers:
skin- E00, E11, R20
hair- C3, C5, C7, C9, B29
clothes- Y35, Y38, YR16, BG10, BG23, BG34, R11, R20, R22, E40, E41

Mystery Monday on a Sunday

Hello, hello! Hope all is well in your little corner of the world. I'm chillin' this morning then it's back to attempting a clean sweep on the house while it's still nice out and before the holidays hit. It's kinda scary to think about how close Christmas is getting! Yikes! I really need to start getting busy on some holiday cards soon, but I'm such a procrastinator in that department... don't know why 'cause I do enjoy making them I just seem to put them off. How about you, have you started on your holiday cards yet?
Well, this past Monday a new challenge was issued over at Club Anya, it's called Mystery Monday and each week a different club member picks the challenge... pretty fun, right? So this week Joni had a rule of three theme to use a pink, black and white color combo plus three embellishments. My embellishments are flower die-cuts, buttons and rub-ons and I'm really diggin' how this one turned out!
Toodles!

Supply list:

cardstock- Bazzill

paper, buttons and flower die-cuts- Making Memories

American Crafts rub-ons

Fiskars border punch

Copic markers:

skin- E50, YR000, E51, R11, RV34

hair- E50, E53, E55

clothes- C3, C5, C7, C9, RV00, R81, R83, E41, W00, W3

Fiddle-dee-dee

Hey gals, sorry for the late post. It's been one of those mornings and now I'm off to get the tires changed on the car... fun stuff I tell ya. ;)
So I made this card for the Farewell to Traci challenge over at Club Anya last week. I've said before how much seeing her altering of stamps opened up that world to me and it's true. I hadn't thought about tweaking an image before I saw her work and when I did there was no going back, it was like she had given me permission to really play with my stamps... thank you Traci! So for this card I seriously altered Ballerina Anya into a Southern Belle. I swear she's still in there if you look closely enough, LOL! :)
Hope your Friday is shaping up to be better than mine!

Supply list:

cardstock- Georgia Pacific

paper and rub ons- Basic Grey

stamps- The Greeting Farm (Ballerina Anya and Pretty Hat flower)

ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox cream brown chalk ink

Copic multiliner 0.1 and 0.3 pens

Copic markers:

skin- E00, E11, R20

hair- E33, E35, E37

clothes- R22, R20, R00, R0000, Y23, YR23, E31, YG00, YG03, YG17, BG0000

Yeah! It's Wednesday!

Why am I so excited for Wednesday you ask? Because Glee is on tonight LOL! Yes, I admit it, I love this new show... just call me a Gleek. Is anyone else out there hooked as well? :)
This is another reason I love fall... the new season of TV shows start premiering. One of the other ones I'm really looking forward to is Eastwick. I loved the movie back in the day so I'm hoping the show isn't a stinker... could be hit or miss but I'll give it a few episodes at least.
Anywho... onto today's card. This one was my Farewell to Joni card over at Club Anya. Like my Hippie Anya this was the first time I got around to actually inking up Navajo Anya. Again I don't know what took me so long because she was a fun one to color. Thank goodness for challenges is all I can say. I love how they motivate me to play with a variety of stamps and materials. :)
Have a fantabulous day my friends!

Supply list:

cardstock- DCWV and GP

paper- Cosmo Cricket

stamps- The Greeting Farm (Navajo Anya, Forest Friends deer and sentiment)

ink- Memento tuxedo black and Colorbox dark brown chalk ink

misc leaf button

Paper Trey Ink twine

Copic markers:

skin- E53, E13, R22

hair- C3, C5, C7, C9

clothes- E44, E47, E49, R08, E07, E09, YR21, YR23, Y26, G000, BG10, G12

deer- E15, E17, E18, E30, E31, E33

Happy fall y'all

Reading the comments from yesterday's post, I have to say it looks like I'm in pretty darn good company with all you fellow paper addicts. LOL ;)
Well today is officially the first day of fall, can you feel it? I know you have already heard me pining away for the cooler weather for quite some time now but fall 2009 is shaping up to be particularly exciting for me. November is going to be especially sweet... so stay tuned. I also promise to have more fun candy giveaways coming up... just a hint, if you liked my fairies you won't want to miss out. ;)
So anyway, for today's card I thought what better way to welcome in my fave time of year than with something fun for Halloween. This was another Club Anya challenge last week, Farewell to Janna. I love, love, love the new TGF Spooktacular set and have been using them quite a bit lately. Each of the little witches are slightly altered, just drawing in some lines and patterns for more decorative hats and dresses and giving them a lap so it looks like they are sitting... pretty easy peasy and such a great way to get more mileage from your stamps.
Later!


Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and GP
paper- Reminisce
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Spooktacular set) A Muse (jars) Hero Arts (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black
Doodlebug haunted house sticker
American Crafts ribbon
misc brad
Copic multiliner pen 0.1
Copic markers:
skin- YG0000, YG00, YG01, YG03
brooms- E55, E57, E59, Y21, Y26, YR24
bottles- BG000, YG01, YG05, YG07
everything else- C3, C5, C7, C9, V05, V06, V09, G24, G28, G29, YR04, YR07, YR09, BG000

Challenging challenges

Good Sunday morning to you, hope everyone had a pleasant weekend. :)
I found the time to make this card for the Club Anya "I wanna be like Pam" challenge. Her work is amazing and I will be the first to admit that this card pushed me out of my card making comfort zone. As you have probably seen I don't do a whole lot of multiple layers... and though it took some effort on my part I'm really glad I did because I think they are exactly what this card needed. :)
Just FYI, there is a new sketch challenge over at Anyone for Anya this week... looks to be a fun one and the DT examples are fantastic!
And on Friday I finally got my act together and sent in my application for the Club Anya design team. There is no going back now, no choosing different cards, no more second guessing... and let me tell you the nerves have definitely begun and they just keep getting worse as the big day approaches. I know I can't be the only one out there feeling this way, so good luck to everyone trying out... the wait is almost over. :)

Supply list:

cardstock- Bazzill and GP

paper- old Karen Foster, even older unknown blue snowflakes and KI Memories lace snowflakes

stamps- The Greeting Farm (Fairy Eva) Doodlebug Designs (sentiment)

ink- Memento tuxedo black

Doodlebug Design gems

misc ribbon

Fiskars mini scallop scissors

Ranger Stickles and white Inksentials pen

white puffy paint

copic markers