Sweet Anya Love

Hey, hey! It's a Tuesday around here!

Eh! Still not feeling so good;

it's like a sinus infection and headcold combined into one,

it's a specialy of mine... so not fun...

Last week, I got to clean up my closet and I found a shoebox-sized box with some old stamps that I had gotten 1 to 2 years ago and never used!!! OMGosh!!! It was a wonderful "Christmas-y" kind of moment ;)

I got to use one of those stamps in my last post, and here's another stamp...

I have used this sentiment from this Greeting Farm stamp set a bunch of times,

but had forgotten about the actual set and the sweet Anya and Ian that came with it!

I used Club Anya's latest Saturday Sketch and paper pieced her lil dress...

I {cough}borrowed{cough} this beautiful lace from my sister, Sarabeth and

thought that these awesome button-stitched-flowers from Sassafra Lass

would tie it all together nicely :)

Me likey! I hope that you do too :)

I am entering my card into these challenges :)

- Club Anya Sketch #59

- Claudia and Company Challenge #77: Recipe

- Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #125: Flowers for Mum

- DYSU Challenge #10: Layers

Thanks for stopping by again!!!

Enjoy :)

Card Details:

Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm Rubber Stamp Set

Paper(s): Cosmo Cricket "Togetherness" DP, Papertrey Ink CS

Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Chocolate Chip, Copic Markers

Accessories: Sassafras Lass Buttoned Stitched Flowers, Prima Gems, 

misc Lace and Ribbon, Squared Scalloped Nesties 

The Greeting Farm 2nd Anniversary Blog Hop!

Happy Anniversary to

The Greeting Farm!!!

What a fab way to celebrate!

One HUGE blog hop featuring everyone's fave Greeting Farm projects :)

The master hop list is located HERE!!!
The hop will start and finish at The Greeting Farm Blog!

Lucky for you, there's no rambling bumbles from me today,
hee hee! Since there is a lot of hopping to do, let's keep things short... ;)

Happy Birthday, Anya!!!
I just HAD to have her! and pair her up with some Greeting Farm DP that I still have :)

Here's more of my fave stamps!

It was so hard to choose, 'cause they're ALL my faves!!!
Especially those lil Wild Sprouts :)

She's TOO cute!!! I adore her hair!!!

AND here's MONDAY!!!

Inside says "You're Bee-utiful!"

and I really think that she is!

I LOVE Mondays and anything to do with Bees!

I couldn't help myself, her outfit was just screaming for it ;)

(Those are CLEAR pearls, aren't they awesome!?)

I hope you likey :)

Enjoy the hop!!!

AND a HUGE THANK YOU to The Greeting Farm, Marie, Jessica,
the Greeting Farm DTs and Club Anya DT!
You're all ROCK :)

Happy Sunday :)

Feeling Glum???

NOT today!!!
It's TGIF!!! How can you be?! hee, hee!

Here's a lil card I created {loosely} using Pam's
Club Anya Saturday Sketch...
I kinda turned the sketch sideways (?) and I didn't want to cover up those pretty rainbows, so I decided to put those cornered flowers on the same side rather than diagonal-y from each other...

I love lil Wild Sprout Audrey, whenever we hang out,

she always makes me giggle! :)

I tickled Miss Audrey with my Copic coloring and popped her up; DP is from Sassafras Lass and the sentiment is from a Cosmo Cricket Pad; everything else is misc. scraps from card kits I have laying around...

I hope you likey!

Thanks for stopping by and have a fab Friday :*)

Happy Monday Mania, with ME!!!

Happy Monday!!!
A fabulous start to a wonderful week :)

Guess who gets to host this week's
Club Anya Monday Mania???
ME!!! Woo Hoooo :)

I was and still am so happy to have recieved Amy's invite to host Monday Mania this week :) I'm so honored and thrilled to be a part of it! and you all know how much I adore The Greeting Farm stamps and digital images!!! Especially those lil Wild Sprouts... the lil boys... Edward ;)

THANK YOU!!!

So, here's how I came up with this week's challenge... This Wednesday is my baby boy, Matthew's, 4th birthday :) I decided to let him help me create a recipe reflecting his sweet and simple personality and his fave colors, green and brown.

Here's our recipe:

- Must use Kraft CS

- Must use the color Green

- Only ONE patterned/designer paper

- Only ONE type of embellishment, plus or minus Ribbon

- And of course, your Anya, Ian or Friend Image :)

Oh my goodness!!!
I cannot wait to see what everyone will be cooking up!!!

For my first card, I created a birthday card for Matthew using lil Edward :)
This adorable lil Wild Sprout, inspired by Twilight (squee!), looks like he was created to look just like my Matthew - the messy hair, the large sweet innocent eyes and those cheeks! Too cute!!!

The paper is from Imaginisce, the sentiment is from TGF's Oliver and Olivia "Happy Day" Stamp Set and I added some Making Memories Button Brads... I thought it would be fun to play around with the layout and try to create an arrow to match the DP :) 

For my next card, a girly twist to the recipe!

 I dusted off "Teacher Anya" (don't you wish you had all the time in the world to play with ALL of your stamps!) to create a Thank You card for Nicholas' Kindergarten Teacher :)

Finally, his last day of school is Friday! We're all so excited for summer vacay! 

I used Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl DP, punched the side and added some misc. ribbon that I found at our LSS... the sentiment is from TGF's "My Guy Ian" Stamp Set.

I hope that everyone finds a moment to create and join in!
If you do, you will be entered to win a single in-stock stamp of your choice :)
Who can reisist that chance?! ;)

Enjoy your scrappy time this week! :*)

Pink Chocolate Roses and an Oops ;)

Howdy friends :)

It seems that I took a bit of an unintentional break for a few days... my mojo has been playing games with me and it has been a bit frustrating trying to get things rolling again... it's the actual 'putting the card' together part that has me stumped! Maybe I have too many options to play with... or, and I like this answer better ;) Maybe I don't have enough things to choose from, hee hee!

So, I took a look around the ol' blogosphere this morning, and found a few challenges to play along with... I purchased this Hope and Grace set from The Greeting Farm ages ago and I have only used one of the sentiments! It was time to give these lil girlies some color... Here are the challenges I used for my first card...

Club Anya's Wild Card Wednesday Challenge - Pink Chocolate Rose
and inspiration from...
Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #114

I decided to pull out my Greeting Farm DP too!

Toss on a doilie, some flowers and girlie up the card for her!

For my next card, I did an "Ooops!", lol! I had forgotten that Club Anya's Manic Monday Challenge was not only to use the colors Orange, Pink and Blue, but to also use NO DP!!!

Oh, well, maybe next time... thanks for the inspiration ;)

I'd like to enter my very filled DP card ;) to The Pink Elephant Color Challenge #68 - Orange

I wanted to give this one a tomboy-ish girly look! I'm not sure if I managed that, but I really like how cute it turned out :)

Hope you likey! and I hope that this gets my mojo to cooperate and let me get my creative boogey on ;)
Enjoy your night!
Gotta run!!! We're off for some major T-Ball action ;)
Later gators!!!

Monday Mania on a Wednesday!!!

It's Wednesday! Happy Humpy Day my friends :)

I have a lil something that I created for
Club Anya's Monday Mania!

It has been a very long time since I've been able to give a lil love to some of my Greeting Farm stamps...

This week's Monday Mania is being hosted by the lovely Claireabelle :)

Claireabelle's challenge is to be inspired by
"Neapolitan Ice Cream"!!!

Using these colors:

Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry

I have had this dp from Creative Imaginations for sooo long! I knew that I had to use it with Birthday Anya and make her lil cake into an ice cream cupcake!!!

Yummm! Who wouldn't love a few ice cream cupcakes?!?!

"Love you so" much my lil delicious yum-yums!!! ;)

Here's a close up pic! You can see all the sparkly stuff ;)

Ice Cream Cupcake Anya Card Details:

Paper(s): Creative Imaginations Embossed Cupcake DP;

Martha Stewart CS

Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Birthday Anya" Rubber Stamp; 

Studio G Mother's Day Sentiment Clear Stamp

Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black Ink; Copic Markers and Atyou Spica Glitter Pens

Accessories: Prima e. Pearls; misc light pink ribbon

Thanks for stopping by :)

Enjoy the rest of your day!!!

See y'all tomorrow morning with...

StampInsanity's new release and challenge!!!

And...

Pixie Dust Studio's new challenge too :)

hugs!!!

Audrey and Miss Pirate Anya

Happy Tuesday everyone!!!

Yea!!! It's my favorite day of the week :)

I have a quick post of 2 cards to share with you today!!!

First, I have The Greeting Farm's latest most unique and adorable addition to the family...

Audrey!!!

I used the following challenges on my card...
- Copic Creations Challenge #23 -Color with Green

- Dare U 2 Digi Stamp Challenge #32 - Pearls
- Eat Sleep Stamp - Sketchy Thursday #73
(I turned the sketch sideways)

- PaperPlay Challenge 10 Week 9 - Just Because themed card

- Stamp Something Challenge - Something Girly

Audrey totally ROCKS!!!

I love her! She has definitely become my most fave TGF image/stamp!!!

Yes, love her even more than those Wild Spouts, lol!

But I'm not going to say it out loud -

I don't want any feelings to get hurt ;)

Just look at her?! with that lil tongue sticking out!

So sassy and cute!

Who could get mad at that lil face?! LOL!

btw - don't look at my upside down flower, okay?

LOL!

Audrey's Trouble Card Details:

Paper(s): SU DP; Papertrey Ink CS

Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Audrey" Digital Image; Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Sentiment

Ink(s): Copic Markers -

Accessories: Prima Flowers; Creative Imagination Pearls

Next, I finally inked up lil Pirate Anya from my Best Mates Stamp Set

to use for this week's Club Anya Sketchy Saturday!

... and I also used Eyelets for Creative Belli's Challenge #86 

Who says you can't use boy stuff for girls??? ;)

Here's a pic to see the embossing paper (ship) and sparkly...

Ahoy, Anya! Card Details:

Paper(s): DCWV The Boy Stack DP; Papertrey Ink CS

Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Best Mates" Stamp Set

Ink(s): Copic Markers and Atyou Spica Glitter Pens

Accessories: Making Memories Eyelets; Prima e. Black Pearls;

Spellbinders Small Circles Nestabilities

Thanks for stopping by and looking today :)

On another note...

Today is Miley Rose's 1st B'day!!!

Doesn't she look like she's smiling? LOL!

... and tomorrow is DH's B'day :)

And he has the day off!

I wonder if he'll take me to the LSS

to finally get my Copics refilled since I haven't been able to get there yet!

LOL!

Probably with the promise of a new Wii game and dinner at Applebee's ;)

Enjoy!!!

3 Cards for sooo many Challenges :)

It's a good day when you can finally find some time to create

for images that have been colored a loooong time ago ;)

Here are my 3 cards for today...

First, a few weeks ago, I finally was able to ink one of three Magnolia's that I own :)

And here she is, finally!

I used the following challenges for this card:

- All That Scraps Challenge Week 19 - Newspaper or Book

- Little Paper Shop Sketch Challenge 57

- The Pink Elephant 56 - Add Green

I LOOOOOVE this DP from October Afternoon! and I still have a lil bit left, lol!

I'm thinking of hording the scraps for a bit longer ;)

Miss Mag Card Details:

Paper(s): October Afternoon "Cherry Hill" DP; Papertrey Ink CS

Stamp(s): Magnolia Stamp

Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black Ink; Copic Markers

Accessories: October Afternoon Rubber Charm; EK Success Punch

My second card today features lil "Janice" from InStyle Stamps...

I used the following challenges for this card...

- Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #63

- Papertake Weekly Challenge - Buttons

I love her school uniform...

but that's coming from someone that had never had to wear one ;)

Skool Janice Card Details:

Paper(s): Cosmo Cricket "Girl Friday" DP; Papertrey Ink CS

Stamp(s): InStyle Stamps "Janice" Digital Image

Ink(s): Copic Markers

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilites;

Recollections Buttons and Paper Clip; EK Success Punches

... and last, but certainly not least!

A definite fave in my house ;)

It's OLIVER!!!

Yes, I was one of the lucky ones that was able to purchase him sooo long ago...

colored him in sooo long ago too! LOL!

... and now here he is - finally!!! :)

I used the following challenges for Oliver's card...

- Club Anya and Friends Challenge - Seeing Spots

- Roses On Paper Challenge 32 - Boy Card

- Cupcake Craft Challenge 80 - Round and Round

Happy Oliver Card Details:

Paper(s): Basic Grey "Joy Ride" DP; Papertrey Ink CS

Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm's "Happy Day - Oliver" Stamp;

Little Paper Shop "Friends" Sentiment Clear Stamp

Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black Ink; Copic Markers

Accessories: Scenic Route Buttons; Making Memories Trim;

Spellbinders Small Circles Nestabilities; Cuttlbug Embossing Folder

I created the inside too...

I won the "Friends" stamp set from Little Paper Shop a few weeks ago and I adore it!

You will definitely be seeing a lot more sentiments on my cards from now on!

Thanks sooo much for stopping by!!!

All of your comments make me smile!

... and my boys too! hee, hee

They like it when I read your comments to them - 

makes them happy too ;)

OH! BTW!

- a lil birdie told me that I should be giving away some blog candy very soon,

so keep an eye on things around here ;)

HUGS!!!