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!!!