Double Take Tuesday with The Greeting Farm

Hi everyone and Happy Tuesday.  

Today is Double Take Tuesday over at The Greeting Farm.  This week's challenge is a fabulous sketch by Jess and here is my card using the adorable Wild Sprout Gracie.  

Gracie was colored with copics as was my button (and I love the marbled effect it gave this particular button) and the letter stickers.  When I went to put my card together, I really didn't like the stark white background she was on, so I decided to play around with it and try to color it a Kraft color so I chose E43, E42, E41 and E40.  To be honest, when I first started with the E43 I was afraid I had ruined it, but I kept going and love the end result.  I can't wait to try this with different colors.

    

We'd love to have you join us this week.  Head on over to the TGF log to check out the rest of the Team's beautiful creations and link yours up....we'd love to see it!  

Thanks for stopping and have a great day!

FFF with the Greeting Farm

Happy New Year!

Now I can let you all in on a little secret I've been keeping....I am now a Showcase Designer for The Greeting Farm....I am so excited to be working with Jess, Marie and the rest of the team and am really looking forward to the next 6 months!     

Anyways, each Friday TGF has a Farm Fresh Friday (FFF) and this week Peggy challenged us to use something new.

This week I chose the set Sitting Wonderful.   Anya is just adorable and I love that chair.   I colored Anya with copics and paper pieced her outfit, boots and bow along with the chair.  To make a background I used two different designer papers to create a wall and floor.  Since the circle I used is fairly large, I kept the rest of the layout on the simpler side just adding a strip of paper with a bordered edge and some fun pom-pom trim which is my other new item).

Head on over to the TGF blog to see the rest of the Design Team's fabulous projects and be sure to join us with this weeks challenge...we'd love to see what new goodies you got for Christmas!

Thanks for stopping and have a great day!    

The Greeting Farm Guest Designer Monday

Just one more day left until Christmas...are you all ready for the big day tomorrow or are you running out today to do some last minute shopping?   I am done shopping but have a LOT of wrapping to do...and cookies to make!  

This past week has been full of adventure....we had a really bad snowstorm with blizzard warnings, the kids got a snow day (fun) and we lost power (thankfully it was only for a few hours).  Then to top it off, after our power came back on my computer decided it was done and will not turn on at all...I knew it was coming, but was holding out as long as possible to replace it although I think Santa will be bringing us a new one ;)  In the meantime I am making due on my daughter's laptop (when she isn't on it).  

For my first card I used Sadie in a monochromatic color scheme:

I kept it pretty simple with embossed paper, some ribbon, twine, a button and snowflake charm.  I'm thinking I may use this one as a winter birthday card but I'm not sure, so I didn't add a sentiment.

My second card uses James:

I wanted the card to say "Wishing you a Cool Yule" (because James is just too cool in his leather jacket) but I didn't get it printed before we lost power so, I decided to look through my stamps and found something similar to that.  I love the brown snowflake ribbon I found in my stash just adds the right touch.  

While coloring these two images, I noticed a few of my E color family markers are starting to run out of ink....no fun coloring that way!  I guess it's time to buy some re-inkers since there is no place local that refills Copics anymore!

Well, I'm off, lots to do to prepare for Santa's arrival.  I hope you all enjoy the holiday with your family and friends!  

Merry Christmas!

The Greeting Farm Guest Designer Monday

Happy Monday everyone!   I don't know about you, but for me the past week just flew by and I expect this week will too with everything going on.  I can't believe Christmas Eve is just a week away....how is it that you know it's coming, but nevertheless it always seems to sneak up on you?   Or maybe it's just me ;)
      

The music store that my girls take guitar lessons at happens to be in the same strip mall as a Dollar Store, so each week I tend to walk down there to see if anything catches my eye.  This past week I happened to find a black picture frame with a little mirror section in it and thought it would be cute to make something for my daughter's locker and this is what I came up with:

I chose the colors based on the inside of my daughter's locker ~  black and white zebra print paper with accessories in hot pink, black and lime green.  Anya Styles was the perfect image for this project!  I colored her with copics and paper pieced parts of her outfit.  To add some sparkle I added a little glitter to her phone, purse charm and boots.  I finished the frame off with a few black rhinestones in each corner and 3 in between the image section and the mirror (unfortunately they don't show up too well in the picture).  I also wanted something on it to hold lip gloss (because what teenager doesn't like lip gloss) so I adhered matching ribbon to the side adding velcro to it so the size can be adjusted to accommodate different sized lip glosses.  To make it usable for her locker, I added a few extra strong magnets on the back side. 

After I made this, I wished I had bought another frame as I thought it would also be cute as a wall hanging necklace holder by adding a few small black hooks to the bottom.  If they have anymore of these left this week, I'll pick up a few and give it a try.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic day!          

The Greeting Farm Guest Designer Monday

Happy Monday everyone! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around my house.   We had our decorations up in time for St Nick and put the tree up over the weekend.  I have stacks of boxes that UPS delivered during the week that need to be wrapped and we had our first snowfall yesterday (only about an inch though).  I love how a fresh coat of snow looks on the ground and on the trees, but truth be told, I absolutely hate driving in it!  If it could just snow in the grassy areas and not the streets/driveways I'd be happy ;)

Speaking of Christmas and snow, my first card features Holiday Anya II and a few snowflakes.  

Anya was colored with copics and I paper pieced her dress, ribbon and shoes, highlighting those with copics as well.  On the snowflakes I added some glitter for a little extra sparkle.  Since it is a Christmas card, it fits in with last weeks FFF challenge Christmas or Holiday Themed Card.  If you still have Christmas/Holiday cards to make, there is still a few days left to play in that challenge and we'd love to see them!

For this card I would like to enter the following challenges:
Creatalicious Challenges - Winter
Charisma Cardz - Christmas
Craft Challenge - Christmas
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Merry Christmas
Delightful Challenges - Christmas
Frosted Designs - On the 4th Day of Christmas - use 4 patterned papers
Fussy and Fancy - I Love Christmas
One Stop Craft Challenge - Christmas Friends
Paper Play - Christmas is Coming
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Snowflakes
The Ribbon Girl - Christmas Projects

Now in a totally different direction....this card reminds me of summer time with the bright colors. 

I wanted to use last weeks DTT challenge of "It's a Rainbow", so I chose Twinkle Bean.  The "Beans" are really fun to give different colored hair to, and although I usually stick to blue or pink, I decided to go all out and color it in rainbow colors.  To keep the rainbow theme throughout, I stamped the background paper and colored the rhinestones in matching colors.  It's a bit different than what I'd usually do, but I think it's whimsical and fun!  There is still a bit of time to play along in this challenge (ends today), so if you have some free time, we'd love to see what you come up with!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenge:
Frosted Designs - On the 2nd day of Christmas - use 2 stamps (image and chevron)    

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Surprise....I'm a guest designer for The Greeting Farm!!!

I am so excited to announce that I am a Guest Designer for The Greeting Farm this month.  Ever since I saw the adorable Anya and Ian stamps I was hooked.  I bought a few singles (if I remember correctly it was Rockstar Anya, Cheer Anya, and Skater Ian).  Since that time my collection has grown by leaps and bounds.  It has been a crafty goal of mine to be on the Design Team for The Greeting Farm, so when Jess asked me it was a dream come true!  Thank you so much Jess and Marie for allowing me to be a part of the farm this month!

For today's post I used Holiday Anya II.  She is so cute and I love that ribbon wrapped around her!  Not only is she great for Christmas cards, but I think she would be adorable on a New Years card or even a Birthday card! 
  

I colored Anya with my copics and cut her out so I could use the snowflake paper as a background.  Speaking of patterned paper, I think I may have set a personal record, I used 6 different ones on this card.  While I was cutting the papers I noticed one of the designs had "Merry Christmas" in the lower right corner, so I decided to use that as my sentiment.  The button bow in the corner was made by threading some ribbon through a button, tying that in a bow and then sewing it to the bottom ribbon that I had made into a partial bow.  

I hope you enjoyed my first card and come back again next week to see what I have to show you.

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

I used the sketch from The Deconstructed sketch for my card.        

Christmas Elf

Here is a Christmas card I made using Holly's Stocking, a cute digi from The Digi Garden:   

I colored Holly with copics and added glitter to the "furry" pieces of her outfit.  On her stocking I added some polka dots with a white gel pen.  The green ribbon was from a gift box.  I added another ribbon to that, along with a button and the sentiment (which has a rhinestone for the dot of the letter i in Christmas).   

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge - For the Girls
ABC Christmas Challenge - Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Santa or someone dressed in a Santa hat)
Christmas Stampin All Year Long - Photo inspiration (colors, layers)
Moving Along with the Times - Seeing Red
Nutcrafters - Glitter and Gems
Pile it On - For a Child
Simon Says - Anything Goes

Whoopsie Daisy - Sparkle and Shine

Now, the winner of my giveaway for the Latte Anya Stamp using Random.org

is:  Stephanie.  Congrats!  Please contact me via email with your mailing information by Oct. 6.

Recipe : 
Stamps:   Holly's Stocking - The Digi Garden; Sentiment - CC Designs
Ink/Coloring:  Cranberry Crisp,  Copics 
Paper:  Cranberry Crisp; Neenah Solar White; DP - K & Co  
Embellishments:   Ribbons (Cranberry Crisp - SU / Green Ribbon recycled from a gift box); Button; Martha Stewart Glitter; Rhinestone (Recollections)    
Tools/Misc: Border Punch 
 
Have a great day :)