Hope and Grace sing for Anya Ink

So the challenge this week at Anya Ink is to have Printed Paper (DSP) on it somewhere.... well I have used one double sided DSP (Samantha - Ivy double sided textured) I just had to buy a paper named Samantha - lol!

I paper pieced this gorgeous Greeting Farm stamp - aint she sweet!

I Made some butterflies and a flower from the same DSP and added some sparkle too!

Thanks for stopping by!

dolls for Del

I wanted to make a special present for a young friend, and decided to make some paper dolls...
I drew these 3 little girlies on the computer, I think they are pretty cute and might even use them again! lol....


I printed them and coloured them with my copics...laminated and then was having trouble with the clothing. Guy suggested they might be better as magnetic girls/ clothes....and he was right.
Here is the final product - printed on magnetic paper and coloured with Copics (it's hard to blend the copics as the surface is so shiny and the ink dries VERY quickly - but it worked ok)!

Geisha Anya stops by.

Morning friends.... where does the week go?? I have been doing lots of organisation for our church camp this weekend and between that and the rest of life have not been around a lot ... my best intentions of visiting all my blogging friends and leaving some "love" behind has not happened yet. but I'm hoping today and tomorrow to get around the blogland traps.

Suddenly it's Thursday again..... oooh... that means I'm up to post my Stamp Spot creation.
Here is the card I made for the blog this week!



Marcia sent the DT another lovely bundle of goodies this month!!
Scrummy papers and then some "challenging?!? other bits and pieces".

I decided to use this Sassafrass Lass Beatnik Bud and with helpful advice from Guy put it alongside Geisha Anya (THANKS Deb for sending me this image!) I really do LOVE these Kaisercraft hideaway rubons and they fit the florally theme brilliantly so on they went!

I think the papers are gorgeous too - check out the Stamp spot blog for direct links to the shop where you can buy them and there is still a paper sale on so go check it out!!

This is not my usual colour choices and thus I'm still deciding what I think of this card myself!

thanks for looking and thanks for bearing with me in my sporadic posting and visiting!

xxx

Hanna does some gardening

Hi there! long time..no blog! I have not been very well these last few days and in a bit of a black hole too....but am feeling a bit better today so here I am!
Well on Thursday I managed to post my weekly entry on the Stamp Spot but did not get it on here as well...so in case you did not see it there Here it is!

I used Garden Hanna from Hanna stamps!

The thing I love about the Hanna sheets from Hanna Stamps is the little accessories that come along with it*! I have used three of these at the bottom of the card!
The paper I used is October Afternoon - Cherry Hill --> It's a lovely double sided sheet that co-ordinates perfectly!I had to add some rhinestone bling too!
ALL AVAILABLE at the Stamp Spot store

*The smaller stamps work well to decorate the inside of a card or the corner of an envelope (as below)!


Pop on by the Stamp Spot and see what wonderful creations the other DT ladies have been making! There are some REAL stunners there!!

Thanks for looking and I do hope to pop by all your blogs in the next days!! xxx

Anya Ink :: CHALLENGE # ONE!!!

This card was made for the brand new challenge blog... ANYA INK!!
(an Australian based challenge site for all The Greeting Farm fans out there).
There will be a new challenge posted every Sunday! yay!!
Also.... if you LOVE the Greeting farm stamps and join in for the month of October you could be the new Design Team member for Anya Ink....
Anyway, so for the first challenge - Marcia and Tracey have asked us to:

• Create something with Pink and Brown (with white or cream if needed).
  

  Here is my attempt:
  

This gorgeous little girly is Gardening Anya from the Rock the Farm stamp set - I purchased her from the Stamp Spot.... if you are in the land downunder also... you can get your Greeting Farm stamps from The Stamp Spot too!

Isn't brown and pink the loveliest combo - I think so!!! lol!
See you tomorrow!

Bizzy Becs Creatalicious challenges :: Colour combination + lace challenge

I've finally got a card made for Bizzy Becs Creatalicious challenge. They have asked us to "make a creation with this colour combo pink or plum, with burgundy and green.Also add some sort of lace,ribbon or fibre etc."
The Design Team has done an Awesome job with their creations .. .very inspirational. Pop on over and check them out HERE!

Here is my card ...

I had to add a couple of other colours in too.... as I did not have the exact papers I needed.
I used Basic Grey + Creative Memories paper, Whiff of Joy stamped image (Thanks Cheryl!),

Thanks for looking,

Gorjuss girl jumps into Gayle's Sugarbowl sketch

Here is my card for the current Sugarbowl challenge....
which is to follow Gayle's sketch AND to include paper piecing!



I used my crafter's license to change the card shape to a rectangle not a square :)
Pop on by the Sugarbowl and check out the wonderful DT creations!
Thanks for looking.

Happy Birthday George!!!

Today is the birthday of a good friend of mine - Georgina!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE!!!!

Here is the card I made for her! I wanted to make something a bit more special than a normal card so I used this gatefold tutorial of Beate's which was Great!


My friend loves ferrets - she is 'mum' to two lively little ferrets and loves them to bits... so I really wanted to include some ferrets on the card .. I found lots of photos on the net and then drew a couple on my Wacom tablet ... they are not brilliant but they pass as ferrets I think! :D
I also used 2 gorjuss girls from Sugar Nellie as the stamps - coloured green of course as that's George's fav. colour!

inside view:

half opened:

back view:
I wrote a little acrostic poem --->

took quite a while to make overall but I was pretty pleased with the end result!
Thanks for looking!

Papercraft Festival

I met up with my friend T today and we went to the Papercraft Festival at Canterbury Racecourse! It was a good day.... here we are at the end of our shopping expedition....

We worked out what we wanted to get and then split pretty much everything in half :)
so we sat at this table to divide our loot... as I was taking photos a lady came over and asked if I could take a photo of her there (as her scrapbook albums have pages of everyone but no photos of her in them!) .. .so then she took a photo for us too! thanks :D

Here's a pile of my loot once I got home... mm... lots to play with!
I also picked up T's old heat gun - yay - and some images she embossed + some paper she cut up for me! Wow - how lucky am I!
THANKS T :)

My post for the Stamp Spot this week!

Today is the 1st October, so there are 86 days until Christmas ... plenty of time to get prepared and make your Christmas cards :) There is a range of Christmas stamps available at the Stamp Spot already and so I decided to get in early and make a Christmas card....



I have used Unity Stamp's "Luke 2:14 - Glorious Angel" for the image,
the patterned paper is October Afternoon's Cherry Hill which is a luscious 2 sided paper (although I only used the stripey side for this card). The Merry Christmas is handwritten on an October Afternoon label sticker.

I'm a bit late posting today... oopsie... I only planned to be out this morning but ended up staying out all day! :) Today was a hottie (a real summer day ... so strange at the beginning of Spring).

I'm going here tomorrow....

I'm really looking forward to it! :D Is anyone else going???

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!

Chris is celebrating her birthday with some yummy scrummy candy.... Click the picture to go to her blog for more info :)

CONGRATS MARCIA

Marcia is celebrating her 2nd blogoversary!!! YAY!!
She is offering some lovely candy as a celebration.... pop by her blog to find out more and to see some very gorgeous creations!!!

The Greeting Farm :: Design my sprout

Wow .. I am so chuffed! My little schoolgirl Sandra whom I designed for the Design my Sprout competition made the finalists :)

Pop on over to the Greeting Farm blog and vote for your favourite sprout design today!

This weekend...

will be launching! Yay!

There are two on the design team at the moment, Marcia and Tracey ....
but they will be looking for a third design team member.

So check out Anya ink this Sunday for the very first challenge and to find out more!

FFF :: Cindy's Sketch

I made this card for the Farm Fresh Friday Challenge over at the Greeting Farm blog.
I think Cindy has done an Awesome job of designing this sketch!! There are some GREAT creations from the DT too!

Here is my card:

The papers are Basic Grey and Kaisercraft .... and I used Rain Anya (she's my favourite at the moment)! Thanks for looking!

Angelica's Day Dream

This first card is some kind of personal record for me... I've made a card before that fits 2 challenges but never more than that! So I thought I'd try for more.... Firstly - here's my card:

Now the challenge details:
The current Pile it on challenge is "Let them eat cake! Some kind of pastry on your project"
I got out my Wacom tablet and drew the yummiest pastry I could think of... a croissant!

so piling the other challenges on....
I used the current sketch from Sketch and Stash
the stamp is new, the spotty paper is over one year old :)

Simon says "It's a Stitch up" at the Simon Says Challenge
I included faux stitching (with my trusty multiliner)

Paper Play challenges are asking us to "spot this"
hence the spotty paper and Angelica's spotty socks and headband should work too?!

AND of course Angelica's Day Dream is an Inky Impressions stamp... which takes me back to my starting point.... the Inky Impressions challenge is to include 4 embellishments.
I have 1 brown ribbon, 1 brown flower, 1 pink flower and 1 pink rhinestone!

I did not get my last Inky Impressions challenge Card up in time.... but I thought I'd show it here as I painstakingly hand stitched around the "5"

Thanks for looking! I am off to leave comments for my long neglected blogging buddies.....
See you tomorrow!

Copic Colour Challenge #32

This weeks colours on the Copic Colour challenge are a lovely combination.....

Check out their blog for some lovely cards the DT have made with this combination!!
Here is my attempt:


I used my new Sugar Nellie - Manga images for this card... and have left the top blank so that I can add a sentiment later.... when I decide who to give the card to! Thanks for looking!

crazy hair photos

Yes it WAS purple that I died my hair! :) Here are some photos....

Guy shaved his head for the party too...

the purple should stay for a little while as I bleached it and then put purple fudge in!
It really was just like paint!!

Friday sketchers :: sketch #71

This is my card for Friday Sketchers this week!

Here is their sketch - It's a lovely one and the DT cards are all gorgeous as always - check them out for yourself here...



and here is my card ...


I have used a Gorjuss girl stamp (I got a couple for my birthday - yay!) and this is the 2nd card I've made using a gorjuss stamp - I'll show you the other another time :)

This card is for a friend who has just turned 30 and is having a party to celebrate tonight... the dress/ theme is to wear crazy hair or a hat ... I have died my hair specially ... guess what colour???

Happy Thursday.... Here is my card for THE STAMP SPOT this week:

pop on over there for further details about this card :)

I'll be back later ... hopefully!

Lili's Prayer

Here is another card for you with an Inky Impressions stamp on it...
This little darling is "Lili's Prayer" she's awfully lovely to colour :)



Lili is available from the Stamp Spot as is:
* the paper from Collage Press - Sweet Shoppe Sugar on Top.
* Black Coredinations cardstock - which I ran through my cuttlebug with the script embossing folder ... I sanded the edges and over the embossed surface so that the colour (pink in this case)
* blooms, doiley and rhinestone

I added the little coloured embellishments on top of the doiley to match the spotty paper (these were given to me by my blog friend Arline - thanks hon)

Thanks for looking! I'm off to do some household chores and hopefully some more colouring and crafting (and blog hopping)! Have a great day!! xx


PS. check out the lovely header that Marcia made for me - Isn't it lovely!!!

Cheryl has an awesome blog candy comp running... click on the pic or her name to go and have a looksie! :D