Sweet Summertime

It's a miracle!

I'm here today and I DON'T have a Christmas card to share!

After a long Summer vacation entertaining the kiddos, they are back in school.

I used some of my new found free time to hop on over to the local scrapbook store, and stumbled upon this ADORABLE patterned paper by Little Yellow Bicycle.  It's part of the "Sweet Summertime" collection.

Of course I had to pair it up with this Greeting Farm cutie from the Creeper Kit.  The TGF Farm Fresh Challenge Blog is running a challenge called "Button it Up", so I paper pieced her hat and added a little green button.  And would you believe that I actually had ribbon with lemon slices on it?!  Who knew?!  I love discovering things in my stash!

That's it for me today. 

 I'm off to hang out with the 3rd graders :-)

She's out of your league

Well, the kids are definitely keeping me busy this summer, but I had to sneak in some much needed "me time"!  I just got this beauty from The Greeting Farm and have been dying to ink her up.  To get a little inspiration, I decided to play along with a couple of challenges on this one.

Farm Fresh Challenge Blog - "Get Sentimental"

The Deconstructed Sketch - current sketch #6 (love it!)

The black card base is a 5.25" square and the patterned paper is by Creative Imaginations.

After I adhered the patterned paper, I wrapped some gold cord around the card front.

Then I added these fun green glitter leaves by Jolee's.  They're super SPAR-KA-LAY and remind me of seaweed.  To finish it off, I added a sentiment from the TGF Creeper Set. 

Since the Farm Fresh Challenge involved a sentiment, I tried to be clever.  I was thinking, leagues of water, out of your league......get it? 

A little mermaid humor....

Thanks bunches for stopping by today!

I'll be back tomorrow with a HUGE digi release from Pink Cat Studio!

Babes In Toyland

Are you all enjoying Summer vacation so far?  The kiddos and I have been keeping very busy and have a whole list of fun things to do before school starts in August.

Today I've got a brand new challenge posted over at the CSAYL blog.  Be sure to hop on over to check out all of the samples from the design team.  The challenge this week is "Babes In Toyland" - make a holiday card for a munchkin who's on your "nice list".

Here's what I came up with...

This is Jack from The Greeting Farm - love him!

The sentiment is from the "Got Treats" set by SU.

I added some silver eyelets for fun....and because I have about 300 of them.

That's it for me today.

I'll be back next week with another fun project I made for teacher appreciation week.

Have a fab weekend!

Winter Fairy

I needed a special card for a very special person in my life and here's what came up with.

This sexy little fairy is a digital image from The Greeting Farm called "Winter Fairy".  Instead of Winter colors, I decided to go with bright Spring colors.  I used several patterns from BasicGrey and lots of glittery flowers from K & Company.

After this little hottie was all colored in, I used a glitter pen and outlined her wings.  Is there anything better than a glitter pen??

And as usual, I finished it off with a rub-on sentiment.

Hope you're having a great week! 

I'll be back on Friday with a new challenge from CSAYL.  Don't forget that there's still time to play along with our current challenge!

Cheeky Chat

Have you checked out the challenges over at the new Farm Fresh Challenge Blog?  Great stuff people - check it out!  I just got this little beauty in the mail and had to ink her up right away!

She's called "Cheeky Chat" and is seriously cute, no?

This week one of the challenges over at Farm Fresh was to "case" this card.  I haven't played along with this type of challenge before, but had fun with it.  I peeked at some of the other entries and it's amazing to see how many different interpretations there are of the sample card.

I used some bright fun patterns from the "Sweet" collection by DCWV and finished it off with a rub-on sentiment.

Thanks for poppin' by today.  Have a happy Monday!

In With the New

Lots of new things going on at The Greeting Farm and they're kicking it off with a challenge called "In With the New". 

Here's what I made using Tyler from the brand new Creeper set. 

It's the boy version of a card I made last week and I just love how it came out.

I paper pieced his shirt with the same crazy pattern I used on the background.  Then I did some piercing and finished it off with some bright yellow jewels.

Thanks for stopping by!

Meet Miss Harlow

Still playing with my new Creepin' Creeper Crew Collection from The Greeting Farm.

(Wow - say that 5 times fast, creepin' creeper crew collection, creepin' creep....)

This is Harlow...

I fell in love with this crazy pattern by Crate Paper when I was at the scrapbook store yesterday. It's part of the "snow day" collection. The brown pattern is the reverse side and I paired it all up with some Elegant Eggplant and a touch of Bermuda Bay cardstock.

To make everything matchy-matchy, I paper pieced her hoodie and finished it off with some ribbon and jewels.

Thanks hoppin' over to my corner of blog-land today! Be sure to check out the details of my latest challenge over at CSAYL. We have an awesome sponsor and freebies this week!

Hugs,

Monochromatic Creeper

Did anyone else order the Ginormous Creeper Kit from The Greeting Farm?  I absolutely fell in love with those creepy little kiddos and had to have them when they were on special pre-order on March 1st!  I got them in the mail soon after, but never got around to opening them because of everything going on in Japan with my hubby's family. 

Well, we got some fantastic news over the weekend - the cousin and wife that have been missing since the quake and tsunami were finally tracked down and found to be alive and well!!  It's simply amazing that they survived and we're so thrilled!  We also got word on the rest of our dear friends out there and everyone is fine!  It's such a relief and so wonderful to finally have some good news to tell our kiddos.

After hearing all of the good news this weekend, my crafting mojo returned and I spent lots of time in my workshop playing with my creepy new goodies. 

The Greeting Farm has a monochromatic challenge going on, and I thought this little cutie would be perfect.

This is Jill...and she's super sassy.

I left some parts of the image white, and then colored over them with a glitter pen.  They're super SPAR-KA-LAY in person!

I used a double-sided pattern by American Crafts, a rub-on sentiment and embellished with white flowers, black leaves, buttons and ribbon.  The only color that I used on the card was some blue ink for her eyes.

Thanks for stopping by today to peek at my latest creation. 

I'm off to go do our taxes - don't be jealous.

Distressed Thursday on a Monday

This is Thursday.Isn't she super cute?!
Club Anya is having a distressing challenge and I wanted to ink up this Greeting Farm cutie and play along.

These are the two items that I always use when distressing...
I used the Heidi Swapp tool along the edges of all the cardstock and then sponged on some Creamy Caramel ink.

Even though this card is distressed, and inked, and torn, and ragged, I still had to add some "girly" touches like ribbon and flowers.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Wednesday on a Monday

I got a big fat package from the Greeting Farm over the weekend! I ordered lots of cuties, but my favorite by far is Wednesday. I inked her up right away and came up with this...I used Mojo's sketch from last week and was also able to incorporate a few other challenges into this card.
Two Peas - make a thank you card
Color Me Copic - grass technique
Wild Flower Patch - polka dots (I used tiny pink polka dots to make my flowers and there's polka dots on the patterned paper behind the main image)

Oh my gosh....she's the cutest!
And check out this super creepy skull embellishment.

My creepy friend Gloria makes these out of polymer clay! She had dozens of them in her workshop and I claimed a handful as my own.

That's it for me today. Thanks bunches for stopping by!

Greeting Farm Turns 2!

Happy Birthday to The Greeting Farm! In honor of their big day, they're doing a blog hop, and it's a big one! If you'd like to start at the beginning, click here.

I know there are A LOT of blogs to hop through today, so I'll keep it short and sweet! Today I picked two of my favorite Greeting Farm cards that I've made recently.

First up is this sassy little number... I paper pieced her teeny tiny outfit to match the background paper and then popped up the whole image on dimensionals. The rub-on sentiment says "hello babycake" which I thought went perfectly with the image.

Next up is sweet little Stella...

Black, white and red is always a good combo. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the white panels and finished it off with some of my favorite polka dot ribbon.

I hope you like what you've seen here.
Have fun on the rest of the hop and stop by again sometime!