A new beginnings challenge in 3D...

Well Club Anya stumped and surprised me today....they announced my winning the Mystery Monday Challenge then they posted a wonderful 3D Challenge with the theme of New beginnings. Wow I thought and thought hmmm New years...Birthday...baby...ahh a new home...what a great idea for this challenge and I will be making girlfriends gift at the same time...ah killing two birds with one stone...we already ate the turkey here in Canada..lol

So I painted and polka dotted a little birdhouse. I then added some grass and flowers and a few good friends to the outside. I stamped Rock the farm Anya and coloured her in copics. I attached her to the house, attached the perfect saying and a nail to hang the watering can.

I hope she brings some love and happiness for my friend and I must say this was a terrific challenge it really had me thinking off the paper and I liked that.

You can see my post for the challenge here:

http://www.thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/showphoto.php?photo=6764

The rules for the challenge are here and you can get a sneak peak of the new stamps coming out in November....I'm excited..

http://clubanya.blogspot.com/

Edward says Happy Birthday...

My niece's Birthday is coming up and she loves Twilight as do I...so since I had this awesome stamp from Greeting Farm in honour of Edward what better than to have him send a Birthday greeting.

I stamped the image, coloured it in copics in various shades of black and gray of course making sure to keep him pale...I used Martha Stewart's drippy goo punch for the border and her cupcake punch also. I used some stickle, some bling from my stash and a round Birthday sentiment stamp. The candlabra stamp is from Paola last Christmas. I then punched the full moon from some really great patterened paper and there you have it. Thank you for looking.

I did enter him in a challenge here at http://www.thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/showphoto.php?photo=6762

and if you are interested here is the sketch and rules for the challenge...

http://splendidstamping.blogspot.com/2009/10/farm-fresh-friday.html

Sparkly Christmas Advent Calender chips...

I joined a swap to collectively make an advent Calendar. We are all to make 2 dates on chipboard in a 2 by 2 inch square which in the end we all have the 25 dates to make our calendar.

The number was to be in black and since we had to use traditional colours all I could picture was vintage Christmas so here it is...I made 13 of each date..my dates being the 11th and the 23rd. Since it is snowy here and and cold it really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas so grab yourself a Hot chocolate okay and a marshmallow or two...

They have the vintage feel all over the place just as I hoped they would.

I used two images from free vintage clip art on the net.

For the the 11th I cut and adhered the image onto the chipboard. I inked the edges in blue chalk ink. I then stamped the date and used black stickles to make them pop. I then used diamond stickles for all the furry bits on the little child to make them glitter. I put crystal glass on the face to bring out the Rosy cheeks and great expression. I then used some Martha Stewart glitter to sugar coat the edges...I love the result.

The 23rd chip I made I used another free vintage clip art image. I adhered it to the chipboard and then I used crackle accents to cover the kitties. Then I took liquid pearl red to pop some of the berries and stamped the date and again used black stickles over top.

To edge this one I used green sparkles to frame the whole image and really bring it out.

I love the result of my work they remind of Christmas cards from when I was little...thank you for looking...

Mystery Monday Challenge Skater Ian a Superstar .

Oh my gosh I was chosen as the winner in this challenge thankyou to everyone at Club Anya and for all my friends support...I am shocked...these stamps just get my mojo moving and I am honoured to be chosen..thank you Margie and everyone else over at Club Anya...and Greeting Farm stamps for the coolest stamps ever...

I entered this guy in the mystery monday challenge at Club Anya...You can see him over here to http://www.thegreetingfarm.com/galleria/showphoto.php?photo=6688. The rules were as follows:

1.) You MUST use Anya OR Ian (no Sprouts, H/G, etc.) on your card or project to qualify for this Club Anya challenge.

2.) You must use STARS incorporated as part of the focal point of your card (i.e. not just tiny ones in the bg..).

I hope I achieved this...thanks for stopping by...btw I got two thumbs up from my 4 yr old..lol

My Tacky Tourist...

oh what fun this double page layout was to make.

My son and his fashion sense. He really take after his mom. Wear what you like and work it. lol..

I used two kinds of ink on the background paper. Then I cut the arrows and title with the cricut. I adhered green paper behind the title letters and cut around it to make them pop. I matted the photos on white and used a punch for the green corners. I tried to mimic his sweater with the border on the left and I used deco scissors for all the different edges. I love the paper pieced camera I made to match the one he is using...some film and say cheese printed off the computer onto transparency with some rub ons. Of course some stickles, sequins, and liquid pearls to bring it all home...thanks for stopping in.

Peace, Love and Greeting Farm Stamps...

This is H& G Peace from the Greeting Farm stamps. I think she is adorable. I saw this stamp and new I had to tye dye a coffee filter with ink for the background to showcase this cutie. I used copics to colour her and I purposely made her a little dirty...those hippies back then were usually dirty..lol...I embossed and stamped some mushrooms and added a metal one to. Some inking, a cute frog mini stamp for the background and I used appliques because there were never enough of those back then...The stick is a real twig, some stickles, and a few well placed plastic embellishments and flowers and there you have it...my version of H&G Peace.

Peace Love& Happiness everyone....la la la la live for today....

no more lollipops...

yep no more to make that is. Wow that was one huge swap I participated in. 42 yep forty two lollipop flowers...here they are in all their glory with little friend sitting in the middle. I made three different slight variations of them per each person....hope they like them...now to package the lollipop flowers...