So Exciting!!!

OH MY GOODNESS!

Have been so excited about today. Can you believe that I get to play with the Design Team from THE GREETING FARM today! How exciting is that? What an awesome team to be playing with. This is my effort. The challenge is to case the card shown.

On Saturday, the Greeting Farm girls joined us at Bugaboo for our Animal Antics challenge and today is our turn to join in with them. More details about the Casing challenge can be found over at CATCH THE BUG or at the FARM FRESH CHALLENGE BLOG. This is the card to CASE:

As you can see, I used the birthday embossing folder. I stuck to the green colour scheme too. I used the Freaky Flutter image which I have been eying up for a long time so it was great to be able to work with it on such a special project. 

Also entering this card into the following challenges:

Pixie Dust ~ Happy Birthday     Flutter By Wednesday ~ Open (with Butterfly)

Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Birthday     Pollycraft ~ Girls, Girls, Girls

There's Magic In The Air ~ Halloween Colour     The Crafty Pad ~ Monochromatic

Anyone for Anya - Stitch It

STITCH IT is the theme over at Anyone for Anya? this week and Paper Sundae have also got STITCHING as their theme. Am entering this card into both. I have used Kraft Card as the base (which I seem to be doing a lot of now) and layered on some blue cardstock which I got from the Papermill. The blue matches the Agean Promarker perfectly and I tend to use them a lot!

Simply stamped Surfer Ian onto the white linen cardstock. I was suprised how well the coloures blended on this as I thought the texture may have been an issue. The sentiment is from a SU set. I then went ahead with some faux stitching around the edge. A TIP ~ wait for the ink to dry before picking it up! Managed to smudge it and the black on my fingers have resulted in thumb marks :(

Remember to come back tomororow as I'll be showing a card as part of the La La Land Beach Bash and you could win some brill prizes simply by coming by here.

A load of ATCs

Today I've been catching up on my ATCs. I have made three lots altogether.

The first two sets are for ATC SWAPPERS (my swap, where we are always happy to welcome new swappers, visit the blog for more details). This month there are two themes 'Yellow and Black' and/or 'Red and Black'. Swappers can choose one of the themes or do both - I've made some for both!!!

The Yellow and Black ones are made using a Digi from the Greeting Farm's Chibi Range. I think these images are great and quite unique.

I've used Pink Petticoat's Frillie Millie for my Red and Black set. The doodling hasn't come out in the pic so they look a little bare here.

The final set are for Addicted to ATC swap. The theme is Spring Colours. I chose the colours from the colour pallette they have on the blog. The image is a Bugaboo reebie this week and came just in time. Visit HERE to get your own copy (there's also another freebie there of a boy with a football). I got a bit carried away here too. Forgot that the swap is for 3 ATCs and not 4!!! Oops. Anyway, means I get to keep one myself - but which one, a brown rabbit or a white one?

I Love Digi Challenge #1 ~ Think Pink

WOOHOO!!!

It's the first of the 'I LOVE DIGI' Challenges! Our very first theme is

'Think Pink'

I tried to stay away from the traditional cutesy baby pink and instead went for a very bright rock chick look. The image is a digi download from the Greeting Farm Chibi Range. I think these are great for those early teen cards which can be difficult to make.


The sponsor for our very first challenge is THE STAMPING BOUTIQUE and their prize is 5 Digi Images of the winners choice.

Remember to check out the rest of the DT Members to see their work too:

Elaine - Leader
Callie Bev Karin Dee Poppy Mel Jane

And also our Guest Designer too:
Jane

So go ahead, make it, post it, link it with Mr Linky on the I LOVE DIGI site and join in the fun.

Hippy Anya

I made this card for two challenges- Anyone for Anya which was a sketch (have a look below) and Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge (hearts). The colour scheme is based around the DSP from Stampin Up 'Sunny Days' Simply Scrappin Kit - Pink Passion, Old Olive and Tempting Turquoise and Pumpkin Pie. I've used my Cuttlebug Embossing folder to emboss some hearts onto the turquoise panel.

ATC Swappers -Tearing

I was looking at the ATCs I made for this months tearing theme at ATC SWAPPERS that I made a couple of weeks ago and decided I didn't like them and that I'd start again! Anyone else to this sometimes? I wanted to use my GF images and so looked at the Farm Fresh Friday challenge which was monochromatic. You could colour in your image and them only use one colour for your papers/embellishments - obviously I chose GREEN. I made Edward a red head in these my using terracota and red Promarkers - a colour combo that I quite liked the result of and will use again. The papers are Mellow Moss (level 1 pack) from Stampin Up.

Anyone for Anya - Heart for Heart's Sake

The theme over at Anyone for Anya is Heart for Heart's Sake. You must include hearts in your work. This digi image was perfect for the theme. Just to show the size of the image, here's a pic of an A5 piece of cardstock with 2 of the images printed.

Here's a close up of the coloured image.

And finally the card. I have used my new Elzybells cardstock for this. The front has been trimmed down the right hand side so that it is shorter than the back so as to show the stamped hearts border (which was stamped with Elzybells ink too).

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #67

Yep, I've still been colouring my new images and they're a lot of fun to do so and a second post for today - so unlike me (check out the first post HERE). It's a shame the light has disappeared and I'm having to rely on the flash and it dilutes the colour a bit. Anyway, here's Ebony (a digi download once again)


Challenge 67 over at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge is a colour combo based on this picture. I've used the cushions as inspiration for the clothes.


The sofa was the inspiration for the brown backing card until I noticed afterwards that it is in fact more of a burgundy colour - I hope my card still counts! There's some brown wood if that counts instead?

Promarkers were used to colour Ebony and the papers are from Stampin Up - Perfect Plum and Old Olive.

My First Greeting Farm Card

I've been wanting to get my hands on some of the Greeting Farm images for a while and yesterday I finally took the plunge and ordered 4 stamps! Then this morning I found out that they also do Digi Stamps - well I tested the water by ordering 2 of them. Well, it was so easy and such value for money that I ordered another 3!!! As soon as I downloaded them, the door bell rang and there was the postman holding a package of stamps that I'd ordered yesterday - so in a space of an hour I went from owning none of these images to owning 9.

I've had a play with two so far - my Edward rubber stamp and my Soccer Anya digi stamp. What I like about the digi stamps is that the size can be altered. I printed two Soccer Anyas onto an A5 piece of card. I think this will be the size I'll use the most. I really like how the brown hair has turned out but can't remember the coulours I used! Using Windows Picture Viewer, I'll be able to print a variety of images easily - whole pages of the same or mixing and matching - how exciting! To show the diference in size between the ones I've been playing with today, I've placed Edward between the two Anyas.

I used the Anya on the left to make this card for the Anyone for Anya? Challenge. The theme was to use Black and White and one other colour. I chose to use RED for mine. The black and white theme goes well with the football too. The card blank is a digi image too from a Cuddly Buddly set I purchased many moons ago.

It's not obvious in the picture above that it's a card so I took a picture from slightly above too to show how it works. Anya is acting as a stand to keep it up.

Seeing as both the image and the card itself are digi images, I thought I'd also use this to apply for the I LOVE DIGI CHALLENGE design team. I originally had a whole other project in mind for that which I may still finish and show here.