Year of the Rooster!

Happy Chinese New Year!  2017 is the Year of the Rooster- my year!

It wouldn't be new years without some handmade lucky envelopes for my kids, niece's & nephew!

I pulled out my favorite animal set to make these, Lunar Animals & Lunar Extras from Mama Elephant!



I originally intended for them to be much simplier, but it just wouldn't come together for me- so I created this sweet scene!

I used a Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Tag die and stamped the flower branch & rooster, colored with copics. I made the mini envelope using my envelope punch board and layered red glitter paper under the tag. It was still missing *something*... I die cut the flag (basic stitched flag) and stamped & gold embossed the, "Gong Hay Fat Choy" sentiment too look like a traditional New Years banner hanging from the tree branch! I finished them off with another rooster on the back mounted with foam tape so the flap of the envelope tucks under it.

Copics:
Rooster: E23, E25, E27, B37, Y35, R37, R46
branches: E53, E55, E57, RV00, RV02, RV06, YG61, YG63, YG67

Wishing you all a Prosperous & Happy New Year!

Flying by to say...

BOO!

There's a new Tiddly Inks Challenge going on and it's SPOOKALICIOUS!

I used this new witch Molly image (that you can get as a two-some, with another Halloween Molly- I used her here!)



My finished card is TOTALLY not what I originally had in mind when I started coloring her, I had a big ink blob fall right next to her foot! So I fussy cut her out and layered her with some Halloween themed patterned paper, die cut tags- the purple tag I embossed using a Tim Holtz/Sizzix embossing folder, and adhered Molly using some foam tape. The sentiment is two stamps from a Hero Arts Halloween sentiment set (doesn't look like it's available anymore), I cut the words apart after I stamped them, inked up the edges a bit so it wasn't so white compared to the rest of the card, and adhered those on top of some random strips of glittery black washi tape.

Copics: 
skin: G20, G21, G24
hair: E44. E47, E49, V04
dress/hat: N3, N5, N7, V04, V06, V09

I hope to see you join in on the SPOOKALICIOUS challenge! Thanks for stopping by!!

You're Kind of Amazing...

Hello!

Happy Saturday! Sorry my blogging has been so out of sorts lately... (lots of sickness going around my house right now- blech!)

I've still found some time to get crafty while participating in Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Coloring Challenge! I've been 26/26 days so far (with a few make up days).. I've been posting them on Instagram and on my Facebook page, I'd love for you to follow me! :)

Anyway onto my card for today, I colored this a few days ago (Day 20) for the challenge and thought it would make a perfect birthday card for my husband! It also happened to be a perfect match for the latest sketch on CAS(E) this Sketch!



I used the super adorable giraffe from WPlus9, Party Animal, and thought it would be fun to put the giraffe IN the balloon!



I mounted my tag (from Pretty Pink Posh- my favorite!) onto the polka dot embossing background by We R Memory Keepers and called it done!

Thanks for stopping by- Enjoy your weekend!

All I want is...

EWE!

Back again with another Valentine card this week! Was catching up on my blog reading and video/periscope watching that made me feel a bit inspired and crafty!

I knew I wanted to join in on the newest Lawnscaping Challenge- WATERCOLOR!



I had an idea of what I wanted to do, but it was a matter of digging through my Lawn Fawn stash to figure out what to use. Since my holiday craft time was a limited (sick hubs & kiddies...boo!), I had to come up with a way to use the Baaah Humbug set other than for Christmas... I just love these little sheep!



I kept my card simple and used a few Distress Ink colors for my background (Spun Sugar, Abandoned Coral, Picked Raspberry) as well as the lil sheep too! (Pumice Stone, Tattered Rose) I masked off and stamped the sentiments from the set to make my own cute cheeky one- they were, "all I want for" and "Christmas is ewe."  Finally I added a few Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins, used a few layers of foam tape to add some dimension and mounted it all on the embossed card base.

I'm also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Create with Critters!

Thanks for stopping by,,, I hope ewe all have a fabulous Friday and weekend! (& hoping those on the East coast stay warm and safe!

I Love You & Coffee

Ok, back again (last time... for today!) Post #3 for me!

I'm just having too much fun with all these coffee cards! Surprisingly, at least for me, this is probably the most I've been able to participate compared to the previous hops!



A few weeks ago, I had colored this awesome coffee pot from Sweet Stamp Shop and stuck him on a little tag - my favorite one from Pretty Pink Posh (posted to my instagram) and finally managed to put it on a card! I found some cute Fall patterned paper scraps in my stash and made this card pretty simple.



OK.. so I think that's it for me this time around for entries for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! (have you SEEN all the fabulous sponsors????) But it IS still early in the week...

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks!

A quick card to share a Thank You card my mom asked me to make...

I paired Avery Elle's Petals & Stems with the Thanks diecut from Mama Elephant, finished off with some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and came up with this!



I just love these colorful doilies I found at Michaels too, I wanted to keep the card clean and simple and the doily made it easy to throw in a pop of color!

Hope you are having a fabulous week!

{Dino} Easter Egg Wreath!

Couldn't let this week pass by without sneaking in another Easter card!

I love seeing festive holiday wreaths hanging year round and while browsing Pinterest and my blog reader came up with this fun idea for an Easter card!

Using the Spring/Easter theme and colors from the latest Sparkle & Shine Challenge's inspiration photo



and the sketch Deconstructed Sketch No. 195



I came up with this!



The eggs and the 'Easter' sentiment are from Lawn Fawn's Critters from the Past & Happy Everything sets, the Happy die cut is from Simon Says Stamp, sequins & die cut tag from Pretty Pink Posh of course!

I also added some sparkle using my Wink of Stella pen- hard to see in the photo above so I tried to get a better shot here...



Hope you all have a wonderful Easter holiday weekend!

Unforgettable!

I'm popping in to share a card I made for the new Sparkle and Shine Challenge! This week's challenge was a sketch... and you all know how much a love a sketch! :)



I've also been playing along with The Daily Marker (Kathy R's) 30 Day Coloring Challenge, which makes it so nice already having images colored and ready to go!

I colored this sweet elephant (yes another elephant!) from WPlus9's Unforgettable set! They are just too cute & fit perfectly for my take on the sketch along with the tag die & sequins from Pretty Pink Posh...



Thanks for stopping by!

Hello Ellie!

It's easy to say that I have found myself completely OBSESSED will all these cute elephants that have been released lately... they newest one from Avery Elle just arriving in my mailbox over the weekend- I couldn't wait to play with her!

So, I'm squeezing in just under the deadline for the Stripes Challenge at AEI♥U challenge!



With some washi tape, I masked off some lines, used distress inks to create a stripe pattern and stamped the little flower from the set in create a random background, added some more patterned washi tapes, and die cut the tag shape at an angle...



Added the sweet elephant and sentiment, also from Avery Elle's We R Family and called it done! (oh, and we can't forget about the sequins too of course!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Baked with Love ♥

Happy Friday!!

Popping in to share one of 2 cards I made for the new challenge over at Anya, Oddies & Others- it's another easy one- Anything Goes!

Using the newly released "Baked with Love" stamp set, I masked an stamped a cute little scene to watercolor with Distress Inks. (I colored this other day as apart of Kathy from The Daily Marker's 30-day Coloring challenge)



It's a little hard to see in the photo, but I also randomly stamped the cupcakes, candle, & hearts from the same set in Distress Inks on the kraft background and slightly smudged the edges in the same ink. Die-cut tag is my favorite one from Pretty Pink Posh!

I'm also playing along with the Distress Addicts challenge at Lawnscaping!



Thanks for stopping by!

Hedgie-Hugs!

It's a busy blog day today!

I'm back again for my Lawn Fawn category over at Anya, Oddies & Others! You can check out my first card using The Greeting Farm here- or just keep scrolling down :)

While I had my favorite critters out for the Lawn Fawn card I posted earlier this week (see post here)  I came up with another card with the simply adorable Hedgehugs stamp set!

The options to play along for Lawn Fawn are:

* color RED
* word KISS
* HEART
* GLITTER/SPARKLES

and remember you just have to use at least one of those to join in! You can find the details HERE!


Using Quinn's abcs I stamped out the letters to alternate and spell 'kiss' and 'love!' I also used my still favorite tag die from Pretty Pink Posh, stamped & colored those adorable hedgies, and of course added some sparkly sequins & washi tape to finish off my card!

I also joining in the fun with Simon Says Stamps's Anything Goes Wednesday challenge this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Tags!

Just popping in to share some Christmas gift tags I made for my nieces, nephew, & son!

Elena drew and shared this adorable kids in pajamas that I thought would be perfect for the kids in my family! And one of my most favorite things about digis is that you can resize them to any size you need! I resized them roughly from oldest to smallest and colored them in their favorite colors...













Again, I used the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched tag die and attached them to the gifts with washi tape so they could keep them.

I also made this cute tag to put on a gift for a friend- I just love these cute Lawn Fawn critters!



Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Sweet 16!

Hello! Happy Friday!

Hope all of you that celebrate had a wonderful Christmas holiday! Mine was filled with lots of food, family & fun!

Sadly, it's the last Friday of the year which means that my term with The Greeting Farm is coming down to an end :( I'm the last to host the challenge for the year and I thought I'd make it a "Tag You're It" challenge to 'tag' the new team that will be announced next week and since I've been so obsessed with using tags lately :)

My niece turned 16 earlier this month, but I waited to give her a card since she would be here visiting for the holidays! I used the newest Together Anywhere  and colored Anya using my nieces favorite color... PINK!



The tag die is *still* my favorite from Pretty Pink Posh, Happy die is Simon Says Stamps, & I stamped the sentiment using alpha/number sets from Lawn Fawn!

Hope to see you play along! Check out all the deets on the TGF Blog!

Snow Much Joy!

Popping in quick to hope you all are having SNOW MUCH JOY this holiday season...

Christmas is just a few days away... are YOU ready?

This cute snowman is...



Happy Tuesday!

Happy Winter...deerie!

I found some free time to play today & thought this Lawn Fawn Critters in the Snow could use some inking...for the 1st time!

I had this idea to have little ornaments hanging from the sweet deer's antlers, I just had to make it happen! & Perfect timing for another entry to the Merry Christmas challenge @Lawnscaping! (I made another one here...)

I paired up 2 of the sentiments from the same set- "happy winter" & masked off the "hello deerie" for a cute greeting. Added some sequins and twine & called it done!

Thanks for stopping by!

Merry Lil' Owl!

Can you believe it's exactly ONE WEEK until Christmas?  I most definitely can't, I say it all the time, but I'll say it again, this year has flown by! Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet?  I think I'm officially done as of today- now to just get it all wrapped! (where's that wrapping fairy when I need her?)

Anyway, I finally had a chance to play with some stamps that were screaming to be inked...

This sweet little owl from Lawn Fawn had been hiding in my stash- glad I found him *before* Christmas! ;) and just in time to join in on the Lawnscaping "Merry Christmas" Challenge!

Paired up with this Christmas Banners & Messages set from Hero Arts, I kept my card pretty simple with a few diecuts & sequins!

Thanks for stopping by!

Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Happy Wednesday!

I'm excited to be participating in the Holiday Coffee Lovers blog hop today! *THE* fabulous Amy Tsuruta has put together this AMAZING blog hop full of sponsors some pretty awesome inspiration!



I decided to finally ink up my Love you a Latte stamp set from Lawn Fawn. So many cute stamps, it was hard to decide which ones to use! (hope to have some more time to make another! :) ) Paired it with my favorite-die-of-the-moment, the Stitched Duo from Pretty Pink Posh- I think they make a pretty good duo, no?



Time to fill my coffee mug & hop along to check out all the other entries!

Thanks for stopping by!

Make it Sparkle!

Woohoo! It's Friday!

I'm hosting the new Farm Fresh Friday Challenge at The Greeting Farm this week! And with the holidays literally AROUND THE CORNER I chose to make the challenge this week SPARKLE!

That's right, pull out your glitter, metallic, bling and make those cards SPARKLE & SHINE!!

I decided to play with the sweet new Holiday Anya 4 for my card this week...



I diecut some 'snowflakes' from silver glitter paper (MFT delicate doilies) in addition to the tag (Pretty Pink Posh), and what's a card without a couple of sparkly sequins?

Hope to see you join us in the challenge! Check out some more fab inspiration and the challenge deets HERE!

Halloween Macarons!

(ok, this one is even a surprise for me- but there's so much fun stuff going on I can't keep up! THIRD post of the day! Please see my Paper Sweeties post here, and Chi Chi Memories post here!)

If you haven't noticed yet, I've been a little obsessed with tags lately... that's not a bad obsession right?

Especially since I got this one from Pretty Pink Posh! So when I saw that the challenge over on Avery Elle was to use tags- how could I not join in on the taggy fun??



Paired it up with the color coordinates from the Wednesday Challenge on Simon Says Stamp and I was set!


I colored the macarons in orange, purple & green and matched it with some cardstock scraps that I can never seem to find the end of! & added the sentiments from a Hero Arts Halloween greetings set.


Ok, that *SHOULD* be it for me today....



until tomorrow! :D

Paper Sweeties Release Day 2!

Back again as promised to share another card with the NEW October release stamps & sweet cut dies that will be available on THURSDAY 10/15!!

This time I used the Sweet Cut dies that are compatible with the stamp set Snow Friends... an adorable snowman complete with accesories! I also used the new Joy Sweet Cuts dies that match the Joy stamp set on the card I shared yesterday!



Still obsessed with tags at the moment!  But this sweet snowman fit so perfectly- think I'd definitely be using him on some gift tags this Christmas!

Check out what the rest of the design team created today!

Amber Kroening
Annette Allen
Annette Witherspoon
Char Cundy
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Jinny Newlin
Kerin Sylvester
Larissa Heskett  (off this month)
Lysa Rohrer ** You Are Here**
Maria Patrick
Michelle Bala
Mynnette Kitchen
Nancy Penir

Thanks for stopping in!