Happy AnyaVersary Blog Hop

Hi!

Thanks for dropping by my little spot on the web during The Greeting Farm's AnyaVersary Blog Hop. Are you enjoying it so far? I'm sure we are all getting inspired by all of the lovely creations we are seeing today.



For my contribution, I thought that the Susie Surprise set fit the bill perfectly. I coloured her with Prismacolor pencils (list at the end of the post) and blended them with odourless mineral spirits. Two images were coloured with the second layered on top of the first with dimensional foam tape. I stamped two cupcakes as well. From the second I cut out just the top and coated it with liquid applique which was allowed to dry and then puffed with my heat gun.

I decided to use the Farm Fresh Friday Sketch #3 for this card layout. Great timing or what?

The papers and embellishments for this card all came from my July PaperCard Kit from PaperWorksCo . Can you believe this is card number EIGHT using this kit and I STILL have lots of paper left? I think I will run out of card ideas before I run out of paper from this kit! I've just totally fallen in love with the Basic Grey Lime Rickey papers that were featured in this kit. You should check out their site - the August kit has been released today and features the Cosmo Cricket Snorkel line.

Enjoy the rest of the blog hop! Happy Birthday to the Greeting Farm! My wish for you is for continued success with such an awesome lineup of adorable stamps! Can't wait to see what the next year holds!

Rest of the details about the card:
Finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches
Papers: Basic Grey Lime Rickey, Bazzill Dotted Swiss and White Smoothies from PaperWorksCo July PaperCard Kit
Stamps: Susie Surprise from The Greeting Farm
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, CTMH Sunkiss Yellow
Prismacolor Pencils: 915, 916, 917, 927, 928, 913, 994, 993, 949, 935, 903
Embellishments: Buttons and Brads from PaperWorksCo July PaperCard Kit, Liquid Applique, Gel Writer Pink Glitter Pen

Carl for Noah

And this is the card for Noah - my friend Dorothy's nephew who is sharing a birthday party with her tomorrow. I believe he may be turning 10 years old.



For this card I used Sketch #3 from Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Carl is from Stamps and Smiles and was coloured with Prismacolor Pencils blended with Taltine. The image and sentiment panels were cut with nestabilities - circle, pinking circle and ovals.

The papers and ribbon are from my July PaperCard kit from PaperWorksCo.

The card measures 4 x 5.5 and the rest of the details are:
Prismacolor Pencils 904, 906, 927, 929, 928, 946, 925, 913, 915

I hope Noah likes his card!

Cuppy for Andrea

This little gem will be going to my friend Dorothy's niece, Andrea, as there is a joint birthday party I will be attending that will celebrate Dorothy, Andrea and Noah's (Dorothy's nephew, Andrea's brother) birthdays. Can't go to a birthday party without a card!



For this card I used the SASSC25 sketch over at the Fresh Batch. Cuppy is, of course, from Stamps and Smiles. She is coloured with Prismacolor Pencils blended with Taltine.

The papers, ribbon and brads are from my July Papercard kit from PaperworksCo . Loving those Lime Rickey Papers from Basic Grey.

The sentiment panels were cut using my nestabilities (circle and scalloped circle).

Card measures 5x5.

Hope Andrea likes it! I'm not really sure how old she is...maybe 8?

Additional details:
PrismaColor Pencil colours - 913, 917, 927, 929, 918, 928

Happy Birthday - The Hoboken Way

Okay then, back to basics. Something a little simpler perhaps? In a stripe?


For this card, I again used the July PaperCard Kit from PaperworksCo .

I wanted something simpler for this card (it is going to my Uncle for his birthday at the end of July) so I grabbed the stripey Hoboken paper and two of the cardstocks - the smooth white and vibrant blue - from the kit.

For the sentiment panel, I stamped the streamer image multiple times to create a background and then stamped the sentiment on top of that.

Easy peasy.

Here are the card details:

finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches (tent fold)
sketch: Tuesday Morning Sketches TMS#2

papers:
cardstock:

• white: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (scored at 4.25 inches and folded in half), 2 x 3.25 inches
• vibrant blue: 4 x 5.25 inches, 2.25 x 3.5 inches
  

Hoboken: 1.5 x 3.75 inches (x3)

Inks: CTMH Heavenly Blue, Holiday Red
Stamps: CTMH For Every Occasion (D1187), Holiday Jubilee (D1128)
Embellishments: Buttons from the July Papercard Kit from PaperworksCo


And here is fur-baby #1 - Packet decided he wanted to keep me company while I made the card. He is in charge of scheduling my breaks.


Hard to resist a demand for cuddles from this green-eyed cutie!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Did somebody say "Luau"?

First of all, if you are my friend, Dorothy - back away from this post! You can come back AFTER your birthday party. I'm serious! I'll know if you are pretending to be surprised when you get this card! I will!


Okay, now that the house-keeping is done (Dorothy if that's you....I really meant it!) on with the details for this card. Ah yes -- the Divine Details if you will. Verve Stamps Project Parade day 1 poses the question: How do you come up with your design?

Well, for me it is always a combination of things

• first: the occasion. For this card, it is all about the birthday party theme.
• second: the papers. I got my July PaperCard Kit from PaperWorksCo on Monday and I thought the Banana Float and Katawba flip papers would be perfect for a Hawaiian themed card.
• third: the stamps. I happen to have picked up the Doodlefactory Tropics stamps from StarvingArtistamps a while back and turns out they were perfect for this card!
• finally: the sketch. Sometimes it is one of my own and sometimes it is a sketch from one of the many blogs I follow. This time it is from The Next Level . And it has a twist - the image is to be 3D (decoupaged).

So, what did Miss Long-Winded come up with this time? Well.....here it is....



Busy, huh? A couple of things of note about the stamped images:

• the little hula guy has his head and skirt popped up on dimensionals. And I curled up the bottom edges of the top layer of his grass skirt.
  
• for the palm trees if you are familiar with the stamp set you know that the two trees don't face in the same direction. The larger of the two trees faces in the opposite direction from the one shown here! How did I do that? Simple enough - ink up the stamp, roll over it with a brayer and then roll the brayer onto card stock. Proceed as usual to colour. Note that the image DOES turn out lighter than if you had stamped it directly so you may need to use a darker ink or tweak the outline before/after colouring.
  

The specifics of the card are below for those who might be interested:

card dimensions: 5 x 5 inches

Paper: PaperworksCo July PaperCard Kit
Banana Frost(edit:yeah I had this wrong, fixed now): 4.75 x 4.75 inches
Katawba Flip: 3 x 3 inches cut with 3rd largest of the small circle nestabilities
Yellow Bazzill cardstock: 3.5 x 3.5 inches cut with the 2nd largest of the large reverse scallop circle nestabilities, 1.5 x 2.25 inches cut with Cuttlebug Oval Slider Die Cut
Green Bling Bazzill cardstock (I used the non-bling side): 3.5 x 3.5 inches cut with the 2nd largest of the large reverse scallop circle nestabilities
White cardstock for image panel

embellishments: ribbon and brads from PaperworksCo July PaperCard Kit

Inks:
CTMH: Black, Chocolate, Citrus Leaf
PrismaColor Pencils: 941, 940, 930, 929, 912, 911, 913

Stamps:
StarvingArtistamps: Doodlefactory Tropics
CTMH: alphabet (not sure which one as the envelope doesn't say - I think it was a promo only)


Thanks for stopping by today - and big applause to you if you made it all the way to the end of this post! I appreciate that you took the time to visit!

Fisherman Ian - for a coworker

Ta da - another of my July birthdays can be scratched off the list! I cracked open my PaperworksCo July Papercard kit this morning and made my first card using the papers and embellies. I think it came out pretty decent if I do say so myself.



The designer papers in this month's kit are from the Lime Rickey line from Basic Grey. I thought the blues would be great with little Fisherman Ian from The Greeting Farm. I had stamped up a few of these little guys when we had our stamping get-together at Jenn's a while back. I knew he would come in handy soon! You see, the coworker to whom this is going is an avid fisherman. Ian was coloured with a combination of .... yes, Tattered Rose Distress ink for his face and Prismacolor Pencils blended with Taltine.

The panels are all raised on dimensional foam dots and the buttons are attached with glue dots. No I didn't sew them as I didn't want the stitching to show on the inside of the card. The embroidery thread you see tied through the button holes is just for show!


Details for the card:

sketch: Little Paper Shop
dimensions: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, side fold

papers: all are from the PaperworksCo July Papercard Kit

aqua cardstock: 8.5 x 5.5 inches, scored at 4.25 inches, front embossed with Cuttlebug Spots and Dots folder

white cardstock: 3 x 8.5 inches cut into 3 pieces as follows: 2 that measured 3 x 2 3/8 inches and then the leftover. The largest piece was then die cut with the largest of the small deckled rectangle nestabilities and the edges were sponged with CTMH Ocean ink.

Lime Rickey papers: 3 x 2 3/8 inches from Blue Moon and Boston Cooler and then die cut with the second largest of the small deckled rectangle nestabilities.

ink:
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tattered Rose
CTMH Ocean
Prismacolor Pencils 940, 1027, 946, 1024, 915

embellishments:
buttons are from the PaperworksCo July Papercard kit, embroidery floss is from my stash


I hope he likes it -- although he is colour blind and may have some difficulty with the colours on the card.

And don't forget, PaperworksCo has a big party planned tonight from 6pm to 8pm Mountain Time! The latest post on the site says there will be giveaways involving a scavenger hunt on the site!