Live Beautifully - Birthday Wishes from Miss Anya

Hi folks,

Just stopping in to share another card I made using the "Live Beautifully" papers from Close To My Heart. Get them while you can - they are only available for the month of May!

I also used a sentiment and banner die cut from the CTMH "Little Dreamer" stamp and Thin Cuts bundle. The heart is from the CTMH Basic Hearts Thin Cuts.

The image is from one of the older Miss Anya sets from The Greeting Farm and was coloured with Copic Markers.


As always, thanks for stopping by!

Love to Scrap Challenge #10

Hi folks,

I'm back today to share a card I made for dearly beloved's niece. For once I am ahead of the game - her birthday isn't until the end of the month!

card details:

• finished size; 5.5 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base
• patterned paper: Carta Bella "Alphabet Junction"
• stamped image: The Greeting Farm "Miss Anya Lounge", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, Y11, Y21, Y23, Y32, RV10, RV11, RV13, E55, E57, E59)
• layout: Love to Scrap Challenge #10
• sentiment: Verve "Small Celebrations", stamped in CTMH Bubblegum
• adhesive gems and ribbon from my stash

additional challenges for this card:

• Crafty Creations Challenges #231: Time to Sparkle
• Tuesday Throwndown #156: Anything Goes
• Anything Goes Challenge #97: Anything Goes
• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge #16: Anything Goes
• The Pink Elephant #208: Feminine Birthday

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge 219 with Miss Anya

Hi folks,

I made it into my craft room today - it was MUCH too hot to do anything outside here in Ottawa - to make this card for one of my nieces who has a birthday this week. The card went into the post shortly after I finished making it -  to Newfoundland - ExpressPost - again!

card details:

• finished size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches, white card stock base
• patterned paper: Doodlebug Designs Inc "Flower Box"
• stamped image: The Greeting Farm "Miss Anya Lounge", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E02, E93, E21, E23, E25, E74, E77, E79, YR02, YR82, YR65, YG05). This was my first time inking up this set. It's been sitting in one of my baskets of as yet unfiled stamps for a while now.
• sentiment: Verve "Doodled Occasions"
• Spellbinders Labels Four (small and large)
• Basic Grey button from my huge stash of buttons
• layout: Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #219

additional challenges for this card:

• Anyone For Anya: Polka Dots and Stripes
• The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Friday: Punches and/or Dies
• Use it Tuesday #59: Birthdays
• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes Birthday

As always, thanks for stopping by! I've got to run - I'm taking my sweetie to see "The Eagles" in concert tonight. He has never seen them and quite enjoys their music so....I had to get tickets for us to go see the show. I hope he enjoys it!

TGF Saturday Sketch Challenge #10

Hi folks,

a late night post for me as I had to get this card made for the birthday party we are attending tomorrow for one of my dearly beloved's nieces. We will be celebrating her 8th birthday.

I used the TGF Saturday Sketch Challenge from last Saturday (deadline midnight tonight for entries) so I am cutting it really close! I flipped the sketch on it's side to accommodate this new (to me) Miss Anya Garland image.

Isn't she sweet? And she looks so much like our niece!

(E.T.A. - I was the lucky random winner for this sketch challenge! Yay! I get to choose a new single rubber stamp from TGF to add to my collection!)

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, CTMH Chocolate Card stock
• patterned paper: Basic Grey Hopscotch
• stamped image: Miss Anya Garland from The Greeting Farm, coloured with Copic Markers (E0000, E000, E00, E93, E21, E23, E25, E27, YR00, YR01, YR02, BG32, BG34, Y06)
• Spellbinders Petite Circles
• Half-back pearls were coloured with my YR02 marker to make them all matchy-matchy with the papers.

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend! So far my entire week has been go-go-go. I am SO looking forward to finally getting to relax on Sunday and Monday. And by relax I mean I am considering tackling the mess that is my craft room! If you are a friend on Facebook, then you saw the picture of my desk that I shared today after finishing the Easter cards. EEP!

New to Me for FFF

Hi folks,

So I'm into Day Three of my time off  and just want to say thanks to everyone for your birthday wishes the last couple of days. I'm organizing a bunch of my favourite products for a little birthday blog candy and am just waiting on a few things to arrive in the post. Keep your eyes peeled on the blog-arooni as I will likely be putting up the post sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Anyways, today I was a bit more keen with getting on the go and was able to get to my craft room by late morning for some crafty-time after getting all my households chores out of the way. I stamped up a bunch of my "new-to-me" Greeting Farm images (I  just got them earlier in March and finally got around to trimming them two weeks ago)  for the first challenge over at the newly re-launched TGF Farm Fresh Challenge Blog - Miss Anya Hats Off (three of each of the three girls) and Cheeky Shooter (two of her). I managed to get the skin and hair coloured on all of them. I then chose two of them to make a couple of cards using this week's Pixie Cottage Sketch Challenge (#63).



This first card will be given to one of dearly beloved's nieces tomorrow for her birthday - I can't believe she is going to be 7! That's why I added the strip of numbers on the side with the arrow pointing to the 7.

Since Challenge 11 over at Crafter's Companion is to use Aqua and Brown on your card, I'll be submitting the first card to that challenge.

Not sure yet to whom this second card will be gifted. For now it will be in my stash.

I went with a little additional pop of colour on this one by using the pink side of one of the patterned papers above - which are from the "Life is Good" collection from Echo Park Paper Co.

And what do you think of my little embellie? I did a rolled paper flower from the patterned paper for a little something different - mind you it makes for a VERY THICK CARD! Definitely a gift by hand and not by post kind of card since it makes the card more than half an inch thick and the flower would be crushed by the mail sorting machines.

I'll be submitting this second card to the CCEE1113 challenge:  no BUTTONS, BUCKLES, BOWS, BRADS.


additional card details:

• finished size: 6x6 inches
• stamped images: Miss Anya Hats Off from The Greeting Farm, coloured with Copic Markers (skin: E000, E00, E01, E93; hair: E34, E47, E57; outfit: BG10, BG11, BG13, BG15, E74, E77, E79)
• sentiment: Verve Birthday Bash
• card base: CTMH Chocolate cardstock
• patterned papers: Echo Park Paper Co "Life is Good", inked the edges with Memento Rich Cocoa
• spellbinders: Petite Circles, Petite Ovals

Anyways, I'm not done crafting for tonight - I have a few more early April birthday cards that need making and tomorrow I won't be able to work on them as I am taking Tanya's Pixie Cottage Class at Heather's Stamping Haven. Looking forward to that for sure!

Thanks for stopping! Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Anya sends you warm wishes

This is the last of the end of school year cards for my nieces and nephew.


I know ... orange and blue? I don't know something just called out to me with these two papers. Maybe it was the sketch that was influencing me. For this card I chose to use the CPS123 sketch.

Miss Anya was coloured using Prismacolor pencils and then mounted onto a dark blue background. I'm realizing as I look at the photo that I FORGOT to remove the white bits between her arm and her body. Oh well. Too late. Card went in the post today. I also framed out the image using some of the orange ribbon I used to separate the orange and blue papers.

And the card recipe is:

finished size: 4 x 5.5 inches

orange dp: 1 7/8 x 3.75 inches
blue dp: 3 3/8 by 3.75 inches
dark blue image panel: 2.5 x 4 inches
sentiment panel: 1 x 1 inches
sentiment mat: 1.25 x 1.25 inches

ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tattered Rose, CTMH Indian Corn Blue, Black
Prismacolor Pencil Colours: 939, 918, 912, 942, 941, 914, 997, 903

stamps: The Greeting Farm - Miss Anya, CTMH TLC (C1364)

embellishments: white ribbon, orange ribbon