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Monday, October 24, 2011

Sisterhood Monthly Swap Fall

Happy Fall Y'all! I can't believe that another year is almost over. Where did the time go? All I can say is that I'm glad that fall is finally here. Summer was so dreadfully hot and then we had that crazy earthquake followed by Hurricane Irene. Hopefully the winter will be peaceful. My card is for a monthly swap that I am in with a group of wonderful ladies. This month's swap is hosted by Paola. She has given us the challenge to come up with a fall themed card. For my card I used a layout from PaperCrafts Magazine. My card is a gift card holder. Many of the ladies in the group love Starbucks and some can't get enough of the Fall flavors of Pumpkin Spice or Salted Caramel Mochas. Since most of us are not co-located to share a cup of coffee together, then this was the next best thing I could think of. The designer paper is an oldie from K&Company. The ribbon is from Stampin' up. The scallop border, sentiment, and die-cut flower are from Papertrey Ink. I hope the girls like it since this is a very different type of card me since I mostly like to coloring with my copics and there isn't even an image to color on this card.

Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Cheery Card Kit

Good morning all! It has been a while since my bestest girlies, Kadie and Sandra, and I have done a card kit. Miss Kadie is the responsible person for this absolutely fun kit. She always picks some of the best papers and includes tons of embelishments. Of course, being the embellie challenged person that I am, I did manage to use 4 of the 10 embellishments she sent. You will have to pay a visit to Kadie's blog for deets on the image and papers. As always I colored the images with copic markers. I kept my design pretty much clean and simple. I can't wait to see what they designed. I miss you girls!

Just on a side note, I read the Hunger Games Trilogy in about 1.5 weeks and must say that I enjoyed them a lot and can't wait for the movie to come out in the spring. Of course, I also can't wait for the next Twlight movie to come out either.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Ahead of the Trend

Hello all. I have a card to show you today that I made for a monthly card swap group that I am in. The guidance for this month was to keep it minimal. No more than two layers including the base. No more than two embellishments. Now the inspiration for my card has been all the white/yellow/grey color combos I've been seeing on pinterest. I like think I may have been ahead of the trend when I designed my Greeting Farm card with those colors over a year ago. You have to understand I'm normally behind the curve on any type of trend so to be ahead for once is a shocker. Here is my CAS card for the swap. I hope the girls like it.

For my card I used a white PTI base. I then stamped the Tim Holtz flourish in Stampin' Up Going Grey. The desinger papers are from Cosmo Cricket and October Afternoon. The ribbon is by Stampin' Up. I create a the flower by free hand cutting three different sized circles and scrunching them. I glued the layers together and added the button and ribbon. I then stamped the sentiment from PTI.

Thank you for visiting and have a wonderful day.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Local Scrapbook Store Samples

A little scrapbook store set up shop in an old water mill I think last summer. They have all kinds of goodies that you can't get at the local chain stores. Plus they have an accu-cut set-up. Here is a picture of the building they are located in.

They asked me to make a few samples with some of the products they are carrying. It was fun to play with the papers and the images. I hope they like them.

The babies are from Amuse. I forgot to write down the birdnest set. All images are colored with copic markers. Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day!

Monday, August 15, 2011

I can see CLEARLY now at TGF!!!

It's gonna be a BRIGHT and SUNSHINY day for sure at The Greeting Farm! Hooray!

Today is the day- two new sets are available for purchase as we are proud to debut our new line of CLEAR stamps!

Here is my project using the My Fairy Princess set:

I thought this little fairy reminded me a little of Marilyn Monroe, so I tried to go a litte bit simple elegance with the yellow and black color scheme. I added some little half pearls to the butterflies and the fairy dress. The wings were glitterfied with diamond stickles and then some glitter was used for the fairy dust trailing below her.

We are SO excited to begin today's hop combining some TGF 'alum' with our Farmers! Be sure to check out the TGF BLOG for a complete list of links, as one lucky winner will receive BOTH sets just for commenting and participating in the hop! And just in case you get lost along the way in all of the excitement that is CLEARLY mounting...here is the list:

Mary Giles(That's Me!)