My first Farm Fresh Friday challenge!

Now that I have a fair amount of stamps from The Greeting Farm, I can participate in their Farm Fresh Friday challenge. This week's challenge is a sketch from Jessica. It looked like it would be fun. It gave me a reason to use my brand new Basic Grey Lemonade DP and embellies. I also hadn't used my latest Anya stamps either. Yeah! Two new fun things in one!

I chose this particular Anya because lately I feel like I've been spending too much money....."Confessions of a Shopaholic" style shopping. Been spending money I know I shouldn't be spending. Oh well, all in good fun and I totally NEEDED everything I bought. *wink*wink* ;)

Materials: DP and buttons-Basic Grey Lemonade, stamps-"Miss Anya Collection" TGF, CS and ink-CTMH, ribbon-Lil' Davis Designs, colored pencils-Crayola.

Tell your friends, tell your neighbors!!

THIS BLOG CANDY DRAWING IS NOW CLOSED! DRAWING TOMORROW.

It's my Bloggaversary!!! And I'm giving out CANDY!!

I can't believe it's been a whole year already! Wow has it been fun! I've loved all the cool things I've seen on others' blogs and the great new blog friends I've made. I truly hope you have enjoyed my creations over the last 365 days.

And to celebrate? Why BLOG CANDY of course!!.....

The rules for entry of my blog candy:

**FIRST OFF--I'm not going to be one of those who forces you to become a follower. What I'd like is for you to genuinely take a look at my blog, and if you like it I'd LOVE for you to follow.

1. Post a comment here. Only one per person please. I'd like to know what your lastest cool thrifty find was.

2. Post a link on your blog.

**DEADLINE is August 31st. I will use random.org to pick the winner and post the results on September 1st. Good luck!

What you get:

*CTMH Dazziling Die Cuts in Summer Celebration

*Two CTMH Idea Books

*CTMH "Be Yourself" stamp set

* CTMH Pretty Pins

*CTMH Clear Acrylic Shapes

*DCWV "All Dressed Up" ribbon collection

*Studio 18 metal word stickers

*Heidi Swapp journaling spots

*Heidi Swapp chipboard words

*Two Heidi Swapp photo corners

*Heidi Swapp girly index tabs

*Handmade cards by me!

Tell everyone you know! I want to spread the love! For those that stop by often and leave comments, thank you for your continued support. If you're new to my blog, welcome. Enjoy what you see and come back because there will be loads more of my creations to see and get inspired from!

A treat from Vicki

I received this beautiful card in the mail the other day from Vicki at Wizard's Hangout. It was one I bought from her and included was the card layout instructions along with an AWESOME bonus. For more info on that, click here.

I took Vicki's card layout and ran with it today. I liked the versatility of using it vertically or horizontally. I really needed to add to my more masculine cards. I was also able to finish off some more scraps! I'm lovin' using up all those extras! You can obviously tell I tried to use it all up by the paper pieced card. Hopefully the one who gets that one won't notice....or is half blind! Lol!

Materials: dp and ribbon--unknown, chipboard buttons--Clorbok ($1 bin @ Michaels), cs and ink and sentiment--CTMH.

Color Chef Challenge #14

GOING TO SEE HARRY POTTER TONIGHT!!

Fun colors for this weeks Color Chef Challenge over at Kelly Jo's Stamp Pad. Brown, Turquoise and Orange. I've had this crazy paisley ribbon for a while and this was just the reason to use it. I was also able to use up some more of my scraps. Paired perfectly with the paisley CB folder and an old MM flexi label I've had ...... for a while, and viola! A birthday card for my dear friend Jann.

Materials: CS and ink-CTMH, dp--unknown, ribbon--$1 bin at Target, flexi label--Making Memories, skittles--Robin's Nest, dimensional foam.

Use that Scrap!!

After yesterday's card, I really wanted to use up the last of the scrap pieces I still had. (which after finding some of the matching tags, that I used here, are KI brand not Chatterbox) Here are all the things I made using them. I was going to work on my Color Chef Challenge, but seeing the few pieces of scrap still on my table was bugging me. Don't really like the Jolee's flowers on the third one now, but oh well. Hope these inspire others to use up their scraps. So, without further ado.....

GOING TO SEE HARRY POTTER TOMORROW!!!

Materials: Stamps, cs, inks, markers, ribbon, hemp, button, brad, liquid glass, paper piercer--CTMH, dp and tags--KI Memories and DCWV, punches--EK, fern punch--MS, skittles--Robin's Nest, red flowers--Jolee's, green dot ribbon--unknown, staples.

Mojo Monday #95

It's Monday and that means it's Mojo time! I can't believe that I'm actually posting this on a Monday. Small miracles. ;)

This card uses the sketch from this week's Mojo Monday sketch and is inspired by the colors from this card by Sparkle. I think it's funny that I used a Ketto too. I love orange and I think the Ketto stamps just scream bright colors, and I was able to use more of my scraps. Yeah! You can't tell, but the yellow strip is shimmer paper. It's yet another image that Nona let me ink. They're just sooo fun! Thanks again Nona!

Materials: Stamp--Stamping Bella, dp--Chatterbox (I think) along with other misc. scraps, Crayola colored pencils, ribbon, brad, Stickles, tag charm--Doodlebug Designs, cs and sparkles--CTMH, punches--EK.

Mojo Monday #94

Gotta get back in the groove of challenges! Here's my Mojo Monday 94 entrance for this week. All the paper is from my scrap stash. I love using it up! This stamp is super cute. It's one of Nona's that she kindly let me ink up. The image is colored with my Crayolas again. Even did the grey shadow technique that others use with their Copics. Still not in my budget yet.

Hope you all have a great week and weekend! I'm going to go see Coldplay with some friends at the Gorge in George!! Yippee!!

Materials: dp-unknown scrap, stamp-Stampin Bella, Crayola color pencils, punches-EK. Window charm, solid cs, ink and ribbon-CTMH

I'm baaaack!!!

Yippee!! I finally had some time to play!

Last night I went over to Nona's and made these too cute cards using her Rockstar Anya. This will definitely be on my next TGF purchase. I also was able to try using Copics for the first time. I have been very apprehensive of using these since I knew I'd probably like them a lot (which I do) and because they're so dang expensive (which is a prob right now). But aren't these Anyas just so stinkin' cute?! Loved it so much I made 3 pink and 3 purple. Hee hee!

The pink theme Anya is my first attempt at the copics and my misunderstanding of the "blending" pen. Oops! The purple theme Anya is towards the end of the night when I got a little bit more comfy with them. I didn't want to put a sentiment on this one yet. I always seem to need a card for something specific and all my cards say the wrong thing. How do I have so many "thank you" and "just because" cards?

Going camping this weekend after work tomorrow, so I'll be back to crafting the first part of next week. Bro goes back to TN on Tuesday. :( It's been a blast while he's been home and it feels like he never left in the first place.

Yada-yada....I'm rambling. Sorry. Hope you all have a fun and safe Independence Day!!

Materials: Anya stamp-TGF, You Rock ss-CTMH, dp-MAMBI, cs and inks-CTMH, bazzil, copics, stickles, gems.