TGF Blog Hop

I'm so excited to be part of the 3rd annual Greeting Farm customer blog hop today.  If you did not come from a TGF link, be sure to catch the beginning here to see all the wonderful creations using amazing Greeting Farm images.  I chose to create a holiday ornament using their Chibi Alaska digital image.

I started with a clear glass ball ornament, removed the hanger top, drizzled a bit of floor wax into it and swirled it around, covering the insides completely, and drained out all excess. Then I sprinkled in some lime green extra fine glitter and shook it up to cover the whole inside surface. I tapped the excess out (unfortunately all over my floor and kitchen counter because I sneezed at the wrong time...) and replaced the hanger. To finish, I attached some plastic snowflake buttons and a Chibi Alaska image colored with Copics and highlighted with glitter. Then I added a printed ribbon bow and thin red ribbon as a hanger.  She is definately my favorite new ornament this year.

Thanks for joining in the hop today. Be sure to leave a comment on the TGF blog for a chance to win. In addition to the two Grand Prizes that will be drawn for the participants' creations, a random hopper will ALSO win the ENTIRE upcoming January Release! That's 6 sets in all- a HUGE prize...and the only way to win is by participating in the blog hop here!

TPE 128

I love the digital images created by Lori Boyd here. and always am inspired by the creations of her wonderful design team. I frequently check out her blog or "pink elephant challenge" for inspiration.

So, when I needed to create a small Christmas gift for a friend, I decided to use her images and participate in one of the challenges for motivation. This ornament was created with TPE 128: snowflake and sparkle in mind. Although the photo doesn't show it well (quality color photos are hard to take inside at midnight!!!), there is a lot of glitter and sparkle in the ornament itself, and also added to the images.

And the credit goes to:
Images: Winter Landon and Winter Dana & Penny, by Lori Boyd Designs, colored with Prismacolors, blended with gamasol
Sentiment: Studio G, stamped and heat embossed
Snowflake punch: Martha Stewart
Other: Plastic glittery snowflake ornament from Target, Liquid Pearls, glitter, ribbon

You Rock Creeper Card

Wanted to share a card I'm entering in a Greeting Farm Friday Challenge.  It is based on a card "spied" in the TGF gallery on Splitcoast Stampers.  I will also be participating in the 3rd annual TGF Customer Blog Hop on December 19.  Be sure to come back to see my and many other wonderful creations using Greeting Farm's adorable stamps.
and the credit goes to...
The Greeting Farm - CC Tyler and CC Friday rubber stamps with sentiment
Hero Arts - musical notes stamps
Image colored with Prismacolor pencils blended with gamasol

TPE #114 again

Had to get in just one more card for this challenge before the deadline tonight -- Paper piecing and Greeting Farm just go together!




This card is based on Sketch #10 found in the Greeting Farm gallery and uses one of their images, Sk8r Ian.  It seemed the perfect sketch for a pocket to hold a gift card.  I paper pieced Ian's shirt using the same yellow and striped American Crafts papers that are used for the card.  Love how this adds consistency.  These papers are patterned on one side and a solid color on the other so 2 sheets made the entire card with plenty of scraps leftover for a few more.  Gotta love it when things are that easy to match! Everything was too clean at the start, so I grunged it all up by distressing edges, inking, and adding some subtle background images with stamps from Hero Arts.

... and the credit goes to...
The Greeting Farm - sk8r Ian image
Hero Arts - envelope pattern and dandelion frame stamps
Taylored Expressions - sentiment from You're my Hero set
American Crafts - all paper
Image colored with copics, distress inks for grunge

RCC18/ TPE114/ DS17

Today's card is for a golden anniversary and is created using I Do Ian and Anya, the first Greeting Farm stamp set I fell in love with and had to have.

Made to give a friend (thanks for an excuse to play this week, Marilyn), I am also using it for 4 challenges this week......

The challenge using at least 2 spooled items found here

I actually used 4 (what can I say- I'm such an over achiever :0)....), the pink embroidery floss, the scrap of sheer pink ribbon behind top of oval, a spool of white tulle for veil, and the red ribbon roses in Anya's bouquet and on Ian's lapel.  Those ribbon roses were my favorite part of the card until I buggered them up by adding glitter (ever do one of those OOPS! that you wish you hadn't have, but it's not worth the effort to go back and fix it?)

And this is also my second entry (I hope that is legal) for the paper
piecing challenge found here (Bet you can tell I really want to win a Greeting Farm image, which is this week's sponsor prize...).  Somewhat hard to tell from the photo, but Ian's suit is paper pieced with grey textured cardstock and Anya's dress is stamped on vellum and dry embossed using the Sizzix swiss dots embossing folder, then pieced together on the card.



The card was created using the sketch provided for the weekly challenge at Deconstructing Jen.  These sketches really give a great jumping off point to get the creativity flowing.  I consider Jen a genius... I'm definitely hooked!



And a new challenge I just discovered here called Designed2Delight, calling for anniversary cards.

..and the credit goes to...

The Greeting Farm - I Do Ian & Anya stamp set

DCWV- Patterned paper from Luxury paper pad... and Copics for coloring the images.

TPE#114

Greeting Farm is sponsoring the Pink Elephant Challenge this week, which is to use paper piecing on a project. I stamped the Greeting Farm CC Tuesday image and sandwiched some tulle between 2 layers of patterned paper for her dress. 

The card design is cased from Scrapperbug on the Greeting Farm gallery.  The patterned papers come from Hero Arts and the DCWV Garden Party paper pad.  Stamped sentiment is from Studio G.  The flourish die cut is from Quick Kutz and the scalloped oval is a Spellbinders die.

TPE#113/ RCC#17

Following both a photo inspiration challenge at the Pink Elephant Challenge and a back to school theme for Ribbon Carousel (... my family loved the spool bus joke here), I created this window card as a teacher thank you. Images are from Lori Boyd's adorable Lollipop collections. An oval window is cut on the front of card with school girl Lacie adhered inside, and school boy Ezra and his Sugarstick dog overlapping the window on the front.

.... and the credit goes to...

Lori Boyd designs - all digital images Fiskars - Thanks clear stamp
Carolee's Creations - green dot patterned paper Making Memories - bulldog clip
Color on images is Copics, on sentiment is Prismacolor pencils

LMM#16, Lily Pad resist

While sitting at the computer will never replace the fun of stamping for me, I recently have found some digital images that I love and couldn't pass up. Digital images are easy to purchase online and often the files come within a few minutes... great for when you are so excited to play and don't want to wait for products to be mailed. The "Hatter" girls on this card are from Little Miss Muffet stamps and the card was made to play along with both their "multiple images" challenge, and the resist technique challenge from Lily Pad.

The resist background is stamped and heat embossed on watercolor paper, then colored with new Ranger Distress Stains (like using the ink pads, but quicker for this technique... and messier- messy is always more fun). It is a matchbook style card and some elements are attached with foam dots for dimension.

...and the credit goes to:
Impression Obsession - flourish background and sentiment stamps
Little Miss Muffet Stamps - 3 "Hatter" girls digital stamps
Spellbinders - lacy circles die
Images colored with Prismacolor pencils blended with gamasol / background Distress Stains in spiced marmalade, faded jeans, and broken china.

CFC#16/Lily Pad sketch

I was so excited to try a new technique I learned in a Stampaway class taught by Jennifer McGuire... and I'm even more excited that it worked!!! By adding chalk ink to the debossed side of an embossing folder before running it through the machine, plain white cardstock becomes colored everywhere except on the raised image. This is how I created the blue polka dotted background. The image is Oh Boy Ian from the Greeting Farm, colored with Copics. This week I'm entering this card in a Cas-ual Fridays embossing challenge and also the Lily pad sketch challenge sponsored by Greeting Farm.

edgy birthday tyler

Made this card for a Ribbon Carousel Challenge.

http://ribboncarouselchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/08/rcc15-get-edgy-with-jessica-diedrich.html

If Creeper Tyler isn't edgy enough with his blue hair, there's also the notebook paper edge, a torn edge and a guitar edge. Tyler is a Greeting Farm stamp and the splotchy background, words, and guitars are from the Taylored Expressions Hero set.