Monday, February 1, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GABBY!

BLOG CANDY
I have a dear blogging friend named GABBY and tomorrow is her birthday! In celebration she has this YUMMY blog Candy offered, so hop over to her blog and check it out!
And hey, Gabby Friend,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOUUU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOUUU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR GABBY FRIEND! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOUUU!!!
I love that lady! Now go leave her some LUV!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

AFA and CCCB

Hey all! Here I am again with my card for the Anyone For Anya Blog Sketch Challenge! I used adorable Hello Ian and Pretty Hat Anya for this challenge card, and I colored them in ethnic skin tones too! They are my little Hispanic couple today:I decided to use the ethnic skin tones to qualify this card for the Copic Creations Challenge #20 and because I've been wanting to expand my stamped images beyond the classic E00 & E21 Caucasian colored skin. Here is the card in whole so you can see the fabulous sketch:
I used October Afternoon DP from their Farm Fresh paper pack along with SU! very vanilla, kraft, chocolate chip, and close to cocoa card stock. The maroon colored velvet ribbon is actually a tab that I cut off some curtains awhile ago. I knew I'd use them in a project someday! Oh, I actually masked Ian and Anya so it would look like Anya was standing behind Ian. I got that idea from a challenge during TGF's big release, but didn't get a chance to actually participate in the challenge. I love masking though, it gives such an awesome affect! Also, the buttons on Ian are teeny tiny ones from my stash, there is a MM brad in his hat, Anya has Kaiser pearls for a necklace, and a MM heart brad on her hat. What do you all think? This card came out exactly as planned! Woohoo!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

TGF Relay projects

Hello my dear friends! Well, as some of you already know, the fabulous TGF Relay had to come to an abrupt end. With the AMAZING amount of entries, the website couldn't handle it all and kept crashing! Hey, if a website has to crash, having too many people on it is a good way! I wanted to show you the other projects I made for the relay. The first image given to us was Mer-Ian!Isn't he wonderful? I am so happy to now have a partner for my Mermaid Anya Stamp! I used fun blues and green to color him in and then used him on another conversation hearts candy box.
I printed out the sentiment and cut it out to make it look "wavy". Then added pearls randomly all over the DP. Here is a pic of the candy box open:
The Third and final image given to the relay-ers (is that a word?) was adorable Toby Cub! I used him, along with some Cosmo Cricket Cardstock Stickers to decorate a picture frame:
I'm not sure if I'll give this to someone as a gift, or just use it for one of my boys' baby pictures. We'll just have to see.
In other news; tomorrow is my last day as Guest DT member with Anyone for Anya. My card will be posted on their blog tomorrow along with the new challenge for the week. I will post my card on here as well, even though it should be Scenic Sunday, because I haven't taken any good scenic photos lately. lol! Hope to see you all back here tomorrow, and thanks for stopping by!
Be Blessed!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

TGF Relay!

Just a quick late LATE late night post! I really want to stay in the TGF CHA Relay, so I have to get this posted and linked up before I go to bed. Since the TGF Galleria has crashed (again! too many people playing in the relay!) I thought I'd try to post this here and have it still qualify for the next leg of the race. So, here is my card using the 2nd free digi, Charlotte:I love her sassy attitude and I thought this sentiment from TGF's "Talk Loud" stamp set fit perfecto! I better get this linked as the deadline is in about 15 minutes... and I'm about 3 hours late for my bedtime! Come back soon, I miss my Blogging Buddies... where are you all???

Monday, January 25, 2010

A Treat Box

Hey all! I couldn't get the video of Andrew's backflip to load so here is a consolation prize:I made this fun candy box holder for the challenge on the Club Anya and Friends blog, and while I had it done on time, I didn't upload it for an entry in time! Oh well. I loved making this and have since made TWO more! I plan on making these for the kids' class parties, but we'll see how intricate those turn out to be. Here is a view of the treat box with the candy popping out:
In order to get to the Candy Conversation hearts, you slide the ribbon up! That's it! It's so simple yet AWESOME! Here is a link to where I found the directions for the amazing treat holder: http://dianagibbs.typepad.com/stampin_with_di/2009/02/you-rock-sweet-tart.html
I actually found this last February, went out and bought 48 boxes of hearts on sale, and saved them for this year! Yup, i actually planned ahead... now I just need to follow through and actually MAKE all of the treats for the kiddos. Ok, it's super late here and I have work in the a.m. so I'll sign off for now. Hope to hear from you all (in the comments section of course) soon!
Be blessed!
ETA: I am so tired, I totally forgot to tell you! This is just ONE of the projects I made for my GUEST DESIGN TEAM spot on the ANYONE FOR ANYA CHALLENGE BLOG!!! How could I forget to mention that?!?! CRAZINESS!! This is my first EVER GDT Spot and I am so excited and happy about it! Pop over to Anyone For Anya and see what I'm talking about. I have one more challenge to participate in as the GDT too! WOOHOO!!!

An Experiment

Hey Friends! I'm trying something out with my Picasa Program and a video of my son that I shot earlier today. Can you all see the video? He wanted me to record his backflip, so here it is! I have been getting crafty lately, but with limited time in the day, and my DH being out of the country for a bit, I just haven't been able to do up a good blog post for you all. In the meantime, enjoy the video and let me know what you all think! ETA: Well, it looks like the video didn't post. This is just a still shot of part of the video. I am going to try to load the video for you all anyway, in case you are curious...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Comment Moderation

Just a quick comment my friends. I had to turn the comment moderation/word verification back on. Sorry about that. I started getting spam comments and those aren't nice to read and I don't want anymore of those, so the word verification is on! I hope you don't mind, and I hope it doesn't stop you all from leaving comments!