Me Heart is Yours

Happy Friday Everyone! Today is going to be a relaxing day I hope, filled with sun and the pool and paying the phone bill... LOL! Seriously though, I am determined to have a fun day!
There was a fun little celebration for the mid-month release of some new Anya and Ian stamps and I made a card for a couple of the challenges. I combined TGF's FFF challenge and the Club Anya VSN Sketch challenge to make this: I love these pirate stamps! I stamped Pirate Any and Ian in brown in on Kraft cardstock and cut them out. Shaded a little with a blended pen and more brown ink and popped them up on foam tape. The FFF challenge was to use 2 stamps, punches and bling. I used FOUR stamps; Anya, Ian, the sentiment, and the skull. I used a couple circle punches and the flower trio punch. For the bling I used rhinestones in the flowers and gem circle sticky things on the eyepatch/belts/Anya's heart and I used shimmery brown cardstock. Here is another view of the card for dimensional purposes:
It's really hard to tell but the solid brown cardstock is shimmery! Oh, the patterened paper is a piece that I have been hoarding FOREVER because it looks like a pirate map! So Cool!
That's it for today. Go outside and enjoy God's Summertime Shine!
Until next post, be blessed!

Himawari Challenge & Secret Crafter Challenge

HI All! I told you I'd be back and BOY do I have a post for you! Grab a cuppa and be prepared for some pictures! I have participated in the Himawari Baby Challenge hosted by Denise of Denise Loves Stamps and there are some AWESOME prizes to be won. I combined this challenge with the weekly Secret Crafter Saturday sketch challenge. Well, I don't own any Himawari images (yet) so I emailed Jen from Pieces of Me and Denise and they BOTH sent me some to play with! Woohoo! I decided I needed to give back from all this fabulousness that I've been receiving, so I made a RAK (Random Act of Kindness) for my Aloha RAK partner with some of the images. The rest of the images will be used for a project requested by a friend that I'll be donating to a cause... more on that later! First, I was inspired by this weeks SCS sketch and flew with it for ALL of these items (although the sketch is used mainly on the notecards below). Here is the notbook I made: And the inside:

This is a little box I made and filled with 5 teabags:

This is the same box, only smaller to be filled with some chocolate squares (maybe Ghiradelli, maybe Ritter, gotta see what I can find):

Next is the FIRST things I made and here you can really see the sketch on the notecards. It's five notecards and a box to fit them all in! I came up with the box template myself (pats on back-thank you! lol!) and even made a lid for it! The box is in the center:

And here are all the pieces of the project together!

I have to say that I love the way this turned out. As a matter of fact, as soon as I'm done on this machine I'll be making another similar project for that cause I mentioned... But I'll post about that later. What do you all think? The Himawari images are just that; images already colored on a sheet of cardstock that you cut out and use however you like. If I had more of a single image, I would probably cut out pieces and make it more layered. I used some copics on some of the images just to give more shading. And the images are just the right size for ALL kinds of projects. I am really hoping to win the challenge because I want more images for myself! Ok, so I'm done with this post and I have a whole lotta stuff to do so I better get moving. Any questions on the project, please ask and I'll answer best I can.

Thanks for stopping by and until next post, be blessed!

I'm still here!

Where Have I been? Well, I'm still here just keeping really busy. I want to let you all know about something incredibly cool that will be happening in just 2 weeks. It's The Greeting Farm's Birthday!!! WWOOOHHOOOOOOO!!!!! In celebration of their birthday, we are having a BIG party. EVERYONE is invited. It's called the Anyaversary Blog Hop and I hope you will join in. I know I will be participating. You can click on the picture on my sidebar and read all the details from the Club Anya Blog. Here is the basic info. but after you read this please hop over to the C.A. blog for all the details and fine print.

For: a HAPPY ANYAversary BLOG HOPPIN' BASH!!!

Where: YOUR Blogs, Our Blogs...and the TGF/Club Anya Blogs

When: Saturday, August 1st, 2009 from 9am CST to 9pm CST- an all day event!

Well, it's no secret that I am a HUGE fan of The Greeting Farm and Club Anya, so I hope you al lwill join me in this super fun event! I'll be back later with some pics of projects and such. See you all later and be blessed!

Another Sunday post!

Geez, what is with me and posting twice in one day? I guess I just have so much I want to do and share, that I have to post twice! So if you didn't read my first post for today, scroll on down! I really wanted to participate in Tuesday Morning Sketches' very first sketch challenge. Since the challenge deadline is tonight, I finished up my entry and am posting it now! I should be sleeping since it's almost midnight here, but making cards is quite addicting at times. So here is my Psychadelic Anya card: Not only is this card for the T.M.S. challenge, I also made it work for Copic Creations Challenge #7 and Club Anya's VSN challenge #1!!! Three challenges in one; SCORE! For C.C.C.#7 our challenge was to color brunette hair. I followed a couple tutorials they had on their blog and changed it up a bit to make it work. While I was coloring Anya's hair, I totally went out of the lines and colored brown onto her face and RUINED her beautiful face! So I ended up cutting out the hair and glueing it onto a new Anya. Also, Club Anya's VSN Challenge #1 was to "Trip it up and stamp it out!" LOL! I had to make a psychadelic, retro, disco, or "trippy" card. I think this fits the bill! I used American Crafts designer papers from the "play" collection (I think). I decided Anya needed a HOT PINK dress so I stamped her dress onto neon pink cardstock and cut it out. OH, and just so she'd match, I made sure to color her undies hot pink as well...

ROFL!!! I just had to do it! Well, that's it for this post. I hope your Sunday's are are Superb and until next post, be blessed!

I did it again!

Yes, some of you may have noticed... I changed up my blog again. But just a little. I have really been wanting a 3 column blog so that some of my sidebar thingies would be higher up for you all to view. I know that if you are reading just one blog post, you may not see some of the widgets that are lower on the sidepanel. Well, now things are rearranged and you can see more! What do you all think? Better? Oh, and I added some blogs and changed my pic again. My SIL and I decided that this one is a bit better since it looks more like me ;) and I realized that it's facing "into" my blog now, and that's better! Ok, so on to some projects. This first card was made for a Twisted Thursday challenge, but I never uploaded it so I didn't enter it into the challenge. I like it anyway, and it's my first Christmas card of the year! Yea! I need to get these started NOW in order to have them all done in time for Christmas. Seriously. I have had this Bella image colored since LAST Christmas and finally put her on a card! I love this combo of colors and elements, and I think I may duplicate it! I can even change the sentiment and image and make it into a Valentine's card, or anniversary card... Hmmm, the possibilities! And here is yet another note holder I made (ignore the horrible lighting, this just would NOT photo properly!):

I don't have any post it notes that match this holder, that is why there aren't any on it yet. I used all TGF Sunny Glen papers, Stampin' Up retired (I think) ribbon and the digital image from TGF is colored with watercolor pencils and OMS. OH! Actually the polka dot and green hearts are Cosmo Cricket, sorry about that. Well, let me know what you think of the projects and my new (again) blog layout!

Until next post, be blessed!

Another quick Friday post

I'm at MY computer now so I can post these pics of this card! Woohoo! I participated in two challenges with this card. The first challenge was from Secret Crafters Saturday to use 3 ribbons, and the second challenge was from Twisted Thursday to use something clear (I used rhinestones), use the free digi image, and use their sketch. So here's the card: I based the whole color scheme off the christmas papers I got from a BIG pack of papers I bought from Taylor of Taylored Expressions. I totally scored with the pack! But more about that on another post. I really wanted to have the main image matted, so I used a top note cut with my Big Shot! Here is how I did it: First I die cut the Top Note shape in Really Rust cardstock. Then I cut the middle out of it as you can see here:

Next I lined up the two end pieces to make sure they would line up nicely as you can see here:

Sorry it's so blurry. Finally, I placed my main image on the pieces to make sure it was right:

WaaLaa! I worked! I then gluedthe two pieces of the top note togeter, glued a piece of ribbon over the seam to hide it (and for a little extra decor), then I stuck the main image on with foam tape. Cool yeah?

That's it for this late-night post. Angel in cuddling in my lap trying to sleep but my typing is keeping her up so I need to get off this machine.

Until next post, be blessed!

A quick Friday post

Hey All! I just wanted to post a quick little something for you all to let you know about this:

CLUB ANYA VIRTUAL STAMP NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA!

When: Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Where: Our Club Anya Group Page (on Papercraft Planet)

Time: 9 PM CST

Since Club Anya has fans all over the world, and many of us are not able to actually attend the event due to the time difference, all the challenges have been posted in ADVANCE on the Club Anya blog! Yippee! I have already started on one of them... but that will be for another post. Go check out the challenges and join in with us! It's going to be so fun, even if we can't all be at the ACTUAL VSN on Tuesday (although, I may try to be there. 9pm CST is 5am the next day for me-I think). Of course there will be prizes for the winners of the challenges, but you can read all the nitty-gritty details HERE. Now since no blog post is complete without a picture or two, and since I'm not on my laptop where I have all the pics of my cards and such (I'm on the desktop) here are some pics that may interest some of you (Kristel): Obviously that first one is of me and 4 of my 10 brothers... heehee(yes, I have a HUGE-mongous family, and I love it! And Yes, I include my inlaws because I love em like blood!). Can you tell which one out of those 4 is from the same mom and dad as me? Of the three others, two of them are stepbrothers and one is an inlaw. Can you tell? And this next one is of me and Ashton:

These are all from about 2 or 3 years ago. So, why post them? Well, my Sister (or sis-inlaw, we're so close it's hard to remember which is true!) commented that she saw my new profile pic on my blog and didn't recognize me! She said my face looks different and my hair is super long now. Yeah, compared to how it used to be my hair IS super long. And my face, well, I didn't do anything to change it, maybe the hair makes it look different? Ok, that's enough blabber for today. I hope you all have a Fantastic Friday and hopefully I'll hear from you all soon (in the comments maybe? heehee).

Until next post, be blessed!