Farm Fresh Friday Sketch 2

Hey all! I didn't make this card in time for the Farm Fresh Friday challenge deadline, but I was inspired by Laura 75's City Girl card that you can see HERE so I decided to make this: I used the Wonderland set from The Greeting Farm and colored (highlighted) with my Copics. I did the border with my Zig pen and my caffein-induced shaky hand! lol! Here's a pic so you can see the dimension on Alice:

It's a simple, yet interesting style of card and I love it. Laura's is much better (did you click on the link?) but I think mine is ok too.

I hope you are all having a wonderful Tuesday and I'll talk to you later!

Until then, Be Blessed!

NEW DOODLEFACTORY STAMPS!!!

AAGGHH!!! You have to go to this link HERE and check out these Amazing new stamps from Doodlefactory! I love the new dino family and the new forest trees!!! Here's some pics of the new stamp sets for your enjoyment (I stole them off the S.A. blog-I hope that's ok):

Now that you've fallen in love with them too, hop over there and check out the DT examples and the chance to win all FOUR of these!!! I'll be back tomorrow for a project post. The kids and I had a PJ day today and we just hung out and played board games until it was time to pull more weeds (yard inspection tomorrow from housing *bleh!*)

Now go win some DF stamps! Wait, don't, I want them, heehee!

Until next post, be blessed!

OOPS!!

Ok, so the link for the Anyone for Anya button is fixed! I meant to link it to the button on the blog post, and do one for the right panel, but it didn't work out. Now it should work. Enjoy the new challenge blog everyone!!! And I'll talk to you all tomorrow (I hope).

There's a new Challenge Blog in Town

Hey there Friends! I just stumbled upon this new blog that will have challenges all about Anya and her friends at the Greeting Farm! Of course I'm gonna be involved in this; I HAVE to! lol! I'm adding this little button to my right side panel so you all can click on it and check out the details as well. If you love TGF and Anya like I do, give it a go!
I hope you are all having a Stupendous Sunday. I'm off to go pull some weeds out of our driveway... and get a tan while doing it!
Until next post, be blessed!

Mr. Mojo is back!

YUP! I was able to finally sit down and make something, and I actually LIKE what I made, lol! I need to make this quick cuz the whole family is snoozing and I'm about to nod off as well. I combined TWO challenges on one card and just in the nick of time! Here it is: I combined 2 Sketches 4 You and Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #41 into this card. SCSC's challenge was to use "Spots and Stripes" and of course 2S4Y is the sketch. The sketch actually didn't call for the main image in the middle, or the ribbon on the bottom, but I added those cuz I wanted to ;) Here is a closeup of my coloring on Annika:

The patterned papers are Crate Paper and I colored Annika with my copics. She's actually been colored for awhile and I happened to notice that these papers match her colors just right! Woohoo! Well, I hope you all liked the card for today. I'm hoping to get more posts pre-posted for next week. But I'll work on that tomorrow.

Until then, I hope you are all BLESSED!

Tutorial for Carin

Hey Everyone! Well, my dear friend Mojo is nowhere to be found, but luckily I have some projects already done and ready for posts, so my blog shouldn't suffer. I hope to find Mojo a little later tonight since I REALLY want to participate in the last Farm Fresh Friday challenge. Remember this project from last week?

I was asked by my friend Carin for a template of the box. Well, I ended up doing a tutorial for her and thought I'd share it here for you all to see. In the center of the first picture you'll see the box that holds all these notecards. These notecards are 4.25x5.5 folded in half. That way I was able to get 4 cards out of one sheet of 8.5x11 inch paper. The five notecards you see fit inside snuggly, but 4 will fit very well depending on how much embellishment you add to the cards. Ok, so here's the tutorial. Please be kind since this is only the second time I've ever done something like this! First you need a piece of cardstock that is 6.25x 5.5. Score the long side of the cardstock at 3 and 3.5 inches.

Score the short side of the cardstock at .5 and 5 inches. That give your half an inch on each side.

Next you need to cut the little squares made by the scores. Cut only to the half inch score line. Here is a picture to show you what I mean:

Next you should put strong adhesive on two of the long tabs and the two little square tabs. I used sticky strip as you can see here:

Now, since I don't like my tabs to show, this is the order that I put the sides together. First I had the tab with the sticky strip on the inside:

Next I stuck the little tab onto that tab as you can see here:

Finally I closed that side by sticking the last tab to the other two as you can see here:

I did the same thing on the other side of the box and that way the little tabs don't show at all. Next we have to make the box lid! First you need a piece of cardstock that is 5.5x1.5 inches.

This one must be scored just right so that it fits over the bottom of your box without being too snug or loose. First you score one side at 7/16.

Then turn the paper 90 degrees and score at 7/16. Do this for all four sides.

Next you'll want to cut these four lines as I've shown you here:

And put sticky strip on the little tabs like this (pretend the x's are tape;):

And finally you'll want to tape them inside the lid like this:

That way the tabs won't show on the outside of the lid. After that, you're done! All that's left is to embellish your box and lid, oh, and make some notecards to put inside! I hope that made sense and if you try out the tutorial, please let me know, I'd love to see it!!!

I hope you all have a Mojo-filled Day and until next post, be blessed.

Father's Day Card... Late

Hi all! Happy Monday to you! I know, Father's day was almost a month ago, but I never showed you what I made for my DH. Since tomorrow is his birthday (I won't tell you how young he's turning;) I decided to show you his Father's Day card! Yeah, I know, wierd. Anyway here it is: I used Stampin' Up Kraft Cardstock and the Symphony jumbo wheel. I colored parts of the images in with pencils. The two brads are from Gina K. Designs and I twisted some twine around them to hold the card closed. Here is the card with the top flap open:

I used the wheel again on Very Vanilla cardstock but used brown ink this time and didn't color it in. The sentiment is from the SU! Music Expressions stamp set and says "Musice Expresses that which cannot be said." -Victor Hugo. Here is the card with the bottom flap folded down:

The middle was left blank so I could write on it and the bottom panel has the main image from the Music Expressions stamp set stamped in brown ink. My husband is a musician, so when I saw this set I knew it would work for a card for him. Even though his brother is the one who plays the bass... Anyway, I hope you liked my LATE Father's Day post, and who knows, maybe I'll actually post my Hubby's Birthday card on tomorrow's post?!? Maybe...

Until then, be blessed!