TGF Battle Royale, Week 2

My team, the Faux Farmers, made it on to week 2 of the Battle Royale over at the Greeting Farm! Yeah! Thank you so much to everyone who voted for us last week!

This weeks challenge was to make a easel card, and team member Genetta Hutton rocked the challenge with this lovely card:

Isn't is gorgeous? All that lace and the colors she chose give it such a glamorous and vintage feel.

If you would consider popping on over here and voting for the Faux Farmers so we can move on to week 3, we'd really appreciate it! Remember, all you have to do to vote is leave a comment on our card in TGF galleria.

Thanks in advance!

Happy Easter + exciting news!

Happy Easter to all my readers who celebrate the holiday! I have some exciting news to share today - Suzette from Crafty Sentiments has invited me to be a guest designer for the Crafty Sentiments challenge blog for April and May! How exciting is that?!?

This week, we are challenging you to make a project based off of the above sketch. Be sure to pop on over to the Crafty Sentiments challenge blog to see the rest of the dt's projects, and to find out what you could win if you decide to play along this week.

I decided to use the adorable Boy with Flowers for my card. He reminds me of my younger brothers. When we were kids, they would pick flowers from the neighbors garden on their way home from school, and present my mother with a lovely bouquet. I think she always had a hard time deciding on whether to thank them for being so thoughtful, or scolding them for raiding the neighbors flower beds! LOL!

I stamped Boy with Flowers twice so that I could cut out some of his flowers and pop them up for a nice 3D effect. I also added some Flower Soft in Spring to his bouquet for a little more interest. The papers are all digi papers by Nitwits, and my sentiment is also computer generated.

Copic Markers used:

Challenges I participated in with this card:

Crafty Sentiments - sketch
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Fab 'n' Funky - spring is in the air
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - how does your garden grow?
Crafty Creations - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Pink Somethings...

Happy Friday! It's time for a new challenge at Stamp Something, and this week, we are challenging you to make something pink. We're being sponsored by The Stamping Boutique, so be sure to pop on over to the Stamp Something challenge blog to see what you could win if you join us this week!

Tracey at The Stamping Boutique, was kind enough to let the DT each chose an image to play with for this weeks challenge. I picked "freeing the fairy". Peter Pan was one of my favorite stories when I was little, and this image makes me think of many happy hours spent pouring over my Peter Pan story book.

I had the bubble layout all planned in my head before I printed the image, so I separated the girl and the fairy to give me enough room around each to cut them out with a circle nestabilities die. The images were colored with copic markers, and have plenty of stardust stickles added for lots of sparkle.

I decided to keep the layout nice and simple so as not to overwhelm the image. The pretty pink designer paper is from my scrap pile. This is my last piece, and I can't remember who made it so I can buy some more. Waa!

Markers used:

Challenges I participated in with this card:
Stamp Something - pink
By the Cute & Girly - fairytales
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Digital Tuesday - scrap it
Crafts and Me - fairies or wings
Creative Cottage - pretty pink
Colour Create - your choice of pastels

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday, Maggie!

Today we are celebrating a co-workers birthday, and I thought I would share the card I made for her. Maggie, our birthday girl, has a good sense of humor, so I thought she would enjoy Western Heat by Victoria Case Designs. Can I get an "Mmmmm, yeah!"? LOL!

Maggie is Irish (real off-the-boat Irish, not American-Irish) so I turned Western Heat into a hot Irish fella by adding a lucky clover to his belt buckle. He was colored with copic markers, and had some sparkle added to his buckle with a clear Spica pen.

Challenges I participated in with this card:
Bee Crafty - birthday
Simon Says - anything you like

Copic markers used:

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TGF Battle Royale + a free digi

Happy Sunday! Sorry for the lateness of this post - Blogger was being a bad boy and wouldn't let me sign in to my account this morning. :(
As many of you probably know, voting starts today for the first challenge of The Greeting Farm's Battle Royale. I'm part of the "Faux Farmers" team, and we would really appreciate it if you could pop on over here to vote for us so we have a chance to move on to the second round. You just need to leave a comment here to vote (make sure to follow the link as leaving a comment on my blog, while appreciated, doesn't count in the voting).

The theme for week 1 was a color challenge (tan, red, aqua) with a retro twist, and team member Jodi Stanisch really rocked it with this fabulous card:

I loved the chair Jodi used the minute I saw it, and just had to turn the photo into a digital image. I thought others might be drooling over the chair as much as I did, so I'm providing my digital image free to anyone who wants it. Just click on the photo below to see the full-sized image, and then Right Click and select "Save Image As" to save it to your computer.

*Please note that this image is free to anyone who wants it. You are under no obligation to go vote for us in order to get it. Enjoy!

Have a great week! And thank you in advance to everyone who votes for us! We appreciate your support!

Something doodled...

Happy Friday! Are you ready for another challenge with Stamp Something? This week, we are being sponsored by Simon Says, and are challenging you to use doodles on your project. Be sure to pop on over to the Stamp Something challenge blog to see what the rest of the dt has in store for you!

For my image, I combined 2 digital images by the Greeting Farm, Freaky Flutter, and WS Dressy Camille. I think Flutter has the cutest face, but find the cake body a little disturbing, so I love that I can swap out the cake for any of the other TGF outfits. Isn't she just the sweetest thing ever?

I colored "Fluttery Camille" with copic markers, and then went over the underskirt and hair bow with a Spica pen for some shimmer. For my layout, I CASED this great card by Jen Shults. It's so frilly and girly, and worked perfectly with "Fluttery Camille".

For the doodle, I made a background with the doodles from the SU set Doodle This. First, I stamped it in Blue Bayou ink, and then I added a second layer with Versamark & embossed it with SU Iridescent Ice EP. For a finishing touch, I used a white gel pen to dot along the contours of the doodles stamped in Blue Bayou.

Copics used:

Challenges I participated in with this card:
Stamp Something - doodles
Crafty Catz - white + one other color
One Stop Craft Challenge - let it shine
Creative Cottage - sparkles
Anyone for Anya? - eggstra special 
Pollycraft - sparkly things
Quixotic - monochrome
Thanks for stopping by!

Blog Candy Winners!!!

Hi all! A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in my candy! I'm truly overwhelmed by the response! 402 comments! Who would have thought?!? I've enjoyed reading all of your lovely comments and seeing your blogs. Thank you so much for your support!

My apologies for keeping you in suspense to see if you've won. I should have had you number your comments, because counting them all by hand took me a while! LOL! I loaded the numbers into Random.org, and he picked our first winner....

Which means the lucky winner of prize #1 is....

Dot Scrap!

I gave Random.org another spin, and the winner of prize #2 is lucky number...

 

Which is..

Hannapanna!

Congratulations, ladies! Please email me at: melenth@aol.com with your mailing address so I can get your goodies out to you. If I haven't heard from you by 11:59pm EST on Sunday, March 28th, I will have to redraw the winner.

Something Distressed...

Oh, dear! That title just sounds awful, doesn't it? LOL. Well, not to worry, all it means is that this week at Stamp Something, we are challenging you to create projects with a distressed look! You can use inks, tear your paper, or any other way of creating a distressed look you can think of. This week, we're being sponsored by Stamp and Create, so be sure to pop on over to the Stamp Something Challenge blog to see how you can enter to win!

Stamp and Create very generously allowed each of the dt to chose a Wags 'n Whiskers stamp to play with. The adorable Thinking of You, reminds me of my cat, Emmalee, as she likes to drape herself over you when you are trying to do something, so I was thrilled for a chance to play with it!

I colored the image with copic markers, and then used a white gel pen to highlight the eyes (going back in with some white makes them pop). I carefully cut out the image, and used pop dots to layer it onto a frame made out of a nestabilities circle die and a labels 3 die. The pretty designer papers are from the Cocoa Mint collection by Cloud 9 Designs. The layered flowers, leaves, and gemstones were also colored with copic markers to make them match the rest of the project.

Copic markers used:

Challenges I participated in with this card:

Stamp Something - distressing
Wags 'n Whiskers - Pop it up
Midnight Madness - MMSC45 (sketch)
Cute Daisy May - anything goes
Creative Card Crew - going dotty (dots on papers)
Copic Creations - favorite technique (brunette hair, coloring embellishments, caucasian skin)
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - anything goes

Don't forget, my blog candy ends on Sunday, so be sure to head over here to enter if you haven't already!

Misty Reflections...

As soon as I saw Misty Reflections, one of the new releases by Sweet Pea Stamps, with her two adorable kitties, I knew I had to have her. I finally had time to ink her up over the weekend, and had fun coloring the kitties to look like my cats.

The layout is a fun sketch by Create4fun, and I used some BoBunny papers from my stash. I added lime green stickles to the leaves, and gold stickles to her necklace and the star dangling from her hat. There are more stickles on the flowers for some added sparkle.

Markers used:

Challenges I participated in with this card:

Create4Fun: sketch
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge:  anything goes
Copic Creations - favorite technique (coloring brunette hair)
Fussy & Fancy - green
Cute Daisy May - anything goes
Pollycraft - sparkly things
Cupcake Crafts - going green

Green and Cream Somethings...

Happy Friday! This week at Stamp Something, we are celebrating St. Patrick's Day a wee bit early by challenging you to make something Green and Cream. Be sure to pop on over to the Stamp Something challenge blog to see what the rest of the dt has in store for you, and to see how you can enter to win a great prize from this week's sponsor:

For my project, I used the adorable Madelynn by The Greeting Farm. I thought she looked like the perfect little Irish lass for a St. Patrick's Day card.

Madelynn was colored with copic markers, and had some sparkle added to her coat and scarf with copic spica pens in clear and sand.  I airbrushed two plain white brads to match the scarf, and used them in place of her buttons for a little interest.

I actually made the flower embellishment for her hat myself. All you need is a flower punch, paper of your choice, a brad or eyelet, and some stickles. Go here to watch Shaz's fabulous video tutorial. The tutorial itself is wonderful, and the comic relief offered by her young daughter will have you in stitches.

Copic markers used:

Challenges I participated in with this card:

Stamp Something - green and cream
The Pixie Cottage - green
Crafty Creations - make your own flowers
Copic Creations - green
Fussy & Fancy - green
Stampin Royalty - green

Thanks for stopping by!