Monkey-ing A-Round

Hi!

My niece's birthday was last week and I realized it ON her birthday! :O

So...I had to make a belated birthday card and send it in the mail. I tucked some moolah into it so I hope she didn't mind it being late. ;)

Here's the rubber stamp I choose for her card. It's from The Greeting Farm.




















I started by using my copic markers, E31, E33, and E35, to colour in their fur. Aren't they adorable?!

Well, after I did this, I realized it might be fun to stick with a monochromatic theme. Sort of like a sepia photograph I guess.

And here's the finished card!






















Hope she likes it!

Rebecca

Saturday Anya Sketch

I'm a sucker for a card sketch challenge! I love it. This weeks Saturday sketch on the Club Anya blog was no exception. Sometimes it brings me out of my comfort zone to try different layouts that I'd never think of trying. It can be so inpiring. ;)



Here's a card I made for the Saturday Sketch;






















What do you think?

Hope you're having a great day!


Rebecca

Hello Kitty!

I made this card as a response to my friend's Clean & Simple challenge. I used a retired stamp called Reeta from The Greeting Farm. I used SU Whisper White cardstock and Bazzill teal cardstock. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up.

What do you think?

Cheeky Birthday

I made this card for my friend using a stamp from The Greeting Farm's Cheeky Collection. The decorative paper is from Tim Holtz, and the flowers were from the SU stamp, Fifth Avenue Floral. I stamped the flowers, watercoloured them and cut them out. The ribbon is my fave new ribbon. It's fantastic! It's from Maya Road and it's pleated. My hubby calls them "curtains". Hehee.

I used copic markers to colour in the stamped image. The colours I used were: E000, E00, E02, YG67, R81, B000, E35 and E04. The sentiment is from the Stampin' Up set called Teeny Tiny Wishes.

What do you think?

Vintage Birthday

My Grandma's birthday is coming up next week and I wanted to make her a special birthday card. I'm really diggin' this stamp from the Cheeky Collection at The Greeting Farm as I love all things vintage.

I used some shimmery red Bazzill cardstock, some Cosmo Cricket decorative paper, vanilla Bazzill cardstock, Ranger tea dye to sponge the edges, and a brad from Stampin' Up's vintage brad collection. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up as well. I added some black pleated ribbon, or as my hubby likes to call it, "curtains", to the bottom of the red cardstock strip.

Copic Markers used: R29, E000, E00, E02, R81, E35, YG63 (Eyes)

What do you think?

Spa Day!

Hi there!

Check out Club Anya today to see the new releases. There's a "Spa" blog hop going on today until 8pm CST. You can win prizes for leaving comments on the design team's blogs. Check it out!

Here are a few card samples made by the DT of the brand new images;

designed by Kim

designed by Pam

Aren't they super cute?! You can purchase these sweet images along with other new releases starting today at The Greeting Farm.

Have a great day, and good luck!

Rebecca

Wild Thang!

There's a wild challenge going on at The Greeting Farm's blog. We're challenged to use some animal stamps as well as a sketch from Cindy Haffner. Check it out.




















The challenge is actually a two week contest/guest designer search. They're looking for someone to work specifically with the WONDERFUL animal images by Marina Neira for the month of December. Are you interested? If so, you can read all about it here. Pretty exciting, isn't it?!

Here's my submission. I really enjoyed this sketch. I hope you try it out too.

For this card I used:

SU Not Quite Navy cardstock
SU Always Artichoke cardstock
Cosmo Cricket paper
Nestabilities Circle Embossing Die
SU Oval Punch
SU Scalloped Oval Punch
Copic Markers
White Jelly Roll pen for the faux stitching


What do you think?

Rebecca

Wild!

Hello!

It's Thursday and there's frost in the grass outside where I live. The cool air is quite refreshing actually. Our two dogs, Samurai and Abbey, are really enjoying the outdoor weather. They've been spending a great deal of time chasing each other in the backyard. Here are pictures of both of them in case you're an animal lover.

This is Samurai, a five year old golden retriever. We adopted him last February. He's a real sweetie, has the run of the house and sleeps on our bed. He's a real cuddle-bum. He's a lot bigger than this photo portrays him. He's waiting for a cookie.

Here's Abbey. Sort of named after Abbey Road I think. Anywho, she's a german shepherd cross and is about 16 weeks old now. We adopted her in September. She's very sweet as well and really looks up to her dog brother Sam. She's really good at night in regards to potty training and also sleeps in our room. It's a good thing we have a big bed!

We're waiting for her to grow into her huge satellite ears. Sometimes we just call her "Ears".






















For this week's challenge on The Greeting Farm's blog: http://www.splendidstamping.blogspot.com/ , we're to make a card with certain images, images of wild animals. I love it! This is what I came up with. I'm sure I'll make more.



















I used Cosmo Cricket paper, SU Cardstock (Not Quite Navy & Ruby Red), and added some embellishments with a Sizzix die cut. I love the bright colours on this card. I'm not usually a bright-coloured-card kinda girl. I mostly just stick with earthy colours. Brown and red are used a lot in my craft room. What about you? Do you have favourite colours?

Hope you have a great day!

Rebecca

I made this card for a challenge given at http://www.splendidstamping.blogspot.com/, and gave it to my son with a healtfelt sentiment inside. Home is definitely wherever my eleven year old son Evan is. He brightens my day.

I used Cosmo Cricket paper, added some detail to the stamped image, such as the zipper on the sweatshirt and two popular logos on the shirt and hat. Just like his favourite clothes!

Both the stamp and sentiment are from The Greeting Farm's set, "My Guy Ian".

I love my son!

Rebecca
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TGF Sketch Challenge

I created a card for this week's Farm Fresh Friday sketch challenge from The Greeting Farm. The challenge deets as well as some other cool stuff can be found at http://www.splendidstamping.blogspot.com/

Here is this week's sketch:





















AND...here is the card I made using the sketch;






















As you can see I've turned the sketch around to use it a different way. That's okay as long as the general sketch idea can be identified in your card. If you have some time try this sketch out. It was simple and a lot of fun!

Rebecca

Bree in Love...

I guess love was on my mind yesterday when I made this card. I was so happy to see our engagement photos and I've been missing my guy. He drove up to Montreal for the long weekend.

On Friday we were given a challenge at http://www.clubanya.blogspot.com/ to CASE (copy and share with everyone) last week's winner's card. Here is Lisa Hjulberg's card we were to CASE.

The idea is to use the same layout as Lisa on your card. Few changes can be made, though the same general look should be used. Since the challenge was posted on the Club Anya blog, we were to use an Anya stamp. Anya is one of their most popular rubber stamp images at The Greeting Farm http://www.thegreetingfarm.com/ . Unfortunately I forgot all about this and used a different stamp from TGF called Bree. I love Bree though. ;) Here's my card;

Since Bree had an envelope in her hand I envisioned a valentine's card from the start. What do you think?

Maybe I'll have time to make another card with an Anya stamp. Maybe. The contest closes at 10am CST so we'll see.

What are your plans for today's Labour Day?

Rebecca