I heart punches...

...the crafting kind that is! :-) I made this card for the Mystery Monday challenge over at Club Anya but I needed a sketch cuz my brain was all fuzzy so I used the sketch for this week's challenge over at The Sweet Stop. I altered Nurse Anya to become a trick-or-treater :-)

Trick or Treat

Ingredients

• cs - DCWV latte stack
• pp - K&Co
• image - Nurse Anya (TGF)
• pumpkin - digital stamp (Pink Cat Studio)
• felt witch hat - QuicKutz Silhouette
• nestabilities
  
• glitter dots
• black wire
• copics
• sketch:
  

I can't believe it!!!

I won the GRAND PRIZE over at Club Anya for participating in the week of challenges. How stinkin' cool is that?! See look....

What is the grand prize you ask? Well, it's the entire set of The Greeting Farm's August new releases. *jumping for joy*

BTW isn't the new shop purty??? I think so :-) Anyways, hop on over to Club Anya to view the super awesome entries that won for each day and then hop on over to the gallery to see why it was so hard to choose winners ;-)

Crafting Craziness!

So today I started on some custom work for the private requests I've received on etsy.com....one request is for a one year bday invite and the other is a mini-note card set. When I finish these I'll definitely post them :-)

Now on to the card I made for the Basic Grey Challenge and Thursday's Smile & Shine challenge over at A Week of Challenges at TGF. BGC was to follow a sketch and TGF's challenge was to use lots and lots of bling ;-) Here's what came out of the crafting machine (lol me..hehee):

Purple Birthday Wishes

Ingredients:

• pp - BG Eva
• cs - DCWV
• stamp - Princess Anya (TGF)
• half pearls - Lavender (BG)
• purple gems - misc
• flower die cuts - Sizzix
• flower w/gem - Petaloo Flora Doodle
• ribbon - my stash
  
• brad - my stash
  
• ink - VersaCraft
• sketch - BG Challenge Blog

Midnight Madness Take 2

So remember when I tried to make a house front for the Midnight Madness Sketch this week....well I revisited the sketch and with the addition of the color scheme coming from the week of challenges over at The Greeting Farm & Club Anya I was able to produce something I deemed MMSC worthy ;-) When I ran out of permanent glue dots I had to improvise but yesterday I stopped by my favorite scrapbooking store to pick up my refill and all they had was the refill for the repositionable glue dots. While it's nice that if you misplace your piece that you're working on you don't harm your card in any way, the silly little things don't adhere well in the long run. In other words before I sell or give away this card I'm going to have to go back and re-glue down everything (boo). Anyways I give you my creation for the MMSC14 and the Wednesday Brown & Blue challenge......

Brown Blue Bride

Ingredients:

• pp - My Mind's Eye, DCWV
• cs - DCWV
• border punch - EK Success
• pearl dots - Basic Grey
• ribbon - Michaels
• flower - Making Memories
• gem brad - Making Memories
  
• color - watercolor pencils
• dry emboss - Zing White
• piercer
  
• oval nestabilities - Spellbinders
  
• sketch - MMSC14

A Week of Challenges at Club Anya

So there's no TGF new release for the 15th of the month (*tear*) but there is a fun week of challenges to participate in :-) Monday's challenge was to make a card with a 'back to school' theme. I don't really have anyone I know going back to school so I made it into a thank you card. Here's what I came up with.....

Apple Thanks

Ingredients:

• cs & pp - DCWV
• stamp - Teacher Anya (TGF)
• ribbon - Making Memories
• black ink - VersaCraft
• clear card - ShortCuts

Today's challenge (Tuesday) is to make a card with a 'crazy hair day' theme. As Halloween is just around the corner I decided to take inspiration from the new Spooktacular stamp set and my new papers from My Mind's Eye. I altered Nurse Anya and gave her a spider-inspired dress. Here's the final project.....

Spooktacular

Ingredients:

• cs - DCWV
• pp - My Mind's Eye (Spooked)
• stamp - Nurse Anya
• circle nestabilities
• ink - VersaCraft
• dry emboss - Zing Black
• ribbon - Michaels
  

Couture Celebration

So I wanted to participate in the Club Anya Summer Club Couture contest. I altered Ian and Anya to make a chic Anya...I'm not sure I got it quite right :-P I also decided to make it a birthday card which I will give to my sister in place of the original card I made her. Also, as it so happens Crystal over at Crystal's Crafty Creations is celebrating 10k hits on her blog (see my sidebar for details) and as a blog entry twist she wanted us to make a 'celebration' card of some kind. Well, I think this will fit the bill, don't you?

Celebrate Couture

Ingredients

• paper & cs - DCWV
• punches - EK success, Spellbinders nesties
• ink - Tim Holtz Vintage Photo
• sentiment - Sizzix Clear Stamps
• stamp - Hello Ian & Fairy Anya from TGF
• wire - Hobby Lobby
• color - watercolor pencils