Amelia and Oliver

Happy Saturday!  Have you ever made too many cards??  Well sometimes I get carried away, I love colouring the hair on The Greeting Farms images.  So I end up with a bunch of stamped images with coloured hair and nothing else.  LOL

For the first card I thought I would venture out of my comfort zone and colour Amelia's hair a strawberry red.  I know I didn't go to far out of my zone but I did use a really red rather than say a strawberry blond or something like that.  I'm glad I did, I think the colour turned out great!

For the second card I used the aborable Oliver.  Now I can never decide if I should add colour to the part of the image that the fish bowl shows or not.  So I decided not too so the fish would stand out better.

Both these cuties are in one stamp set and are only $16.00.  Aren't they adorable??  If you want to check this set out for yourself stop here.  There are 3 sets of Oliver and Amelia doing different things.

Oh and I actually wrote down what colours I used to colour Amelia's hair so I can share with you
The reds for her hair are
R43,46 and 59

A Farmer's Sketch Challenge

Well The Greeting Farm has some multi talented ladies.  Not only can the card craft like nobody business but they are also very talented at making sketches.  Cindy is one and todays challenge is based on her sketch.  Hop on over to The Greeting Farm to check out the sketch and play along.
Meet Amelia and she is part of the new set called My Favorite Things.

The great thing about sketches is that you can rotate them!   Thanks for the great sketch Cindy.

Materials

Amelia-(My Favorite Things)-The Greeting Farm

DP-Cosmo Cricket-Garden Variety

Copics (hair)-E25,27,29

(Pink)-RV13,25

Ippity inspiration

Well it's a fabulous day for me, I have my camera back!!  Whoot whoot!  Oh I'm so glad to have it back. 

I have some new Ippity cards for you today. 

Someone from Etsy put this card in the Treasury East listing.  I've never heard of it until someone notified me about it.  Here's the place http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c21a57e544a8eefb63c6654/to-live

I'm so loving these Thrift Store papers from October Afternoon.

Ippity Stamps-Delightful Little Things

Vintage Photo Distress Ink-Ranger

Cranberry and Black ink-CTMH

Daisy border punch-Martha Stewart

Flower Medallion

Did you know Whimsie Doodles has a new tutorial every Tuesday? 

This week's Tutorial Tuesday was created by me.  Madellions were a page element I didn't think I'd like to make or use.  But I tried them and I kinda like them!  So if you haven't tried them and want to know how I mad them hop on over to Whimsie Doodles for the tutorial and try one out for yourself.

Here's a card using a flower like Medallion.

Sentiment stamp-Whimsie Doodles

Kraft/Vintage Cream cardstock-Papertrey Ink

Polkadot tape-Pink Paisley

Blossom die-Spellbinders

Cheeky kind of Monday

What a fabulous weekend I had. I made 8 cards that I'm really excited about. Only I can't show them yet, lol. But I do have 2 cards I made back in Novemeber and just realized I haven't shared them yet. I loved these Cheeky girls the moment I saw them and I hope you like them.

Here's the adorable Cheeky Nurse

And Cheeky Princess

It appears I've left you hanging with the half sentiment.  Sorry about that.  The entire sentiment reads 

I'm not waiting for a

Knight in shining armor..

mine has already arrived

 Cheeky Girls rubber stamps-The Greeting Farm
Princess Sentiment -The Gift of Love-CTMH

NO Layers??

Well I've been making some cards for the Ippity challenge/contest.  The challenge is to make a card without layers.  Now if you know me you will know how difficult this task is for me.  No layers=clean and simple and that means almost impossible to me.  I struggled but I pushed through and came up with some cards.  Now my beloved camera is still out for repairs so the photos are not that great.  So please bare with me.

Materials

Ippity stamps-Books a Flutter and Season of Joy

Vintage Cream cardstock-Papertrey Ink

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Black and white Artisan Tape-Pink Paisley

Take a Spin

Good morning!  Today's card is kinda special, you see it's a masculine card and I have a hard time making these types of cards.  Why? Well it's a mental thing really, I mean I love to put ribbon and buttons on my cards and to me it looks very girly so when I set out to make a "man card" I try to avoid those things.  And well avoiding the things you love only make the process very difficult.  So for this card I switched the ribbon for string.  Oh and today is my husband's birthday (the whole reason I needed a man card). 

I used the new Harley Bikes from Bombshell stamps to make this card.  If your looking for some really great "manly" stamps then check out Bombshell Stamps.  They have some really fabulous totally vintage images from Hot Rods and Motorcycles to Tattoo to and Pin Ups.

Materials

Harley Bikes-Bombshell Stamps

DP-Thrift Shop-October Afternoon

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Copics-YG93,95 and Warm Grey W3,3.00

Cloud backgroung-Pebbles Inc Chalk

Farm Fresh Button It!

Buttons, buttons, who has the buttons? I do, I LOOOVE buttons!!

 This week's Farm Fresh challenge is so up my alley cause it's all about buttons. So after all that excitment I hope you like my work. What's more exciting is that I used Dee Dee on my card. I think she is the most adorable of all the girls, I think it's her pig tails and big bright eyes.

 Dee Dee is part of the Roll Call crew. She is 1 of 10 fabulous cuties all on one sheet.

Materials

Dee Dee (Roll Call)-The Greeting Farm

Cardstock-Kraft, Green, Blue-Papertrey Ink

Too cute

Today's post is a scrapbook page I made a while back.  I don't know why I haven 't shown this until now.  This is the second page I've made this year.  So far I have 5 pages made.  I can't believe it!  Anyway here's a page of my son, the picture was taken a few years ago.  I used OA Buddies (Oliver and his puppy) from The Greeting Farm to make this page.  I thought Oliver looked just like my son with his ball cap!

Materials

OA Buddies stamps-The Greeting Farm

DP-Quite Contrary-My Mind's Eye

Fiskars Border punch

Christmas Baubles in June

Well it's been awhile.  I bought some Unity stamps a month ago and have finally gotten around to playing with them today.  Believe it or not I've been making Christmas cards.  The set is called Embellished Seasnon and it was the "deal of the day" and snagged it as soon as I could.

If you think you're seeing double you are.  I made the first card and liked it so much I made a second card but changed it up a bit.

Materials

Embellished Season-Unity

DP-Thrift Store-October Afternoon

Vintage Cream cardstock-Papertrey Ink

Vintage Photo distress ink-Ranger