Recycling Old Cards

Today I would like to share a card with you that uses a recycled element. I don't know about you but I hate throwing greeting cards away, even the (gasp!) store-bought kind. Compound that with a mother in law that loves sending multiple cards for every holiday and happy occasion and it results in a huge basket with a few years worth of Hallmark greetings. About a year ago, I started combing through the older ones and cutting out cute sayings, embellishments, and cute characters (like Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, etc) and saving them in a zip-loc bag for use on my cards. However, that's where they sat. Until Today! Anyone for Anya has a great challenge right now - Recycled!  This was just the perfect opportunity for me to reach into my stash and find something fun.

The card I made using Miss Anya Lounge. I love, love the Miss Anyas! They are so stinking cute! I'm not sure if this set is retired or not but I couldn't find it on The Greeting Farm's website - really glad I already have it.

The recycled element is the Happy Birthday sentiment. I took it from a fun Snoopy card where he is riding a motorcycle. Don't worry, I also cut Snoopy out and plan to use him someday on another card. The rest of that card went into the recycling bin. :)

For Miss Anya, I wanted to play with my new blue copics - B32, B34, B28, and B37. I had to add some sparkle to her headband, her eyeshadow, and her number on the jersey - used the copic spica glitter pen.

Enjoy!

The sentiment comes from the TGF Anya Lifts stamp set. Circles were cut using the Sizzix Framelits.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Anyone for Anya? - Recycle!

The Greeting Farm's Retro-Fresh Challenge - Polka Dots and/or Plaids

Purple Wonderland

Today, I wanted to share with you another of the TGF Limited Edition Wonderland Stamps - Hatter Bean!

I colored her up with my usual medium of choice - copic sketch markers! Since she is a little "mad" I wanted to give her a funky hair color. I love my purples and had a great time giving her locks of that hue. I specifically used V12, V15, and V17 for the hair and V04, V06, and V09 for the coloring on her outfit and hat. I used cool greys (i.e. C1, C3, C5) for her hat, dress, and boots.

I couldn't find any papers in my stash that had purple and gray in them so I decided to make my own! This was the first time attempting this but I think it came out great. I used the chevron stamp from the Close To My Heart Stamp Set and stamped it with dusty concord distress ink (shown below):

I also added flowers from my Sizzix Sizzlits Flower & Loopy Flower #2 die and finished it off with brads from my stash. I'm still loving the Delicate Words die from The Greeting Farm so I used that as well.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my show-and-tell and this helps you be even more frugal by creating your own paper. Look around at your stamps...I'm sure you have lots of possibilities! This leaves more money to spend on cute stamps and copics!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

TGF's April Showers Bring May Flowers

The Perfect Sentiment - Make it Feminine

Mad for Markers May Challenge - One for the Girls

7 Kids College Fund - April Showers Bring May Flowers

King of My Heart

I recently had my four-year wedding anniversary to my hubby and used this as a chance to showcase one of my new TGF Limited Edition Wonderland Stamps - Queen Bean. I recently won the whole set in a blog hop and was itching to play with them. I also used all three Delicate Words Dies (also from TGF). Let me tell you, I was concerned that such small/delicate letters would rip when I removed them from the die, but that was not the case...they came out very easily and looked great!

I loosely followed a sketch from the TGF Double Take Tuesday's Challenge. Well, without further adieu, here she is - Her Highness, Queen Bean in all her glory:
I used my favorite blonde copics for her hair (to sort-of match my own): Y11, Y21, YR23  - it makes such a pretty golden blonde color

The Entire Card - Pink and Fabulous (it's not manly but it's from me, so I made it reflective of my personality)

My Supplies (Love my Sizzix Framelits!)

The Back of All of My Cards - The Heart stamp is from Stampin' Up and I bought the barcode stamp at Joann's a few years ago.

I have to also have a mom-moment and leave you with my 2.5 year old daughter's first picture using TGF stamps and crayons. :)

I am entering into the following challenges:

TGF's Double-Take Tuesday Challenge - It's a Sketch!

7 Kids College Fund Challenge #71 Anything Goes

Sizzix May Challenge

For the Love of Washi

For the Love of Washi

Ok, I'll be the first to admit it - I jumped on the Washi bandwagon awhile back. I bought a nice stack of washi tape during a sale on Pick Your Plum and Scrapbooksteals.com.  However, I keep forgetting to use it! When I made this card, I looked through my washi tape and saw this cute green scrolling one and thought it fit so well with Your Highness Lucy. This was my first time getting inky with her and I had a great time. I'm actually pretty pleased with the way her hair turned out. For pearls I used white liquid pearls. To give the image a little more sparkle, I colored her crown, shoes, and champagne with Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen - Gold. 

I'm submitting this to the Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps Challenge #102 - Washi Tape

Flower Child

Ok, I've been incredible MIA lately but I wanted to get back to publishing some of my cards. As you know I'm a complete TGF addict so I just had to get Anya Blooms as soon as she came on the market. I still don't have an acrylic block big enough for the Big Time Anyas but I find that just applying even pressure to the back of the stamp is all that is required to get a good impression on the paper. I just purchased a few W copics so I played around with making her dress Khaki. I used W1, W3, and W5. I now want W00 and W7 & W9 to complete the collection and offer more versatility. These daisies remind me of my wedding - I made the colors of the daisies the colors I used in my wedding. Very happy with how this card turned out, especially her hair color. What do you think?




Close-up image of her hair.

I'm entering this card into Marker Pop's Challenge Anything Goes

Quick Bday Card - World Cardmaking Day

Here is a birthday card I made for my grandmother's 90th birthday party yesterday. It was my first time coloring up the sweet TGF Cheeky Cherry Pie. I used the sketch from The Greeting Farm's Double Take Tuesday. I really am not a fan of how her hair turned out. I used E31, E33, and Y28. It did not blend well but oh well.

Here is the sketch I followed. This was the first time I followed a sketch so it was an interesting experience. Thanks for the inspiration!

I would like to add this card to the following challenge:

The Greeting Farm - Double Take Tuesday

Pink TGF

Hi, just a quick post today to enter the TGF Farm Fresh Friday Challenge before the deadline.

This is my first time coloring up Cheeky Geeky from The Greeting Farm. She is adorable! I'm really working on hair and I think I'm getting better. I've been watching some great tutorials that I will try and remember to share later.

Copic Colors Used:  YG03, RV00, RV02, RV04, E35, E37, E39, B00, B02, C3

Ingredients:

Paper - DCWV - Glitter Sweet Mat Stack

Ink - Memento Angel Pink

Glossy Accents for her glass lenses

Stamps: TGF Cheeky Geeky, CTMH D1003 "Girly Girl" and CTMH S1206 "Life is Tweet"

Sizzix Sizzlits Decorative Label Set 4

Sizzix Framelits Scallop Oval

I paper pieced her dress and then tried to color coordinate her to the paper.


I would like to enter the following challenges:

The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Friday Challenge (Pink)
Mad for Markers - Think Pink October Challenge
Oozak - Challenge #7 Die Cuts
A Breast Cancer Awareness Blog - Link up for Pink