TGF Flirty Anya Thank You Card

Happy Sunday, everyone! I wanted to share this card before I put it in the mail this week. I love this little lady from the Greeting Farm. The weekend I organized all my Greeting Farm stamps (see that post here), I knew that I wanted to make cards with the Flirty Anya stamp. She's so bright and cheerful. I was also super excited to use my new Sew Easy from We R Memory Keepers which I hope to use often. I ordered it back in January from an Ebay dealer when all my normal online sources were out of stock. Now I understand that its back in stock at most places, so I might have to look into getting more accessories for it. Basically, it allows you to do stitching without a sewing machine and without worrying about evenly spacing your hand stitches. Very neat. Anyway, have a great Sunday and here's my card:





Materials
The Greeting Farm - Flirty Anya
Copic markers
Paperytrey Ink cardstock and ribbon
DCWV Summer Designs matstack
Cake Basics Cricut cart for the scalloping
Stampin Up - So Happy For You stamp collection
bling and twine from my stash

The Greeting Farm Collection

Just like my Cricut, which got me into obsessive paper crafting (rather than just once a year cards), the Greeting Farm got me into stamping. I am still far from an expert colorer and have dozens of stamps that have never graced the face of a project, but I love collecting them! Be sure to check out my wishlist, before you go.



Here's the list of my collection so far, colored pictures to come:

Anya and Ian
Fancy Anya - finally bought last week!
Flapper Anya
Fleur Anya
Flirty Anya
Hippie Anya
Oh Boy! Ian
Rain Snow Shine (teenage Anya) - just got this yesterday!
Rockstar Anya
My Guy Ian (teenage Ian) - just got this yesterday!
Rescue Ian
Rockstar Anya

Cheeky Cherry
Cheeky Rockabilly
Cheeky Mate

Oliver and Amelia Collections
OA Journey
OA - Just for You

Others
Savannah

Wish List
Cheeky Chat
Cheeky Cherry Pie
Cheeky Glamour (a Marilyn Monroe kind of gal)
Surfer Anya

My Pink Stamper Stamps

At the moment, I have 7 sets of Robyn's (aka My Pink Stamper) stamps. Originally designed to coordinate with Cricut images, most of the says are clever little puns ("punny") and tend to be more fun than stock greetings like "Happy Birthday" and "Have a Great Day," although she has those too. Like all the other folks on the internet, she advertises them as "high quality photo-polymer." I must admit that they are thicker than many of my old Hero Art stamps and definitely more so than generic acrylic stamps that I have. Still, for me, the big selling point is the cleverness of the compilations. You can check out all her stamps on her products page here. I have bought or received most of the sets in my collection from Custom Crops, however a couple have come from Hallmark Scrapbook and Crafts to Favor. I recently discovered that they are also available on Amazon from CrafteCorner's Amazon store, which is awesome because I could use my Amazon gift certificates.

As of now, I have:

Fruit and Veggie Puns


Punny-licious
- She released this stamp set with the Create a Critter cartridge and it was a HUGE hit that was widely imitated around the net. It is possible that she copied the idea first, possibly from Provocraft who includes numerous puns in their word art. Nonetheless, this stamp set is awesome and its popularity spawned a bunch of others around the 'net.


More Punny-licious
- Following the success of Punny-licious, this was her next set of funny phrases that go great with multiple cartridges.


Even More Punny-licious


Spooky Puns
-I made more Halloween cards than ever last year with this set.


Winter Punnies
- This is a great Winter set, not really Christmas-y at all.


Happiest Moments
- Great all-occasion set.


In the mail, ordered from Craftecorner via Amazon, are:

Sweetest Cupcakes


Fabulous Phrases


Sweet Baby


Buggy Punnies

Halloween Day 7: The Greeting Farm "Hallo Witch"

As you may know, the Greeting Farm released their new line of Halloween stamps Wednesday morning. I couldn't wait and ordered a couple first thing, even before having my coffee. What is great about them is that they're digitals ("digis"), which means that you print them directly from your computer. While I prefer physical stamps to digis most of the time, these were so cute that I really appreciated the instant gratification. (They're also cheaper, too). I assume that these images will only be digis since it is rather late in the Halloween card-making season and most rubber stamps shipped soon after CHA, but who knows?

Here's my first Halloween card since last month. Of the the set of new stamps, she's my favorite. Don't worry, I'm still working on the last recipe box and will hopefully have it up on Friday or Saturday.





Materials:
- Paper: A2 card base in kraft card stock, 4 x 5.25" pattern paper - Recollections "Time Frame," leftover strips of paper from the K & Co "Halloween Tim Coffey".
- Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Hallo Witch", colored with Copics; My Pink Stamper "Spooky Puns" stamped with Colorbox chalk ink.
- Embellishments: hemp, buttons
- Adhesives: Pink ATG gun, glue dots
- Special Tools: Scor-Buddy

The Greeting Farm: Fleur Anya

Here are two more super simple cards using Fleur Anya. I colored both of these before I got my Neenah paper and E000 Copic marker, so it's not my best work. Nonetheless, I like her. I used a scrap of paper from my stash. Have a great week.





Materials:

- Paper: A2 blue card base, pattern paper cut at 4 x 2.75", cardstock cut at 5.25 x 4" for mat and lining.

- Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "FleurAnya", stamped using Ranger Archival ink and clear embossed before coloring with Copics, Hero Arts "Friends" stamped using Colorbok chalk ink,

- Embossing folder: Cuttlebug flowers

-Embellishments: small tag cut at 1" using Gypsy Wanderings

- Adhesives: Pink ATG gun, Zig two-way glue pen, hemp

Flapper Anya

This has got to be my favorite Greeting Farm stamp as I keep going back to her. I'm using up scraps, so I don't remember what the dots are, but I know I used it last month, so if you're really curious browse back!



Materials:

- Paper: A2 blue card base, pattern paper cut at 3.5", cardstock cut at 5.25 x 3", pink strip of cardstrip 1.5" x 4.25" (before punching)

- Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Flapper Anya", stamped using Ranger Archival ink and clear embossed before coloring with Copics, Hampton Art "You and Me" stamped using Memento ink,

- Punch(es): Martha Stewart Doily Lace

-Embellishments: gems

- Adhesives: Pink ATG gun

Get Well Bear

No, no one's sick (that I know of), but I couldn't resist this adorable bear from Kaban Stamps. I think the set's called "Little Friends." I cut the bear out of the picture as there's a little table and some bottles, which really didn't fit on this card. I'm actually thinking that I probably could use him on a different sort of card, maybe a miss you or something that. Regardless, he's cute! I used a new border punch that I got at Michaels (it's their Recollections line). These daisies are cute, but the punch doesn't seem too sturdy and is stiff. Here's my card.



Materials:

- Paper: A2 white card base, pattern paper cut at 4 x 5.25", green strip of cardstrip 1.5" x 4.25" (before punching)

- Adhesives: Pink ATG gun, Zig two-way glue pen, glue dots

- Stamp(s): Kanban "Little Friends", stamped using Ranger Archival ink and clear embossed before coloring with Copics, Hero Arts "Everyday Sayings" stamped using Memento ink, Colorbox chalk ink for distressing.

- Punch(es): Recollections flower border punch, Marvy Uchida 1.5" circle punch

-Embellishments: ribbon, gems

The Greeting Farm: WS - Savannah

Happy Friday! This fun girl is another Greeting Farm stamp. I colored her with my Copics.




Materials:

- Paper: A2 white card base; pattern paper (DCWV "It's a Boy") cut 4 x 5.25", pattern paper mat cut about 3.5 x 4" (We R Memory Keepers?); strip of pink card stock 5.5 x about 1.5" before punching; and 2 x 4.25" pink card stock.

-Stamp(s): Greeting Farm: WS Savannah stamped using Archivers ink, embossed with clear embossing powder and colored with Copics; Dreamer's Designs "Birthday 2" stamped with Memento ink.

- Adhesives: Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro

- Punches: MS Doily Lace, Corner Chomper

- Embellishment(s):ribbon, Sakura gel pen.

New Kanban stamps!

This stamp set is my first order from a shop across the pond. I saw stamps from this stamp set by Kanban called Little Friends on a blog and had to find them for myself. The rest of the set includes two more bears, as well as various sentiments. Even with the poor exchange rate with the Euro, I got a pretty good deal, including shipping from Funky Kits.



Materials:

- A2 black card base; white lining cut 4 x 5.25", small strip of yellow card stock approximately 4 x 1.5," orange mat cut at about 3.5 x 4", small strip of pink card stock 4.25" x about .75" before punching, and a small strip of patterned blue cut at 4.25 x .5"

-Stamp(s): Kanban Stamps "Little Friends" stamped using Archivers ink and embossed with clear embossing powder; Stampendous "Notes for a Friend," stamped using Memento ink

- Adhesives: Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro

- Punches: MS Doily Lace

- Embellishment(s)::ribbon, gems

Paper Cutz Challenge # 52

I'm participating in my first challenge at Paper Cutz Challenge (Mary's blog). The challenge was to make a card using only red, white, blue, black and yellow. (I promise the dotted paper is red, not pink!) The heart is from Inkadinkado Dawn Houser's Thank You that has a number of beautiful images, including a vintage ball gown that I hope to use soon.



Materials:

- A2 white card base, scraps from GCD Studios and DCWV

- Stamp(s): Inkadinkado Dawn Houser's Thank You (heart); an old Hero Arts (?)(sentiment) stamped using Colorbox chalk ink

- Adhesives: Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro, foam tape, glue dots

- Punches: Martha Stewart Doily Lace, corner chomper

- Embellishment(s)::Ribbon (Target)

The Greeting Farm: Hippie Anya

The mat and pattern paper are from GCD Studios and are part of what I brought home from CHA and even though these are the colors of my rival high school, I really like it. I didn't want to overwhelm the stamped image, thus after playing around with the layout for what seemed like ages, I went for this incredible simple design.




Materials:

- A2 white card base, 4 x 5.25 mat, 1.5 x 4.5" strip of pattern paper, 4 x .75" strip of cardstock

- Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Hippie Anya" stamped with Ranger Archival ink and embossed using clear embossing power; Hero Arts "Friends" and Inkadinkadoo "Expressions" stamped with Colorbox chalk ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.

- Adhesives: Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro, foam tape

- heart embellishment from my stash




Here's the inside.

The Greeting Farm: Fleur Anya

As I posted a couple days ago, I got a bunch of new Copic markers at CHA. Here's another version of the Fleur Anya stamp colored using some of my new markers. I'm still working on my coloring,and wasn't able to take the Copic class at CHA, but hopefully practice will make perfect.



Materials:

- A2 yellow card base, 4 x 5.25 pattern paper (I used DCWC Summer Dream), green strip of cardstock 5.25" x 2"

- Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Fleur Anya" stamped with Ranger Archival ink and embossed using clear embossing power; Hero Arts "Friends," stamped with Colorbox chalk ink.

- Punch(es): 2" Scallop

- Adhesives: Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro, foam tape

- Ribbon from Michaels

The Greeting Farm: Hippie Anya

Sorry for the late posting, but I actually colored her at work and then put her together at home. (My boss is on vacation, so other than manning the phones and getting ahead on a few things, it's pretty quiet at work.) I'm still working on the skin tones for people stamps, and may have to order a few more Copic markers. However, tomorrow I'm going to the CHA Supershow, so I'm am trying to behave. (It didn't work so well earlier during the week as Michaels had a screaming Cuttlebug/Cricut sale which I wasn't expecting when I went in for glue dots and an album, but I didn't buy anything today.) Anyway, here she is:



Materials:

- A2 white card base, 4 x 5.25" pattern paper by We R Memory Keepers ("Write Out Collection")

- Adhesives: Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro, glue dots

- Stamps:Greeting Farm Hippie Anya using Ranger Archival ink (embossed with clear embossing powder), colored with Copics, and Hero Arts "Everyday Sayings" using Colorbox chalk ink

- Punch(es): small circle punch, about 1.5"

- Embellishments: buttons from Michaels dollar bin

The Greeting Farm: Rain Rain

It's been hot as heck these past few days, easily into the 90s with the heat index. We had also been promised thunderstorms as a result of the heat. After three days of promised storms but nothing, we finally got a couple of brief cloud bursts last evening. Since five new Copic markers had arrived in the mail, I saw it as an opportunity to work on my coloring technique (which still has miles to go, unfortunately).



Materials:

- A2 kraft card base

- dark blue cardstock cut at 4 x 5.25"

- Cartridge(s): Gypsy Wanderings - Stem1 (Decor Tag Feature) cut at 4", then cut in half to make an oval, also cut at 1.5" and 1/75"; Fleur2 (Decor Tag Feature) cut at 4 x 5")

- Adhesives: Tombow Mono Adhesive, Zig 2-way glue pen, tape

- Stamps: Stampendous "Notes for a Friend," The Greeting Farm "HG Rain Rain," using Copic markers, Colorbox chalk ink, and Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Old Paper"

- Stickles, ribbon (1/8")

- Corner Chomper

The Greeting Farm: Flapper Anya

Hello everyone. Here is another card featuring a stamp from The Greeting Farm. I'm really liking how just a different color scheme creates a completely different card. Here's my first card using this stamp, and as you can see it looks very different. Today's card looks a little more springy and youthful, while last week's card might be a bit more sophisticated. I also used mostly scraps for this card, along with some fun dollar bin ribbon from Michaels.



Materials:

- A2 white card stock base

- Small scrap paper from DCDV Nana's Kitchen collection, cut at 4" x 2.75"

- Blue card stock, cut 3.5 x 3.5" and embossed using a Cuttlebug folder "Spots and Dots"

- The Greeting Farm Stamp: Flapper Anya colored with Tombow dual brush markers

- Ribbon from Michaels

- Message from Stampendous stamp set "Happy Messages"

- corner rounder

- Adhesives: foam tape, Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro, glue dots

The Greeting Farm: Fleur Anya

Good morning. Here is another card featuring a stamp from The Greeting Farm. Sorry for the washed out pix, but it's an incredibly bright and sunny morning. The paper is from a DCWV collection called "Nana's Kitchen." even though the paper wasn't too dark, I decided to put a lining on the inside and use a new corner punch from Fiskars.



Materials:

- A2 blue card stock base

- Mint green card stock cut at 4 x 5.25," punched using the Martha Stewart Edge "Scallop Dot Edge " punch

- DCWV pattern paper from the Nana's Kitchen paper pad, cut to 4 x 5"

- white or cream card stock for lining, cut at 4 x 5.25" and punched with Fiskars twist and flip 2-in1 corner punch (scalloped edge design)

- The Greeting Farm Stamp: Fleur Anya colored with Tombow dual brush markers

- Colorbok adhesive gems

- Ribbon from Michaels

- Message from Hero Arts stamp collection called "Everyday Sayings"

- corner rounder

- Adhesives: foam tape, Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro, glue dots, tape

Flapper Anya

I am so thrilled to report that all (or almost all) the websites that were blocked on Friday are now available to me. My building upgraded its wireless internet, which we receive included as part of the rent, and somehow everything under the sun was block--Netflix, Youtube, UStream, Goggle's Picasso, and Photobucket. After leaving a nasty voicemail with my management office Friday afternoon, by late evening (after 10p), I was able to get on UStream. The next morning most everything else was accessible, except for Photobucket. Regardless, it most inconvenient being without Photobucket, even though I had access to Blogger. For both posts on Saturday and Sunday I had to email the pictures to Photobucket, and then use my Iphone Photobucket app to move them to the right folder and get the url. It was a looong process, in case you couldn't tell. On a whim, Sunday evening I tried it again and yay! (Come Monday, when the manager listens to my message, he will likely think I'm nuts. Oh well.)

As I mentioned on Friday, my first Greeting Farm stamps arrived. Here's my first and extremely simple card using the limited edition stamp called Flapper Anya.



Materials:

- A2 white card base

- Making Memories pattern paper from the Heritage Collection called "Scroll Dark - Deep Red"

- purple and white cardstock scraps

- Greeting Farm "Flapper Anya" stamp colored with Tombow dual brush markers.

- Prima flowers

- Colorbox Chalk ink, Stampendous stamp from "Notes for a Friend."

The Greeting Farm

I finally joined the Greeting Farm stamps craze. These two came in the mail yesterday:



They're called Flapper Anya and Fleur Anya. I finished coloring Flapper Ana already and hope to add it to a card to post tomorrow.

I also purchased these two in digital form:


50s Sweetheart


HG Rain

Check back for cards using these gorgeous stamps.

Happy Birthday - Jungle

This was cut using my new Pooh Font cartridge! It's an awesome font cartridge that even comes with honey pots and baby Poohs. The animals are from the Paper Co's Jungle clear stamp set. After all this time, I finally learned the difference between types of inks, specifically that water-based inks will not coat big images as well as chalk or pigment inks. My favorite right now are Colorbox's chalk inks and I definitely plan on getting more when I can. I put the animals on green cardstock and popped them up with foam tape. I used the Zig two-way glue to adhere all the little letters and ran the big ones through my Xyron.

Fairies

The stamps were free from Papercraft Inspirations a couple of months ago. I colored them in with pencils, but am thinking of investing in watercolor markers or crayons, or other fancy pens.