Club Anya Blog Hop!

Hello! I hope you're enjoying the Club Anya Blog Hop and seeing all the wonderful Christmas creations from the bloggers! I know everyone has made some wonderful items, and I can't wait to hop myself and see all of them. For my gift box I used a perfect winter time image from Rain Snow and Shine to top off my box. I think this will make a great little tote box for Gabi to give to a friend filled with candies or a few lip glosses. I had so much fun the other day making a card that had fun flock with glitter that I used it again on here. I just added some green Martha Stewart glitter to white fun flock. I colored her with copics. I topped the box with some pretty bling snowflakes. I thought the side needed a little fun too, so I added some ribbons, and snowflakes on it too.

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Cool Blue!

Mercy, I love this card! Seems like forever since I was able to stamp. Busy with the holidays and Gabi's birthday. We were able to give her a very memorable 10 year birthday. Not only did she get to do a night at the Great Wolf Lodge, we took her to American Girl and Bistro for a birthday shopping trip. She loved it and went crazy in there. She was able to pick out a new doll, and got Elizabeth. The place is so cute, both dolls ate at the table with us! Such a fun day for us to share together.
Amazing how quickly life gets sometimes, as I can't believe I haven't been on here since last week! I was able to squeeze in quite a few challenges on this card! And man, does it look great because of it! I love playing along with the challenges, and am so thankful that so many talented people put them on line for me to play along! I snatched this Greeting Farm set at Rachel's Store when she was having a fun Cyber Monday sale. Grabbed a few more Greeting Farm stamps from her while I was there. I popped out the hand muff, the cuffs of her boots, and cut and glue the ear muffs down. They looked weird popped out. The glitter part is made out of white fun flock, and green glitter.

Here's my challenges:

Pile It On: Flowers and Flourishes.

JUGS-Sketch.

Cute Card Thursday-Swirly Girly!

La La Land-Buttons.

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge-The cool blue and the snowflakes were part of my inspiration.

Pink Elephant-Favorite Coloring Medium-Copics.

Ooh La La-Child's Card. My 10 year old daughter loves this image, and all the bling! This will go to her 10 year old friend for Christmas.

Farm Fresh Friday-Color Combo-Baja Blue, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, and White.

Gotta show off my kid for a moment too. She created a card for her friend whose party was today. Sadly, the little girl fell at the skating rink, broke her leg and ankle in the fall. Right as the party was getting started. So, the poor thing left to the hospital, came back right before it eneded to open some gifts, and say bye to her guest. I felt so badly for her. Than my sweet kid wanted to come home and make her a get better card! I'm guessing we'll work on that tomorrow. I helped color the skin on her card, and helped glue it down.

Supplies: Copics, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses, stickles, Martha glittler, SU cardstock-choco chip, baja breeze, choco chip ink, Greeting Farm stamp, nesties, CB folder, fun flock

Gabi's-Raspberry Fizz paper, and ink, Copics, DCWV Sweet stack, Greeting Farm, stickles, nesties,

Gabi is Ten!

Today is Gabi's tenth birthday! The years sure do fly by! We did a small celebration today with a few gifts. One of her gifts came from her Grandma and PawPaw, which was a new outfit for one of her dolls. She got to open gifts before cake, first time ever, too! She was excited about it! So, her doll was changed into the new dress before she blew out her candles. Tomorrow, she gets to head to American Girl Doll Bistro for a celebration there. Sadly, I know she's into the dolls now, but in a few short years, that will be the last thing on her mind! It's gonna be boys! Sheesh! LOL! Wish the world could slow down sometimes! She's truly a blessing to the family. She's such a happy young lady. It's been fun to watch her grow each year! Just wish she wasn't so close to passing me in height!

Quick Mojo!

I managed to pull together a card quickly tonight. I had stamped out some of this cute image by Victoria Case from Susana's store to mail off to some friends as a RAK. Grabbed it, colored her and I was lucky to find some pattern paper that already had the design elements from the Mojo Monday layout. All I had to do was cut it out, and layer it on my base. Than I decided to throw in a few more challenges real fast.

Mojo Monday sketch.

Pink Elephant Recipe card-brads, plaid, and no ribbon. I hope scrappers floss is legal on that challenge! The buttons on the image are actually brads.

Try It Out Tuesday-buttons.

Spoon Full Of Sugar-brown and either blue or pink.

Supplies: Victoria Case stamp, Verve Stamp-sentiment, copics, DCWV Sweet Stack paper, Close to Cocoa paper, Pink Piro. ink, stickles, brads, button, scrappers floss.

Thanks a bunch!

A quick fun card today. I grabbed this stamp from Susana's store a few weeks back. I stamped off some images for friends, and mailed them out, but hadn't played with her yet. I was excited to get some of these, such a cute line from Victoria Case. I did manage to pull in a few challenges with this one.

This is CPS's sketch 143.

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge 34.

Pile It On Rub Ons. Shame on me, I've had these rub ons for a few years now!

JUGS 8 Color Combo Real Rust, Bashful Blue, and Pumpkin.

Daring Cardmakers Initial Thoughts, first letter of your name, Anna=Autumn.

Bee Crafty A Touch Of Bling. (Will have to add the link to this later. My computer froze when I clicked on there to get the link. My desktop isn't happy with me lately!)

Supplies: stickles, Victoria Case stamp, SU rub ons, Reflections paper pack, Real rust ink and paper, MS punch, nesties, copics.

Thanks for stopping by! Not sure how much blogging I'll get done this week. We're visiting with family for Thanksgiving. Gabi's birthday is Friday. She's turning ten! Trey's class is doing a big Indian Day on Wed. Gabi's got a field trip on Monday. So, lots of running around for me! If I'm not back on here, I hope you all celebrating Turkey Day have a blessed one with family and friends!

Like, Adorable!

Been a crazy week! No time to stamp this week. At least it feels that way! Here's a quick card I finally got done. Did a few challenges on this one.

Mojo Monday sketch.

Flutterby Wed open challenge.

Cupcake Inspiriational Challenge.

Cute Card Thursday-Teen Terrors.

JUGS-Dry embossing and birthday.

Pile It On-5 pearls, and three flowers.

Cupcake Craft Challenge-digital image. I got my image from All That's Scraps, it's the digital version of it.

Supplies: Basic Grey Nook paper line, SU Cameo Coral cardstock, and ink, Close to cocoa ink and cardstock, nesties, TAC sentiment, one is retired, stickles.

First Cricut Page.

Man, I love this tool! I am so impressed with how well that thing cuts! I did this page last week, waiting for my Cricut to arrive. I than cut out my title, the trees, stocking and the ornaments. I was working on another title for a different page when I lost power last night. But I just love how this page turned out! I was amazed watching it cut each letter, and stuff. Love how it'll layer things. I barely touched what this machine can do, and will have fun learning more things on it. So, here's my first work of art with it! The trees are layered with the polka dotted pattern paper. And the cutting out of the ornaments is so detailed!

Side topic, we had a nice Nor'easter come thru yesterday. Kids were off school yesterday and today. Paul was in GA at Home Office, and got trapped there, because the weather was so bad. The bridge outside my neck of the woods is flooded, so we can't cross to the peninsula from there. Paul has now made it back to our area, but has to take the long way home, because of the bridge. We lost power about 8 last night, and it kicked back on around 2 this afternoon. We have a generator, but it hadn't been used, and not something I knew how to operate. So, my neighbors came and set it up for me, so I could plug back up the fridge and freezer. Than I put on the tv to give the kids something to do, other than fight!

Other supplies: DCWV cardstock, pattern paper, TAC stamp, SU garden green ink, stickles, nesties, Queen and Co brads.