Fairy Tale Card for Saturated Canary Challenge

Hello and Happy Tuesday, everybody! I have been working on some challenge entries and I have for your viewing pleasure today, my entry for Saturated Canary's current challenge, for which the theme is "Fairy Tales".  I have been wanting to color this image forEVER and I finally got time to work on her over last weekend, finished the card and took photos yesterday and now I'm writing the blog post to go with it.  It's exciting for me to get back to posting on my blog more regularly as I have dearly missed it over these past few months when life managed to get in the way of my creativity.

This is the Wicked Queen from the tale of Snow White. I guess Krista retired her because I could not find her in her online shop. She doesn't look evil, does she? But you can see she holds the poisoned apple in her hand and she fully intends on giving it to the unsuspecting princess. Such is the nature of jealousy!

This is a very large card, measuring 9" square! I had this awesome paper from DCWV's Once Upon A Time stack that was perfect for this project and I just couldn't bear to cut off more than the edges.  I wanted to leave the beakers, vials and bottles intact.

I need to add here that my intent toward the recipient of this card is not malicious in the very least! My using the Wicked Queen is simply to illustrate the "magical" part of the sentiment. 

The queen was, of course, colored with Copics.  

I double matted the background paper on black and blue cardstock.  The cool swirly ribbon is from my stash but I think I got it at Michael's not very long ago so you might be able to find some there.  The bow is black organza wrapped and tied with gold cording. The crown charm was pewter color but I used a Golden Yellow Copic marker to color it and then added the little jewels to it, the circle die cut behind the image and the antique black lace. The lettering is done entirely with stickers. I edged the background as well as the circle frame in metallic gold gel pen.  

The paper I used inside the card is also from the Once Upon A Time stack and the sentiment is a sticker that I bought years ago from a scrapbook store that has since gone out of business.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Saturated Canary - #30 (Fairy Tales)
Through The Craftroom Door - #44 (Anything Goes)

That's it for today, folks.  I'll be back tomorrow or Thursday with another challenge card.  I'm just not sure which one yet.  So until then, take care and...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee 

I'm baaack! With a new DT project for Kenny K's Krafty Krew!

Hello, friends!

If you are still hanging in here with me, you probably already knew that I would be MIA for a while as I just moved back to the Houston area a few weeks ago and am finally back in my craft room. Well, more accurately, I actually HAVE a craft room now! It took a little while after my relocation to find all of the boxes that contained my crafting supplies and get it organized and put in place in the new space but I'm back now and have I ever missed my paper crafting! Yay!!

I'm a little late posting this and for that I apologize. As my luck seems to go all too often these days, right after I posted my project on the Krafy Krew blog, my internet service went down and I was without access from Sunday evening until this afternoon. That prevented me from posting to my personal blog before now.

My first project is for the new challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Krew for which the theme is "Anything But A Card". I made a gift tag using Kenny's brand new digi called "Bow" (the adult version). She is available for purchase here. What a sexy gal she is too, don't you agree? I don't know many guys who would/could refuse a gift like her! LOL  In case you weren't aware, Kenny just released several new designs, most of which are for the upcoming holiday season. "Bow" is just one of those new designs. Even if you don't have the supplies or time to color your own version of Bow (as well as 5 other Christmas digis), you can purchase the pre-colored versions which can be cut out and popped right onto your tags or other holiday projects.

This is the back side of the tag. I used WOW! Embossing Powders in Black Glint on the front greeting and in Metalline Green on the back. The image is colored with Copic markers.

Again, I am thrilled to be back in the craft room and creating again. I missed you all very much. It's my hope that nothing else happens to keep me away again for a long while. I just don't function well at all without my creative time. Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you'll visit again soon as I have many things planned for the approaching holidays. So, until next time...

Happy crafting!!

Anniebee

CDAC Progressive Challenge - Week 2

Woohoo!  CDAC's Progressive Freebie Challenge is in it's second week, which will end shortly after I post my entry!  I am down to the wire with this one but I think I'll make the deadline with a few minutes to spare.  The rules are that you have to enter at least one project to receive the next set of images for free.  This week, the theme is Back to School.  I chose this cute little school girl by Stamp n Doodle, which was one of the free images we were given to use on our projects.  Isn't she adorable?  I wanted the card to be girly, even though it is all about school so I made it pink and embossed the background with the Cuttlebug folder called Typeset.  I don't have school-aged children so I don't have too many things that work for this theme but I figured the alphabet letters would work as well as anything.  I ran a darker pink chalk ink pad over the embossed image to make it more pronounced.  The little girl is colored with Copics.  The pocket watch stamp is by Studio 112 and the little alphabet tiles came in a collage kit my sister gave me for Christmas a few years ago.  The big pink bow is made from organza ribbon from my stash.  

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge - Week 2 (Back to School)

That's it for today.  Check back on Friday for my newest creation for my JustWordz Design Team.  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you enjoy this little card as much as I did making it.  Until then...

Happy crafting!

Anniebee

Happy Tuesday and an Anniversary card...

Hi, all!  Today, I thought I would show you the card I made to go with the photo mat I featured here a couple of days ago.  This card was made with a digi stamp designed by one of my fellow Outlawz teamies, Sandi Huggett who offers some of her fabulous digis to the entire membership free of charge!  If you'd like to see her designs and take advantage of her generosity, visit us at The Outlawz Challenges, become a member and look in the freebies tab. We host a different challenge each day of the week and offer some really cool prizes, with a great prize for one lucky person at the end of each month. Come check us out!

Anyway, back to my card. This pretty pitcher is graced by a bunch of beautiful pansies, one of my favorite flowers. I decided to be a little adventurous and made a gate-fold card this time. As I mentioned on the post for the signature mat, my friends celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary on the 26th of this month so I wanted to make a special card for them. Their wedding colors were dark yellow and white (eek!) but I just couldn't make myself use that color scheme so I included a bit of the dark yellow on the pansies. My niece, who is a cake decorator, recreated their wedding cake, complete with yellow roses, so they had plenty of that color to remind them of their wedding day. I love purple in nearly any shade and decided to use it as a contrasting color to the yellow. Here's how the card turned out. You can click on the individual pics to enlarge them.

The closed card is 6" square and opened up, it's approximately 14 1/2"! The image is colored with Copics and coated with a couple of layers of Diamond Glaze to make it shiny like hand-painted glazed porcelain. I also added an extra layer of the glaze over the pansies to raise them and add texture. The card base is Core'dinations cardstock in an almost dusty plum color with the mats, also Core'dinations, a shade or two lighter. The dp is from my stash but I think it's an older pattern from K and Company. I found the ribbon in Michael's dollar bin and the green mini ric rac came from Jo-Ann. I cut a paper doily in half and folded the cut end over to give the appearance of a tabletop lace doily. The little purple flowers are Flora Doodles and the purple pearls are from Recollections. I used Martha Stewart's Eyelet Lace Punch Around the Page set to create the inside mat. The Happy Anniversary greeting is by Stampendous and is stamped on white smooth cardstock, layered over gold glitter and medium purple cardstock and popped up to add dimension. Not shown in the pictures, I stamped the inside mat with a passage from Corinthians13:13 that says, "There are three things that last... faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. I thought this sentiment was appropriate for a couple who is in as much love today as they were 33 years ago.

Don't forget to check out Sandi Huggett's free digi stamps, as well as some other beautiful ones from Anne Fenton (another of my Outlawz teamies) on the challenge site. These two ladies are so sweet to share their talents with us and they are constantly changing out and adding new images.

Thanks for stopping by today. As always, I love reading your comments. I have an engagement tonight but if I get home in time to type up the post, there will be another card tomorrow for your viewing pleasure. Until then....

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Jillian's Birthday Blog Hop - Day 3

Jillian's Birthday Blog Hop - Day 3

Welcome to Jillian's Birthday Blog Hop!  We're super happy to have you hopping with us today.

Before I go any farther, I'd like to ask you to please vote for your favorite project from this blog hop here!  More information can be found toward the bottom of this post.

Welcome back for Day 3 of our 4-day blog hop in honor of our friend, Jillian's, 12th birthday which takes place on the 14th. If you were here Friday or yesterday, you no doubt were inspired by all of the awesome birthday projects you saw.  Once again, we have all new ones to show you today! If this is your first time hopping with us, then you may want to go back to Friday's posts to see what you missed and to find out more about the birthday girl herself. She is one very talented and ambitious young lady to be sure. And if you're not familiar with her stamps, you owe it to yourself to check them out on her website. 

If you have arrived here by way of Deanne's Creative Juice, you're headed in the right direction.  If you're just stopping by to visit or have happened here by chance, you might want to start at Deanne's blog so you can hop along with us.  There might be blog candy at some of the stops and you wouldn't want to miss anything!  The blog list should be posted at each stop in case you get lost.

I have another birthday card today only this one is geared toward the men in our lives.  This image, from Phindy's Place, is called "Mr. Brown Goes Surfing".  He's the counterpart to "Mrs. Comfy Goes Surfing" that I featured on my blog on June 6th.  To see her, click here.  Again, I colored this image with my Copic markers. 

Tan card base and blue mats are from Core'dinations. The dp is from my scrap box but I believe they were originally from a DCWV stack though I can't remember which one. The greeting stamp is Studio G and the inside sentiment is part of the Fiskars clear stamp set called "Make A Wish Quotes".  The cute brown gingham ribbon is from Michael's and the corner punch used on the inside mats is from Stampin' Up.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing my card and I hope Jillian likes it, even though it's not for a girl.

Voting Information:

Deanne has made things interesting by offering up a bit of blog candy to the participants in the hop.  The prize is a Cricut Imagine cartridge!  We are linking our projects each day during the hop to her blog so visitors can vote on them.  The crafter who created the project that receives the most votes wins the cartridge.  Please go here to cast your vote for your favorite project.  You'll find them grouped together by date.  I'd love to win but please vote for the project you like best. We would appreciate your support and your votes.

Candy Alert!

 I hope you'll come back tomorrow to see my next project.  I'll have a small parcel of blog candy for one lucky hopper.  To be entered into my drawing, all you need to do is become a follower if you aren't already and leave a comment with a way for me to contact you.  On the 14th, I will use Random. org to select one winner from all of the comments from the four days (combined).  Sorry but due to the cost of overseas shipping, I'm going to have to limit shipping to the US and Canada.  Now it's time to hop along to My Favorite Blog to see what incredible birthday project she has to show you.

Thanks for visiting today.  Here is the blog list!

Deanne's Creative Juice

Anniebees Craftroom  <--- You are here

My Favorite Blog 

Scrapping Card Making and Living with Fibro

Funky Cards 

Scrappin with Cricut 

Courts Craft Corner

Handcrafted Simply by Us

Jillian has another hop going on over at her Blog!  Go over and see what's going on there. Tell her that you came from Deanne's Blog Hop and give her some birthday love. A link to her blog is provided below:

http://www.ajillianvancedesign.com/Blog.html

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Mrs. Comfy is my kinda gal!

I'm back today with another digi stamp image. This one comes from Phindy's Place. This adorable lady is Mrs. Comfy and this particular image is called "Mrs. Comfy Goes Surfing"! She's sitting at her little table with her tea (in my house it's coffee), her feline sidekick and yummy chocolates, surfing the net. She's rockin' the animal print leggings, purple sweater, turtle slippers and silver hair... my kindred spirit! I want to be just like her when I grow up... if I ever do!

This is more of the dp from Basic Grey's Lime Rickey collection. I find it difficult to embellish very much with some of these papers because the designs are already so "busy". So I decided to keep this one clean and simple too. The sentiment is another one from Pink By Designs.

So, again there's not much to say about the supply list that you can't tell just by looking at the photos. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or put it in a comment and I'll do my best to get back to you right away. I have to finish a 4th of July card for a swap I'm in so I need to jump to it. I'll check you peeps later! Thanks so much for dropping by today. I appreciate each and every one of you!

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Three for three... I think I'm on a roll!

Happy Friday, everybody! I hope the week went well for each and every one of you. I have been doing a little more crafting and making plans for a couple of upcoming projects. I think I must be coming down off of my card making high as I feel a little disoriented without any images to color! Of course, I can't do much coloring anyway until I get ink refills for several of the markers I use the most. The problem is that none of the stores near me carry the refills so I'll have to order them online and wait for them to arrive. Ugh! I don't know why these big chain stores can't carry the items we need but what irks me more than anything is that they won't even take suggestions from their regular customers!  That's just bad business in my opinion.  It never fails that when I go to one of the big crafting stores (you know the ones I mean), they either don't carry the item I'm looking for or it's out of stock. Sorry to rant so early on a Friday morning.  I just needed to vent my frustration for a change.  Okay, down from my soapbox now... I have another card to share with you today!

I posted a card using this same digi stamp a month or so ago but after I colored this one, it looks completely different from the first one. This time, I made the her look a little younger and more innocent. I like her because she's so sweet and is easy to cut out by hand. I also like to add my own patterns to her clothes or with some care and patience, she can be printed onto patterned card stock and her shirt or jumper could be fussy cut and layered onto the colored image, the way I did with The Big Guy's shirt on my last card. It's a very versatile image that can be used for a number of different occasions. Okay, here she is.

One thing I learned in coloring all these images is that you can keep layering the Copic alcohol inks until they become fairly opaque and give the appearance of paint.  Pretty cool as far as I'm concerned.  

The deets:

The image came from DZ Doodles and was colored with Copics. It's called "I Wonder?" and is available for purchase from their store here. Base cardstock is Core'dinations with white glitter cardstock (DCWV) and light pink cardstock (Recollections) mats layered on top.  Mats are edged with darker pink chalk ink. The dp is from a My Mind's Eye 6" x 6" stack called Home.  This little stack has some really beautiful prints and lots of sparkle.  I used several sheets on the the cards I just made and I wish I had a 12" x 12" stack just like it. I used a paper doily to layer the image on and to make the sentiment, which is from a Cloud 9 clear stamp set called Simple Thoughts - Girl, stand out.  I cut the circle out with my Cutter Bee circle scissor.  The lace is from my doll making stash and the ribbon is from Michael's  All of the flowers and leaves are handmade by me from cardstock, colored and/or distressed with Copics.  The flower centers are yellow mini brads. I had to punch holes in the center of each layer of the little flowers other than the rose so I could insert the little brads. Inside borders were made using a Martha Stewart border punch and the inside verse is from the same Cloud 9 stamp set.  I used gel pens for some of the smaller details like the buttons and buckles on her jumper and the pattern on her little tee-shirt.

So there you are!  That makes 3 down and a whole bunch more to go! LOL  I hope you enjoyed this little card and that you'll come back to see what I have for you tomorrow. Beyond it being another card, I don't even know what it will be. Thanks for visiting. Your comments are welcome and appreciated. Have a wonderful Friday and a fabulous weekend!

Happy crafting,

Anniebee

2nd day in a row... are you impressed? LOL!

It's another day and I have another new card for you! I can't believe we're so close to the end of the week already! I think the holiday threw me off, even though I'm not doing the 9 to 5 thing right now. Today I have a card I made for my son for Father's Day. I think I'm safe to display it so early because I don't think he knows how to find my blog. At least I hope he doesn't! I just recently discovered the world of digi stamps and I am totally head over heels with the work of Mo Manning. You can see her digis here. I found this cute image in her store and it reminded me a lot of my son... because he loves to cook on the grill and also because he's a big guy who wears a ball cap all the time! He messed his knee up pretty bad playing football in junior high school or he might still be playing. So now he has to settle for watching it on tv. Because he lives in Houston and I live between Fort Worth and Dallas, we have a friendly fan war every football season.

Okay, I digress... here's the card. I have been trying to work on my "man" cards lately so I have made three or four in the new bunch I just finished. Even though I don't think of myself as a girlie girl, I find it easy to create projects for females but for males, not so much!  I have seen many other bloggers post comments that they share my affliction so I have made a conscious effort to work on that little issue.  This is one such attempt.

Surprise! It's an easel card!  I found that I really enjoy making this style of card so I made several this week. They don't provide as much room to write a long message as standard cards do but most people don't require it anyway and they can always enclose a letter if need be. I distressed the cardstock on this one. I have always admired this technique on other people's creations but I didn't use it myself very often. I received a Tim Holtz distressing tool in some blog candy I won a while back so I decided to put it to good use.  I was impressed with how easy it was to do and with the results. I also think it looks good with this particular design. Please tell me what you think... like it or not? Please note that there is not one single bud, blossom or bit of bling to be found anywhere on this card! Unless, of course, you want to call the metal stars and oval tag bling. Haha!

Here are the deets:

Base card is craft cardstock, cream mat is Best Occasions cardstock that I bought at Walmart a couple of years ago.  All of the blue and green dp is from an older K-Ology 6" x 6" stack.  The sentiment is from Pink by Designs "Be Mine" stamp set which is available here.  This set is so versatile!  I have used several of the stamps on my recent projects and only one of them has anything to do with Valentine's Day.  Love them!  I don't remember where I got the little metal stars but I'm going to look for more of them because I enjoy using them on my projects and I used the last of them on this card.  The blue ribbon is from Michael's and the oval metal tag was part of a barbeque cookbook recipe journal kit that I won on a blog hop.  I haven't put it together yet but I think it's coming soon.  The green punched border was made using glitter card stock from DCWV and was punched with a Martha Stewart deep border punch.  Big Guy's shirt is printed onto patterned card stock, fussy cut and layered onto the colored image.

Okay, that's it for today. I'll be back tomorrow with another bit of eye candy for you. Thanks so much for stopping by today. I look forward to reading your comments. Have a great Thursday!

Happy crafting,
Anniebee

My first digi card

Good morning, all!

I hope you are having a fantastic week so far.  I know I have been MIA for a while and I apologize for that.  As I mentioned in my last post, I had a couple of large projects that required my attention and although I'm not completely finished with the largest of the two, I managed to squeeze in the time to prepare my entry for this week's challenge at Ambers Crafts and Stuff.  To coincide with Mother's Day, our projects were created with a special lady in mind.  Amber also asked us to include a digital stamp by our wonderful sponsor for this week, DZDoodles.  I used a combination of two of the designs we were given to use, the adorable little girl and the flower pot.

I colored the images with Copics.  Because I was unable to participate in last week's challenge, this is the first time I have used a digi in my project.  It was much easier to do than I had anticipated and now I'm hooked so you can look forward to seeing more of them in my future projects.

Recipe:

Digi stamps - DZDoodles
Base card - Paper Studio
DP - K and Company's Jubilee Collection
Lacy square - Nestibilities
Lace border - Cuttlebug die
Coloring - Copic markers (sorry, I didn't write down the colors I used)
Sentiment - Stampendous
Paper roses -  Recollections Boutique Fleur

I will enter this design in the following challenges:

Diva by designs - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you all have a fabulous Mother's Day this coming Sunday.  Saturday I'm traveling to Austin for my nephew's wedding and driving back the same day so Sunday I'll probably be sleeping all day! LOL

Anniebee