Jillian's Birthday Blog Hop - Day 2

Welcome to Jillian's Birthday Blog Hop!

Welcome back for Day 2 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 yesterday, you no doubt were inspired by all of the awesome birthday projects you saw.  Well, 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 and see what everyone posted yesterday 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.


Please read the instructions below the photos to find out how to vote for your favorite project during the hop.  The creator of the project that receives the most votes will win a Cricut Imagine cartridge from Deanne!


Today, I have a furry friend to share with you and to help Jillian celebrate her special day. This little guy was sent to me by one of my sweet crafty friends, Tracy of Tracy's Stamping Corner, as part of a group of wonderful stamped images. Thanks again, Tracy!  I colored him up with my Copic markers and put him on the front of this card. I think he looks so adorable with his birthday cupcake and balloon.  I'm not sure who the stamp artist is for this one.

Card base and aqua mats are from Core'dinations. The yellow paper with stars is from the DCWV All About Boys stack and the polka dot glitter paper comes from My Mind's Eye Home Glitter Book. Both stamps are from a Fiskars clear stamp set called Make A Wish Quotes. The cute paper flowers are from K and Company. and the corner punch used on the inside mat is by Martha Stewart Crafts.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing my card and I hope Jillian likes it.

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 for 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.  I'd love to win but please vote for the project you like best. We would appreciate your support and your votes.

 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

Jillian's Birthday Blog Hop - Day 1

Welcome to Jillian's Birthday Blog Hop!

We are so glad you are here! Our friend, Jillian, is celebrating her 12th birthday on the 14th and we're helping her get her "par-tay" on by putting on this little hop and showing the projects we have made in her honor.  The hop starts today and goes through the 13th and we'll have a new project to share with you each of the four days.  If you have arrived here by way of Deanne's Creative Juice, you're headed in the right direction.  If you are 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.  The list should be posted at each stop in case you get lost.

Here's my first project; a card featuring an adorable digi stamp from Mo Manning.  If you're not familiar with Mo's work, you can see it here.  This one is called "Penelope's Party Wagon".  There are lots of great artists out there who create digi stamps for us to use on our projects and out of all of them, Mo is my favorite right now.  If you look through my blog, you'll see several of her images.

So without further delay, here she is.  Jillian, I hope you like my card.  Have a super-duper birthday weekend and I hope all of your wishes come true.  You rock!

So there you have it.  Thanks for dropping by today.  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, hop along to My Favorite Blog to see another fabulous birthday project.

Here is the blog list!

Deanne's Creative Juice

Anniebees Craftroom

My Favorite Blog 

Scrapping Card Making and Living with Fibro

Funky Cards 

Scrappin with Cricut 

Courts Craft Corner

Handcrafted Simply by Us

Jillian has a 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.  And take a look at all of her wonderful stamps sets while you're there.  They are awesome!

 

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

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

TGIF! Man, it sho' is HOT in Texas!!!

Alright, what's up with this heat??? It has been close to 100 degrees all week and we should be in the mid to high 80s right now!  I really don't need this... I really don't. But Mother Nature seems to be upset lately for some unknown reason and is lashing out at us.  And not just those of us in Texas, but all around the world!  Between the flooding, the fires and the tornadoes, I'd say Mother Nature is winning the battle and will likely win the war in the end!

Well, this little guy sure knows how to stay comfortable, doesn't he? And he doesn't mind sharing with his best buddy either! I think he has the right idea myself. I'm thinking about bathing the dogs this evening and then just turning the water hose on myself! I wonder if the neighbors would think I had a screw loose, not that I have ever been very concerned about that! LOL  This little boy is another character from the Digital Pencil of Mo Manning, if you hadn't already guessed.  it's called "It's hot"!  Go figure!  I was in search of a good image to use on my entry for The Outlawz Summer Party greeting card challenge and I thought he fit the bill perfectly.

He's colored with Copics, of course, and is partially paper pieced and popped up on pieces of foam tape so that his legs and the dogs head appear to be hanging over the side of the little pool. I don't know if you can tell from the photos but I used Diamond Glaze on the water and the glass in the swim mask to give them the shine they needed.  I think the dp came from the Best of K and Company stack but I used a leftover piece from my scrap box so I'm not positive of that.  The cute turquoise and yellow ribbon is from Michael's and the Hello and water spurt dimensional stickers are from 2 different sets from Momenta.  The corner punch I used on the inside mats is from Stampin' Up.  All of the solid color cardstock and glitter cardstock are from DCWV Mariposa collection, another of my many favorites from them.

I hope, if it's hot where you are, that this cute little boy and his dog have caused you to smile and made you feel just a tiny bit cooler.  Thanks so much for visiting me today.  I'll be back tomorrow with another card for your viewing pleasure.

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Another Mo Manning Cutie and great news!

Good morning, my crafty friends!

I'm bringing you another adorable image from Mo Manning today. This little sweetheart is called simply, "Strawberry Girl". Isn't she sweet? She's dressed in her little white cotton sun dress and sandals (they're really flip flops but sandals sounds better!) and carries a little strawberry-shaped purse. I actually made two of these in slightly different colors but I;m only going to show you one for now. This one is another easel card, which is one of my favorite style of card to make. I like them because they have their own built-in display mechanism, as do several other fancy fold cards.  

 

I'm so sorry but I forgot to write down what stacks I used for the dp but if you're interested, drop me a note and I'll find out for you. The greeting is from Jillian Vance, whose birthday we're celebrating with a blog hop next week. (there's a button on my blog with the dates of the hop). I hope you'll come hop along with us.  If you aren't already familiar with Jillian's stamps, you can check them out on her website, A Jillian Vance Design. This young lady will be 12 years old on her upcoming birthday and has her own stamp line and makes her own videos! I wish I had been as industrious and ambitious when I was her age. 

And now for my good news. I just joined The Outlawz challenge site and entered a couple of my cards in their challenges. Well, one of my cards is being featured in their gallery right now and I won the top prize for May, a $50 gift certificate from Oozak!!! I'm tellin' ya that the good Lord is looking out for me. I was out of several colors of Copic ink and wasn't sure how I was going to be able to buy the refills. Lo and behold, I won a gift certificate to an online store that carries Copic products AND they are on sale! As if that's not good enough, they have free shipping on orders over $50.! I just can't believe my good fortune! So I ordered 9 bottles of refill ink and a couple of other items and my order came to $52 and pennies. They shipped it USPS Priority Mail the same day so I should have it no later than Saturday. Can I hear a hallelujah? So I'll be back in business by the weekend.  I did a happy dance all day yesterday.

Okay, that's about all I have for today.  I hope you all have a blessed Thursday.  Thank you for dropping by today.  I'll be back tomorrow with another card that I'm entering in the Outlawz Summer Party greeting card challenge. I hope you'll come back then to see what I have made.  

Happy crafting!

Anniebee

challenge #13 at Amber's Crafts and Stuff - Something Special For the Guys

It's time for another challenge at Amber's Crafts and Stuff and with Father's Day quickly approaching I thought it about time for me to post another masculine card that can be used for Dad's special day. It features another Phindy's Place digi stamp titled "Mr. Brown on Vacation ". This image reminds me of my brother who is  2 years my junior.  He loves to fish and he loves to take it easy... it even looks a lot like him, mustache and all! This image was fun to color but it was a little tricky trying to get the inner tube to look like black rubber and the water look like liquid. I hope I accomplished both of those tasks. The water required a very light hand, much lighter than I used on most of the other cards I have been displaying lately. However the inner tube required several layers of varying shades of grey and finally of black to achieve the look I was going for. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.  I just love the mini inner tube holding the beer can, tethered to Mr. Brown's float!  That's seriously cute, in my opinion!

When I was married, my husband and I used to ride our Harley down to the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country to float several miles down the river and shoot the rapids. We always took a cooler full of beer and sodas along in a separate tube which we tethered to one of our tubes just as Mr. Brown has done. We lost the cooler a couple of times going through the rapids but we always managed to retrieve it, though sometimes the cans were gone. Other floaters usually found the cans floating in the water and occasionally we heard someone shout out a "Thank you" to whoever lost it! Those were fun times, especially when we went with a large group of motorcycle riders. We would often tie a bunch of the inner tubes together and have a big party floating down the river.  But that was another lifetime.

Anyway, back to the card. The image is colored with Copics. The base card is Core'dinations and black mats are Recollections basic cardstock. The dp on the front is from the same My Mind's Eye Home Glitter Book that I have used on several of my most recent cards. Have I said that I LOVE this stack? The paper on the inside is from the Best of K and Company stack. I think originally it was in the Que Sera Sera stack but I'm not 100% sure about that. The ribbon is from Michaels dollar bin and the greeting is from Pink by Design. I haven't put a sentiment on the inside yet because I'm not sure what occasion I'll use the card for.

That's it for today. Thanks so much for visiting my blog and for joining Mr. Brown (how coincidental, huh?) and me on our little float trip. I'll be back tomorrow with a new project so I hope you'll come back and check it out. Have a wonderful day.

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Card 7 Already! Woohoo!!

I definitely am on a roll here! I know it's hard to believe but this is the 7th card I have posted in 6 days! and I'm still doing a little crafting too. I'm normally not one to toot my own horn but I'm pretty pleased with myself. Haha! It does help immensely to have a bunch of cards done up in advance but it's the same amount of work either way... a little at a time or all at once. As I may have mentioned before, when I get into a creative frenzy, I have to give in to it and allow my muse to have its way. If I don't, it could pass quite suddenly and not return for a while. Besides, it gives me a huge sense of accomplishment to have a whole big stack of cards and/or other projects completed all at the same time.

Today, I have another of my favorite images from Mo Manning. This one is called "Abby Celebrating" and I thought the greeting stamp I used was appropriate. I have never seen a happier little girl than our Abby and I would love to feel that kind of happy abandon again. It has been a while since I felt even complete contentment and that's in large part due to the employment situation, I think.  But it's not something I did to myself and I am actively seeking new employment so I have to trust in God to fulfill his plan for me, whatever that is. Seeing Abby happy makes me makes me smile though and I hope she'll make you smile too.

Deets:

Base card is lime green textured cardstock from DCWV's Citrus stack, dp is My Mind's Eye Home Glitter Book. The double border was made with lime green glitter cardstock using a MS deep border punch. The ribbon is from my stash and the greeting stamp is part of a Fiskars clear stamp set called Make A Wish Quotes. Inside sentiment is by Inkadinkadoo and the border was made with the border punch that comes with one of MS's punch around the page sets. The flower is a glittered foamie sticker by Darice.

After I put this together, I thought about adding some flowers or bling but decided against it for fear that it might do more to detract from the design than add to it. I think there's plenty going on with the double border and double ribbons. Rest assured though that there are plenty more flowers and bling coming! LOL! As always, I'm glad you stopped by today and I welcome and appreciate your comments. 

I am entering this card in the June 3rd Outlawz Friday Copic/Promarker Challenge - Green and Pink color theme

Happy crafting!

Anniebee

Blog hop participants needed!

Hi, everybody!  I'm participating in a blog hop in honor of Jillian Vance's 12th birthday and we need a few more participants.  If you don't know about Jillian, she is an uber-talented young crafter who has her own line of stamps!  I wish I had been that ambitious at her age!  You can see her website and her stamp line here.  If you think you'd like to participate, please sign up at Deanne's Creative Juice.  Thanks, everybody!