Love You Muchly!

We are counting down the hours now. The New Year is about 18 hours away! What plans do you have? The options around here are to go downtown and watch the "Pelican" drop (yes...we have a Pelican instead of a ball!), go out to the beach and watch the fireworks, or the usual party with friends or spend a quiet evening at home. We haven't decided what we are doing. Probably the quiet evening at home! This card is for this weeks Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #54. Had to get this one in before the end of the year! So Mercy, if you are reading this, you get to send the old year out for me with this post! I have bought all of the MFT Pure Innocence stamps. I couldn't resist!! They are almost as cute as Flopsey. I said "almost". Nothing can ever replace my love for Flopsey!

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The stamp image is colored with Copics and cut out with a Spellbinders oval. I left the image in the die and sponged in the blue for the sky and the green for the grass. The colors in the Cosmo Cricket DP dictated the colors I chose for Flower Girls clothing. The dots on her top are done with a Copic Blender, lightly touched to the yellow. The flowers and hearts have touches of atYou Spica Clear for a little glimmer. Supplies: Stamps: MFT Pure Innocence Flower Girl Paper: White, Old Olive, Cosmo Cricket Early Bird DP Ink: Black Memento Other: Scallop Border Punch, Oval Spellbinders, Ribbon, Clear atYou Spica Copics: E31, E33, E37, E50, E51, Y21, Y26, YG93, YG95, R02, R08, BG72 I want to thank everyone that has visited my blog since I started it eleven months ago. I have enjoyed sharing my "Art Full Journey" with you and enjoyed even more reading the comments that have been left with thoughtfullness and kindness. Have a Wonderful and Safe New Years Eve. See you next year!! Enjoy!

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge

Hello!! This card is for Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge #11~ JUST WHITE.

Wow...this was not an easy one. The only thing that can have color is the image! I used one of Mo's new images~ Pug Love. Isn't he just adorable?

He is colored with Copics and the background shading is with a Prismacolor Pencil. I added a touch of Glossy Accents to his eyes and glitter to the ruffles on the heart.

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Copics Used: C00, C1, C3, C5, C7, E25, E29, R29 Enjoy!

Believe and Achieve

Happy Tuesday!!

Wow...did I have a lot of catching up to do at work yesterday from being off for a week. Hopefully things will be quiet this week as we wrap up the year and ready for the new one!

This card is one I completed for a SCS Inspiration Challenge the first week of December. The website was the Etsy store "The Charm Lady". Awesome place to visit (and buy!) I chose this charm for my inspiration.

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Supplies:

Stamps: Flourishes Timeless Quotes available at Mark's Finest Papers

Paper: Marks Finest Papers, Basic Grey Indian Summer

Ink: Black

Accessories: MFP Ribbon, Spellbinders Labels Four

Enjoy!

Smilyn Steph Inspired

Hello Everyone!! We traveled back to Florida yesterday from Tennessee and it is nice to be home in a much warmer climate! :-) My cat stuck to me like glue last night so I stayed out of my craft room and just caught up on emails and facebook stuff. I am back in my craft room today though! The Featured Stamper Challenge on SCS today was for Smilyn Steph. She hostesses the Saturday Inspiration Challenges each week and her gallery is a lot of fun to browse through. I had a hard time picking one card but finally landed on this one for my CASE.

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The butterfly in the Nature/Graceful Journey stamp set by Tattered Angels is one of my favorites. The owl is on my list to use too, but I keep reaching for that butterfly! For my card, I changed the colors and stamp set and used the sketch from this weeks Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge for the layout. I try to do Mercy's Challenge each week and was afraid this weeks would not get done due to traveling. But, it got done today, with a day to spare!! Supplies: Stamps: Marks Finest Papers Paper: MFP Tan Line, Snowstorm Smooth and Basic Grey Indian Summer Ink: Brown Accessories: MFP Ribbon and Charm, CB EF Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

Happily Ever After

Happy Wednesday!!

I am getting this posted to my blog, just under the wire for a couple of challenges. Funny how I all of a sudden have several cards/projects to post and not enough blog days! Do you ever have that problem? Me, never!

I did this card for last weeks SCS Sketch Challenge. It also fits the Flutter By Wednesday #88 that was a sketch very similar to the SCS one. For FBW you also needed to use a butterfly, fairy or angel on your card. Such awesome challenges!!

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The Basic Grey paper, stamps, ribbon, rub-on and pearls can all be found at Mark's Finest Papers

Hope your week is going well!

Enjoy!

Sweet Heart

Hi There and Happy Monday!!

Hope your weekend went well. We traveled to Tennessee Saturday and even came through some snow showers! It is really cold here as well as in Gulf Breeze, Florida!! 32 Degrees.....brrrrrr!!

My card today is for Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #52. Love doing her sketch challenges each week!

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The sketch had a snowflake on it but I just could not bring myself to do another Holiday or Wintry card. So I opted for a Valentine theme with Flopsey. He is such a cute character! Every time MFT comes out with a Flopsey, I scarf him up! Flopsey is colored with Copics and cut out. He is layered on Black and Regal Rose ovals cut with Spellbinders. The DP is from the Paper Studio and the panel is cut with a MS Heart Border Punch. I cut a couple of the hearts out from the paper and placed at the top of the ovals and added three tiny hearts at the bottom right. The sentiment is a rub on.

Enjoy!

Time To Relax

Happy Saturday!! All of my Holiday tasks and to-do's are winding down and now it is almost time "To Relax"!! I made this card for today's SCS Inspiration Challenge~Fabulous Stationary. I chose this stationary for my inspiration piece. I loved the color scheme and the living room scene, so I pulled out the Papertrey Ink stamp set "On My Couch" for this one. The card layout is this weeks MoJo Monday Challenge #117. I am on my way to Tennessee again for the holidays. I will definitely use the time riding in the car to finish up a couple of things. That way I can definitely relax with family and friends! Supplies: Stamps: Papertrey Ink On My Couch Paper: Summer Sunrise, Aqua Mist, Ripe Avocado Ink: Brown Memento Accessories: Scallop Border Punch, Copics BG10, E50, Ribbon, Spellbinders Circles Enjoy!

A Merry Moose Christmas

Happy Thursday!! Can you believe a week from now it will be Christmas? Where does the time go? Do you have all your shopping done, cards mailed and projects completed?? Not me! But I am getting close! This card is for two challenges this week. The Friday Sketchers#82 and Crazy4Challenges#15. The C4C challenge is to make a card using snowflakes and/or snowmen. I used a cute digi from KLM Digital Designs December releases. The image was replicated and flipped horizontally so that I could get the moose facing each other.

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The moose are colored with Copics and layered on DP from the Debbie Mum Harvest and Holiday stack. The solid papers are Bliss Blue and Real Red. Copics Used: R24 /R27, E33, E37, E53, C1, BG0000, YG03, YG09 Enjoy!

Scor~Pal Blog Candy Winner!

Random.Org gave me the number 21!! Congrats Lisa Petrella!! You have a Scor-pal headed your way. Happy Holidays!

The Greeting Farm Holiday Blog Hop!!

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What a fun evening that is in store tonight!! The Greeting Farm is having an ALL-CUSTOMER BLOG HOP starting at 7pm CST. If you have happened upon my blog, you can find the official blog hop listing here on the Club Anya blog. There is also a lot of chatter going on at Papercraft Planet on the Greeting Farm Page. Come on over and join in the chat!

The requirements for the cards/projects for the blog hop~A Holiday theme using Anya or Ian stamps.

Since I live in Florida, and the temperatures around the holidays are usually warm....I decided a Christmas card with a tropical flair was in order!! I pulled out my all time favorite Anya stamp, Mermaid Anya, and went to work on my card. She is colored with Copics in the traditional holiday colors and cut out. Just a few touches of white liquid pearls on her fin and in her hair. The beach/sand is DP that was torn, sponged and layered. The water is another piece of DP. You cannot have a tropical Holiday without a palm tree that is decorated with ornaments, right??! The ornaments are punched from red glitter paper.

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Supplies: Stamp: TGF Mermaid Anya Ink: Black Memento, Green Galore, Creamy Caramel Paper: Brown Bazzil, Green Galore, Various DP Other: Xmas Red and Holly Stickles, Sizzix Palm Tree, Rub-On Sentiment Copics: E50, E51, Yr00, E31, E25, YG06, G07, R20, R46, R59 Hope you have fun this evening blog hopping and chatting!! I am sure you will love everything you see along the way! Enjoy!

Sweet Violets

****Check out my post HERE for Scor-Pal blog candy to be given away on 12/15!**** Happy Saturday! This card is for today's SCS Inspiration Challenge~ Sushi Pot. What a unique Etsy store! I chose this piece as my inspiration. The card layout is this weeks MoJo Monday #116 Sketch. The stamp set is Flourishes Sweet Violets that has been sitting in my "new...waiting to be inked up..box". Love the dainty flowers in this set. They are a breeze to color with Copics!

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Supplies: Stamps: Flourishes Sweet Violets (set can be found at Mark's Finest Papers) Ink: Black Memento Paper: Bazzil, Marks Finest Papers Snowstorm Smooth White, SU DP Accessories: Spellbinders Circles, Ribbon, Copics G0000, G21, G24, V12, V15 Enjoy!

Birthday Fun and Tree Pics (A Non Card Post)

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Happy Friday!!

My birthday was the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My lovely daughter brought me the most beautiful pink roses!! She is such a Sweetie!!

Then... my all time favorite cake that my Mom makes every year for me! It is a devils food with the layers cut in half and filled with whipped cream. Then frosted with "made from scratch" fudge frosting. YUM YUM!! That is Bill with the "torch" to light the candles, and of course I am only as old as the number of candles on the cake! (hehehe)

When we returned from our Thanksgiving weekend trip to Tennessee, I put up the Christmas Tree. In an earlier post I talked about moving to Florida and my tastes changing. I decided I wanted a White Tree, with ornaments the colors of bright green, turquoise and pink. Some of my readers wanted to see pictures and one of my readers commented on how the colors represented the beautiful blue ocean water, the luscious green palm trees and of course Pink Flamingos!! How perfect for my Tropical Tree!

A close-up of some of the ornaments. Yes... I had to put a fish on the tree! He is so pretty!

Hope you have enjoyed a little bit of my world. Have a Fantastic Weekend!

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2!

Hi All! If you missed yesterday's post and announcement, make sure and scroll down to yesterday's post to read the details about MFP Blog Hop. I will put the information and instructions at the end of this post as well. For today's card I used the Flourishes Lamp Post stamp set. (which you can get at Mark's Finest Papers). I made this card three times before I was finally satisfied with the end result. I tried airbrushing.... I tried sponging....Guess "third time is charm?" :-)

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The image was stamped on MFP Snow Storm Smooth. I masked the image and sponged two shades of blue ink for the night sky. Then the image was colored with Copics. What would a holiday lamp post be without some snow? I added Polar White Flower Soft at the bottom of the lamp post and touches of Star Dust Stickles in the sky. The light and wreath have touches of atYou Spica Clear, Yellow and Gold. The background paper panels are MFP Spring Green and China Blue Eyes. Just as a reminder... For your chance to win the blog candy, visit and comment on each of the design team members' blogs listed below on December 9th (yesterday) and 10th (today). Then, on Friday, a winner will be chosen from those who have visited all 7 blogs both days. The winner will receive 2 BRAND NEW Stamp Sets, 5 packages of Mark's Finest Papers and 5 Satin ribbons! And remember, Friday night will be the New Flourishes Release at Mark's Finest Papers! The winner will be announced on the Mark's Finest Papers Blog on Friday. Here is a list of the DT Blogs~ Nancyruth- http://nancyruthat.blogspot.com/ Nikki- http://smellslikehomemade.blogspot.com/ Lois- http://clownmomcreations.blogspot.com/ Peggy- http://www.artfulljourney.com/ (thats me!) Vicky- http://www.villagestamperramblings.blogspot.com/ Faith- http://stampinwithmarkiesmom.blogspot.com/ Mark’s Finest Papers- http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com/ Enjoy!

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop!

Hi Everyone!! Happy Wednesday! Do you believe in Santa Claus?? I know I do!! :-) Mark's Finest Papers Design Team is celebrating our FIRST Blog Hop! How could we make it a REAL celebration? How about giving away some Blog Candy? For your chance to win, visit and comment on each of the design team members' blogs listed below on December 9th (today) and 10th (tomorrow). Then, on Friday, a winner will be chosen from those who have visited all 7 blogs both days. The winner will receive 2 BRAND NEW Stamp Sets, 5 packages of Mark's Finest Papers and 5 Satin ribbons! And remember, Friday night will be the New Flourishes Release at Mark's Finest Papers! The winner will be announced on the Mark's Finest Papers Blog on Friday.

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I chose the Flourishes Stamp set "Santa~ I Believe" for today's blog hop card. (Available at Mark's Finest Papers) He is stamped with brown ink on Mark's Finest Papers (MFP) Snow Storm Smooth and colored with copics. The image was layered on Ripened Tomato and Tan Line. The DP is from my scrap bin. The layout is from this weeks Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #51. I used a MS punch on the corner of the image panel and added a couple silver glittery brads. The Ivy on Santa's hat is cut from the background DP. His white hair and beard was given a coat of Gare Innocence paint. It has sparkles in it but the photo does not show this well. Make sure and visit each of the DT blogs listed below and leave comments. They have some fabulous creations for you to see! And that blog candy is waiting on one lucky person!! Nancyruth- http://nancyruthat.blogspot.com/ Nikki- http://smellslikehomemade.blogspot.com/ Lois- http://clownmomcreations.blogspot.com/ Peggy- http://www.artfulljourney.com/ (thats me!) Vicky- http://www.villagestamperramblings.blogspot.com/ Faith- http://stampinwithmarkiesmom.blogspot.com/ Mark’s Finest Papers- http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com/ Good Luck! See you back here tomorrow for the second day of the Blog Hop!

Snowy Forest of Trees

*****Check out my blog post on 11/23 for awesome blog candy to be given away on 12/15!***** Good Morning Tuesday!! Hope all of you are keeping warm and toasty! In the past couple of days I have seen quite a bit of posts about snow. My brother and daughter both woke me early Saturday morning with texts and pictures of the snow in Tennessee. Glad it was this week and not last... (hehehe..) My card today depicts a cool wintry forest of trees. This card was made for this weeks SCS Featured Stamper Challenge~It's Never Gloomy Looking At~MitchyGitchyGoomy. Michele has such a wonderful gallery! I chose her card here to CASE. I changed the stamp set, layout, some of the papers and added ribbon.

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Supplies: Stamps: Mark's Finest Papers carries Flourishes Forest of Trees Paper: Marks Finest Papers White and Spring Grass, Pink, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Ink: Certainly Celery, Cool Caribbean Accessories: Copic Airbrush, R20, Spellbinders Curved Rectangles, Ribbon Don't forget... Mark's Finest Papers is having a blog hop tomorrow and Thursday!! Have a wonderful day! Enjoy!

Holiday Greeting Eloise

*****Check out my blog post on 11/23 for awesome blog candy to be given away on 12/15!***** Hi Everyone! It’s Monday Again!! :-) What a great time we had Saturday for the Stamping Bella Birthday Bash Blog Hop! Talk about some fabulous creations!! When I was working on my card for the hop, I actually colored up two Eloise Greengrass images. So today, you get to see the second one. She is colored with traditional holiday colors and I used Beate’s Weekend Sketch #109 for the card layout.

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Supplies: Stamps: Stamping Bella Eloise Greengrass and Papertrey Ink Signature Christmas Ink: Black and Always Artichoke Paper: PTI Lemon Tart, SU Real Red, White, Paper Studio DP Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils/OMS, Copics R27, R29, G07, Spellbinders Dahlia, MS border punch, Ribbon, Basic Grey Pearls This Wednesday and Thursday Mark's Finest Papers is having a blog hop. The Design Team has been busy creating! Stay tuned!

Have a great Monday and see you back here tomorrow!

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Stamping Bella!

*****Check out my blog post on 11/23 for awesome blog candy to be given away on 12/15!***** It is Stamping Bella's third birthday and to celebrate we are having a mega Birthday Bash Blog Hop today. You should have come to my blog from Gabriela "She Inks a Lot". If you would like to see the master list for the blog hop, you can find the thread on Splitcoaststampers here. Prizes?? Of Course!!. Three gift certificates for $100 in Bella Bucks will be hidden along the hop, but we're not telling you where, so be sure to leave some love as you hop!!. Winners will be announced on Blogabella, Monday December 7th. Also, Em has an awesome release on December 7th, featuring a little bit from most of the artists. So be sure to pop onto Blogabella to see all the new rubbah goodness!

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I made a holiday version of Eloise Greengrass for my blog hop card. Eloise is one of my all time favorite stamps!! She is colored with Copics. If you enlarge the photo, you can see the sparkle on her wings better. I used this weeks Friday Sketchers #81 sketch for the card. The papers are one of my favorites this holiday season and I got to use some new silk ribbon for the bow. Thanks so much for stopping by! Now for the next stop on the blog hop, head on over to Lesley, "Our Scrappy Life" and check out some more eye candy!! Supplies: Stamps: SB Eloise Greengrass Ink: Black Paper: Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses, Pink Pirouette, Cranberry Crisp, Cool Caribbean, White Accessories: Spellbinders Ovals, Stardust Stickles, Copics R20, R22, BG0000, BG10, BG13, Coo, E00 Have fun and Enjoy!!

Home Made

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Happy Thursday!!

This week is flying by!!

Do you have family traditions for the holidays that you have kept going over the years? Or have those traditions transformed into new traditions?

One of our family traditions centered around the grandchildren. Shortly before Christmas, all of my nieces and nephews would gather at my house for an afternoon of cookie baking. We started with sugar cookies cut with all the different holiday shapes. My mom would bring her buttercream icing in all the holiday colors and of course there was an assortment of sprinkles and candy! As the children grew up, I introduced gingerbread houses to them. What a fun time! The children have grown and most are in their twenties now. Our tradition was retired a couple of years ago, but the memories will always be there to bring a smile.

Today's project is the end result of an idea I had ever since the release of the new Papertrey Ink Home Made Timeless Template and coordinating stamp set. Our family tradition came to mind as well as those gingerbread houses we worked on! I actually used a page in the current Harry and David catalog as inspiration for my gingerbread house. You can see the Gingerman Tower here.

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Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Home Made

Paper: PTI Dark Chocolate, Pure Poppy, Bitty Dot Basics, White

Ink: Ruby Red

Accessories: Timeless Template Home Made, MS Border Punch, White Metallic Dots

Enjoy!

Holly Jolly!

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Happy Wednesday!! I hope you have a "Jolly" hump day!

Trying to get back in the grind after traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday has been slow to say the least. I bowl on Monday and Thursday nights so that leaves Tuesday and Wed to catch up or try to get ahead. :-)

I did get the Christmas tree up last night and will add ornaments a little at a time. Since my "little elves" did not travel to Florida this year, I am on my own with decorating the tree. Cannot get Bill to help. I think he has an aversion to tree trimming. He seems to disappear when I mention it! Do you have husbands or boyfriends that are the same way?

Yesterday was Tuesday and that means a new sketch from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #50! I have all my Christmas cards finished but I keep pulling out stamps that I haven't used yet. For Mercy's challenge I chose to use Papertrey Ink's Holiday Button Bits. Love the sketch and the card came together easily!

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I picked out the colors of Pure Poppy and Ripe Avocado. For the third color I thought a yellow gold would be pretty and went with Summer Sunrise. Looks pretty together, don't you think? The DP is Bitty Dot Basics. The sentiment is part of the stamp set and is stamped with white craft ink.

Supplies:

Stamps and Paper: All from Papertrey Ink

Ink: White Craft and Old Olive

Accessories: PTI Vintage Holiday Mix buttons, MS Border Punch, Spellbinders Circles

Enjoy!

KLM Digital Designs Release Day!

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Happy December 1st!! This is Baking Snowman, one of KLM's new releases today. She is so adorable!! You can check out all the new releases for December here.

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For this card I wanted to participate in this weeks Crazy4Challenges #13, Punch Happy. The challenge is to use at least one punch when making your card. I used Spellbinders Mega Rectangles to cut out the image. The coloring is done with Copics. Now that the picture is uploaded, my little snowgirl looks washed out. Maybe a little blush on her cheeks would perk her up? The paper is Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses. A ribbon/bow and Basic Grey pearls in the corners finishes the card. Copics Used: E31, E33, R29, RV14, BG0000, C00 Enjoy!