Long time, no posting

Due to a horrible illness I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy, (well, maybe my worst enemy) I have been out of touch with blogland and I’m happy to be back.  I’ve said this a hundred times lately… I hate stupid back to school germs!

Here are some pics of some new files available in The Wild Flower Patch Shop from Perfect Presentation. 

Tall Gable Box – a tall version of the popular Able Gable template with a large version and a roomy one sheet version. The frame used on the front is from  Label Frames 2.  Available in PDF, SVG and GSD.

 

Mini Cake Stand-inspired by those cardboard cake stands found in the cake decorating section.  The top can be round or square and is a perfect way to present a cupcake, muffin or even a caramel apple!  Comes with standard scallop border strip or use your decorative edge punches or other cut files.  The green stand uses the Fancy Border SVG cut file.  Available in PDF, SVG and GSD.

Other new files:

A2 Envelope Liner (GSD and SVG)

Label Frames 2 (GSD and SVG)

Banner Flags (PDF, GSD and SVG)

Thanks for stopping by and I’ll have more projects soon!

Lawn Fawn Hearts Cards for Kids Blog Hop

2nd Post today…scroll down for the Wild Flower Wednesday post.

Hello and welcome to the Lawn Fawn Hearts Cards for Kids Blog Hop! If you’ve arrived here from Nicky’s blog you are hopping on the right trail! 

We have all come together today to make cards for a wonderful cause, Cards for Kids! We hope to encourage you to also make cards for this great cause and have fun along the way, too! So please hop along with us, and make sure to leave comments as there will be prizes for those who comment and participants! So let's get going! Also, if you are lost in the hop, you can always start at the beginning at the Lawn Fawn blog.

I made this card and backpack tag for Kate.  I read that Kate recently had her first day of school and immediately thought of how exciting that is for a kid and thought I’d drop Kate a note and wish her well.

Next up on the hop is Gretchen!  If you want more information about the Cards for Kids drive, including information about the kids, visit Jennifer McGuire’s website.

Thank you so much for hopping along with us today!

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Supplies:  School Days Ivy from Wild Flower Kids, lined paper from Creative memories, Cardstock and ribbon from Papertrey Ink. SU punch and Oval Nestabilities.

Wild Flower Wednesday: Polka Dots

Today’s challenge at The Wild Flower Patch is Polka Dots!  Who doesn’t love polka dots??

I used the Cupcake with candles image and layered about 15 of them to get this gob of cupcakes.  Wish I had one now…they are chocolate with chocolate frosting.  Yum!

I think something may be off with my camera. My cards sometimes look…warped and they are not like that in person.  See how the card looks bowed in the middle?  Anybody else have this issue?  In person, this card is flat and not bowed at all.

Ok, enough complaining from me.  I hope you will participate this week for a chance to win some stuff from the Wild Flower Patch store.  Check out all the details at The Wild Flower Patch blog and see what the other DT members created for this challenge.

Have a great day!

Fun with digi images

Some of you may know that I have 2 young daughters and they love crafty stuff.  When we visit a craft store, my girls always want me to buy them those $1 wooden mask things that come with a tiny pack of markers and I often do because it entertains them on the way home and it’s just a buck…

I was perusing the Halloween merchandise and noticed some Thanksgiving stuff and it gave me an idea.  I saw a turkey mask and immediately thought of the turkey image I got last fall from Wild Flower Kids and decided to make my own turkey mask.

I used the majority of an 8.5x11 sheet of cardstock for each mask and they fit my daughter’s face.  I made the turkey mask and gave it to my daughter and then snatched it back so I could take a picture—she had already started decorating it as you can see.    I already had the sticks and just scor-taped them to the back. 

I’ll be back tomorrow with Wild Flower Wednesday and the Lawn Fawn Hearts Cards for Kids blog hop where commenters will have a chance to win some prizes while supporting a worthy cause. See you then!

One of a kind friend!

I made this card using Papertrey Ink’s Beautiful Blooms pattern paper and the stamp set Chair-ish.  I made a gob of cards over the summer for publication submissions and this is one that didn’t make the cut. It’s one of my favorites though because of the color scheme.I can’t recall where I got the ribbon, I think I bought it at my LSS that is now closed.  The layout is one of my favorites and is based on one of my sketches (SG6) on the Sketch Girl blog. 

Thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful day!

Simply Betty: High School Challenge

Simply Betty has a challenge to upload a picture of yourself during your high school years and tell a funny story…if you can remember back that far! LOL   This is the only picture of me I could find relatively quickly and think it’s a good representation of me during that time.  It’s an old picture with scratches and smudges—we didn’t have a digital camera back then.

This is me at 16 in…gulp, 1988.   I had the big crunchy hair courtesy of Aqua Net and I loved my green eye shadow and spiky eyelashes.

  I don’t know if this is a funny story but it’s funny to me looking back.  At the time it made me mad, gave me a headache and was just plain gross.Let me start by saying that I have a weak stomach.  Gross things often make me sick and one of those things is spitting.  My girlfriend in the middle knew this…

I used to run around with 2 other girls and one of my girlfriends got a car  and while it was clean and all that, it was old and not a pretty color but it was a car and we could cruise in it.  So, after school one day, the three of us piled in the front seat with me beside the window.  We’re cruising down the road and spot a truck full of cute boys and right about then my girlfriend sitting in the middle decides to gross me out and spit in the ashtray.  She took her time and let the spit dangle before it dropped in the ashtray.   I’m telling her to stop and trying not to vomit because we were about to pass this truck of cute boys and right as we passed them I vomited out the car window…a huge amount of vomit.  My girlfriend was horse laughing, my girlfriend that was driving was swerving all over the road and screaming about the vomit on the side of her car and I was still dry heaving out the window. 

So try to image 3 teenage girls piled in the front seat of a sky blue 1970-something Ford Grenada while it’s swerving in the lane, the driver is screaming, the middle passenger is laughing and the other chick is vomiting out the window.

So that’s my funny/gross story that stands out in my mind during my high school years.  You may be thinking, “Annie, why did you watch her spit if you knew it would make you vomit?”  Well,  all it takes for me sometimes is a glance and then I can’t get the image out of my head.  It’s funny that it all went down fairly quickly and the timing was perfect on her part. 

If you play along, leave me a comment so I can check out your funny story and don’t forget to link your blog post on the SImply Betty blog for a chance to win her new release images.

Happy Friday!

Wild Flower Wednesday

The challenge this week at The Wild Flower Patch is a sketch.  I made a card using Birthday LilyAnn and since I royally screwed up the coloring of the large gift LilyAnn was sitting on, I decided that she should be sitting on a cloud. 

I also want to show you the card I made for last week’s Wild Flower Wednesday challenge.  I hurt my neck and was unable to color and actually had this card made before today but could not find my camera cord so I couldn’t upload it.  This is Surfer Reed and he’s super cute!  I had no clue what to do for a sentiment so I wrote Aloha with a sharpie.

While you are out surfing in blog land, check out what the design team made with the sketch at the Wild Flower Patch blog and I hope you’ll play with us this week for a chance to win some stuff from the store!

Have a great day!

Annie