Pretty in pink

 I thought I'd share a card I made using Laurel, the free image Jen is offering for this week's Wild Flower Wednesday challenge--Anything Goes (as long as you use a WFK image).  

I loaned my laptop to my SIL so she could borrow my Photoshop software and I feel like I've lost a limb!   EVERYTHING is on there. I've walked around the house in a daze trying to figure out what to do with myself since I can't use my Cricut, print anything or work on templates. LOL  What stinks is that I have to enter passwords for places I frequent on the web and I can't remember half of them.  I don't mind lending my computer to my SIL at all, but I'm going to hug it when it comes home.

Run, don't walk, over to the Wild Flower Patch blog and link up your WFK project for a chance to win some stuff from the store and grab Laurel while she's free!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Wild Flower Kids new release blog hop

Hello everyone! If you came here from Jenn’s blog you are hopping on the right path!

Today Wild Flower Kids is releasing their new June images! Jen Shults has created some wonderful images this month including something special for those of you who are shivering on the other side of the world... Winter Dahlia.    

Not only is today release day, it’s Wednesday so that means it’s challenge day on The Wild Flower Patch blog and Jen has challenged us to make a unique fold. Here’s my project…  I made a pocket card with a circular insert using Beach Ivy.    I was going for a beach ball look with the circle piece and I gave her a slight sunburn—so she’s packed up her bag and is heading home!

Here’s a look at the new release:

Images are $3 each or $15.50 for the entire set.

Thanks for joining me today on this blog hop and if you want to start at the beginning, just head over to the Wild Flower Kids Challenge Blog. As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stamper will win the entire new digital release!!

Want to see an amazing project?? Hop on over to Donna’s blog—her work is always inspiring!

Thanks and have a great day!

Annie

 Supply list: Beach Day pattern paper from Creative Imaginations. You’re Dandy from Practicing Creativity, sentiment from Luck of the Irish by Papertrey Ink.  Cork by Karen Foster Designs. Copic markers.

WFWC19: Sketch Challenge

Jen has issued a sketch challenge this week on The Wild Flower Patch blog.  I pulled out my Pretty in Pink rubber stamp set and made this clean and simple version using Laurel.  I love this stamp set and bought it immediately when it was first released.

This card will go into my birthday stash and be given to the next little girl that invites one of my girls to her party—and that happens often!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will check out the challenge here and visit the rest of the design team for inspiration!

Jen Shults, Stamp Artist
Donna Wardle, DT Coordinator
Jenn Koss
Lelia Pierce
Angela Sowell
Risa West

Have a great Wednesday!

Annie

Wild Flower Wednesday: Box it Up!

 

I’m now officially part of The Wild Flower Kids design team.  I’m honored to be part of such a talented group of ladies and look forward to being inspired by each one of them!

It’s Wild Flower Wednesday and the challenge this week is to Box it Up! You can read all the details here and while you are there, grab yourself a free template so you can play along! 

My daughter needed a gift for a friend’s birthday and I decided to make a gift box and card all in one.  I used the Favor Box template and Birthday Ivy and made a pocket for the front to hold a small card.  The inside of the box contains mini candy bars and money.  I thought this would be a lovely and different way to give a young girl some money for her birthday.  The ribbon is seam binding I picked up at Hobby Lobby and I dyed it that funky purple using some homemade glimmer mist (Thanks, Harriet!) and a few drops of SU’s Melon Mambo re-inker. As you can see, it is nowhere near Melon Mambo color but it worked out wonderfully for my project. 

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Next up is a project I made using the free template you can grab over at The Wild Flower Patch blog called Goody Basket.  This template came about because my friend Julie mentioned the idea of a template that could hold a cute little mini loaf of quick bread (like banana bread).  The ribbon is off white satin ribbon that I dyed with homemade glimmer mist and some Bermuda Bay (SU) re-inker.

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I hope you will play along with us this week and you can grab a free image to go with your free template by joining The Wild Flower Kids group on Papercraft Planet or you are welcome to use other images. 

You have until June 8th to link up your project here for your chance to win 2 images and 1 template from The Wild Flower Patch store.

Jen Shults, Stamp Artist
Donna Wardle, DT Coordinator (Donna is sitting out this week)
Leigh Ann Baird, Perfect Presentations Template Designer
Jenn Koss
Jacquie Piefer
Lelia Pierce
Angela Sowell
Risa West

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Annie

A Helping Hand

Jen Shults and Betty Roberts have put together a digital image set to help the victims of the Nashville flooding.  This set is $15 and 100% of the proceeds will go the the Nashville Red Cross to help the TN flood victims.  My area of Tennessee was not hit hard like the Nashville area and I feel so fortunate.  The majority of the people affected do not have flood insurance.  Can you imagine if you lost everything?

The set is available today in The Wild Flower Patch Shop.  Please go to Jen's blog here  for more information.

Please spread the word!

Sketch Girl SG13: Wild Flower Kids

Good Sunday morning to you!  Today starts a new sketch challenge at Sketch Girl.  Our sponsor for this challenge is Wild Flower Kids.  Jen (the owner/artist behind WFK) gave us some images from her latest release Royal Court to play with and I chose to use Fairy Princess.  I adore the font used on the sentiment! 

I had some gorgeous pattern paper that had some melon berry, green, pink, etc. on it and colored my fairy princess to coordinate.  I colored most of my princess in PSE but colored the skin and hair with copics.  My thumb still isn't normal since my Wii injury late last year and my hand still bothers me when I color.  Some days are better than others though.  I also changed the color of the sentiment in PSE.  The background behind the fairy princess was stamped with PTI's new background set Tin Type.

I hope you'll check out the rest of the design team's creations:

Guest Designer, Amy Tsuruta

Bonnie

Alyssa

Harriet

Tiffany

Amber

Randee

Katie

Jennie

Jess

Sara

Julie

Eve (on hiatus)

Have a good one!

Some Valentine projects

This first project is for my 8yo daughter and it's decorated how she wanted it. I cut the Hey Cupcake template with my cricut and cut a window that extended to the side panel. This holds the large Hershey Kiss perfectly. I had not planned on using this particular box for my daughter's project but she wanted it with  Heart Fairy Daisy on it, so she got it. She wants it now but she can't have it until V Day.  I haven't made my youngest daughter anything yet.  I'm lazy. 

I cut the mat around  Heart Fairy Daisy using my cricut which is another bonus about digi images.  I auto traced the digi image in SCAL and got rid of everything but the outline and then made a shadow of it and voila! I had a perfect mat.  I didn't plan on having a mat behind the fairy, but I did such a horrible job cutting her out I figured I needed to hide that somehow so I tried hand cutting a mat and, yeah, I screwed that up too! 

Here's a pic of the full size Hey Cupcake template next to a scaled down version.  I scaled down to 75% of the original size and was able to cut both pieces on 1 sheet of cardstock.  It's so cute!  I haven't finished decorating this one yet.  Both boxes use cardstock and pattern paper from Papertrey Ink.

This next project is a CASE of a project Michelle Wooderson showed on her blog a couple of weeks ago.  I decided to make some for my stamping group swap.  I used the scraps from that project to make the card below it. The text pattern paper is the flip side of the blue paper on the bag project and is from Bo Bunny.

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

I am in PTI contest withdrawal already

Today's PTI thing is commenting, so no card to make and I must admit I feel a tad disappointed.  I suppose I could do some laundry but there's really no fun in that.  Here's my 2nd card I made yesterday for the PTI make a birthday card challenge.  I didn't want to put it on my blog yesterday since I already posted twice.

I went with Dawn McVey's graphic and used the color combo she used which is Dark Chocolate, Berry Sorbet and Pure Poppy.

Here's another simple card I made a couple of weeks ago using Laurel from The Wild Flower Patch.  Jen has some new image releases in the store today just in time for Valentine's Day.  Check them out as they are so cute!  I used a Sketch Girl sketch on this card...SG6 I think.

Some announcements too:

I have several Perfect Presentation templates in the store in SVG format for those of you with Cricuts and the appropriate software needed to cut SVG's.

Just to let you know about file types:

SVG: Cricut with SCAL or Make the Cut software

GSD:  Silhouette/Wishblade/Craft Robo

If you do not have an electronic cutter then you will want to purchase the PDF version of the template.  I can provide DXF files also but those will not be available in the store.  You will need to contact me for DXF. 

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Another unrelated thing is... I found a new stamp company that I think I'm going to love.  She's showing peeks this week and her first release is coming up very soon.  Here's the link.  If you love PTI stamps like I do I think you will like what Dawn has to offer.  She has a link on her sidebar to sign up for her store newsletter.

Here's another new stamp line that looks promising too. She's got a new stamp set coming out in a few days too that is pretty cool looking from the samples she's showing on her blog. 

Ok, that's enough blathering.  Have a wonderful day!  I'm going to do a little blog hopping and then get some rest so I can be ready for whatever PTI challenges me with tomorrow!

Happy Turkey day!

I thought I would post the turkey card I made for my SIL since it's Thanksgiving and all.  My refrigerator stopped working and I had just bought a million pounds of butter and cream cheese and a 20lb turkey.  This card is a thank you to her for turkey sitting. I made a cheesy sentiment inside too. (har har har)  I used the turkey digi image from Wild Flower Kids.

May you eat, drink and get a good nap in this afternoon!

Happy Thanksgiving!

A birthday wish and a project

Today is my baby's 6th birthday.  We had her party last weekend and she made sure to tell people that it wasn't really her birthday yet, it was just her party.  So when someone said Happy Birthday, she corrected them by saying, "Happy Birthday party." She's says the funniest things.  She has yoga at school on Mondays and yesterday as we were walking home, she said she felt "fresh" and "re-born". I'm thinking that came from yoga class. LOL 

Now on to a project. Since I have a cute stamp set for boy stuff (No Girls Allowed) I thought I would make my nephew a door knob hanger for his new room.  I used pattern paper by Cosmo Cricket that Harriet gave me.  It turned out to be the perfect blend of colors. I made this little guy blond like my nephew and imagine he would look a bit like this when he's older.  He's only 2 right now.

That's all from me for now.  I'll be back sometime soon with a Christmas project using Jen's super cool digi images.  I am cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year and will start baking tomorrow.  Busy times ahead.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Wildflower Kids Rubber Stamps are available exclusively in the Stamp Happens Shop.

Birthday Boy

Good Monday Morning!  I am exhausted from a weekend of birthday parties and seeing New Moon. I would love to be a slug all day but my house is destroyed--it looks like Christmas went off in here!

On to why I'm here...Jen has released 2 super cute stamp sets today called Pretty in Pink and No Girls Allowed through the Stamp Happens Shop.   I got the privilege of working with No Girls Allowed and made this cute, but simple birthday card using some really old SU pattern paper I found in my stash.  I colored him with copics and tried to give his clothes a faded, worn out look.  I have a young nephew and I'm happy to have this set to make things for him.

The design team has done it again and made some gorgeous projects and I hope you'll check them out:

Tonya - Julie - Jen - Beth

Alyssa - Sarabeth - Steph

Gayle - Donna

Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a fantastic Monday!

Annie

Wild Flower Kids Rubber Stamps are sold exclusively in the Stamp Happens Shop.

Funky Christmas card

I've been really busy the last few days re-decorating my 8yo daughter's room and had to stop and take a stamp break this afternoon.  I wanted to make a funky Christmas card and used some digi images (tree and sentiment) from Wild Flower Kids.  The text background is a .pdf that I'm pretty sure came from Mel Stampz blog but I'm not positive. It's Christmas dictionary text and I printed it on rustic white cardstock.  I used more of the Basic Gray Eskimo Kisses paper with a card base of PTI Sweet Blush.  My 6yo chose the button.

Short and sweet tonight, I've got some paint brushes to clean.  Painting is such a pain but the clean up is even worse!  Have a good one!

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Wild Flower Kids stamps are sold exclusively in the Stamp Happens Shop.

SG8

SG8 is an interesting sketch and turned out to be easy to do.  I hope you will play along on the Sketch Girl blog and link your creation.  If you upload to an online gallery, like SCS, please use keyword SG8.

I used some SU pattern paper that Harriet gave me--Thanks Harriet!  I adore this pattern paper and it's so much prettier in person.  I was in the mood to use one of my old favorite color combos of orange, blue and brown.  I threw a bit of green in there too.  I used a digital image from Wild Flower Kids and cut out the middle pumpkin and popped it up on dimensionals.

The Sketch Girl design team has some gorgeous work to show you with this sketch, check it out:

Alyssa - Eve - Chris - Jessica - Bonnie

Sara - Jennie - Katie - Julie - Harriet - Randee

Thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Wild Flower Kids Rubber Stamps are available exclusively in the Stamp Happens Shop.

Cardstock is PTI Orange Zest and SU Old Olive.  Ribbon is PTI Orange Zest.

Bramble Box

This is the cutest scarecrow! His name is Bramble and he's a digi image available here. Those of you that know me know my coloring skills are passable at best--I'm hopeful I'll get better with experience.  For others like me that are a bit challenged in that area, I have a tip for you.  Copy someone else!  I went to Jen's blog, she's the artist for this image too, and pretty much copied her colors to the best of my ability.  Otherwise, I would still be sitting here trying to figure out what colors to use. LOL  Luckily, I had this awesome paper from Cosmo Cricket that went well with the Copic colors I (ok, Jen) chose.

This is a really cute box in person and I filled it with candy corn.  It was hard for me to capture it's cuteness in a photo.  Before I adhered the box together, I punch a hole in the bottom so I could run the twine through it. 

I found this box template here.  Thanks for dropping by! I'll see you in a couple of days for the Sketch Girl sketch release!

Bramble is a digi image by Wild Flower Kids and is available exclusively in the Stamp Happens Shop.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas...

I love snowmen!  I have more snowmen in my holiday decorations than anything else and when I saw Jen's images for today's Wild Flower Kids release I knew the snowman would be the first one I would use.  The collection is called Tis' the Season and all the images are seriously cute.

I used my never ending pack of Basic Gray Figgy Pudding paper--I'm certain when I use a sheet another one grows in it's place. I went with my beloved twine instead of ribbon for that rustic look I love so much.  I used some Pink Paislee glitter around the edges and it's pretty and sparkly in person like I imagine snow would be. *sigh* I'm hoping for a really good snow this year.  My oldest daughter is 8 and she's never experienced a big snow.   

All the talented members of the Design Team have projects to show you today, so get comfy and start blog hopping.  You'll get some amazing ideas!

Jen - Tonya - Julie - Beth

Donna - Sarabeth - Alyssa - Stephanie 

Jacquie - Gayle - Deb

Thanks for stopping by and for more inspiration, check out the Wild Flower Patch blog!  Have a wonderful day!

Tis' the Season from Wild Flower Kids is available exclusively through the Stamp Happens Shop.