January is Technique Month

That is on my blog anyway :) Each and every day I will be posting a new technique and from time to time, a step by step guide to showcase them for you. The step by step guide will most likely be on the more advanced/difficult ones but you'll have to see for yourself :)

So make sure you mark your calendars, it's going to be a fun month!

12 Days of Sketches - Sketch #2

Since I'm off this week, my goal is to get all 12 sketches for The Greeting Farm done before the 3rd. As you can tell I'm little behind :) But I will get it done!!

Here is the second sketch:


and here is my card:



I'm not happy with the way her tail turned out but I guess it'll have to do.

Hugs,
Tanya

Who doesn't love candy, right???

I know I do =) Amy is once again offering some awesome candy over at her blog. I look forward to seeing her cards each and every day so of course I just have to try and win this awesome blog candy for her new stamp that is being released on the 4th over at All That Scraps.

Hop on over if you have never been and check out her creations!

Merry Christmas!!!

I wanted to take a few minutes to wish all of my cyber friends a very Merry Christmas. I hope you all have a very enjoyable holiday and that you are all surrounded by family and friends. You all have been great friends throughout the years and I really appreciate it. Sometimes you were the only one's that I could confide in and you all gave me "support" and love when I needed it most.

I am very excited for this Christmas as Abby is starting to understand the whole Christmas thing and is very excited to get presents from Santa.

I also want to say Merry Christmas to my Mom and My stepfather who are no longer with us. I have missed you both dearly throughout the years but I know you're up there watching over Abby and enjoying every single minute of it. I love you both and wish you were here.

Hopefully I'll have some cards to post for you in the next few days (in between all of the holiday buzz LOL). That is going to be one of my New Year's Resolutions...post more for you! So make sure that I hold that :)

So for now, I will say good night but I will be chatting with you all soon.


MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I am SO excited!!!!

I received an email today asking me if I would like to be on the design team for Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. She offers some really cute digital stamps and they come in sets. I am so excited to get started but I don't have a project due until January :( So be on the lookout for projects every Monday.

In the meantime, check out her site:

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff

12 Days of Sketches--Sketch #1

Between Friday 12/18 and 12/30, The Greeting Farm blog is having a sketch a day. Every day except for Sunday's and Christmas, there will be a new sketch. If you complete all 12 sketches and have them loaded by 1/3, you are eligible for the whole January Release...isn't that so cool!!! I would die if I won that!

Saturday's sketch was this:


and here is my take on it:



I really liked how this turned out that I think I'll give it to my boss' daughter for her 14th birthday.

Abby's craft night

Tonight I decided to take a break from everything and let Abby play at my scrapbook table. She gets very excited to see what she can play with. So tonight we made a couple of cards for my boss' daughters. My boss is the very first person we had ever left Abby with and she has been adopted into their family.

I can't wait for when she's older and we can sit down together and do more crafty things. Don't get me wrong, I love it now but it takes so long to do one project because I still have to do pretty much everything....oh well that time will come :)

Here is the card she made for the girls (she made one for each of them but they are identical), plus she "signed" the inside of the card. I think she did pretty good for a 2 year old :)



The stamp used was Christmas Stocking by Gillian F. Roberts through Stampavie and the papers were all from Close to My Heart. Abby used various colored pencils and gel pens and a couple metal snowflake charms/buttons from Joann's.

Club Anya Blog Hop

We've asked and they have listened....

....An ALL-CUSTOMER HOLIDAY BLOG HOP and RELEASE PARTY !!!

Here are the catagories of the hop

The HOLIDAY HAPPINESS AWARD will go to their favorite overall project of the evening and win the entire December Anya release!

THE WHO you callin' a HO HO HO award will go to the BEST use of Santa or Mrs. Claus on a card or project (you do not have to have Xmas sweeties to play-you can improvise!)

The ALL WRAPPED UP award will go to the best display of altering a 3D item using Anya and/or Ian

Last but not least, the CANDY CANE CROWN will go to the best use of Holiday sweets on a card or project-whether it's cookies, candy, cupcakes, gingerbread houses, etc...you know the drill. Think your fave holiday treat...and INDULGE US!

Now on to my creations for tonight's hop. First, I needed something to hold a gift card for my hubby from our daughter so I thought I'd try using a nugget tin :)

The tin is layered inside with the gingham paper from Merry, Merry. I used Santa Ian and colored him with my copics, his "fur" around his hat and suit is made using liquid applique (love this stuff!). He was cut out and glue dotted to the tin. I used a 1'' grosgrain ribbon from Close to My Heart and the bow was made using my bow-easy. I also added some tiny adhesive back pearls to a couple of the corners. The tag was made using the Very Merry Tags Cartridge on my Cricut, Imaginsince Polar Expressions paper and blinged up.




For my second project I made a card once again using Santa Ian. All the materials used to make this card is from Close to My Heart and is just gorgeous in person. (sorry about the quality of the picture, it's was pretty dark here when I took it).



Hope you like it. Now it's time to go back to the Club Anya blog and see who's next.

Farm Fresh Friday-Color Challenge #1

As you all know I am in total love with The Greeting Farm and all of their images. I try to do their challenges when I get the chance, well this week I had some extra time to work on it.

The color challenge was to use the following colors:


Here is my card. I used the signature anya set and colored her in with my copics. The paper is from Bo Bunny and is called Alissa (very pretty in person). The flowers and ribbon is from my stash.

Bella Blog Hop

Welcome to the Bella Birthday Bash Blop Hop sponsored by Stamping Bella! If you've just happened upon my blog, you can CLICK HERE to start from the beginning at Bloggabella.

This card uses Merrybella. I colored her in with my copics and used stickles for the ornaments and the star. The paper used was Imaginisnce's Polar Express, ribbon is from CTMH, dew drops and prima flowers.



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!!! Make sure you leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win!! The winners will be announced on Monday, December 7 at the Stamping Bella Blog. MWAH!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Randi a nd see the awesome creation she made!

Riley Christmas card

I finally broke out one of the Riley images from Hanna stamps that I've had laying around for quite some time now. Sorry the picture isn't the greatest but the lighting was terrible today.

This card was done using two challenges from Any Stamp Will Do.

Color Challenge--although this week's was to use stripes
Sketch Challenge

Blog Candy Alert

I am a follower of Amy's blog "A thousand sheets of paper" and she is offering some awesome blog candy. I am crossing my fingers on this one as I just love her stamps!

Check out her blog here