Make a Scene at Club Anya

Hello! (Warning - totally off of the topic of cards!) Sorry I am late putting up my post - I was all ready to come down to the computer and write it up when I discovered my 2 year old refrigerator wasn't working! So I have spent the evening moving what I could to the small freezer in the garage and calling the extended warranty company (who I have to call back tomorrow because although they take calls 24 hours a day, I guess they figured late Sunday night was the best time to do updates on their computer systems so they couldn't schedule service for me!) I'm sure it will all be fine and I am lucky I got the warranty, it was just not the way I wanted to spend the evening!

On to fun stuff now! This week for Monday Mania at Club Anya Jenny has challenged us to create a scene with our cards! This is my very favorite kind of card to make and to see! Yeah Jenny! I am getting all in the Halloween spirit lately and am really loving seeing lots of cute witches on cards so I decided to turn Nurse Anya into a sweet little witch, brewing her favorite potion up on her front lawn. The house, tree and cauldron all came from the October 31st Cricut cartridge (I was so happy to find it at JoAnn's a week or so ago and it was on sale!) I covered Nurse Anya's hat with a witch hat from a retired Greeting Farm set called Spooktacular. I also stamped her a second time just to use the arms and placed them around the pot.
The Details:
Stamp: Nurse Anya, Spooktacular - The Greeting Farm, sentiment from Taylored Expressions
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Basic Gray, Lovely Lilac, Going Gray, Elegant Eggplant (SU), Smokey Shadow, White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20, BV00,.BV01
Hair: Y35,Y17,Y38,YR04,YR07
Clothes: C5,C7,C9,YG03 w/RV00 over, YG95,Y23,Y26
Misc: Cricut Cartridge October 31, Liquid Pearls, Tim Holtz Embossing Folder, Stardust Stickles

I really hope you will get a chance to join us in the Monday Mania challenge at Club Anya this week! This is the last of the Monday Mania challenges - but stay tuned! Jess has something fun in store for us starting next month!!

:-)Traci

Monday Mania - This Is Me

Hello! I hope your weekend was great! This is the last week of school here before Summer vacation, so I know it's going to be a crazy week with lots of end of the year activities.....Today's Monday Mania challenge at Club Anya comes from Shaela and is a "This is Me" challenge. Here is Shaela's description,"Create a project that portrays who you are. You can make a scrapbook layout, card, altered item, gift set... any kind of paper project. It can be done in your favorite colors, using your favorite CA&F image, a project that displays a cherished past-time... whatever describes you!! Please include a brief explanation in your details when you upload it to the gallery."


First I made Rockstar Anya (my favorite Anya) into a self portrait of me by giving her a rounder body and glasses and dressing her like me. Then I used my favorite colors – dark red, orange and brown. There is sewing because that is another hobby that I spend a lot of time doing. And finally, the skulls and “Keep Rockin’” are because in my head I am still 17!!

The Details:
Stamps: Rockstar Anya, Anya Says - The Greeting Farm
Paper: My Minds Eye (Orange and Skull Strip), Dark Chocolate, White (Paper Trey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:E02,E08,E09,E18
Clothes: C0,C1,C5,C7,C9,R29,R39,R89
Misc: Brown Felt (Paper Trey Ink), Sewing Machine

I hope you will join us at CA&F and create a project about yourself!
:-)Traci

Punk It Up

(If you are here to see the ATS challenge card, please scroll down.)

Today at Club Anya and Friends, our guest designer for the month of April (Caz) has a challenge for this week's Wild Card Wednesday - Punk It Up! I have made this card for my brother, who always request a stack of "U Suck" cards to be made for him each year. He gives them out to those he really cares about, and they seem to "get it" and appreciate the cards!


I altered the new Stamping Anya by wiping away the "stamps" on her shirt before stamping and drawing in the "U" and the "No" sign on the heart. I also gave her new hair by stamping her once, cutting her out, and tracing her head to draw her new hair which I placed on the original head like a wig.

The Details:
Stamp: Stamping Anya - The Greeting Farm
paper: Creative Imaginations, Basic Grey, Basic Black (both SU), White (Paper Trey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Going Gray, Basic Gray, Basic Black (SU)
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair: C3,C5,C7,C9,110,B000
Clothes: C1,C3,C5,R24,R29,R39
Misc: Brads (JoAnn's Scrap Essentials), Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Rub On letters (old K&Co from my stash)

I think this is a really fun challenge, with a lot of room to GO Crazy, so please join us at CA&F to check it out! I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!
:-)Traci

Mad About You...

Hiya! Today I get to go see Alice In Wonderland! I hope I have not built it up in my head so much that I am disappointed....In the meantime, I have been having a blast playing in the challenges that the Oh Alice blog has each weekend. This week's was a color challenge - Red, Purple and Blue - inspired by the O.P.I. fingernail polish collection "Wonderland".

I have actually been playing around with this card for several days. I was so thrilled with my Hatter when I finished him, but I feel like I need a re-do on the rest of the card! Oh, well... I made the Hatter by combining the head of Twisted Tea (a digi from The Greeting Farm) with the upper body of the Anya from the Showtime set (I did keep Twisted Tea's tie, though). I drew some new legs for him. (I did this by cutting out the upper body I was going to use, then tracing it on my cardstock as reference lines so I knew where the pants should start. Once the pants were drawn and colored I cut them out and glued them under the upper body.) I also cut off some of Twisted Tea's hair and gave him the Hatter's hat from the Wonderland set. I tried to give him the hat from Showtime but it was too small to cover Twisted Tea's teacup! I made the background with the teacup from the Wonderland set (I am lucky enough to have the rubber version, but it has been re-released in digi! It is such a great set with the CUTEST rabbit and accessories!)

The Details:
Stamps: Twisted Tea (digi), Showtime, Wonderland - all The Greeting Farm, sentiment - Sassy Studio Designs
Paper: Real Red, Elegant Eggplant, Pacific Point (SU), White (Paper Trey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: E000,E00,E02,R20,RV02,RV04
Hair: YR00,YR04,YR07,YR09
Clothes: BV02,BV04,BV08,C5,C7,C9,B02,B04,B06,C0,C1,C3
Teacups: BV02,BV04,B02,B04,R24,R29,E57,E59
Misc: Sakura Black Glaze Pen, Foam Tape

Thanks for stopping by!
:-)Traci

Bunny Wild Thing

Hiya! How are you today!? I'm pretty good! I am so happy that I got a chance to make this card! I have had this idea since I first got my "Bunny" Sweet November stamps! I know they are adorable Bunnies, but there was something about them that reminded me of Max from Where the Wild Things Are and so I had to do a little altering and combine them with my favorite Taylored Expressions set The Places You'll Go. I also used the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #100 for the layout!


So, to make Max I used Baby Bunnies Bunny and wiped away the sweet little Bunny with a baby wipe after inking up the stamp. I also wiped away most of the ears and the tips of the feet. I drew in very simple pointy ears and some claws on the end of the feet. I used the arm from Baby Bunnies Daffodil, wiping the ink off the hand and drawing in claws once it was stamped. I list my Copic colors below, but I wanted to point out that that my colors in the ocean scene were way too bright when I first finished so I tried to tone them down with a W0 and W1 marker. When that didn't tone it down enough I went over most of the picture with E43 I was pretty happy with that. I chose E43 because it was similar to the golden brown in the DP.

The Details:
Stamp: Baby Bunnies Bunny, Baby Bunnies Daffodil (Sweet November Stamps through All That Scraps) , The Places You'll Go (Taylored Expresssions)
Paper: Basic Grey, Chocolate Chip (SU), White (Paper Trey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Walnut Antique Distress Ink
Copics:
Max:R00,E00,E11,R20, E44,E47,E49,B91,W0
Trees and Grass: YG21,YG23,YG25 all w/E43 over them, E44,E47,R00,R02 both w/E43 over them
Sky and Water: B93, B95 w/W0 and W1 over them
Misc: Nestabilities Circles, Brads (Basic Grey), Foam Tape

Thanks so much for stopping by!
:-)Traci

Romeo and Juliet

Hi! Caz issued a challenge for Monday Mania at Club Anya to use Anya and Ian as a couple (I think there was supposed to be masking involved, so I kind of cheated by cutting my images out instead of masking!) and I decided to draw them entirely new outfits and make them Romeo and Juliet. When I do this much altering I sort of treat it like paper dolls - I stamp the original image and cut it out (cutting away any extra's I don't want to use like Miss Rain's umbrella) then I trace around the cut-out with pencil and draw the new clothes. Because it's all in pencil there is no pressure - just keep playing until you are happy! Then trace those lines with a Copic multiliner (or whatever pen will suit your coloring medium), color, cut out and glue over the first cut out that you used to trace (and you have colored the skin and hair on). In this case I actually re-drew Ian's arm so they could hold hands, so I just cut away the one on the original before I glued the new clothes on top!

The Details:
Stamps: My Guy Ian; Rain, Snow, Shine - The Greeting Farm
Paper: Graphic 45, Chocolate Chip (SU), White (PTI)
Copics:
Skin:R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:E50,E53,E55
Ian Clothes: G20,G21,G24,G94,G99,E13,E15,E17,E25,E27,E29,E50,E53,E55
Anya Clothes: E07,E09,E18,E25,E27,E29,E13,E15,E17
Misc: Brads (SU), Border Punch (EK Success), Sakura Clear Stardust pen, Foam tape

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
:-)Traci

Late New Year's Challenge Cards

So, The Greeting Farm issued 12 challenges on New Year's Day and I had such big plans to do them all...Well, I managed to do 2 of them. And then I didn't get pictures taken of them in time to upload and enter the contest! Oh, Well, I had a lot of fun making them, which is why I do this card making thing anyway!

The first one is for Melyssa's Tag challenge. If you come here very often you might remember me talking about trying to use some of the much loved paper that I have been scared to use? Well, these tags came with the pack of Basic Grey Lilly Kate line. All of the tags were still there, almost all of the paper is whole...I am really working on this!! I turned Dress Me Anya into an Elf princess by using Amy's method of altering to wipe away a little section and draw some pointy ears. (Amy's tutorial is HERE.)


The Details:
Stamps: Dress Me ANya, Anya Says - The Greeting Farm
Paper: Basic Grey, Pink Pirrouette, Lavender Lace - SU, PaperTreyInk White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Vanilla Craft Ink
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair: E02,E08,E09,E18
Clothes:BV000,BV01,BV02,BV04
Misc: Prima Flowers, Martha Stewart flower punch, Taylors Tiny Twinkles, PTI ribbon, Uniball Signo white gel pen, Stardust Stickles, Sakura Clear Stardust pen, SU Corner Rounder

The other challenge card that I got done was Kadie's Sew Satisfying challenge - to use sewing on your card. The challenge actually said to use sewing in a " fun and/or surprising way" which really threw me, but then I decided I have never hand sewn on felt before (and now we can all see that my hand sewing skills are sadly lacking!) I punched the shapes using my Spellbinders flower dies - they did not always go all of the way through, even with a shim. Most only needed a few little snips with the scissors to finish them up, though.


The Details:
Stamp: Flutter By Anya-THe Greeting Farm
Paper: Cosmo Cricket, Summer Sun - SU, PTI White
Copics:
Skin:R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:RV10,RV13,RV14
Wings:RV10,RV13.Y06,Y08,Y17
Clothes:YR04,YR07,YR09, (G94,G99)-both with BG72 over them
Misc: Felt, DMC Floss, Stardust Stickles, Cotton Candy Stickles, Foam Tape

Thanks for stopping by today!
:-)Traci

Rudolph and Vivi

Hello! I hope your week is going great so far! I am so excited about the four day weekend! I don't do the Black Friday shopping thing - way too stressful! But I am looking forward to a day of relaxing with my family and maybe watching a few Holiday movies.....What are you looking forward to?

I had this idea of turning the deer from the Forest Friends set by The Greeting Farm into Rudolph. I used Amy's method of altering (she does a great tutorial on Club Anya). Her method is much easier and better than what I have always done, so I think I will go to it first from now on! My method always involved a lot of tracing and cutting out and layering.....Anyway, once I had Rudolph I thought he and Vivi could be delivering packages to their friends at the North Pole.I did a little altering on Vivi too, giving her a bit more hair. I also used NO patterened paper on this so it qualifies for the Farm Fresh Friday challenge! Woo Hoo!

The Details:
Stamps: Forest Friends, Vivi - The Greeting Farm
Paper: Bermuda Bay - SU, Aqua Mist, Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy, White - PTI
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Whisper White Craft
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:E21,E25,E27,E29
Clothes and Present: R00,R20,R22,R24,R27,R29,BG10,BG11,BG13,BG15
Rudolph: E21,E25,E27,E29,R00,R20,W0,W1,W3, R27,R29
Misc: Stardust Stickles, Burgundy Stickles, Adirondack Cranberry Dimensional Pearls, Sakura Glaze Pen - Red, White Opal Liquid Pearls, Uniball Signo White Gel Pen, Swiss Dots CB Embossing Folder, Trees cut out with a Cricut Machine

Thanks for stopping by!
:-)Traci

Santa Ian, I've Been Very Good!

Hello! I just couldn't resist turning My Guy Ian into a "hot" Santa with Anya sitting in his chair waiting for him! I had intended to use the "naughty" and the "nice" sentiment from Xmas Sweeties but somewhere along the way I have lost my "nice" sentiment! Then I decided, that's okay, who needs "nice" anyway!? Ooops, I just realized I forgot to color in his belt buckle, so pretend it is gold because I am going to go color it that as soon as I finish posting!


The Details:
Stamps: Miss Anya Dressy, My Guy Ian, Sentiment (from Xmas Sweeties) - all The Greeting Farm, Rocking Chair - Magnolia
Paper: Imaginisce, Riding Hood Red, PTI White
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
Copics:
Skin (both): R00,E00,E11,R20
Ian Hair: C5,C7,C9
Ian Clothes: R35,R37,R39,C5,C7,C9
Anya Hair: E53,E55,E57,E59
Anya Clothes: B01,B02,B04,B06,C0,C1,C3
Misc: Stardust Stickles, Black Detail embossing powder, Darice Gems, Versamark pen

Thank you for visiting!
:-)Traci

My Sprout Brigitte

Hi! I just have a very quick post today to show you another Sprout I have created for the "Design Your Own Sprout" contest at The Greeting Farm. This is Brigitte and her little poodle FiFi (named after the Poodle my MIL had for many years that was just the sweetest dog!)


The Details:
Stamps: Based on the Wild Sprouts from The Greeting Farm
Paper: Me and My Big Ideas, Chocolate Chip, PTI White
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair: E21,E25,E27,E29
Clothes: R81,R83,R85,R89
Poodle: W0,W1,W5
Misc: Martha Stewart Pearls, Liquid Pearls, Stickles on top of dress.

Thanks for stopping by!
:-)Traci

A few Altered Sprouts!

Hi Everyone! Did you see the announcement last week on The Greeting Farm blog about the new Create Your Own Sprout contest? Now, you would think this would be right up my alley as I am always altering Anya's and Ian's but since the announcement I have drawn a total blank!! I would sit with my little traced Sprout just staring at the paper! Well, yesterday, I finally got a couple of things to make their way out of my brain! I am not sure that I will enter these (I think we are limited to 3 entries). I think my Rocker Girl "Liv" (short for Olivia, but she prefers Liv!) may be a little too surly and Marie made a limited edition Elf Anya last year (that was right before I discovered TGF so I missed out on her and I have always wanted her, so that's why I made an elf!!) so I may not enter my Elf "Meri"either! Hopefully some other things come to me!! BTW, if you haven't seen the Sprout creations on Amy's blog you are missing out!


"Meri" Details":
Stamp: Based on "Wild Sprouts" by The Greeting Farm
Paper: My Minds Eye, Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, Kiwi Kiss, PTI White
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:BG000
Clothes: YG21,YG23,YG25, YG17,BG000,BG02,BG05,R81,R83,R85,R89
Misc: EK Success Snowflake Border, Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder, Clear Glitter pen on the hair (even though you can't see it in the picture!), Liquid Applique, Silver pen

"Liv" details:
Stamps: Based on the "Wild Sprouts" from the Greeting Farm sentiment from Verve
Paper: My Minds Eye, Basic Black, Whisper White, PTI White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (what I always use for Copics) and Distress Ink - Antique Linen
Copics:
Skin:R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:E02,E08,E09,E18

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you tonight on Paper Craft Planet for the Going Away party for the Club Anya DT! (8PM CST!)

:-)Traci

One Last Circus Card...

...for now, anyway! I don't have any more made right now or anything, but the way that challenge had my brain spinning, I can't swear I won't be making another one!! This one uses Anya and Ian from the Dress Me set. I drew clown make-up on them and drew their fancy clown outfits. If you have an interest in altering, or just drawing your own clothes, this is how I do it: I stamp Anya or Ian and cut them out (I use Dress Me Anya and Ian so much I have just kept one of each cut out of cardstock for this.) I trace the body (and the head if I am making a hat or changing the hair) onto my preferred Copic coloring Cardstock (usually PTI) then start drawing in pencil over my traced body. There's no reason to be nervous because it is just pencil and can be erased! Once I am happy with the pencil lines I go over them with my Copic multi-liner, color, and then cut out and layer over my original stamped image.


The Details:
Stamps: Dress Me - The Greeting Farm
Paper: GCD Studios, Basic Black, Whisper White - SU, PTI White
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair: E21,E25,E27,E29
Clothes, Make-Up: C0,C1,C3,C5,C7.C9,R35,R37,R39,R89
Misc: SU Photo Corner Punch, Brads, White Signo Pen

I hope your day is Fabulous!
:-)Traci

More From the Faire!

Hi Everyone! How was your Monday? Well, I didn't get my sunny day like I wanted even though the weather man on the radio yesterday morning said it was going to be the warmest day yet! He was so wrong! Oh, well....


I finally finished my cards representing the Red Court and the Green Court from my local Renaissance Festival (a few days ago I had the one for the Blue Court and a photo from the Faire). The Blue Court card came together so easily, but I really struggled with the Red and Green after I had finished altering and coloring the Baron's and Baroness' . I really thought I wanted to use some paper from the Once Upon a Time stack from DCWV, but even though the paper is gorgeous it just wasn't right with my coloring. I finally found this Digi image of a castle from In Style Stamps and decided to make both cards the same except for the Court figures. (It's a little funny to me - the Green court are the "bad" guys but even with an "evil" goatee, Ian still looks too cute!)
The frame behind the images was made by removing the guard from a decorative corner punch then punching repeatedly around a square of black cardstock. Once you go completely around the square the piece in the middle just kind of falls out. Both of the Baron's and Baroness' are altered Anya's and Ian's from the Dress Me set from The Greeting Farm. They are colored with Copics:

Red Court:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair: Y000, E50,Y21,Y26,Y28
Clothes: R24,R27,R29, C1,C3,C5,C7,C9

Green Court:
Skin: Same
Hair: C3,C5,C7,C9 and E21, E25, E27, E29
Clothes: G09,G19,G29, C1,C3,C5,C7,C9

If you haven't been to Club Anya to check out the contest and see whose blog you need to visit for your clue today, be sure you go HERE. You really want a chance to win this contest, believe me! :-)

Thanks so much for visiting me and for all of the lovely comments that are left. It really means a lot to me! I wish you a joyous day!
:-) Traci

The Blue Baron

Hi Guys! I am getting a late start today. I had my card all downloaded and everything last night but I was just too tired to post it. And this one needs a little explanation.


There is a Renaissance Faire here every summer (first two weekends in June) called The Three Baron's Renaissance Faire. I know there are some Faires that really strive towards accuracy and seriousness - ours is very fun and fantasy - like. The story is there are 3 Baron's - the Green Baron (and Baroness plus their Court) who are evil, the Red Baron (and Baroness plus their Court) who are good (sickeningly so!) and the Blue Baron (and his many wives and Court!) who are mysterious! My friends and I used to go every year, sometimes several times, so we decided to become Vendor's and we now have a craft booth at the fair. I usually make costume pieces but I have been spending much more time card-making this year and so I decided I had to make some cards in honor of the Baron's. I haven't finished the Red or Green Baron's cards, but this is in honor of the Blue Baron. This is the only picture I have with him in it from the last couple of years Faire's. The same guy has been the Blue Baron ever since I started going in the mid 90's and my card was based on my memories of him from then.


I also thought since I was showing Faire stuff I would show an older card of mine that has never been on my blog, based on a dress I made for my daughter for Faire. This is her in the summer of '07.


All of the stamped images are altered Dress Me Anya'a and Ian's from The Greeting Farm and the paper on all of the cards is DCWV. I'm sorry I don't have my list of Copics used on the Baron card this time, and the card with the purple dress used Prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits.

Thanks for coming to see me! I hope you have a great weekend!

Mother's Day Cards!

Hi Everyone! I have been working on Mother's Day cards today. I have the one I made for my mother and the one for my mother-in-law to show you. Hopefully, because I have these made already I will manage to get them to them before Mother's Day! I am the worst for having a gazillion cards made up, but just not the "right one" for the person I need to send one, so I am always late!


My first card is for my mother. She loves baseball and still plays softball at 57 (hopefully she won't be mad at me for saying her age!) I am just so proud of her athleticism! So, I turned Baseball Ian from The Greeting Farm into Baseball Anya. I had to do the card with lots of yellow because that is her favorite color. The DP is Sassafras Lass, and the sentiment is retired SU. I colored the ribbon and the brads with Copics! The image is also colored with Copics:

Skin: E00,E11,R20
Hair and Bat: E21,E25,E27,E29
Clothes: Y11,Y15, Y17, G05, G09, G17
C1,C3,C5,C7,C9



The second card is for my mother-in-law. She likes things that are much more girly than my mother does and I think this sort of old-fashioned sweet little girl (Daisy from Sugar Nellies) is perfect for her. The DP is Crate Paper, the flowers are Prima, and the brads are Doodlebug sugar coated brads. Also, I printed out a bunch of sketches the other day and this is from one of the online sketch challenges but I didn't write it down. As soon as I have a chance I will find out where it came from and put it on here. (ok, I found it. It is from A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge #21) The image is colored with Copics:

Skin: E00,E11,R81
Shirt: RV91,R81,R83
Pants: B63,BV13,BV17
Grass: YG11, YG17
Flowers: V93,V95,V99

One last thing - Club Anya and the Greeting Farm are going to have a very cool Blog Hop that you (with YOUR blog) can participate in to celebrate the new release on the 15th. You can go here to get all of the details and to sign up (you don't want to miss seeing the new sets - the are fantastic!)

Thanks for visiting me! :-) Traci

Superhero Ian!

So all of this altering Ian or Anya into a Rockstar has been so much fun, both to do and see! (If you don't know what I am talking about, head over to Club Anya and check out the fun contest going on right now!) I had to share this other altered Ian card. Last week my husband said to me," You should try to make him into Batman and Joker." He's always been a Batman fan and it's kind of a reoccuring theme in our lives together. Teh first Tim Burton Batman movie was one of our first dates. We both wore Batman t-shirts to our wedding reception. When our daughter was a baby, you were guaranteed to get a big grin by going "nananananana Batman!" and she had Batmand pajama's as a toddler, that she wore as her first Halloween costume. So, anyway, I had to try!
I made the images last week and I was so tickled to see Batman and the Joker with Ian's sweet face! They are both made with Dress Me Ian. For Batman, I traced Ian's head and drew a mask for him. I also traced his body twice and drew the Batman costume and the Joker costume. I really wanted a city scene behind them and I didn't have one (you'd think I'd just draw one, but I am way better drawing things that concern people - clothes, hair, people themselves. ) but I found 2 different ones at Starving Artists Stamps. I used Doodlefactory Rooftops Backdrop. Then while waiting for it to arrive, the Joker got something wet on him and got all smeared, so I had to do him again! (I'm so grateful it wasn't Batman - he took so much longer!) . Everything is colored wiht Copics.

Thanks so much for coming to see what I have done and all of the wonderful comments that are left - Traci

Really Rockin' the Farm!

I am so excited about this! I couldn't wait for today when this was announced!

Ok, so we have a ROCKIN' REBEL CONTEST for you over at Club Anya! Be sure to stop by the Blog today to find out more about this wicked cool contest, and the PRIZE! Here are the rules:

1.) Your challenge is to create your FAVORITE ROCKSTAR out of any Anya or Ian stamp (you MUST use an Anya or Ian stamp for this contest). We can't wait to see what you come up with! Feel free to BREAK ALL THE RULES...you know, gender, mix-matching heads and bodies, clothes, hair...you know, that kind of thing! More than likely, the more you mix it up, the better!

2.) This will be a JUDGED contest. The DT, Marie and I are looking forward to seeing ALL your awesome submissions and choosing a winner based on creativity and originality. We already know it's gonna be a TOUGH call!

3.) This contest will remain open until Friday, April 3nd, 2009 at 11:59 CST. All entries need to be uploaded to the Club Anya ROCKIN' REBEL gallery. Be sure to leave a comment on today's Club Anya post too, to let us know you played along! The winner will be announced on Saturday, April 4th on the Club Anya blog.

Good luck to all who enter and we can't WAIT to see what you come up with!

I am so excited because I LOVE to alter Anya and Ian stamps - not because I think they need to be changed because they are perfect! But I think anyone you make looks much cuter when they start as Anya or Ian! And I love rock music! I had so much fun making my two samples (although they took much longer than I usually spend on a single card!)


My first card is David Bowie in the early 70's when he did his Ziggy Stardust character. That has been my favorite music since I was about 12 (even though that music came out when I was around 2!) I used Happy Chef Ian's face and put a post-it note over the part of the hair (and eyebrows, cuz Bowie shaved them off then!) I didn't want. I drew new hair and colored it with Prisma markers. The body is from Dress Me Ian. I cut it out and traced it onto seperate paper where I drew the clothes I wanted. The paper is Summer Soiree by FancyPants (orange) and Offbeat by Basic Grey (white print). The jewels are from the jewelry section at JoAnn's.


This was so much fun I had to do two! My second card is The Ramones! I used the faces from Dress Me Ian on 2 of them (Joey and Tommy!) Happy Chef for one (Johnny) and Skateboard Ian for one (DeeDee!) I had to change their mouth's because they just didn't look like Ramones with Ian's sweet little smile. If I'd been paying more attention to the design instead of giggling at how much fun I was having I probably would have switched DeeDee and Johnny's places so that all 3 of the "blue" jeans were not together! I was just thinking that Joey and Johnny were the center of the group and should be the center of the card! No DP on this one - I drew the wall behind them and gaffitied my sentiment. This was too much fun!

I hope you all have as much fun as I did!
Traci

2 More Hero's

Yesterday, I said I had two more Hero cards to share with you and here they are! They both use various pieces of Creative Imaginations DP. The first one has some crystal effects on the star (which was just circle punched out of one of the pieces of DP). Both were colored with a combo of Prisma markers and Copics.

Thanks for looking!
Traci

Anya and Prince Charming

So, do you think if Anya kisses this cute little frog she will end up with Prince Charming? I sure hope so!

The Anya stamp (by The Greeting Farm) and the frog (by Imaginisce) were both colored with Prisma Markers. Anya's dress was paper pieced and a little glitter was added to both crowns and the wand. The DP is K&Co and the card stock is Stampin' Up.They are both layered on some ovals cut with Nestabilities.