Hoppin' With Anya and Ian

Hi! I hope your weekend was wonderful!! I had just a little time for stamping and so I was able to finish up my projects for the Club Anya Customer blog hop!! My first project is a Christmas card holder in the shape of Santa's cottage. (I got the idea of using one of these houses I found at Micheals from Joni - A Sticky Situation. She has made some of the most wonderful house creations!!) I like to think of Santa and Mrs Claus living in a very Gingerbread-y house. There is snow on the roof (liquid applique) , icicles hanging off of the roof (Martha Stewart punch), "gumdrop" buttons with Dazzling Diamonds glitter for their sparkle. The entire house was sprayed with Baby's Breath Shimmerz Spritz so it's very sparkly in real life. Mr and Mrs Clause also have several of their elf friends and Rudolf on their way over for a visit! (And please ignore the white plastic container - that is what I usually place my cards in when I take a picture and I just wasn't thinking about this project being much bigger than a card!!)

(You can click on any photo for a closer look.)


I also made a card for the KISS challenge (Keep It Simple Shaped) for Farm Fresh Friday at The Greeting Farm. Please don't yell at me about Hula Anya getting cold - she was very excited about the snow and couldn't resist going out to play in it! I gave her hot cocoa and told her to dress more warmly next time!! But back to the challenge - we were to use only our straight cutters, but were allowed one punch (which I used for the snowflakes. They are the leftover flakes that come off when you use the EK Success Snowflake Border punch.)

The Details:
Stamp: Hula Anya, Hat from XMas Sweeties - The Greeting Farm
Paper: DP - SU, Real REd, Cameo Coral SU, PTI White
Copics:
Skin:E11, E13,R22,R20
Hair:C3,C5,C7,C9,110
Clothes: YG03,YG07,YG09,R24,R27,R29,R59
Flowers: R20,R22
Misc: EK Success Snowflake Border punch, Stardust Stickles, Liquid Applique, Ribbon - JoAnn's?

Thank you for visiting me today, and if you are here on the Hop, I hope you are having a great time!! For the rest of the Hop List, go to Club Anya.
:-)Traci

Hula Anya

Hi Everyone! Happy Wednesday! Today on the Club Anya blog I have posted my first ever video tutorial. It is on how I color black hair with Copics. This is the card I created with the image afterward:

I used DP and Real Red ribbon from Stampin Up and the white cardstock behind her is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I ended up cutting her out and putting her on pop-up dots because when I was trimming down the square she was originally on I cut too close to the top of her head! She is colored with copics:

Skin: R00,E11,E13,R20
Flowers: R20,R22
Skirt: YG21,YG23,YG25
Top: R27,R29,R39
Hair:C3,C5,C7,C9

Thanks for visiting me today!
:) Traci

Aloha!

Hi Everyone! Are you ready to see some sneak peaks of the new Anya's (and Ian's, too, starting tomorrow!)? I love, love, love all of the new stamps The Greeting Farm is releasing on the 15th! I was so excited when I saw this one in particular! My daughter is in love with the idea of Hawaii! She's never been (yet! We were trying to plan a trip for last Christmas and things just didn't work out!) Her favorite music is by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole and she talks about going to Hawaii all of the time! She fell in love with this stamp as soon as I showed it to her. In fact, at school last week all of her class made Mother's Day cards for their mom's and on hers she drew her version of this stamp (and tomorrow's sneak peak!) because she didn't have the stamps there to stamp with!

This new stamp is called Hula Anya! Isn't she adorable!? I used my Cricut to cut out a Palm tree and some coconuts (it's from the Paper Doll cartridge. That one has a lot more than is shown on the box!) The DP is K&Company and I used Pink Passion SU card stock. Anya has Prima's over the stamped flowers for extra texture. I colored everything with Copics:

Skin: R00,E11,E13, R81
Hair: C3,C5,C7,C9
Tree (and Skirt): YG23,YG25,YG17,E25,E27,E29
Flowers and Top: R81,R83,R85,YR21,YR14,YR16,Y04,Y08,BG02,BG05

All of the Club Anya DT will be having sneak peaks of these cute new stamps through Thursday and then on Thursday night (before they are released!) we are having a Virtual Stamp night! (You can get all of the details at THIS Club Anya post!)

Jessica Diedrich, Club Anya VP and DT Coordinator

Jacquie Peifer

Janna Hull

Kristine Moldenhauer Biseth

Michelle Oatman-Guest Designer

Thanks so much for all of you who come to visit my blog. It really means a lot to me and you have no idea how much the lovely comments sometimes make my day!

:-) Traci