Trick-or-Treating With Anya and the Gang

Hi! When I started this card I meant to use the sketch posted on The Greeting Farm blog for Farm Fresh Friday last week. I loved how Kim Nath turned the big circle element on the sketch into the moon (on her card HERE ) and so I blatantly copied that! But then, because I wanted to put at least 3 trick-or-treaters on the card I left myself no room for the other elements from the sketch!
For the moon I used one of my circle nestabilities as a mask and sponged a little Bodering Blue, then covered that with VeraMark ink and embossed with clear. Then I sponged around that with Taken With Teal, Night of Navy and Elegant Eggplant (all craft ink - I seem to have better luck sponging with Craft ink). The bats are from an EK Sucess punch. The frame is popped up, then my trick-or-treaters (I like to think of big Sis Anya dressing up and taking the little one's out for candy!) are popped up and layered on top of that. Anya's dress is covered with Star Dust stickels, and the treat bags are pieces of candy corn cut from the DP with thread handles added and faces drawn on.

The Details:
Stamps: Princess Anya, Witch from Spooktacular, Lion from Wild Things - The Greeting Farm
Paper: K&Co, Elegant Eggplant - Su, PTI white
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,R20,E11
Hair (all 3):E11,E13,E15,E18
Dress:Y11,Y15,Y17,YR21,YR15,YR18
Witch:YR21,YR15,YR18
Lion: Y21,Y23,Y26,E44,E47,E49

Thanks for stopping by! I hope your day is wonderful!
:-)Traci

Club Anya Couture

Hi Everyone! Just in case you missed the announcement yesterday, Club Anya is having another fun contest! This one is a fashion show called Club Anya Couture: Spring Fashion 2009! You can get all of the details HERE. Be sure to check it out because you can win the new, fantastic Rain, Snow, Shine set!! I had the idea for this card with Princess Anya and her little forest friends, and although I know it is not "high fashion", I think it is my first sample for the contest. After all, it is a "one of a kind" outfit she is wearing!


First, I drew on Anya's dress to try to make it coordinate with the DP I wanted to use (My Mind's Eye). I also drew her a new hat, colored it, cut it out and placed it over the crown. I drew the veil for her hat on vellum and colored it with Copics. The deer and the squirrels are from Forest Friends and the little bird is from Pretty Hat. (All of the stamps are from The Greeting Farm.) Everything is colored with Copics:

Princess:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,RV11,RV13
Dress: Y21,Y17,RV11,RV13,RV14,BG13
Deer and Squirrels: E21,E25,E27,E00,E11,RV11,RV13
Bird: BG11,BG13,BG15,BG49

Thanks for coming to see my creation! I hope you have a lot of fun making yours!
:-) Traci

Almost myself again....

Wow, it feels like forever since I've posted! I was so excited about the big blog hop last Wednesday with Club Anya and The Greeting Farm and wouldn't you know, the night before I started getting an itchy throat and cough. By mid afternoon on Wednesday I had a fever and just felt awful. I missed two days of work, but was feeling ok enough by Saturday to go see Spamalot (I have a Wonderful, Fabulous friend who got me and my DH tickets for Christmas!). That was fun! I feel almost normal again.


I haven't really felt up to crafting over the last couple of days, but I had made this card for my niece's birthday early last week. I know it borrows from a theme I've used before, but I just love the digi Unicorn and Princess Anya (both from The Greeting Farm) together! The DP on this card is Basic Grey. I used some little jewels from the jewelry making section of the craft store and some Prima flowers (I colored the large one with the same color Copic marker that I used on the dress although in the picture it doesn't look like the same color.) The images are colored with Copics:

Uni:V01,V04,V06
Skin: E00,E11,RV02
Hair: E50,Y000
Dress: RV04,RV06,RV09 RV91,RV93,RV95

Thanks for visiting me!
:-) Traci

Anya, the Unicorn Princess!

Hi everyone! I had this idea that it would be really sweet if Princess Anya (from The Greeting Farm) could ride the Unicorn (also from The Greeting Farm, in digital form). So I thought I'd make her standing next to the Unicorn, getting ready to ride. The problem was that with the Unicorn printed to a size where he didn't take up the whole card front Anya just looked way too big to be riding on him. So I placed Anya on top of the frame, and I like to think that she's looking across the field, and getting ready for her first Unicorn ride!

I've been asked a few times to list the marker colors I used and so I will try to keep track of them from now on. I don't want to scare anybody off who is thinking of starting to use Copics, because I have seen many beautiful cards made using just a few markers. I am not much of a "less is more" girl, though, when it comes to coloring! So, for this card I used :

Skin: E00, E02, RV21 (Cheeks)
Hair: (Cream Prisma Marker - I do not yet have a pale yellow/almost off white Copic that would be good for the lightest part of the hair here. I tried Y000 at first but it had a slight green cast. If anyone has a suggestion, I'd love to hear it), plus Y21, Y26, Y28.
Blues (on Unicorn and Dress): B000, B01, B02
Pinks:RV21, RV23, RV25
Green:YG03, YG17
And I forgot to mark down what oranges I used on the flowers, sorry.

The DP is Little Yellow Bicycle. The flowers are Prima, with Swarovski crystals (from the jewelry craft section) glued in the centers. The pink flower was white and I used my Copics to make it match. And, finally, there is LOTS of Dazzling Diamonds glitter (SU) on the Unicorn, crown and wand!

I hope everyone has a great weekend, filled with whatever makes them happiest!

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.