Rock On!

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HELLO TGF ROCKSTARS! WELCOME TO OUR RELEASE DAY BLOG HOP!

The wait is over! Wait no longer for Flo and Jo, our adorable Grandparents on the Farm, our beautiful Fleur Anya, sweet Cuddle Anya, and THURSDAY our first in the BRAND NEW line of Rubber "Creepers" finally available at TGF! It's a ROCKIN' RELEASE DAY for sure....so head on over to the TGF Store...

....but WAIT...that's NOT all...

We have been BURSTING over here trying soooo hard not to leak the secret that's been lurking over in the Barn of ideas....and today we can finally SCREECH it from the Rooftops...or should I say, from the nearest stadium? Sound stage? Amphitheater maybe? Anyway you scream it, it's with a REBEL YELL....

That's right folks! BACK...by POPULAR DEMAND...we bring you:

For my Rockin' Rebel card I decided to turn the new Thursday Creeper into early 80's era Madonna. (I feel like I need to put a disclaimer up here - Madonna is NOT my fave Rockstar, but I did my two fave's the last time we had this contest - so fun - and I will show you them at the end of my post! So I decided to just play and I thought Madonna would be fun!) I wiped away the ink from her kitty hat and her lower body before I stamped her and drew in new hair and a skirt and leggings. I left the cute tennis shoes. I made some fishnet lines on the outer shirt layer, added a crucifix, a mole and some jelly bracelets and voila!

The Details:
Stamp: Thursday Creeper - The Greeting Farm
Paper: My Minds Eye, Basic Black, Pacific Point (SU) White (Paper Trey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:Skin: R00,E00,E11, R20
Hair: E50,E40,E43,E44,E47
Clothes:C3,C5,C7,C9
Misc: Sakura Clear Stardust Pen, Washi Tape (now available at The Greeting Farm), Rub On sentiment (SU)

WHAT is ROCKIN' REBEL?

Rockin Rebel is a contest in which YOU get to design a card, layout, or altered item based on your favorite musical artist, icon, or band. Alter away, or stay true to your stamp, either way, we want to see who ends up on your ROCKIN' REBEL project!

WHEN is ROCKIN' REBEL?

RIGHT NOW! Contest begins today and will end on Friday, May 13th at 8pm CST. The winning entry will be announced on SATURDAY May 14th on the CA&F and TGF Blogs and we'll be sure to show a few honorable mentions, too! Last time the competition was FIERCE and the ideas were insane. In like, a GOOD way. AMAZING actually! Put your thinking caps, iPods, or MtV on and we can't WAIT to see what you come up with!

Please upload your creation to TGF Galleria>Contests/Challenges>Rockin Rebel 2.

WHAT's THIS I HEAR ABOUT A PRIZE?

Oh it's a big one....in traditional TGF Fashion.

ONE lucky winner will receive their choice of.... (d

rumroll, please...after all this IS a ROCKIN' contest!)

SPOTLIGHT....or....

ROLL CALL!

Can you stand it? We know..... we ROCK ;)

The FINE print:

Only ONE entry per person as we want to give e veryone a fair shot at this very Rockin' prize. Please use ONLY TGF stamps with the exception of sentiments. Altering IS acceptable, but we need to see the stamp (as in, it needs to be cle

ar who you are using :)

IF you are a new gallery user, you must email your name, address, SCS ID and blog information to Jessica. Contact info is on our Club Anya Official Rules Page. Unfortunately during the Royal Battle it was brought to our att

ention that accounts were being created using multiple ID's under the same user :( Shame :( Oh well, hopefully this will help!

Last but not least, be sure to check out the ROCKIN' DT today as their creations always go platinum in my book! Here is the order of our DT Blog Hop today. We are also excited to welcome a few special guests from our TGF DT, too! Don't forget to make the rounds! In addition to this FANTASTIC contest, one lucky winner will walk away with the ENTIRE MAY CA&F RELEASE! (Fleur, Cuddle, and Thursday!) Winner will be announced tomorrow here on the blog!

Club Anya & Friends Blog

Cindy Haffner- with our MC for the event, the incredible Ms. Monroe ;)

• Amy Young
• Rachel Schneider-our May Guest DT!
• Kelly Booth
• Kim Costello
• Pam Varnell
• Traci Porter
• Randi Wall

Jessica Diedrich

ROCK ON everyone...and good luck! Happy

Release Day from everyone at TGF and Team Anya!

And these are my two Rockin' Rebel cards from last year! They are still 2 of my favorite cards that I have made!

Early 70's David Bowie

The Ramones!

I hope you have a lot of fun with this! I know I have!
:-)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