WOO HOO! A Sneak Peak of an Anya Release!

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend (and a great Easter holiday)! Today I get to show you a sneak peak of one of the new Anya (and Ian) releases at The Greeting Farm (available Wednesday night at 10PM Central time - but don't forget about the Giant Blog Hop leading up to the release. The details on the blog hop are HERE.) I have been so excited about these new stamps since I got them in the mail and I can't wait for you to see them all!


I decided to make my first sneak peak using Wild West Anya! Ain't she the cutest? I used DP from My Mind's Eye and colored her with Copics:

Skin: E00,E11,RV13
Hair: Y17,YR14,E08
Hat and Boots: E25,e27,e29
Clothes: RV13,RV14,RV25, BG32, BG34, BG49

Some of the other DT member have chosen a different set to do their sneak peak with so if you haven't visited their blogs you should go take a look (I can't wait to see what they have done!)

Jessica, Club Anya VP and DT Coodinator

Jacquie

Janna

Kristine

Michelle – Guest Designer

We all will have another surprise set to show you tomorrow, too!
Thanks for visiting!
;-) Traci

After Some Technical Difficulties...Happy Weekend!

Hi Everyone! I really intended to post this for Friday, but I was having problems getting my pictures to turn out decently. My DH has a great camera, thanks to me ( I talked him into getting it last year because he has always loved photography) which I use to photograph my cards. I don't know a thing about the camera - my brain only has so much space and I have decided not to waste it with camera knowledge when I can just use my DH's brain (just kidding, but really it's so much easier just to have him fix all of the settings!) Every time I needed to photograph a card I set a box up on the couch, under my OTT light, draped it with a white pillow case, set up the tripod (fussing for 5 to 10 minutes everytime to set it to the right height) then snapped the picture. All of a sudden all of the pictures looked awful. Plus it took forever for one picture because of all of the set-up. I made a change today that is better, but not perfect. I bought a white plastic storage container about the size of a shoe-box that I can easily sit on the table next to the window (and that height is much better for the tripod, too.) How do the rest of you take your card photo's?

The other issue I am having today is that Blogger reader is not updating any of the blogs I am following. It says there is nothing new when I can see there is something new that i haven't read. THis is all new to me, so if someone else has had this problem and knows what is wrong, please let me know!

So, on to my card for today!


I used Susie Suprise, one of the new releases from The Greeting Farm. I love her delighted expression! THe DP on the card is Shabby Princess ( red polka dot) and Daisy D's (large polka dot and stripe). I colored Susie with Copics:

Skin: E00,E11,R81
Hair: E25,E27,E29
Clothes and Balloons: R81,R83,R27,R29,BG11,BG45,BG72,Y000,Y00,Y02, C1,C3

Also, I just want to remind everyone about the big New Release Blog Hop from The Greeting Farm and Club Anya on the 15th. If you haven't signed up to participate, or want more details go HERE.

Thanks for visiting - have a great weekend!
:-) Traci

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

Have a Fintastic Tuesday!

Hi Everyone! How is your week so far? Mine is moving along just fine..... My daughter has taken swimming lessons for the past year or so. It's the only sport-type activity she really likes, although she's not on the swim team or anything. She has not advanced to that point yet. With her lessons you pay for the next month right at the end of the current lessons, but the lessons don't always start and end at the same time each month. Because of how it's done, it is sometimes hard to get in to the next session if your not already signed up (if that makes any sense). This is a very long story to say I took her out of lessons in December because we were going on vacation and it took me until now to get her back in. She had her first swim class since November yesterday and she is so excited to be back in the water. So when I came home, I had to stamp this little fishy!


I had so much fun making this card. It was one of those times where everything just came together so easily and I am so happy with the finished card! The DP is K&Co, the cardstock is SU - Kiwi Kiss and Night of Navy, and the ribbon is SU. The seaweed was made with a Martha Stewart oak leaf punch and I used Dew Drops and Crystal Effects for the bubbles. The fish and the sentiment were colored with Copics:

Y35, Y38, YR04, YR07, YR09, R27, R29

Thanks for stopping by!
Traci

Club Anya Card Carrying VIP Member Swap

Hi everyone! How was your weekend? Mine was very busy and I got way too little sleep! Because of that I am going to make this very quick and then I am off to bed!


Over at Paper Craft Planet in the Club Anya group Cassie started a Club Anya Card Carrying VIP Member Swap. Everyone who signs up makes a 3 1/2 by 4 1/2 "Club Anya Membership Card" to swap. Right now I think we are still 4 people short of my group being full. Anyway, this is my card for the swap. I don't think I recall reading that they were supposed to be kept secret. This was all I had a chance to work on this weekend, so it was the only thing I had to show you today! I used Rockstar Anya from The Greeting Farm because she is still my favorite (so far - wait until you see the new releases for the 15th! I am such a tease, I know!) The DP is Creative Imaginations and DCWV and the ribbon is Creative Imaginations. She is colored with Copics:

Skin: E00, E11, R81
Hair: BG000, RV00, R81, R83, RV34
Guitar: RV00, R81,R83, RV34, C1, C3, C5
Clothes: C1, C3, C5, C7, SB110

Thanks for stopping by!
:-) Traci

Mermaid Anya at the Beach

Hi Everyone! Yeah, it's Friday! Do you have any plans for this weekend? I have to admit, for me the absolute best "plans" are to have nothing at all to do! I am a homebody and I love to have nothing that has to get done. Right now, I can't think of anything that HAS to get done this weekend, besides maybe a few things around the house, so YEAH!

On a different subject, I am really struggling with lay-outs for my cards lately. I think I need to find some sketches and maybe also do some sketch challenges. I kind of by-passed that with this card by just stamping a background (Doodlefactory Tropical Backdrop, which I bought at Starving Artist Stamps ) for Mermaid Anya (The Greeting Farm). As soon as I saw this background I imagined her sunning herself on a big rock near the shoreline....


The only " extras" on this card are some small stick-on pearls in her hair and her tail has clear Spica glitter on it. Everything is colored with Copics:

(I am just going to give the colors used on the Mermaid, because the list is really long for the background!)
Skin- E50, E53, RV21
Hair- BV000, BV02, BV04, BV08
Top-B000, B02
Tail- G02, G05, G07

Thanks for looking and I hope your weekend is Fabulous!
:-) Traci

A Cute Little Monster

Today's post is going to be really short. I just wanted to show you a card I did with this cute little monster named Dreck from Paper MakeUp Stamps. The DP is DCWV and the sentiment is retired Stampin Up. I used Copics to color him:

Body:YG00, YG03, YG17
Horns: Y11, Y15, Y17
Spots: B00, B01, B02
Eye: RV21, RV23, RV25

Thanks for stopping by!
:-) Traci