Happy Anniversary to My In-Laws!

Today is my Father and Mother-in-Law's Anniversary! I feel awful that I don't know exactly how many years they have been married (it's somewhere between 58-60) but my DH doesn't know either and he's their son (obviously!!) I also feel pretty bad that this card is only going in the mail today, so it will be late. I had intended to use this really cute set by Verve called Anniversary Birds, and I ordered it a couple of weeks ago, but it didn't get here in time (not Verve's fault - they mailed it right away. Then I watched the tracking info from the Post Office quit moving!!) So, I had to go with an older set from Cloud 9 Design for the sentiment. (I did get my Verve order late in the afternoon today, but I'd already finished the card!) I also used the sketch from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge # 38.


The Details:
Stamps: Simple Thoughts :Love - Cloud 9 Design, Bountiful Backgrounds - Verve
Paper: Very Vanilla, Night of Navy, Choc Chip, Mellow Moss
Ink: Mellow Moss, Distress Ink - Tea Dye and Vintage Photo
Misc: CB Embossing Folder, Nestabilities, Craft Ribbon, Bazill Paper flower, Martha Stewart Gem

Thanks for visiting!
:-)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

Another Circus Card!

Good Morning! I hope a lot of you are getting to enjoy some time off because of the Holiday....I want to say a big Thank You for all of the well wishes I had last week over my hot water heater problems! They were fairly easily (and not too expensively!) fixed, once we were able top get a plumber to the house.

My card today is another Circus card! When Marie and Jess gave that challenge out (for those trying for the Greeting Farm DT 2 weeks ago) my mind just kept coming up with scenes! So here is another one!


The Details:
Stamps: Showtime, Ballerina Anya - The Greeting Farm
Paper: Basic Grey, Basic Black - SU, PTI White
Copics:
Skin:R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:E21,E25,E27,E29
Clothes:Y17,YR04,YR07,YR09
Elephant:W0,W1,W3,W5,C5,C7,C9

Thanks for coming by! I hope your day is Fabulous!!
:-)Traci

It's an Underwater Circus!

Uugh, Water...I don't really even want to think about water right now! I just discovered that the pilot light for my water heater went out sometime earlier today and now when we light it, it won't stay lit. So, we have called a plumber (the one recommended to us!) and they have yet to return our call! (I am setting this to auto post so this is all going on Thursday night!) Well, at least this little Mermaid Sweety is enjoying her water adventures!

The Details:
Stamps: Mermaid Anya, Fish from Down by the Pond, Hat from Showtime - all The Greeting Farm
Paper: My Minds Eye, Taken With Teal, Old Olive, PTI White
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:BG11,BG32,BG34,BG72,BG75,BG78
Tail and hat: YG95,YG97,YG99
Fish:Y17,YR15,YR16,YR18
Misc: Liquid Pearls, Clear Dew Drops, Clear Microbeads on the tail, the seaweed is a Martha Stewart leaf punch.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
:-)Traci

A MojoMonday Cup of Flowers

Hi! How are you today? Thursdays are my favorite days right now because Project Runway is back on! Yeah! I wonder who will be "aufed" tonight?

I used the sketch from this weeks MojoMonday challenge to make another card for my Father-in-law to give out. The yellow panel is embossed with a cuttlebug folder and then distressed with Creamy Caramel and Close to Cocoa ink. The image is colored with Copics and a few parts of the flowers are cut out and popped up. I kind of wish I'd done the sponging on the white panels differently. I am kind of sponge challenged!!


The Details:
Stamps: Cup of Stuff, Sentiment from Butterfly Wishes - The Greeting Farm
Paper: Barely Banana, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, PTI white
Copics: Y11,Y15,Y17,Y38,YR18,Y26,BG11 with T0 over it, BG72, BG75,E44,E47,E49
Misc: Blue jewels from Martha Stewart, Cuttlebug embossing folders, Nesties, Craft Ribbon

Thank you so much for coming by today!
I hope your day is full of smiles!
:-)Traci

Viva la Verve MIL Birthday!

Hi! I'm going to make this a really quick post and then it's off to bed for me! This is a birthday card for my Mother-in-Law, using the first September sketch challenge from Viva la Verve over at Splitcoast. The extra twist (cuz there's always a twist!) is to use "little round things" - you know, like brads, jewels, dots and so on!


The Details:
Stamps: Bountiful Backgrounds, Party Time - Verve
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White - SU, PTI White
Copics: R46,R59,R89, R35,R37,R39, R30,R32,R35, C0,C1,C3
Misc: EK Success Punch, Martha Stewart pearls, Clear embossing powder, VersMark, Satin Ribbon, Swiss Dots embossing folder

Before I go, if you haven't been by The Greeting Farm Blog and the Club Anya Blog you should go take a look! The new DT members were announced and there are some very talented ladies there! Congratulations, and I hope they have as much fun as I did (I DO still have 2 more weeks though!!)

:-)Traci

Sugar Bowl 18 - More Halloween!

I am in such a Halloween mood! I know it's still 2 months away, but the leaves have started falling off of the trees here and it just makes me think of sweaters and apple cider and picking out a costume! My card today uses one of the images from the Sugar Nellie set Nellie and Luca Halloween. I bought this set early last Spring and this is the first time it is seeing ink. I think I just felt silly making Halloween cards in March! But on Monday the Sugar Bowl challenge blog had a really great sketch that I wanted to try and I thought,"Now is the time for Halloween stamps!!"


The Details:
Stamp: Nellie and Luca Halloween set
Paper: K&Co, Basic Black, Elegant Eggplant - SU, PTI White
Copics:
Skin:R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:YG21,YG23,YG25,YG17
Clothes:BV02,BV04,BV08 with V012,V06,V09 over it, C0,C1,C3,C5,C7,C9

Thanks for stopping by!
:-)Traci