Sensational Sunday: TGF 50s Sweethearts

Good morning and welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links.

One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to be in a monthly drawing for a $20 Loves Rubberstamps Gift Voucher! We will draw the winner of the Voucher the 1st Sunday of each month from all the comments left on the design team blogs! Remember, you have until 8:00 pm CST Saturday to leave your comments!

Here is my creation for today, featuring 50s Sweethearts from The Greeting Farm

Supplies:

The Greeting Farm - 50s Sweethearts
Blending Cardstock
Colored Pencils and Gamsol
Nestabilities
Memento Ink
Mono Multi (of course!)
Red Liner Tape
Dimensional Foam Dots
Metal brad flowers
Colored cardstock from Stampin' Up!

Loves Rubberstamps Sensational Sunday Blog Hop List:
Laura Love - Loves Rubberstamps Blog
Dangina Martinez

Nina AKA PaperDaisies

Lydia Evans - Video Designer

Denice Bartucci

Rebecca Billard

Wendy Nicola Jackson

Nick

Jennifer Greco (that's me!)

Pam DeChellis

Loves Rubberstamps Store

So from here, your next stop is Pam! Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to comment for your chance to win! I'll see you back here in a day or two with another great project to share. Happy stamping!

Club Anya Holiday HOP!

Hi everyone! Welcome to my stop on the Club Anya holiday blog hop!

I will keep this very short - just a couple of quick details in case you're interested! I love this Elf Anya so I pulled her out for today. Colors are Real Red and Wild Wasabi. Colored with Copics (of course!). Hard to see in the photo but the red background panel and the red circle are embossed with Distressed Stripes Cuttlebug folder. The main circle and the cut out elf are both up on dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the rest of the hop! You can continue on your way back from the Club Anya blog!

Club Anya Sketch 2!

Hello and Happy Saturday!! Don't you just love the weekends? We have a busy one but I'll still take it over our daily grind any day! I just have a short post today because DH and I are STEPPIN' OUT! and going to see Nickelback in concert tonight in Milwaukee. Needless to say, it's a crazy day around here! {I can not even say how EXCITED I am to go to this concert! Nickelback is tied for first with Bon Jovi as my favorite band EVER}.

Well today is the last day of the current Club Anya sketch challenge {#2}. Tomorrow is another release day at The Greeting Farm and you KNOW you're going to love them all! Such cute ideas. I had a little time last night so I made a card for this sketch, I had to pull out the Miss Anyas for this one, the tall card just called "Miss Anya" to me!
My patterned paper is from Die Cuts With a View. The colors are Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery and White {also a Baja Breeze equivalent in the PP and with Copic marker ink to color her}. I cut out the layers with Nestabilities and my trusty Cuttlebug, and embossed the bottom Celery layer. Colored the image with Copics and hand-doodled the border around the main image piece with the Amethyst marker. Hard to tell in the photo but the striped paper has glitter on the white stripes. The main image layer and the half circle are up on dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to come back tomorrow for the HUGE PMS Blog Hop, which I am participating in! Tomorrow is also the first preview day for the {Little Paper Shop} March release, so it's going to be busy! See you then!

The Full Anya Reveal!

Club Anya is now OFFICIAL!!! You can see the big reveal HERE.

Here is my full card from the Sneak Peek look I posted during my time on the blog hop {see the post below}. Do you not LOVE Pretty Hat Anya?! She's one of my favorites {well, ok fine, they are ALL my favorites!}. This is SC211 from over on Splitcoast, I always love a good Sketch Challenge! Shimmerz in Angel Wings on the flowers for some SPARKLE {after I colored the white ones with my Copics to match the card!}. Liquid Pearls for her necklace, my new{est} favorite embellishment!! Here's the original sketch:

Thanks for all who hopped with us for Club Anya!! See you tomorrow for LPS Monday!

Blog Hoppin' With Club Anya!!

Hello Anya fans! You've reached the third stop on today's Club Anya Kick Off Blog Hop! Here is my "Guess the Anya" for the 1:00 PM slot! Ready for your clue? Every girl should have so many pretty accessories, don't you think? And the visual...


The RULES are below! Make sure you follow them so you can be entered! Here is the OFFICIAL Club Anya Kick Off Blog Hop Schedule: ALL TIMES CST!!! Make sure you hit them all, TAYLOR is your next stop at 1:30!!

12:00 PM Jessica Diedrich AND Club Anya Blog
12:30 PM Dawn Knight
1:00 PM Jen Greco
1:30 PM Taylor Usry
2:00 PM Rachel Henehan
2:30 PM Janna Hull
3:00 PM Joni Wilson
3:30 PM Jami Bova
4:00 PM Sandra McLean
4:30 PM Club Anya Blog for the big reveal and release when you can buy the New Anya and Rock the Farm Anya/Ian

And of course here are the OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES:

1.) ALL TIMES for Contest CST.

2.) You must email Jessica at yeahshestamps@gmail.com with your answers for ALL NINE "Guess the Anyas" AND let her know that you have completed the scavenger hunt which is posted now on the Club Anya blog to be eligible to win an Anya Pocket Mirror. PLEASE EMAIL ONLY ONCE you have completed ALL NINE guesses. Multiple emails will not be able to be accepted or entered into the contest, sorry :( At 4:00 pm CST, the last Guess that Anya will be posted and you will have up to 1/2 hour after that to get your guesses in before the big reveal on the Club Anya blog at 4:30pm CST on Sunday, 2/1/09.

Pocket mirrors will be given out to the FIRST 20 people who complete ALL NINE Guess the Anya's correctly as well as the Scavenger Hunt.

3.) To enter yourself into the Grand Prize drawing for one of FIVE new Anya stamps, you must complete the above requirements and also leave a comment on THIS post (please link to the Club Anya post at noon on your blogs when it is up if you can, otherwise just Club Anya blog is fine). Prizes will be drawn using Random.org after the reveal at 4:30 pm on 2/1/09 CST.

4.) No entries will be counted or accepted after the reveal of the new Anya on Sunday, February 1st, 2009 at 4:30 pm CST.

5.) GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN!!! Anya ROCKS the Farm!!!

Club Anya Meets VLVJan04!

Happy Thursday! I promised I'd be back and here I am! I have my final Viva la Verve card for January - this is VLVJan04 {with a twist of flowers}.

As soon as I saw it I knew it was a perfect sketch to feature the fabulous Anya from The Greeting Farm. This is Teacher Anya. She's so sweet!! Check out Jessica's blog post for a big announcement -- CLUB ANYA is about to launch!!! There's going to be a blog hop on Sunday so check back {Jess has all the deets for ya!}.

My flower twist is in this yummy Basic Grey patterned paper - sooo pretty! I pulled the whole color scheme from it before I started coloring. I'm such a fan of Anya, these images are really fun to color and play around with. The sentiment is from Little Paper Shop's Chirp set.

I will be back with more Anya on Sunday, and some other fun things in between too of course! Happy stamping!

Anya's Fashion Show

Do you not LOVE Anya?! She's from The Greeting Farm, a fairly new discovery for me but definitely love at first sight! She is seriously cute, and there is also a sweet little boy, Ian {you know I love the boy stuffs}, and really adorable animals, yummy treats and beautiful quotes. I can't build my collection fast enough!

So...the card. Well, Marie over on The Greeting Farm's blog had a contest for the Anya Fashion Show. Very easy, just use any Anya image you want and glam her up. GLAM?!?! I can do glam!

Since it was the long-awaited girl's {Scrapmania at Archiver's} night out on Saturday, I had this project tops on my list! Heather, Jess and I had SO much fun stamping and chatting - it was fabulous! If you've never been to a Scrapmania event, I highly recommend it. It's kind of a pain to pack for, but so much fun when you're there!

I took about 50 photos of this card trying to get it just right to show all the details. These were the best two that I came up with in the end -- EVERYTHING was bling'd, even the paper, so it was kinda tough. I'll give a quick rundown and hopefully the zoomed in shot can show some of it fairly well.

This card was SO MUCH FUN to make. I think I can honestly say it was the most fun I've ever had making a card. I started by stamping this sweet "Pretty Hat Anya" with Palette Noir and coloring with my Copics. I had printed off a bunch of sketch ideas and as soon as I saw Mojo46 I knew that was "the one"! I cut her out using the Cuttlebug and my circle Nestabilities. The silver glittered paper is Die Cuts With A View from the glitter mat stack.

Here's the close-up view:



Once I had the layout chosen and all the die cuts made, the fun began! I saw the large "diamond, onyx and amethyst" gem setting from Prima's Say it with Crystals that Heather had with her and I knew I had to use it. I put it onto the end of Anya's existing necklace and filled in the rest of the stones with clear rhinestones. Puppy got a matching jewel-encrusted collar. Stylin'!

Her hat --- can words even express how much I LOVE it?! I found this organdy and pearl flower in the stash, which was PERFECT, but it was still missing something. I got some great feathers over at Michael's {yes, I had to run out in the middle of Scrapmania at Archiver's to go to MICHAEL'S to get feathers! too funny, right?}.

What good is a gorgeous feather hat without a pearl-studded tulle veil?? Oh yes. I added a pearl-studded tulle veil. Come on! You know I had to. *g* She is a classic movie star!

At the end I went back and gave her a touch of blush and some light purple eyeshadow, just for fun. :) Oh, and here we are about halfway through Mania on Saturday night -- just don't look at me very closely b/c I look kinda funny. Jess and Heather look good though so I will post it. ;)


Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed Anya's walk down the runway. Wish me luck!