A Challenge!

I have not been in my craft room with any regularity for the last 4 months, so today I decided to find a challenge sketch and see what I could do. Well, I started at noon and it took me until 1am, yes there was a 3 hour break, but it took me 10 hours to create this card. It's amazing how much effort it takes when you are out of practice!!

Even tho it took me a while to get back in the swing of things, I am really pleased with how this lovely lady turned out!

The challenge is from Sketch Saturday and I participated in this week's challenge #87.

The sketch that I followed looks like this:

Stamps: Maid Charlotte, Whiff of Joy

Ink: Tuxedo Black, Memento

Paper: DCWV Cardstock, Misc. Scrap Heart paper

Ribbon: Offray "kendra", Heart Lace

Tools: Odorless Mineral Spirits, Stumps, Prismacolor Pencils, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder- Floral Fantasy

Embellishments: Crystal Stickles, Jumbo Heart Brads by Spare Parts, Pop Dots, Flatback Swarovski Crystals, Prima Flowers, Metal "Princess" Ribbon Slider, Metal Heart photo corners, black pen

Anna Banana

Mistletoe Card

Here is the first of three cute cards that I made just after Christmas when I finally had time to get into my craft room!! I started by trying to do the 12 cards of Christmas challenge by The Greeting Farm, but all too soon, I got too busy and didn't get all of the challenge cards done :(

They are all decked out in their holiday best and probably at the party of the season!

The main images for this one is from the "Cake Topper"set by The Greeting Farm. The mistletoe is from Hero Arts and the Merry Christmas is from Stampendous.

I colored these in with my prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits (Which really are NOT odorless!!)

There is glitter on his hat (which comes from the Xmas Sweeties set by TGF).

The paper is from my good friend Karyn - She sent me a Basic Grey pack called Wassail - it is sooo fantastic!!

The silver ribbon is from Offray.

Anna Banana

More Christmas Gifts

I had a really busy week ... but I am Finally getting to posting my other really awesome Christmas gift ...

My mom-in-law is living in Australia and she had these sent to me from Europe! Isn't the internet Awesome?

So ... without further delay... I got these stamps from the Whiff of Joy Medieval Collection!

These are fantastic ... and I am going up to my craft room now to play with them!! WOO HOO!!

Anna Banana

Christmas wrap up...

Sorry I took a little break with a New Year party and well - my general laziness ... but I wanted to share the last three cards I made for Christmas and the gifts I got which I am TOTALLY Excited about!!

I will do a few posts to keep you coming back, but this is the first of the gifts:

I got the Manga Wallet of Copics - it has all the bright colors I love and I figured it would be a great beginning set :) This is what it looks like open and then closed - it stores so nice!

Anna Banana

Merry Christmas!

This is the final card in my Christmas series from the Make and Takes. A simple and elegant touch of nature.

May you all be blessed today and the rest of the year.

Merry Christmas

Anna Banana

Happy Christmas Eve

This simple, yet elegant card has ornaments on the inside that show through a cutout window on the front of the card.

Anna Banana

Hedgehog

This cute little critter is stopping by to wish you Merry Christmas!!

Anna Banana

Embossed Tree

This was a really simple card to do - cut the paper, add a ribbon, stamp with embossing ink and emboss!! Can't be easier and such pretty results!!!!

Anna Banana

It's My Birthday!!

Today is my birthday!! At 12:51 am, 1971 I came into this world :)

For my card today I am posting this adorable cat!!

Have a fantastic day!!

Anna Banana

Church Scene Card

The beauty of this card does not come through in this picture. Each of the embossed snowflakes is covered in stickles giving sparkles with every movement of the card.

the snow covered peaks of the church and houses are also covered in stickles.

It's really pretty :)

Anna Banana