Created by Katie Cotton: TGFfarmerz

But i had fun in the process! haha!

I'm a member of a club called TGFarmerz. Its a club for those who love The Greeting Farm. I am definitely a friend of the farm! haha. Each month at our "round up meeting" we are issued a challenge. This past month was to use more than 1 stamp to recreate an Anya or an Ian. I've seen MANY altered anyas and ians on the greeting farm blog and the club anya but had never really attempted it myself. So this was my first!

All the submissions then go up on the blog anonymously and are voted on. So i didnt win... but who cares when the process is fun!

Now, a very brief background story on who i made this card for.... a friend of mine, Dawn Knight, is in the process of adopting a precious baby boy! When she got the call she then called me to let me know she was headin' to vegas to win a baby! Now Dawn is as fun and sassy as fun and sassy gets! So i knew she would appreciate a vegas inspired good luck card! :) So this is what i came up with for her!

This process was way fun and could become very addicting!

Stamps:
For my showgirl anya, i used Flutteryby Anya (for the head), Mermaid Anya (torso and part of her hair), Chef Ian (for the trey and martini glass) and Showtime set for the legs. I drew in her fishnets with a multiliner by Copic. I also used Lucky Bunnies for the sentiment.

Coloring/Copics
Skin: E00, E21, R20
Hair: Y21, YR23, E33
Clothing & Trey: R35, R37
Cosmo: R32

Patterned Paper:
Red is Making Memories; Grey is American Crafts

Tools and Accessories
Kaisercraft bling and pearls
Thanks for stopping by! I have a very easy a quick project for ya tomorrow, so dont forget to pop back in!

Why does this week seems just as busy as last week?! This week was supposed to be easier! More time! More crafting! So far, not so much! A few wholesale orders have kept me busy, and my kiddos have Vacation Bible School which i was asked to help with. Which i love ot help, but no summer camp/school for my the 3 year old, plus having someplace to be every evening has definitely not helped me be ahead of schedule, thats for sure!

BUT, i realized this AM i do have a card that i didnt post from a few weeks ago. It was for a contest that was put up in a blog poll (for The Greeting Farm club i'm a member of! And since it was to be an anonymous poll, i didnt think it was very far for me to post my creation on my blog as well.

Here's my card...

now this card proved to be a big challenge for me! When we joined the club we were given a bag. the challenge was to use anything in the bag for our project. Now limited supply challenges are normally very fun to me, but i just kept running into obstacles! :) we were given a popcorn bag (which my son stole, handed to daddy and daddy popped all without my knowing, so no popcorn for me, We were also given a bevy of printed digi images. These images did NOT like my copic markers. Which is fine, i'm just so used to using them! And my first choice of printed digi was a no go due to some smearing. So i went with my next option, the Pokey Trio and colored it with prismacolors and baby oil. We were also a 6x6 square of The Greeting Farm patterned paper (super cute, i have GOT to get myself a stack!), and some ribbon that didnt end up going with the rest of my color scheme after i picked out my cardstock (silly me).

So now i felt like i was getting somewhere. I liked my image was colored even though i've used colored pencils and baby oil only a handful of times. Then, i got this hard brained idea to add some black fun flock. In my head i was thinking, the last time i tried fun flock, it didnt totally stick, it just left a light layer of fuzz. That would be cute on here. So i added lines of glue with my glue pen and put the fun flock on top. Um... it did more than left a little light layer of fuzz. A lot was left... leaving me with AFRO hedgehogs. I was dying in laughter. I thought i could use a third digi image, or I could leave my seemingly 70's inspired hedgies. I kept thinking back to a photo shoot i did YEARS ago in Los Angeles. It left me happy. So i decided to leave my afro hedgies. THen i needed to find a sentiment for my card. I realized i do not have very many greeting farm sentiments at all! And normally i have no problem mixing and matching with stamp companies to have sentiments, but since this was a Greeting Farm challenge, i really did want to stick with TGF. But when i looked thru my sets, i noticed Lucky Bunnies has some sentiments and then i saw one said Be Happy. Since the afro hedgies left me with happy makeup feelings, i thought it was only appropriate!

Ok, so thats my loooong story about my card. So much for "quick post" huh? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Stamps
Pokey Trio Digi stamp by The Greeting Farm,
sentiment from Lucky Bunnies also by TGF

Coloring Medium
Prismacolor pencils (warm grey's and a little bit of a pink) and baby oil

Paper
Patterned Paper, Sunny Glen by TGF
Cardstock: Red from Creative Memories, Basic Black from Stampin Up

Tools and Accessories
Button by Creative Cafe
Ribbon: By Spool o' ribbon 1/8in black satin
Black Fun Flock