Crafty Little Hamster: August 2011

Saturday, August 20, 2011

:) I love greeting farm!

So...if you haven't noticed by now alot of my cards use TGF stamps. They're just so gosh darn cute! I'm going to work on making some cards with other stamps soon though. Perhaps next week?

This one was fun because I normally don't do distressing, because I don't feel that I can do it that well but I kind of like how this one turned out. I tried to make the background look like an old crumpled letter.

I like how I didn't have to color for this card, because honestly it just takes so much work to color. They always turn out so nice, but it takes so much longer to color AND make a card. ^^ This was a fun layout to tackle. I got to use up a bunch of scraps too, so that was good. I Just love that little bit of glitter paper I had left over for the small strip behind the image.

I made the flower out of a Martha Stewart leaf punch.

^^ Anyway ta ta until next time!

Here's the inside :)

Challenges:

Farm Fresh - Mystery Mondays

Farm Fresh - Which One Wednesdays

Farm Fresh - Farm Fresh Friday Button It Up!

Pollycraft - Distressing

Stamp with Fun - Sketch

Creative Stamp Friend - Handmade background

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Handmade flowers

A Spoonful of Sugar - Happy Birthday

Bearly Mine - Bling

Papertake Weekly - Bingo (Free, Pearsls, Blooms)

Try It on Tuesday - Anything Goes

Crafts & Me - Blues or Blues/Greens

Divas by Design - Birthdays

My Mums Craft Shop - Summertime

Emerald Faeries - Birthdays

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes

Stamp Insanity - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

Pixie Dust Studio - Tween/Teen

Stampin' B's Design Team - Distressing

Sew Many Cards - Summertime

Card Makin Mamas - Pink

Simply Create - Distressing

The Stamp Man - Anything Goes with summer colors

Fussy and Fancy - Celebrate

Cath The Bug - Distressing

Crazy 4 Challenges - Bingo (Buttons, Die Cuts - The leaf punch I used, Flowers)

Dream Valley - Distressing

Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Go's

Pixie Cottage - Big on birthdays

Ellephantastic (Monthly) - Add Some Layers

AI Factory - Anything Goes (Ends September 1st)

Friday Mashup - Buttons and/or cupcakes

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

:) Woo boy it's been a while

For the past couple of weeks, my boyfriend had come to visit me. He went home for the summer, so it had been about 3 months since I have seen him. :) I was so excited, and we had such a good time doing tourist activities in Vancouver when he came.

O_O we took in excess of 500 photos while he was here. I'm such an asian :P

By the way, I totally neglected to mention some amazing candies I won in the past month or so. :) I wanted to post them and say thank you! ^^ I feel so utterly lucky! (Sorry I'm a bit late!)

Ann's Whimsy Giveaway ^^ I received it and the stamp set is beautiful!

I also won Surfer Ian from TGF after winning their Mystery Monday Challenge

Steph's amazing candy ^^ Isn't her card just lovely? It looks even better in person.

Lastly, I won Lilith from Stamp Insanity for winning their Summer Colors Challenge :)

Super exciting ^^

^^ For my cousin's 37th birthday, I made him this card. He loves cars, and I put the crown on his head because everybody calls him a Princess. Honestly he totally is a princess :) but it's a joke and we mean it in a fun way.

I colored the images with Copic markers. I used dimensionals on pretty much everything there. I inked a dollar store stencil for the background swirly thing :) I thought it looked kinda cool. The cool star thing behind TGF Edward is a spellbinder. ^^ I really like this spellbinder. Lastly, I finished the inside with a strip along the side and once again inked the stencil.

Okay without further ado, here is my card:

Ta da :)