CR84FN39 Color challenge

Hi all and happy Sunday to you!

I decided to play along this week in the CR84FN color challenge.....I haven't had time do a challenge in quite a while but who can resit these awesome colors! Love using orange, yellow and brown combo's. I like to add a little bit of red when I can sneak it in too...he he!



  I decide to use a new Penny Black stamp for my main image here. It just screamed to be colored using my favorite color combo!


Supplies used: Penny Black 4202L
Hero Arts ST508, Verve sentiment from Harvest Blessings VS-09-036
Assorted brown, orange, cream cardstock
distress inks antique linen, scattered straw, broken china, tumbled glass, brushed corduroy
Marvy & Bic markers: hemp twine & yellow gem


The image was stamped with antique linen distress ink- then I came back over the entire image and colored it in using markers. I used some scattered straw distress ink and a bit of brushed corduroy to make the ground- and used broken china and tumbled glass to make the sky. I really had fun coloring this image- all those little berries/leaves were a blast!! I used a few shades of orange, yellow, a few different browns, and a tiny bit of red.  I don't have very many Copics, so I mainly used my assortment of Marvy markers and (gasp!) some plain old Bic markers. The card base pattern was stamped using a new stamp from Hero Arts/Studio Calico- set ST508, and the sentiment is from Verve. The gem on the little twine bow is yellow...but it didn't show up very well in the picture....darn it! 

I'm loving these colors and the trees here in Wisconsin are in "full fall bloom" right now- they are amazing. Before you know it they will all be falling off and then it will be time to rake them all up.

Thanks so much for stopping bye and have a great day!

Inky Hugs..................................Anne 

Blog Candy!!

Having a little blog candy up for grabs!

Why do you ask..........no real reason...........I just feel like sharing the love after going to Scrapfest last weekend and getting so many new stamping goodies!

I also wanted to say thank you to those of you who come here and give me a little love and kind comments on a regular basis.....it really makes my day!

The candy consists of this new Hero Arts Christmas tag stamp set

Hero Arts pearls and gems

Doodlebug Doodle-pops Elf sticker

All I ask is that you sign up to become a follower if you are not already, and if you would please be so kind to post my candy on your side bar with a link back to my blog ....and of course leave a comment here. 

That's it! 

If you don't have a blog you can still enter.....just let me know in your comment.

I will leave this open until October 7th and then I will pick a random winner.

I'll probably come up with a few other surprise goodies as to tuck in there as well.....he he!

Thanks for all of your support and happy stamping! 

Inky Hugs..................Anne

Doodlebug Halloween

Just a quick share of 3 Halloween cards created  this week using some Doodlebug card bases and Doodle-pops stickers. Not much time to stamp this week but these cards are so quick and easy not hardly any stamping was needed which was great! 




Just stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts and added some stars and ribbon with a bit of patterned paper by Doodlebug. Love this cute little bat and his googlie eyes!



The fun sentiment here is by Rubbernecker stamps....thought it went well with the owl. Paper is from Basic Grey and added a few gems and a Prima flower as well. Ended up with a bit of embossing dandruff here.....why do I always forget to use my embossing buddy.....darn it!



Another great sentiment from Rubbernecker stamps to fit with the adorable pumpkin. These cards were super fun to create and easy to mass produce with the great Doodlebug products.  I think I'll be sending these off to my 3 darling neices this year.

Have a wonderful crafty weekend all and thanks for stopping by!

Inky Hugs......................Anne 

Scrapfest fun with pictures

I went to Scrapfest this past Saturday and met up with many friends and had a wonderful time! I got to meet 2 gals for the first time  from the Hero Arts Flicker group, Trinh and Robin and got to see Anita again too.  And of course I met up with my local peeps Barb and Linda- it's always great to see them. I also ran into Jenn B. early in the day but she had to scoot and get home and I forgot to get a picture of her...darn it!

                                       (You can click on all of the pictures to make them bigger)

                                                           Robin, Trinh, and Anita

Barb and I did a couple of make and takes but honestly the lines were incredibly long this year so unfortunately we passed up some that we really wanted to do. So we went a did a bit of shopping at Archivers instead!! Ya have to shop at Scrapfest- right? We actually went 2 times....gotta use those coupons!

                                        




    I picked up these 2 Hero Arts stamp sets!Love those new matching dies on the Christmas set- going to have lots of fun playing with them.

A bunch of fun little goodies from Doodlebug and and finally got myself a Sew Easy and a few new distress satins. Stay tuned as I have some other goodies that I'll be giving away here at the end of the week!

All of us Hero Arts Flicker girls met up with Shari and Jennifer at the end of the day and had a lovely dinner at the Twin City Grill. Here I am with Shari after dinner.  She is so nice and told us lots of funny stories!

                                Here is an other dinner shot with Barb, Shari, Jennifer, and Linda!

                                   We all swapped friend themed cards after dinner as well- that was so fun!

                      Here is a shot of some of the CUTE cards Doodlebug had at their make n take booth.

We all did the 2 Hero Arts stamping classes and they were a blast. We made 3 cards in each class and of course learned many new inking techniques- Jennifer and Shari always have the best ideas! Here is a picture of one of the cards we made. I LOVE the main image stamp here- so cute. My inking didn't turn out the best so I added the big felt snowflake to cover up my boo boo.



Scrapfest was a blast again this year!!  A great day to get together and meet new and old friends and of course shop and see all the new products out there! I"ll be going again next year.....maybe I'll meet you there!

Inky Hugs.................................Anne

Happy Haunting

Just a Halloween card using all Hero Arts stamps.



Hero Arts stamps used:
S5215: Clouds
CL468: Frightful
CM004 Stamp it: Halloween (ghost)
F5270: Traditional pumpkin
G5269: Tall pumpkin
Assorted gray cardstock

I have had this cloud background stamp for a long time and never used it.....so today I inked it up for the first time! I stamped the pumpkins on patterned paper and did a bit of shading and coloring. Stamped and cut out the little ghost and stamped the tree and sentiment. I used pumice stone distress ink for the sky and Versafine black for everything else.



I came across these cute little gnomes someone made over on Flicker and want to buy some of these................aren't they just ADORABLE!!

I love- love- love Halloween if you don't already know that about me....... so you will probably see many more Halloween cards/projects to come in the next few weeks. Thanks for stopping bye today!!

Inky Hugs.........................Anne