Blog Candy winner!!

Wohooo- the winner of my blog candy is...................................JOY!! 

Joy- if you could please email me (just click on my profile for that) I will get your prize package mailed out to you as soon as possible!!  Congrats and I hope you have fun with your new goodies! 

Thank you everyone for entering and all of your wonderful comments on my blog. 



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

Happy fall

I made one more card for the CR84FN color challenge to use the colors yellow, orange, and brown.

I dug into my stash of patterned papers (which I hardly ever make use of)...... and I used up the last of my Hero Arts felt leaves for this card. Super quick and easy!! I'm not sure who makes the "Happy Fall" stamp- it's super old and has no markings on the wood. I colored the acorn in using 2 shades of brown markers.The card base is a Hero Arts layering paper from the yellow pack......and the papers are by DCWV (polka dotted) and Imaginisce. The card measures 5 X 5 square.



Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great fall weekend! We are enjoying exceptionally warm temps right now- yipeee!  :)

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

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