Miss Anya Calendar Page

On Monday my dear friend Christine pointed out a challenge blog with an unbelievable prize - an exclusive Tilda!  The challenge blog is Anyone for Anya (and CC Designs too!) and it gave me a chance to use my Miss Anya set.  The actual challenge was scary as I've never done a calendar page, but I started colouring Miss Anya and waited for inspiration to hit!  Luckily inspiration did hit this morning, when I saw the sketch from Sketch Saturday:

Copic Details

Skin E0000/000/00/02

Hair E50/Y21/E31/E35

Dress T0/1/2/3/4/5  Trim T5/6/7/8/9

The papers are from the new Be Mine collection from Echo Park and the cardstock is from Gina K.  Miss Anya is stamped in Memento ink on PaperTrey Ink paper and coloured with copics.

Thank you for looking!

Miss Anya Valentine and Blog Candy!

Do I ever have an exciting post today!  First up is a Valentine card that I made my thirteen year old niece who is a huge Twilight fan.  The card design is a joy fold, the current challenge at Dutch Dare. 

These beautiful papers are from the Basic Grey Bittersweet collection however I've paired it with the Making Memories ribbon slide and ribbon from their love notes collection.  I wanted to keep the final layer a surprise so on the second layer I cut out and adhered a matted heart.  The sentiment on this layer is printed from Microsoft Word and the arrow is drawn with Copic Atyou glitter pen.

                                                      

Any guess which team my niece is on?

Yep, she likes Jacob.  This card was a lot of fun to make and I think she is going to jump herself silly when she opens it!  Given the bright bold patterns of the paper, I chose to limit the number of embellishments on this card.  Pink and brown reminds me of chocolate covered strawberries and hot chocolate and happens to be one of my top three colour combinations. 

I will be entering Miss Anya into the following challenges:

- The Greeting Farm TGF stamp with glitter (Atyou glitter pen) and glue

- EAC favorite colour combination (pink & brown)

- A Spoon Full of Sugar (hearts)

- Simon Says Challenge (hot chocolate)

- Quixotic Paperie (hot chocolate)

- Charisma Cardz (pink/brown/cream/toffee)

- Roses on Paper (favorite colouring medium - Lyra)

- Creative Card Crew (distressing)

Details

Stamps: The Greeting Farm

Paper: Basic Grey Bittersweet, Bazzill

Ink: Stampin' UP

Embellishments: Spellbinders, Making Memories ribbon and ribbon slide, Basic Grey brads

But even more exciting....this Sunday at 10 am EST I will be part of a blog hop introducing a BRAND NEW challenge blog and I will have blog candy up for grabs!

Come play with us Sunday!

Thank you for looking.