Dressy Joyce

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Welcome to another Mystery Monday with Club Anya & Friends! This week we’re CASE’ing a cute card by Tasha Beasley which has some really fun elements! I used Dressy Joyce for my card and for the large embellishment I used a huge daisy. Then to finish up the card, I could resist “sprinkling” on a few sparkling gems. 😀 I hope you’ll like her and can play along with us this week!


DT Challenge: Club Anya & Friends – Mystery Monday
Challenge: PaperPlay Challenges (Cutie Patootie)
Challenge: Sassy Studio Design – Challenge #55 (Old Stash, flower)
Challenge: Anything Goes Challenges (Eyelets and Brads)
Main Stamp: Dressy Joyce (TGF)
Patterned Paper: Olivia (BG)
Copic Colors:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R13, R12
-hair: W1, W4, W6, W8
-clothes: R12, R35, R37, R39

Did you know? Malpaso Productions is Clint Eastwood’s production company established in 1967. The name is derived from Malpaso Creek, located south of Carmel, California, where Eastwood has spent much of his life. The name “Malpaso” is Spanish for “bad pass” or “bad step.” When Eastwood agreed to take the role of the Man with No Name, his agent told him that it would be a “bad step” for his career. After the Dollars Trilogy made it big and Eastwood decided to run his own production company, he thought “Malpaso” would be an appropriately ironic choice.
[Malpaso Productions, Wikipedia.org]

Monster Sweet Tooth Freebie

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Here it is – the freebie I promised!! And can I just say “Wow!!” Y’all have been spreading the word like a wild fire and we’ve upped the Followers count another 100 in such a short time – THANK YOU!! My Mom (at Grandma’s Pearl) and I are sticking with our themes during this Blog Candy promotion… so I’ve got the monsters and she has the snug-able gifts.

Remember there is still time to enter the Challenge too for more prizes!
We REALLY want to see what you create with them! 😀

“Monster Sweet Tooth”

CLICK HERE to download!
(Update: This image is no longer available for free
but you can check the sidebar for other freebies if available.

This freebie will be available for a limited time so get him while you can!! When I reach 400 Followers then I’ll have another one – so spread the word and grab the blinkie from the sidebar! For those who have the older blinkies – you can now replace them with the newest blinkies. 😀 (I’ll have to start now and get an early start on the next one!) I hope you like him and please leave a comment. ;D

Here’s some inspiration from my very own über-talented Design Team…
Cassandra and Lydia:

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Monster Nom-Nom

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Y’all are fantastic!! I had a spur of the moment idea to create and share Monster Love as a freebie for reaching my Followers Goal so quickly… but now my expectations have been exceeded even further by reaching 300 within less than a week’s time! On top of that – my Mom (at Grandma’s Pearl) has also matched her second goal and has already reached 200! So you know what that means?? We’re putting together MORE FREE digis for an even bigger THANK YOU!! Those will be uploaded as quickly as possible – so stay tuned and keep spreading the word!! 😀


So for my card today, meet Monster Nom-Nom… who likes to munch on everything! Maybe he’s teething and getting his second tooth in! LOL This little guy is being offered as a prize in our First Challenge! We’re challenging you to use any of our free digis…. Monster Love or Valentines Bear. (Plus any new ones we release this week!) and as participation grows then the prizes might get grow too!

DT Challenge: Forgotten Scraps – Challenge #1
Challenge: Sketch & Stash – Challenge #52 (Sketch)
Challenge: Cupcake Crafts – Challenge #124 (New digi)
Challenge: Crafty Cardmakers – Challenges #37 (Red & diecut)
Challenge: Tallen’s Place Challenges (Ribbon)
Challenge: Easy Craft Projects – Challenge #29 (old paper)
Challenge: Really Reasonable Ribbon’s Ramblings – Challenge #16 (Heart and a bow)
Main Stamp: Monster Nom-Nom (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: scraps
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Squares
Copic Colors:
R22, R24, R27, R29, E41, E42, G20, G21, G24, G28, BG91, BG93, BG95, E000, E00, E11, E13, E04

Did you know? The King’s Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper from a script by David Seidler. The film won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award. The film stars Colin Firth as King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as speech therapist Lionel Logue, who helped George VI overcome a stammer.
[The King’s Speech, Wikipedia.org]

Princess Tilda

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Shocking! Can you believe it? I made another Magnolia card… and added another face! I tried out a different style nose and smile on this Tilda but might like the other one I did earlier, however, I think she’s still cute with a little grin. ;D


I made this card using Princess Tilda from Magnolia and another Love Carriage from Make it Crafty. This one is done in soft pastel colors suitable for a princess! I even added glitter to her shoes – every princess needs glittered shoes.


I kept the colors to a minimum but piled on lots of embellishments including buttons, brads, lace and even Dew Drops. The layout is a simple one, even though it’s mostly covered, and I distressed the edges a little. As a final touch, I added a little bit of glitter here and there.


Challenge: StampFairy Challenges (Layers and buttons)
Challenge: Creative Cottage – Challenge #30 (new stamp)
Challenge: Tuesday Throwdown – Challenge #31 (background samp)
Main Stamp: Princess Tilda (Mag) and Carriage of Love (MiC)
Patterned Paper: Sweet Pea (TPS)
Copic Colors:
-face/hair: E000, E00, E11, E13, R12, E43, E44, E47, E49
-the rest: C00, C1, C3, Y32, Y38, Y38, R11, R12, B41, BV02, BV04, BV08, 0

Did you know? Barbie is a fashion doll created in 1959 by an American businesswoman, Ruth Handler, who credits her inspiration to a German doll called Bild Lilli. The Bild Lilli Doll was a German fashion doll produced from 1950 to 1964, based on the comic-strip character Lilli by Reinhard Beuthien. Reinhard was ordered to make a “filler” to conceal a blank space in the Bild-Zeitung (German newspaper) of June 24, 1952. He drew a cute baby, but his boss didn’t like it. So he kept the face, added a ponytail and a curvy woman’s body and called his creation “Lilli”. The cartoon was an immediate success so Beuthien had to draw new ones each day.
[Bild Lilli Doll, Wikipedia.org]

Sweet Love

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Welcome to the 2nd Challenge at Make it Colourful and this week’s challenge is to use red!
I made this card using an Elisabeth Bell stamp Sweet Love from Belles ‘n Whistles and behind it Lovers Pavilion from Make It Crafty. I used lots of reds and pinks to accent this Valentines card.


Here’s another view of the gorgeous pavilion which was so much fun to color. This was my second time working on the image and I think it turned out so much better. I like the blue sky without the clouds and the white pavilion is more romantic with this card.


DT Challenge: Make it Colourful – Challenge #2 (Use red)
Challenge: Bunny Zoe’s Crafts – Challenge #8 (Love)
Challenge: Woodware USA – Challenge #9 (Hearts)
Challenge: Scrap-Creations – Challenge #11 (Love)
Main Stamp: Sweet Love (BnW) and Lover’s Pavilion (MiC)
Patterned Paper: Lemonade (BG)
Copic Colors:
W1, W2, W4, C1, C3, B0000, B00, YG25, YG17, YG03, YG01, YG93, YG95, YG97, G20, G24, G28, R32, R35, R37, R39, Y32, Y38, BG00, BG10, BG11, BG13, BG01, R20, R21, R22, R24, W6, B91, B93, B97, E42, E44, E49, E000, E00, E11, R21

Did you know? There are about 2,500 species of cicada around the world and they exist on all continents except Antarctica. Some cicadas produce sounds up to 120 dB “at close range”, among the loudest of all insect-produced sounds. The name is a direct derivation of the Latin cicada, meaning “buzzer”. They live underground as nymphs for most of their lives and emerge only when adults, which in some species is every 13 or 17 years.
[Cicada, Wikipedia.org]

OA Little Dreamer – Amelia

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It’s another fun weekend at Club Anya and Friends and we have a great sketch for you to work with. I made my card using the new Oliver & Amelia set Little Dreamer. I used some old papers in my stash and a forgotten punches – it’s time to use up the old before the new comes in. ;D


DT Challenge: Club Anya & Friends – Saturday Sketch
Challenge: Aly’s Sunday Challenges #33 (Wings)
Challenge: Digi’s By Phooka – Challenge #1 (Anything Goes)
Challenge: Craft Your Passion – Challenge #40 (Ribbon or lace)
Main Stamp: Oliver & Amelia: Little Dreamer (TGF)
Patterned Paper: Pink Armadillo (TPS)
Copic Colors:
-skin/hair: E00, E11, E50, E51, E53
-clothes: G20, G21, G24
-other: B000, W2, E41, E42, E43, E44, R81, R83, R85

Did you know? The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets less than 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has sixty-two moons with confirmed orbits, fifty-three of which have names, and only thirteen of which have diameters larger than 50 kilometers (31 mi). Saturn has seven moons that are large enough to become spherical, and dense rings with complex orbital motions of their own.
[Moon of Saturn, Wikipedia.org]
Update: I was select in the Top 3 for this challenge at Digi’s by Phooka!