I Won!

I'm so excited! I can't believe it, I've never won anything in a blog contest...until now!

This past weekend, there was a snippet blog hop over at The Greeting Farm. They were giving out one prize at each of the designers blogs to 1 lucky commenter and I won over at Jessica's blog. I won the Gingerbell set which is being released tomorrow. Jessica made a gorgeous card using this set. I can't wait to get it and ink it up!

On Friday's TGF usually posts a Farm Fresh Friday challenge and since I was in the card making groove I took the challenge. It was a sketch challenge.

Here is my entry using the Edward stamp fromTGF Wild Sprouts collection. When I made this card I was thinking of the beginning of the New Moon book when Edward leaves Bella for her own good. He must have spent many nights in the forest with his memories of her.

Paper Far East Stack
Embellishments: Velvet ribbon, square squiggly is Stampin Up.
Coloured using Faber Art pencil crayons.

My daughter made another card too using the Edward stamp. She is getting really into this. You should see some of the coloring she did this weekend. I think there are some fabulous cards to come from her in the near future.


Back to quilty stuff for the rest of the week, I have lots of UFO's which I am excited to finish.

Club Anya Contest

This summer I discovered The Greeting Farm rubber stamps and I just love them. I ordered 2 Miss Anya sets, Geisha Anya, and Edward! I also bought a small selection of Copic Markers and tried them out for the first time last night.

Last night my daughter and I finally inked them up. Want to see what we made? I've never entered a contest/challenge before but Club Anya has a contest going on right now and I couldn't resist. The contest is to case a card made by the incredibly talented Pam Varnell and then to make one similar using one of the Anya or Ian stamps.

This was the perfect opportunity to use my Geisha Anya. Folks, I am so in love with this stamp that I dream about her at night. I know, I need help! Here she is.

Front view - I decided to stamp a few extra flowers from Geisha Anya's hair and use them for the corner embellishments.

Back view - I decided to do the card with a centre split in the back to make it look like a oriental armroire or a screen.

Supplies (Other than stamp previously noted):
Bo Bunny Paper, Copic Markers, MS Glitter, Ribbon, Amy Butler for K&Co. Sentiment, Interior Stamp from Stampin' Up Oriental Blooms

My daughter is in love with the Miss Anya stamps, makes sense since she is 12 and these sets are designed with teenagers in mind. I'm so impressed with her card! It was so much fun creating alongside her.

She decided to use Rain from the Rain, Snow, Shine set. Didn't she do an awesome job?

Supplies (Other than stamp previously noted)
K&Co embellishment, sentiment unknown, paper unknown scraps, colored with Faber art pencil crayons.

Warning, if you decide to try some of these it is addicting! I'll be doing another card tonight for the Farm Fresh Friday challenge, hopefully I can win a set of the new September releases.

Nine Patch Advice - Thanks

Thanks everyone for the great advice on whether I should go for white sashing or green. I hope you aren't tired of seeing these blocks, I'm just totally obsessed by this decision right now.

Here are 3 blocks on white and 3 blocks on green.

After staring at this many times in the past few days. I have decided to go with the green.

I Need Your Advice - Round 2 Nine-patch Quilt-along Progress

It's day 37 of round 2 of the 9 patch quilt-along over at Crazy Mom Quilts.

I jumped ahead a bit. I'm done all 70 blocks but I'll fall behind soon as it takes me forever to do sashing, for some reason, I dread doing sashing and I usually put it off.


I really need your help - I can't decide, should I sash this in white or in green? What would you do? Here is a picture of a few more of the blocks.


Please comment to let me know what you would do.

To visit the flckr group use the "round 2" button on my right sidebar.

Flea Market Fancy - Please Bring it Back

When it comes to my fabric stash there is one thing I regret, it is not purchasing any Flea Market Fancy. When it was out in my LQS I was tight on funds and I figured there would still be time later to buy it. I didn't anticipate how fast it would sell out and how hard it would be to get it later.

When I think about a perfect fabric line, with just about perfect colourways I think of Flea Market Fancy! Just take a look at Jacquie's stash of FMF at Tall Grass Prairie Studio.

Also, to see tons of photo's of projects using this line visit the Denyse Schmidt flckr group.

Maybe there is hope yet. Penny from Sewtakeahike has started a blog to petition Free Spirit to do another printing of Flea Market Fancy. So if you love this fabric line as much as the rest of the world seems to, head on over to Penny's blog and leave a comment; hopefully, we can bring this awesome fabric line by Denyse Schmidt back for another round!