Monthly Archives: August 2010

New SWEET Greeting Farm Digi’s

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Have you seen all the new Critter Crew digi’s coming your way September first over at The Greeting Farm? They are all just adorable!

Today I am previewing Huey Birdhouse by Marina Neira. Huey is getting the birdhouse all ready for his friends. Isn’t he too cute? I colored Huey with Copics to match the Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg designer paper from last season. This is paper I haven’t really used all that much but it really fit the outdoorsey feel of Huey.

After coloring him I cut him out using a Nestabilities Labels Two… this is a die I go to a lot for square images. I traced around the outside of the die and hand cut the brown to make a small border as this was the largest die in the set. I sponge the inside of the die with Old Paper distress ink to highlight the embossing just a bit.

To create the strip panel I punched a piece of rust colored Bazzill cardstock with a Martha Stewart Botanical Scallop edge punch and an EK Success zig-zag punch. For one last finishing detail I added the corners using an EK Victorian Photo corner punch.

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There are lots of fun things going on over at the Greeting Farm Blog AND the Club Anya and Friends Blog today so be sure to stop by each… I heard there might be a blog hop with a very nice give away! AND be sure to give a shout to all the Critter Crew girls who are previewing a new image today!

Critter Crew:

Have a great Monday!

Chapter 28: Child of Pure Unclouded Brow

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CHAPTER 28: (taken from “Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow: preface to “Through the Looking Glass”

Child of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet, and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

I have not seen thy sunny face,
Nor heard thy silver laughter;
No thought of me shall find a place
In thy young life’s hereafter -
Enough that now thou wilt not fail
To listen to my fairy-tale.

Hello everyone! We are celebrating the wonder of childhood today here at Oh, Alice and are thrilled to announce this week’s sponsor, Paper Pretties Stamps! Are you all familiar with Paper Pretties? If you’re new to them, check out their darling images! If it’s been a while, Paper Pretties is PROUD to announce that they’re under NEW ownership and is pleased to offer you faster, cheaper shipping, reliable service, and lots of new items in the store. We are thrilled to congratulate Heather Lee-Reppen on her new endeavor and are honored to have her sponsorship this week!

Paper Pretties is offering a Prize package of rubber stamps this week to ONE lucky winner!

Before we get to this week’s theme, a bittersweet Goodbye is in order to our FABULOUS August Guest, Stephanie Jones as well as two of our full time twisted sisters, Kim and Kristy. We are SO sad to see you all go and THANK YOU-ALL of you for such a wonderfully twisted time! HUGS!!!!

This week’s theme is simply to make a card with a LITTLE GIRL theme:) Alice is such a whimsical free spirit and we LOVE that about her! Channel your inner girlie this week with this great (and free-to-be-you!) challenge!

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For my card this week I used Sunny Bumbles from  Paper Pretties and colored it with Copics on PTI cardstock. I colored it to match (sort of) this really cute Olivia paper from Basic Grey. I wanted to keep the layout pretty simple so I just layered the image up and added a bit of ribbon and a few Kaiser pearls to finish of the card.

Here’s a close up of the coloring.

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I hope you guys enjoyed this week’s challenge and get a chance to play along with us! We’d love to have you stop by. You can get all the details at the Oh, Alice Challenge Blog!