Limeades for Learning

I wanted to pop on here real quick today and share a work project that I’m working on. I don’t very often share much about work because I like to keep this blog about my crafting but right now I’m working on a project for Sonic’s Limeades For Learning and I wanted to spread the word.

Limeades For Learning is a project Sonic created to help get school supplies, project materials and technology directly into the hands of students and teachers. Their focus is on funding LOTS of smaller projects to directly impact student learning.

I recently created a project for my classroom through LFL that would fund 3 Flip Cams for student led demonstrations in class. I want the kids to share knowledge with each other by creating their own demonstrations on how to use materials and create.

To get these projects funded the only thing required is a vote. There is no purchase necessary and you can vote each day. The most popular projects each week get funded.

My purpose for sharing this is not to get you to vote for mine, though I’d love that. My purpose is to get you to get our there and vote for any of them. Find a project in your area, at your child’s school and vote for it EACH DAY or vote for mine. Either way… help a classroom, help a teacher, help a student… IT’S FREE!

If you want to do more, post about Limeades for Learning on your Facebook, on your Twitter, on your Blog. Every vote counts and the more votes received the more Sonic will donate.

Sweet September Blog Hop

I have two posts today!
Please scroll down for my Wild Flower Wednesday card.

HELLO EVERYONE!  WELCOME ALL to the “SWEET SEPTEMBER” Blog Hop featuring our Farmers, Team Anya, and our beloved Critter Crew!   ALL THREE of our teams are joining forces today to bring you ONE SWEET Blog Hop with The Greeting Farm!

Just to recap, the new releases, “Sweet and Toxic”, “Oh, Boy” Ian, and SWEET Anya are NOW in the TGF Store! Also, our three new Marina Neira critters are available as digital downloads for INSTANT gratification!  Woo HOO!!!!

My card today…

I used this cute little kitty and colored him with Prismacolor Pencils. I didn’t use much of any Odorless Mineral Spirits on this. In the past I used it a lot but this time I just didn’t for some reason. I colored him to loosely match this Basic Grey Oliver paper and I tried to keep the design nice and clean. The inside is stamped with a “Thank You”.

Here’s a closer look at my coloring:

Be sure to stop by the TGF Blog if you are JUST beginning the hop and make it all the way to the CLUB ANYA & FRIENDS blog through the end to see the endless possibilities with this month’s cute new additions to the Farm and to leave your comments along the way…there are some SWEET prizes to be had today!

Prizes?  Did someone say PRIZES?

Yes indeed!  To sweeten the deal today in celebration of these new releases, there will be individual prizes given out as well as one ENTIRE release to a lucky winner!   Yep, that’s a LOT of prizes!  Here’s what’s for grabs:

1 winner will be chosen to win the SWEET & TOXIC SET
1 winner will be chosen to win the SWEET ANYA Stamp
1 winner will be chosen to win the OH, BOY IAN Stamp
1 winner will be chosen to win the THREE NEW CC DIGIS
and ONE GRAND PRIZE WINNER will receive THE ENTIRE RELEASE for SEPTEMBER!!!

That’s a LOT of chances to win!  So go, hop, and be merry

TGF Blog

• Amber Hight
• Jacqueline Nordaune
• Jen Shults
• Jennifer Royal
• Kristine Reynolds
• Linda Muhr
• Shaela Odd
• Tangii Crain
• Kim Nath
  Mary Giles
  Melyssa Connolly
  Mercy Kerin
  Randi Wall
  Amy Young
  Alice Wertz-September Guest CA&F

• Kelly Booth
• Kim Costello
• Pam Varnell
• Traci Porter
• Jessica Diedrich
• Club Anya & Friends Blog

THANKS for joining us for our SWEET SEPTEMBER release and we’ll announce the winners TOMORROW on the TGF Blog!  You have until 11:59pm CST TONIGHT to hop with us and enter to win!
HAPPY RELEASE DAY, everyone!!!

Wild Flower Wednesday Fall Colors

It’s Wild Flower Wednesday time again and that means it’s time for a new challenge! This week our challenge is fall colors.

A quick announcement! Be sure to stop by the Wild Flower Patch store today. Annie has released some GORGEOUS new templates that you much check out. There is a new tall Gable box and the cutest cupcake stand along with a fun shape cut files. You’re going to love those!

For my card I used Tom the Turkey and colored him with Copics. I used some gorgeous 7Gypsies and October Afternoon designer papers along with a Basic Grey sentiment to make this card. I’m being a bit cheeky with that sentiment. I have a friend who’s birthday is very near and occasionally on Thanksgiving day so this card and when I was looking for a sentiment I thought this one was perfect!

I’m really working on making some cleaner simpler cards these days. I tend to fuss and fuss and fuss and take forever to make cards to I’m trying to expand my horizons a bit and not go so nuts with layout extras. I’m not sure if it’s a good fit for me yet or not but I don like how this came out with the sponged circles and the one punched corner.

Here’s a closer look at the coloring:

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Wild Flower Patch design team has in store for you today!

Jen Shults, Stamp Artist (Me!)
Donna Wardle, DT Coordinator
Leigh Ann Baird, Perfect Presentations Template Designer
Jenn Koss
Jacquie Nordaune
Lelia Pierce
Angela Sowell

New SWEET Greeting Farm Digi’s

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.

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:

• Amber Hight
• Jen Shults (Me!!)
• Shaela Odd
• Heather Schlatter
  
• Jacquie Nordaune
• Jennifer Royal
• Kristine Reynolds
• Linda Muhr
  
• Tangii Crain

Have a great Monday!

Chapter 28: Child of Pure Unclouded Brow

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!

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.

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!