TGF FFF Challenge

Here's my entry to the TGF FFF challenge - stitching

I went with FAUX... and cheeky howdy.

Thanks for looking!

Get well card

Back when I was on the LM design team, there was a wonderful lady who would make everyone laugh.  Though the store has been closed over a year now, we all just got word that she is very ill.  They were very nice to post an address to send cards.

I had just ordered these MFT stamps - I thought she was perfect to send some love...

This is sketch MFTWSC5

Be well Sandi...  This little girl is on her way to you.

TGF Club Anya Sketch 54

Recently, I saw some cards and stumbled upon Club Anya.  Bought some of the new Cheeky stamps and had a great time getting reacquainted with my copics.

I thought I'd play along in the Club Anya Saturday Sketch Challenge -

Here's the sketch:

And here's my card, with Cheeky Chatty

 TFL! Wendy

Halloween cards

My daughter will often take full pieces of cardstock and cut just a bit out of them, then leave the rest of it just laying around.  Because a nonfull sheet should not be refiled under my crazy organization system, I will just cut it down for card backs.  Here, she had this orange paper and I thought it was perfect to just sit down and make some quick cards.

Stamps are Gorjuss by Sugar Nellie (girls) and Making Memories (Halloween)

Both are available in my etsy store.

TFL!  Wendy

Miscellaneous Cards

Just sharing some new cards in my etsy store...

I was at a crop and had a bunch of scraps that I didn't want to pack up but also didn't want to waste.  So I made them into cards.

First one: Rubber Romance stamps, pregnancy card.  Word stamp CTMH

Next card Whiff of Joy stamp, Happy Birthday card

Last one is Greeting Farm surfing boy image, word stamp CTMH, stars are Unity Stamp Co., and CTMH

TFL.  Wendy

Manga Boy YOU ROCK! Card

Finally got a chance to ink up these new stamps from Sugar Nellie's new manga release.  LOVE that they are starting to come out with a bunch of new boy images!!  Here's a rocking out little boy...

I thought it was a perfect image from this unity stamp co sentiment, which I stamped inside

Papers are all very old school - KI Memories mostly, with a scrap from My Little Yellow Bicycle.

TFL!!



(**available in etsy store)

Manga Girl birthday card

 Popping in with a quick card I made with a Sugar Nellie manga girl image and some basic grey....

TFL! Wendy


**available in the etsy store...

Cardsketch 71

Hello everyone!!

Here's cardsketch 71.  Inspired by Nancy, I've been making lots of sqaure cards lately....

And here's my sample, a birthday card for my niece...  She kind of looks like this magnolia stamp, which is why I bought it.

I recently cleaned out and reorganized all my printed paper and elements to sort by color, and I came upon a huge selection of card sized scraps, and miscellaneous embellishments.  As you can see, my cards have really started to mix everything up and I've really enjoyed using everything up.  Its my goal for the year - to really hit the stash...

Have a great week everyone.

card sketch 69

Good morning everyone!!   Sorry I missed last week!  I was in Chicago on a business trip.

Here's cardsketch 69:

And here's my sample, using a Manga boy stamp from Sugar Nellie:

PP is basic grey june bug; star stamp is Studio Calico; sentiment is Savvy Stamps.

Colored in Copic by my DD.

TFL. Wendy

** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.
** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)

cardsketch 68

Hello Everyone. 

Here is Cardsketch 68, for a square card

And my sample

Stamp is a Manga girl from Sugar Nellie (and colored by my 7 YO DD)
Sentiment is Savvy Stamps.

TFL. Wendy

** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)

card sketch 66

Good morning everyone!

Welcome to today's sketch:
I made a birthday card for a classmate of my DD's. She's off to the party this afternoon.


stamp is from the Greeting Farm
Paper MLYB Generation line - perfect for boys.

TFL. Wendy


** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)

cardsketch 64

Its been a busy weekend, and I'm late with cardsketch 64 - sorry!! Here it is...
Here's my card, with a new Magnolia stamp, just in time for St Patrick's Day

Paper is the Hometown collection from October Afternoon; sentiment is Carolees.

TFL. Wendy

** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP

Cardsketch 63

Good morning everyone. Here is cardsketch 63
I made a birthday card for a friend who loves coffee and green... :)


Paper is the new Garden Variety from Cosmo Cricket; polka dot paper is from CTMH, girl stamps are Manga, from Sugarnellie, sentiment is from Savvy Stamps

TFL. Wendy

** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)

cardsketch 62

Good morning everyone! Here's cardsketch 62:

And here is my sample. I am a huge fan of the Gorguss girls. Its been a while since the last release. I'd love another.

Paper is the new Garden Variety from Cosmo Cricket; girl stamps are Gorjuss from Sugarnellie, Lucky stamps are CTMH

TFL. Wendy

** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)

Cardsketch 61

Good morning everyone!! Its saturday and I'm ready to just get my crafty on. I had a very stressful week at work, and am ready to just bury myself in paper, ink and glue. :)



When Sugar Nellie came out with their first line of these adorable Manga stamps, I just had to get my hands on them. And each new release just gets cuter and cuter. I picked up all of the most recent January release. What I love about them (beyond their adorableness) is how you can customize hair into unnatural shades and it still looks pretty good. I didn't go that far with this one, but I could easily do pink hair and since its manga, its ok? :)

ANYHOO. Enjoy the sketch!!


Paper is the new Garden Variety from Cosmo Cricket.

TFL. Wendy

** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)

Tutorial - Chinese New Year Red Envelope

Chinese New Year is one of the biggest holidays of the Chinese calendar, and it is this coming Sunday! It coincides with Valentines Day this year.

It is Chinese tradition to give red envelopes with money to the children in the family, to bring prosperity in the coming year. Since they're paper based, I thought I'd make some this year. This is the template I used - please bear with me - I drew it by hand so its not pretty and graphic. My skills in photoshop are very limited. (I also scanned it in pdf - if you want me to email it to you please just leave me a comment or email me and I'll go ahead and send it to you). This is supposed to be a drawn image on a normal 8.5x11" sheet of paper.


Cut it out and use as a template. Trace it over red paper and cut out. I have seen it where people use all kinds of paper. My feeling is - it must be red. These are "red envelopes" - using another color is like saying let's have an easter puppy or easter bear. No no no... it must be the easter BUNNY... and in my house, red envelopes must be red paper....
Or if you don't mind the print lines, just print it directly onto the backside of your main base paper.

Cut it out and fold along the score lines.
Adhere your edges

It is the Year of the Tiger, and luckily, Tiger stamped images are not too hard to find. This one is from Inkadinadoo - Asian Characters. These are clear stamps.

I stamped directly on to orange paper, and then on the back side of the scraps of red. I am going to be piecing these and needed two colors. (**Note: the top left tiger was stamped in Memento. The image was slightly blotchy - so I restamped with versafine in the rest of the images).

Cut out and piece...
Then embellish your envelopes. The text stamps are from CTMH, and the die cuts are from Spellbinders.

Happy Chinese New Year to you!! May the Year of the Tiger bring you health, happiness and prosperity!

cardsketch 59

Happy Saturday everyone!! I'm back with Cardsketch 59, easy lines... :)And here is my sample, using a Tilda/Magnolia stamp.


Thanks for stopping by!!

** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)

chinese new year card

oh how I love these hero arts stamps.... A cute chinese new year card (available in my etsy store).

TFL! Wendy

cardsketch 58

Good morning everyone!! Here's cardsketch 58



And here's my sample using a Gorjuss girl from Sugar Nellie, sentiment from CTMH, and a bunch of scraps.

TFL! Wendy

** cardsketches are uploaded every saturday.

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)

Cardsketch 55

** If you do happen to make a card with a sketch, I'd love for you to post a link to your sample in a comment, so I can see. (Please credit this blog for the sketch if you post somewhere).

All sketches can be accessed directly through the "card sketch" subcategory on the right hand bar under "Labels", and are copyrighted by me. Thanks for playing. (TFP)



and here is my sample, using cosmo cricket, and whiff of joy stamps.
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Thanks for stopping by.