MM with....Tracey Wilson!!

Hello Friends!
Hope you're all doing well this Monday morning and ready for a new challenge over at the Farm Fresh Challenge blog.  Today Mama is hosting the Mystery Monday case and she chose a really fun one.  Here's TWilson's beautiful island card featuring the beautiful Hula Anya.

Aloha by TWilson1424

Isn't this beautiful?  I love the theme and the way she distressed the paper makes this feel like an old 50's style card.  Love how the bow looks like part of the foliage.  Terrific job and pick!  Now why don't you stop over at the Farm Fresh Challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with.  You're sure to be inspired.

I created a card using a similar layout, but the theme is for the upcoming Halloween season.  Here's my take on this week's card:

Trick or Treat with Skeleton Ian (digi)

Here is Hallo Skeleton Ian popping up on this fun Halloween themed card.  He was really fun to color.  I thought he would look great with green skin and redish-orange hair.  I recently got the fence and the spiders from ATS so they were a really fun addition to the card.  That pumpkin is a stamp I found in the $1 bin at Michael's.  Free-hand cut his face and then distressed the edges to give it a warmer look.  I hope  you like my Halloween card for this week's Monday case.  Can't wait to see what you all have up your sleeves.

The Mystery Monday contest runs until Sunday, entries are due by 12 PM CST.  The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice, so good luck!

Please post your cards in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > TWilson1424.  We also want to remind you that you should also use the inlinks button at the bottom of the post.

Don't forget! You now have two ways to play! You can either CASE the card OR you can use it as an inspiration piece. Meaning that you can make the same style of card, use the same colors, etc, just as long as we can tell that you got your ideas from the showcased card.

Alrighty friends, I hope you have a terrific start to your Monday and a terrific week. Mahalo for stopping by!

Hugs,
Leanne

MM with..........Graceybaby!!

Hello everyone,
Today at the Farm Fresh challenge blog, our Sparkle chose Graceybaby to case for the Mystery Monday challenge.  YAY!!  Her card is so cute and makes you smile.  Love Grace's diversity of colors and how she pulls everything together.

Created by Grace O. - TGF image Stamping Anya

To see how the design team cased Grace's card, click HERE.  You'll find lots of fun inspiration over there.  For my card I used the adorable Dylan from the Roll Call kit.  My friend's son is turning 1 and today he is having his first birthday party.  I used the USC colors (cardinal & gold) because my friend is a USC fanatic, he's also a graduate of that school.  I added in a bit of baby blue to match the baby blue eyes I colored in on Dylan.  No, it's not because baby blue is part of the UCLA (blue & gold) colors. LOL!  That's my story and I'm sticking to it!  LOL!

Happy Birthday - TGF image Dylan from Roll Call kit

There's my Copic colored balloons again.  Well of course they're there.  It's a birthday card after all.  hehehe.  I altered the number on Dylan's jersey by wiping away the 31 and hand drawing in the 1.  I really love how this turned out.  I think the baby blue adds the perfect touch to break up all the reds and yellows. 

Here's what I did on the inside for fun:

I think the stars look like the Carl's Jr. logos..  LOL!  Wasn't meant to be that way, hopefully I'll be the only one to point that out.  hehehe...

Alrighty, it's your turn to play along and case Miss Grace.  Can't wait to see the results. 

Big hugs to you all.  Have a wonderful week!!  Mahalo for stopping by!  :)

Hugs,
Leanne

Card Recipe:
Dylan (Roll Call kit) & Happy Birthday sentiment (Retired set with Chef Ian) - TGF
Kraft, yellow, baby blue pp with stars & red cs - Neenah, Recollections, DCWV & Bazzil
White Express It paper - Copic
Polka Dots stamp (Inkadinkado)
Balloons (C.C. Cutters) ATS
White embroidery floss
Star border punch (American girl), Star punches
Oval Spellbinder
Black Tuxedo (Memento) & Spicey Marmalade (Distress ink)
Copic Markers

MM with.... Amy Young!

Happy Monday & Happy Labor day!! Hope you are all enjoying your day off, and if you have to work, hopefully you get to leave early to enjoy the rest of the day.

Before I share my Monday FFC post I wanted to say another "Thank you" to all for the wonderful comments from my Sweet November spotlight and previews.  I hope you all have as much fun with Amy's new Halloween line like I did.  I also wanted to say Thank you for the birthday wishes.  I haven't had time to get together a birthday candy, but will soon.   And lastly I wanted to welcome all the new followers to my little ol' blog.  I hope you enjoy your time visiting me.

Mahalo again!!  :)

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Even though today is a holiday, there is no holiday off from fun challenges!  I'm the host this week for Monday's Farm Fresh challenge.  I hope you'll all be able to play along with this week's Mystery Monday case because it's definitely a fun card.   As I was going through the Galleria I purposefully went through this crafter's gallery.  She is such a big inspiration to me and I just love her style.  I chose Amy Young to case and went WAAAYYYY back in her archives.  I had never seen this particular card and thought it was cute and very creative that she made buttons out of the Fairies. 

Hi! by Amy Young

Now I know when she made this card she used the discontinued red rubber fairies, but how cool is it now that you can incorporate the clear stamp set as well?  WAY cool!  I love the CAS layout, how the papers and the buttons go so well together and look at how she incorporated the fairies into buttons.  Love it!  Check out the Farm Fresh Challenge blog to see what fun inspirations my fellow DT sistas have for you.

Here is my card, I tried to keep it as true to Amy's card as I possibly could.  I did change it a bit by using some of the Miss Anyas including the gals from the new release, Miss Anya Bags & from an oldie but goodie, Miss Anya Hats Off.

Hello featuring Miss Anya Bags & Hats Off

I had so much fun making this card.  I used 3 different sized circles, a scalloped circle and a spellbinder 5-petal die for the buttons.  The dp is Fancy Pants Designs, Beach Babe.  I stamped the images on Neenah white and simply colored up the images using a single Copic marker (BV02, B01, Y28, G82, RV11).   I also did the same for the flowers.  The pearls are Viva Pearl Pen in cream, when they dried I colored them using a Copic marker.  The white thread is white embroidery floss.  I didn't have time to diamond glaze the buttons, but I will add that later.  I reinforced the white paper with chipboard so that when I eventually do it won't warp too badly.

There you have it.  Now it's your turn to to play along.  The Mystery Monday contest runs until Sunday, entries are due by 12 PM CST. The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice, so good luck!

Please post your cards in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > Amy Young.

It's the beginning of September,  which starts the last couple of weeks for me as one of the first ladies to be asked to join the Farm Fresh Challenge DT, I hope you all have enjoyed my posts and found some inspiration.  I certainly have found tons in you.  Thank you for all your lovely comments and for all the support in the challenges.  Please continue to do so, because I plan to be a part of that always.  I also wanted to say a big MAHALO to my Team (Jess, Rachel, Tasha, Mama, Sparkle & Emily) for all their love and support and for always inspiring with their creativity and friendship.  I'm not gonna get too much mushier right now, I'm going to save that for later.

Mahalo for stopping by.
Hugs,
Lilo

Mystery Monday with Scrapperbug2002

Happy Monday everyone!!  Hope you all had a great weekend and are looking forward to this week.  Today over at the Farm Fresh Challenge blog, my DT bud, Tasha, is challenging all of us to case Scrapperbug2002's wonderfully wintry card featuring Miss Snow Anya. 

Pretty cool wintry card yea?!  I loved the colors and the fun layout.  And her coloring with Prismas is outstanding!  Great pick this week.  To see what the rest of the DT created for this week's case, pop on over to the FFC blog.  For my share, I made a card trying to follow the layout and also the colors.  I chose a darker blue, but the rest seems to be there.   Here's my case featuing Blush Bonnie.

TGF - Blush Bonnie

The patterned papers are from two separate DCWV stacks.  Colored Bonnie with Copics and yes, I altered her boots to match the boots Miss Snow Anya is wearing.  The key is a die cut from ATS C.C. Cutters Key & Lock.  The sentiment comes with Blush Bonnie and for my card I stacked them.  I also used the splotchy stamp to give it a fun look.

Okay, now it's your turn.  Remember you can either case the card exactly or you can use it as an inspiration piece.  As long as we can see the elements related in the featured card.  You have until Sunday, 12pm CST, to upload you creation to the galleria.  The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice, so good luck!
Please post your cards in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays >Scrapperbug2002.

Mahalo for stopping by!!

Lastly, I just wanted to say "Mahalo" for all the lovely comments you've all been leaving me.   I apologize if I haven't gotten to visit, but it's been so busy for me not only craft wise, but work wise too.   As we all know life outside of blogland can get a bit hectic and there are just not enough hours in the day to get all you want done completed.   I'm trying to concentrate on some projects and hopefully once work slows down I can also get back to visiting you all.   But I want to say Thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to leave me special messages.   I read each and every one of them and each time I do, it brings me much joy.   Also wanted to let you know I will be random drawing for my Marci & Luka give-away tomorrow, 8/28, so if you haven't left me a comment on this post, do it today!!   Planning a couple of candy give-aways this week.   One for my birthday and the other for my blogaversary.   So look for more details this week.

Hugs,
Lilo

MM with Tracey P!

Hello friends!   Happy Monday!!  Hope you all had a great weekend.  Mine was pretty good.  Started on Friday with one of my BFFs, Jackie.  We had dinner at Charlie's Trio (Italian restaurant) and then went to watch the movie, Conan the Barbarian.  Dinner was yummy!!  The movie not so good.  I had a feeling it wouldn't be that great, but I had to go and support Jason Momoa.  Poor guy, the editing was really bad.  The story was so choppy.  I hope there is an extended version, because there were some scenes that were badly put together.  I'm hoping his next movie with Sylvester Stallone is much better.  The rest of my weekend was spent working on projects for this week.

This week over at the Farm Fresh Challenge blog we have another card to case.  Our team captain Rachel is this week's host and she picked a good one!  You'll probably recognize our MM "host" this week because it's TGF's very own Farmer...TraceyP ;0)   Rachel has had this card on her list to use for MM for awhile and then she up and made the DT, but she still wanted to use it because it's just sooooo adorable!  Don't you think so too?

I have to say, I completely agree with Rachel.  Tracey did an amazing job with this card and I'm so glad we got a chance to case her.  For more lovely inspirations check out the Farm Fresh Challenge blog, who knows there might be a familiar face there that hasn't played in a while.

For my card I went with a similar layout.  This time I didn't have any problems with the window.  Lesson learned.  hehe...  I made a birthday card using Amelia from the TGF O&A Just for You set.   The dp is from DCWVs Nana's Kitchen Matstack.  I just love this stack.  So many wonderful glittery pages and lovely designs to choose from. 

The balloons and swirls are from the C.C. Designs cutters from ATS.  I colored those with Copics.  The blue glitter dots are Viva Glitter Liner in Sapphire.  The cupcakes are a border punch from EK Success.  The stars are punches from Marvy Uchida and the sentiment is from the same O&A Just for You set.   Used stickles all over the card.  Especially on Amelia's outfit. 

The cupcakes also have crystal lacquer on them, they look like chocolate ganache.  If you look closely you'll see some cupcakes stamped on the kraft cs.  The stamp is a stubby from Stamps by Judith.

I used embroidery floss in white on the bottom and you might see some of my fake stitching.  Ya, my sewing isn't too straight, so it's just easier for me to fake them.  There you have it, let me know what you think.

Alrighty my friends, it's time for you to get your creative juices flowing and figure out how you want to case Tracey's card.  Remember you can either case the card exactly (layout, etc...) or you can use it as an inspiration, as long as we can see that you used the MM card as your reference you are eligible for the prize.

The Mystery Monday contest runs until Sunday, entries are due by 12 PM CST.  The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice, so good luck!   Please post your cards in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > TraceyP.

Mahalo for stopping by and hope you have a great Monday!!
Hugs,
Lilo

Mystery Monday with Rimna!!

Happy Monday fabulous friends!

Hope everyone had a great weekend, feeling refreshed and ready for some fun challenges this week.  Today of course is Mystery Monday at the FFC blog and our host this week is my talented friend, 1LuvnMama.  She chose this fantastic card to case by a fellow TGF Farmer from the last team, Rimna. 

Love this card, so elegant and vintage.  I decided to play as close to it as possible switching out a few of the elements.

I picked CC Piper for my card and used E40 & 41 to outline her, for her eyes I used B23.  The papers are all scraps from various DCWV stacks.  Used broken china and weathered wood to distress parts of the papers and also to stamp the splotchys.  The sentiments are from two different stamps from the Roll Call kit.  Punched out two MS butterflies and stamped and distressed them with a Stampendous stamp & broken china distress inks.   Okie dokie, your turn!

Don't forget! You now have two ways to play! You can either CASE the card OR you can use it as an inspiration piece. Meaning that you can make the same style of card, use the same colors, etc, just as long as we can tell that you got your ideas from the showcased card.

The Mystery Monday contest runs until Sunday, entries are due by 12 PM CST.

The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice, so good luck!

Please post your cards in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > Rimna

Mahalo for stopping by and don't forget to have a great day!

Hugs,
Lilo

MM with Moretta!

Hello Friends!  Hope your Monday is playing out terrifically, sometimes they can be a drag, but sometimes it can be good.  Not so much, but sometimes.   haha!

Today is Mystery Monday at the Farm Fresh Challenge blog.  Today was Sparkle's turn to choose our lucky card to case.  She chose this adorable birthday Ian card by Moretta!

Love her layout, the colors and all the stars.  A very sweet birthday card for any little boy.  My take on her card is a bit different, but I still kept some of the same elements.  Going with a birthday theme as well, I chose to use one of the new images just released on August 1st from The Greeting Farm, Birthday Ian.  I flipped the card on it's side and used some other birthday elements.

Alright friends, it's your turn to create!   Here is a reminder of what the MM challenge is all about:

You now have two ways to play! You can either CASE the card OR you can use it as an inspiration piece. Meaning that you can make the same style of card, use the same colors, etc, just as long as we can tell that you got your ideas from the showcased card.

The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice, so good luck!

Please post your cards in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > Moretta

The Mystery Monday contest runs until Sunday, entries are due by 12 PM CST.

Birthday Ian

Mahalo for stopping by today!  I hope you get to play along!  Have a terrific day!

Hugs,
Lilo

Mystery Monday with Paula!




Hello Friends!!  Hope you had a great weekend. 

Today at the Farm Fresh Challenge blog, Rachel chose to case this super cute card made by Paula



MM case with Paula

  Doesn't this just scream CUTE?!  I love the circles and the fun use of different papers.  Make sure to check out what the rest of the DT created by going to the FFC blog HERE.

I've been having so much fun with the new Blush society images that I decided to use Bonnie again.  I colored her in soft blues and greens.  Kept the card the same colors and threw in some dark kraft.  So hope you like my case of Paula's card...



Blush Bonnie - The Greeting Farm

 Time for you to play!  YAY!  Hope you join us for today's fun case.  Here's a reminder of the details for each MM case'ing.

• You now have two ways to play! You can either CASE the card OR you can use it as an inspiration piece. Meaning that you can make the same style of card, use the same colors, etc, just as long as we can tell that you got your ideas from the showcased card.
• The MM contest runs until Sunday, entries are due by 12 PM CST.
• The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice, so good luck!
• Post your cards in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > Paula

Mahalo for stopping by today.  Hope you have a great day!  Talk to you all soon. 
Hugs,
Lilo

Copics:
Skin: E02, 50, 51
Hair: E70, 71
Outfit: BG10, G40

MM - Blushin' with Beanscrapandsheep

Hello Friends!  Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend and that you are rested and ready for another week of fun challenges with us at the Farm Fresh Challenge blog.  I hope so cause this week we are starting off with a cool Mystery Monday Case with 1LuvnMama.  She chose a familiar face from the gallery and the card she chose is pretty cool.  This week we are case'ing Beanscrapandsheep!  Here is her vintage card:



Card by Beanscrapandsheep

How cool does this card look?!!  Way!!  Love the vintage feel and the use of the pearls and the clocks somehow work.  This is a great pick for this week.  To see what the other ladies created pop on over to the FFC blog by clicking HERE.  I am enjoying the new Blush girls so for my card I chose to use Blush Bonnie.  I kept the card vintage, but with pops of a sunset color.  I hope I did her card justice.


I inked her in brown and colored her using some different brown tones and oranges to change it up a bit.  I actually love the end result.  The fun printed paper with the pops of those oranges accented with the dark kraft and dark brown papers create a pretty dramatic feel to me.   Her hair is also a different color for me, and I love it!  I paper pieced her dress with this awesome dark brown Stardream cs I forgot I had and wet embossed it using copper powder to show the dress details.  For the curly cues I used my teammate's, Tasha, favorite embellishment, Viva color pen in Copper and just made my own pattern.  I wrote in the sentiment along the circle edge, and it is the same sentiment that comes with Bonnie.

Hope you will join us for some fun case'ing this week.  Here are the details for every Mystery Monday case:

• Contest is open until Sunday, entries due by 12pm CST.
• You can either case the featured card or you can use it as an inspiration piece. Meaning you can make the same style card, use the same colors, etc. As long as we can see that you got your ideas from the featured card.
• Post your card/project in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > Beanscrapandsheep.
• The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice.
• Good luck and HAVE FUN!!!

Like I mentioned yesterday, this is going to be a busy week for me and I'll have some fun news to share at the end of the week.  Mahalo for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!!

Hugs,
Lilo

Copics: R02, YR14, Yr24, E97, 99

Blushing with Croppixie!!

Happy 4th of July my friends!!
I hope you all have been having a great weekend.  I just got back from my friend's house party.  It was a fun time with family, friends, food and some fabulous fireworks!!  It looks like there will be more of that tomorrow, woo hoo!!  It will be so hard to go back to work on Tuesday. (lol)

Today over at the Farm Fresh Challenge blog we are case'ing the fabulous Croppixie.

Featuring the cute Oliver from the O&A Journey, her card is both colorful and fun!  Love the CAS-ness of it, and her coloring is fantastic!  Hope you can all join us this week.  The prize is a TGF image of your choosing.  To find out how the DT case'd the card you can click HERE.

Saturday I went to Anime Expo.  I saw so many wonderful drawings from artists who do that for a living and the use of color was amazing.  I especially loved the colored hair!  You might be seeing more colorful hair from me for a while.  (hehe)  There was also tons of colorful wigs at the show.  I wanted to incorporate that into my card and knew the perfect girl to use.  My card is featuring the newest addition to the TGF family, Blush Babette.  She totally reminds me of a Harujuku girl with her baby doll dress, long socks and shoes.  I gave her some awesome aqua tresses to go with her pink and white baby doll dress. 

Still need to practice more on the hair, but for my first try with aqua I like it.  I know sometimes I can do it and sometimes it's just not there.  The rest of the card came together really fast with some fun Echo Park paper, a fun embossing folder and a pretty pearly button.

I recently saw this awesome tutorial on background clouds from the amazing Amy Young of A Thousand Sheets of Paper.  I love how fun and easy she makes it look.  I followed her tutorial and love how my clouds came out.  I used pigment ink and it was a bit too much ink to begin with, but it softened up eventually.  Next time I will definitely have to try the distress inks.  Pop on over to Amy's blog if you want to get some good tips on how to create those beautiful background clouds.

Okay my friends, getting a bit sleepy so going to wrap this up and head to bed.  Hope you will join us for some fun case'ing this week.  Here are the details for every Mystery Monday case:

• Contest is open until Sunday, entries due by 12pm CST.
• You can either case the featured card or you can use it as an inspiration piece.  Meaning you can make the same style card, use the same colors, etc.  As long as we can see that you got your ideas from the featured card.
• Post your card/project in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > Croppixie.
• The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice.
• Good luck and HAVE FUN!!!

Alright my friends, enjoy the rest of your July 4th and hope you get to do something fun!!  Like crafting!  :)
Bigs hugs,
Leanne

Card recipe:
Stamps: Blush Babette & Sunshine kit sentiment (TGF)
Inks: Black tuxedo (Memento), Cyan (Colorbox)
Papers: White cs (Neenah & DCWV), Pink & Baby blue (Bazzil), dp (Echo Park), Turqouise cs (Hanko)
Floral embossing folder (Cuttlebug)
Circle & Label 4 dies (Spellbinders)
Pink pearl button (old stash)
Copics
Hair: BG0000, 01, 02, 05, 10
Skin: E000, 00, 11, R01
Dress/Sock: RV11, 13, BG0000

Mystery Monday with... Kris!

Happy Monday everyone!  Hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  Thank you all for your wonderful messages.  I am truly inspired by you all and to hear the same is true of me is very heart-warming.  Big hugs to all of you!!

Ok, now enough of the mushy stuff, and on to this week's CASE.  It was my choice this week to pick the card and I think I chose a terrific one.  This is by the fabulously talented Krista Palakiko!  I loved the choice of the three colors, the cute Amelia choice and the fun accents.  This layout was a fun one too.  Lots of layering which is something I like. 

Isn't this sweet?  I thought so, very soft even with the black accents.  She used a lot of bling which is always fun and girly.  This was also one of the cards she created for the TGF Cards for a Cause last year.  To see the wonderful inspirations from the DT please click HERE.  Here is how I case'd Krista's card.

I went summery and used the colors from the patterned paper.  Now it's your turn to play.  And have fun with it.

The Monday CASE Contest runs until Sunday, entries are due by 12 pm CST.

The winner is chosen by random draw and will win a free TGF single stamp of choice.

Please post your cards in the TGF Galleria - Home > Farm Fresh Challenges 2011 > Mystery Mondays > Kris4rmmaui

Alrighty my friends, until next time.  Have fun!!

Mahalo for stopping by.
Hugs,
Leanne

Card Recipe:
Stamps:  Amelia (Ahoy O&A - TGF), flowers (Miss Anya Love - TGF), sentiment (Hero Arts)
Paper:  Pumpkin cs (Hanko Designs), light green & royal blue cs (Bazzil), white paper (Neenah), patterned paper (DCWV -The Cafe Mediterranean stack)
Tiny pearls (Recollections)
Circle punches (Stampin' Up! & Marvy Uchida)
Inks: Black Memento (Tsukineko) White (Color Box)
Copics:
Skin: E00, 11, R20;  Hair: E18, 31, 35; Clothes: B12, 14, 16, G24, 82, YR16, 21;  Shoes: YR21, B12, 14; Flowers: E19, YR16 & B12, YR21 

Mystery Monday with Kim Dellow!

Yes you are!!!  ; )

Hello Friends! 

Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend.  Before we get to the challenge details, I wanted to say Mahalo for leaving such wonderful and inspirational comments.  I try my best to get to everyone's blog and leave a little love but sometimes time just slips by.  I know how much time it takes to go in and comment and I truly appreciate all that I receive, so if I haven't said it lately, MAHALO or THANK YOU my dear friends for each and every word that you have left for me. 

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Today's case was chosen by our DT captain, Rachel, and the funny thing is that I had this card as one of my choices.  I just loved the fun layout, but also the bold colors, and of course the awesome colored image.  Without further adieu we are casing... Kim Dellow!!

Did Rachel pick a winner or what?  Like I said the bold colors and the fun layout were what originally drew me to it.  I'm so glad that Rachel chose this one.  To see what the rest of the DT created click HERE.

As with all case'ings, I try to stay as true to the design as possible.  Most of the time I want to just case the card exactly, but sometimes I want to add or change it up a bit.  I believe that change is sometimes fun as long as you keep the original design in mind.  For my card I went as true to the card as much as possible, but I added a little to it here and there.  Here is what I came up with:

For my image I chose the ever popular sitting Anya from the Hats off collection.  I hadn't used her in quite sometime and I knew she would be perfect on this card.  Instead of the cool circular flowers Kim used, I chose to go with some MS punched butterflies and added some pearls for some fun elegance.  The other addition is the sentiment in the center.  I thought it needed something to add to the space and that sentiment was the perfect size.  Here are some close ups of the card including Anya herself...

Are you all ready to play along?  Fabulous!   As you know the TGF Galleria is having some hiccups right now, so if you would like to play please visit the Farm Fresh Challenge blog for more details on how to link  your card.  Hopefully the techs will have worked out all the kinks and get the site back up and running soon.  We definitely want you all to play.  So if you also want to leave a comment here with the link to your card please do so.  : )

Here is a reminder of the rules:

• Use ANY TGF image
• You can either case the card or use it as an inspiration
• Until further notice, please leave a comment on the Mystery Monday... Kim Dellow post with a link to your card, not your whole blog.  This will make it easier for us to view your card and comment.
• Gallery is up and running!  Please upload your project to Galleria>Farm Fresh Challenge 2011> Mystery Monday> Kim Dellow.
• Winner will be randomly chosen to win a free single TGF image.
• HAVE FUN!!

Mahalo for stopping by.  Have a wonderful Monday!!

Hugs,
Leanne

Card Recipe:
Stamps: Sitting Anya (Hats Off collection); sentiment (SU)
Inks: Black tuxedo & rich cocoa (Memento)
Papers: White, kraft & dark brown (Neenah), dp (K&Company)
Accessories: Pearls (Recollections Autumn), border punch & butterfly punch (MS)
Copics:
Hair: E37, 49; Skin: E000, 00, 02, R20; Outfit, Hat, Shoes: BG96, G85, 82, Y15, 17