Thank you Joshua!

Happy Saturday everyone! First off thank you all for you encouraging words as well as sharing with me your commitments to get healthier. I believe if we all have some support it will continue to be easier. Great job and Thanks so much for sharing!! :)
I just had a wonderful visit with some family friends and will post some pictures of what we did, but first I wanted to share a card I made for one of the temps at our office. His last day was Friday and I have been wanting to give him a card using Handy Ian. This was my chance. He was actually part of our Bldg Ops team in the maintenance department and when Marie from TGF first released the Handy Ian image my first thought was, "OMG, that looks just like Joshua!" With a few small add-ons I was able to replicate him.
He wasn't just a great handyman and overall nice guy he was also one of the best softball players in our league at work. So for the inside of the card I used baseball Ian and colored him using Jen Shults' awesome coloring with black & white on kraft cardstock technique. Well I tried my best to mimic what she did, but I definitely need more practice. I really like the technique and what I can do with it. I added in a softball in the corner using the same coloring and shading. Lastly my awesome baker friend, Doreen made Joshua a going away super big chocolate chip cookie. Unfortunately he wasn't their to enjoy it since he didn't come into the office. Oh well, we enjoyed it on his behalf and I will be mailing the card to him. hahaha!!
Thanks so much for stopping by and seeing what I've been up to. Will share some pictures and some cards made by some special friends next.
Hugs,
Leanne

All images by the Greeting Farm

BTW

Happy Friday!
I hope you all had a good week. It was a pretty good one for me. On Tuesday I decided to start a healthy lifestyle regimen. What to do, to get motivated? Well my co-worker and someone I consider a little sis "enrolled" me in coming to work at 6am to join her for a Zumba workout. I have not been the best person to get up in the morning let alone at 6am to workout, but I actually did it for the past 4 days. I have to say Zumba is pretty fun and if you ever get a chance to try it be prepared to be a little confused, but also open to having fun and sweating! I hoping to continue this regimen until I get in shape or until softball season starts. I'm sore today, but it's a good sore. I'm just happy that today is Friday and that the weekend will give me time to recover and rest so that I can start it all over again on Monday. :) Wish me luck!! :)
This is a card I submitted for my first TGF contest of the year. The contest was a FFF and the challenge was a color one: black, turquoise and mystery color. I chose to go with white as my mystery color. I used Cheeky Mate along with some MS & flower punches. The dp is left over from another card. For added bling, I included a fun sparkly turqouise ribbon and colored up some clear gems. Like I mentioned it was my first challenge of 2011 and I'm happy with the result.
Ok, that's all for now, have a great Saturday and I'll be back with another share tomorrow! Nite, nite!!
Hugs,
Leanne :)

Christmas cards

I have a few Christmas cards and a frame project to share. These were made for another co-worker of mine, he's only 19 and wanted to impress his family by being more thoughtful and asking for handmade items this year. I think he was trying to get brownie points, but whatever his motives, I was really happy to help him out.
He requested the frame for a girl he's dating and wanted something feminine yet sassy. I think I accomplished that goal. The cards were all random Christmas cards. He had no preference in the design as long as one of them had a snowman, Santa and a Christmas tree. Lots of glitter and fun dp to go with the cute stamps I chose. He was really happy and he said his family was very, very touched that he went to all the trouble. Score!!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and that you are looking forward to a great week. I'm feeling so much better that I'm actually looking forward to work. Must be that I'm blogging and crafting again. That's what the doctor should have ordered!! hahaha!!! It's great to be back and I hope I don't stay away too long. Have a great week!!! Mahalo for stopping by!
Hugs,
Leanne

Pink, Black & Skulls

Hello, I wanted to share the latest card I made. It's a pretty simple one except for the image I used. It's actually 4 images in one. Can you tell? This was another birthday card for a co-worker. She loves skulls, but not so much into pink, but I thought it was the perfect combination. I stamped 3 of the Greeting Farm Creepers (Sweet, Wednesday & Friday) and used parts of them to create this one. The shirt was from an old TGF stamp set, perfect for my card. I used Copics to color everything and Stickles to glitter the skulls. Since the image itself was the main focus I stamped the pink skull (also from the Sweet & Toxic TFG stamp set) all over the cover of the card and used a kid quote from Inkadinkado to finish it off. My co-worker Doreen had the same idea and made a cake using pink frosting and a skull with a bow. You can't tell in the picture above but yes, that was a pink cake, not orange or red. Sorry the quality is so bad, my cell phone doesn't have a flash so the lighting is pretty dark.
And this is what the rest of the card looks like. Told ya it was plain and simple. Kinda sassy too huh? I had a great time mixing and matching the different images to create this one. Can't wait to do another one with a different mix of stamps. Mahalo for stopping by!! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!! Hugs, Leanne

Time 2 Celebrate

Happy Sunday everyone!
I wanted to say thank you for the wonderful comments and encouraging words. I'm feeling much better and hopefully will be in top form to go back to work. It's going to be one of those crazy weeks, but hopefully I will have time to relax with crafting and hopefully getting in a few challenges. I have some items that need to get in the mail which are long over due, so I have a lot on my plate. I can't wait.
For now I have a card to share. I made this for my co-worker's birthday. I made the card into a tri-fold with a pocket in the center. The front of the card was pretty simple with a simple striped glitter paper from dcwv "The At Home" stack and I cut out the clock from the same stack. For the next panel I embossed some craft paper and on top of that I used Spellbinders to cut out blue shiney paper and the same striped cs. I die cut the two with my Cuttlebug. As for the center of the card I made a pocket and on top of that I cut out some of the same blue shiney paper and had some left over striped paper. Then using a couple stamps from the Greeting Farm I stamped Celebrate, then Happy Birthday. I actually was very surprised how much I liked the card. It was very masculine to me and yet elegant because of the paper and the glitter.

Thanks again for stopping by, hope you have a great Sunday!!
Hugs,
Leanne