Stamp AnnieThing: Dorothy

Most of the items used are the Land of Oz set
from Stamp Anniething.
(Dorothy/poppies, land of oz builders, Land of Oz die cuts and Oz sentiments)

Copic markers used:

E0000, E00, E11, R20, R30

Y08, E11, E33, Multi-liner Sepia 0.05, Multi-liner Black 0.1

R20, Multi-liner Sepia 0.05

E79, E29, E25, E39 + B12 & B23

W00, W1

B21, B23
R14, R17, R46, R59
G00, G14, G16
YG67
R05, YR12, Y08, YG05, B04, B15, BV17

Distress Oxides:
Broken China and Faded Jeans

Distress Inks:
Scattered Straw and Mustard Seed

Secret Santa Swap with Mr. Frosty

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to share this little card I made for a Secret Santa Swap a while ago... I guess I could share the card I made but the card I received I will have to show next month???

I bought two of these stamps because I thought they were so cute. I had to buy one for Pam and one for myself. I've done the swap thing too many times where I bought something for the receiver and then I couldn't find one for me. LOL

I bought Mr. Frosty of Whimsy Stamps from Jamie's store: https://www.zibbet.com/not2shabbyshop.
Jamie often  has sales and even little monthly contests going on in  her Facebook fan pagehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/103832353026882/ oh and she announces the challenges or sales on her YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ScrappinStampers Just check her out she's very sweet and very fast at shipping.

 I colored him up with Copic markers

I made the flowers with my Cricut

The paper is from Recollections. 

 Here is a close-up of the image and snow with Frantage embossing powder

Here is to show the two stamps I bought... 

of course the one that is out and trimmed is mine.

Thank you for looking. 

Katya Bess 

YouTube Holiday Swap Cards using TGF

Good morning Crafty Peeps,

I've been waiting and waiting to be able to show off these cards. I joined a swap with Nurse Larelle from YouTube. There were two groups of 5 so I finished off 4 cards and sent to her. Of course I didn't make a fifth one for myself. LOL I just watched her video and I'm a little bummed because she didn't show my cards. The post office tracking shows she received them in her mailbox on December 8th. I hoped hoped and hoped that she prerecorded the video or that she just forgot to video my cards. LOL But we have been keeping in touch and for some reason the post office has been keeping the package hostage??? Weird!!! Dude! Dudette! My eyes started twitching for real. LOL Well that's probably from my lack of sleep and no help with these colds I've been getting this year seriously. Okay here are two my cards I was in such a rush to send them off that I didn't take a picture of the Blue one nor the Green one and the card boxes I made for them.

This is the very first order I made from Jamie's 'Not 2 Shabby Shop'
Here is the link to her shop https://www.zibbet.com/not2shabbyshop
and the name of the rubber stamp I used is Holiday Anya 4

I colored her with Copic markers

The dies are from http://shop.my-creative-time.com/Dies_c30.htm

The snowflake die behind the glittery one is from 

http://thegreetingfarm.com/shop/dies.html

The paper is all from Recollections.

The bling is from Recollections.

The stick pins I created myself and its the first time I made stick pins.

The small Poinsettias I cut those with my Cricut

The big poinsettia I bought a white "flower bush" from Michaels

and I just died them with my Copic refills. 

The sentiment is from another TGF stamp set that I also bough from Jamie

it's called Dollie with Gifts.  

I will come back and add a YouTube video that I made a while back.

Thank you for stopping by.

Katya Bess

entering my card at:

http://thegreetingfarm.com/blog/?p=2616
Non Traditional Christmas Colors.

http://memascrafts.blogspot.com/2013/12/december-challenge.html
Celebrate the Holidays or Cold winter days

Valentine's Day Box Swap!

Hi Everyone! Happy Valentine's & Happy Friendship Day!

Today we finally get to show our goodies from our "All Hearts Altered Wine Bottle Box Swap." My buddy is Vanessa Bland. When I got my buddy name I was excited because she seems like such a fun person and I can have more fun creating something but then I also thought what to get this woman??? I had no clue. What I did was stalked and stalked her Facebook page even her husband's page... am I a weirdo or what? LOL but I have a healthy and clean valid reason... or at least is what I keep telling myself.... you'll see.  Okay... if you'd like to see everyone who participated in this swap please start at
SBS Blog

Here is the card I made for Vanessa. 

Vanessa has purple hair and on her Facebook page she has this rainbow outfit. LOL 

She's not very girly so I gave her black wings and tried not to make the card a fufu.

I had so much fun coloring this image. Thank you so much Betty for letting us have this image. :)

This is the card Vanessa made for me. :) Love the coloring and its a big card! I love that!

Here are all of my goodies!!! WWWOOOWWW!!! Crafty Goodies overload!!!! :D

 I can't wait to be able to sit down and make something!

She even gave me a rubber ducky (not pictured) that My Baby Daenerys took off with. LOL 

It's so cute and it lights up. 

Thank you Vanessa! I love ALL of my goodies! You sure know how to spoil a crafty girl! LOL

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Now this is the rest of the stuff I got for Vanessa. 

She stated she loved Jack Skellington so I made sure I got something with that. 

Here is the wine box I decorated.

 Found a cute little chocolate box and those nail tattoos. LOL

Okay this is the reason I stalked Vanessa's page... 

So I can draw her and her hubby ask Jack Skellington & Sally.

Plus since it's for Valentine's day... why not make it a love theme. heehee.

Hope you like it :)

 Betty Roberts: http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/

Carmen Shannon ( no blog ) ^ ^ ^

Corinne Jones: http://wishuponascrap.blogspot.com

Robin Bogle: http://www.rcz28.blogspot.com 

Veronica: http://www.artbyveronica.blogspot.com/

Tanja Charles http://twistedteecrafts.blogspot.com  

Kay Mowat http://kaym74.blogspot.com 

Anita Blake http://kardmakingheaven.blogspot.co.UK

Celina Matthews http://www.scrapvamp.blogspot.com

Lisa Nelson: http://distinctivelmnts.blogspot.com/

Katya Bess: http://www.kattyxotica.blogspot.com/

Emily Shroom http://emilyshroom.blogspot.com.au/

Jackie Maunder: http://www.apaperjem.blogspot.com.au/

Jackie Randolph http://papermoments.blogspot.com/

Trish the dish Sakulich http://scrappintillthecowscomehome.blogspot.ca

Sam Slater: http://www.banansaboutstamping.blogspot.co.uk

Nia Flannery : http://wescraptoo.blogspot.com/

Sandy Smith http://shortandcrafty.blogspot.ca 

Vanessa Bland: http://slightlytwistedbutterfly.blogspot.com

Melissa Varga:  http://www.cheesestampersinparadise.blogspot.com

Thanks for looking,

Katya Bess

Spring Basket Swap Blog Hop

Hello Crafty Peeps!

Haven't been on here in quite a while... I took the plunge and joined yet, another swap (My 2nd one.... so far L.O.L.) Today you'll see the goodies we've all received... If you're just visiting me.... Thank you very kindly but if you want to hop along then you'll want to start at:
SBS http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/

Welcome to the Spring Basket Swap; not too many rules after you've been paired up and seeing what their "crafty style" or "likes" were just fill up your parcel box or envelope with as much goodies you can to reach $25 (or more if you WANT to.) Betty Roberts drew up a cute little gal riding her bicycle and shared it with those that joined the swap so we can make a card for our swap buddy. Okay my Swap Buddy is Corinne Jones :) If you follow us on Simply B Stamps' Fan Group you'll know she's an interesting gal... (heehee) We all like to "mess" with Corinne every now and then. Corinne is a very special gal to us at SBS she seems kind of feisty like that mad cat you see pictures posted of everywhere... but she's really very nice, very caring, very helpful, always on point and very talented. You can say she's like a ice cream crunch bar; all hard and nutty on the outside but soft and mushy inside... heehee O:) She claims my name is what was left at the bottom of the list and she had to get stuck with someone... but I know she "loves me" LOL at least a little bit... she picked the names... she could of easily "swapped" a buddy right?... so yea... HA!

Look at ALL of my goodies!!! YIPPEE!!!

Thank you so very much Corinne!!!

I put away all of my Hershey Kisses with Almonds because well... I didn't want to share with my kids or my hubby. LOL

Here is the the other side of the bucket she colored and altered the box. 

OMG!!! She hooked me up with 5 COPIC markers. Woohoo!!!

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This is what I got for Corinne... I'm such a slow worker and with 4 kids... I let her know that

I'm sending her my personalized items on a separate box but went ahead and sent her

her crafty goodies so she can play with them.

Hopefully she likes what I chose for her. 

I asked and Betty gave me permission to swap heads for this particular card.

The original image is the one with black hair (which is supposed to be ME in this card and the red haired is supposed to be Corinne LOL.) 

 My hubby "surprised" me with a Silhouette Cameo for my 30th birthday (on April 15th) yay!

That flourish cut is one of my first cuts... I hand colored it to make it more fun.

I hand drew and hand colored the stone path and grass since I couldn't find 

a background scene to fit my gals on their bikes. 

Here is another surprise for Corinne's Hubby Ronnie, since he shares his birthday with me...

(Happy belated birthday)

I hope it wasn't too bad... and it was my first painting in many many years... 

so please forgive that I'm quite rusty... 

I used my Liquitex BASICS Acrylic paint set to paint this portrait of Corinne. 

Here is the blog line up; Have fun:

SBS http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Raffenaud
Barb Ettinger
Nicki Ringleman
Corinne Jones http://wishuponascrap.blogspot.com/
Trish Sakulich http://www.scrappintillthecowscomehome.blogspot.ca/
Robin Bogle http://www.rcz28.blogspot.com
Maria Williams http://pinxinx.blogspot.com
Trudie Howard http://trudiescakesandcards.blogspot.co.uk/
Wendy Billings http://www.jazzydoodledesigns.com

Roz Wolfe http://www.wolfepak5.blogspot.com

Sheri Loatwall http://www.mammasscrappin.blogspot.com/

Stacey Stratis http://anastasiasarts.blogspot.com/
Lucy Gregg http://loopylass2010.blogspot.co.uk/
Louise Mann http://louisescraftycards.blogspot.co.uk/
Jo Walker http://joscardsandstuff.blogspot.co.uk/

Lisa Nelson http://www.distinctiveLMNts.blogspot.com
Michelle Klaebe http://www.inkandsew.blogspot.com.au/

Dawn Brown http://stampersgonewild.blogspot.com

Elizabeth Melih (Emily Shroom here) http://emilyshroom.blogspot.com.au/
Jackie Rakoski http://stampingsister.blogspot.com
Kathy Smyth http://kathyjsmyth.blogspot.co.uk
Carrie Robinson http://carriescreativecards.blogspot.co.uk/

Marie Franklin http://marie97-lotlot.blogspot.com/
Erin Fairclough http://elfiessparkleanddust.blogspot.co.uk/
Melissa Varga http://cheesestampersinparadise.blogspot.com/
Katya Bess http://www.kattyxotica.blogspot.com/
Tanja Charles http://craft-teeinthecity.blogspot.com
Jennifer Anderson http://Creativearmywife.blogspot.com

Summer Hills-Painter http://1craftypainter.blogspot.com/

Darcy Schroeder http://craftingwithdarcy.blogspot.com

Veronica Chasteen Rosenshein http://www.artbyveronica.blogspot.com

Julie Hasel http://tigerlily2g1b.blogspot.co.uk/

 Tanya Johnson http://little-scrapper.blogspot.com 
Dianna Cinko Sowerbrower http://diannas-craftyplace.blogspot.com

Next up is lovely Miss Tanja Charles @ http://craft-teeinthecity.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by

Katya Bess

Christmas card swap hosted by Cricut Crafts

Hi Everyone!

I'm back for a little while.... Just wanted to show the cards I made for a Christmas Card Swap I joined. It was a small group which was good for me because of family life adjustments here and there (new baby) but I really wanted to join something this year. It ended up being 6 of us total so I only had to make 5 cards but I made an extra card which I will mail out to a Hello Kitty fan/bloggy friend lol. Anyway, here are my Hello Kitty snow globe cards:

I hadn't really used my Cricut in a long time and on top of that I hadn't

used my Hello Kitty cartridge in a really long time.  

 The cards measure 5x7. 

Carts I used are: Hello Kitty Greetings, Create a Critter and Joys of the Season.

I used Stikles for the falling snow holes. 

The snowflakes are from Martha Stewart's Aspen Snowflake around the page punch set .

The Hello Kitty rubber stamp on the envelope is from Target.

The "Merry Christmas" sentiment is from My Creative Time.

The Buttons on Hello Kitty's coat are from Viva Decor Pearl Pens. 

Here is a close up of the card. I mailed all of these in 

cellophane envelopes so that my recipients were able to use

blank envelopes... I mailed them all out on the 1st of December 

I hope all of the ladies have received them. I'm still waiting for one card.

The ladies are: Lourdes (swap host), Luz, Jessie, Gloria, Gina and myself (Katya)

You can request to join the facebook group at:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/cricutcrafts/

There are a lot of talented ladies there. 

Some even have YouTube videos with tutorials.

I love the cards I received. I hope I wasn't too bad for my first swap

and hope they liked the cards I made for them. 

Can you believe my daughter Jade got to do a card swap before me? LOL

 I'd like to finish stating this was a fun experience for me

especially checking my mailbox with my daughter Jade and opening the cards together.

Thanks for stopping by.

Katya Bess

I'm entering this card at:

http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/2012/12/tis-season-cricut-cardz-challenge-122.html

Tis the Season! Cricut Cardz Challenge #122: Christmas or Hanukkah card using any cartridge

http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2012/12/challenge-94-holiday-spirit.html

Holiday Spirit

http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/2012/12/terrific-tuesday-challenge-christmas.html
Christmas card, layout, ornaments... etc.

http://abcchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/12/abc8-let-it-snow.html
Create a card using either snow, or snowflakes, or a snowman.  You can use one or all three if you like, it's up to you.  Show us some snow!

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