See Ya Later, TGF :)

TGIF to a bittersweet day... 

The day has finally come to see 'see you later' to The Greeting Farm :( 

Not a good-bye, because I plan on visiting a lot and seeing all of my girls often enough! 

But it is my last day as Team Captain, sniff!... 

And of course, I kept putting off my post for today - denial? procrastination? 

All of the above ;) 

SO, as I started out this post this morning, thinking that we were suppose to post our favorite TGF cards, lol, these lovely ladies surprised me with their beautiful cards and I am so deeply touched - 

You must visit their blogs and leave them some love today :) 

A big thank you to Jessica for EVERYTHING! ... to Marie too :) 

And a special thank you to April, Joni, Lisa and Sharette! 

Such sweet girlies, had a great time working with all of you!!!

Here are some of my all time favorites from this awesome team :) 

Jessica 

April 

Joni 

Lisa 

Sharette 

... and here are some of my own favorites from this term :) 

AND thank you to all of you who have supported me, The Greeting Farm, for stopping by and commenting and playing along with our challenges :) 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

See you later ;) 

xoxo 

Tea-rrific!

Good morning friends :) 

Did this week feel like the longest one ever to exist? lol, it really did to me! 

I am so happy to be able to post something today!!! 

Real life has been keep me so very busy, doesn't it understand that this girl need's to get her bumble-y going on as much as possible! lol! 

The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Challenges 

has another Spy Day to play along with today!

It's all about 'case-ing' Lori Craig's beautiful Kraft-y card! 

I just had to use the same stamp set that she used, Tea-rrific! 

I also tried to stay true to the layout and elements she used too; 

krafty cardstock, scalloped circle, button/twine :) 

All good happy stuff to play with!!! 

Please be sure to check out what the rest of my teammates came up with too! 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Have a fab TGIF!!! 

xoxo 

He's Just Not That Into You...

I'm a sucker for sappy girlie movies! 

I fall for most chic flicks!
I just love a swoon-ie kind of story :)

{I'll give you a few seconds...

... 

... 

... 

okay, you can stop laughing now, hee hee!}

The concept of this movie was taken from a (sort of) self-help book called: 

He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

When I received my new TGF Flutter Heart Clear Stamp Set,
and saw this little guy/girl image, this movie popped into my head, lol!

The 'love banner' is also from this set...

Here's the movie trailer in case you need a refresher ;) 

Enjoy!!!
xoxo

Anything is Possible...

Good morning!!!
and how was everyone's weekend???
I still have a bit of a cold, achoo-ing and stuffs :p
but I'm getting by ;)

I've been overwhelmed with holiday cards and projects for the last 2 weeks, so much so, that I haven't had the time to share a 1/4 of what I've been up to here or on facebook, lol!... and was it was such a relief to sit back this weekend and create a new bookmark for my very very very soon-to-be 8yo :)
... and it fit perfectly with this week's Monday Fun-Day Challenge at The Greeting Farm!!!
For this challenge, you are to create a BOY themed card/project!!!
I think I can do that ;)

My big boy, who keeps reminding everyone that he will be EIGHT on Wednesday :)
requested that I HAD to use this Ian for his new bookmark :)
It's more of a tag size, but it seems to be a better size for little hands and big books!!!

Space Ian is going to be doing a whole lot of traveling now!!! 

Just recently, Nicky and I had a conversation about "Anything is Possible"...
lately, I have noticed that he's been saying "I can't", "no way", "can't be done"...  we talked and in the end he realized, "Anything IS Possible" as long as you put your mind to it! and after watching The Polar Express, we've learned that "believing is seeing" :)

All you need is a little bit of determination and a dream, and then "Anything IS Possible"...
a man did walk on the moon once or twice ;)

Oh, sorry to say, Space Ian is a TGF retired stamp :(  but let me tell ya, there are plenty of other cute Ian's to get!!! hee hee!!! and all papers are from October Afternoon's Campfire and I used MFT's Star Trio and Notebook Edge Border Die-namics... ooo, and did you see??? I used a star BRAD!!! lol! I really had to dig to find it, lol!!!

Hope you all will play along with us this week!
Please be sure to visit the rest of the awesome DT today too!!!
Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Thanks for looking today!!!
AND don't forget to enter my Birthday Blog Candy!!!
xoxo 

So Very MONDAY of her :)

Good Monday to YOU!!! 

It is definitely a typical Monday around here! 

It all started last night when I couldn't get my pic to upload anywhere, geesh!

I was up waaay tooo laaat {yawn!}

and kiddos are home sick today :( Off to the Dr's office this afternoon! 

Oh, before I get on with the rest of my post ;) 

I changed the settings to my blog to make everything a bit larger -

I thought that everything around here was a bit too small, but now, 

I think I made it toooo BIG! LOL! 

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated ;) 

Now, to make my Monday brighter and better!!! 

Today is Monday Fun-Day at The Greeting Farm Challenge Blog! 

and for this week, Lisa has challenged us to use... 

NO designer/pattern papers!!! (eek!) AND use ONE ribbon!!! 

NO designer paper?! 

Do you know how hard it is to accomplish that???

Especially when your die-cutting machine is broken and you cannot play with your cardstock because you cannot use your dies or embossing folders :( sigh... 

I have also used the following challenges on my card: 

- That's Kraft Thursday #55: Use Kraft CS 

- CAS-ual Fridays Challenge#27: Over the Edge

So being that it is Monday, guess who had to come out and play??? 

"MONDAY"

... from the Creeper Crew! 

I wish I had her Monday attitude!!! 

Love her style! and added a piece of doilie to girlie her card up a bit :)
and I was lucky to find a scrap of red scallops in my pile too!
I usually don't die-cut ahead of time, I do it each time I create something, so that was a plus! The whole card pretty much revolved on that red strip, lol! 

Hope you all have a better and wonderful Monday!!! 

Please be sure to visit the rest of the DT for some non-DPing and ribbon inspiration!!! 

Jessica Diedrich

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith  

AND stop on by our TGF SCS Challenge forum too!!! 

Thanks for stopping by :) 

xoxo 

Side-Stepping in Matilda's Garden

Good morning :) 

WoW! I cannot believe that I managed to stay off my blog almost the entire week! 

I have discovered that sometimes I need to take an unplanned mini-break from here to get the mojo flowing again! It always feels so good to come back to it and get into the swing again :) 

It's another "Spy Day" at The Greeting Farm Challenge Blog today!!! 

and this time, Sharette spied Danni's Card on SCS!!! 

Danni created a beautiful stair-step card using a orange/green color scheme... 

I have to admit, I just could NOT get a stair-step card put together for this challenge, oi! LOL! 

I tried using the SCS step-by-step directions and video! Which are by far, excellent resources and very clear - but I just could not grasp the exact cutting measuremenst! eek! 

So I decided to be inspired by the color scheme, layout and butterflies that Danni used :) 

AND!

I also used the following challenges for my card too!!!
- Touch Twin Marker Color Challenge:
Melon Yellow, Olive Green, Brick Brown, Rose Red
- Ribbon Carousel Challenge #27:
Anything goes! (must have ribbon, twine, etc.)
- Flutter By Wednesday Challenge #178:
Thank You (much have a buttefly, fairy, angel)
- Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #134

I also used one of the latest released stamps by The Greeting Farm, 

Wild Sprout - Matilda 

You cannot see it in my picture, but the sides are 2 separate panels! 

I tried to recreate the stair step look by using what Danni did as a layout/sketch :)

and I was so lucky to have just enough of these scraps for it too!

Oh, and when I first colored Matilda, I thought her clothes were a bit too mis-matchy, lol! 

but with the papers surrounding her, she matches and blends pretty good, right? :) 

Please be sure to visit the rest of the DT and see their gorgeous stair-step cards!!! 

Jessica Diedrich

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith  

Thanks for stopping by today!!! Happy TGIF!!!
I will be packing up a few things for a scrappy night with the girls :) 

Yippeee!!! 

my Princess :)

GOOD Morning peeps!!! 

I have been feeling a bit under the weather for the last few days, 

a small cold and no energy at all :p 

My mojo is still playing games with me and has been very temperamental, lol! 

We're going to have to have a talk soon, 

these late night craft times are definitely not helping me get rid of this lingering cold! ha!

It's FRIDAY!!! Yay!!! What are you up to today??? 

First things first! For me, it's all about The Greeting Farm's 

Farm Fresh - Spy Day Challenge :) :) :) 

And this time, we "spied"... Sheri Gilson's card over HERE!!! 

Ian is SO handsome with his cap and gown surrounded by green! 

Very inspiring layout too! 

I thought that "Babette" from TGF's Blush Society Collection 

would be fun to color up! I just looove all that hair!!! 

and used a senti from the new "Build a Onsie - Girl" clear stamp set... 

Except for the card's base and the twine, I used all scraps again!!! 

I will be posting pics soon of my new scrappy area and how I keep track of all my scraps; 

My crafty area is small and I don't have a lot of room, 

nor do I have a lot of product! and since I'm right in the living room, I have to be sure not to leave much of a mess and that it all can fit nicely in my one spot :) 

My happy place ;) hee, hee 

Ohhhh!!!... and for some extra fun!!! 

Since last week, the TGFC DT got to play along with the Bugaboo-ers, 

THIS WEEK Bugaboo Stamps gets to play along with us!!! Woo hoo!!! 

Waving HI!!! 

So please be sure to stop by both TGFFFC's Blog and Bugaboo's Blog 

for all the wonderful inspiration this week :) :) :) 

Have an awesome TGIF everyone!!! 

{hugs!!!} 

My December 25th... with a Sketch!!!

Good morning Monday!!! and to all you lovely peeps :) 

I had a bit of candy corn earlier and I am still feeling the sugar-y stuff now, lol! 

We had a wonderful fun-filled weekend and I am hoping to start the week off with the same fun-filled good times vibe too!!! 

It's Monday Funday at The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Challenge Blog today!!! 

and guess what?!?! 

I made a sketch!!! To which Marie was so sweet to digital-ize for me! 

Thank you, Marie :) and a thank you to Jess, for all her help too! 

I hope you all decide to play along with it! 

Just remember, you must use a TGF stamp/image and we must be able to recognize the sketch on your card - you can flip or rotate it, add some extra embellies too ;) 

Here's my card, and of course, I couldn't even follow my own sketch to the exact look, LOL! 

but you can still see it ;)  

I used one of the latest clear stamp sets, "Clear Christmas"... 

Had a bit of fun with the gems on this one! 

Isn't that the sweetest little Christmas tree you've ever seen! 

I love all of the stars as ornaments! Makes me want to decorate my house with stars rather than the snowman theme we have every year! but don't let me snowmen hear about this, okay!? LOL! 

I love this set, so versatile! 

I can't wait to use the sleigh and other embellie-type of stamps in the set soon too:) 

Please be sure to visit the DT too today :)

(Sorry, blogger is not letting me add any other links to the post at the moment, ugh! Be sure to visit my sidebar, please!) 

Have a wonderful Monday!!! xoxo 

Smiley :)

Wooo hooo!!! It's finally TGIF!!! 

What should have been a short week for us, because we had Monday off from school, turned out to be the most dragged out, longest week ever in existence, lol! We are all super tired and cranky and in much need to some weekend fun! Unfortunately, kiddos have to start their weekend tomorrow to a check up at the dentist first, lol! Then we're off for a Fall Festival at school and other fun stuff :)  Can't wait! 

There is another Farm Fresh Friday - Spy Day Challenge 

at The Greeting Farm Challenge Blog today!!! 

And for this week, we are casing Rachel's card that you can see HERE!

I decided that I really neeeded to use myyy "Edward" stamp!!!

Yes, MYYY Edward ;) hee hee!!!   

I lightly colored Edward with my Copic markers and used my Colorless Blender to lighten and blend my coloring to give him a 'washed-out' kind of look... I used scraps of Crate Paper and some Washi tape that I purchased (and have been hoarding) from TGF Store a looong while ago :)  

Please be sure to visit the amazing DT today too!

(Links are all in my sidebar, thanks!) 

Sorry to type and run, but I really need to catch up on some sleep, my neglected chores and get some much needed crafty time in between ;) 

Have a wonderful TGIF!!! 

See you back here in a little while ;) xo

Going RETRO-Fresh, into the Wild Wild West!

'morning peeps!!! 

I've got a fun-filled day ahead of me! and I wanted to share the most fun-nest part of it with you right now :) 

Today, The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Challenge 

is having it's FIRST monthly 

"RETRO-fresh" Challenge!!! 

Yeee-haaaw!!! 

And Jessica has challenged us to use ANIMALS as this month's theme!

You can use any TGF Animal stamp, Animal DP, Embellishments, etc. 

Just as long as you use a TGF stamp and something with an animal on it, it will qualify ;) 

Here's a bit of info for this month's RETRO-Fresh Challenge:  

- RETRO-Fresh Challenges will be on the 2nd Wednesday of every month.

- Each month will have a theme to it.

- You MUST use a TGF Stamp that is at least or OVER 6 months old!!! 

For a list of old/new stamps, please visit our SCS page. 

(The list isn't complete yet and it does NOT include digis yet, so please be patient as TGF goes through their archives and continues to add onto the list, thank you!) 

- You must enter your direct link into Inlinkz on the Retro-Fresh post.

AAAAAAND!!! 

*You have ALL MONTH to play along!!! Woo hoo!!! 

You have until Tuesday, November 8th Noon CST to enter!!! 

The winner will be posted with our NEXT Retro-Fresh Challenge on 

Wednesday, November 9th!!!

For this challenge, I just knew that I haaad to use these 2 images that my sweet friend, Toni, sent to me a while ago! How sad is it that it this is the first time that I am inking these two lovies up!

Old stamps, but new to me! Love how that worked out :) 

Here's "Sheriff Ian" (retired?) and "Wild West Anya"... 

I had a ton of fun paper piecing these two cuties! 

(Please click on pics to see more details, thanks!)

and yes, these are old TGF designer papers :) 

Hording does come in handy sometimes! 

My animal is the little ol' horse on there ;)

It's time to dust off some of those oldies and get to playing!!! 

Please be sure to visit the rest of the DT for some fun and inspiring creations today :) 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis 

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea 

Sharette Smith 

Happy Wednesday!!! xoxo 

Friday Spy Day with Sassy Friends! and FREE TGF SHIPPING!!!

*Please scroll down for my Sparkle Creations/Karber Preview 
of "You are So Sweet", thank you :) 

Hello again, and Happy Happy Happy TGIF!!!
Today, The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Challenge Blog 
is having its first Friday Spy Day!!!


Friday Spy Day willl run VERY similarly to the former "Mystery Monday" challenges, meaning we will still "spy" a card from the TGF Gallery and then you will be able to pick an element/sketch based on the card to CASE. 
Today's 'spied' card can be found HERE, created by the very talented Dictionary! 


For my card, I decided to use one of the latest clear stamp sets to be released... 
"Furever" 

Again, I used MORE scraps!!! Yaaay!!! 
These are all by Jillibean Soup, a definite must have pad! 
and mooore baker's twine! This strand is from The Twinery, love their colors! 


I have to say that these new TGF clear stamps are made from the most high-end quality that you can ever imagine! Seriously! If you know me, I'm mostly a digi and rubber stamp girl, lol! But these clear sets have totally turned me around!!! With every stamp that I have used from my sets - I just attach it to my acrylic block, rub-tap-tap on my Memento ink pad and stamp!!! Instant bold and clean lines!!! I am looooving it :) These will definitely feeeed my paper piecing needs ;) 


More TGF news :)
In celebration of... 

The Greeting Farm becoming a SCS Member Company!!! 

"FREE SHIPPING FRIDAY!!!" 

To celebrate TGF's NEW SCS home, Marie is offering 

"Free Shipping Friday" for TODAY ONLY!!! 

For anyone who either:

a.) signs up for SCS if they're not on already and leaves a comment saying hello in the NEW TGF Forum before 11pm CST TONIGHT!!!
b.) already has an SCS account and comes to chat on in the NEW TGF Forum as well :)

The promotion will ONLY run until 11pm CST!!! 
SO be sure to run over and stock up on your cute singles and awesome stamp sets TODAY!!! 


Thanks SO much for stopping by again!!! 
Be sure to visit the rest of the DT too :) 
TGIF!!! xo 


Jessica Diedrich
April Davis
Joni Wilson
Lisa Gobea
Sharette Smith 

Sweet Baby Blessings for Monday Funday!

Wow! What a fun-filled weekend I've had :)
How was yours?! Can you believe that it is Monday already?! Whoot!!!

Today is the first day of a new TGF Farm Fresh Challenge called...
"Monday Fundays" 
Monday Fundays is an 'anything goes' kind of challenge day with LOOSE themes
(generic, like use pink, use sketches, etc.)
ONE RANDOM WINNER will be drawn from the INLINKZ entries attached to the bottom of each Monday Funday post :)

For this week's Monday Funday Challenge, we would like to see you use...
SCALLOPS 

I decided to use the two new Boy/Girl "Build-a-Onesie" Clear Stamp Sets...

Aren't they the sweetest?!
You have to admit, it's really rare to find an ALL inclusive baby boy stamp set!
and I am in looove with this one! SO wish I had this set when my boys were born...
but better late than never, right?! hee hee

Here's my baby boy onesie using a lil choo choo train and sentiment from the set...
I paper pieced using My Mind's Eye Away We Go DP... 

... and here's my lil baby girl onesie using a butterfly and sentiment from that set!
Also paper piecing using My Mind's Eye Happy Go Lucky :)

Here's a bit of info on how to enter our new Monday Funday Challenges...

You MUST upload your card to InLinkz to be eligible for the prize. 

You can upload to the following places: 
-SCS Gallery using keyword: TGFM01 and thegreetingfarm (no spaces)
-The Greeting Farm Galleria under your user name (we will no longer have challenge categories in the gallery but you are welcome to keep filling it up and just link to your project).
-Your PERSONAL BLOG using a DIRECT link (meaning the link to your exact post, not just to your blog as it can be hard to find the exact card/project). 
You have until Sunday, October 9th at NOON CST.

And please be sure to visit the amazing DT's blogs too :) 

Jessica Diedrich
April Davis
Joni Wilson
Lisa Gobea
Sharette Smith

Thanks for stopping by today!!!
Happy Monday :) xo

Dreams really DO come true, with The Greeting Farm, of course!!!

SQUEEE-ing!!! 
Can you guess why?!?!?!

Need I say more?! ;) 
Oh My Goodness!!! You really can't imagine how floored I was when I received Jessica's email many, many, many moons ago! I was floored! Happy! Excited! and even more so that the term is finally starting!
A HUGE thank you to Marie and Jessica for choosing me! and beleiving in me to be a part of
The Greeting Farm Farm Fresh Challenge DT as Team Captain :) :) :)
Thank you!!!

I know that we have some very big shoes to fill, the last DT was super amazing and creative!
but I have a really good feeling about our new girlies! All so sweet and so talented!
and here they are! a big congrats to...
April Davis
Joni Wilson
Lisa Gobea
Sharette Smith
and of course, Jessica Diedrich our fab Creative Coordinator!

Well, let's get started on the COOL stuff :) :) :) 
Oh, and please bear/bare with me, this is going to be a somewhat long-er post!
Be sure to read all the deets ;) Thanks!!! 

So today is also WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!!!
One of the bestest holidays around, right?!
In celebration of WCMD, the new DT, AND a SCS announcement (more details about this below!)
we have a special challenge that ties in with yesterday's Farm Fresh Friday Challenge!
While the DTs cased any of Rachel's card ;)
You are to case one/any of the DTs cards! 

Here's the card I chose, one of Rachel's amazing CAS cards :) 

and here is my take on her card... 

I used Blush Society's "Blush Bonnie" and the sentiment from "Blush Babette"
It seems that the 'clean and simple' look is really growing on me lately :)

Please be sure to add your direct link to your creation to THIS TGFFFC POST!!!
You can link to your creation in the TGF Galleria, Splitcoast Stampers, Blog, etc.
If you are using something other than your blog, please be sure to use keyword:
thegreetingfarm (no spaces)
and for this special WCMD challenge, please use TGFWCMD, too! 

With my own exciting announcement today 
comes another HUGE bit of news for TGF!  

The Greeting Farm is beyond thrilled and honored to have been invited as the 

newest Member Company at SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS!

For those of you NEW to Splitcoaststampers (SCS), it is the single largest online community for stampers and a wonderful place to access tutorials, a vast online gallery, and tons of ways to get involved with their awesome forums dedicated to stamping and much more! 

As one of only ten Member Companies on SCS, 

The Greeting Farm now has our VERY OWN FORUM 

to encourage ALL of our customers, new and old to get out there and chat with us, while we keep you up to date on the latest TGF happenings :)  With over 700,000 unique hits a month, we are excited about the potential to meet NEW Farm friends, but we are mostly SO, SO very excited about being able to have a 'home' to chat with you, get to know you better, and post fun and important information ALL in one place!   We really look forward to this being a means of getting closer to our stamping community, welcoming new stampers and getting to spend more time with our cherished current customers, as well!

Splitcoaststampers also offers a wonderful Member gallery where you can upload ALL your photos, even non- TGF cards, to their gallery and use different keywords depending on what you're uploading. Please use this keyword for all SCS gallery posts:  thegreetingfarm  (no spaces :)

If you have ANY questions whatsoever, please contact Jess and she will be happy to answer them!  With this announcement also brings GREAT news for Galleria users! While we love our galleria and still plan to keep it open for your use, we will now offer the option to post challenge cards, contest entries, etc. to SCS as well.   We will be using the INLINKZ system from now on for ALL challenges.  Again, we will still keep the Gallery open, but you now will have the option to upload there, to SPLITCOAST, or your personal blogs.  All entries will be counted as LONG as they are posted to our INLINKZ below each challenge post.   Splitcoasts offers a WONDERFUL gallery option and we can't WAIT to see your cards there!  

There is a TON more info about this on the Farm Fresh Challenge Blog today...

so be sure to check out my announcement there too!   Thank you for reading! 

Wooo Hooo!!! SO much to SQUEEE about today :) :) :)
Thank you ALL for stopping by today and for celebrating along with me!!! 
xoxo