Miss. Love

Good morning!!! and Happy M-Day to you all :) 

It's been a while since I've been able to post anything here - 

I just haven't had much time to create anything :( 

But I managed to squeeze in a bit of time late last night, yay! 

Just in time for a super fun Monday Fun Day Challenge at 

The Greeting Farm today!!! 

It's an "ANYTHING GOES" challenge, 

the best kind of challenge to play around with, right?! hee, hee 

and I also decided to use the current TGF SCS Sketch Challenge too!!! 

Here's my card using one of the Miss Anya's from the 

Miss Anya Garland Stamp Set... 

... and I also used my latest Key Ingredients Kit from Taylored Expressions! 

I just looove these My Mind's Eye 6x6 pads!!! 

This one is called "Rosey" - and I did some fun paper piecing with it :) 

Oh! and here's what the sketch looks like:

Please be sure to check out what the rest of the DT has been up to too! 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

AND!!! Don't forget - it's sneak peek time at The Greeting Farm!!! 

You don't want to miss seeing what little "beans" are sprouting up at the farm on March 1st ;)

Thanks for stopping by! 

and enjoy your M-Day!!! xo

My Sweet Angel Card...

Good Friday everyone!!! 

Wow, another week just blew away and it's February!!! 

I have to be honest, I was actually a bit afraid to post for today, lol! 

It's been so long since I've posted anything here, I'm thinking that people have either forgotten about me or are mad or both! ha! Sorry! 

I had to step back for a bit and figure out why my mojo has been lacking so much lately. It's never been this bad before and I have felt so overwhelmed and sad by it. I've been blogging and doing my thing here for 3 1/2 years now, and I have never stayed away for more than 3 days at a time. 

It's time to make some changes! and have some fun! 

So for now, I want to share with you the card I made for today's

Spy Day Challenge at The Greeting Farm!!! 

This week, we are 'case-ing' Jas' card!!! 

and this is what I came up with: 

This is my first time using my sweet Angel Anya rubber stamp!!! 

Isn't she gorgeous!?

I used a scrap of Echo Park DP, found a paper silver doily and colored her up with my Copics... even did a bit of distressing there, lol! Quick simple card... wondering what occasion I could use this one for...??? 

Here's a close up at her sparkly halo and wings :) 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

I truly do love my visitors and comment-ers :) 

Please be sure to check out the rest of the DT and see what they've been up to!!! 

Jessica Diedrich 

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

Don't forget that tomorrow TGF will have another 

sketch challenge posted on their SCS forum!!!

Happy weekend!!! 

xoxo 

JOY!!! A NEW Saturday Sketch Challenge at TGF!!!

Good Saturday afternoon :) 

Let's start the weekend off with a fun NEW sketch challenge!!! 

The Greeting Farm is now hosting a NEW sketch challenge exclusively on their SCS Forum!

Very cool :) hee hee! 

You can go HERE to see the challenge rules! 

and HERE to see our very first sketch!!! 

For the first sketch, I decided to finally ink up my new 

Miss Anya Garland Rubber Stamp Set! 

All 3 Miss Anya's in the set are so pretty! I couldn't decide who to color up first, and then finally decided to use this one since I love daisies and those braids in her hair! She's so pretty :) 

I also used my Flutter Heart Clear Stamp Set for the sentiment! There are SO many possibilites with this set, one of my faves! With all those pendant stamps, eeek! So much fun :) 

Here's a peek at the sketch for this week: 

Hee hee! Yes, I created the sketch! With Jessica and Marie's help :)

I am so happy to have this opportunity to expand my creativity with TGF!!! 

I hope you all will play along with us!!! 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend :)

xoxo 

TGF's 3rd Annual Customer Blog Hop!!!

Happy Holidays everyone :)
and welcome to The Greeting Farm's Third Annual Customer Blog Hop!!!
To start the hop from the beginning and for the whole blog/link list, please refer to
The Greeting Farm's Blog for all the details :)
Especially to find out how you can win one of THREE grand prizes!!!

So for today's hop, I created (hopefully) my last Holiday card for this year!
Here is Holiday Anya... 

This is the perfect paper to paper-piece her dress! 

She looks so fun and festive :)  

My next card is definitely my last holiday card of 2011, hee hee!!! 

This card is for this week's TGF Monday Fun-Day Recipe Challenge - 

you are to use Kraft Cardstock, Twine and a Button(s) on your card/project!!! 

My three favorite go-to things to create a card!!! 

I decided to use my "Keep Cozy" stamp set again 

and came up with this easel card :) 

This just happens to be the card that I taught to my Scrappy friends last Friday night :)
They loved the easel card concept!!! It was so much fun!!!

That's it for me today :)
Happy Hopping!!!
xoxo

Holiday Anya

Keep Cozy

InLinkz.com

Hey there, Cupcake!!! (and my TGF Blog Candy Winner!!!)

Hi again!!! 

If you're here to see my Sparkle Creations Karber Preview, please scroll down, 

thank you :) 

It's time for another Friday Spy Day at The Greeting Farm Challenge Blog today!!! 

This week, we are case-ing Danielle Daws' sweet Cupcake Anya card found HERE!!! 

I really need to catch up on my Birthday cards! So I thought why not go with a similar layout and use some cupcakes on my card and came up with this... 

Oh my! You wouldn't believe how much I still have of this TGF designer paper!!! Love it so much! and to think that I parted with half of my stack and still have so much more, lol! That's what true hording is all about, right?! ha!!! 

I also used Birthday Anya and colored her with my Copics; and I forgot where this transparent doily thingy came from - some sort of kit I received last year, ooops, don't remember, lol! Old age!!! eeek! 

On that note, hee hee!!!... 

It's time for me to announce who my TGF Clear Stamp Sets winner is... 

Congratulations to...  #27 Mimi 

Yay!!! Please email me (TheBumbleGirl at Rocketmail.com) 

your address so I can get these stamps out to you  :) 

Thank you to ALL who entered!!! 

I have another Blog Candy that will be posted tomorrow, 12/10 at Noon EST!!! 

See you then!!! XOXO 

PS, please be sure to visit the rest of the DT to see their beautiful creations today too!!! 

Jessica Diedrich

April Davis

Joni Wilson

Lisa Gobea

Sharette Smith 

BOTTLE CAP Ornaments!!!

Hello again! I'm back to share with you some ornaments that I created this week! 

Claudia and Company has these Maya Road Bottle Caps! 

They come in three different sizes: 2, 3, and 4 inches! 

There are so many creative ideas to do with these - magnets, ornaments, picture frames, note pads, calendars, etc!!! 

I decided to make mine into ornaments! 

In my house, you can never ever have too many ornaments on our huge tree ;)  

Here is a 'before' pic of me putting things together! 

These bottle caps are SO durable and sturdy - such good quality! and how do I know that??? LOL, come on! You all know how clumsy I can be with things - I must have dropped these about a billion times! and not one ding or dent happened! Yay! 

Of course, I just had to add pics of my boys! 

And yes, these are summer pics, but I just loved their poses and sweetness, I had to use them :) 

Do you see that I finally used my Stickles and Liquid Pearls here too?

My pearls look like Hershey-squirts! and my stickles completely flattened out! LOL! 

I guess I need to practice more ;)  but I love how it all turned out!!! 

For my next two I just had to use some of my favorite Holiday stamps!
The Shepherd Boy is another one of The Greeting Farm's retired stamp sets! I am SO happy that I bought this one when it came out, he is truly one of the cutest ones I have :)

The next stamp is also from The Greeting Farm that was just recently released, Holiday Anya... 

and look! More Stickles and Liquid Pearls, hee hee!!! 

Bottle Caps!!! 

What would you create with them???

AND!!! For a limited time ONLY!!! 

Maya Road is offering a FREE Holiday printout with every Bottle Cap purchase!!!

How cool is that?! 

You can see more details on the Claudia and Company Blog today!!! 

Thanks for stopping by again!
I truly do appreciate all of you that follow and comment regularly :) 

xoxo 

PS.... I am tryyyying to do My December Daily for 2011, too!!! 

I am a newbie and am totally unsure as to what I am doing with it, lol! 

I only took ONE pic yesterday, bummer! and here it is! 

My sister helped me out by creating a super cool book for me to finish up and add my pics and journaling too! I hope to keep up! Especially since I never get to finish anything for myself or for my own family, eeek! This will definitely be a nice present for my boys and hubs on New Years Day :) 

How are you doing your December Daily's?!?! 

Any ideas/suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!! 

Thank you!!! 

A Merry Lil' Elf!

It's Monday! It's Monday! 

***Don't forget to enter to win my Blog Candy of FOUR TGF Clear Stamps HERE!!!

and a belated Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrated this weekend :) 

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family! and then my lil guy came down with the virus that I had earlier last week :(  It took him almost 3 days to get over it! but I'm happy to say that he pepped up yesterday and went to school with his big bro :)  Here's hoping that there are no more germ attacks for the rest of the Winter season ;) hee hee!!! 

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

and for this week, we challenge you to use THREE of something on your card/project! 

I decided to make an easel card - it's been so long since I've done one, and I just love how I can display them on my bookshelf... my "three" are the pearls that I used, even though I did use three more on the inside too, lol! 

Here's my card using "Elf Anya"... 

... and some more scraps of some old Echo Park Christmas DP :) 

Love this stuff!!! 

Thanks for stopping by and looking today!!! 

Happy Monday :) 

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 

The Sky's the Limit, Dance!!!

I just haaaad to go and make another card last night!!!
My girly-girl was screaming for some PINK time and I had to cave in ;)

I decided to play along with The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Mystery Monday Challenge this week... I was inspired by the monochromatic style, circles/scallops and bit of bling :)

This is my first time coloring in Ballet Anya... here's my card :)

Look! I even used one of my embossing folders, LOL!  and I gave sweet Anya a few light freckles :)

This card is really thick!
I used a ton of pop-up dots, something that I rarely do, but I wanted to try to make it  look like she was dancing off the card :)

Girly and Pink, my fave :)

Thanks for looking again, my friends!
You really do know how to lift a girls heart :)
hugs!!!

Card Details: 
Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm's Ballet Anya Digital Image   
Paper(s): American Crafts Happy Go Lucky DP, Taylored Expressins Classic Red and Snow White CS 
Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copic Markers 
Accessories: Small Circle, Scallop Circle and Labels Eight Nesties, Lace, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Ribbon and Recollections Gems

The Last Day of School!!!

School is officially over for us!!! Woo hoo!!! 

My lil guy is all done with Pre K and is FIVE today!!! 

My big boy is all done with 1st grade and is SO excited for the fall :) 

Of course, they're more excited for all the summertime fun first!

For their first week off at home, they have requested to do absolutely nothing but eat cookies, watch movies and play video games, LOL! 

Here are the cards that I created for their Teachers :) 

I used some more of the Provocraft DP and I still have a lil more than a 6x6 square left!!! LOL! 

Here's my first card using Riley and Company's "School Boy Riley"... 

For my next card, I used The Greeting Farm's "Teacher Anya"... 

... and for this one, I used MFT's a la modes "You Rule"... 

AND, I just had to use "Teacher Anya" again ;) 

I hope they liked them! :) 

Enjoy your weekend!!! 

Thank you, Teacher

It's a few minutes into Wednesday already!!!

Wow, this week is going by waaay tooo fast!!!

Later today, I'm suppose to be teaching a "How To" to 1st graders today!

They will be creating cards and, if time allows, a bookmark :)

I'm really excited, but 1st graders can be a tough crowd, so we'll see how it goes!

I hope I'm allowed to take a few pics!!!
Wish me luck! Especially since I'm still not at 100% yet! 7yo wants to make sure I won't use up the teacher's box of tissues! Oi! I think I'm well enough not to do that, but I guess I'll bring my own just in case ;)

I have another quick card to share with you today!

This is my most faaaave Anya ever!!! It's been a while since I've inked her up!

Luckily, I needed a thank you card for my other kiddos Teach ;)

The white notebook paper was part of the packaging from Sassafras Lass' notecards! I just haaaad to recycle and use it! Of course I had to use my MFT Notebook Die-namic on it too!

The 'ledger/number/date' card is from 7Gypsies and the rest of the DP is Cosmo Cricket's Togetherness...

TWINE!!! Oh how I loooove twine!

This piece of twine came from a card kit that I purchased last year...

You've probably noticed how hard I have been trying to destash!!! Woo hoo!!!

I'm entering my card into these awesome challenges:

- Joanne of "Just a Little Something"

... is having a 4 year blogoversary challenge!!! Must use 3 things from her list!

I chose: Kraft CS, Twine and Ledger, Alpha or Number DP

- There She Goes Challenge #98: Sketch

- That's Krafty Thursday #48

- Pixie Dust Studio Challenge #65: Thank You 

Thanks so much for passing by my bloggy today!

Enjoy!!!

Card Details:

Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Teacher Anya" Rubber Stamp

Paper(s): Cosmo Cricket "Togetherness" DP, Sassafras Lass Packaging,

7Gypsies Date Card, Papertrey Ink CS 

Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers

Accessories: MFT Notebook Border Die-namic, Baker's Twine,

Sqaured Scallop and Labels Eight Nesties, Michael's Gems

Sweet Anya Love

Hey, hey! It's a Tuesday around here!

Eh! Still not feeling so good;

it's like a sinus infection and headcold combined into one,

it's a specialy of mine... so not fun...

Last week, I got to clean up my closet and I found a shoebox-sized box with some old stamps that I had gotten 1 to 2 years ago and never used!!! OMGosh!!! It was a wonderful "Christmas-y" kind of moment ;)

I got to use one of those stamps in my last post, and here's another stamp...

I have used this sentiment from this Greeting Farm stamp set a bunch of times,

but had forgotten about the actual set and the sweet Anya and Ian that came with it!

I used Club Anya's latest Saturday Sketch and paper pieced her lil dress...

I {cough}borrowed{cough} this beautiful lace from my sister, Sarabeth and

thought that these awesome button-stitched-flowers from Sassafra Lass

would tie it all together nicely :)

Me likey! I hope that you do too :)

I am entering my card into these challenges :)

- Club Anya Sketch #59

- Claudia and Company Challenge #77: Recipe

- Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #125: Flowers for Mum

- DYSU Challenge #10: Layers

Thanks for stopping by again!!!

Enjoy :)

Card Details:

Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm Rubber Stamp Set

Paper(s): Cosmo Cricket "Togetherness" DP, Papertrey Ink CS

Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Chocolate Chip, Copic Markers

Accessories: Sassafras Lass Buttoned Stitched Flowers, Prima Gems, 

misc Lace and Ribbon, Squared Scalloped Nesties 

Holiday Hoppin' with The Greeting Farm!!!

*Please scroll down to see my card for the latest Baby Bud Designs image!

Thank you :)

http://splendidstamping.blogspot.com/2010/11/hoppin-into-holidays-with-tgf.html

Please join The Greeting Farm on

TUESDAY, NOV. 30th at 7pm CST on the TGF Blog

for an ALL-CUSTOMER and DT blog hop,

featuring HOLIDAY cards that use TGF stamps!

The DT will be premiering some December releases, there will be prizes, chit chat on our PCP page from 7pm CST to 8pm CST, and the winner of our Ugly Sweater Inspired contest will also be announced!

Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:

- "Let it Snow" (use snow in creative ways on your card)

- "Santa, Baby" (cute Santa-inspired cards)

- and "Holiday Treats" (incorporate some kind of treat/goodie theme into your cards!

You may enter one, two, or all 3 categories, but must create a separate entry for each category and you MUST USE TGF STAMPS!

What's more? There are even MORE ways to win! You do not have to create for one of the three challenges, unless you WANT TO, because in addition, ONE lucky hopper WHO PARTICIPATES in the Blog Hop will receive the ENTIRE DECEMBER RELEASE just for making it through the hop and commenting. In addition, another lucky NON-participant will also win this prize.

More information will be released as the weeks move on, but to sign up, you need to email Jessica at yeahshestamps at gmail dot com NO LATER than TUESDAY, November 24th-NO exceptions, sorry. With the holidays approaching and lots of family in from out of town, Jess will need the list by then at the latest.

PLEASE put "TGF HOLIDAY HOP" as your subject line-this is very important! AND PLEASE INCLUDE the FULL URL of your BLOG ADDRESS! Thanks!

Can't wait to see everyone's Holiday Cheers!!! :)

You Crack Me Up!!!

Yea!!! for fun cards :)
Sometimes it's so refreshing to create something just for fun ;)

I cannot get enough of Audrey from The Greeting Farm! I know I say this a lot, but she is definitely one of my most fave images ever!!! I have proof! She's become my most used image (other than WS Edward! hee, hee!) I wish she was a rubber stamp too ;)

I used this week's Sketch Saturday Week #120 for my card...

Holy moly! Did you see all those layers!? I couldn't help myself!

This DP is another 6x6 sampler pack that I purchased from Die Cuts R Us, it is called "Animal Crackers" by My Mind's Eye - this is their "boy" version! ha! Puh-leeeze!!! As you can see, I think that it's perfect for a girl too! Just wait - I used it on another girly card for a new release tomorrow too! ha! Love it!

I created the stars to match the DP with my Slice! and the sentiments are from a Kraftin Kimmie set that I purchased a long while ago...

So, ummm, I have to admit -
Each sentiment is covering up all of my boo-boos!!! lol!
Oi, don't ask what they are! but I think that it turned out pretty well ;)  

Card Details:
Paper(s): My Mind's Eye "Alphabet Soup - Boy" DP, TE Ingredients Kit CS
Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm "Audrey" Digital Image, Kraftin Kimmie Stamps Sentiments
Copic(s): E00, E11, R20, E17, E18, E19, R05, YR07, BG09, BG49, G82, R35, W5
Accessories: TE Ingredients Kit Ribbon, EK Success Border Punch  

And as you can see, I couldn't help but finish up the inside too :)

I hope you likey!
Enjoy your Sunday and good luck with Monday -
This is our fist full week of school, so I know that we're going to need a bit of that luck to get through it smoothly ;)

Die Cuts R Us

Go on over to the Die Cuts R Us Design Team blog today :)

There's a product spotlight on Copic's atyou Spica Glitter Markers...

They are on sale at the Die Cuts R Us Store!!! ;)

Glitter-y Card Details:

Paper(s): DCWV Garden Party Paper Stack

Stamp(s): The Greeting Farm Birthday Anya Rubber Stamp

Ink(s): Memento Tuxedo Black Ink; Copics; Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Markers

Accessories: The Robin's Nest Dew Drops; Making Memories Ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by!

See y'all tomorrow for a Happy, happy tuesday :)