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Happy Holly-day... made easy!

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Well, I'm a few minutes late... but for a good reason!  Just when it was time to get this post done, I had a last minute idea... the Holly on the handle... whatcha think?  I will go back and add veins, etc. but time was running out after all, lol! Well I used a little from this and a little from that for this project (I just love how TONS of Lauren's stuff works so well with each other... they play well together).

Ok, so the template is called Wonderfully Wrapped, the holly on the top is from Holly-Day Cut file, the label frame is from Secret Surprise stamp set, the words, etc. inside the label are from the Secret Santa stamp set, and the paper is called Candy Shoppe. I think that covers it!  Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again soon.

 

Happy TGF Release Hop!!

Hello EVERYONE!

There is excitement in the chilly air tonight as the TIME. HAS. COME...to HOP into the HOLIDAYS with The Greeting Farm!  Hooray!  We have been looking forward to doing an all-customer invited Blog Hop for QUITE some time now and are thrilled that tonight's the night.

If you are just getting here, be sure to start on the TGF Blog where there will be ONE official list of hoppers due to the volume of tonight's hop.   Be sure to pop in between 7 and 8 pm CST on our PCP page to chat w/ the DT, drink virtual egg-nog and be MERRY with TGF!

If you are participating in one of our contests tonight (see THIS post for categories), the THREE categories will be live and posted in the TGF Galleria at 7pm CST tonight.  Please place your card in the appropriate category in the galleria NO LATER than 11:00AM CST tomorrow, December 1st.   Winners will be drawn tomorrow around NOON CST and posted on the TGF Blog.  

In addition, the TWO lucky Blog Hop winners (must have left comments and completed blog hop by NOON CST (This gives our overseas friends as well as here in the states plenty of time to see the projects and comment :) will be announced at NOON CST as well on the TGF Blog.  GOOD LUCK to everyone and GET HOPPIN'!

Thanks so much for stopping by and for HOPPIN' into the HOLIDAYS with The Greeting Farm!

 

Gettin' Sketchy at the Farm!

Happy Friday!  This week's challenge is another fabulous Mercy Sketch!! Pop over to The Greeting Farm's blog to get all the deets on the challenge for today and to see the prize up for grabs!  You'll also want to visit the rest of the Critter Crew and the Farmers for some awesome inspiration!

Critter Crew

Jacquie Nordaune
Jennifer Royal

Kristine Reynolds

Linda Muhr

Margie Cortina

Sammi Betbeder

Tangii Crain

TGF Farmers

Kim Nath

Randi Wall

Melyssa Connolly

Mercy Kerin

Tammy Maxvill 

 TGF Creative Coordinator 

 Jessica Diedrich

 

It's a triple challenge...

Finally I got some stamping time!  Holy snickerdoodles, I mean what's a girl gotta do to get some stamp time around here?!?  I know today is Sunday, but I don't even know what happened to Saturday or if it even happened at all, lol.  So how many of you have seen the new Harry Potter?  As tempted as I was to take the kids to the midnight showing Thursday, we were kind of forbidden to see it until hubby got back in town so we went today :D  Great movie!!  Can't wait for part 2!!  So back to the reason you came here, lol.  This is my turn to hostess the Makeup 4 the Weekend challenge over on the PMS Blog and since I cheated on challenge day, I just had to make a new creation.  The challenge was to use Digi Paper, Bling and ribbon (but your ribbon can't be a plain knot or bow).  The digi paper is from my all time favorite digi paper place, My Time Made Easy!  I have also really missed doing the JUGs challenges so I combined them.  This week's JUGs challenge was to use dark red, white, black and yellow.  WOWZERS I just LOVE this color combo!!  And last but certainly not least, this amazing sketch is from Taylor's Sketch Challenge.  Thanks for popping by, time for me to get back to work.  Hope to see you again soon.

Stamps: If I had a flower (Paper Makeup Stamps)  Paper:  Darling Dots 3 and Tea Parlor - Nomads Apple Cider (My Time Made Easy), Black and Lipstick Red cs (Gina K)  Ink: Onyx Black (Memento)  Accessories: Black Bakers Twine, yellow button (SU), black pearls, red rhinestones (Taylored Expressions), yellow glitter pen (Spica)  Challenges: M4TW50, JUGS60, TESC134

A Frosty Garden Walk and a sad farewell...

Welcome to Paper Garden's Winter Wonderland Garden Walk!  This month the Paper Gardeners are showing off some winter fun!  I used the Poinsettia and sentiment from the NEW Christmas Foliage set!  This really is a beautiful set (and it happens to be the one of the giveaway choices, head on over to the Paper Garden Blog for all of the deets!).  This will be my last "stroll" with the Gardeners :(, sadly it is time for me to say "see ya 'round" (cause of course I will still be stalking Cathy's blog!).  I have loved being on this team, Cathy is such a doll!  She is also quite the enabler!  Thanks to her I am now VERY much in love with Kraftin' Kimmies and Prism Paper!  Thanks to Cathy and the rest of her wonderfully inspiring team!  While this is my last Stroll, I will still see you back here next week for the 4th Friday challenge!

No it's hoppin' time!  Grab yourself a latte and get on with it ;)!  Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again soon!

• Cathy 
• Amber 
• Tangii - Brownies
• Linda
• Andrea
• Alyssa

How about some Makeup 4 the Weekend?!

This week it's my turn to Hostess the Makeup 4 the Weekend Challenge over on Paper Makeup Stamps.  For this week's challenge I decided to pair up one of my newest obsessions (Digi Paper) along with one of my older obsessions (ribbon).  BUT there's a twist.... Makeup 4 the Weekend Challenge #50, I challenge you to use Digital Paper AND use some ribbon, BUT you have to do something with the ribbon besides just a regular bow or knot.  I am actually cheating here a little... with hubby out of town and me leaving work a few hours late EVERY day this week I was a little short on time, so I am showing you a project I made a bit ago, but I promise I'll be making another for this challenge :)  When Katie came out with the Caffeine Trip set, I was sooo in love!  I think this is my most used PMS set that I have, lol.  Hmmm now there's a surprise, lol.  There are lots of places to get digital paper, but one of my favorites is My Time Made Easy, Kristin and Sara are 2 of my all time favorite digi paper chicks!  Well since I am cheating with this project I won't go in to tons of details about it, but you can go here and see more deets.

It's a sparkly Farm Fresh Friday...

Happy Friday!  This week's challenge is Sparkly Birthday! Pop over to The Greeting Farm's blog to get all the deets on the challenge for today and to see the prize up for grabs!  You'll also want to visit the rest of the Critter Crew and the Farmers for some awesome inspiration!

Critter Crew

Jacquie Nordaune
Jennifer Royal

Kristine Reynolds

Linda Muhr

Margie Cortina

Sammi Betbeder

Tangii Crain

TGF Farmers

Kim Nath

Randi Wall

Melyssa Connolly

Mercy Kerin

Tammy Maxvill 

 TGF Creative Coordinator 

 Jessica Diedrich

 

November Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past!

It's that time again!  Time for the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop.  If you didn't start at Taylor's Blog, make sure you head over to get the deets on the hop and how you can participate next month!  This month's theme is Autumn/Thankful, I had originally planned on using the Celebrate Life set, but I can't count and didn't order it in time :(  so I went through my Taylored Expressions stamps and realized this set, CreativiTea, would fit perfectly for a Thank you (besides I owe someone a "thank you" card and this is just her style).  The papers from the September Key Ingredients kit were a perfect match!  I just love when things fall in to place like that.

I used the flower stamp and stamped it randomly on my white panel using VersaMark ink, it still seemed a little too plain so I took my R0000 and G0000 Copics and colored in the flower and stems.  It's faint enough that it doesn't make the card too busy, but adds just enough color so that the panel doesn't look too plain.  I just LOVE this look!  When Copic first came out with these ultra pale colors, I remember thinking "what on earth do I need those for?" Hehehehehe.  I was really worried when I started this card, but now that's done I am really liking the look of it!  Great stamp set + great sketch (thanks to Sankari) + a great kit to get me going = 1 very wonderful card!  Well I've chatted your ear off enough, time for you to be on your merry way and enjoy the rest of the hop.  This is an amazingly talented group of ladies, so grab a latte and get comfy!

Stamps: CreativiTea (Taylored Expressions)  Paper & brads: September 2010 Key Ingredients kit (Taylored Expressions)  Accessories: Ripe Avocado satin ribbon (PTI)  Sketch: by Sankari Wegman  Copics: G0000, R0000, R22, R24, R27, Y21

Congratulations & Hugs to Ginger!!

My friend and fellow DTer, Ginger and her hubby are about to welcome a little bundle of joy to their family!  So of course we just had to have a Baby Shower Blog Hop!  If you just came to my blog, you should go back to the PMS blog and begin there.  So you should have come here from Anita's blog, and your next stop is Miss Christi S.

I am sending the Schwerin household a little giftie, but I can't show you my card for it without giving the secret for them away, so..... I am showing you the Baby album I made for her a couple of months ago.  Ginger, I suggest you sleep every minute of the next few days, because once that precious baby gets here it'll be many, many, many, many years from now before you will get as much sleep as you want or need, lol!  We can't wait to see some pictures. Enjoy girlie....huge, big hugs and lots of love to ya!

Thanks to everyone for popping by,have a fabulous Friday!

 

Another Scrappy Farm Fresh Friday

I just have not scrapped in YEARS, but with a great sketch like this how can you not be inspired!  Unfortunately the lighting was NOT cooperative :( but I just love the colors and the papers... and of course Bertie Valentine is just the cutest!!  Pop over to The Greeting Farm's blog to get all the deets on the challenge for today and to see the prize up for grabs!  You'll also want to visit the rest of the Critter Crew and the Farmers for some awesome inspiration!

Critter Crew

Jacquie Nordaune
Jennifer Royal

Kristine Reynolds

Linda Muhr

Margie Cortina

Sammi Betbeder

Tangii Crain

TGF Farmers

Kim Nath

Randi Wall

Melyssa Connolly

Mercy Kerin

Tammy Maxvill 

 TGF Creative Coordinator 

 Jessica Diedrich

 

Happy Release Day!!!

Welcome to the PMS November Release Blog Hop!  I used the Oo La La for Santa Corset, now you've seen it in red so I decided to do it up in black... LOVE it!  I went over the whole corset with some clear glitter pen (which is hard to see, sorry).  There is alot of texture in this card, White Sparkly Fluff on the bottom of the corset,

black velvet ribbon and LOTS of rhinestones (of course!).  I used my sentiment and stamped it randomly on the red cardstock with VersaMark ink,

then used the same sentiment on the bottom left in black.  I also used Jen's SFYTT sketch for my layout.

Now make sure you've started at the PMS Blog and follow along the hop and you will get lots of Christmas inspiration!  You should have come here from Shaela's blog. Katie has all the deets on the PMS Blog on how you can save some $$$$ on this month's release and how to win some free stuff!  Tonight, grab yourself a drink & a snack and we'll meet you in the PMS forum for the Release Party! There we will play games, chat a bit, and we will let you in on some the new lineup details in store for PMS. We'll also take your suggestions for new stamps, who knows, you may even get a stamp named after you!

Now that you've got the scoop, hop on over and visit the totally terrific Tina (tell her I said "hi"), don't forget to take my little giftie with you...

Seasons Greeting...

Welcome to the last day of peeks for this month's release!  Don't forget to join us tomorrow for the Blog and Release Party (all the deets are on the PMS Blog!).  Today we are peeking the Christmas Cheer set, you can see peeks of other images here.  I'll be back with more deets in the morning, but I am about to turn in to a pumpkin cause it's WAY past nighty-night time!  Thanks for popping by, see you again soon!

A potted Poinsettia... for you

**IF you are looking for my Farm Fresh Friday card, please scroll down a post.  Thanks!**

Welcome to another My Time Made Easy group post!  Today we are playing with the Carry IT Template.  Now you've seen it as a Gingerbread House already (tell me that wasn't the cutest ever!!).  I was thinking of decorating it as a cute box with a floral them and then I thought about making it into a potted Poinsettia plant!  So I teamed it up with the Poinsettia Cut file.  For the pink flowers I used some Pink Pirouette cardstock and scaled the Poinsettia's to 50% and 40% to get different sizes.  Then I dug around in my MTME DIgi paper files and found some awesome Candy Apple Red (there are some awesome texture papers here)... I LOVE the texture.  I also added a smal scalloped boarder along the top of my "pot" and then tied a pretty green ribbon!  I think this is what I'll be using to give away some of my homemade jams for Christmas!  Thanks for stopping by.  Sorry for the short post, but I am late and still have LOTS of work to do!  Hope to see you again soon!

Happy Farm Fresh Friday... we're getting twine-y!

Sorry for the quick post, but I've got sick boys :(.  I am loving this Snowboarder!!  Today's Farm Fresh Friday challenge is to use twine, hemp, rafia, etc.  Head on over to The Greeting Farm's Blog for more deets and what you can win!  Need some more inspiration?  Check out what the DT has for you...

 

October Guest Designer

Tanya Tahir

 

Critter Crew

Jacquie Nordaune
Jennifer Royal

Kristine Reynolds

Linda Muhr

Margie Cortina

Sammi Betbeder

Tangii Crain

TGF Farmers

Kim Nath

Randi Wall

Melyssa Connolly

Mercy Kerin

Tammy Maxvill 

 

TGF Creative Coordinator 

 Jessica Diedrich

 

"Oh Nutcracker, stop bowing, we're friends aren't we?"

Happy Peek Day #2!  So, are you loving these Nutcracker Suite Fairies?  I am!  I absolutely LOVE The Nutcracker!!  This is Claire (make sure you check the PMS Blog to see some of the other characters).  Sorry I don't have alot to share with you today, but I hope you like my peek and the rest of the peeks for today of course!  Thanks for popping in, hope to see you again soon :)