Grateful

Hi Friends and Happy Monday to You!

It's time for another challenge over at The Pink Elephant and this week #297 is a THANK YOU or APPRECIATION themed card or project.

Create something that shines a little gratitude and submit it to the linky on the TPE BLOG.
Hope you will share your projects with us!

Thanks for stopping by today!

For the Graduate

Hi Friends!
Happy Monday!

I'm back with today's challenge #251 over at The Pink Elephant and this week it's time for a THEME CHALLENGE. All you have to do is create a card or project using the GRADUATION them and submit it to the link on the TPE BLOG.

I made this card using Grad Ian from the Greeting Farm and colored him in the colors of one of my nephews schools (I have a few nephews graduating this June).

Thank you so much for popping by! Be sure to check out the inspiration from all of Ella's Girls over at TPE! Hope you'll join us!

Things Are Looking Green

Hi Friends!
Hope you had a great weekend!

I'm here with today's challenge #241 over at The Pink Elephant. This week it's time for a PHOTO INSPIRATION! All you have to do is use the below photo as inspiration for your card or project and submit your link on the TPE BLOG.

For my card, I kept it pretty simple. I used this cutie pie stamp from The Greeting Farm, a sheet of gingham paper from Amuse Studio, sentiment from SU, ribbons from Papertrey Ink and pearls from Kaisercraft.

Thank you so much for popping by! Be sure to check out the inspiration from all of Ella's Girls over at TPE! Hope you'll join us!

Super Amazing

Hi Friends!
Happy Monday!

It's time for challenge #199 (can you believe it!?!) over at The Pink Elephant and this week it's time to to make a MALE BIRTHDAY CARD. For this challenge you are to make a card with a masculine theme.

For my card I decided to go with a kick booty boy card! I pulled out my old Karate Ian from The Greeting Farm and even paired him with a TGF sentiment too. The papers are from Echo Park--All About Boy and the buttons are Basic Grey.

Thanks for popping by! Be sure to go visit The Pink Elephant Blog to see all the wonderful creations.
Have a wonderful day!

Love A Lot

Hi Friends!
Happy Monday!

It's time for challenge #183 over at The Pink Elephant! This week it's time for a photo inspiration...and boy is it a yummy one!!

For my card, I've this sweet Latte Anya from The Greeting Farm and paired her with papers from Echo Park Paper. The ribbon is American Crafts, the pearls are Prima and the image is colored in Copics.

Thanks for popping by! Be sure to go visit The Pink Elephant Blog to see all the wonderful, scrumptious creations.
Have a wonderful day!

Always Be Mine

Hi Friends!
Welcome to another fun Thursday and new Deconstructed Sketch for the week!

For my card I've used this dapper Ian. He's part of the "I Do" wedding set from The Greeting Farm. I've paired Ian with papers from Bo Bunny and mini rosette I made using the Tim Holtz die cut. Ian is colored in Copics. :)

Be sure and visit the other Deconstructed Sketch Girls and see how they were inspired by this week's sketch. Hope to see you playing along with us!!

Lovely Bride

Hi Friends!
It's time for another challenge over at The Pink Elephant! And this week all you have to do is use a WEDDING or ANNIVERSARY theme.

For my card I've used this sweet Anya Bride stamp from The Greeting Farm and paired her with Wedding papers from DCVW.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope that you'll join in on the fun this week over at The Pink Elephant Challenge Blog! Be sure and check out all the amazing color inspirations that Ella's Girls have for you!

A Sunshiny Day

Please scroll down for my By LORi Designs post or click HERE. Thanks!!


Hi There!
How are you on this fine Tuesday?
I hope your day is off to a great start!

I'm back with another fun Challenge for Claudia and Company.

This time Tanya has challenged us to create cards using a different kind of FOLD. I chose to make an easel card. Whoever came up with this fold originally is very clever, because I think it is such a cool idea and makes for a super fun gift of a card!

For this FUN FANCY FOLD Challenge, the DT has had a blast getting to showcase some of the fun papers that Claudia has in the store!
And the ones I've used on my card are from one of the brand new Lime Twist paper pads that My Mind's Eye just released (are you surprised that I've used MME?? lol).
I really wanted to showcase the papers in a fun way, so I decided to use Mojo Monday sketch #184, because it had lots of space for me to use several of the different patterned papers.
I've also used this cutie pie Ian from The Greeting Farm, along with a sentiment from Claudia's So Random sentiment collection.

I hope you'll join us for this challenge. I can't wait to see what you create! You can find the paper and stamps I've used for my card HERE in the Claudia and Company Store.

Be sure and check out what the rest of the DT have to share for the challenge that's "unfolding" today! (teehee) Thanks again for stopping by!

Piali
Jodi
Joy
Tanya
Taylor
Claudia

It's Love and It's the Wheel Deal

Hiya! Happy Friday!

Today I'm back with another AWESOME Farm Fresh Friday Challenge brought to you by The Greeting Farm. This week is another Fab sketch by Farmer Cindy! You can check out the sketch HERE, as well as all the FANTASTIC inspiration provided by the DT!!

For my card I've used Miss Anya and My Guy Ian from the brand new Later Sk8er set! I paired them with Cindy's sketch and Fancy Pants Rusted Sun paper! I LOVE IT and I love this cutie pie couple! I hope you like it too and I REALLY hope that you'll join in on the fun and play along.
Have a wonderful weekend and thanks SO MUCH for stopping by!

Happy Anniversary TGF!

It's Release Day at the FARM and we couldn't be more excited. This month marks The Greeting Farm's 2nd Birthday, so today we're having a BIG HUGE ALL CUSTOMER BLOG HOP, to celebrate this ANNIVERSARY in STYLE!! Be sure to check out the complete list of Blog Hop participant over at the TGF Blog! And join us for the live chat on PCP, going on 7pm-8pm cst. See ya there!

My card for today's celebration uses the NEW Flirty Anya!! And I thought I'd go for another fun element of Surprise with the sentiment on this one. It seems to fit Flirty Anya pretty well (sentiment from Inkadinkado and paper from MME).
AND today is the day where you can snatch up your very own Flirty Anya, as well as the other uber sweet stamps you've seen this week (Later Sk8er, Tuesday and Friday Creeper and Cupcake Anya Digi) over at the TGF store!

It's all in celebration of The Greeting Farm's 2nd Anniversary!! And what would be a party without gifts?? Of course there will be prizes along the way, so BE SURE to hit up all the stops along the hop and leave some love!! See you there!

SK8TING by with another PREVIEW

Hey everyone!
As promised, I'm back for another RAD preview from The Greeting Farm! We are SO excited to bring you another preview today, a new 4x6 sheet featuring Miss Anya AND My Guy Ian: "Later Sk8R." This adorable and hip new set will be available for purchase beginning on Sunday, August 1st! It's been a WHILE since we did either one of these beloved characters in rubber, so the BUZZ is all about the Farm!
Today we are also teaming up, Farmers and Team Anya alike for another sample soiree! And this time it's OUR turn to play along with Team Anya using a FABULOUS Saturday Sketch challenge by Pam!

Here's the sketch


Be sure to head on over to Club Anya & Friends for all the details of how to play along this week, and be sure to visit ALL the DT's blogs because ONE LUCKY COMMENTER on the Club Anya and Friend's blog today will WIN THIS SET!!!

Our awesome DT 'force' is waiting for you:

Tammy Maxvill
Kim Nath
Mary Giles
Mercy Kerin
Randi Wall
Cindy Haffner
Amy Young
Jessica Diedrich
Kelly Booth
Kim Costello
Kristy Young-Team Anya Aug Guest Designer
Pam Varnell
Traci Porter

Thanks again for stopping by today and we'll see you back TOMORROW NIGHT at 7pm CST for a one hour chat on PCP and our HUGE customer Blog Hop on the TGF blog! We cannot WAIT to celebrate TGF's second birthday with you!!!

Floss It!

Hello, Everyone! Happy Friday!
It's time for another Farm Fresh Friday Challenge, but before I get to that, I'd like to wish my Sweet Friend and TGF Creative Coordie JESSICA a very very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Love YOU JESS!


And in true TGF style, we're having a SURPRISE BLOG HOP today to celebrate and honor the Birthday Girl!! You should have arrived from PAM's BLOG, but if you didn't you can find a complete list of the blog hop order where the party starts over at the CA&F Blog!
Be SURE to start off there by leaving Jess some LOVE…because what’s a birthday without presents!! One lucky commenter will win Creeper Monday and Creeper Wednesday!! Winner will be announced Monday morning on the CA&F blog! Again, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Sweet Jessica!!

Next up on the hop is the talented Randi!!

And now for this week's FFF challenge. TGF has collaborated with all of your dentists to bring you the "don't forget to floss" challenge. Okay, okay, just kidding, it has nothing to do with going to the dentist, but it does have everything to do with FLOSS! The challenge this week is to incorporate embroidery floss into your card. And if you don't have embroidery floss at your finger tips, then no worries! Twine, yarn, cording, or anything else you can thread through will work!

My card for you today uses the beach baby Anya from the Sunshine Scrap Kit and has a fun birthday flair to celebrate my sweet friend, Jess! It even uses one of the sentiment stamps that Jess herself created! The paper and the balloons are from Echo Park Paper.

We hope you'll play along with us this week and have fun hoppin with us to celebrate Jessica! Also, don't forget to sign up for the TGF Anniversary HOP! Have fun and have a SUPER weekend!

Road Trip

Hi Friends!
How are you on this fine Tuesday? Things are good over here! I had a fabulous time with family over the weekend; celebrating Mom's Day. But, I didn't get to make a single card, if you can believe it! That definitely felt strange to me. LOL!
I'm back today though with a little cutie named Cuddle Anya! As you can see, the car is all packed and she's got her beloved teddy bear, because her and her family are going on a road trip! I'm not sure what the final destination is but it seems to me that since she's passing by Maine, Maryland and Florida that she should definitely pop in and visit some dear friends of mine. :)
I had a lot of fun with this card...sometimes I just can't help but think up a little story when I'm creating my card. Do you do that?

In other exciting news...The Greeting Farm is getting ready to release the much anticipated Roll Call set of Wild Sprouts on Saturday! So, starting tomorrow CA&F and the Farmers will be showing some sneaks! Be sure to stop by and check those out!
Have a wonderful day!

Especially Fleur You

Ice ice baby...vanilla...ice ice baby...
YES, I've had that song in my head ever since another fabulous and funny episode of Glee aired last night! Did you see it?? All I need to say is Olivia Newton John...this show totally Rocks!

My card for you today features Fleur Anya--NEW from The Greeting Farm. I LOVE this stamp!! It's so lovely and whimsical. And the title of my blog post comes c/o my dear friend Catherine, who came up with this sentiment several months ago when I was looking for one for another card (she was the winner of that little contest too). So, I thought it was oh-so fitting to describe today's Thank You card. I also used this week's Mojo Monday sketch for inspiration, even though I didn't stick to the exact layout.

And that's all for me today! I hope you have a wonderful day and are blessed in big and small ways!
Hugs, kadie

His and Hers

Hi Friends!
Before I get into showing my weekend project...I have a little announcement! I know you've all been waiting to hear who won the loot, so here goes!

The Grand prize winner of the Cosmo Cricket Paper, Buttons and choice of TGF stamp is....... (drumroll)........
Audrey---Country Mouse said...
Love this blog candy..crossing my fingers AND toes! My favorite paper is Cosmo Cricket, love the Material Girl line...cause I love scrapbooking AND sewing! I'm now a follower and linked your blog on my site:www.country-mouse.blogspot.comThanks for the chance to win!!!

AND the 3 runners up who will receive a little prize packet to include some of the favorite papers they mentioned are:
Anne----Craftyanny
Lisa-----GobeaGirl
Rachel---♥Rach♥
Congrats, Girlies! Please email me at kadieensley at yahoo dot com with your mailing addy.
And thanks SOOOO much to EVERYONE for your comments and support. I hope you'll all stick around too because I love to do blog candy and you never know when the next one will pop up! :)

SOooooooooo, many of you probably know there's this thing over at The Greeting Farm that's been going on called The TGF Royal Battle. It a customer contest and we've seen the most AMAZING, outstanding projects! The DT was told we could play along for fun if we wanted to, so Sparkle, Kim, Mary, Sandra and I formed a little team called the Holaback girls and we've been having a blast creating alongside everyone. This week it's getting down to the wire and customer competition and TALENT are totally Fierce!

The challenge this week was to use Traci Porter's his and her bookmarks as inspiration and create a His and Her project of your own. So, for mine I couldn't help but think of the division in interests between my sweet DH and I. If I had my choice all of my spare change would go to STAMPING and all of his would certainly go for a Harley Davidson. So I created His and Her savings jars...but as you can see...mine is doing a little better than his. LOL! He, of course, didn't think the display of unbalanced funds was as hilarious as I did. Awwww, well. :)

So, I have a question...what's your His and Hers jar? Or maybe it's a combined jar...something you're saving up together for? I'd love to hear!


AND I wanted to remind everyone that this is the last week to get your TGF CARES projects finished up and in the mail. It's such a great cause and I hope that you will consider participating! Pop over to the TGF blog for all the details.

Hope you all have a GREAT day!!

♥ the Earth

Hello, Friends!
Thanks for joining me on this Fine Friday! I'm back with another Farm Fresh Friday challenge from The Greeting Farm. And this week the challenge is "Going Green" in honor of Earth Day. That means you can use green literally, use recycled product, use live foliage, haha, whatever Green means to you!
For my card I'm celebrating Anya's inner environmentalist by using the color green, using one of the billion coffee sleeves from Starbucks I have saved and by showing that Anya loves being "green" just as much as anyone--she's sporting her I ♥ My Prius t-shirt. LOL! As I was making this card my husband came up to me and said, "wow, they really DO make a stamp for everything." I just laughed and then replied, "no, silly, I changed Stamping Anya's shirt to say that." haha
I hope you'll play along with us for this fun and environmentally friendly challenge. :)
Have a great weekend!
OH and before I go...WINNERS for my blog candy will be announced on MONDAY!! The response has been HUGE and I want to thank Everyone SO MUCH!

My Handy Man

Good Morning!
Today I have a tale of two Ians for you! Haha.
I started working with Handy Ian (from The Greeting Farm!) last night and upon finishing the coloring, I had a whim to give him a five o'clock shadow. But then I couldn't decide if I liked it or not. AND then...as I stared more and more I convinced myself the facial hair looked more and more like a disease rather than a bit of stubble. Ha! We're so hard on ourselves, aren't we! So, voila...I made two Ians. I think in the end I am more fond of the clean shaven Ian, so I'm glad that I second guessed myself. But just for kicks, I've also posted manly man Ian too. :)

I hope you have a WONDERFUL day today! I'll be back Thursday with a new Busy Beauties Challenge and I'll hope you'll join me for that!


Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Handy Ian
Paper: Cosmo Cricket Lil Man, Boyfriend, SU Real Red, Dusty Durango, Mat Stack Brights
Ink: Copics
Embies: Alphabet Stickers, Notebook Punch, Green Thread, Cosmo Cricket Tag, Sassafras Button

TGF Gets Scrappin

Hi!
Happy tax day! LOL!

Today I'm back with a really fun card. Did you know The Greeting Farm is starting to carry rubber scrapbook kits? They have been slowly getting their feet wet starting off with digi scrap kits and DT and now they're jumping in full force with the first ever rubber scrapbook kit and scrap page DT (with weekly challenges)!
I was lucky enough to get the Spotlight scrap kit in the preview sale and was beyond excited when it arrived in my mailbox last week! And as you can see, I've used my scrap set to make a card. For me there is really no separating the scrap vs the card supplies...I love it all and will use it ALL for either purpose!

The Spotlight scrap kit is available TODAY in the store, as well as a handful of AWESOME new Critter images. Be sure to stop by The Greeting Farm Blog to check out the AMAZING samples!! AND be ready to get your Scrap On because today is the FIRST scrapbook challenge!

I'll see you back here tomorrow with another Farm Fresh Friday! Until then, have a great day!

Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Spotlight Kit
Paper: Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety, PTI Blossoms & Vanilla CS, SU Red Ridinghood
Ink: Copics
Embies: Brown thread, Red Ridinghood Ribbon