Are You Ready to Rock?

Because it's RELEASE DAY at The Greeting Farm and we've got some awesome new stamps and a ROCKIN' Fun contest for you!!
The TGF blog, as well as the Club Anya & Friends blog have been previewing all the awesome new stamps this past week and they include: The Grandparents Set, Creeper Thursday, Fleur Anya and Cuddle Anya. And today you can get your hands on them! Check out the TGF blog for all the details...and see some more awesome samples.
My Release Day sample for you today is of Dear Old Grandpa from the Grandparents set.
He's so cute; I just want to pinch his cheeks.
I was also inspired by this layout that I kept seeing pop up this week and it is from Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge 66.

In addition to release day samples going on at the TGF blog and new stamps in the store, Club Anya & Friends have a NEW CONTEST UP and you're going to LOVE IT! It's round 2 of the Rockin' Rebel Contest!!! Go check out the blog to see how you can play and while you're there check out the FANTASTIC Rockin' DT Creations!!

I've created one too! The first time The Greeting Farm had the Rockin' Rebel contest, I decided to get "Simply Irresistable" and use Anya and Ian to recreate that legendary Robert Palmer video. Fun times!
This time though, the RR contest couldn't have come at a better time, because I'd already been working on something super fun! Ever since two things happened simultaneously----I saw this Unity "Glee" sentiment on my friend, Catherine's blog (and she was so sweet to let me borrow it!) and I came to the realization that Wild Sprout Ruby looked JUST LIKE the character Emma Pilsbury from the tv show "Glee," it has been my mission to try and create a "Glee" inspired card! And I totally think that show is Rockin,' soooooo I'm posting my creation today, in honor of the Rockin' Rebel contest! I hope you like it! I chose to do Will and Emma, but if anyone can come up with Mercedes and Kurt, I'd be so giddy with ummmm...GLEE!!! LOL!

Okay, enough talk, THANKS for stopping by and I hope you will have a blast playing along with this DT and customer favorite contest!! Have a wonderful May Day!!

Thursday for Friday

Are you thoroughly confused by my title? Remember the Creepers that Marie gave us a sneak peek of on the TGF blog a short while ago? Well, one of them is going to be released on May 1st and her name is Thursday!! I'm so so excited about these stamps (well, let's face it, I'm always excited about the new stamps) because they are sooooo cool, fresh, hip, and a change of pace, ya know?
So with that said, I'll also say Happy Friday!!

For this week's TGF Farm Fresh Friday the challenge is to use the above picture as inspiration. I'd say that's quite the boudoir! I think four poster beds are so elegant. I hope you'll be inspired by this pic too and join us for the challenge this week.
Be sure to stop by The Greeting Farm blog and check out the AMAZING samples by all the DT!
AND tomorrow is Release Day so please check back to see another sneakie peek. :)
See ya!

Grandma and Grandpa

Hello there!
I hope this post finds you doing well on this last Thursday in April. Today is the start of our May sneak peeks at The Greeting Farm! AND since it's also Thursday scrap layout day at TGF, I thought I'd combine the sweet sneak peek of the Grandparents stamp set with the scrap sketch challenge!
The Grandma and Grandpa set, which includes several sentiments and the flower box (shown here) will be available on MAY 1st at The Greeting Farm.
For inquiring minds, yes, this is a picture of my cutie pie grandparents! This picture was taking at my little sister's wedding this fall and I love how if you look closely you can see that they're holding hands. They've been married over 60 yrs and still holding hands...I LOVE it! :)
I hope you have a superb Thursday and I'll be back tomorrow with another TGF sneak peek.
Be sure and stop by the TGF blog to see what else the DT has cooked up today! AND as we bid a fond farewell to Farmer Cheryl, we welcome Mercy Kerin to the Farmer team!

Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Grandparents Set
Paper: My Mind's Eye, K & Company
Ink: Copics
Embies: Alphabet Stickers, Primas, Misc Button, Linen Thread, Jilly Bean Soup Ribbon

Sweet Sketch Wed with the BBB

Hi Friends!
This week the Busy Beauties Boutique is hosting TWO challenges, which makes for 2 more ways to get your hands on some BBB images! Woohoo!
I'm here to show you a card using the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge #47.
For this card, I've used BBB image TEA TIME (which also goes superbly with it's matching image Tea and Cookies). I had a lot of fun with this sketch and I hope you will play along too! Please check out the fabulous sketch examples created for your inspiration by the SSW DT, right HERE. And if you're up for one or two more challenges check out Penny's Challenges and the BBB creation station. Have a SWEET Wednesday!

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!

Busy Beauties Earth Day Mini Release

Hello and welcome to the Busy Beauties Welcoming Spring with a Twist & Shout!
We’ve got a “SPRING” in our step today and NEW Busy Beauties Boutique images in our hands--- and are delighted to have you along for the hop! If you are just starting out, please be sure to hop back to Carolyn’s blog so you don’t miss any of the fun! If you are arriving here from Karen's then you are right on track.

We hope you’ll join us for a TWIST & a SHOUT! The “TWIST” being our new GO GREEN WITH A TWIST Challenge (in honor of Earth Day) at the Busy Beauties Creation Station! And the “SHOUT” being a RELEASE PARTY over on Paper Craft Planet this SATURDAY AT 8 P.M. EDT. We'll bring the Party Favors! *wink, wink*

My first card for you today features a fantastic addition to the Alice series...the dancing flowers! This image is called Friendship Blooms and it is just beautiful!
My second card (posted slightly tardy) showcases TWO more awesome stamps: Spring Flowers and Wheelbarrow. Of course they are so lovely on their own, but for today I just couldn't resist pairing them up and placing them in the garden! You can find all images HERE at The Busy Beauties Boutique! Please note though that new releases won't be in the shop until our Release Party on Saturday. :)


Your next stop is Catherine's Blog! Thanks for bopping & hopping with us, and we hope to see you for the TWIST and SHOUT!

-CLOSED-Candy! Candy! Candy!

CLOSED-WINNERS ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY 4/26

Hello, Friends!

The drawing for this candy has ended and the Winners are posted HERE
BUT definitely check back soon, because the next candy posting will be right around the corner. :)

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

Using the Sketch Literally

Hello Everyone!
First off I just wanted to say how exciting it is that I'm meeting new people through the blog candy I'm offering. I truly appreciate all the comments and read them all. And while it's harder for me to visit every blog from the Candy drawing, I will try and visit all of you who leave comments on my cards. Thank you SO much!

AND now...for today's card!! It's Friday, so that means it's another Farm Fresh Friday challenge over at The Greeting Farm! Every Friday there is a challenge for customers to play in (and possibly win a prize). Some weeks it's a color challenge, some week's an inspiration or a theme and sometimes, like today, it's a FUN Sketch challenge!!
This week Farmer Mary has provided us with the sketch and if you've been over at the TGF blog already this morning and spied all the DT samples, then you'll notice that I literally USED this sketch! LOL! I just couldn't resist because Mary did such a fabulous job of shading the different elements in beautiful earth tones. I couldn't help but be inspired!
Wild Sprout DeeDee is the featured stamp on my card and my absolute favorite part of her to color is her HAIR! Such fun hair. Her outfit is adorable too! Okay, she's just plain ADORABLE altogether.

I do apologize for the lighting. My good camera is at work and for some reason I have a harder time with the lighting at my house than at work. So for that reason it may be harder to read the sentiment "hugs," which is from the O&A Buddies set (also TGF). There are a few more pics that I've added below. One shows that I layered up the sketch to give it dimension and add the stitching and another is a little bit clearer sentiment. :)

And that's what's going on over here on this FAB Friday!
I hope you all have a GREAT weekend!