Follow that Bird-CLOSED

***CLOSED*** Thank you ALL so much for the FANTASTIC response!
Winner is the talented and lovely CLAUDIA ROSA
Mmmmm, does that title get you thinking about Christmas turkey? Or maybe Big Bird? Haha! Well, it's actually a lead-in for me to announce my Follower "Must Haves" Blog Candy!!!

This Holiday season I give many THANKS to God, my family, my wonderful friends and sistahs :) AND to all of the support my blog followers have provided. Without YOU, there would be no card blog for me. Your support and encouragement mean so much to me every day. And being able to go to your blogs and be inspired by your creativity is "home" to me as well. So, THANK YOU from the bottom, to the top of my heart!!

A little while back I surpassed 100 followers on my blog, which seemed incredibly mind blowing to me, and now I'm up to 163!! Wowsers! And I have been meaning to give away some candy to say thanks, and what better time than the season of thanksgiving and gift giving? :) A month ago I asked you to rattle off your list of must haves in card making...there are so many staples that we use on a daily basis! So with that list and a few additions of my own here is what is up for grabs in the MUST HAVES!!
*Tim Holtz Tonic Studios non-stick Scissors (a must have for trimming stamps!)
*Scotch Glue Stick
*Dimensional Tape
*Making Memories Paper Piercing Tool (I use this on every card I stitch on)
*Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad (a must have for Copic coloring)
*300 count package of Glue Dots
*Diamond Stickles
*Doodlebug "Oh Boy" buttons
*Making Memories Celery ribbon collection
*K & Company Ancestry ribbon
*Kaiser craft jewel dots
*Kaiser craft pearl dots
*Basic Grey Lemonade brads
*Basic Grey Eva 6x6 pad (a little BG is a DEF must have in your paper collection)
*K & Company Hopscotch paper pad (a little K&Co. is a DEF must have in your paper collection)
*Sweet & Sassy Stamps Encouragement Set (a few scripture stamps are a DEF must have)
*The Greeting Farm Twinkle Tot Madelynn (you have to have a Tot!)
*The Greeting Farm Cheer Anya (you have to have ANYA!)
*The Greeting Farm Wild Sprout Edward (you have to have a Sprout!!)
And a Craft Tote to hold it all!! (okay it doesn't hold All of it!)

Good luck to all and again THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
oh, LOL, what do you need to do for the candy? Be or become a follower! And if you already are then you're already entered in for a chance to win...you're the whole reason for the candy! (drawing will take place Dec. 15 and winner will be announced the next day).
Hugs and Merry Christmas!!

Simply Squared

Good Morning!
It's another Fabulous Friday and that means another Farm Fresh Friday at the Greeting Farm too! Today's FFF challenge is to KISS your card. :) Got that? Okay, go on, kiss it...okay, I mean K.I.S.S. it, as in Keep It Simply Shaped. That means NO nesties, NO die cuts, NO punches...
no cuttlebug? not sure on that one...Go check out the TGF blog for ALL the details and I hope you'll have as much fun making your card as I did with mine!
For my card I used ONLY my paper trimmer and my scissors and cut everything into squares. It wasn't much different than my other cards...I tend to use this linear pattern quite often. :) I also wanted to make sure I incorporated Christmas because I've just been feelin' that mood for the last few weeks! So I grabbed this Sweet Messages stamp, colored him up in Christmas red and green and gave him a scarf too! Instead of spying a bird in the air to chase after, he's noticing a present falling from the sky! Wahoo! I keep looking up in case one is falling from the sky for me too, but alas, none yet. Haha. I hope you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy working on your FFF cards! Also, don't forget about the Club Anya Holiday Blog Hop on Monday!! See ya there!

Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Sweet Messages, SU sentiment, present, scarf
Paper: The Greeting Farm Merry Merry, Red Ridinghood
Ink: Copics
Embies: White Thread, Piercing Tool

What's Cooking?

Helloooooo!
Wanna know's "what's cookin"? I've been meaning to tell you...
A few month's back my dear Dear friend and personal inspiration, Carolyn Bounds opened her own digi stamp company called the Busy Beauties Boutique. I was so SO excited for her in this endeavor and thrilled also that some more of my dear Dear Friendys had joined her design team. And now I'm ecstatic to announce that Carolyn has asked me and my sweet friend and stamping sister, Michelle to join the team as well! It's so exciting for me to see how God put us all on SCS together once upon a time and blessed us greatly with friendships...and continually blesses us and allows us to be a part of each other's lives and passions.
Thank you for having me, Carolyn, but most of all thank you for your friendship!
Here is a card I made using one of Carolyn's December stamps (I couldn't have an anouncement with out a card)!
There are SO many super cute digi stamps in her store and there are more to come in January!! Yipee! Check out what's in the Busy Beauties Shop right now! And how generous is this, Carolyn said you all can have this digi for free!! You Rock, Carolyn! Just grab it off this post! AWESOME!
Have a great day!!


Deets:
Stamps: Busy Beauties Boutique Potholder, October Afternoon sentiment
Paper: Cosmo Cricket Early Bird, Red Ridinghood, Curry
Ink: White Craft Pad, Black Stazon
Embies: Stamping Bella dots, White Thread

Fresh Brewed Hop

CHECK OUT THE HOP WINNERS HERE! Each of us had a free digi to give out and my winner is Jessica at The Whimsical Butterfly! Congrats!

Good Morning Friends!
Today Fresh Brewed Designs is having a Blog Hop to showcase their new releases and I'm so excited to be a part of it all! If you're just joining the Hop you can pop back here to Carolyn's blog where it all begins!
For my card I chose to use Guitar Girl. This image reminded me of when I first met DH and asked him to teach me to play the guitar. It has always been a desire of mine to learn to play...I need to get back to those lessons! These FBD images, designed by Heather (who is just the SWEETEST!) are all available in digi form and so fun to color up!
Thanks for stopping by today! Your last stop on the HOP is the talented Brew-ista herself, HEATHER

Here is the complete Hop list if you get lost along the way!
Carolyn
Stacy
Jenn R.
Mary G.
Callie Z.
LoRi Boyd
Hannah (LoRi's Daughter
Rhonda
Carol
Terri
Kelly
Carmen
Grace
Catherine
Kadie
Heather

Deets:
Stamps: Freshed Brewed Designs Guitar Girl, Papertrey Ink sentiment
Paper: October Afternoon, Cameo Coral
Ink: Copics, Tim Holtz Distress
Embies: Offray satin ribbon, Making Memories Buttons, Nesties, SU corner punch
Layout: Cased from the Fabulous Debbie Olson

Waiting and Wishing

Good Morning!
I have another cutie Marina Neira/TGF stamp for you today! This card used the new Outdoorsy set that was released on the 1st...hard to believe it's the 8th already!! Wow!
I had fun with this cutie card. To me it just looks like she's sitting there waiting and wishing... for what I'm not sure, that's up to you!
Thanks for stopping by today and I'll see you again tomorrow!

Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm, Outdoorsy by Marina Neira, Papertrey Ink sentiment
Paper: October Afternoon Farm Fresh
Ink: Copics
Embies: Offray sating ribbon, Fiskars circle cutter, decorative scissors, paper piercing tool, pink thread, making memories eyelet

Workin' Workin'

Hi Friends!!
Happy Monday! I'm sorry I'm late on my post this morning (needed to take a picture). I had a wonderful weekend...I got to chillax in my pj's a lot and DH went out to forage for food! Saturday night we snuggled up on the couch (Winston too) and watched 'White Christmas.' I LOVE that movie!
"Sisters...sisters...there were never such devoted sisters..." It's not hard to get those tunes stuck in my head. Alas, I didn't get to work on any Christmas cards this weekend but I did get to work on a few things! (stay tuned)
My card for today uses another new TGF stamp designed by Elizabeth. It's called Library Mouse. After coloring up this image and getting my card together I was trying to think of what sentiment would go well with him...and then I started thinking about studying...and college...and workin' hard...and then it came to me; an encouragement card! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and I'll see you back here tomorrow. I wanted to say a special thank you to those of you who have entered my blog candy. You comments blessed me SO much last week. Big Hugs!

Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Library Mouse, Papertrey Ink Mailbox Greetings sentiment
Paper: Basic Grey, October Afternoon, Soft Suede, Not Quite Navy, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Copics
Embies: SU Ribbon, Nesties, Bean Stalk Twine, Paper Distress Tool, Making Memories Eyelet, SU Scalloped Punch

Nature Lover

Hey Folks!
Today is another Fabulous Farm Fresh Friday Challenge and this week it's a color combo challenge!! Exciting, eh? I think so!

For my card today I used the chosen colors--Chocolate, Kiwi, Baja and White--but you don't have to use SU paper to play, just try and get your color combo as close as you can. As you can see I also used this cutie new Outdoorsey stamp! How could I resist?? :)
I hope you enjoy your weekend and have a blast with this challenge!!
Hugs, Kadie

Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Outdoorsey Set
Paper: October Afternoon Detours: Picnic Basket, Choc Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, White
Ink: Copics
Embies: SU Modern Label Punch, SU Choc Chip Ribbon, Basic Grey Button, White Thread

Christmas Blessings

Good Morning!
I can feel Christmas in the air! I didn't think I was excited before...my DH and I have talked about how things change a bit when you're an adult and still don't have kids. Christmas is just a little bit different and sometimes it's hard to get in the Christmasy mood. But I'm in it! Wahoo! I still don't think I'll put up the tree this year because we'll be out of town so much, but I'm definitely in the mood for making cards and wrapping gifts. Hopefully this mojo will stick with me so I can get the vast number of cards done that I want to!
Speaking of cards and Christmas and BLESSINGS...today's card is for a dear dear friend of mine who is my secret sister! This card was made especially for her, to send along with her secret sister gift! I can't wait for Jeanette, I mean Carol, I mean Paola, I mean Karen or was it Catherine or Kelly (???) to get this card in the mail! Yipee!!!!!! I love Christmas!

Deets:
Stamps: Magnolia Stamps Santa, Sweet & Sassy Stamps sentiment
Paper: Making Memories, Cranberry Crisp, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Copics, White Gel Pen
Embies: Nesties, SU Corner punch, Paper Piercing Tool, Tan Thread, Basic Grey Button, Ribbon

Sweet Message Hop!

Today is the December release over at The Greeting Farm and to celebrate, we're havin a Hop! Woot Woot! You may have relealized from all the sneaks that this is a HUGE release!! Just in time for the holidays, eh? :) AND included in this release are two new sets from designer Marina Neira. Our fabulous Guest Designer, Gabby has been previewing them all weekend!! Gabby, you rock! And Marina rocks too because she's giving EVERYONE a FREE digi today!!! Thanks so much, Marina!! Grab your free digi on the TGF blog.
So, to celebrate this huge release we're having a blog hop and the first stop is Gabby's blog where she'll be giving away both of these Marina Neira sets to one lucky winner! If you follow along through the hop you'll get entered to win the ENTIRE RELEASE!! That's 16 stamps! Wowee! But be sure and leave a comment back at the TGF blog to complete the hop officially.
If you didn't arrive here via Cindy's Blog today, then you'll want to start back at Gabby.
You're next stop is Kim's Blog. Have Fun!!

***Just a reminder that you must leave a comment on all the blogs in the HOP in order to be eligible for the Grand Prize! :)


Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Sweet Messages
Paper: October Afternoon Cherry Hill, Kiwi Kiss
Ink: Copics
Embies: Basic Grey Buttons, Nesties, SU Ribbon

Victorian Reader

Happy Monday to you! Hope you're recovering well from all that great eatin' this weekend! In case you didn't get enough rolls during the feast over the weekend...we're on a roll here with the sneak peek posts! bahahaha
If you received the Nov TGF newletter than you know we're welcoming another new stamp designer to the TGF family and her name is Elizabeth O. Dulemba. She will have 3 stamps available in rubber on Dec. first!
This card is made using Elizabeth's Victorian Reader. I had to really put myself in a different place and time for this card, especially after working with Friday's funky fresh Chibis! But once I got this beautiful image stamped out and put pen to paper I was transported to Sense and Sensibility...hope that shows in my card and I hope you're excited about these new stamps! Please stop by the other DT's blogs and check out the rest of the collection!
See you again tomorrow for a Sweet Message!

Deets:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Victorian Reader
Paper: SU! Cottage Wall, AC textured CS
Ink: Copics
Embies: Nesties, Basic Grey Lemonade Sticker, Brads, Celery satin ribbon, decorative scissors