"Snow and Cocoa" Inspired, p.2

Happy Friday farm friends, I'm on the TGF blog with another "Snow and Cocoa" inspired post. As you know, the Crate and Paper line is sooo cute with its pinks and blues but that also means that its really popular and sold out pratically every where.  Yesterday's project was inspired by a polr bear tag found in the ephemera pack.

Todays project was inpired by the whole line. I took elements from different pieces and used them as inspiration. I created 4 cards size 3x4 which I found  were the perfect size to play and experiment. Plus, they are perfect for a DD album or for project life. I used several greeting farm sets for this project. I like looking at all the smaller stamps on the sets because they can be used to create awesome mini projects.  I hope you found inspiration here and give it a go to create your own set. Happy weekend!

SUPPLIES

Holiday Stamp Sets: The Greeting Farm - "Dashing", "Sparkling Season", "Holiday Blessings", "Pop Out Christmas", "Ho Ho Holidays" and "Happy Winter"

Snow and Cocoa Inspired

Happy Thursday farm friends, I'm on the TGF bog with a "Snow and Cocoa" inspired post. The absolute super cute pink and colorful winter-christmas line released by Crate Paper has been very popular amongst us crafters and thus has been extremely hard to find. Everywhere I look, most of it is sold out and so I decided to be inspired by the line and by an  ephemera piece in particular. This greeting farm polar bear from the set "Let It Snow" was perfect to recreate the bear tag (seen in the top picture), I like a lot from the ephemera pack. 

I created my tags by: stamping the bear with black ink, creating a mask for the bear and applying it to the tag, using distress inks of various aqua shades and pink and then stamping the mini stars found on the stamp set. This doesn't require much coloring as the bear is stark white but you can opt for minor shading as I did.  These are quick, simple and great for mass production.  Now its your turn to give it a go. I hope it's snowing wherever you find yourself.

SUPPLIES

Stamp Set - The Greeting Farm: Let It Snow 

Distress Inks - Cracked Pistachio, Picked Rasberry, Tumbled Glass

Others -  Tag Pack (Joann), black marker

Quick Creations Holiday Hop

Happy Saturday! Over at Quick Creations., we are celebrating the holiday season with a blog hop featuring The Greeting Farm. Wow, thats going to be a lot of cuteness! You'll also have a chance at winning a prize, there are a just a few things to do to be eligible:

1. Leave a commnet on all stops (very important)

2. "Like" the quick creations facebook page here

3. Join the quick creation facebook group here

4. Follow the quick creations blog here
The deadline is 12/5

Ok, so my inspiration for you today is this cute polar bear having his morning coffee. He's getting caffeined up so he has enough energy to go terrorize the cute village behind him. Lol. 

Happy Hopping and Good Luck! 

SUPPLIES

Image - The Greeting Farm: "Let It Snow" set

Paper - Doodlebug Designs: "Polar Pals" 6x6. Strathmore Bristol. Recollections 110lb heavy stock.

Dies - Lawn Fawn: Small cross-stiched rectangles, Large stitched rectangles, Stitched hillside border

Medium - Prismacolor Pencils

Blog Hop Line Up

Quick Creations

Leah 

Rachel

Kelli

Jessie

Melanie 

Nikki

Indah

Rosemary

Jess (You are here)

Olivia 

Jeanette

Lameka

Mini Pony Party: Sending You Sparkles

Happy Sunday! I'm here today because there is a special post on the TGF blog featuring the Mini Pony Party set from STAMPtember. This stamp set is a real cutie and exclusive to the month long celebration that is currently happening at Simon Says Stamp. It's a big party every day over there so make sure to pop on over and order all the exclusive stamps that you can along with lots of TGF cuties.  Now onto my project....

I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest featuring penguins and snow and so I thought, why not pair the cute ponies and unicorns with elves getting ready for the big day (but of course having fun in the process). So here they are, getting ready for a big snowball fight. I wonder who will win. Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES

Stamp: The Greeting Farm - "Ho Ho Holidays" stamp set with matching dies, Mini Pony Party exclusive stamp set.

Medium: Prismacolor Pencils.

Dies: Lawn Fawn - Stitched Hillside Borders and Stitched Forest Border

September Release Preview Day 1: HOLIDAY IAN

Happy first day of Preview! Today we start showcasing the SEPTEMBER Release, which will be available for purchase at The Greeting Farm Store on Thursday, September 15. We have three new stamps coming out with their coordinating dies and they all revolve around Christmas time. Eeek!! It really is time to start creating your cards and making those lists. These will be cute additions to the previous Christmas sets that were released in July.

Today, we are previewing the first ever HOLIDAY IAN! WooHoo, Holiday Anya is now getting her own dashing guy ready to join her at all the upcoming holiday parties. Isn't he a cutie all bundle up? He's ready to snuggle his way into your heart.

Now its time to head over to the TGF Blog to see what the rest of the design team created for you. See you tomorrow for day 2. Don't forget we will also be having a New Release Blog Hop were 1 lucky person will win the entire release! Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES

Stamp: The Greeting Farm - "Holiday Ian" clear stamp

Medium: Prismacolor Pencils
Dies: Lawn Fawn -  stitched hillside, cross-stitched circles, cross-stitched rectangles

Just Because (Winter)

Hi Everyone.
I was testing myself to see if I could create a card in 30-60 minutes. I still can't seem to get there. I don't know where I'm going wrong, lol. Since my sister has started to make Christmas layouts, she got me into the spirit of it. So I decided to create a card that was inspired by my friend, her 3 kids & hubby. I was also trying to steer away from non-traditional colors but somehow I got sucked back into green and red. I should have used my crazy dp's. It would have brought life back to this card. Maybe that's where I go wrong. I take to long to choose the card stock, pattern paper, etc.

Picture 1: The front of the card. I originally had heat embossed the base of the card but i ruined it at the end so I had to chop it off, flip it over, scalloped it, inked it and then use it as my mat.

Picture 2: Closeup. I flocked all the snow people. Hopefully this picture gives you a glimpse of that. But I think it was a waste of time. I really don't think they needed it. They prob would have looked better had I gliterized them.

I am also entering this card into a couple of challenges:

My Pink Stamper - Winter Theme

Cricut Cardz - Use Scalloped Circles, Ovals, Squares, Etc

Paper Sundaes - Christmas in August

Thanks for stopping by/commenting!