Sitting Cute with TGF!

Hello, my friends!

Today, I have a cute springtime card to share with you!

Since Spring has arrived, the air is warmer and the sun has been showing it's face, lately, in the Vancouver area.  That being said, I was in the mood to make something bright & cheery!

Here it is:

As some of you know, I once lived in Japan teaching English and still have some friends who I've kept in touch with all of these years.  Last summer, I went to Japan for nearly a month to visit old friends and do some sight-seeing that I never got to do while I lived there!  I stayed with my dear friend, Aya, that entire time and this card is for her!  She came out to visit me back in 2005, soon after I had moved back to Canada from Japan....and you never know, but, MAYBE (fingers crossed), this card will inspire her to visit me in Vancouver again!  It truly is an AMAZING city in a STUNNING province and there is still SO much that I have to show her!

Anyway, onto how I made the card....

It is pretty straight-forward but, I used the gal from The Greeting Farm's new Sitting Cute set which I coloured with Copics (Y21, Y23, Y26, E50, E51, E53, R00, R02, R24, R27, R29, B95, B97, B99).  The bench, which I paper-pieced with woodgrained patterned paper, is from Sitting Lovely!  I created a scene using Spellbinders Labels 17, Spellbinders Classic Circles, and the MFT Die-namics Fresh Cut Grass Die.  All of the patterned papers are from the MME On The Bright Side ONE 6x6 paper pad.  After assembling everything, I mounted it all on a card base cut from PTI Rustic White cardstock and I added a seam binding bow and fastened a button and tag (Spellbinders Tags Trio, sponged with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Crushed Olive) using some baker's twine in Maraschino from The Twinery.  The sentiment, from Flourishes Windows to the World, was originally one line but, to make it fit, I selectively inked it with SU! Classic Ink in Poppy Parade and stamped it in two lines instead.

Well, thank you SO much for stopping by....

I hope you enjoyed your stay!

Happy Stamping!

Naomi

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

March Madness with The Greeting Farm!

Hi, everyone!

So glad to be back with a FUN contest since we haven't done one in a while!

TGF and the SHOWCASE Farmers are excited to bring you...

MARCH MADNESS!

What IS March Madness?

For the next three weeks,  we'll be going "MAD" with a few different themes!  We will draw ONE RANDOM WINNER who completes ALL THREE THEMES and the prize?  

THREE SINGLES of choice or 1 single and 1 4x6 set!

But WAIT!  There's MORE!  In addition to the one random winner at the end of the 3 weeks, the DT will be choosing their "SECRET FAVES"...one from each of the THREE WEEKS.  You will all go MAD wondering who those secret faves are!

At the end of the contest, those THREE secret faves from each week's theme will be posted on our FACEBOOK page and YOU GUYS will vote to determine our MARCH MADNESS HATTER...and that is NOT a title that Jess gives up easily, LOL!

Our VOTED winner will also win THREE SINGLES of choice or 1 single and 1 4x6 set!

The three winners will be announced and voted on MARCH 28th beginning at 8am CST, so stay tuned!

CHALLENGE ISSUE DATES are as follows:

3.7-TODAY!

3.14

and 3.21

That's a WHOLE lotta TGF madness!

This week's theme is "MAD ABOUT YOU!"   Create a card or project that is lovey dovey.  Ready for some inspiration?

Here is what I came up with:

I used the new  Sitting Lovely stamp set from TGF...I am SO glad to finally see Anya sitting pretty!  I coloured her up with Copic Markers (Y21, Y23, Y26, E50, E51, E53, R30, RV00, RV10, RV11, R32, R35, R37, R39) and popped her up on top of a Spellbinders Classic Oval layered overtop of a Spellbinders Beaded Oval.  I used PTI Rustic White cardstock, papers from the Jillibean Soup Blossom Soup 6x6 Paper Pad and stamped the sentiment (from Flourishes) in SU! Cherry Cobbler Classic Ink.  I finished it all off with some Hug Snug Seam Binding in Winter White and a large adhesive pearl from Recollections.

Now...the nitty gritty...here are the RULES:

*You MUST use TGF Stamps (other sentiments ok, but characters/etc. must be TGF)

*Upload your creation to Splitcoaststampers using each week's different KEYWORD so that we can view your creations in ONE PLACE.

This week's "MAD ABOUT YOU" keyword is:  TGFMM1

Projects are due by the TUESDAY BEFORE the next theme is announced at 8pm CST, so this Tuesday, March 13th at 8pm CST!

We hope to see a LOT of you GOING MAD this month with The Greeting Farm!

Have fun, my hatters!

Supplies:

InLinkz.com