"SLEIGHBELLS RING...are YOU listenin'?"

Hello, Farm Friends!  It's hard to believe that in a few short months, we'll be twirling into Thanksgiving, caroling into Christmas, and putting some HEART in the HOLIDAYS!   While we don't want to rush any of the magical times ahead , we know that it takes time and energy to get a head start on those Holiday cards!

 

Today marks day one of a FIVE-day PREVIEW EVENT at The Greeting Farm, and we are thrilled to bring you our first sneak peek at a new CLEAR stamp set, simply titled "CLEAR CHRISTMAS!"  Before we get to previews, we have a SUPER special October Guest Designer to announce today!  Please welcome the amazingly sweet and talented LORI CRAIG  to our TGF family this month!   Lori's blog, "Make a Difference" is inspiring and from the heart, you'll definitely want to visit and we are over the moon that she is joining us this month. WELCOME. LORI!

 

So without further ado, here is my off-the-page project for today.....a CHRISTMAS BON-BON.

 

I've used Kraft wrapping paper to begin with, and stamped it all over with some of the snowflakes from today's new set. Unfortunately, it hasn't shown up too well in the photo. It was meant to be subtle, but not invisible! I've then decorated my project with more TGF stamps , and Echo Park christmas paper, that i have diecut using various shapes. I think my color combo will suit my Christmas lunch celebrations perfectly. I have only used four stamps from the Christmas set. There are way more in it, and i have already made a card too that i will save for another day.

 

Well, does that get you in the spirit, even though it's a little early?  We hope so!  Don't forget to check out the TGF BLOG today for MORE samples from the entire DT and a chance to WIN this set before it's released!  What's more?  We have a HUGE announcement coming on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1st during our RELEASE day post and you will NOT want to miss this one...promise!  Not only do we have a new release coming, a new Challenge Team coming October 1st...we have ONE more exciting announcement and it might just be our best one YET!  Thanks for stopping by today...I will definitely be back with more very soon!

 

Have a happy day,

 

Tracey.

BOHO ANYA

Here i am, quickly popping in to show you a thank-you card i made using Boho Anya from TGF. There was a tutorial on the copic oz blog showing how to color back hair and darker colored skin tones a little while back. I loved Kathy J's card so much that i used her sketch for this card. 

 

Make sure you check back later today for the very first October preview from The Greeting Farm. you won't want to miss it.

Thanks for stopping by,

Tracey.

FINALLY SOME CARDS

Hi there. Sorry I haven't been around much in the last couple of weeks. There has been way too much going on in my crazy life to even begin to explain, so let's just say, I'M BACK! Finally had a few hours in the house alone today, and bet you can guess where I headed. Yes, the scrap room, which by the way, is one BIG mess. I would take a photo, but it is way too embarrassing to show....maybe when I've cleaned it up a little.

So, I have 2 cards to share today. The first one is WS Logan. You know how sometimes you make a card and it turns out even better than you anticipated. Well, this is one of them. 

I stamped Logan onto Xpress blending card, paper-pieced his hoodie and colored him in copics. I then masked him off and added the splotchy TGF background stamp and the airbrushed background colors. I had a white doodlebug border strip, so decided to use my airbrush to make this match the background. I am really happy with the finished product. It was Father's Day here a couple of weeks ago. I have made this to give to DH (late, i know), but I like it so much i just may have to keep it, LOL.

I have followed Jen's deconstructed sketch this week. Check out her blog here. Here's her sketch, which I found really easy to follow. Think I might keep this one for future reference.

 

My other card is a remake of Cheeky Kitty. Sometimes I also make cards that I really am NOT happy with, and the Cheeky Kitty card from my very last post was one of these. So, today I decided to play a little, and I am much happier with the final product. 

Still not my favorite card, but you'd have to agree, it is much improved.

That's all for today. Back to my scrap room for a big tidy up and hopefully a few more cards. Thanks for stopping by,

Tracey. XO.

CHEEKY KITTY AND WOW WEDNESDAY

Today i'm showing a cute new CHEEKY digi that will be released in the TGF store on the 15th of September. Her name is Cheeky Kitty, and she is perfect for Halloween cards, but could also be used for lots of other occasions too, as i have done.

I have joined in the WOW challenge over at the farm fresh challenge blog. This week is a sketch challenge and here's the sketch.

And here's my Cheeky Kitty. It's the first time i've colored a Cheeky image, and i had lots of fun. Her outfit is colored in red spica so is quite glittery. Doesn't show up too well in the photo though.

 

Sketch challenges are always fun, so why don't you join in this week.

Have a great week,

Tracey XO.

KING ISLAND

I don't like to put personal things on my "creative" blog but sometimes you've just got to bend the rules. We have just returned from 3 days on King Island, a tiny Island approx 25 km wide by 65 km long in the middle of the Bass Strait (ie. between mainland Australia and Tasmania) We flew over in a TINY plane but it was definitely worth the extreme motion sickness to be reunited with annabel for a few days.

There were only a few set times for us to spend together and these included four hours saturday afternoon spent together. We travelled around the island taking in a few sights together including the Currie township, Cape Wickham Lighthouse, King Island Dairy, and Martha Lavinia beach. We were invited back to the campus Saturday evening for dinner, cooked by Annabel and her 6 housemates. They did a wonderful job.

Sunday's activities included an aquathon where all the students swam 480m then ran 2.4km i think. Following this, the students helped run the annual Grassy Wintermarket that they had baked all day Friday for. Once again they did a fabulous job and we were so proud of our beautiful girl, and all that she has achieved while on King Island.

Here are just a couple of pics.

 

I promise i will be back with a card tomorrow. (or maybe even earlier)

Tracey XO

MISS ANYA AND A WINNER

Firstly, thank you so very much to the lovely ladies who follow my blog and leave me lovely comments. I really do appreciate each and every comment so very much, so thank you all. But there can be only one winner, so i popped everyones name into a hat and picked out............................................

...........TRICIA!

Congrats Tricia. One blue haired LULA card coming your way. Could you please email me your mailing address so that i can send it out to you. My email is paley at netconnect dot com dot au.  

 

And of course it wouldn't be a blog post without a photo, so here's MISS ANYA BAGS with paper-piecing using my favorite fabric adhesive paper.

 

This card is for a special friend whose birthday is on Saturday. Hopefully she doesn't read my blog!

 

I'm off to King Island now to visit my Gorgeous 15 year old daughter who has been living there for 8 weeks for school. I am so excited about finally getting to see her again after SO long. I'm just not looking forward to the plane trip to get there! i think it's a 12 seater! Could even be smaller! It will definitely be worth it to see my girl though. Miss you Annabel.

CREEPER LULA GOES BLUE

As promised, i am back today with blue-haired lula made into a card. I hope you like it.......

I followed the sketch over at the deconstructed sketch this week. A super-easy sketch this week, which always speeds up my card-making process (thanks Jen!).

It's a little difficult to see in the photo, but there's a fair bit of sparkle going on. Lula has black spica on her necklace, buckles and eyes, and i have also used clear spica on the oval frame. I cut the beaded oval frame from my nestie in pink paper. I then left the die in place and airbrushed with orange copic. (YR12 i think) Finally i used my clear spica in the airbrush to give the orange beads a little sparkle!

As i mentioned yesterday, if you would like to be the someone special who receives my LULA CARD, then all you have to do is leave a comment on this blog post, and then become a follower of my blog if you are not already. Simple. I'd love you to tell me what you like about my blog, and/or what you would like to see more/less of, but any (nice) comments at all would be lovely. I will draw a random winner from your comments after 48hrs.

My one year "blogaversary" is coming up on the 11th of October, so i am busy putting together a big birthday blog candy! I'd love to aim for a magic number of followers, but not really sure what to aim for, so i guess i'll just wait and see. 

See you back here in 48hrs. Don't forget to check back, as i'll need the mailing address of the winner.

Thanks for popping in to say HI, and for all your lovely comments,

Tracey XO.