A few "Sweet" Winners to announce!

Hey everyone!

Are you all drooling over that ADORABLE Witch shown below?   I know I am!  Can't wait til' those little cuties release!  Not too much longer!

I'm here to announce the winners of SWEET ANYA from our "Sweet Surprise" contest yesterday!  Congrats to:

Dee from Oklahoma!  You are the winner from Barbara's Blog!

Also, congrats to:  Sandra and Ola!

You both win Sweet Anya!  Congrats and thanks to all who participated in our "Sweet Surprise" hop yesterday!  

We will see you back here tomorrow for our Sweet September DT Release Day HOP and thereare MORE prizes to be won, of course :)  See you then!

xoxo
Jessica :)

Another Halloween Digi Preevie

Greetings friends. I hope today finds you all well. We are still deciding over the fabulous entries for the Guest slots and hopefully will be emailing the four chosen by the end of this week. Also there is no deadline for applying for guest design spots so feel free to send in your entries at any time.

I hope everyone is enjoying our previews for tomorrow's release! And also before it slips my mind, we were finally able to narrow down our Farm King & Queen entries and the crown goes to...... *drum roll please*

by Mari

I really love the concept of this card. Because you know, being the perfect couple, you really have to 'work' at it. meheehee. Ok Mari, email me at thegreetingfarm@gmail.com for your prize please!

And now for today, I'd like to show you guys the next cutie in the Halloween digis that will be releasing Sept 15th! And don't worry, I have some boy ones up my sleeves as well which I will be showing later. I know we having been showing much new Wild Sprouts lately so I figured this one will make up for it nicely...

Enjoy your Tuesday! Oh and I'm trying to compile a list of possible sentiment/phrases/words for a new word set so if there are specific ones that you'd like to see, please email them to me to consider at thegreetingfarm@gmail.com . I'm looking for words that are creative and words/phrases that you always wanted to use but could never find them in sets.

Today's question is: Would you rather cook or clean?

Being that I'm not the best cook in the world... I'm probably better off cleaning. Although I would rather choose cooking if I could make yummy foods.

Jessica will be back a little later to post the Winners from yesterday's Surprise Hop!  Until then...

SWEET Monday Surprise...

Hey everyone!

You've come to the right place to start today's FUN event!  We have a little surprise for all of you today-we are hoppin' along the Design Team's blogs and have a Special guest along for the ride w/ us today...and this is all IN ADDITION to the release day hop on WED!   We'll get to ALL the fun deets here in just a second.

Did you all happen to check out the Club Anya & Friends blog over the weekend to see the ADORABLE new "Oh, Boy" Ian previewed with the Saturday Sketch Challenge?   He's so cute!  If you haven't made it there yet, CA&F is the last stop today so you can check him out then too!

*** PLEASE SCROLL DOWN today too for a Critter Crew preview you WON'T want to miss! ***

AND NOW???   Well we've got a SUPER SWEET counterpart to show off to you today...

INTRODUCING...SWEET ANYA!

You may remember this little 'sweetie' from the Design-your-Anya contest a few months back!  Sweet Anya is the brainchild of Barbara Sproat, who just happens to be joining us today for today's preview!   Please check out her creation and leave her some love!  Without her, today wouldn't be as SWEET by any means :)

What's more?  Barbara is GIVING AWAY a SWEET ANYA to one lucky commenter on her blog today, so be sure to visit and tell her how SWEET her design is!

And while you're at it, hop on over to the other DT's blogs because there are TWO MORE Sweet Anyas hidden away somewhere and you JUST MIGHT WIN one!

Barbara Sproat-our VERY special guest!

Kim Nath

Mary Giles

Melyssa Connolly
Mercy Kerin

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  • Randi Wall
  • Amy Young 
  • Alice Wertz-September Guest CA&F
  • Kelly Booth
  • Kim Costello
  • Pam Varnell
  • Traci Porter
  • Jessica Diedrich
  • Club Anya & Friends Blog

We'll be back on Wednesday with our "SWEET SEPTEMBER" Blog Hop, including the winners of SWEET Anya and LOTS more fun, so see you there (it starts on the TGF Blog on WEDNESDAY!)!!!   For now, you have until 11:59PM CST TONIGHT to complete the hop (ends on the CA&F BLOG) and we'll announce the winners HERE tomorrow!

Enjoy the eye "Candy" today, too-it's DEFINITELY sweet!

Digi-SEE the cute new CRITTERS?

Hey everyone!

Thanks for scrolling down today for day 2 of our CRITTER CREW previews....digi miss day one? Well, the Critter Crew snuck a few ADORABLE previews in for last week's FFF but we thought we'd give you another little peek today before release day...and really, these three new digis are SOOO cute, I can barely stand it!

BETO Bouquet (kitty), DUCKY Rain, and HUEY Birdhouse will be scurrying onto the scene and released in Digi form on Wed. 9/1!

Until then, here's some cuteness that was just too cute not to creep out from around the corner:

Kristine

Jennifer R.

Amber

Jacquie

Tangii

Jen

Linda

Heather

Shaela

We'll see you back soon and be sure to enjoy our "SWEET SURPRISE" Monday above with The Greeting Farm!

Little Face time for a Prize....?

Hey peeps!

Sorry, Jess sneaking on for ONE more post today.

I just realized while posting the two awesome blog entries today to our TGF Facebook page that we are only a little over 100 fans away from 1,000!

So here's the deal... Tweet it, copy, paste it, Facebook it-whatever you have to do!   You have until 10pm CST TONIGHT!

IF we get to...1,000 Fans-I will choose 3 fans to win the 3 new Marina digis and post the winners on their walls and here :)

IF we get to 1,100 Fans-I will choose 3 winners for the 3 new digis PLUS give away a free single to one lucky winner and post it on their Facebook walls and here tomorrow, too!

IF we get to 1,250 Fans?  I will choose FIVE winners for the 3 new digis PLUS give away a free single to a lucky fan and post it on their Facebook walls that they won and also post here :)

IF we get to 1,500 fans?  I will choose FIVE winners for the Marina digis, give away a free single to one lucky winner, PLUS give away the ENTIRE SEPTEMBER RELEASE to a lucky Facebook fan and post it on their wall that they won plus here on the blog!

We can TOTALLY do this-I've seen fan pages grow overnight and SO CAN WE!

Good luck everyone!!!!

Holy Canoli Batman

I thinks I fixed the gallery. So all the images should be showing now.... I know that many of you were concerned why the thumbnails of your photos showed up but not the actual size photo when you click on it.... it should be solved now. Its like a huge boulder off my back. yeahhhhhhh!

In other words, if you haven't checked out Club Anya & Friends yet, make sure you do to see another cutie preview! Have a great weekend!

A SWEET and TOXIC FFF?...

Hey everyone!

SWEET SEPTEMBER is ALMOST here! You know what that means?

It's time for another Farm Fresh Friday challenge but we have a SPECIAL treat for you today...and it's just as SWEET as it is TOXIC??? Yep, you guessed it...we are previewing a BRAND NEW set "Sweet and Toxic" set to release this coming Wednesday, September 1st at The Greeting Farm!

EXCITED? Well, perhaps you'll be even MORE excited to know that some of our new CREEPER CREW friends are going to be released as 4x6 stamp sets WITH sentiments! How SWEET is that? You're probably noticing that all of this is just a LITTLE more sweet than toxic, huh?

Our CRITTER CREW also has some new previews for you today-we will be releasing THREE new digis on the 1st as well!

One more "bittersweet" announcement here on the TGF Farmer Front before we get into today's samples...today we sadly say a (bitter)SWEET goodbye to two of our dear, dear Farmers, Kadie and Cindy :( It's hard to believe these two beautiful souls have been Farmer's for a year already, isn't it? Parting is SWEET sorrow, indeed, and I'm not just saying that :( Here are their adorable cards playing along in their last FFF's as 'official' Farmers:

Kadie

Cindy

On behalf of Marie, Jess, and ALL of TGF, we say a SUPER DUPER Thank you to these two wonderful ladies and just KNOW that you'll never be FAR from the Farm! Best of luck and THANK YOU. for. EVERYTHING.

As for our little challenge today, here's the sketch:

here's how to play:

Upload your card/creation using Mercy's sketch to the TGF Galleria>Contests/Challenges>FFF>Mercy Sketch 8-27

The winner of this week's Farm Fresh Friday challenge will WIN the new "Sweet and Toxic" set! I'll see you back here on MONDAY with another SWEET preview, and this all leads up to our RELEASE DAY DT blog hop in which there will be prizes....LOTS of prizes :) Our "SWEET SEPTEMBER" DT Blog Hop on WED. 9/1 will include the Farmers, Team Anya, and our Critter Crew! We can't wait to hop into another fun filled month at TGF with you!

We'll see you back Monday with more previews, but for now, here's some inspiration from our amazing team of artists:

Mercy

Jessica

Kim

Randi

Mary

and our Critter Crew:

Shaela

Tangii

Linda

Jennifer R.

Jacquie

Kristine

Amber

Jen

Last but not least, congrats to KOOSTACY! You are the winner of last week's Farm Fresh Friday challenge! Please email Jess to claim your prize!

Well, we'll be back Monday with something SUPER cute to loook at...Until then...hope your day is a little less toxic, and a LOT more Sweet!

You Noah what I've been Thinking About?

Hey hey! It's early in the morning and I'm listening to 'Hey Soul Sister' by Train. Oh drat, that would've been a good lyric contest. Haha. Oh and I hope you guys are checking the Farmers Market to make sure that you haven't missed of those discontinued goodies.

So as most of you know, we are settling into our little house and next to the master bedroom is this super cute room with a pretty little window, totally perfect for my craft room... but alas it will be transformed into bean's room instead. But once bean becomes a teen, I will banish him/her into the basement bedroom and reclaim that room for my own. *evil laugh* Me and mum-in-law have been trying to decide about themes. I originally wanted boat and ducks but wondered if it was too 'boyish'... we are going to try to keep bean's gender a surprise. Ray wanted Noah's Ark theme which I think you can never go with. I mean, a boat with cute animals... must have. And THEN I saw the new My Mind's Eye paper, Alphabet Soup with the animals.... it was like a sign sent from Mt. Sinai! So then I went on a rampage looking for quilts and bedding and found this...

and the paper below (cute for invites and wall art!)

I think the main bedding colors are neutral enough for either boy or girl and bean will appreciate the bold colors of the animals. What do yall think? Although I think it is kinda sad that babies grow up so fast that this beautiful bedding will be packed away soon enough. Oh well... at least when bean grows up I can say 'see how much I love you, you didn't have to sleep in a shoe box like mama.' ha j/k.

Be sure to drop by tomorrow for exciting must-sees! Now... like hungry lions, bean and I will go scavenge the fridge for food... again. Fridge, freezer, pantry... no place is safe from us.

Today's question is: Have you seen or used any new paper that we must know about?

I just got the Echo Park paper... Walk in the Park. Looove it. And Summertime. I think it's called Summertime. Anyway, super cute!

Do di doooo...

Hiya Stampers! Thank you for all the awesome suggestions yesterday! There were a lot of rooting for specific costumes so I will definitely be doing my best to fill them and yes there shall be some Creepers in there as well. Actually you know, there is a very cool set coming out next week that would fill that spot as well. Just keep an eye out for the upcoming previews. :)

Oh and before I forget, remember there is Farmers Market tomorrow morning! hehe. I actually found a stash of old discontinued stuff that I will be putting on there as well so be sure to check it out in case it's a set that you've missed out on. :) Ahhh the things you find when you move...

A very cute card I discovered in the galleria today so I thought I'd share. It is a card by Tanya Tahir. Tanya is awfully good with layers and color coordinating ain't she?

I vow to start making cards again once I get a table. We had to toss the old coffee table since two of the legs were broken and being held together by masking tape. But not just any masking tape... washi tape! haahhaaha. Ok today is actually my day off from packaging stamps so I'm gonna doodle up some Halloween digis for you, my lovely friends. Stay creative!

Today's question is: What is your favorite TGF collection? (Anya, Wild Sprouts, Creepers...etc)

A Sizzling Sneak Peek

Happy Tuesday friends! Being that holidays are fast approaching, I thought I'd start working on some appropriate holiday images. As promised, here is a sneak peek at one of the upcoming Halloween digis that will be releasing in the the store soon. Anya is looking hot and sparkly for Hallow's Eve. TGF will NOT be releasing a rubber Halloween stamp set this year so I hope to make it up by having some super cute Spooky digis! You likey so far? I hope so!

Also keep the Guest Design entries coming! Remember to send them to thegreetingfarm@gmail.com . I will be contacting selected entries early next week.

 Thanks everyone! I hope everyone has a great day!

Today's question is: Any suggestions for cute Halloween digis?

Farm King & Queen challenge

Hello friends! I hope all yer weekend was a blast. We just got a grill from in-laws as a housewarming gift and fired it up last night. Grilled veggies, mmmmmmm. I feel like a rabbit. Been munching on lettuce and cucumbers like it's going out of fashion. Bean and I have been mostly relaxing this weekend, making xmas card boxes and we even tried to take a relaxing bubble bath which ended up not so relaxing. We have this tub in the master bath that is a jetted tub and it's pretty big, well at least to me since I am smurf-like. Anyway so I pour a regular cap of vanilla bubble bath into the water and it's bubbling nicely and me and Bean get in the tub (sitting, tub reaches top of my shoulders). I'm swishing around a bit, like a free-spirited water sprite and all is well. Then I turn the jets on. OMG, in like 2 seconds the bubbles were grew taller than my head. I'm trying to sit up straight but the pressure from the jets were pushing me in every which way and my smurf legs don't reach the other end of the tub so that I couldn't steady myself in that slippery tub of bubble hell. By this time legs, arms, and bubbles flying everywhere, trying to turn the jets off. Bubbles were still rising, and I mean RISING. FINALLY got the jets off, and I looking like the abominable snowman was able to slither out of the tub. I ended up taking a nice safe predictable shower instead. Next time I try for bubbles I am going in with a life jacket. Yeup so that was my weekend. ha.

On a drier note, I've been eyeing this gorgeous card by Ms Jen Shults for a while and I thought we would have a blast with a Farm King & Queen challenge!

Ain't it just gooooorgeous! So this is going to be so fun! I just love seen more than one character on a card or project. And also I think we have enough boy and girl stamps so that you can mix and match characters. So if you're ready to get glitzed up, read on ahead for the rules.

Farm King & Queen Challenge

What to do: Just make a card or project featuring a TGF couple! It could be fancy, or casual but we do want to see your couple looking super cute!

Upload your creation to the 

galleria > Contests/Challenges > Farm King & Queen

If you have trouble uploading, please email me the project to: thegreetingfarm@gmail.com

Deadline: Friday, Aug. 27th

Prize: The winner will be crowned the following week and get their choice of a free TGF stamp set.

I hope that you will play and we can hardly wait to see all the cute couple cards soon! Have a fab start of the week and I will see you here tomorrow with... dum dum dum... some sneak peeks of what's cooking in the studio.

Today's question is: Who do you usually make cards for?

For family members and then also just a bunch of random ones. hehe.

Greetings and Guest Designer Call

Hi Everyone! So I've been really slacking on the posts but I'm going to do better and start blogging again. Here's a photo of me and bean at 18.5 weeks. We are both doing well, just moving at a snail's pace though. Bean doesn't seem that big yet but I tell you, I struggle to go up the stairs every day. lol.

First things first. I realize that I do not have much card samples with washi tape on them online and I've had a few customers inquire about samples after they buy the tape. hahaha, I do the same thing. Buy the cute stuff and then find inspiration later. lol. But if you have any cards with washi tape on it, I would love to post some up in the store, blog, etc. Please email them to me at thegreetingfarm@gmail.com with the subject heading: Washi Tape Sample. Thank you!

2nd thing is... more than a handful has requested more Ian stamps and I am guilty of having neglected the little guy for the past few months. Also been getting several requests for a 'regular Ian', which I think means Ian without costume on since I usually have Ian in some kind of garb (sheriff, space, fireman...) so you will be seeing him soon as well.

3rd and most fun is that we are looking for guest designers again. So I am looking for some fresh faces here to guest for us! These will be one month stints and I'm looking to fill the next 4 months or so... so that's 4 farm fresh faces I need to find.

How to Apply for a Guest Design Slot

1. Simple! Just email me your blog url, 3 card samples, and why you'd like to guest design for TGF!

2. Email to thegreetingfarm@gmail.com , subject heading: Guest Design Call

That's all you gotta do. Easy right? So send away, Bean and I will wait eagerly as we snack on bags of rice cakes.

Today's question is: Anyone starting xmas cards yet?

Not I says the fly. Although I should soon. I also will be getting a xmas tree this year!!! Yeah!!!! I get to make popcorn balls now!

Digital Images: FYI and a Winner :)

Hey everyone,

Jess here again.  Before I get into today's post, congrats to THE BUG :)  Love your name, btw :)  YOU are the winner of the FREE DIGI contest from Thursday....I LOVE LOVE LOVED reading your comments and am definitely going to have to download some of those fun apps!  Thanks and if you ever find a super cool one-definitely email me-would LOVE to hear from my peeps!

The rest of this post I'm afraid, won't be as fun as the above...but I promise we will get BACK to fun w/ our Farm Fresh Friday post today...I LOVED today's colorful challenge.

***PLEASE SCROLL DOWN for our FABULOUS FFF post!***

I am writing to you all today on behalf of Marie and myself to discuss something not-so-pretty and I hate that I have to.

It has come to our attention that digital stamp sharing has increasingly become an issue lately, especially amongst some Challenge Blog and Store Blog DT's.  We have (sadly) confirmed that there are some teams and companies out there who are not only sharing Digital Images in a "DT folder" or a "digital download" community group but that also, there have been issues with stamping our RUBBER images and scanning them as digis as well.

Marie and I discussed this issue at length last night and after careful consideration decided to post about it.  While we won't mention any names, there are some emails going out today to these groups and we are hopeful that they will do the right thing and put an end to it amicably and responsibly.

We realize that digital images are very easy to share, but also, as you all well know, it is pretty much plastered all over the website and other companies' sites as well that digital downloads are not to be reproduced, shared, or stolen.  This is copyright infringement and is to be taken seriously, especially when shared on public groups such as Yahoo and Google groups.  It is also very clear that stamping rubber images and copying them for non-personal (meaning you and you alone) use violates our Angel policy.

Marie would love to continue providing digital images to our wonderful and loyal TGF Customers, and we'd also hate to think that because of a few sour grapes, that the whole bunch would have to be affected if we decided to no longer carry them as part of our line.   The purpose of this email is to inform you and remind everyone what the rules are so that we can diminish further issues in the future.   We are also  happy to answer any questions directly-just email me (Jess) and we will be happy to discuss with you.  

Digital images are SUPER fun, easy to manipulate in size, and less costly than Rubber images, obviously.  We also love that they provide instant gratification to you guys because well, we think you're all pretty nifty :)   We hope to be able to continue providing you digital images by TGF, so long as we see a resolve and reduction of these issues.

Thanks for reading this and ugh, we don't like the "ugh".  We grow SMILES and BRIGHT DAYS on the Farm and will definitely continue to do so.  Thanks for your support of everything we do here at TGF...we do it for you :)

Sending all of you hopeful hugs and smiles,
Jessica and Marie xoxo

Colour Me Farm Fresh!

Hi all, Melyssa here and it’s my turn to host this week’s TGF Challenge!

ETA: The winner of yesterday's digi contest will be announced later this morning with an important announcement.  Thank you.
I hope you like colour because that is exactly what this Farm Fresh challenge is all about.
Hawaiian Shores, Tangerine Tango, and Kiwi Kiss to be exact. Don’t worry if you don’t have these specific colours, (I don’t) so use anything version of Blue, orange and green you have on hand.
Here's the colour combo:

To give you a jump start on your mojo here are some cards the Design Teams have created...

Tammy

Jacquie

Kadie

Mary

Linda

Cindy

Shaela

Kim

Kristine

Jessica

Heather

Mercy

Jen

Tangii

Melyssa

Want to play along?
Upload your card or creation to TGF Galleria>Contests/Challenges>FFF>8-20 Color Challenge

You have until Wednesday, August 25th to enter your card and be eligible to WIN your choice of Creeper Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday!

And on that note, congrats to: MARGO!  You are the winner of last week's Number's Challenge!  Please email Jess to claim your prize!  Here is her adorable winning card using Grandparents:

Have a great weekend everyone!
Need new Anya's?? Then stop on by The Greeting Farm, they have new images EVERY month!!