Old Skool Wrap Up...

WOW!

What a fun little contest that was.   I think we are going to start doing these contests on a semi-regular basis just to show our "Old Skool" TGF some love!  What do you guys think?

Congrats to EVA91!  You are the winner of the OLD SKOOL Challenge w/ this cute little counting book using Hope/Grace and McSplendid Farm:

Congrats, girl-you win the ENTIRE OCTOBER RELEASE!  Please email  Jess w/ your deets :)

Our runner up was StacyKoo with this cute medicine reminder using our VERY old skool Nurse Anya:

Congrats Stacy and thanks to ALL who played along.  SUCH a hard decision to make!  

Thanks again and see you tomorrow for RELEASE DAY here on the Farm!

Loungin' Around the Farm...

It's almost time...

....you've SEEN the previews.... you've heard the screaming....and now, here's just another little peek of what you can do with these ADORABLY CHIC and SASSY new "Miss Anyas" from The Greeting Farm:

Introducing: MISS ANYA LOUNGE

Designed by Mercy

Designed by Jessica

Designed by Kim

Designed by Randi

Designed by Melyssa

Designed by Tanya, our fabulous Oct. Guest Desiger:

These sassy chicks will be available at The Greeting Farm in JUST two days-October 1st, but there is ONE set hidden on a DT member's blog today!    So grab a cuppa somethin', sit back, relax and LOUNGE as you have a blast seeing the samples today! 

Kim Nath  

Randi Wall 

Melyssa Connolly 

Mercy Kerin 

Tanya Tahir-TGF October Guest

Tammy Maxvill 

Amber Hight

Jen Shults

Kristy Young 

Anna Maria Nilsson

Kim Yu-CA&F October Guest Designer!

Jessica Diedrich

Have a BLAST "loungin' around with the Farm today!  Winner will be announced tomorrow, right here on the TGF blog!   Also, without any further adieu, congrats to MELISA HORTIN and ROSA WITTEN!  You are the TWO WINNERs of the OLIVER/AMELIA SET "Just for You" from yesterday's "Hide and Sneak Peek" Hop!   Please email Jess w/ your addy's ;)  Thanks!

Last but not least, the OLD SKOOL winner will be announced this Thursday-sorry we had some 'difficulties" and also have blazin this week w/ previews and want to make it a special post!   Thanks for your patience!  We love y'all!

Hide and Sneak, everyone!...

t's a HIDE and SNEAK PEEK with TGF and CLUB ANYA & FRIENDS!

Hey everyone!  FALL is HERE!  Can you smell the apple pies, crisp leaves, and spiced cider?  Well we thought we'd SPICE things up for you indeed with a CHANCE TO WIN at the end of our "HIDE and SNEAK PEEK" with The Greeting Farm and Club Anya & Friends today!  First off-congrats to HEIDI BRAWLEY and ANNIE!  You are the winners of the Marina Neira digital images from yesterday!

It all starts here  and as you can see, Oliver and Amelia are REALLY having fun sneaking away from Marie and Jess and playing Hide and Seek!   Cute little buggers, we just couldn't seem to catch them for previews today...all we could catch were these little snippets...

However, we've heard through several sources that they've been spotted hanging out on the DT's blogs and well, we plan on catching them VERY soon!

Your mission?   HOP THE BLOGS and check out the NEW OLIVER & AMELIA set "Just for You!"    Here's the order of the Hop:

TGF Blog <--you are here!

Kim Nath 

Mary Giles 

Randi Wall 

Melyssa Connolly 

Mercy Kerin 

Tammy Maxvill 

Amber Hight

Jen Shults

Kristy Young 

Anna Maria Nilsson

Kim Yu-CA&F October Guest Designer!

Jessica Diedrich

back to Club Anya & Friends!

Oh-and here's the thing-because of the "DOUBLE TROUBLE" that these two have been causing, there will be TWO winners selected at random for participating in our "HIDE & SNEAK PEEK!"   BOTH will be announced tomorrow here and on the Club Anya & Friends Blog, so stay tuned and have a BLAST finding those two cuties...and seeing what the DT has put together today, JUST FOR YOU :)

What's NEW with the CREW?

Hey, everyone!

Today is an exciting day of more previews and announcements at The Greeting Farm, and this time the Critter-or shall I say -BOO CREW has some "spooktacular" new designs to show you.....AND some new DESIGNERS!

A HUGE welcome to MARGIE CORTINA and SAMMI BETBEDER!  They'll be joining our fun and fuzzy little world for the next few months and we are thrilled to have them with us :)

We've got some sweet eye candy here for you today-check out the latest releases for October 1st-Marlene Cauldron, Toby Pumpkin, Timmy Candycorn and, Ivy Witch :

Margie

Sammi

Jacquie

Shaela

Jenn

Tangii

Kristine

Linda

Be sure to stop by everyone on the Critter Crew's Blogs as well, because we are giving away not one, but TWO sets of the ENTIRE October digi collection by Marina.  All you have to do is leave a comment and we'll announce the winners tomorrow!

 

The Greeting Farm Blog <-you are her!

Jennifer Royal 

Jacquie Nordaune

Kristine Reynolds 

Linda Muhr 

Shaela Odd 

Margie Cortina

Sammi Betbeder

Tangii Crain

Thanks for stopping by today, and don't forget to meet me back here on October 1st when ALL of the new digis AND rubber stamps are available at The Greeting Farm!  Be sure to join us, too, for our FALL FESTIVAL of CHALLENGES on Friday, October 1st on the TGF Blog and for our release party and chat on Friday, 10/1 at 7pm CST on the TGF PCP page!   There's lots more fun planned as FALL is finally here!

It’s A Sketchy Preview Kind of Friday!

Hello everyone!
We have a little treat for you today on the TGF Blog as we are previewing one sweet little dude-that's right-ANOTHER brand new IAN has come to the farm, he's cute, coy, and CAFFEINATED!
Introducing:  CAFE IAN!
This tall drink o' water (or should we say, tall cuppa joe?) will be available on OCTOBER 1st along with the rest of the TGF sneak peeks you'll be seeing beginning next week!
For now, the Farmers have a special treat for you today using this week's FFF challenge, a sketch by Mercy:

We have a FUN announcement for you today here on the Farm-please welcome TANYA TAHIR as our October Guest Designer for TGF!  Tanya will be growing lots of fun , creative ideas with us over the next few weeks and we're happy to have her!  Be sure to head over to the Club Anya and Friend's blog today, too…there's a HUGE surprise waiting for you across our little Cafe that is sure to make you smile :)
We'll see you back on Tuesday with another TGF Preview, but be sure to stop back by the TGF Blog tomorrow, too for some CRITTER CREW previews and another ANNOUNCEMENT!!   Also:
Save the DATE!   On FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1st, our RELEASE PARTY goes live at 7pm CST on our PCP Chat Page, and also on the TGF Blog beginning with our Farm Fresh Friday challenges in the morning!   Yep, that was challenges!  We are having a FALL FESTIVAL of challenges that day for you!   There will be THREE different challenges-two for FFF and a speed challenge announced during the Release Day party that evening!  It all adds up to LOTS of chances to WIN!   Don't miss out!
Now for some inspiration from the Farmers and Critter Crew:

Mercy

Jessica

Melyssa

Kim

Tammy

Tanya Tahir (October TGF Guest)

Kristine Reynolds (CC)

Shaela Odd (CC)

Amber Hight (CC)

Linda Muhr (CC)

Tangii Crain (CC)

Jacquie Nordaune (CC)

 Last but not least, (Jess poppin in' just for a second here!) we have one more sketch card from a woman who we all know and love, our fellow Farmer, Mary Giles.  This will be Mary's last FFF as a Farmer and we will miss her more than words can express!  Not only is she one talented crafter, but she's a friend to EVERYONE and we love that about you, Mary!  Good luck on your next ventures through life and don't be a stranger!

That’s it for today!  Thanks for stopping by, and we’ll see you back here later! :)

Altered Notebook Contest

Greetings Friends! Today stampers, I have one of those out of the blue spontaneous not planned contests. ha! I loooove altered items so I thought this would be super fun! Also we will be requiring the winner(s) to send us the winning item for keeps. So if you can't bear to let any of your projects go, this is probably not the contest for you. Ok sooo... without further delaying......

ALTERED NOTEBOOK CONTEST

This cute notebook was made by the all talented Jodi Stanisch

Rules: Alter a notebook of any size. You can use an existing notebook to work off of OR create your own. Decorate and design the exterior/interior/pages using TGF images. Interior decorating is optional. Feel free to use embellishements, ribbons, buttons, tons of paper, whatever you like! Be creative and most of all, have fun!

Upload your altered notebooks to:

galleria > contests/challenges > altered notebook

Prize: $150 TGF gift certificate! This will come in handy since the holidays are coming up right?! 

Winners: We will be selecting up to 3 winning altered notebooks! Notebooks will be displayed at upcoming tradeshows. We do require all winners to mail in their notebooks to us prior to receiving their prize certificate.

Deadline: Friday Oct. 8th

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at thegreetingfarm@gmail.com

Ok so if you are up for it and I hope you are - unleash thy awesome creativeness!

Now in Digi form...

Hellllllo friends! How's it going in stamping land? Hoping everyone is well. :) Ok sooo I have been getting tons of emails asking me to re-release a few discontinued sets and though unfortunately I will not be re-releasing these designs, I thought I could offer it in digi form. I often state that I do not normally make rubber images into digis unless there was a high demand for it and.... well the demands came my friends and here are the images now available in digi form. You can get them in the store now in the new section: http://thegreetingfarm.com/new-products.html

the cuties from the discontinued Spooktacular set:

and this kissy kissy image from the discontinued Cake Topper set:

 

 There will be 5 links to download each of the spooktacular characters so make sure you download all 5. If you have any trouble, please let me know. I'm hoping to see plenty of cute Halloween stuff from everyone soon! Have a great day!

Today's question is: What would you like to dress up as for Halloween this year?

I usually don't dress up for Halloween although this year I think I would make a great round pumpkin.

Kickin' it OLD SKOOL w/ TGF...

"TGF is goin' OLD SCHOOL!  In honor of Back to School time, we thought we'd do a traditional "Back to School" challenge until Jess and Marie decided, why not go OLD SKOOL?

{{{PLEASE SCROLL DOWN for last week's FFF winner and the Halloween digi winners in a sep. post-thanks!}}}

So here's the deal.

In order to be considered truly OLD SCHOOL, it's easier to limit the stamps to what you cannot use vs. what you can:  You CANNOT use:

*Wild Sprouts

*Cheeky Cherry collection
*Twinkle Tots

*Oliver/Amelia Stamps

*Creepers or Creepy Cakes

*Any Anya AFTER the release of WILD WEST ANYA (Spring/Summer 09)

*Any Ian AFTER the releases of SKATER IAN (Spring 09)

*Miss Anyas/My Guy Ians

*Any Critter Crew images

*Grandparents/Darling Sisters

If you have specific questions, you can email Jessica at teamanya@gmail.com.  Please take note of the different email address JUST for these inquiries-I get so many emails that I just don't want to miss your questions!

Just think OLD SCHOOL.  Older the better :)

This contest will be opened for a few weeks.  The winner of this contest will be crowned OLD SCHOOL CHAMP and receive the ENTIRE October release along with an old, smelly pair of Converse All-Stars aka Chuck Taylors!! (ok, KIDDING on the latter prize!)

A runner up will ALSO win a 4x6 set of their choice!  This will be a random contest, but hey, why not a runner up too?  :)

The contest winner will be announced on Monday, September September 27th during a October Preview post.   That's a lot of time, so get busy and get OLD SCHOOL!   You have until Sunday, Sept 26th at 8pm CST to enter your card to TGF Galleria> Contests/Challenges>OLD SKOOL


....but for now, a little inspiration:

Jessica-using Panda Friends (retired)

Mercy-using Geisha Anya

Mary-using Angel Anya (altered slightly ;)

Tammy-using Nurse Anya

Kim-using original H/G set

Melyssa-using Forest Friends

Randi our resident Mermaid :)

Jennifer Royal (CC)

Jen Shults (CC)

 

Last but DEFINITELY not least, look at this adorable file folder from Shaela (CC)!  LOVE this!

(inside)

GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN!!!   Please take note once more of the LIST and only refer to it if you have questions about when somethign was released.    Thanks so much to ALL!!!