TGF - Sing Hello

Last feature post for The Greeting Farm.  Today we are featuring Sing Hello and it's coordinating die.  I have lots of plans for this stamp set!  But today I made this little cup and it's holder and added one of the two super cute girl from the set.  I couldn't really add much to this holder since it's super small.  The holder measures 5x2 and the cup inside measures 3 inches high...super small huh?  LOL!  I just love it and I plan on giving these away...not sure to who but I'll be making a bunch of these cuties for the holidays. 

Stamp:
Sing Hello
Sing Hello coordinating dies

TGF - Let it Snow

I'm back with another TGF Feature.  Today we are featuring the stamp set Let it Snow along with it's coordinating die.  I knew exactly what I wanted to create with this stamp set as soon as I got it.  I love making this tea box to give away and thought the bear with the mug was just too perfect for it.  I usually give some yummy little lemon cakes with my tea box and will make a separate post on that when I'm ready to give it.  Like I mentioned in yesterday's blog, I am starting early for this Christmas!  Wish me luck!  LOL!  Onto my project...

Thanks for stopping by and please do check out The Greeting Farm blog for more inspirations!

Stamps:
Let it Snow
Let it Snow die cuts

TGF - Happy Winter

Hello!  Today me, Rosie and Joni are doing up a Stamp Feature of the new TGF release.  BTW, did you happen to check out the new goodies?  Aren't they adorable?!?!?!  I was super excited when I opened up my package and saw there were THREE photopolymer stamps WITH coordinating dies!  Today we are featuring Happy Winter!  I have started on my Christmas projects because I NEED to!  I always have plans to start my projects early but I always seem to run out of time.  Not this year!  LOL!  I'm laughing because I hope I can pull through this year.  Anyhow, here is my project for today's featured stamp set - Happy Winter and coordinating dies.  I can't tell you how this set and the other new releases has made my life easier!  First off, no more fussy cutting and second, it's super easy to color because they are a lot smaller than the other stamps.  So mass producing these will be super easy and fast!

Stamp:
Happy Winter
Happy Winter coordinating Dies

TGF Release and a Blog Hop!

Hey there!  Today The Greeting Farm is releasing three new stamps, each were exclusive stamps that are now available to you!  Woohoo!  Party Props Anya was part of the Insta Fun kit, Puppy Love was from the Super Secret Stamp Club (SSSC) number 7 and the super cute Totes Anya was included in our Grab Bag limited time offer this summer.  Now you can get your crafty little hands on these super adorable stamps!  Yeay for you!  (^_^)

To celebrate today's release Rosie, Joni and I created some cards to inspire you using the stamps...here are my cards:

For this card, I wanted to created that photo booth feel and even though it's simple...I think it hit the mark.

I initially wanted to create a bookmark using the Puppy Love but thought I'd make this as a card for my dh since I always have such a hard time coming up with masculine cards...

For my Totes Anya card, I wanted to include a gift card since it looks like she's shopping!  So I decided to keep it simple.  I used the new die from Ellen Hutson where you could hide a gift card underneath it.  I thought that was pretty clever!  Too bad I had to open it up so you could see how it works and why I chose to make it really simple.  I will definitely be recreating this card for my niece's bday next month .

 

Thanks for stopping by, please visit Rosie, Joni and The Greeting Farm blog, and leave a comment on each blog, one lucky person will win all three of these super adorable stamps!  You have until 11 PM CST!  Good luck!

Aloha!

I'm back with more CC (Coordinating Cutouts) for TGF.  Today we released Hula Anya, Simply Anya and Teacher Anya. 

I've decided to include a card I made using Hula Anya back before I had my electronic cutting machine.  Man, I can't believe I would cut the images out by hand!  So happy that TGF now offers these, they totally make me craft faster.  I usually cut a whole sheet of the image (which are included) stamp all at once and color their hairs (that and cutting would take me the longest)...  So when I'm ready to make a card, I just color their outfit to match whatever designer paper I use.  Easy peasy! (^_^)  Enjoy and I hope these help you as they have helped me!  Aloha!

Good Day!

I am back to share some layouts I created using The Greeting Farm's Print and Cut kits.  My first LO is a Daily Documenting page, this is from 2013...I found a few pages that weren't fully filled...so I thought I'd use some of the Berry Sweet Journal Cards and Summer Time Journal Cards in this LO.  I recolored the plumeria card (Berry Sweet JC) to coordinate with the picture.  Also recolored the Happy Halloween card (Summer JC) to give it more of a Halloween feel.  And I used the blue card with Fuji (Summer JC) and typed "Where's Robin?" get it?  LOL!  Lame, I know!

On my next project, I created a LO using elements from the Summer Time kit, and I created a card using a Berry Sweet JC, recolored and added the Summer words from the Summer Time kit.

As always, thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.  Please visit Corinne, Cynthia, and SuiLan's blog for more inspiration!  Have a great week!

More Summertime Kit and Journal Card Inspiration

Happy Monday!  The TGF Cut Team is back with more inspiration using the Summertime kit and Journal Cards.  Corinne has posted on the TGF blog, so be sure if you haven't already been there, please visit the TGF blog.

I decided to do two layouts...1st LO I decided to do a Daily Life document page...

This is actually a summer spread from 2012...yes folks, I'm still playing catch up with 2012, however 2013 is pretty much done and 2014 is almost current. Woohoo!  I used all journal and filler cards from the Summer Journal Card kit and the rainbow embellishment on the left corner from the Summertime kit.  I know you can't read the journal (because I barely can...it's super small...haha!)  This spread is basically the time my bff and her family visited and we went to the Safari Zoo and boy was it hot.  We couldn't stay the whole day because my God daughter almost passed out.  So we went and got some shaved ice (which is very close to the ones I'm used to in HI and Japan) and decided to do some free adventrues around San Diego.  We finally found the Munchkin homes that I have been hearing about since I first moved here in the mid 90's.  It was a fun little adventure.

Here's my second project.  I decided to do another page for my album.  I have tons of beach or summer time pictures thanks to living in HI.  We would always go out during sunset to take pics and we wanted to share the experience with my husband's cousins while they visited us in HI.  I believe my brother took this picture.  Love it and so glad we have these memories!  I used a bunch of different elements from the Summertime kit along with some from our very first kit Berry Sweet Print and Cut kits.

Thanks for stopping by, please stop by my fellow DT's blog...Corinne, Cynthia and SuiLan.  Kits are avail here.

Hello, hello!

It's another Monday and a Mini Release at the Farm!  Man, I can't believe it's already July!  I still can't believe how fast time flies!  Can you?  Yikes!

Well today the ever so talented Cut Team from The Greeting Farm has some gorgeous creations on the blog and on each of our own blogs.  Today we are releasing some new Journal Cards.  Which are perfect for your Daily Documenting, cards and layouts.  Even though they were based off of summer colors, I was able to use them in my March layouts.  As you know we basically have year round summers here in beautiful California!  Especially SoCal!  So these cards will be making several appearances on my Daily Documenting Album!  Oh before I forget, since these are essentially digital products, you can recolor and manipulate these cards to fit your needs!  Love digital for their never ending possibilities!

So before I bore you to death, let me post my creations!  First up is my card.  I made a super simple card since it's for a guy (you know they don't really care for your cards as much as the women do! LOL!).  I used the 6x4 Favorite Journal Card as my background,  the 3x4 Hello card as my second layer, Summertime Ian (included in the Summertime Kit), Banner  and Enjoy Life (also from the Summertime Kit).

Here is my Daily Documenting page.  Along with the Journal Cards I also used embellies from the Summertime Kit.  Blurred our the journal, I don't write well and in this particular page there were some personal information.  My page is simple, colorful and to the point.  That's how I like to document (^_^)  

Make sure to visit the TGF blog and my fellow Cut Team's  (Corinne, Cynthia and SuiLan) blogs for their creations!  Journal Cards are available here.

More Inspirations Using TGF's Berry Sweet Print and Cut and Berry Sweet Daily Life Kits

Hello Everyone!  Hoping everyone had an awesome Valentine's day/weekend!  Here at my house, we had a nice and quiet dinner with a Netflix move and on Saturday we celebrated my FIL's 84th birthday!

Speaking of Valentine's day, we at the Farm created a few inspiration for you.  This time we had no theme but to just create whatever our little hearts desired (^_^)  I made some 3x4 cards of each of the dogs for dh and a card with the both of them to give to the nieces since we'd be seeing them for my FIL's bday.  Check them out:

I of course created them digitally because well, I did these last minute as usual I was late! LOL!  I then printed them out and created matching envelopes.

For my next project I created a traditional layout 

I used both the Berry Sweet Print and Cut and the Berry Sweet Life Daily Life kits.   I used the banner, butterfly, cutie patootie, forever and you're cute from the BSPC.  All the journal cards from BSDL kit.  I also used the TGF's Snowflake Die which I absolutely love!

Ok, it's your turn!  TGF wants to see what you created using one or both of the kits!  One lucky person will be selected at random to receive their choice of an in-stock Single Rubber Stamp or a 4x6 set!  So please show us!

And before I end this blog post, please check out my fellow Guest DT's  Corinne and Jerodelle's work from even more inspiration!

Bling it Up on the TGF File Cut Monday

It's another Monday and I'm here to showcase my projects for TGF's Berry Sweet Cut and Print, and Berry Sweet Daily Life kits.  Today's theme was picked by Jerodelle, she chose Bling it UP!  I have to say I'm not into too many elements on my cards or layouts so this was definitely a challenge.  My first project is a scrapbook layout of Roxy.  I decided to do a digital layout to show how versatile this kit can be.  We must not forget about our digi scrappers!  If you didn't know, I am first and foremost a digital scrapper.  I love how you can manipulate everything in Photoshop but I also love the traditional way of scrapping and lately I've been scrapping that way oppose to digital scrapping.  I do miss digital scrapping so that's why I decided to do this layout to show the versatility of this kit.  As you can see, I used two of the 3x4 filler cards from the BS Daily Life kit, Kiss Kiss, Love You and Cutie Patootie tidbits from the BS Print and Cut kit.  I also added some sequins, glittered hearts, glitter and doily to the layout.  If you hadn't notice, my style is pretty clean and simple (95% of the time).  I then printed this out to 8x8 and I will mat it onto a 12x12 as soon as I figure out which paper to use.  But really my LOs usually look like this... 

My second project is a card using the Double Cupcake Anya which I believe was Limited Edition stamp.  I bling'd it up with some diamond bling on the butterfly, Anya's hair clip, on top of both cupcakes and three diamonds on the bottom right hand corner of the card.  As much as I wanted to totally bling up my card and LO, that's all my mind would allow me to do...lol!  I truly believe "Less is More".  What about you? 

 

Are you guys enjoying these kits?  Do you have any questions regarding the kit?  Please share with us your creations using this kit!  We would love to see them!  Who knows, you may win a prize!  As always thanks for stopping by!  Please check out the TGF blog and my fellow DT's blog for inspiration!

Corinne

Jerodelle

Masucline File Cut Monday and a Challenge at TGF

Hello everyone!  Thanks for stopping by.  Today me and the GDT Ladies from Farm were tasked to create two masculine projects using the Berry Sweet line.  I created a little Valentine's day card (you know, like the ones you'd get from school 3x4 size).  This fits perfectly in my mailbox that I created last week. I made an envelope along with it. I used one of the 3x4 journal cards from the Berry Sweet Daily Life kit, butterfly and cupcake from the Berry Sweet Cut and Print kit and the super cute Happy Chef Ian.

 On my 2nd project, I made a Treat box (inspired by Maria Bell).  The Treat box included hot cocoa and some yummy Hershey's Chocolate Nuggets which I wrapped with one of the 4x6 filler cards (was able to get 8 cuts) from the Berry Sweet Daily Life kit, the word Sweet is from the Berry Sweet Cut and Print kit and the super cute Beanie Ian which I thought fit perfectly with the box.

If you have any questions or would like to recreate this, please drop me a line!  And please check out the TGF blog because we got a challenge going on and if you are the lucky winner you get your choice of either a Single Stamp or one of the Berry Sweet Kits. 

Don't forget to stop by my fellow GDT girls:
Corrine Mercado
Jerodelle Trinidad

Happy crafty and please share with us your creations!

TGF File Cut Monday

We are starting a new post every Monday at the TGF Blog.  Today we are showcasing another Daily Life page and a Valentine Favor.  My first project is for my Daily Life page for 2013's Valentine spread (yes, I'm still playing catch up to both 2012 and 2013!  I am happy to report I am almost done on both!  Woohoo!)  For my Daily Life Album, I decided to go small since I wasn't documenting my everyday like I did with 2012.  I like this format so much better because it allowed me to document and not worry about too much of the details.  Not to say I do not like the 12x12 format because I love it and will be doing it this year.  Thinking of alternating on both sizes.  Anyhow, check out my layout:

My second project is a Mailbox which is bigger than I had anticipated but it's cute nonetheless (^_^), at least I thought so...lol! This box will hold all those cute Valentine goodies that you get from school!  I wish I created this back when I was in school...LOL! 

Anyhow, hope you like it and hope you got lots of ideas!  For more ideas, please check out my fellow DT members:  

Corinne

Jerodelle

To purchase these awesome kits click here.  Have an awesome week!

TGF Surprise Release!!

I am super excited to debut the follow up to the Berry Sweet Cut and Print Kit with the Berry Sweet Daily Life Kit! This kit features more daily life type files, like journal cards, cut tags and labels that still features our beloved sweet and cute TGF style!  The set consists of 12 - 3x4 cards, 4 - 6x4 cards, 2 cut tags, 11 labels and 16 ephemera's. This kit is not exclusive to scrappers alone.  When this line was created, it was created for card makers, scrappers, daily documenters, basically an all around versatile kit!   Pair it with the Berry Sweet Cut and file kit and there is not limit to how you can use it!

To give this "Berry Sweet" kit the proper welcome that it deserves, and to celebrate that we are branching out into something NEW, The Greeting Farm is PROUD to introduce an amazing new team of Guest Designers, please welcome:

Corinne Mercado

Jerodelle Trinidad

Claudette (that's me!)

Here are a couple of my projects:

 Decided to use Style Anya for this card, I thought it went well with the "Call Me" sentiment and I wanted to show you guys you can use any of the TGF stamps to go with this line. 

And finally, I decided to do a Valentine favor, after all, this is a Valentine kit (^_~)  I decided to do a print and cut on Berry Sweet Anya because, well, I was super tired and too lazy to piece it all together.  And that folks is the beauty of this kit.  You can choose to put all it piece by piece or you can do a print and cut.  Not only that, you can recolor these images to suit your needs! FTW (For the Win)!

Please stop by the blogs of these talented ladies to welcome them to the Farm and also be sure to stop by the TGF Blog today to view their other projects and a chance to WIN the "Berry Sweet Daily Document" kit!!! 

Here's an image of the kit: 

If you cannot wait, you can purchase the kit here.

TGF DT Call...more info

Hi everyone!  We are testing out another new line at The Greeting Farm and holding another Guest DT call.  If you love creating with TGF products, wish to participate as a DT member on an "as needed" basis (since this portion of the TGF is in a "testing phase") and wouldn't mind posting when required on the TGF blog and your own blog, this could be for you!

WHAT: We are looking to fill just 2-3 DT spots for 2014. If you're interested, please send 2-3 of your best TGF creations to Claudette.

Designers may be called upon to create special projects with new digis or other misc. releases, participate in contests, etc.

WHEN: NOW through Jan 5th, 2014. All applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 pm PST on the 5th. Applicants will be notified by the 12th and the "special kit" will be mailed out immediately to those chosen.

HOW: Submit 2-3 of your best TGF creations in an email including your blog address, why you'd like to be a TGF designer, and a little about yourself.

Please feel free to contact Claudette should you have any questions or concern.

DT Call...

Hi guys! How was your Thanksgiving?  Mine was great, we went home to my parents for a week and had a good time playing tourist.  Now I'm slowly getting back, trying to catch up and get ready for Christmas.  Can't believe it's 3 weeks away!  Yikes! LOL!

Anyhow, I am looking for 2 talented people to join the TGF family as Guest DT.  This is for our Berry Sweet Daily Life Kit.  If you are interested, please send me an email showcasing some of your daily life (Project Life type) layouts. Previews for this add-on kit will be in Jan.  Can't wait to see what you create!

Introducing Berry Sweet Print and Cut File

Hello!  Thanks for stopping by!  Today I'm introducing the Berry Sweet Print and Cut file from The Greeting Farm!

 

 Isn't it cute?!?!?!  This kit contains one Berry Sweet Anya and about 29 element pieces!  Berry Sweet Anya can be cut in a couple of ways...you could print and cut her or you could cut each individual layers.  The elements are all print and cut (which I absolutely love!) I'm sure you'll have loads of fun using this kit!  The beauty of it being digital is you could use this over and over!  You can purchase this kit now at The Greeting Farm store!

But before you head on over here are a couple of cards I made using the kit:

And don't forget to check out Aeryn's and Julie's blog for more inspiration! 

A Little Sneak...

...I've been ask to be a Guest Designer for The Greeting Farm's Berry Sweet Print and Cut file team.  Today is preview day on the Farm, so head on over there and check out what the DT has created!  Super cute cut files!  You can use your personal die cutting system (Silhouette, Cricut and whatever else is out there! LOL!) or you can cut the files with your handy dandy scissors (^_^)...today I'm just previewing some of the cut files, check out TGF tomorrow for Guest Designer's projects and for Farm Fresh Friday's Challenge! 

Aren't these cut files super duper cute?!?!!?  Also, be on the lookout as there will be something for those that do Project Life!