FFF Card

Hello! Before I will start talking about today’s card I would like to thank you all for the fantastic blog hop on Wednesday. Without you it would not be so much fun and I hope that enjoyed it as much as I did! Thank you!!!

Since it’s Friday it means it’s time for Farm Fresh Friday Challenge. This week we have a sketch for you to try by the very talented Jessica. Thank you Jessica for the inspiration! You all probably recognized the main character of the card – Hope from The Greeting Farm. This is one of my most favorite stamps even though they are all my favorites. Would you like to play with us this week – please, stop at The Greeting Farm blog for more inspiration, then create your card and upload it to the gallery!

Did you notice the colors of the card are red, white and blue? These are the colors for the 3 Clovers Thursday Challenge at Kerry’s blog. I will open you a secret, Kerry’s inspiration DT helped me a lot with creating this card. Thank you to everybody!

And thank you to all of you my dear readers and visitors. I always appreciate your time and comments,

 Elena

Supplies: card stock SU, DCWV DP, Hope and Grace stamp set from TGF, Boys will Boys (sentiment) from Artful INKables, Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, mini-brads hearts, ribbon

Hello and thank you for stopping by today!

I just wanted to let you know that Artful INKables is looking for new Design Team members. Kristin is looking for team members who are excited about stamping, and would love being a part of a fun and friendly design environment.  This call is open to everyone – even if you aren’t in the US or Canada you are more than welcome to apply! Even if you don’t have DT experience it is not a problem too.

For more details, please stop at Arftul INKables and why not to try yourself in new position and become an INK Girl!

Thank you,

Elena

HELLO and WELCOME to our FIRST EVER “Flyin’ with the Farm” BLOG HOP!

It's your turn!

We are super excited to be debuting FOUR NEW RELEASES and there are plenty of opportunities to WIN them, too!  If you are just starting out on my blog, be sure to head on over to The Greeting Farm’s blog to begin this fun Blog Hop!   If you are already in on all the fun, then thanks for coming over from Cheryl’s blog!

Look at this adorable flying piglet! He joined us for flying fun! Can you hear him: “It’s your turn!” I don’t think I will be brave enough to go up as high as him (I am afraid of heights), but I don’t mind to have so many colorful balloons as he has. To make this card I used the stamp set Fly Away - great sentiments and cute images! For the layout of this card I followed once again Amy’s sketch (I told you I love her sketches).

Edward

And now to the second project that represents new stamp Edward and new designer paper from TGF! I really enjoyed creating this charming young man card! I tried to color him as close as I could the the Edward from Twilight, even added some sparkle on his face. You can see only when it is bright and sunny, like in the book and movie. The layout of this card was inspired by the SC209 at Splitcoaststampers. And for the word I used a stamp from Arftul INKables.

As I wrote yesterday we have a ton of fun ways that you can WIN the new stamps, including a WORD SCRAMBLE for you!  Once you’ve completed today’s hop, you will have all the letters you need to spell descramble and spell out a VERY important word!  Once you know the answer, please email Jessica at yeahshestamps@gmail.com to let her know you’ve completed the blog hop and ONE lucky winner will be randomly selected to win Butterfly Wishes, her brand new stamp set with The Greeting Farm!

My clue for you today is the letter: R

In addition, we are thrilled to welcome our FOUR NEW SUMMER GARDENERS to The Greeting Farm family!  They, too, have some “candy” for you, so be sure to make it all the way to the end of today’s event!

I hope you enjoy today’s release party and have a splendid day “Flyin’ with the Farm!”  Releases are on sale now at The Greeting Farm’s website.  In addition, be sure to stop by the CLUB ANYA blog today as they have a surprise for you too!  There’s a new ALL-STAR in town and you WON’T want to miss him!

For now, your next stop is Jenn’s blog.  See you there and thanks for being a part of this fun event!

Elena

Sneak Peek

Hello My Friends! I just wanted to share with you wonderful news – tomorrow will be the very First release “Flying with The Farm” Blog Hop with The Greeting Farm!

The DT has tons of cute new stuff to show you, plus there are MANY prizes to be won during tomorrow’s event, which all starts on Marie’s blog at 9:00 a.m. CST!  You have all day to play, leave comments for prizes, etc. so no matter where you are “Flying” from, please join us! We will also have a fun game!  

Be sure to stop by Jessica’s blog today, too, for another chance to win the Butterfly Wishes set, which is also going to included in tomorrow’s GRAND PRIZE.

And here is a little sneak peek – now you can see why we have this name “Flying with the Farm”! It’s going to be a FANTASTIC Day of FLYING and FUN! 

Thank you for stopping by today! See you tomorrow where the fun begins!!!

Elena

FFF Challenge - Polka Dots

Hello and thank you for stopping by today! It is Friday already and it means it is time for Farm Fresh Friday fun-filled TGF Challenge. And the name of it is Dotty Spotty. Make card using polka dots and TGF stamps, upload it to the TGF Gallery (Dotty Spotty) till July the 1st and who knows maybe you will win a prize!

Here is my card. As you can see I used a polka dot paper and very cute stamp from Oh Baby stamp set. The inspiration for the layout came after visiting Amy’s beautiful blog. Her blog is fantastic! The sketch I used was created by Tammy Fielder – fabulous guest sketch designer!

For more inspiration, please stop at The Greeting Farm blog and I hope that you will join this fun too! We are very excited to see your polka dots.

Now it is time to put a dot and tell you thank you for your visit and your wonderful comments,

Elena

Happy Thursday My Friends! It is time for 3 Clovers Thursday Challenge today. And this week is a very unusual one – create a card that will tell where are you from? How fun is that! It can be a symbol of your city or town, or tradition, or maybe famous saying about your place. Thank you so much to Kerry, this really is a great challenge!

You probably already figured out just by looking at my card where I am from (originally). Russia! And here is a very famous Russian Wooden Doll (Матрешка). Of course I could make a card (I may will do it) with a cheese since I live in Wisconsin, but I wanted to make something that very dear to me – place where I was born and lived for a very long time.

The stamped image ( from Hero Arts)  is a gift from my Russian friend Anna. I finally made it into a card! Thank you so much my friend! The layout I used for the card is a MOJO Monday Sketch Week 88. Love this sketch!

If you would like to join us for this fun, please stop at Kerry’s blog for more inspiration! I am looking forward to see your cards and stories about the place that you live or a place that is very dear to you!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Thank you for your kind comments!

Hugs,

Elena (Лена)

Little Star

Hello! Today will be a very short post in my blogging history. You probably all tired of my talk… I made this card for Our Creative Corner Challenge. This week is all about stars.  I didn’t play with this adorable Super Star Anya yet, and lucky me she has star sunglasses. I added some dew drops, ribbon in the corners – and card was ready. It took me a long time to figure out what paper to use than making the whole card.

Thank you for stopping by today! And I hope you know how much your comments important to me!

Hugs,

Elena

Supplies: SU card stock, DP from my friend, dew drops, Super Star Anya from The Greeting Farm, Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, ribbon, Nestabilities

Happy Tuesday everybody! Today I would like to show two cards that were made for the Twilight Tuesday Challenge. This week it is sponsored by the Artful INKables and I am very excited to participate in it. The name of the challenge is Inspiration Challenge – What Says Twilight to you? “Many people often say that reading the Twilight saga has been life-changing. Please share how the saga has changed your own life or made you view life in a different way”.

As you can see I chose Bella’s quote from the last book:” Why am I covered in feathers”? I thought that was kind of a cute question. But this question brings us to the main idea of the last book. Bella and Renesmee, Mother and Daughter… First when I was reading the book, I didn’t understand Bella why she decided to have this baby (I was thinking of this Edward’s point of view). But then I changed my opinion. How would I behave being a woman and waiting for a child from a man that I love? I probably will do the same, that’s what you call maternal instinct. Sorry for some very deep philosophycal thoughts, but that is what I feel.

Almost forgot to tell the MOJO Monday Sketch inspired the layout of the first card.

My second card tells everything by itself. Vampire’s Baseball… That is one of my favorite action scenes (really liked how Alice was pitching); I liked it even more after watching a movie. That was a beautiful game; even though I am not a big fan of a sport. First I couldn’t get why did they play it only during the thunderstorm, but then… there is no way with all of their speeds and special abilities.  

That was my first try with a Twilight Tuesday Challenge, and I hope you liked what I did.  For both of the card I used new stamps from Artful INKables Into The Moonlight and Fictionally Inspired. If you would like to participate in this challenge, please stop at the Twilight Tuesday blog and join us!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! And thank you for your comments!

Elena

Hello! Thank you to everybody for good luck wishes to Sergei. We played two more games over the weekend, but didn’t win… The first one was a very tough one. The team we played was a little league pro-team. They had more experience of course, and lots of bad attitude (nose in the air). Yesterday was good game, even we lost (7:6). I think part of it was that kids were upset from previous loss.

My husband and me were helping with the selling stuff during the tournament (drinks and hot snacks). All of the money from this sales will go to the Recreation League. By the end of the tournament we were all tired.  

Since I started to talk about baseball, I wanted to show you card with a cute Batter Ian (The Greeting Farm). When I was making this card I was thinking about Sergei. He is famous for his “three foot doubles” in the games. You won’t believe but it helps with the score for the team! When he first made it all of the boys were cheering him and carrying him around. One boy told us that they call Sergei “Miracle”. And he is Our Little Miracle. Maybe one day he will make a home run and be one of the best players! You never know, right?

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a fantastic day!

Elena

FFF Challenge

Hello and Happy Saturday!

Today I have two cards to show. The first one is for the Farm Fresh Friday Challenge at The Greeting Farm – this week it is called 3 stamps. You need to create a card using at least 3 TGF stamps. It could be from different sets or the same set. Marie will have a challenge each Friday now, and I am looking forward for them. As you can see I used three different sets (Pretty Hat, Dress Me, Wardrobe #2 – Summer). The DP (gift from my friend) “whispered to me” what kind of dress to choose for Anya. Then I decided to ink up her purse… and why not to put a little puppy inside. One, two, three stamp sets and card was ready. Would you like to participate in this challenge also, please stop at The Greeting Farm blog for more details and join us this week!

3Clovers Thursday Challenge

My next card is very special to me. Can you see that it is one layer card! Hooray, victory, I made it! I would like to thank you Ida and Kerry who encouraged me and believed in me. And of course, thank to all of you my dear readers and visitors. Making this card I understood – never gave up, continue try until you would achieve what you wanted. One more word was like a magic for me too – practice. It worked! Of course not only magic, but beautiful stamps sets from Artful INKables (Into the Moonlight, Fictionally Inspired) made feel much better about myself. And now I can play No Layer Challenge too!

Today we will spend all day at the Baseball field, Sergei has a tournamet. Yesterday his team won with the score 21:5. Pretty good! Hope they will be lucky today too!

Thank you for stopping by today and spending some time with me! You know how much I appreciate all you words! and one more thing – You are the Best!

Elena