The Greeting Farm Birthday Anya Card…

February 27, 2018 Pam Sparks18 Comments

Hi everyone! Sharing a birthday card I made for one of our granddaughters that just turned 13! Hard to believe! They grow up so fast!

Birthday Anya was stamped in the MISTI with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers. I cut her out by hand…fun to visit my coloring and cutting days again!

So fun… I love coloring redheads…Lilli is one of our 7 grands with red hair! hehe She loves pink! She loves to make cards too…for her birthday she wanted Distress Ink mini ink pads…sure made it easy for grandma! lol

I love my days stamping/cardmaking with the grandkids. We had lots of fun making Valentines. I’ll share the ones I made soon…we’re late since our family party was just Sunday night.

The dies and stamps I used are linked below! Thanks for stopping by!

Memory Box / Open Studio – 30094… [ STR \| SSS ]	Poppystamps – 2002 Double Stitch… [ STR \| SSS ]	Birthday Anya 2 [ BRI ]
Open Studio dies – Stitched Heart… [ STR \| SSS ]	My Favorite Things BUNDLES OF… [ SSS ]	Copic Sketch Markers [ BLIC \| SSS ]
Ornamental Butterflies Clear Stamp… [ IMP ]	Memento – Tuxedo Black – full sized pad [ STR \| SSS \| SBC \| HLM \| BLT ]	Memento Tuxedo Black – reinker [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Machine – White and… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus Machine -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Express Machine… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Sizzix – Big Shot Accessory – Tool… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix Cutting Pads – standard [ STR \| SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix On the Edge Cutting Pads -… [ STR \| SSS \| SBC ]
Sizzix Big Shot Plus CUTTING PADS… [ SSS ]	Sizzix – Accessory – Cutting Pad,… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Extended Magnetic Platform… [ SBC ]
Sizzix – Accessory – Magnetic… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Sizzix – Big Shot Plus – Accessory -… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Retractable Paper Piercer / Pick -… [ STR \| HLM \| SSS \| BLT ]
Crystal Katana – placement tool by… [ STR \| SSS ]	Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE… [ SSS ]	Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz – 8.5 Inch… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]
EK Success – EK Tools – Small… [ SBC \| SSS ]	Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy [ STR \| SBC \| HLM \| BLT ]	Mini MISTI – Most Incredible Stamp… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]
MISTI Stamping Tool – The Most… [ SBC \| SSS \| HLM ]	Simon Says Accessories MISTI GRID… [ SSS ]	MISTI CREATIVE CORNERS Positioning… [ SSS \| HLM ]
Scor-Pal – Scor-Pal Eighths Measuring… [ SBC \| BLT ]	Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring… [ SSS \| JGG \| BLT ]	Scotch ATG – Adhesive Applicator Gun… [ SBC \| SSS ]
Scotch Adhesive Refill for Pink ATG… [ SBC ]	Ultrafine Tip Applicator Bottles 20ml… [ STR \| SSS ]	Lineco Neutral pH Adhesive – 4oz [ STR \| BLIC ]
Mono Multi Liquid Glue [ SBC \| STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLIC ]	adhesive pick-up square [ STR \| SBC \| BLT ]	Scotch 3/4 inch Double-Sided Foam… [ STR \| SSS ]
Foam Mounting Tape – Scotch – 12.5 feet [ STR \| BLT ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D 217 WHITE FOAM… [ SSS \| JGG \| BLT ]	Scrapbook Adhesives 3D FOAM SQUARES… [ SSS \| SBC \| JGG ]
Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE… [ SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D ADHESIVE… [ SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]	Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM ]
Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]	Avery Elle Stamp & Die Storage… [ STR \| SSS \| HLM \| BLT ]	Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH… [ SSS ]
X-Press White Blending Card 8.5″X11″… [ STR ]

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the ROYAL Battle continues…week #3

April 12, 2010April 12, 2010 Pam Sparks17 Comments

The Royal Battle, over at the Greeting Farm is a battle of teams, and depends entirely on VOTING. It goes like this: there are teams of three to five players. Each Wednesday a new Battle challenge is issued. One of the team members has to make a card to meet the Battle challenge. Folks have a chance to vote for three cards each week. The top half with the most votes moves to the next Battle. Each team member has to take one turn. Hopefully, we make it to the final round and a chance to win a big prize.
The team I am playing with is called the Card Sprouts…cool! The Greeting Farm has a line of stamps called the “Sprouts”. This week the challenge is to create a scrapbook page and it is Kim’s turn to play for our team! Twenty five teams playing this week and the cut happens Tuesday night at midnight…Twelve teams will carry on to next week! We need your vote!!! Here’s a link to Kim’s submission for the Card Sprouts! Leave a comment and that counts for a vote…for some reason some of the pictures aren’t showing up…you can see a closer picture of Kim’s page HERE, the last photo in the post. Hope you like it and vote for us!

I wanted to create a card for my post today using one of The Greeting Farm stamps that hadn’t seen ink yet! I love postal “things” so I had to have this mail carrier cutie!!! Her name is Bree. Our youngest daughter’s name is Breanna so then I really had to have her! I’m linking her up to Monday Mania on the Club Anya blog, the Pink Elephant Challenge blog – 1 image, 2 dies (standard circle and scallop circle), 3 of your favorite embellishment (three brads) and Stamp With Fun – a sketch.

Bree is inked with Memento Tuxedo Black ink
colored with Copic Sketch markers
pattern paper is My Little Shoebox , the green floral circle piece is Basic Grey
soft suede card-stock from Stampin Up for the mat
standard and scallop circle nestabilities
the postal images were stamped on the pattern paper with the Stamp a ma jig
edges inked with the ink blending tool
mini brads

Happy Monday and hope you can VOTE for the Card Sprouts entry this week! THANKS!

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All That Scraps Weekly Wed. Challenge…

March 31, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks30 Comments

Spring Bling is the challenge to us today at All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog!

I used C.C. Designs Sweet November Baby Bunnies Butterfly and a fence from the new Spring kit rubber stamps. Inked with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch markers.

Bunny & flowers Y32, 35, 38
Flowers R 21, 22, 24
Butterfly and flowers BV01, 11, 31
Fence E41, 43, 44
Grass G82, 85, 99
Hair E50, 53, 55, 57

My bits of bling are in the form of gemstones from Hero Arts for the flower centers and Stickles Frosted Lace glitter glue on the butterfly perched on Baby Bunny’s nose! I think the flowers scattered all over the background paper count for bling too! New Basic Grey 6×6 pattern paper and the bird border punch by Martha Stewart. Have Faith sentiment stamp is from a set by The Greeting Farm. I inked the edges with Bundled Sage and milled lavendar distress inks and the ink blending tool.

Check out the other Design team’s awesome creations on the challenge blog…. here’s what you’ll want to know to play along…

every week there is a new and exciting prize being offered
in order to be eligible to win, your card must include a stamp that is sold in the All That Scraps store. Whether it is any of our wonderful in house designs or from the various other stamp companies that ATS carries (Magnolia, Kraftin Kimmie, etc) the choice is yours.
be sure to link up your creation with Mr Linky by next Tuesday at 10pm est
Use the theme, “spring bling”
only one entry per person please!

Join the challenge and celebrate by creating Spring Bling on paper! So many awesome stamps to choose from!

I love linking to other challenges…get to be inspired by so many wonderful stampers. Here’s my list for this card…

Papertake Weekly – open (Tuesday)
Pile it on – Animal-Riffic (Saturday)
Sew Many Challenges – punch it (Thursday)
Stamp Simply – Easter (Thursday)
Flutter By Wednesday – (Wednesday)

Have fun and ‘preciate you coming by to visit!

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Thank YOU Very Much…

March 30, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Have you heard that there’s a Royal Battle going on over at The Greeting Farm? The Royal Battle is a battle of teams, and depends entirely on VOTING. It goes like this: there are teams of three to five players. Each Wednesday a new Battle challenge is issued. One of the team members has to make a card to meet the Battle challenge. Folks have a chance to vote for three cards each week. The top half with the most votes moves to the next Battle. Each team member has to take one turn. Hopefully, we make it to the final round and a chance to win a big prize.

The first week is to make a retro card – team member Lisa made the card this time for our group, the Card Sprouts! She did a great job, we would love your vote! You can cast your votes here (b/4 midnight tonight) by leaving a comment! So, I made this card to “thank you very much” for voting!

Anya from the Rain, Shine, Snow set by the Greeting Farm….colored with copic markers

Basic Grey Phoebe pattern paper…Martha Stewart border punch….button border from K&Co

Poodle is an All Night Media punch…Hero Arts gemstone …Hero Arts sentiment stamp

Some fun challenges I’m linking up to…

Secret Crafter Saturday challenge – Pink, Green and Flowers
Totally Papercrafts – Pink and Green (Friday)
Colour Create – Pastels (Thursday)

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you can get out and VOTE!

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Hope and Grace Snuggle….

February 27, 2010March 1, 2012 Pam Sparks16 Comments

Hope and Grace Snuggle is in stock now at 7KidsCollegeFund.com…. more info on my card here…Don’t forget the new Easter Collection from Magnolia pre-orders here…

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Great NEWS!

February 14, 2010August 6, 2013 Pam Sparks6 Comments

7KidsCollegeFund.com has added THE GREETING FARM stamps to their store! YAY! My links will take you there and just in case you’re wondering, THEY ARE IN STOCK!!!! Here are some cards I’ve created with the Anya stamps! I love these stamps they are so much fun to color & create with! The info for these cards should all be in the Greeting Farm category in my sidebar.. if not just holler at me with any questions.

From the Miss Anya collection…

Laundry, an ATC from the Hope and Grace Collection…

From the Miss Anya Dressy Collection…

From the Miss Anya Collection….

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Happy Birthday Ethan…

January 26, 2010February 14, 2010 Pam Sparks23 Comments

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One of the guys from the My Guy Ian set…

I’m entering it on the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge blog – the challenge is “POP UP”.

stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink
colored with copic sketch markers, shirt – G20’s, jeans – B90’s, hair – E13, 15, 17, 19
Hero Arts birthday background stamp
Stampin Up Sanded and plaid background stamps
Rubber Stampede grass stamp
Karen Foster Bike charm
EK Success circle punches – 1 1/4in and 1 3/8 in.
Adornments “play hard” twill
Bazzill card-stock “pear” and ink (leapfrog)
Bazzill teeny 1/16th brad

This is a free standing pop up card found on Splitcoast Stampers resource page here….

A close up of the charm…I partially closed the card. It does come all the way up to lay flat and fit in an A2 envelope! I really like this idea and think I’ll be using it again. You could really bling it up more for a girl and more for a boy too. This was just all I could come up with Sunday a.m.! lol

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Miss Anya all fine and fancy….

November 5, 2009February 14, 2010 Pam Sparks15 Comments

dressed for the holiday with a flower in her hair and probably mistletoe behind her back!!!! I LOVE how these embossing folders worked on this Bazzil cardstock! Two are from Stampin Up and the words from Sizzix but I think they are deeper than some or something! Anya is colored with copic sketch markers.

I used the sketch from The Farm Fresh Friday post on The Greeting Farm’s blog by Mercy.

She is so charming! I love coloring these images! Here’s a close up….

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Changing it up a bit…Fall ATC’s and Washday Blues!

October 9, 2009March 21, 2013 Pam Sparks23 Comments

Believe it or not, I do other things besides coloring “cute” images! lol Here are the Fall ATC’s from a seasons swap I’m doing with a few friends. The first one is mine and scroll down and the washday blues is mine. Over on the Saturday Spotlight challenge blog the challenge is to dress up a tree! I’m entering my tree atc…click the link to see lots of cool cards by their design team!

EEK! by Alice Hyde

Run, Jane, run by Jan Larson

Fall Fairy by Julia Ziemann

Then “just for fun” I had to do this laundry girl up as an atc… Washday Blues! She is colored with copic sketch markers.

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Pretty Miss Anya

September 3, 2009March 2, 2011 Pam Sparks17 Comments

more fun with copics, nestabilities dies, stamps and punches! Spellbinders, Martha Stewart, Punch Bunch, EK Success and a button brad from Making Memories.
Not sure what I’ll do with this card…Breanna thought she looked like a “call” girl… EEK!
I don’t usually do that style!!! I’m thinking she’s headed for a Summer birthday party. lol

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The trip of your dreams…

August 31, 2009March 4, 2013 Pam Sparks15 Comments

I don’t think about going anywhere very often, but I enjoy stamping about traveling! lol I used some 7 gypsies papers and a tag. The Anya shopping stamp is from The Greeting Farm…the trip of your dreams is a stamp from B Line Designs…I think the Post Card stamp is Inkadinkado. Anya is colored with copic sketch markers!

I suppose the real trip of my dreams would be stamp shopping and purchasing one of everything! But where to put it all would be a problem, so I better just be happy and I am! Internet shopping is so easy and the Greeting Farm has great stamps and more coming out soon!!!

Hope you’re enjoying a sunshiny day! It’s nice here in Iowa!

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Happy Anyaversary Blog Hop

August 1, 2009March 1, 2012 Pam Sparks52 Comments

Hope and Grace Snuggle – I like to call it Bunny Hugs!

Be sure to click to see all the dimension…lots of cutting and layering…tried to get it to show up in the photos!

I love the Anya stamps from the Greeting Farm and today on their Anyaversary they are introducing more new Anya’s and new images! I’ve been anxious to get this new to me Snuggle Bunny Sprout stamped up and colored and went ahead and did her not even thinking that an Anya would have been better! oh my mind!!! Anyway, I do have an Anya post here and she’s cool!

Here’s a little different angle shot of this snuggle bunny gal…love her and I’ll be posting more Anyas soon!

The pattern paper I used here is Girl Friday by Cosmo Cricket…oh HOW can two sheets of double sided paper have so many colors of pink in them! It was a challenge to decide which copics to use. I ended up using the R3 series. The flower is a Quickutz die and the button is from a Making Memories embellishment jar.

My inspiration for this card came from Mariska…a wonderful copic artist!

Thanks for “hopping” by! I appreciate it!

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Inky Impressions 2nd Design Team call…..

July 23, 2009March 1, 2012 Pam Sparks18 Comments

This call is open to everyone!! Click here to go to the Inky Impressions blog for all the particulars!

I just found out about this rubber stamp company yesterday and placed an order today! My submission is going to have to be a creation from another stamp company, since I’m so late finding out. I am looking forward to creating with the new stamps when they arrive! They are really cute, sweet girl images….

This card I’m submitting is Anya from the Greeting Farm. I’ve colored her multiple times with copic sketch markers and layered her hair, puffy sleeves, bow and basket of flowers. I chose this Basic Grey paper from a 6×6 pattern paper pad. The stamped sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Thank you looking and comments received are truly appreciated!

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Take good care…

June 14, 2009March 1, 2012 Pam Sparks12 Comments

I used the sketch from the Friday Sketchers challenge blog…an easy one to follow.

The background stamp is a Hero Arts stamp and so is the sentiment. Nestabilities oval dies and SU apple green ribbon…eek…a little on the bright side! lol The paper flowers are from Doodlebug.

The image is from the Rain, Snow, Shine Anya set from The Greeting Farm. She’s colored with copic sketch markers.

Here’s the sketch…