Craftymummy2five

Monday, November 1, 2010

TGF Release Day Blog Hop!

If you're here for the Mad For Markers Blog Hop then please scroll down as this is my 2nd post for today!

Hello everyone!

November is here and we are bringing you a cozy "Release Day" Blog Hop today with The Greeting Farm!

Whether you're snuggled up with your honey in your favorite sweater by a fireplace, set out for your favorite coffee shop to visit with Beanie Anya, or snowboarding with Toby Cub, the theme is COZY and RELAXED this month...or , perhaps you're preparing something 'cheeky" under the tree for your honey? It's never too early to start that shopping, right? ;)

Today, however, we want you to sit back, grab a cuppa tea or hot cocoa and enjoy our little DT hop! Let's get started, shall we?

Today I used Cheeky Christmas on my card, isn't she just Gorgeous! I can see a lot of Cheeky Cards going out this Christmas...hehe!

Well, I hope you enjoyed it, as it's just one of THREE rubber releases and THREE new digis from the Critter Crew! Everything is available now in the TGF Store and we can't wait to see what YOU create with these comfy, cozy cuties!

Now it's time to visit the next stop on the hop! If you're just arriving now to my blog, be sure to start on the TGF Blog, and enjoy the rest of the order today:

Enjoy each and every stop along the way and WAIT! There's more! After all, it wouldn't be a blog hop without PRIZES, right? ONE lucky winner will receive the ENTIRE NOVEMBER RELEASE, including the THREE digis, just for completing each stop along the blog hop and leaving a comment at the end-on the Club Anya & Friends blog! Winner will be announced Tuesday morning-so you have until 11:59pm CST to enter! GOOD LUCK!

See you soon, Farm Friends! Stay warm and cozy and enjoy the November releases!

Mad For Markers 1st Blog Hop!

Good morning Copic Lovers, We are having our first ever Mad for Markers blog hop. If you have come here from Michelle’s blog then you are on the right track… if not then please hop on over to www.madformarkers.blogspot.com to start this fun hop.

Firstly we would like to say a HUGE THANKS to the departing Design team ladies… Sue, Louise and Tracy have been wonderful members of the Mad for Markers Design team and it’s with sadness that we say farewell! Please pop by their blogs and give them some love and lots of Thanks for all the gorgeous inspiration they’ve shared with us all using Copic markers!

And we would like to give a very warm welcome to the new team and we are so very excited to have them on board…. You are going to love seeing their work which of course you will see as you are hopping…. you can also take a little detour to read more about the new team HERE.

Another little bit of news is that we now have a separate challenge blog – as of today (you will finish the hop there!) We have lots of FUN things in store for you here on the existing blog (stay tuned) and we have some great challenges lined up for you on the new Mad for Markers challenge blog ... with daily inspiration coming from our wonderful new team!

Make sure to leave all the Girls some love along the way and become a follower of the new challenge blog to be in the running to win a Prize Pack, which consists of 3 Copics, 1 multiliner, a small pack of Neenah and XPress It blending card, plus a small sheet of X Press It Mask It Paper. There will also be a couple of random winners chosen along the way.

So Enough chattering… HERE is my project I am sharing with you today…

Copic Colors Used:

Hair - E31, E35, E39, E79, 0

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R20

Clothes - BG78, BG75, BG72, R59, R37, R35, R32, E44, E43, E42, E41

Background - BG10, BG000, 0

I have been wanting to play with my new Magnolia club kit since it came a couple of weeks ago, but I just haven't found the time, well last week I saw a couple of gorgeous cards done by the amazing Kylie using these gorgeous images and I knew that I had to mount mine up. Thanks for the nudge Kylie!

Thanks for hopping by - now please hop on over to Melissa's blog.

BLOG HOP order

Mad for Markers blog

Cassandra - http://cassiesscraps.blogspot.com/

Marcia - http://marciapringle.blogspot.com/

Alicia - http://alicia-timetocreate.blogspot.com/

Annette - http://mypommiepurplepatch.blogspot.com/

Suzanne - http://justlovestamping.blogspot.com

Sheree - http://sheree412.blogspot.com/

Michelle - http://michelle-pinkpaperparadise.blogspot.com

Emma - http://craftymummy2five.blogspot.com/

Melissa - http://melsartjourney.blogspot.com/

Tracey - http://booyagirl.blogspot.com/

Mel B - http://youandmeplustwo.blogspot.com/

Linda - http://lindasplaceofcraft.blogspot.com/

Rach - http://thewrightscrap.blogspot.com/

Sammi – http://www.stuffbysammi.blogspot.com

Mad for Markers challenge blog

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Introducing - I heart Sweaters!

Our Final Preview for you today is one that has already become my personal favourite! They are both soooo adorable and will be available for you to get your own on Monday the 1st of November.

We are so lucky today to be introducing you to our last preview 'I heart Sweaters' while we play along with the Club Anya Girls for their Saturday Sketch. Make sure to play along with us this week!

Ok so it is with huge excitment that I intoduce you to 'I Heart Sweaters'. Now I have to let you in on a little secret as to why this has become my favourite of these new releases! Last week was my 10th wedding anniversary and this is the card I made for my Amazing Husband! Anya and Ian have been colored to look like me and hubby, hence the red and blonde hair! We had an amazing night out to dinner with a very big suprise that I will show you at the bottom of the post! Hope you like the card!

Copic Colors Used:

Anya

Boots - E37, E35, E33

Jeans - BG78, BG75, BG72

Hair - E08, YR07, YR04, YR02, YR00

Scarf - W9, W7, W5, W3, W1

Jumper - E44, E43, E42, E41

Ian

Boots - E37, E35, E33

Jeans - BG78, BG75, BG72

Jumper - B99, B97, B93, B91, YG97, YG95, YG93, E44, E43

Scarf - W9, W7, W5, W3, W1

Hair - E53, E51, E50

Make sure to let us know what you think of our newest preview over on the Club Anya Blog for your chance to win your very own 'I heart Sweaters' Stamp set! Now I know you don't want to miss out on that chance! And make sure to come back on Monday Nov 1st for our DT Blog hop to celebrate the release of all our new friends!

Ok so here is my picture of my very big suprise from hubby. We had a couple of very crappy and hard weeks leading up to our anniversary and my AMAZING Husband decided that I needed something extra special to cheer me up. So I have to say that I am a very spoilt girl, who was most definitely cheered up and I couldn't stop looking at it all night...hehe! It is a white gold princess cut diamond! And I have to tell you, I felt like a princess all night!

Friday, October 29, 2010

FFF and a Cheeky Preview!

Please Scroll down to see my blog post on how YOU can help to support Families who have had a Premature Baby!

Greetings Farm Friends!

We hope you've enjoyed our preview week so far, with the adorable Beanie Anya just waiting to be released along with those CUTE new Critters you met yesterday!

Today we have a VERY Cheeky FFF and Color Challenge...a surprise that's been hard to keep to ourselves!

INTRODUCING: CHEEKY XMAS!

This sassy Santa will be available for purchase, along with the other releases so far, on November 1st at The Greeting Farm and we are THRILLED to add her to our TGF collection of Cheeky releases! Santa, baby, this one's for you!

Today for Farm Fresh Friday, we have a color challenge:

So we would like you to use, Kraft, Pink and Aqua. Here is my Cheeky Christmas card.......

Be sure to stop by the TGF Blog and start there, where you'll find that our wonderful TEAM ANYA has played along today!

Is there a prize, you ask? Well, yes, as a matter of fact...there are TWO! ONE lucky commenter who visits the DT blogs and leaves a comment on today's post (on the TGF Blog) will be entered to WIN a Cheeky Xmas set and we'll announce the winner tomorrow on the CA&F blog during our Saturday Sketch!

The OTHER Cheeky Xmas set is UP FOR GRABS as this week's FFF prize!, so be sure to play along!

I'll see you tomorrow for another preview...and don't forget to join in on the fun when our DT Blog Hop goes LIVE on release day, beginning Monday at 12:01 am CST!

Help Support Families who had a Premature Baby!

Hi Guys, I want to let you all know about this amazing Charity called, Life's Little Treasures Foundation. They are a charity run solely by volenteers, who help to support Families who have had a premature baby.

My twin girls were born well before their time at 24weeks and spent a very long time in hospital. It was a very stressful time for us, and the girls at Life's Little Treasures were an absolute godsend for us! They were there on the phone anytime we needed to talk and helped us through what was an extremely difficult time for us. Not long after the girls were home from hospital we decided that we needed to get involved and help out other families who are going through a similarly tough journey! So for the last 4 years I have been involved with Life's Little Treasures in talking to families who are currently still in hospital and helping to run morning teas for these families as well as families who have left hospital with their babies.

Life's Little Treasures Foundation is having their very first Walk For Prems, and my Hubby Trent and my Girls are going to run 10km to support and hopefully raise a bit of money for this Awesome Charity. We would love it if you could support them. You can find their fundraising page here http://www.everydayhero.com.au/trent_eads

And please if you get the chance pop over to the Life's Little Treasures Foundation website to check out all the amazing things that they are doing!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Introducing Beanie Anya!

I can't believe I am saying this but, I am a TGF Guest DT for the month of November....YAY!!!!! I have been BUSTING to tell everyone. Most people who know me, know how much I love TGF and all those gorgeous Stamps, so it is a dream come true to be a guest and work along side all the talented Farmer girls and the Club Anya Girls. Thanks so much for having me Girls, I promise not to disappoint!!!

Ok so I am soooo lucky today to be able to bring you our first November Preview of Beanie Anya! Isn't she just ADORABLE! Beanie Anya will be available to buy on the 1st of November!

Please make sure that you pop past all the amazing Farmers blogs to see their gorgeous creations using Beanie Anya as well as our Team Anya Girls, who will also be previewing Beanie Anya for you. Make sure to leave everyone a little love, as tomorrow one lucky person from Club Anya And The TGF Blog will win their very own Beanie Anya!

TGF Farmers

But you must have checked out all the DT's creations in order to be in with a chance to win! Good Luck!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

CHAPTER 35: CHESS - CHESSBOARD - CHESSMEN

"They don't keep this room so tidy as the other,' Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little `Oh!' of surprise, she was down on her hands and knees watching them. The chessmen were walking about, two and two!

`Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,' Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), `and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel -- and here are two castles walking arm in arm..."

--Ch. 1: Through the Looking Glass

The challenge this week is again the brainchild of DT member Lynne-to use some aspect of the game of chess! You might want to use a checkerboard pattern, or feature a King, Queen, Knight or Castle (Rook), or some other aspect of the game we haven't thought of - we just need to be able to clearly see CHESS in your creation!

We are THRILLED to announce that there's a prize this week, too! Thanks to our generous sponsor, PAPER MANIAC, this week, they are giving away a set of Artistic Outpost Alice in Wonderland mini-stamps AND a sheet of E.A.D. Designs Stickerz! How awesome is that?

I have kept my card this week nice and simple. Although I keep feeling like it is missing something, like a bow and some flowers and maybe a few other things...hehe! Maybe I'm not mean't to do nice and simple....hehe!

I have taken my inspiration from the Gorgeous Margie's card from last month. Hope you don't mind Margie, but as soon as I saw this challenge your card sprung to mind!

Make sure to pop over to the Oh Alice blog to see what the rest of the DT have come up with!