Happy New Year! And welcome to The Greeting Farm Release Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from AMBER‘s blog or you can start back at the beginning for details because one lucky winner will receive the entire release! All of your favorite sets that you saw this week are now available in rubber: Fancy Anya, Naughty/Nice, Little Dreamer, and I Do!

Here’s my card and I chose to rotate the sketch then use the new Happy New Year Anya which is currently available for FREE! I added subtle details like the white pearls, vellum paper and torn ticket. The dragonflies also have gems on them!

In addition, this week at Club Anya and Friends we are having a continuation of the Saturday Sketch from last week and the random winner of that challenge will also receive the entire release!! Your next stop on the hop is JESSICA!

DT Challenge: Club Anya & Friends – Saturday Sketch
Challenge: I Did It Creations – Challenge #35 (In with the new)
Challenge: Aly’s Sunday Challenge #32 (Anything Goes)
Challenge: Ooh La La Creations – Challenge #70 (New Year)
Challenge: Creative Inspirations – Challenge #50 (new stamp)
Main Stamp: Happy New Year Anya (TGF)
Patterned Paper: Olivia (BG)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Inverted Scalloped Squares
Copic Colors:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R12, R21
-hair: E43, E44, E47, E49
-clothes: BG93, BG96, BG99, R20, R21, R22

Did you know? Commercial graffiti (also known as Aerosol advertising or Graffiti for hire) is the commercial practice of graffiti artists being paid for their work. It dates back as Ancient Greece when pottery makers employed artists to decorate their items with motifs and intricate designs. However, Commercial graffiti has created significant controversy between those who view it as an effective medium of advertising and those who believe that advertising graffiti encourages illegal graffiti and crime.[Commercial Graffiti, Wikipedia.org]

Tomorrow is the New Year and here’s to new beginnings! Today at The Greeting Farm for Farm Fresh Friday we are previewing the new Anya & Ian “I Do” set and the challenge is to create a wedding card or favor. I chose to color up this adorable couple with traditional white-dress but then add a touch of blue as a secondary color.

I embellished the card with a sprig of beads (found in the wedding section at the hobby store, no less), some hat pins, and his & her wedding ring charms all wrapped up in a white bow. The white lace was added to help tie in all the white with the card. Click on any of the pictures for a larger view and you’ll also see that I added glitter to Anya’s dress and Ian’s tie! 😀

DT Challenge: The Greeting Farm – Farm Fresh Friday
Challenge: Catch The Bug Challenges (New Year, new beginnings)
Challenge: Ann’s Creative Nook – Challenge #117 (New Year, new beginnings and bling/sparkle)
Challenge: Irish Teddy – Challenge #4 (Blue/White no Christmas)
Main Stamp: Anya & Ian “I Do” (TGF)
Patterned Paper: Signature Christmas (MME)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Seventeen
Copic Colors:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R12
-hair: E31, E35
-clothes: 0, C00, C1, C3
-other: B91, B93, YG91, YG93

Did you know? Toblerone is a chocolate bar created by Theodor Tobler and Emil Baumann in Bern, Switzerland in 1908, and is a unique milk chocolate including nougat, almonds and honey. It is well-known for its distinctive packaging, its prism shape (triangular prism or pentahedron) and its ubiquity in duty-free shops. The product’s name is a portmanteau combining Tobler’s name with the Italian word torrone (a type of nougat). The image of a bear is hidden in the Matterhorn mountain symbolizing the town of its origin.
[Toblerone, Wikipedia.org]

Update: I was selected the winner at Ann’s Creative Nook for this challenge!

Welcome to the third day of previews from The Greeting Farm with Club Anya and Friends. Today we’re featuring Fancy Anya and there is another chance to win this cute gal for leaving comments on all the DT blogs! In her fancy dress, this versatile Anya is ready for any occasion and I used her to create a very special girl’s card.

The chipboard corner embellishments were covered with liquid pearls on the top leaving the sides the natural lasercut color for depth. Finally a pearl was added on the corner. The flowers were some I had in my stash and the lily flowers are fun because they’re made out of clay for a nice texture change. I wish I could say I made them… but hey were store bought too. 😀

DT Preview: The Greeting Farm – Preview Week
Challenge: Crafy Ann’s – Challenge #30 (Anything Goes)
Challenge: Totally Gorjuss – Challenge #61 (For Someone Special)
Main Stamp: Fancy Anya (TGF)
Corner Embellishments: Love Heart Swirls (MiC)
Patterned Paper: Nana’s Nursery Baby Girl (DCWV)
Copic Colors:
-skin: E13, E15, E17, E18, E04
-hair: W2, W4, W6, W8
-clothes: G40, G82, G94, G99

Did you know? Baa, Baa, Black Sheep is a children’s nursery rhyme that dates to 1744 published in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book. Since then, the words have remained mostly intact with few changes. The rhyme is sung to a variant of the 1761 French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman, which is also used for “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and the alphabet song. As with many nursery rhymes, attempts have been made to find origins and meanings for the rhyme, but no theories have been definitively proven. Denslow’s illustration accompanied a 1901 edition of Mother Goose.
[Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Wikipedia.org]

Welcome to the second day of previews with Club Anya and Friends and today we’re feature a darling Oliver & Amelia set… Little Dreamer! There will be a “hidden” prize on one of the DT member’s today so be sure to check us all out! The winner will be announced tomorrow on The Greeting Farm Blog. Here’s my card using Oliver:

Oliver & Amelia are some of my favorites! This one is the perfect stamp to practice hair techniques too but I chose to go with a simple blending technique. The shooting star and sentiments are also from this set.

DT Preview: The Greeting Farm – Preview Week
Sketch: Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog 2010
Challenge: Moving Along With The Times Challenge (No Christmas)
Challenge: Aud Sentiments – Callenge #18 (Anything Goes)
Main Stamp: Oliver & Amelia Little Dreamer (TGF)
Patterned Paper: Oliver (BG)
Copic Colors:
-skin: E00, E11, E13
-hair: E43, E44, E47, E49
-clothes: YG63, YG67
-other: W2, W4, W6, W8, E25, E29, R43, R46, R63

Did you know? Shagreen is a type of leather or rawhide consisting of rough untanned skin, formerly made from a horse’s back or that of an onager (wild ass), and typically dyed green. Shagreen is now commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays. The word derives from the French chagrin and due to the roughness of its texture it led to the French meaning of anxiety, vexation, embarrassment, or annoyance.
[Shagreen, Wikipedia.org]