Welcome to our combined Blog Swap/Hop today featuring two fantastic companies,  The Twinery and The Greeting Farm !   If you’re just getting here from the SUPER talented Carisa’s blog, WELCOME!  If you have yet to begin the hop, please visit the TWINERY BLOG to begin!  Hooray!

We are so excited to bring you a fun hop, loads of inspiration when the world of TGF Rubber stamps collides with the quality baker’s twine we’ve all come to know and love, and some of the most talented designers in the industry with new and fun projects to share!

Did we mention PRIZES? There are definitely a few of those too so you’ll want to check out our event today! Thank you so much for coming!

The Greeting Farm first sprouted into the stamping world in 2008 as a small dream and has cultivated into something wonderful because of wonderful customers like you! With three years of farm-fresh images under their belt, TGF is going strong and love brings you fun-loving, animated characters, including the best-selling “Anya” line. The Greeting Farm brings you cute, charismatic images that are LOADS of fun to COLOR! There is truly something for EVERYONE on the Farm and we are so glad to be teaming up with the Twinery today!

As for the Twinery, twine is made from 100% cotton, it’s eco-friendly and made in the USA. Whether you’re gift wrapping, crafting or tying up baked goods to give to a friend, this TOP quality baker’s twine adds a fresh, yet nostalgic look to any project at hand! The Twinery twine comes in 14 delicious colors and is uniquely twisted against a bright white hue, creating an eye-popping burst of color and a creative embellishment! It has lots of color which lends to a fun, candy-striped look.

I could not have found a more perfect TGF stamp for me if I tried! “Boho Anya” is decked out in a super cute flowy skirt with cute, cute, cute flowers in her long hair. I got my Copics out and got to coloring! I used just a few buttery yellow shades, blue greens, red violets, and yellow-oranges. They matched my paper almost to a “t”! LOVE!

Now, if you’ve followed my blog for awhile, you know I LOVE using my twine to border my cards or wrap different elements in. I decided to do something a *little* different and a bit more “bohemian” and braided three pretty, contrasting colors together to give it a little more detail. I topped it off with a punched flower in coordinating patterned paper. All of my twine was adhered with Glossy Accents and the top two layers are mounted on dimensionals.

I loosely followed this week’s CPS Sketch – I thought it was something fun and different!

MATERIALS USED:

Cardstock: Kraft {Papertrey Ink}
Pattern paper: Country Drive {Echo Park}
Fiber: Honeydew, Peapod, and Blossom Baker’s Twine {The Twinery}
Stamps: Boho Anya {The Greeting Farm}, Hippie Chic (sentiment) {Market Street Stamps}

Now…I DID mention something about PRIZES, didn’t I? ;) There are TWO prize packs up for grabs and you will have until Sunday, October 23rd at 5pm CST to comment on ALL the blogs and enter for your chance to win one of them!

The Greeting Farm is giving away their ENTIRE November release EARLY to one lucky winner- that is four stamps in all and EARLY nonetheless!

The Twinery is giving away one “COLORFUL BUNCH” sampler pack!

That’s TWO great prizes, TWO chances to win…and endless inspiration beginning HERE:

The TWINERY Blog

Your next stop is Tracey Pickersgill!

Enjoy the inspiration and good luck in the prize drawings!

PKS WINNER!!!

THANK you for your BEAUTIFUL comments on my ‘corny’ card I created for the PKS mini Release!! The RANDOM winner of the $15.00 Gift Certificate is….

JO says:

OCTOBER 17, 2011 AT 11:43 PM • EDIT

I love the simplicity of your card. When I first saw the stamps all I could think of was corny, but you took it to a whole new category – love the versitility!

Congratulations, Jo!! Please email me your first and last name and I’ll get that gift certificate right off to you! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!