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My last FFF

I can’t believe it’s the end of May already.  So much is happening in my life right now, and I know I’ve been pretty quiet in blogland.  I’m still around, and checking out blogs in my reader when I get a free moment.   My “baby boy” leaves next week for the Army, and it’s finally hitting me.  The longest I have been away from him is maybe a week – so I’m taking this one pretty hard.  I am so proud of him though, he is such a wonderful, caring, and intelligent young man with a big heart and a lot of charisma.

So… with that said, here is my final card with the Critter Crew.  I myself will be doing some traveling for work very soon, and so I will be taking off a couple months from blogging and card-making.  I hope to be back by October (my favorite card making month – I love Halloween!)

I want to say thanks to Jess and Marie at TGF for having me on the Critter Crew – it’s been such a joy working with the rest of the Crew and with  Marina’s images and I have loved every minute of it!!

The challenge this week is an inspiration challenge  and a fun one at that.  I didn’t have the picture in front of me when I made the card, otherwise I think I would’ve used more pink and less blue.  Oh well… I’m still liking how it turned out.   For a change, I colored with my Prisma Pencils and OMS instead of Copics {gasp} and used non-white cardstock to color on.  I added a little bumble bee sticker.  This reminds me of when my youngest son was like 2 years old and in day care.  The ladies would call him the “beekeeper” because he would be outside and he would just stand there and let those big fat bumble bees land on him then sit and watch them.  freaked me out!!!  But he never got stung.

Hope everyone has an amazing Memorial Day weekend!!  God Bless our troops, past and present.  It because of your sacrifices that I am free.

Hugs,
Jami

Farm Fresh Friday wishes

I’ll keep it short and sweet today as I am typing this Thursday night and I’m beat. What a week it’s been already!

This week at the Farm, Mary has given us an awesome sketch to work with! I decided to use Laurie with Present for this one, she is still my favorite critter of all.

I also couldn’t resist using some of my new Max and Whiskers paper from Basic Grey – I just LOVE these colors, and the adorable prints.

I hope you all have an amazing weekend!!
Hugs, Jami

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Laurie with Present (TheGreetingFarm)
Paper: red (DCWV shimmer stack), White (Ginak 120#), Soft Sand (Ginak 120#), Max and Whiskers (Basic Grey)
Accessories: Copics, rhinestones, satin ribbon (target $1), heart punch on inside (MS), labels #11 nesties, large curved rectangle nesties (on tan mat)

Copics in Blue and an impromptu Hop with a chance to win!

Today I have two posts to share with you.  and since it’s the 15th, you can guess that it’s time for another Copic Creations Challenge!! What a fun challenge it is this week, and we have a fabulous sponsor – Paper MakeUp Stamps! Katie is a total sweetheart, and she is also joining us on the Copic blog with her own marvelous creations and tutorials!!  So the challenge?  Monochromatic! Just wait till you see all the cool cards from the team and Katie!!  PMS carries such a great variety of images from monsters to fairies…and also has a fantastic selection of wordart.  Katie offers both rubber and digi to make everyone happy!!

I used this awesome monster image from PMS  called me and my pops – perfect for a Father’s Day card!!  He’s a new release at PMS.  I used all blues as that is my hubby’s favorite color!  And lots of blues at that…

Copics used: 0, C1, C3, BG000, BG10, BG13, BG15, B00, B91, B93, B95, B97, B63

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Next up…. ready for a fun blog hop?  Today at The Greeting Farm is release day for the new Roll Call Jumbo set (this is a HUGE deal – $90 worth of adorable sprouts for $48!) as well as NEW Chibi Digis by Jessica Hymas and three new ADORABLE Critter Crew images! I am sharing with you the new Critter called “Irvin Sax”

Leave a comment here, because I will be drawing one lucky winner to receive one of the awesome new Marina Digi’s.  There is another peek of one in the post below this.  They are all so cute. (fyi, comment moderation is on due to the amount of spam I’ve been receiving lately)

OK…so  from here you’re heading to Jen’s blog! Get hoppin’!!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!

Wanna be a guest with the TGF Critter Crew?!?!

ARE YOU interested in becoming the latest member of the CREW?

ANNOUNCING THE TGF “CASE’ing CRITTERS” contest!

WHAT: CASE one of today’s cards made by our FABULOUS Critter Crew and submit to the TGF Galleria for a chance to SHINE as our next TGF CRITTER CREW Guest Designer through 7/31/10!!!!
WHEN: NOW through MONDAY, May 10th.  (all entries must be posted by 6pm CST)
WHERE: TGF GALLERIA>Contests/Challenges>CASEing CRITTERS

You can change up the stamp, papers, embellies, etc., just as long as we can ’see’ the layout in your cards :)  Please be sure to note WHO’s card you CASE’d in your Galleria submission. So….Here’s my card!!

And guess, what?  I am going to sweeten the pot… I will draw a random winner from those who case my card to win this awesome set in rubber by Marina – and one of my favorites – called Sweet Message!! I’ll post the winner of this stamp set on my blog on May 11th as well.  :)   So…what are you waiting for?

For more details check out the TGF Blog.  With the addition of the fabulous Mercy to our TGF Farmers this past week, we decided to open another spot on the TGF CRITTER CREW as a GUEST DESIGNER for us from now through 7/31/10.  Requirements include participation in any/all release functions, including previews of images, FFF each week using a Marina image, and a few other small tasks when needed.

If you need an image from Marina to participate, she also has a great selection of digi-stamps available for instant gratification!

Good Luck!!
Jami