SUNDAY and the FINAL is finally here!

Well it's been quite a wait since Wednesday but Sunday is finally here which means the last day of the Royal Battle on The Greeting Farm.

This week's challenge was to make a co-ordinating card/project for a boy and a girl and this is what the amazing and talented Kathy supported by her cheerleading "Dream Team" created. 

Aren't they just amazing?  Click HERE to VOTE - only one vote per person this week and voting is ONLY OPEN TODAY for 24 HOURS.

The details are amazing, glossy shoes, glossy headlights, eyeshadow, texture on the tyres... simply stunning (photo below).

It has been an amazing journey with Kathy and Fika and I would like to share our projects since the beginning (only 5 weeks ago... but seems much longer).

Week One - Colour Challenge (completed by me!)

 Week 2 - create an easel card (challenge completed by Fika)

Week 3 - create a Layout (challenge complete by Kathy)

 Week 4 - Candy packaging (challenge completed by me)

and Week Five (the final week) is at the top of this post.   What an amazing journey.  As I said at the start of this ... this is called "The Dream Team"... because only in my dreams did I ever imagine to be part of a Team with the super talented ladies - Kathy & Fika.

Voting will be open for 24 hours from the time the post goes live and you only VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE ENTRY .... ONE VOTE ONLY this week.  Click HERE to vote. 

We really appreciate your support, continued well wishes and votes/comments.  Thank you sooooo much.  Go Dream Team!

Battle Challenge Finals - voting is TOMORROW only

ROYAL BATTLE CONTINUES over on The Greeting Farm

YOU CAN ONLY VOTE FOR ONE CARD THIS WEEK. 
Voting will be One Day only - TOMORROW SUNDAY

Voting: Voting/commenting will start on Sunday, April 25th and last 24 hrs from the time the poll goes up on the blog. Voting will be on the blog poll. There will be no voting in the gallery for this.

All entries will be located on the Blog on Sunday, April 25th.
Each person can vote once so please select your favorite and vote for them. Please only vote once per card.
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I wanted to post this as I know not everyone checks their blogs/emails etc at the weekend, but reckoned I would post one last time about the Royal Battle.  We are at the closing stages of the battle ....  it is down to 6 teams...... the challenge this week is to create a his and her project (co-ordinating).

We would LOVE your vote - so click here to pop over to cast your vote (poll will open Sunday for 24 hours from the time it is made live).  Thanks from the Dream Team - Kathy, Fika and me. 

Now for a card share.  Made this for this month's Hero Arts Challenge - Mother's Day and Home. 

I used the Hero Arts digital kit - Poetic Petals and a sentiment from TLcCreations.  This was a freebie saying/sentiment and be sure to check out their blog/site where they do wonderful word art on a weekly basis.

I am loving my new curved rectangle die cuts and added a little fimo button which I made.  The sentiment reads dan.de.li.on (yellow, golden annoying weed, when picked by a child, is all mom needs.)  Whilst I realise this flower was suppose to be a daisy and not a dandelion I think it holds a striking resemblence to a dandelion.  I added some stickles too... for that extra little bit of sparkle.

Thanks so much for peeking.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend and I will post our entry to the Royal Battle in my post tomorrow.  Many many thanks for all your well wishes and support to date.

We are through!!! Roll on the Final Week

Well everyone, great news over the Greeting Farm blog this morning..... the Dream Team is through to the Final Round of the Royal Battle..... woohoo... I am soooo delighted.  Delighted that so many people liked my candy packaging (photo above).  Thank you to everyone who voted for us... we REALLY appreciate it.

The competition has changed this week - voting will only be on Sunday 25th April (THIS COMING SUNDAY) and it will be a poll on the side of the blog - so you only have one vote and voting will open and close on the same day.

Thankfully this week it is Kathy or Fika's turn to make the challenge card/project which is a co-ordinating project - one for a girl and one for a boy.

Remember this photo?  Just wanted to let you know that there are still 7 days left to enter the Mami Doodles Colour Challenge.  Elisa has outlined that you don't have to use her digis or any digis if you don't want - just create a layout, card, project as long as it uses the colours for the challenge.  Full details of the challenge are here. 

She REALLY wants to do some giveaways this week - so if you leave a comment here with a suggestion for a new image you will also be in with a chance to win.  Don't you just love the chance to win some goodies.  Thanks Elisa.  Don't forget to check out her blog on Thursday for her new digi stamp.


Thanks for your support and thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a blessed day.

Greeting Farm - Week Four

For some reason, despite numerous uploading attempts with different size files our photo will not display over on the Greeting Farm gallery in a large format.  So sorry if you had to stop by here to view.

Hope you like our candy packaging and and thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.

Hugs from Deirdre, Kathy and Fika.

Click here to return to our entry in TGF gallery and if you wish to vote - please leave a comment under the entry (even though it isn't displaying that is still how to vote - thanks so much).

(p.s. for the back story and more photos on how I created this candy wrapping/packaging - click here.).  Hope you have a wonderful day.

Royal Battle - Week Four

Where has the week gone?  Oh yah... I know... in blind panic!!!!  I kid you not...

This week's challenge over on The Greeting Farm is candy packaging.... and it was my turn to complete our entry for this week's challenge.... so I started with this!

Very important to have the right product to work with right? and decided to choose this....

 

I had LOADS of ideas floating around in my head for this challenge but getting them completed in the time frame was the difficult part... I could have produced many lines of packaging - different colours, themes, baby shower favors.. you name it... I could package it with the wonderful Greeting Farm images.

Anyhow... I only had since Wednesday morning and I came  up with the idea of an easel card/scene sitting on top of a candy bar!!!  And to the execution of said idea... here is my "hansel and gretel" house.... with some friends!.

I just had to use Ivy Morning... and layered a second flower box on top, added tiny little flowers and gems I had in my stash and white gel pen accents to the coloured flower centers.  

Had to include a sweet shop sign (candy store!!)... used the top of the Ivy Morning window and free-handed the rest!... little punched heart for good measure with a doodle!  The owl is from this set.

And for the main card... I enlarged a stamped image of one of the houses from this set.

I used my recent win over on TGF blog (thank you Marie) - "Laurie Cookies" with her tray of yummy delights - cut and layered (very apt given the chocolate bar was cookie crumble!).

Now, do you want to sing along.... "Sweets for my sweet.... sugar for my honey"!! - the sentiment is a computer generated font called "Scrubble".

I really hope that you like our entry.  There are lots of tiny details/layers that are difficult to capture.  However, I will post some more details tomorrow.  Hope you like our entry enough to vote for us here.  

Only one vote per person this week (new rules).  Voting - let me explain how it works - you add a comment under our entry to cast your vote (you do need to be registered with TGF but that only takes a couple of minutes).

Many many thanks... we really appreciate each and every vote.  A BIG THANK YOU FROM KATHY, FIKA & ME.  We are thrilled to be participating in this fun challenge.  Fingers and toes crossed for this week!.

Week Three - The Royal Battle - "the scrapbook page"

So Week Three on The Royal Battle over The Greeting Farm and the challenge is to create an 8x8 or 12x12 page layout.  Kathy was the one who had the task to create this week and she absolutely knocked it out of the park.....

She enlarged the hot air balloon stamp by TGF and coloured it (as magnificently as only she can), created a wonderful stitched patchwork scene for the land below.  She had a photo of herself and her family in a hot air balloon... how perfect was that? 

Up close detail - Kathy added amazing stitching to the balloons... and the beautiful colour on the cloud edges... just perfect.

and then she added the banner/sentiment - "Life's greatest moments".  I think this 12x12 scrapbook page is so much more than just a Layout... it is most certainly a labour of love and a stunner in my book.  Fantastic Job Kathy.

If you like Kathy's amazing LO - we would love your vote.  You vote by leaving your comment - and each person has three votes but I don't think you can give us three (hee hee!).... just one would be great though - click here to vote. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and woohoo to The Dream Team of Kathy, Fika and myself.  We REALLY appreciate your comments/votes.  Thank you.  Hope you are having a great weekend.

Week Two - The Royal Battle

I released this yesterday.... and probably should have held it until Sunday morning.  My days have all gone haywire this week.... so sorry!  Deleted it down and re-posting it this morning (Sunday).  Blogging issues resolved..... however temporary it may be!!!!!!!!! Fingers and toes crossed.

Have been just about ready to throw my PC out the window... I am in the attic... so it would be a large crash!!!! but then look at what came into my Inbox..... wow whee... this beauty by Fika. 

Isn't it just AMAZING... she knocked the ball out of the park.  This is her wonderful Easel card for this week's Royal Battle over on The Greeting Farm.  Cards have to be submitted by Saturday evening and voting will then start. 

Remember... even if you're not participating - you can VOTE.... so pleeeaaaasseeeee vote for us... thanks so much.  Our Team - The Dream Team consists of me, Kathy and Fika and I will post a link as soon as it is released.  Okay... so our card is here.... voting open... yipee!!!

Thanks soooo much.  Happy Saturday.  Sunday and hope you enjoy whatever holiday you are celebrating today,... and enjoy the chocolate!

Doing the happy dance...we are through!!!

Phew..... thank goodness.... we are through.  What am I talking about..... the Greeting Farm - Royal Battle Week One.  I was responsible for the card, even though my team mates were fantastic with amazing ideas, comments etc... I was absolutely terrified that I would let them down (Kathy and Fika are just amazing team mates).  Thankfully.... we are through!!! woohoo and get to compete in this week's challenge which is ... create an easel card.  Fika is next up - go Fika.  Thank you so much if you voted for us - we REALLY appreciate it. 

It turns out that as soon as the cards are posted on Sat/Sunday voting on week two will commence which will be open until Tuesday - so I am sure I will be pestering you again to vote!!!

No card to share so I will share some photos instead.  I took these last weekend whilst entertaining out of town guests.  The first one is the world famous Blarney Castle built in the 1400's where you "kiss the Blarney Stone" to get the gift of the gabb/gift of eloquence!  You have to climb to the very top of the castle to reach it which involves going up very winding and narrow spiral stairs.

Then - a visiting ship in the port of Cobh (formerly Queenstown).  Former famous vessels that visited this port include the Titanic.

Stop off at the Jameson Distillery (love the old doors and blockwork)

and then... feeding time at the wildlife park

Have two cards to finish before dinner - so will try and come back and post them later.  I haven't forgotten I mentioned blog candy - my DS's are on two week's vacation - so once we get back to "normal" I will post some candy.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Look what arrived this morning! and ANYONE can VOTE!!!

 

I got this beautiful card this morning from Fika in Indonesia.... isn't it just adorable.    The shine and glitter from it is just amazing.  Shimmery stunningness - thank you so much Fika.  I am sitting here admiring it as I type up this post.   The closing date for voting on The Greeting Farm Royal Battle is this evening.... fingers and toes crossed!!!  I have just learnt that ANYONE AND EVERYONE can vote... you don't have to be on a team, so if you like our card here - we would love if you voted for us.  Thank you soooo much and p.s. I have the BEST team mates EVER.... thank you Kathy and Fika - you both ROCK. 

Thanks so much for dropping by - have a few deadlines to trip over.... will be back tomorrow.  I got some PTI goodies from the US..... cannot wait to play with them.  Watch this space!!