Amy - Farm Series

It's funny how both Elena (our first Guest Designer) and Amy, have created a few farm-themed cards.  I have dubbed these the "Farm Series".

These cards remind me of the summer in Quebec and bringing in the hay on my uncle's farm.  I've never been to the Canadian prairies, where Amy lives.  I would imagine that these farm scenes are fairly common.  I have had friends cycle across Canada and tell me that they spent endless days on the prairies watching the wheat fields s-l-o-w-l-y pass by as they rode on.

This first card is a cheery scene with our friendly Cow stamp.  I love how she added the tiny daisy to the grassy stems.  The cow looks like she is enjoying herself immensely in this field of flowers. Amy used a white gel pen on the color the cow so she stands out more on the green band card.  I must try that!

This next card is so bright and fun.  I really like her choice of colors - looks like August to me! I like how she paired the Marvy mega & giga scallop oval punches. 

This last card in Amy's farm series shows what a careful stamper she is.  The hay wagon and the tractor are actually two separate stamps but you would never know by her expert stamping.  I love how she stamped them on one of our papaya ric rag tags... the road is gold (paved in golden wheat, of course!) 

Amy is busy choosing a prize for one lucky person that comments here at the A Muse News blog on her card creations.  I can't wait to see what she chooses.  To qualify, you may post comments on any post that includes one or more of Amy's cards.

Make hay, everyone!

Comments

[kim faucher]

I love that little tractor... I just visited the farm.. now I have to get these stamps! DArling... lovein that red gold color scheme too!
Kim

[Jessica]

These are all soooo adorable! You really never would know that that tractor and wagon are separate - great job Amy!

[Ingrid]

These cards are awesome - so bright and cheery! I adore the green tractor, so John Deere. The hay stack makes a very unique background - I love it. Of course, any one who has ever baled hay cannot look at these without getting thirsty - I feel that August heat and hear the cicadas singing as I type...Thanks Amy!

[kerri killmer]

Growing up on a farm in Iowa these stamps are close to my heart. These cards are great inspiration when searching for ideas for my "farmer" dad. Thanks A Muse for your farm inspired stamps and thanks Amy for the great ideas!

[Kim Eppley]

I love these cards. I have always loved black, red and goldenrod. The colors are timeless! I love the country...back roads, animals and crops to look at (I'm from Georgia and onions are big right now), men on tractors with straw hats...it's very relaxing and scenic! I love how you stamped the wheat bundles in the same color on the goldenrod paper, just a shade off...so classy! I just made a cow card with the grass and the moochas grassias stamp yesterday!

[Marilyn]

Love the red tractor on the gold paper with the hay sheaves. I was trying to resist all the farm stamps, but I will probably have to give in now - they are really cute!

[Katie]

Those are familiar scenes from rural NE OH too. Where do you get those spikey things that the cards are on? I love them.

Amy did an expert job of using the fancy scissors. I can never get the corners to look right. What's the trick Amy?

[Cheryl Sims]

Very cute. I must get that tractor stamp--perfect for my DH. thanks for sharing.
Cheryl Sims

[Cheryl Sims]

Very cute. I must get that tractor stamp--perfect for my DH. thanks for sharing.
Cheryl Sims

[Geeta / TexasLonghorns/Craftyengineer]

Oh my goodness. These are awesome. And you know what? I don't have these stamps. Guess they'll be on my next order! Thanks for sharing!

[Tracy Clemente]

As always Amy, these are jaw-dropping inspiring!

[Amanda Beers]

The corn bundle is so cute with the farm stamps... I never thought of pulling that one in with the new ones!!

[Riza Almanza]

I don't have have the corn bundle yet...another one to get soon. These cards are really great and simple and seems quick to create. Thanks for sharing them.

[Dotty]

I love all three of these cards!! Brings back memories of childhood days on my grandparents farm! Simply adorable!

[Sarah]

LOVE those tractor cards!

[jennifer]

cute cow..and nice choice on your color schemes

[Katie]

Amy's cards are super cute!

[Elena]

I am partial to the farm series here ;) Great cards!!

[Krista Larsson]

Amy, I love your work. You are an inspiration to us all. Your colours and papers always work so well together. I enjoy reading your blog everyday, especially being new to this whole stamping family. I've learned so much reading your tutorials and your cards give me great ideas.
Living in the prairies as well, these cards sure do bring a smile to my face.

[Jill Grace]

Fabulous artistry Amy! I love the "just stitting here thinking of you" tractor card... genious. Great use of color and simplicity - very elegant and "country" at the same time. It seems like a scene that could come from the Canadian prarie or Napa! :)

[tami]

Amy rocks. All of her cards are fabulous! I love her blog too. Hey!!!!!!!!!!

[Maureen]

Heah Amy! I love your cards! As a farm girl working with Dad on the land (and loved it) I could relate to all three. Wish I would have had the tractor stamp even last year to do up for his birthday(retired now) as we have an old international tractor that looks identical!! Anyhow, well done!

[michele]

thanks for sharing amy's cards. I like them all!

[Elaine]

These are too darn cute, girlie!!! What a fun way to make FARM stamps adorable! Great work on making the tractor and hay look like one!

[Elizabeth Glass]

Cute! Cute!Cute!.......As always~!!!!!!

[Susan]

Love these farm cards. I don't think I could pick a favorite as I love them all. Great colors. I like the haystacks in the background on the tractor one.

[Bethany Paull]

These are so adorable! Totally love the hay wagon on the rickrack road.

[mj]

those are really fun and cheery! just love that little tractor and hay trailor! :)

[Dottie K]

Amazing! I love the ricrac under the tractor and that cow in the field of flowers is adorable. Thanks for the flower idea with the grass stamp, I just bought that grass stamp yesterday -will have to stamp with it later.

[Aura]

Neat cards! Reminds me of driving through the Kansas prairies when I was a kid. Nice work.

[Doreen]

Love the bright colors and the "little bit wider" black and white gingham ribbon one the one! Your cards are so much fun to look at ...and you crank them out so darn fast!

[Kenna]

I love the red and gold together! That is one of my all time summer combinations!

[Tisha]

So cute! I have loved these farm stamps too - I have my own little Farm Series going on for Father's Day! I do love the corn husk for a background with these stamps! Thanks for the great ideas!

[Nicki Lundeen]

Your card are adorable. You are such a creative person. Those cards remind me of growing up in Iowa...there was lots of hay...and cows....and tractors....and corn...lots and lots of corn! LOL Thanks for your inspiration.

Nicki Lundeen
nlundeen@catt.com

[MeShellaBella]

The tractor pulling the hay wagon card really "spoke" to me! "Make hay while the sun shines" is a chapter in one of the Little House on the Prarie series of books and your card just makes me think of Laura Ingalls Wilder riding up top of that filled hay wagon home from the field because her Pa didn't have any sons to help him! Girl POWER!! (Though they didn't have a tractor to pull THEIR hay wagon!!)

[Lisa Trombitas]

Great cards, Amy - love the whimsy of the cow card! - Lisa

[Katie Skiff]

Of course, Amy did a great job. She ALWAYS makes me want to run out and buy the stamps she just used!! Great job Amy!!

[Kristin Z.]

Another round of beautiful cards! I'm a city girl, never really been interested in farms, but your designs with these farm stamps have me thinking I need to add them to my A Muse collection!

[lexi]

more awesome cards! i really like how you used the hay for backgrounds and added flowers to the grass.

[Andrea]

I love the use o f the ric rac - I have some and never know what to do with it! Great idea!

[Clara]

I *love* the colorful last one. It is so bright and cheery. I really like the ric-rac under the tractor - it is so creative, I never would have thought to do that. Way to go, Amy! :D

[Angie DiMeglio]

Amy, love your designs. All 3 a beautiful. You've inspired me to stamp some farm cards myself. Thank you!

[EJ]

A lovely set of cards, the farm scenes remind me of my childhood back here in the UK as was surrounded by wheat feilds

[S. Patel]

i love the first card (the one with the cow)---just looking at it makes me happy!

[Stephanie King]

I really love the last card. I really like the detail you put into the coloring (I'm assuming with a prismacolor medium if I know Amy!). How fun.

[Juanita]

Absolutely adorable! I love when cards are done so well I want to be in that place that looks so peaceful, like the illustrations in children's books . Great job. TFS.

[Pineconegirl]

I absolutely love the farm scenes. My dad's family had a farm in South Dakota, and some of my favorite memories are from times spent there. Swinging into the hayloft can't be beat! Thanks for such cute cards.

[broni (waterchild12)]

These cards are so great, as are all of Amy's creations! My favorite is the tractor/wheat card! Love the bright colors.

[darcie]

You are jus way too talented Amy!!! These cards are too adorable:)

[Alanna Hillis]

Holy smokes these cards are wonderful...I see that I am going to have to order these stamps...are we too are farmers as is 90% of our family...I can see many many uses for these stamps...thanks Amy for once again producing cards that are truly wonderful

Alanna

[anni]

I love all these cards. i'm not really a "farm" girl, but these images are so stinkin' cute I need to get them all with my next order! Love how you used the flower as the sun.

[Elizabeth]

oh, Amy, those are SO cute! I remember seeing the cow one before, but I have to say the "make hay" one is my favorite! thanks for chuckle!

[Shelby]

Amy you brought back memories from 45 years ago. Riding on a tractor and going to the hayfields with my Landlord and his wife while I was living in Germany. It brought back all the hard work that was done to get the hay in and on the wagon just like in the picture. We used the huge long rakes to rake the hay into strips down the field and then the guys loaded it on the wagon with their pitchforks. Quite different from how its done here. But that was a long time ago. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

[Erica T]

Being a farm girl at heart, I heart these awesome cards, they are sooo cute :) Must get me some of these stamps :lol:

[Lisa C.]

Amy, love all your cards, the last one is my favorite with the saying!

[Regina D.]

Oh my gosh! Those are awesome. I especially love that tractor and trailer "rolling" along the road. Fantastic cards Amy!

[Mary]

"The farm series"? I love it! Once again, these cards are terrific! A little more complex, perhaps, than the last batch -- but wonderful as well! Clever, artistic, impressive -- and still wonderfully recreate-able (is that a word?) ambassadors for all the fun that is rubber stamping!

[SentimentsbyDenise]

Fun little stamps! Fabulous card designs! Amy does it again!

[geraldine]

I like the colors that she used on these cards. I always like Amy's creations. :)

[Dawn T]

These cards are a perfect example why Amy amazes me. I love how she captures the praire. The thinking of you reminds me of harvest, My favorite time of the year.

[Julie]

I just love these farm stamps! I think any image that brings back good childhood memories is just the best! I remember playing in my sandbox with my toy tractors, plowing my "field". Amy -- your cards always bring a smile! Thanks!

[Diana Ryan]

Amy makes the difficult stuff look so easy! Love her way of combining color and making it all look as it is the way it should be.
Wish I had her brain and ideas, I an dry! But her site gives me hope, that maybe tomorrow I will get back into the swing of things.
Stamp on! Amy!!!!

[Julie Masse]

These cards are so terrific!! I love the farm theme and the colors are so bright and cheery! Great job!

[Erin Kellogg]

These are super cute and fun! :)

[Debbie Fisher]

I love Amy's work and subscribe to her blog. I also love these farm stamps and need to get some as I live on a farm and that tractor is awesome.

[Jodie]

Amazing Amy! Love that cow especially!

[Kristin O]

Love the farm cards - I am an Iowa farm girl at heart! The sayings are classic. Thanks for the constant inspiration!

[salla wagner]

love the simple yet bold colors in the "sittin here" card! so cute! so a muse!

[Geny]

Love the farm series, they are adorable! Great job, Amy!

[Sheri]

Amy has such talent. I love to see what she will create next. I love these farm themed stamps. My son would love them too. I'm drawn to these stamps because of him and Amy's use of design and color. I'm sure they'll have to be a "next" purchase item of mine. Thanks for sharing! :)

[Amy]

Fantastic cards, all of them. This guest designer program is brilliant!

[Cookie]

Amy!
I just love all the cards you made...I especially like the second one...The red really pops on the yellow! Great job!

[Barb g]

That is the coolest idea to use the ric rac for a bumpy road effect...Wow, you are so terrific! Great inpsiration from every single piece of work you do.
Barb g

[Tara]

I love all of your work, but I LOVE that cow card! He is an absolute *must* for me next time I am in Seattle! Great job Amy!

[Michelle]

Love these cards!!! The gold and red one is my favorite. I may have to add these stamps to my must have list now!!

[Ember]

Ohmagosh! That moo-chas grass-ias is HILARIOUS! So cute!!! Amys cards are always FABULOUS!!!!

[Kari]

I love how Amy makes everything look so easy! I love her work-she was my first blog that I bookmarked! So glad I did.

[Mo Moss]

Amy is one of my favorites. My DH and I have played with farming over the years and now have retired soooooooooo my love for these cards are strong. The tractor is my pick in this series. I am not sure whether it is because of the tractor of the colors she chose. Great girl with lots of great ideas. I would love to meet her, wouldn't you?

[Audreysfan]

I am a huge AmyR fan! Super cute cards :-)

-Alta

[Antonella]

All 3 cards are fab, but I must admit the one with the cow is my favorite. Hmmm ... I'm thinking I "need" the cow stamp! Antonella:)

[Laura Cole]

I just LOVE Amy's work! That little cow is callin' my name! My women's group at curch are the C.O.W.s- which stands for Community of Women, so....I must have that little cow for my notes! Thanks for the great work Amy!!

[mkayteem on scs]

I love all the cards Amy does! She has a great eye for design and color plus she is so helpful with all of her tips. She rocks! Her farm series cards are adorable!

[Becky W]

Great cards! I looove the tractor and wagon. Such beautiful, vibrant colors, too! Gorgeous!

[Christine]

I travelled through the prairies on the train so these bring back fond memories. I love them all, but my favourite is definately the cow. Now I need that daisy to go with my grass!

[Michelle R]

I love the *Make Hay While the Sun Shines* card! So cute, and I don't now that I would have thougoht of making the background with that stamp. Great card...but then they all are!

[cherylp]

super cute cards - they totally remind me of summer and growing up in dairy country!

[Rhiannon]

Absolutely LOVE the tractor card! I am going to have to get the mega scallop, now that I have seen how cute it looks layered on the Giga. Thanks for sharing your awesome creativity :)

[Beth]

I live in a farming community in Californina's San Joaquin Valley - these cards are perfect for our area! Love them all!

[Jennifer Seymour]

i absolutely ADORE the cow card!!! it is so simple and sweet.

jen

[HeatherP]

Having grown up in Kansas (though I now live in New Zealand), these farm cards remind me of the Great Plains. I love the dual-toned stamping on the tree stamp, and having the tractor and trailer drive on the "wavy grain" road works wonderfully. The cards are darling. Keep them coming!

[Jane Jetson]

Love the hay card, Amy! I grew up on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma, and every August we bailed our own hay...UGH, what a ton of work! It wasn't fun at the time, but I'm always nostalgic now for things that remind me of home, and your card hit the spot. I'm feeling a purchase coming on. :)

Kimberly

[Carolyn King (Cammie SCS)]

What a talented artist Amy is...I am always amazed at what she comes up with. Love her farm series!

[Shawn]

I grew up in cattle country (Oklahoma) and although I'm a city girl at heart, I have this love affair with farm stamps and images. These cards are so lovely! I love the crispness of the images and the layout the best!
Keep on stampin'

Shawn

[N.Yvette P.]

Super "Farm series" Amy. You really came up with some creative ideas on how to tie these stamps together. Great job. I'm looking forward to your next designs!!

[Judy H.]

I am a huge AmyR fan and these cards are just another reason why! Way to go Amy!

Judy H.

[Ellen Sutton]

Love the cards!! I live on a farm in South Georgia and I think that I will have to get this set!! Thanks Amy for the great cards!!

[Emily Anderson]

these cards are so darn cute!!!
Emily

[Allyson C.]

Love love love the sweet farm cards - simple and fresh - just like amuse!!

[Susie Burke]

I love the farm cards! Amy makes them look so cute and sweet. Adorable cards.

[pegg]

I love animal stamps and that cow is just too cute! Love how you create scenes amy!!