On Vacation

I'm in Connecticut right now but had made this card up and had it ready to be posted this week...



This card was made for my dad's uncle who has been in the hospital for awhile now due to some medical issues. He is now in rehab and doing much better. My dad wanted a get well card and what better get well card than using a Thomas Kinkade image from Cornish Heritage Farms. These images are so detail and beautiful no matter whether you color them or just do a monochromatic theme.

For this card I went with the monochromatic theme and had fun doing it. I love this lighthouse image. I also paired it with my musical scrapblock stamp from CHF. Those scrapblock stamps create beautiful images and backgrounds.

I hope you all are having a wonderful week... I'm seeing lots of lovely snow here and have heard from my parents that back home we are going to get 4-6 inches.... it figures it would snow there when I go up north to get my snow fix.... Have a great week and I'll try and post a few vacation pictures soon.

I'm Back...

I'm back and wishing everyone a Happy New Year.... I'm planning on being a better blogger this year as well as a bunch of other resolutions I've made. But for today I put together a card while my DH was yelling and screaming watching the Rose Bowl... Not a football fan here but he is.

I have a Thank you to go out latter this week so this little card is something I threw together...



I grabbed one of my New stamps by Cornish Heritage Farms and went to town with it... I just love their Thomas Kinkade line. I also am a big fan of Spellbinders Nestablities dies and grabbed my megablities dies to create the frame... This was a fun card to create and come up with... I've got a box coming next week with new stamps from Stampin Up!... I can't wait to get them and play... Hope you all have a relaxing day and get to spend sometime with your families.

Happy New Year!

Christmas in July..........

That is what it seems right now. I got a package in the mail this weekend from Cornish Heritage Farms. They sure do ship fast but lets get back to my wonderful package I had ordered... It was a new stamp from their new Sandra Kuck Series Ready for Christmas and it also include one of their new Scrapblocks, Fine Hounds tooth. I paired these two great stamps to make today's card.



The fine hounds tooth is great starter for a card and now I can make some great dp with it in any color I want. For this Christmas card I love to pair it up with a deep red color and black ink. I used bravo burgundy for this one along with classic black ink from SU.

As you can tell the Sandra kuck image involved alot of coloring and of course who could not help but add a little bling to the tree and the holiday trim in the image. I colored my image with copics on stamper select white cardstock. This little girl image is so darling.

I hope you get the chance to checkout the wonderful images Cornish Heritage Farms is putting out. I already love their Thomas Kinkade line this new line is just adding more.... Have a wonderful Monday Afternoon and I hope I'll be back again with another post.

Kinkade mood...

Yup I am in a Kinkade type mood and thought I'd share the first card I made today...


This card idea has been in my head all weekend ever since GinaK posted her weekend challenge. I just couldn't come up with anything using her stamps because my Kinkade collection has been calling out to me... I've neglected them and I need to knock some dust off and play... This was fun coloring it with my copics and then adding a layer of iridescent ice ep over the image.

I wanted this to be perfect but the only problem is my sewing machine is not working.... I wanted to add a little stitching around the dp edge. Oh well Guess I'll have to work on the machine before making another one of these.

My main image is one of Cornish Heritage farms Thomas Kinkade stamps found here. It is called the Forest chapel Vignette. They have come out with a couple of new ones that I'm gonna have to add to my collection sooner or later.... I love the images and the detail you get from these wonderful stamps.

I hope you are all having a great Monday... I'm off to play with some more kinkade stamps....

Supplies:
Stamps: Forest Chapel Vignette, So many sayings
Ink: Adirondack slate, distress ink vintage photo, versa mark
Cardstock: stampers select white, basic grey figgy pudding 6x6 pad, blue bayou textured cardstock
Accessories: copic markers, oval nestiblities, black brad, iridescent ice ep

Sympathy cards....

Sympathy cards are so hard for me to make. I guess that's why I always find myself making one when I need it... never seem to keep them on hand. Today a friend of ours lost a parent so I'm in need of two cards... This is the first one I made and needless to say I'll be making the other one latter.



I used CPS sketch #56 for this card and then grabbed one of my Thomas Kinkade stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms. These images are perfect for sympathy cards.

I colored this with my copic markers... these images are so fun to color. Before coloring it in I stamped it on whisper white cardstock with my adirondack slate inkpad. After finishing the coloring I masked out the oval and embossed it with UTEE. The embossing powder makes the colors really pop. I then created a frame for the image with a piece of creamy caramel. I used my Fiskars finger tip craft knife to cut the center out for the frame. I really enjoyed coloring and coming up with this card... I hope it brings some comfort to my friend and their family... I'm off to try and make the other card. Have a great afternoon.

Supplies:
Stamps: The Open Gate Vignette by Thomas Kinkade stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms, Out on a Limb by Papertrey Inc
Ink: Adirondack slate, basic black craft ink, versa mark
Cardstock: Wild wasabi, groovy guava, creamy caramel, whisper white
Accessories: heat gun, UTEE powder, copic markers, gold spica glitter pen

CPS and Cornish Heritage Farms...

I know I said this week would be only SU but I had to play with CPS's sketch design this week....


And here is what I came up with... using of course my cornish Heritage Backgrounder Trees. you can find it and other great backgrounders here. I then grabbed one of my new Thomas Kinkade images, 'The Open Gate Vignette' to use as my main image.





I had fun with this one... Over on CPS they also mentioned a color combo contest for Prism papers so i went through my SU cardstock and came up with the closest colors to those and use them for my card too... you can find all the info for it here.

This was a fun card to come up with... and I hope you enjoy the eye candy it provided... have a great day.

Supplies:
Stamps: 'The Open Gate Vignette', 'Trees Backgrounder', stampin up retired warmest reguards
Cardstock: bordering blue, creamy caramel, stampers select white, apricot appeal, brillant blue
Ink pad: 'Expresso' Adirondack Earthtones InkPad
Accessories: Copic markers, snaps, grey taffeta ribbon, sponge, gold spica glitter pen

SBS1 yahoo group Challenge 1

My sisters have given out a Challenge and here is my answers for our first yahoo group Challenge.....



We were asked to create a card using the color combo of Brown and Cream. I grab another one of my new stamps, a Thomas Kinkade stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms. I just love these stamps and this last release is so awesome. Now back to my card. This is 'A Perfect Summer's Day Vignette' stamp for the main image. I grabbed my Adirondack Espresso ink pad. Of course TK is famous for his lights so I added some color to my card by giving the light to the windows on this card with my gold spica pen.

This image is so pretty. One of these days I will have to try and color it... got to get my courage up for it. I also decided to use my scor-it tool and give the layers alittle embossed look. Well I hope you enjoy today's card, I'm off for some more house work. Have fun stamping...

Supplies:
Stamps: 'A Perfect Summer's Day Vignette'
Ink: Adirondack Espresso ink
Cardstock: Close to cocoa, natural ivory
Accessories: Scor-it tool, gold copic spica pen

Playin with New Rubbah!!!

Yesterday I got several packages of rubbah... some I had ordered and some I had won on a blog... Well today I started inking up some of it. I decided to play with my Cornish Farms stamps first. I have been eyeing some of their Mushroom Lane stamps for a while but had yet to buy any... That line can be found here. So Friday last week I was putting in an order for some other stamps and threw in this image here. I thought it was so cute.

Today I inked up that image and create this card...


The card layout I used was from The CPS Blog. It is CPS #45. If you ever get stumped on a layout this blog is a great source for design sketches...

To color my image I again combine both my copics and my prisma pencils. The two combine seem to give an image a better depth. I also took my clear spica glitter pen and added sparkle to each window to create a glow from inside the mushroom house... isn't the image just too cute... Well I'm off to play with some more new rubbah... My sisters have given out a challenge an I feel the need to try and come up with something.... Have a great afternoon and Happy Stampin....

Supplies:
stamps: 'Special Friendship (Mushroom Lane Inspirationals)'
Ink: Adirondack ink Espresso
Cardstock: Night of navy, scrap designer paper, white cardstock
Accessories: copic markers, prisma pencils, white souffle pen, wide white organdy ribbon

Made to order....

This card was a request by a friend of mine and I hope she enjoys them.


While my mom has been in the hospital I have been working on these during different times there. I started them on Thursday while she was in surgery and i finally finished them today. Mom is doing better she actually go to walk some yesterday and I'm going to see her some latter on today again too. Thank you all for the well wishes. She will have a long road ahead of her now but I know she will be so much better. Now back to the card design...

This card was a fun one.. My favorite thing in making cards is coloring and this one uses both my copic markers and my prismapencils. And believe me there was lots to color on this one. I colored all the bases of the flower while we sat and waited on finding out how mom was during her surgery on Thursday... what along wait. The image stamp I used is from Cornish Heritage Farms. They have a wonderful selection of stamps. (including the Thomas Kinkade stamps)

I ended up layering my flower three times and it just makes this card pop. Using my copics and prismas also made my colors so bright and cheery on this card. But I could not just stop with the copics and prismas... I had to also use my copic glitter pens to add some sparkle to these flowers. I used both my gold and clear glitter pens on this card. And then to top this card off I had to drag out my satin SU ribbon... this stuff is gorgeous and it is only around for a limited time from SU and right now you can get it buy one get one free from your SU demo....


Well I'm off I have to go to the hospital for a bit and then maybe take the kids out for some fun latter on... have a great weekend and hope you enjoy the cards...

Supplies for this card can be found here.

Told you I would be back...

I decided to do alittle coloring. And this image lends itself well for it. This stamp is one of Cornish Heritage Farms retired images. But they have plenty of more beautiful images here in their online store. I colored in three and then layered the image with foam dimensional. The image seems to really pop off the card. I added some stickles yellow to the center of the poinsettia. If you want to get your hands on some stickles you can find some of them at All That Scraps or Scrapbook Pal. I have gotten them from both places.

I used my copics to color the image in... here is a picture of the copics I used...

You can find Copics at Ellen Hutson's store and also at All That Scraps. I love these to color with but I also love to use them in the airbrush system. Now I'm off to go get some house work done... have a great afternoon.

A card and a gift....

Today I had to make time to stamp... I haven't played in three days and boy could I feel the stress. Well I dragged out my Thomas Kinkade stamps again and a new one too. The Kinkade Stamps can be found here at Cornish Heritage Farms. The new stamps I pulled out were my Hanna Stamps set called I need it... You can find this adorable line of stamps at Hanna Stamps!.

Now for the card I made I used one of the Long notes in Sahara Sand and knew it would fit the cardsketch over at CPS. I colored my TK image with both my twinkling H2Os and my watercolor crayons. I think this card turned out pretty well.



Here is a close up of the TK image I think the twinkling H2Os add just the right sparkle to an image with snow...



Supplies for the card:
Stamps: Stonehearth Hutch Vignette, aida cloth, warmest regards retired SU hostess set
Ink: Black Stazon, Classic black, soft sky
Cardstock: Blue bayou, watercolor paper, soft sky, sahara sand long note
Accessories: Twinkling H2Os, watercolor crayons, soft sky double stitched ribbon

Now Yesterday's challenge over on SCS was Try a new Technique... I thought it was the cutest little boxes. Here is a link to the challenge here. For my box I decided to grab one of my Hanna Stamps and make a box of Chocolates for that "But I need it.." moments ... we all know when those moments seem to pop up ever so often... Isn't this box so cute...


Closed

Opened

Yes that is a bag of M&Ms in there. Hope you guys get a chance to try a box out.. And have a great afternoon...

Supplies for box:
Stamps: Hanna Stamp But I need it set...
Ink: Basic Black, blue bayou
Cardstock: Blue bayou, soft sky, whisper white
Accessories: Ribbon, stickles, watercolor brush

Another TK card...

Just got my new Thomas Kinkade stamps and could not resist inking them up. They are so beautiful. Here is my first use of the Stonehearth Hutch Vignette.




Again you can find these beautiful stamps at Cornish Heritage Farms here. For the sentiment I grab another new stamp set that came today called Snowflake Serenade. This beautiful set debut on the 15 of this month from Papertrey Inc. I can't resist a beautiful snowflake nor the beautiful sentiments in this set. You can find all the supplies I used for this card here at my SCS gallery. This week had too many great stamp releases... My wallet or should I say my Christmas money is feeling it...

Some more TK....

I decided to play with today's sketch challenge over on SCS. It can be found here. And here is the sketch picture here on my blog.



I thought it Lent itself well for one of my Thomas Kinkade images I had. You can get these at Cornish Heritage Farms. I have some of their new TK stamps coming sometime this week and I am jumping at wanting to play with the new images. Well here is my card for the sketch challenge...



And here is a closeup of the Garden Prayer Vignette... Isn't it beautiful... I colored the image with my Twinkling H2Os watercolor cakes. You can get them also from Cornish Heritage Farms. I love the hint of glimmer these twinkling h2os give a project...




I also feel that the UTEE gives the colored images an added pop. You can find all my supplies for this card here. Well I am off to Choir practice for the night have a great night and I hope to be back tomorrow with some more projects....

MIA for alittle bit...

Sorry but I have been MIA for a little bit here and now I am back with both some beautiful pictures of a sunset I took two days ago and a card...



You can click on these to see a larger picture of them... I love to see a beautiful sunset and I have seen a lot since we moved into this house.

Now I guess I better show you my card for today....





Again I used my Thomas Kinkade stamp, The Forest Chapel Vignette, from Cornish Heritage Farms' Thomas Kinkade line. I just love this image now that I have figured a way to color it... This time I used some of my Twinkling H2O watercolor cakes to highlight the windows and some of the other colors. I was happy with my result again. Even made the sunset in with my watercolor cakes.

Supplies:
Stamps: Thomas Kinkade Forest chapel vignette, Birthday hugs and wishes
Ink: Black stazon, Creamy caramel
Cardstock: Natural ivory, designeer paper from Today and always Scrapin kit(retired), watercolor paper
Accessories: taffeta ribbon, utee, watercolor crayons, Twinkling H2os, aquapainter

I colored TK.....

I finally was able to get an image I am happy with....



Here's a close up of it too...



Can you tell I am proud. I love all these great images Cornish Heritage Farms has come up with but have been very scared to try and color one. Every time I did it just didn't seem right until today... I used my SU watercolor crayons and an aquapainter on this piece. I then decided to make a mask so that I could only put UTEE on the image. That made the colors pop to me and on wow... I then took a look at MyTime's sketch challenge for this weekend and did a few minor adjustments and of course my card was born... What do you think.

Supplies:
Stamps: Tk stamp The Forest Chapel Vignette, French Script BG (retired), Weathered BG
Ink: Creamy carmel, Black stazon, chocolate chip, versamark
Cardstock: papertrey select white, creamy carmel, chocolate chip, watercolor paper
Accessories: UTEE, ribbon, watercolor crayons, aquapainter, heat gun

CHF and Thomas Kinkade 2

I decided this card was going to go along with my pink theme for the month. Again I used one of my Thomas Kinkade stamps from Chornish Heritage Farms that can be found HERE. The stamp I used on my card is called The Garden of Prayer Vignette... I really hope to one day color these like some of my favorite stampers have been able too.

I am dedicating this card to all those who suffer from Cancer in any shape or form. There are many people in my life that have been touched by cancer some way. My dad is one and my grandfather's wife. I can name some others as well. But for the month of October I hope that some of my readers can find a way to donate some time or some money to the cancer society of America. I have placed a badge on my site that directly links to them if you would like to find out information and ways to help just click on the badge and it will take you directly to their site.









These rubber stamps are so beautiful. I hope to be back latter today because I have a special stamp set that should be coming in today's mail. I can't wait to share it with you.

Supplies: Chocolate chip cardstock, pink passion cardstock, naturals ivory cardstock, pink passion classic ink, pink ribbon, pink embossing powder, purple cow rotary trimmer, The Garden of Prayer Vignette stamp, warmest regards stampin up set

CHF Thomas Kinkade....

Today I decided to play with some of my Cornish Heritage Farms Stamps. I have had these now for a couple of weeks. These are beautiful. They have a whole line of these on their website HERE. I am a big fan of Thomas Kinkade and what better way to get some of his best works of art than in stamps to make my own art with.

I decided to go with a monochromatic look for my first card at least til I find just the right ink to stamp it with so I can color it in. I also used CHF's Tree's Backgrounder. I love their Backgrounders, if you can't find a background just right for your project I am sure they will have it. I know they are also working on another release of some more Thomas Kinkade stamps in the near future... I can't wait to see them. Also remember this post, well I used it to cut my edges around the vignette. The cutter is a dream.... Well I guess it is time for my card. What do you think...





Supplies: The Good Life Vignette, Trees Backgrounder, warm words stampin up set, Creamy carmel classic ink, chocolate chip classic ink, natural ivory cardstock, creamy carmel cardstock, cooper brads, ivory grosgrain.

I hope to come back with a few more either tonight or I will post them tomorrow with my other two Thomas Kinkade stamps I have on hand. Have a great evening....

A Calender and a Card...

Today And yesterday I started this little project and little is not really what i would call it...



Shrink plastic and I had fun with this... I added different little charms to some of the months. Here are a few pictures of them and you can click on any picture to enlarge them... The designer papers come from The Angel Company Rustic Chic stack.


February
I took the heart from Stampin Up Year after year and had it shrunk to fit my page....










April Showers
Of Course April showers bring May flowers... Stamp sets shrunk for these two months are And Everything Nice and Summer by the Sea. These were such fun sets to color. And I love them shrunk down... may even have to shrink a few more for a piece of jewelry.




May Flowers









July Summer fun









Harvest time September

Had to play with my apples from Give Thanks...





November Thanksgiving pumpkin

Again Give Thanks gives a great pumpkin for the month of November.


December with Santa and a Tree
I had to shrink a Santa and a tree from Jolliest Time of the Year. Isn't Santa just the cutest.








Now this calender took me alittle while to complete but I just love the out come. Supplies for this project were 7 medium weight chipboard coasters, designer papers. Calender print outs, Shrink plastic, cuttlebug alpha set for my 2008 numbers on the cover, some ribbon, binder rings I found in the office supply section at walmart.

Oh and of course the card I promised...

I did this a few days ago... And mailed it out to a friend.

Supplies for this: Give Thanks, watercolor crayons, aquapainter, watercolor paper, creamy caramel cardstock, creepy crawly dp, really rust cardstock, Trees backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms, twill ribbon tape.

Sorry I haven't post much this week but my life seems to be turning in so many ways lately. I hope everyone has a great afternoon and I hope I can be back soon with another fun project.