CCEE1310 The Eyes Have It!

Our Hostess for the month of March is Charlene Merrick.  Her first challenge for us is to use EYELETS!

I haven't used an eyelet in ages, so I guess this was a good challenge for me.  Here's what I did with four gold ones......

I think this little bee is just the cutest thing.  I hope you can see that his wings are glittered.  I'm glad that I saved the little hole-puncher and eyelet setter I've had for ages, 'cause a punch just wouldn't fit!

Please join us, and link your card HERE.  Check out what the DT has done, and come backk next week!

Thomas Kinkade Week

The images by Thomas Kinkade are amazing.  Here is his stamp called "Cobblestone Bridge".

Please join us at our CHF blog HERE using your TK stamps, and join us next week for another CHF challenge.

a one-hander

this is my fourth day after surgery to remove a bone from my hand.  i've been going crazy with boredom ...worse than pain....so i did the challenge at scs today.

i used my punch and cb...easy peasy.

i get my stitches out on wednesday, then my cast.  after checking with most of you, the consensus was another red one.  three weeks later i'll start with pt.

hugs to you all.  have a great weekend.

CHF and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Blog Hop Final Day! (CCEE Below)

For the Final day of our combined Cornish Heritage Farms and Faber-Castell Blog Hop, I used one of my favorite images (Giraffe), and gold metallic Gelatos.

The giraffe was stamped with Versamark and heat embossed in black.  The gold gelato was rubbed over the image, then around the edge of the panel.  Finally, it was backed with some matching paper, I added a ribbon, and a small CHF sentiment.

Here's another card using gelatos........can you tell I had fun with them????

I hope  you have enjoyed seeing what can be done with the new products from F-C, and will look at what CHF has to offer as well.  We invite you, as always, to use CHF images, and link HERE.  There are wonderful stamps to be given away!!  See you soon.

CCEE1309 Fairies

For the last challenge of the month, Frances asked us to create a card for National Tooth Fairy Day, which is today.

Since all my gands have finished losiing their teeth, I went in another direction.  I used this cute inchie and a fun sentiment.  It will go in my stash, waiting for the appropriate occasion.

Please join us this week, and be sure your card features a fairy of some kind.  You can link it HERE where we can enjoy it too.  See you next week!

CHF and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Blog Hop Day 3

Welcome back to the combined Cornish Heritage Farms and Faber-Castell Blog Hop.  Today I have used Gelatos and markers directly on my stamp image.

I spritzed my stamp with water, and applied to water color paper.  It went through the cuttlebug with a nestie, is backed with some fun paper, and a ribbon finishes it off.

Don't forget to check out Faber-Castell, and all their wonderful products!

Please join us with your CHF images (I used Large Daisies), and link your card HERE.  Come and see what the team has to offer tomorrow for our last day.

CHF21 Doily and Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Blog Hop

This is our second day combining the Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge with Faber-Castell, using their fabulous new products!!

Our hostess for this week's Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge is Cindy, who chose for us to use a DOILY.

I used Gelatos in Pistachio Green to make an emboss-resist background.  The pattern is CHF's Large Dots Backgrounder (SL3152).  After stamping with Versamark on my white paper, and embossing with clear ep, I wiped on the gelato, smoothed it with my fingers, and wiped off the excess.

The Flower Jar (1602) is a CHF digi, white I printed up, and painted with Guava, Green Tea, and Metallic Gold (all from Faber-Castell), adding a little light blue paint.  I cut it out, popped it up, and printed a tag with a CHF  sentiment on a little gelato'ed tag.

We will continue two more days, using the wonderful new Gelatos, and Mix and Match Media Samplers from Faber-Castell.  Please go to their website, and see how great their products are!

.Please join us and link your card HERE.  See you again next week!

CHF and Faber-Castell Day 1

Today is the first of a 4 day Blog Hop of Cornish Heritage Farms in partnership with Faber-Castell.

My card uses the CHF set called Ornamental Beauty (LL6018).  The background is Gingham (SL3179),

The inks are a new product from Faber-Castell, that look like lip balm sticks, and are called Gelato.  They are very creamy!  I sprayed with water to get the soft look.

Please come back and join us.  If you have F-C media of any kind, feel free to use them.  Link your cards HERE, being sure to use CHF images, and you could win some great stuff!  See you tomorrow.

Calla Lilies

Today is the day to celebrate the Featured Stamper at SplitCoastStampers.  Her name is Andrea, and she has a gallery of pretty cards.

The one I chose to CASE had this same layout, with twine and a button.  I used an old SU set called Long-Stemmed for these beautiful Calla Lilies, and reversed the color choices Andrea had on her card.

I eliminated a sentiment, as I felt it wasn't necessary. 

We're having a mixture of rain and snow today.  I'm so glad we are toasty warm in our house.  Hope you are toasty and warm wherever you are.

CCEE1308 The "C's" Have it!

'C' is for CCEE, challenge and what else?  Frances challenged us to make a card with as many 'C's' as we could.  Here's all the 'C's' I used............

1. CAS card - one layer

2. Chicken Wire background - Beeswax

3. Chickens - Rubbernecker

4. Cloud template - for sponged clouds

5. Cuttlebug for tag - quikutz

6. Copper Cord

7-12. Markers:

     celery

     cameo

     cranberry

     caramel

     curry

     caribbean

13-16. Designer paper from SU:

     celery

     cameo

     cranberry

     curry

17. Cheers! sentiment - TAC

Good, right????  Please join us, linking your card with 'C's" HERE.  See you next week!

CHF Winter Signage

This is a card for Christmas....the beginning of my stash.  I hat being caught by surprise with not enough cards.

I used an image from CHF Winter Vintage Signage, along with some punched branches and sparkle paper I've been hoarding!  Finished off with a ribbon, and done!

Thanks for looking.

CCEE1307 Valentine Treat Box

Happy Valentine's Day (also DH's Birthday!)

Frances challenged us this week to make a FlatBack Treat Box.  You can find directions for it Here.

I paper pieced my fish with the double-sided designer paper from WeRMemoryMakers.

I also used my heart ef, and a couple heart punches.

Join us for this fun project, and link your box to our blog.  See  y ou again next Thursday with another fun challenge!

CHF20 Valentine

Welcome to another Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge.  This time I am your hostess, and the theme is Valentines Day.

This cow (cow 2 - 2525 Digi) with the rose in her teeth cracks me up! And how about that sentiment (I'm In The Moo-ood.... 2527 Digi)???

This little beauty is going to my DH, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day.

Please join us, linking your card HERE, and check out the blogs of the rest of the DT.

See you next week!

Snow, Copper Medallion and Peacock

We are in the midst of a blizzard, more than 2 feet of snow has already fallen, with more to come, and wild winds.  That's DH, using the snowblower for the first round.  He's 6'4" tall, so you can tell how deep the snow is!!

I had to make a brightly colored card today in self-defense!  I used the emboss resist technique, where embossing is put down first, then sponged.  I really love the soft look of the sponging.

This card is for three challenges today at SCS.  I just enjoy combining them...more of a challenge to me!

Hope you are safe and warm, wherever you are.  Thanks for looking, and enjoy your weekend.

CCEE1306 Enjoy The Ride!

Our Hostess for the month of February is Frances.  Our challenge this week is to create a card that features some sort of weather (apparently the 5th of Feb. was "Weatherperson's  Day"), ie. sun, clouds, rain, snow, etc.

As y ou can see, I stayed away from bad weather.  I'm tired of Winter already!!  I thought this fun card was more like Spring or Summer.  Am I rushing the seasons??

Please feel free to join us, and add your card to Mr. Linky HERE.  We'll be back next week with another theme from Frances.

TK Week at CHF

Here is a card I made with the Thomas Kinkade image "Guardian Castle.  It was cut with a nestie, layered on dark gray with a brick wall ef.

I colored the image with pencils, adding leaves and a flower.  The brown behind it is not part of the card.

Please join us, using your tk images from Cornish Heritage Farms.

CCEE1305 Some Like It HOT!

Joanne's last challenge this month was to use something HOT .......  I took that to mean the Beach.

This card is a combination of Rubbernecker images.  I created the bg scene, then stamped, painted, and cut out the image and popped it up.

Join us this week on our BLOG, and every Thursday for another challenge.  See ya!

CHF19 Die Cut

Michele is our hostess today for Cornish Heritage Farms.  Her theme is Die Cut, which you can see I used here for my cow (#2 - 2525 Digi), and the sentiment is #1630 and a digi as well.  My friend Mary, who has a birthday shortly, will LOVE it!

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you! AND - if you do, you could win a $10 Gift Certificate and a Winner's Badge to put on your Blog!


To play create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.)

Once you have created your card/project ,link it here so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CHF19. We can't wait to see what you create!

CCEE1304 Punch the Clock Day

Joanne, our hostess for the CCEE Challenge this month, asked us to celebrate a little known holiday (Punch the Clock Day - Jan. 27th) by making a masculine card with a timepiece theme.

This card stays closed with the image from Rubbernecker (535-03 Dapper on Bike). The pocket watches are also from RN stamps (534-04 Watch Set 3)
Please join us HERE, linking your card too.

See you next Thursday!

Just grands! (CHF below)

Here is Erin in her new costume                                       and Tommy in his new braces!

Erin is an Irish Step dancer, and her costumes are gorgeous (thanks to Gram and great Gram)....... she's so pretty to begin with, and only prettier on the floor before the judges.  She helped design this dress, and was so pleased with the results.  She got a trophy in pink and gold on the first outing, and everyone stopped to stare at her in her favorite color, she said.

Tommy looks pretty happy in his braces, but only time will tell how happy he is!  My daughter called this AM to tell me she had posted his picture after she dropped him off at school.  He had Tylenol before and after, but tonight he's going to be sore.

That's the latest on two of the seven.......just in case you wanted an update (and even if you didn't!)

CHF Fisherman

Here's a card I made for friends who are big into fishing!! I used Cornish Heritage Farms digis - #193 Fisherman, and #1655 Fishing You.....

The bg is CHF's Netting.  I think they are perfect together.

CHF has so many wonderful images......in red rubber and digis.  Be sure to take a look HERE, and join us at the next CHF challenge on the 29th.

Green and Green

Today I'm uploading two cards I made, 1 yesterday and 1 this morning.  I am tired of RED!  can you believe such a thing?????  My Valentine cards are all made, and sitting with their envelopes, ready for mailing.  All I have to do is get some nice crisp FIVES to put in for the Grands.  I have a few cards made for Groundhogs Day, so on to St. Pat's.  Here they are:

CCEE1303 Clean and Simple Sympathy

Welcome to another CCEE Challenge.  Our hostess Joanne chose our theme........she says she struggles with making clean and simple cards.  Personally, I don't buy that......she's so good at everything!  In addition to CAS, it has to be Sympathy.

I'm so sorry to say I needed this card, and it has gone in the mail to a friend who lost her mother.

Please join us, adding your card HERE.  See  you again in another week!

CHF18 Sketch Challenge

Here is the Challenge from Cornish Heritage Farms this week.  Kristine has given us a sketch challenge.

I really love a sketch.......I don't have to think so hard.  All I had to do was to look through my CHF images, and I was on my way.

Here is the card I made to go with the sketch.  This is a digi called "Deer With Lights" (2541).

I colored the deer in two shades of brown, RED, and gold for the bells.  The strip across is RED mirror paper.

Please join us this week (and every week) and link your card or project HERE.  There's always a prize, so use any CHF image, and Good Luck!

Easter!

Do you think I'm rushing the season?? Here is the Easter card I made today!

This card is a case of a pink one made by my cyberfriend, Lynn in Texas.  She is our Featured Stamper at SplitCoastStampers today.  It's such a pleasure to see her chosen this week!

Today will be spent as yesterday was, in front of the television, watching football.  I was just delighted to see Peyton Manning done for the year.  I'm not a fan of the Ravens (they are dirty players), but I really don't care for Denver as a place for our Pats to play after they defeat Houston today!! (Gosh! I hope I didn't jinx them!!!)

Today would be the VERY LAST day to be with my daughter-in-law, Debbie.  She is such a fan of the Patriots that even being in the room with her is painful!  She may give us a call if something unusual happens, but we are not missing her today.

Have a wonderful Sunday, enjoy the football if you are so inclined, and please root for our guys!!

CCEE1302 New Toys!

Welcome back to another CCEE Challenge.  This week Joanne has challenged us to take some time to play with new stamping "toys".

My newest toy is from Memory Box, the Frostyville Border Die Cut.  Isn't it fabulous???

The digi snowman is paper pieced, and isn't it fun that he's looking at the snow beneath his feet!!

Please join us, linking your card HERE.  Be sure to take a look at what the rest of the team has done!  See you next Thursday.

Thomas Kinkade Week at CHF

This is Thomas Kinkade Week at Cornish Heritage Farms. I used a portion of "Night Before Christmas".

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you! AND - if you do, you could win a $10 Gift Certificate and a Winner's Badge to put on your Blog!


To play create a card using CHF images (preferably T.K. )You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.)

Once you have created your card/project come here and place a link to your card/project so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CHF. We can't wait to see what you create!

CCEE1301 Baby Card

Our hostess for the month of January is Joanne Grzelak (jojot at SCS), who challenged us to start the New Year with a baby card.

I made a pink and white card for the baby next door, Juliette, who has just soined her sisters, Penelope and Scarlett.


I hope you will want to join us in our first challenge of 2013.  (Can it be already??)  Just link your card HERE so we can enjoy it too, and you'll see the cards from the rest of the Design Team.

See you again next Thursday with another from Joanne.

CHF17 - NO RED or Green

Our CHF challenge today is to use NO GREEN OR RED!  I made this card with a digi (Asian 13) from Cornish Heritage Stamps.  The bg is a new Spellbinder EF, called (appropriately enough) Asian.

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you! AND - if you do, you could win a $10 Gift Certificate and a Winner's Badge to put on your Blog!


To play, create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.)

Once you have created your card/project come here and place a  link to your card/project so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CHF17. We can't wait to see what you create.



Emboss Resist

The challenge today was twofold, and involved using a technique I don't often do.  I love the look of emboss resist, but it always makes a mess.

I cased a card of Wanda Cullen's (cullenwr) from SCS, as we were asked to find someone whose birthday was close to our own. Ours are two days apart.

Wanda makes beautiful cards, and I kept her layout, changing only the colors and ef.

Christmas is behind us, New Year's ahead.  The days sure fly by.  Hope you are looking forward to the New Year.  I'm pretty good at remembering the new number for the month of January, but after that I really slip up!

Have a great day, all!

Sparkle Background

Back to Winter.  the card, not the weather (yet).  the challenge was to make a card with sparkle, and this is sure it.  I must tell you that the brad in the middle of the flake is white and sparkly.  It was very hard to take the photo today.

My sweet Son-in-law is coming today to pick up all the gifts my DD had delivered here.  YAY!  I get my sunporch back!  He's bringinig two gift cards my DD picked up for me, so that finishes up the shopping for this year.  DOUBLE YAY!

We are having a very low-key Christmas.  I've done none of my Swedish baking or cooking.  My hands are just not up to the task (and confidentially I had no enthusiasm to do it), so it will be regular food.  Some will care, but food is food, and we are all good eaters.

Have a safe and happy holiday.  Much love to you all from our house.

It's Spring!

I know it's not Spring, but I am tired of the same old colors.  Also, today is full of sunshine, and it doesn't look like December at all.

This card is for the Sketch Challenge at SCS.  I altered it a bit to accommodate the chevrons...they were supposed to be a strip.

I added some clouds in the bg, and used my brand new nestie labels (and also the new chevrons).  What fun to have new stuff.

Have a great day!

CHF16 - Winter

This week I am your Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge hostess.  The theme is Winter.

I used Thomas Kinkade's "Graceland Christmas" (TK - 124T) from CHF.

The image is inked in nave on blue papre, backed with navy.  There's a snowflake with the sentiment on the white ribbon.

Please join us adding your card HERE, and maybe you will win some fabulous stamps!!

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!  Today I am basking in the beautiful sunshine, although the temperature will not go above 35 degrees today.  Snow tomorrow.  Enjoy what you have today......the moral of the story.

Mom and I made this floral card this morning for the Inspiration Challenge at SCS.  It was quick and easy (we like that!), and will work for just about anything we want to send a card for. (This is my 2nd preposition ending sentence of the morning.  Please don't tell my English teacher son!)

Here's hoping that, in the light of the news from CT, you will find time to hug your children. Love to you all.

CCEE1250 Santa......

Welcome back to the CCEE Challenge!  This is our last for 2012.  Wow.  Where did the time go?

Our hostess Frances challenged us to make something using Santa, as the theme is "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town".

My card uses a Rubbernecker (209-07 Winter Holiday #4 - Santa) image, and I just LOVE his sweet face.

Please join us, linking your card HERE.  Have a wonderful Holiday, and come see us in the New Year!!!

An Extra

I made a card yesterday, and was so busy I didn't have time to post.  It was made for the Inspiration Challenge, and I was really pleased with the way it came out.  Feels good to be done with Christmas cards!

CCEE1249 Favorite New Die

Welcome back to another CCEE Challenge.  This week, Cindy Haffner told us she wanted to see our Favorite New Die.

I had to use the new bird and birdhouse I got from Quikutz.  I think it's just adorable..especially with my old fave, the fence punch, and the Quikutz branch.

The sentiment is only one line from a Rubbernecker sentiment (508 - garden Phrase Set).  I just love that their images are so great, and the sayings are so multi-purpose!

Be sure to join us, and link your card HERE.  We'll see you again next Thursday!

CHF15 - Christmas Box or Bag

Our hostess this week is Frances, who challenged the Cornish Heritage Farms DT to make a Christmas Box or Bag.

I made my box out of Heidi Grace double sided designer paper.  The first picture shows that it REALLY is a box, and the second shows better the view from the top.

The cardinal image is, of course, from CHF (Cardinal 300M- Digi), and it's painted with watercolors.  It's done with a technique called "out of the box", and mounted on a circle atop the box. 

I added some punched greens and flowers, and rolled a rose.  There is a big pearl in the rose, and liquid pearls in the small flowers.

Please join us this week, linking your card HERE, and maybe you will win some imiages!!

See you in two weeks with another challenge!

CHF Winter Village

My card today is a case of one by Julia, our QFTD at SCS.  Her card has a BEE, mine is certainly a different theme.

This is a digi stamp by Cornish Heritage farms called Winter Village (1083K), and using Gimp, I changed the black to purple for this card.

It's also for the Free 4 All challenge...fruits and veggies.  One of the options was to use a color for the theme, so I chose grape.  I just couldn't get my act together for a fruit or veg card.  Christmas is still on the table top!

Have a great day.

CCEE1248 Ribbon Lacing

Our last CCEE challenge of the month for our hostess Vicky Gould is Ribbon Lacing.  We were told we could lace through a bracket, piece of lattice work, cardstock......whatever.

I laced the RED ribbon through holes made with a punch, then tied a bow.  The snowman is a Sizzix die cut, and I think he is just the cutest!

Please join us, linking your card HERE, and we'll see you in December!

Christmas in Saffron

I love to make Christmas cards in non-traditional colors.  This one uses Saffron, a pale shade of yellow.

The center is cut out with an oval floral nestability.  The image is from SU - Lovely as a Tree, one of my all-time favorites, and sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

I made this specifically for the Featured Stamper (thecircleguru) at SCS today, changing a number of things she did to make it my own.  I hope she likes it(and you too!).

Have a great day.......we'll be joined by #2 son and family today for some food and football.

Glitter for Sue

Our Queen for the Day, Sue, will be enjoying a lot of cards made in her honor.  I hope she likes this one I cased from her wonderful gallery.

I hope you can see the powdery glitter on the panel with the ornament.  IRL it's very pretty.

We had a fab Thanksgiving...good food, even if I do say so myself (the cook), and fun being with the family.  I hope yours was as good as ours.  To top it off, our Pats won BIG!!