Summer Fling-Week One

Today is the first day of the 12 weeks of summer at Cornish Heritage Farms! Usually, Liz and Richard release new stamps every Tuesday and Friday but they are going to relax and enjoy the next 12 weeks of summer and instead of having new releases every week they are going to focus on a different line of stamps each week. It's called the 12 weeks of Summer Fling!

What’s the 12 Weeks of Summer Fling?

Each week will feature one of the rubber stamp lines at CHF with a blog hop and special gallery showing new samples using stamps from that line. The featured line will also be on sale for the week so definitely the time to add to your collection:) Two Gift Certificates will be awarded to 2 lucky winners who successfully follow the blog hop & comment as they go in the time allotted. This is not a race. All Blog Hops will start from the CHF Be Creative Blog on a Monday, comments must be made before midnight EST on the Thursday of that week & winners will be announced on the Friday. 1st prize is a $20 CHF Gift Certificate, 2nd Prize is a $10 Gift Certificate which will be emailed to the winning participants. The Gift Certificates will be valid for 6 months from date of issue. PLEASE NOTE that if you have a Club CHF award awaiting you on your next order, you will need to wait for the following order to use your Gift Certificate as the store only allows one discount per order.

If you upload a qualifying card (using the featured week’s stamp line) to the CHF special gallery for that week you will be eligible for the Design Team’s Favorite prize which will be a rubber stamp/stamp set of your choice up to the value of $16.99. The deadline for uploading cards for the prize will also be Thursdays at midnight. Looking forward to having you play along with us for the summer.

This weeks featured line is the Backgrounders line! I am not a part of the blog hop. But if you want to play along start here. I did make a few cards featuring three different backgrounders to share with you though!

Double Damask
Scripture Essentials I

Sophisticated Swirls
Wedding Centers

Shady Daisy
Sweet Bee

You can check out even more samples in the background gallery! I hope you liked my samples and that they helped inspire you to join in the first week of fun!

-Kristine

Hello

Looking forward to the long weekend! Planning on sleeping in, hanging with the family, and hopefully doing a little stamping! I have a card to post for you today but I don't plan to be back to blogging till Tuesday.


This card combines a few different challenges:
The Cupcake Craft Challenge to use gray & black & one other color
The Mojo Monday Sketch &
The cute Card Thursday challenge to use no designer paper

Obviously I used gray and black & RED for the first challenge. I know that may look like patterned paper but it's actually two background stamps by Cornish Heritage Farms. The digital image is from Mo's digital pencil. (Thanks to Tracy for enabling me!)

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend!

-Kristine

Fuschia Tiles Backgrounder

This is the first of my scheduled posts for this week. I should be at the airport waiting for my 7 AM flight to Houston as this hits the blogisphere.

Tomorrow, Cornish Heritage Farms is releasing a new backgrounder called Fuschia Tiles. It's a really fun, versitile background. I have a couple of fun cards to share with you today. The first one is a classic black and white wedding card. I was inspired by a card I saw in Papercrafts, "A Card a Day" book.

After making this card I wanted to see how this backgrounder would look colored...

I think it looks AMAZING! What a great way to customize a card! I hope you've enjoyed the sneak peeks at this new backgrounder. It will be available at the store on Tuesday!

Thanks for stopping by!

-Kristine

Sweater Inspired

It's VSN weekend over at SCS and I am having a BLAST!!! If you have time you should stop by and play. It's not a competition and you don't have to participate in every challenge. It's just a fun, fun time! It's challenging, productive, and educational!

The theme for this VSN is the Winter Olympics. Did you know that each Winter Olympics has its own official sweater? I didn't either...see stamping is educational! One of last nights challenges was to make a card inspired by this years official sweater created by The Hudson Bay Co.

This is the card that was inspired by those sweaters:

That beautiful Graphic paper isn't patterned paper. I created it with the Graphic Tapestry backgrouner by CHF. The main image is from GinaK's brand new Lovely Lables set. When I saw this set I knew I had to have it...and every nestabilities set that it matched! I will be very busy stamping today but will have lots to share in the coming days so please stop by again soon!

Kristine

Hot, Steamy, Love

The new Vintage Chintz backgrounder was released today at Cornish Heritage Farms. One of my new favs I think. It works sooo well with CHF stamps from the ATC, SEP, and Rummage Bin lines with it's vintage feel.

It's very subtle on this card with the red stamped on Red. I paired it with Domestic Love for this Hot, Steamy, love card.

PROJECT SUPPLIES:
Stamps:
-Vintage Chintz Backgrounder
-Domestic Love (ATC)
Paper:
-Prism Paper
-CHF Simply SMooth white
Ink:
-Warm Red, Chestnut Roan & Olive Pastel fluid chalk by Clearsnap
-Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink by Tsukineko
-copic markers
Other:
-Martha Stewart heart punch
-Prima flowers
-makin memories brad

You can check out some more samples in the gallery! Have fun drooling!

Kristine

Vintage Birthday Wishes

I made this card for a friend who is turning 40 this week. She's freaking out, which cracks me up since I passed that mark a few years ago and so far I haven't fallen apart! She loves Thomas Kinkade images so I know that she will love this card.

If you look closely you'll get a little peak at a new backgrounder that will be available tomorrow at Cornish Heritage Farms...and you can pick up this Thomas Kinkade stamp while you're there!

PROJECT SUPPLIES:
Stamps:
-Make a wish cottage (Thomas Kinkade)
-Vintage Chintz Backgrounder
Paper:
-Prism PaperCHF Simply SMooth white
Ink:
-Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink by Tsukineko
-Chestnut Roan fluid chalk by Clearsnap
-Copic Markers
Other:
-DMC Floss

Looking forward to Friday and a nice weekend. Hope all is going well for you!

Kristine

Love is a Bridge

The new Scene it set, Gates and Bridges, was released to day by Cornish Heritage Farms. Here is a quick and simple card I made using one of the bridges in the set.

PROJECT SUPPLIES:
Stamps:
-Graphic Tapestry Background
-Gates and Bridges (Scene it)
-Sentiment Thomas Kinkade

Paper:
-Prism Paper
-CHF Simply Smooth white
Ink:
-Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink by Tsukineko
-L'Amore red palette ink
-copic markers
Other:
-Makin Memories brads

You can check out the set and more samples in the CHF gallery. Thanks for stopping by!

Totally Toile

I just realized that I forgot to share CHF's latest backgrounder that was released last week. It's called Toile! That's easy to remember, huh?

I think it has so many great possibilities.

Stamps:
-polka dot and toile backgrounders

Paper:
-Prismatic sunflower light and black

Ink:
-Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink by Tsukineko

Other:
-black grossgrain ribbon
-Prima yellow trim
-nestability heart dye
-button
-fancy pants pin

Here's a card I made just using part of the stamp:

Stamps:
-Toile Backgrounder
-Cancer is so Limited

Ink:
-Memento Tuxedo Black & Rhubarb Stalk by Tsukineko

Paper:
-Blush Red Dark and simply smooth white by Prism paper

Accessories:
-Ribbon by Ofray

tools:
sponge

Thanks for stopping by. See you tomorrow!

Picotage Prints is here

I hope you had a very happy Christmas. We spent the day at home with the kids Jeff's parents. Yummy turkey dinner and I cooked enough that we can have left overs tonight so we can relax and chill out today.

I wanted to share a quick card I made last week with the newest backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms. It's Picotage Print and it's gorgeous!!!

I just love all the different leaf patterns. It's hard to believe it's all part of the same background stamp but it is!
Stamps:
-I thee Wed (Kim Hughes)
-Picotage Print Backgrounder

Paper:
-Candle glow light & Black by Prism

Ink:
-Airondack Pitch Black Pigment ink

Tools:
-Nestabilities by Spellbinder

Accessories:
-Darice Bling

Here's another one that I stamped and then sponged different green inks over to make it look like patterned paper.
Stamps:
-Cuddling Cardinals (Friendly Kritters)
-Picotage Print Backgrounder
-Aged Sheet Music Scrapblock

Paper:
-Intense Kiwi, frosted Kiwi, and simply smooth white by Prism Paper

Ink:
-Colorbox Lime and Olive Fluid chalk
-Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink by Tsukineko
-Copic Markers

Accessories:
-Ofray ribbon
-Marvy Liquid Applique

Tools:
-Nestabilities by Spellbinder

This is a backgrounder that I know I will be using again and again!!! Hopefully, I'll get a chance to stamp some this weekend. If I do...I'll be back to share!

Family & Friends

I made today's card a couple of weeks ago and all ready sent it to a friend. Can't say who because she reads this blog and may not have opened it yet.....

It's got a little sneak peak of another brand new backgrounder that CHF is releasing the day after Christmas. It's called Picotage Print.Stamps:

-Holly Day House & Sentiment (Friendly Kritters)
-Picotage Print Backgrounder
Paper:
-Classic Red and simply smooth white by Prism
-Solid light green is from Scrapblocks paper pack
-spotted paper is Scenic Route
Ink:
-Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink by Tsukineko
-Adirondack Aqua dye ink by Ranger
-Color Box Lime Pastel chalk ink
Accessories:
-Marvy Liquid Applique
-prima flowers
-The Robin's Egg Dew Drops
Tools:
sponge
colored with prisma color pencils and blended with stumps and OMS

Just a quick post today. I finished making my Sangria yesterday but didn't do any stamping. Now I need to go make my Almond Roca. Hopefully, I'll get some stamping time tonight.

Take Care!