
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Clocktower Cottage, a new Kinkade release

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Layout Sketch Wednesday


Tuesday, October 28, 2008
It's Saturday Evening Post release day!
I have three new cards to show you using these new stamps so bear with me. You can also see the other designer samples in the Saturday Evening Post gallery.
We've moved card
Supplies:Stamps: Saturday Evening Post License Plates by Cornish Heritage Farms (background), Mona Lisa Moments Classic Essential Expressions by Cornish Heritage Farms (sentiment), Rummage Bin Journal Box by Cornish Heritage Farms (postmark stamp)
Harvest card
On this card I heat embossed the image in brown and coloured the image and added some Stickles for sparkle.

Supplies:
Dad card

Guess who has a new blog?
Here's the new blog address: http://becreative.cornishheritagefarms.com/
I'll leave you with a Christmas card I made recently using a snowman stamp from the Kim Hughes Heart Warmers set. (Note you can also buy Snowie Sophie as a separate stamp either mounted or unmounted).

Supplies:
Stamps: Kim Hughes Heart Warmers by Cornish Heritage Farms
Monday, October 27, 2008
CHF Challenge Chicks Monday---Faux Snow

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday Evening Post Harvest Card

Here's another sneak peek at one of the three new Saturday Evening Post stamps that is being released next week at Cornish Heritage Farms. This one is called "Fall Harvest" and will be available on October 28th.
For this card first I stamped the image in Staz On ink onto water colour paper and coloured in with my water colour pencils. Then I took my stipple brush and Ranger distressing ink and started to swirl over the entire stamped image. I really love the way this turned out. It turns the entire image very vintage but you still get to see the colouring through it. Just between you and I this is a great way to cover up less than stellar colouring *wink*.
To finish off the card, I did some sewing and added the sign stamp from the Rummage Bin set over top of the Post part of the stamp. It was actually a perfect fit!
Supplies:
Stamps: Saturday Evening Post Fall Harvest by Cornish Heritage Farms, Rummage Bin All things Fall by Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink: Staz On Timber Brown, Adirondack Espresso, Ranger Vintage Photo distressing ink
Cardstock: Canson Water colour paper
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Mellow
Tools: Sewing Machine, Stipple Brush, Water colour pencils
Accessories: Autumn Leaves Buttons
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Have you seen this blog?
Last week they asked me if they could use two cards I did using the Vita Bella line from My Little Yellow Bicycle. Of course I was honoured and said yes! You can see the post here which features tons of fabulous projects from all the MYLYB lines. My two cards can be seen at the bottom of the post.
Thanks for letting me share!
Friday, October 24, 2008
Another Quickie Kinkade card

All I did was take one of the sheets of the Thomas Kinkade Masculine Series papers and cut it in half to create a 8 x 4” card base. I stamped the “inspire” word and heat embossed with black embossing powder. Then I stamped on the bottom with the Daisy Chain Scrapblock in black ink and added a small strip of paper and hemp twine.
Simple as that!
Supplies:
Stamps: Mona Lisa Moments Big inspiration by Cornish Heritage Farms, Daisy Chain Scrapblock by Cornish Heritage Farms
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A Saturday Evening Post Sneak Peek

This is one of the stamps, called “Bird Watching”. It is absolutely perfect for masculine cards and as you can see from my sneak peek it lends itself really well to brayering.
This card was made using only cardstock and stamping. I brayered the sky background onto glossy paper and stamped the image over top in black ink. For the card base, I used Ranger Distress Inks and applied them with a stipple brush. Then I stamped with a Scrapblock in black ink. A very simple card for that man in your life.
Supplies:
Monday, October 20, 2008
Special Delivery card and CHF Challenge Chick Monday!

Supplies:
Stamps: Kim Hughes Baby love set by Cornish Heritage Farms, Large Polkadots backgrounder set by Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black ink, Adirondack Pink Sherbet ink
Cardstock: Georgia Pacific (card base)
Patterned Paper: Mocha Chica collection by Cornish Heritage Farms
Tools: Fiskars Threading water punch, Coluzzle (for cutting circles)
Instructions:
1. Cut three 1 3/8" circles out of white cardstock. Stamp baby stamps in black ink and colour images with markers. Ink edges with light pink ink.
2. Cut piece of 5 ½" x 4 ¼" light pink patterned paper and mount onto standard A2 card base. Ink with light pink ink.
3. Cut 3 ¼" square of light teal paper and ink edges with light pink ink. Stamp sentiment in bottom left hand corner with black ink.
4. Punch 3 ¼ " of scalloped border and attach to teal square slightly above sentiment.
5. Cut piece of white paper 4 ¼" x 2". Stamp with polka dot backgrounder in light pink ink and ink edges. Attach to cardbase.
6. Attach remaining square of paper to card base overlapping polka dot strip.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Happy Harvest....a So Sketchy card

For today’s So Sketchy card sketch I created this tall fall themed card (8” x 4”) with a little peek through window. On the bottom I used my new Cuttlebug pumpkin harvest fall folder and lightly sanded to allow the white to show through. The rest of the papers are from this year’s K and Co fall stack.
Window cards are a fun way to create interest on both the inside and outside of your card. I’ll definitely be trying a few more of these!
Supplies:
Stamps: Rummage Bin All things fall set by Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink: Adirondack Ginger InkCardstock: Georgia Pacific (card base)
Patterned Paper: Provocraft (plain orange paper)
Tools: Cuttlebug (Pumpkin Embossing folder), Coluzzle (for cutting window)
Accessories: Offray ribbon, Prima flowers, Button
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Dashing through the snow.....

Ink: Versafine Sepia
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey (plain distressed), Cosmo Cricket (patterned)
Tools: Sewing machine
Accessories: Martha Stewart red glitter, Chipboard embellishment (Maya Road), Martha Stewart snowflake punch, Red rhinestone Darice
Technique: Glittered stamped image and embellishment, Machine Sewing, Inking
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Christmas Blessings

Stamps: Mona Lisa Christmas sentiments from Cornish Heritage Farms, Rummage Bin Beautiful set from Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Figgy Pudding
Tools: Cuttlebug (snowflake die and embossing folder), Martha Stewart snowflake punch
Accessories: Making Memories rhinestone brad, Frosted card base from Sheetload Short cuts
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Hellllloooo Beautiful!
Rumour has it that there is a give away on their blog you might want to check out (although if you don't, more chances for me to win LOL!)
Now if only I could find a local store that carried all this yumminess.
O'Canada

Wouldn't this make a fun card to mail someone out of the country, or even for a Canada Day greeting?
Ink: Staz On Red, Versafine Sepia
Cardstock: Bazzill (for card base)
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey
Accessories: Making Memories Mini alphabet letters
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Masculine birthday wishes

Making masculine themed cards is super easy using the Thomas Kinkade papers from Cornish Heritage Farms.
For this card I used some of the papers from the masculine paper set and created the wood grain background with a backgrounder stamp to add to the wood-sy feel of the card.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wood grain backgrounder by Cornish Heritage Farms, Mona Lisa Moments Classic Essential Expressions by Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink: Adirondack Ginger Ink
Cardstock: Georgia Pacific (card base)
Patterned Paper: Thomas Kinkade Masculine paper set by Cornish Heritage Farms
Tools: Coluzzle (for cutting circles)
Monday, October 13, 2008
Flower Soft and a sneak peek......

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Miss You
Friday, October 10, 2008
Merry Christmoose!

Stamps: Rummage Bin Great Canadian Set by Cornish Heritage Farms, Rummage Bin All things Fall by Cornish Heritage Farms, Kim Hughes Christmas Cheer set by Cornish Heritage Farms, Aged sheet music Scrapblock by Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink: Adirondack Ginger, Versafine Sepia
Cardstock: Bazzill (card base)
Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket, Provocraft
Accessories: Poinsettia, wood button, raffia (general crafts supplies), Copics, Ranger Perfect Pearls (for snow)
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Elvis is in the house!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Welcome to #27 Mushroom Lane

Here’s a gate fold card I made using a Mushroom Lane (#27) stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms. I paired it up with papers from the Basic Grey Ambrosia line and a few Prima flowers.
If you’d like to see more of these fun stamps, be sure to check out the Mushroom Lane gallery here.
Supplies: Stamps: Mushroom Lane #27 from Cornish Heritage Farms, Kim Hughes Tag You're It from Cornish Heritage Farms Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black Cardstock: Prism Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Ambrosia line Tools: Nestabilities scalloped die Accessories: Copic markers, Stickles, Prima flowers, American Crafts ribbon
Monday, October 6, 2008
CHF Challenge Chicks Monday is here!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Let's Celebrate World Card Making Day!!
First of all, a reminder that we have some challenges, chat and PRIZES available over at Cornish Heritage Farms. We have three holiday card challenges to keep you busy in the forums and you can also come and chat with us from 2-5 pm EST.
Secondly, Scrapbook and Cards Magazine is celebrating on their blog. They asked me to create a card for this special day and this is what I came up with. If you are not familiar with this fabulous FREE Canadian magazine, they have a special card donation program called “Bring a Smile to a Child”. They collect and distribute birthday cards to children’s hospitals across Canada. So if you have a few extra cards lying around why not send them to this worthy cause? I sent them this card and I hope it brings a smile to a child’s face.

Instructions:
1. Create an A2 standard card base (measuring 5 1/2 x 4 1/4) using card stock of your choice (or premade card base).
2. Take zig-zag edged cardstock and trim to fit inside the card base as shown. Adhere to card base.
3. Trim a piece of patterned paper to fit inside the zig-zag cardstock and adhere.
4. Stamp turtle stamp onto green patterned paper and cut out. Stamp eyes onto white paper and cut out. Glue white eyes onto cut out turtle. Stamp cupcake onto white paper and colour as desired.
5. Using scalloped border punch, punch strip out of red patterned paper same width as background paper.
6. Cut piece of orange paper same width as background paper, and stamp with sentiment in bottom left corner.
7. Emboss white paper with birthday embossing folder and cut to same width as background paper.
8. Adhere orange paper, red scalloped border and embossed cardstock as shown to center of background paper. Adhere turtle and cupcake cut outs to card. Adhere chipboard candles to card. Add bow to candles.
9. Add some shimmer to the card by adding Stickles as desired.
Supply list:
Stamps: Kim Hughes' Baby Love set from Cornish Heritage Farms (turtle), Kim Hughes U R a Hoot set from Cornish Heritage Farms (sentiment and hat), Kim Hughes Baked with Love set from Cornish Heritage Farms (cupcake), Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black, Cardstock: DCWV card base, Bazzill Cardstock with an edge, Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Cupcake collection, Tools: Cuttlebug (embossing), Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Accessories: Chipboard, candles Basic Grey Cupcake collection, American Crafts Ribbon, Stickles
Friday, October 3, 2008
Let’s Celebrate

Stamps: Kim Hughes U R a Hoot set by Cornish Heritage Farms, Large Polka Dot backgrounder stamp by Cornish Heritage Farms, Ink: Staz On Cactus green, Adirondack Pitch black, Patterned Paper: Mocha Chica collection by Cornish Heritage Farms, Daisy Bucket, Tools: Coluzzle template (for circles), Accessories: Stickles, Clear card base from Sheetload Short Cuts, Copic Markers
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Get those wallets out.....Lots of new releases at CHF this week!
First we have the October stamp of the month. It's a cute pirate set designed by Kim Hughes. It's available at a special price until the end of the month so get on over and order it!!





Wednesday, October 1, 2008
It’s October 1st and it’s time for a new issue of Sheetload!

This is the first of three cards I created for this month’s samples. As you can see, you can add a bit of pizazz to your clear card base by stamping on it with Staz On ink (or equivalent)
Stamps: Rummage Bin All Things Fall set from Cornish Heritage Farms, Scrolls Scrapblock from Cornish Heritage Farms, Ink: Staz On Saddle Brown, Versafine Sepia, Patterned Paper: K and Company, Tools: Nestabilities scalloped die, Accessories: Clear card base from Sheetload Short Cuts