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For today's sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers I made a card that will be sent to one of my best friend's daughter. This is a young wife and mother with three children who found out just a couple of months ago that she was pregnant and that she has breast cancer. We have been holding her up in prayer.

Last week I came across this poem which I found so inspiring. I hope that it will be encouraging to the one who receives it.

Cancer is so limited....
It cannot cripple love.
It cannot shatter hope.
It cannot corrode faith.
It cannot destroy confidence.
It cannot kill friendship.
It cannot shut out memories.
It cannot reduce eternal life.
It cannot quench the spirit.
        Author Unknown

CHF08 Challenge--Circles, Circles, Circles

We are ready for a new Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge. I am hostess for this challenge and I have chosen the theme -- Circles, Circles, Circles.

I used the digital stamp "Floral 11" , printed it out three times, colored each image with copic markers and used a 1 3/4 inch circle paper punch. Then I backed each circle with a black circle and a scalloped circle cut with spellbinders nestabilities.

On the white background I printed the "Happy Anniversary" image, embossed the background leaving a 1-inch strip at the bottom. I trimmed the background with a multi colored ribbon that I purchased at my local fabric store. The middle image has dimentionals behind it.

Hope that you can play along with us. for all the details please visit the Cornish Heritage Farms blog. I will look forward to seeing your card.

CHF07 Challenge -- Animals

Cornish Heritage Farms challenge this week is to use an animal on your card. The challenge hostess is Barb Gmitro-Best. Go to the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog to get all the details.You could win a $10 gift certificate.

For my card, I chose the digital image of a wolf which you can find here. What a handsome fellow. I printed out a fairly good size image, cut it out with a Spellbinders Nestabilities and sponged around the edges before taking it out of the frame. For the background, I used a piece of gray cardstock and embossed it in a folder that I had inked with  Memento London Fog. That makes the embossing really pop. Both the image and background were matted with black cardstock and attached to a white card base. I used the computer to print the sentiment. Hope you can play along with today's challenge.

CHF Challenge--Black, White and Your Color Choice

Its time for another Cornish Heritage Farms blog challenge--CHF06. Today's challenge hostess is Michele L. Michele has challenged us to use three colors--black and white with a third color (your choice). I love using black and white with lots of different colors. So which one did I want to use? Well, my choice was red. I used a digital image from the Cornish Heritage Farms store called "3 Chirstmas Kittens". I printed it twice with one image flipped horizontally. I colored only the kittens Christmas hats with a red copic marker, added a red layer of card stock and then a black layer. The sentiment was made on the computer, cut out and layered on black card stock. What a fun challenge--

SC394--Pretty in Pink

Here is the card that I made for this week's sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. It is fun to be able to use things that have been lying on my workspace for several weeks--the digital image (already cut out and colored) and the background paper.

CHF Challenge 5

It’s time for another CHF challenge today. Our hostess this week is Anne Harmon and she has chosen  “summer” as our theme. Yes, this is a favorite time of year for me. I am not fond of the very hot weather, but there are so many things that I love about this time of year.  I love the flowers and working in my gardens. I decided to do a very clean and simple card and spotlight the basket of flowers from the digital stamp called “Garden Chair”. You can find all the details about how to play along in the challenge at the Cornish Heritages Farm blog. We will all be looking forward to seeing your creation. You might even be the winner!

Today's Challenge--Create A Birthday Card

It’s time for a new challenge from Cornish Heritage Farms. The challenge this week is to create a birthday card and our hostess is Lisa Silver. I am always in the need of one more birthday card. For my card today I used the Cornish Heritage Farms birdhouse digital stamp and a greeting image. The image was colored with copic markers, matted on deep yellow card stock and then on Kraft Card stock. The card base is also the Kraft card stock. The designer paper is from Heidi Grace Designs and was sponged with Antique Linen Distress Ink.

Hope you will be able to play along with this challenge. For more details please visit the Cornish Heritage Farms blog, design your own card, and post a link to your card.

CHF Challenge # 3--Pearls and Lace

It is time for the third Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge. The theme for this challenge is "Pearls and Lace" and our hostess is Cindy Haffner. Hope you will be able to play along. For all the details go to the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog.

Now I would like to share the cards I made for this challenge. My card uses the digital image from the Cornish Heritage Farms website called Lily Digital Stamp. It was printed, cut out using a Nestibilities Oval and sponged with Memento Black Ink before removing the image from the cutting die. I found the lace in my sewing cabinet, added some black ribbon over the top edge and finished it off the self-sticking pearls.

Of course, I had to make a second card using different colors. I recolored the image to match  the SU color Rose Red before printing it out. I then sponged SU Rose Red ink around the edges before removing it out of the die. The card stock (SU Rose Red) was dry embossed on about two-thirds of the front panel. Again I covered the top edge of the lace with ribbon and added self-sticking pearls. I hope you enjoy our third challenge.

Challenge # 2--Just for Baby

It's time for Challenge # 2 at Cornish Heritages Farms. Today's challenge is "Just For Baby" and our hostess is Barbara Bruder. For my card I used one of the digital images. Using my computer, I added the words to the balloons and the sentiment "welcome" at the bottom.  I used circle nestibilities to cut out the imagine. and I used the large dots background stamp inked with versa mark to create the background paper. To play along with the challenge visit the Cornish Heritage Farms blog for complete instructions and links to each of the design team's blog.

I could not stop with one card. I enlarged the image until I could use just the little bear's face. I cut it out with a circle die and created a baby's birthday card. The birthday sentiment was created on the computer. I find myself doing that a lot when I need a special size or something done a special way.

I hope you enjoy seeing all the projects that the design team has created. There are links to all the blogs on my left-hand side bar. Have a wonderful day.

Working With A Digital Stamp

I want to show how I sometimes take a digital sentiment and create an image that fits the project that I am working on. I am using a digital image that is available from Cornish Heritage Farms.

 

No. 1-- Insert the desired image.
No. 2--The image was copied so I now have two images. The first one is cropped to only say "Happy". The second one is cropped to say "Anniversary".
No. 3--The two images are now arranged to achieve the desired look.

Pretty cool. Sometimes we do the same thing with rubber stamps by just inking up certain words before stamping.

Cornish Heritage Farms Sneak Peek--Day 3

Day 3! Only two more days until the new rubber stamps will be available for purchase at Cornish Heritage Farms. Hope you are having fun visiting all the blogs and seeing samples of the new stamps. Remember--the blog hop begins Thursday evening at 10:00 p.m. EDT. Begin your journey on the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog. You will have 24 hours to visit all the blogs of the Design Team and leave comments on each one. Three members of the Design Team will be giving away "blog candy" to three lucky winners.

I used the lighthouse image on a previous card but could not resist using it again. Here I colored the image using copic markers. I did some masking in order to sponge on the background colors. Notice the "brick panel". That is a preview of another "backgrounder" called "brick wall". I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink to stamp the brick on the gold colored card stock and then sponged on some distress ink to give it more color. It reminders me of what the walls of the lighthouse might look like close-up.

Cornish Heritage Farms Sneak Peek--Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 for the new rubber stamps that will go on sale at Cornish Heritage Farms on Thursday, April 19, at 10 o'clock p.m. EDT. This is an exciting week for all the members of the new CHF Design Team. Here is my card for today. Love using this "Large Dots" background stamp. The focal image is from the set that is being released called "Time to Stamp". The note on the heart reads "to love with all your heart" which is also from the stamp set.

Be sure to visit all Design Team Members' blogs to see their sneak peeks. You will find a list of the design team members to the left of this post or on yesterday's post. Release Day is Thursday April 19 at 10:00 p.m. and that is also the time that the blog hop begins.

Sneak Peek--Day 1

Today begins the sneak peeks for the new rubber stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms. Here is my card using the new backgrounder stamp "Large Dots". It has been fun playing with this new stamp. The flower image is from CHF's digital stamps which are available right now on their website.

You can see all the sneak peeks by viewing the design team's blogs--

Cornish Heritage Farms Blog

Frances Byrne (Design Team Co-ordinator)

Anne Harmon

Barb Gmitro-Best

Barbara Bruder

Cindy Haffner

Dawn Bennett

Debbie Standard

Deneen Treble

Dianne Beans - You are here

Holly Brown

Jacqueline Smith

Kris Chirhart

Kristine Reynolds

Lisa Silver

Michele L

Petra Amico

Silke Kittman

Steph Ackerman

Vicki Davis

Visit each DT member's blog each day to see more "sneak peeks". Here are a few notes regarding the release of the new rubber stamps and the blog hop--

The new rubber stamps will go on sale Thursday evening at 10:00 p.m. EDT on the Cornish Heritage Farms website. The blog hop will also begin at 10:00 p.m. EDT on the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog. Be sure to leave comments on everyone's blog because three of the design team members will be giving away "blog candy". It is a surprise as to which DT members it will be.

Let Your Light Shine

This lighthouse is from Cornish Heritage Farms digital collection. One of the neat things about using a digital stamp is that you can make it any size you would like. The sentiment is also a digital image from CHF. I did some copying and cropping to get the finished alignment.

"Pink and Black" Day

Today I have two cards to post.The first one is for SCS sketch challenge 379. I used SU pretty-in-pink card stock and designer paper. The black card stock was a generic brand from my stash.The flourish is part of a die cut by Cherry Lyn Designs. The pink flower sticker is one I have had for a while.

The second card is also done using SU pink-in-pink card stock with black as the accent. The image is Floral 11 digital stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms. I kept trying to add something to the card but finally decided that it was better as is. I colored the image with copic markers.

Digital Stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms

Love this digital stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms. It reminds me of my grandmother. She loved her flowers. I colored the image using Copic markers and used Spellbinders Nestabilities to cut out the image. The birthday greeting is from a set from Our Daily Bread Designs.  Join the design team of Cornish Heritage Farms for our first blog hop beginning at 10:00 p.m. EDT on April 19 when the first of the new rubber stamps will be released.

Hydrangeas

This image had been on my workspace for several weeks. I finally got it used in a card. It was a free digital stamp that I had downloaded months ago. I cannot remember where it came from, but I do love it. The background was gray card stock stamped with a background stamp using Memento's London Fog.Then the edges were sponged with the same ink. The image was colored with copic markers.

Using A Digital Stamp

Over the past few weeks I have been trying out new things. Today I want to post some pictures of cards I have made using a free digital stamp from the new Cornish Heritage Farms. I love this image. There is so much that you can do with a digital image--make it the perfect size for your card, flip it, rotate it, etc. I can't wait to try another stamp.