CHF April 2012 Release Blog Hop

Welcome to Cornish Heritage Farms blog hop! If you've hopped here from Dianne's Blog you're on the right track.

Come join us as the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team take you on a journey discovering all sorts of CHF goodness! If you didn’t start at the beginning of this hop, you might want to head on over to the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog so that you don’t miss out on anything.

This month we have 17 backgrounders, 3 ATC Sets, 2 individual Rummage Bin Stamps and 3 Rummage Bin Stamp sets being released.

"First 24 Special" - receive 15% off all orders that are placed within the first 24 hours of the release.

Be sure to leave a comment on everyone’s blog as you travel from blog to blog for your chance to win some Cornish Heritage Farms blog candy. Three of our CHF Design Team members will be given away blog candy, but who they are is a secret! They will be giving away one new CHF stamp to a random person who leaves a comment on their blog! You have until 10 pm April 20th to be eligible for the Blog Candy!


I have 2 projects to share with you today! The first is a card.

Card Size: 4" x 5"

I used the beautiful rubber stamp called Music Gives You Wings, and added minimal colour to showcase it. I stamped the sentiment on a separate piece of CS and used Spellbinder's Labels 16 to cut it out and mounted it with pop dots. My light box seems to wash out the colour, but the black is darker in real life, in the photo is looks kind of gray.

The card looked a little bare without ribbon (if you follow me, you know I love my ribbon, lol), so I added a flourish for some dimension. It was the perfect touch without taking away from the image.

Inside:

White is always difficult to photograph, so it's difficult to see but I used white swiss dotted CS for my card base, I stamped a flourish from the rubber stamp set Beautiful inside.

Recipe: CHF SS-Music Gives You Wings & Beautiful, CS-Black & White Swiss Dot, CTMH CS-White Daisy, CTMH Ink-Black, Spellbinders-Labels 16, Memory Box-Elegant Scrollwork, Foam Squares, Copics-Skin E0000, E00, E01, Hair YR30, YR31, Y00, Shirt R81, Pants B95, Sentiment B02, V04.

The second project I have to share with you are candles that match my card.

Large Candle: 5.25" workable space
Small Candle: 3.25" workable space

If you haven't 'stamped' on candles or need a refresher, I have a Tutorial HERE you can follow, it's super easy and so much fun.

I stamped the images onto tissue paper, cut them out and attached them to the candles. I then embellished them with rhinestones and stickles. The heart shape was super easy to cut out because the wrinkle that occurs when folding the tissue paper in half, smooths out when you heat it onto the candle.

Some close-ups:

I added velvet ribbon along the top and bottom and a few rhinestones.


The flourish is from the rubber stamp set Beautiful, I stamped it on tissue paper using Aged Mahogany Distress Ink, the colour remains quite beautiful when attached to the candle. At the back I added the word 'Beautiful', and I added gold Stickles around the edge of the heart.

Recipe: Candles, CTMH Ink-Black, Distress Ink-Aged Mahogany, Rhinestones, Velvet Ribbon, Gold Stickles, White Tissue Paper.

This would be a great gift set, with matching card for someone who plays the piano!

Cornish Heritage Stamps Used:
Music Gives You Wings
Beautiful

Cornish Heritage Stamps Store Link
Cornish Heritage Stamps Blog Link

Now hop on over to Holly's Blog and check out the lovely creations she's sharing!

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to leave a comment for a chance at some CHF Blog Candy.
Deneen

CHF Sneak Peek Day 4!

Hello and welcome here! It's Day 4 of Cornish Heritage Farms (CHF) Sneak Peek week. Tomorrow evening starting at 10 pm EST is the Blog Hop, and when the rubber stamps we've been showing you this week are available to you in the CHF store!!

Here is my card for you today.

Card Size: 4.25" x 5.5"

On the outside of my card I used a FREE digital stamp from CHF called Flower Wheelbarrow, and it's available right now in the store. This was one of the cards I sent to CHF when I applied for a DT position, and since I hadn't shared it with you yet I thought I would now. I hadn't finished off the inside and I thought it was the perfect space to use a flourish from the Rubber Stamp Set Beautiful.

Inside:

I punched out a few flowers to add to the flourish. The stamp set has several different flourishes and the sentiment 'Beautiful' with it.

Recipe: CHF SS-Beautiful LL6004, CHF Digital-Wheelbarrow, PP-My Mind's Eye Little Miss Muffet Hello Beautiful & Crate Paper Farmhouse Coll'n Homemade, CTMH CS-White Daisy & Topiary, Textured CS-Burgundy, Distress Ink- Aged Mahogany, Spellbinder's-Fancy Tags2 & Labels 10, Martha Stewart Hydrangea Punch, BossKut-Floral Flourish Die, Our Daily Bread Fence Di, Wild Orchid Flowers-Pink Tone 1" Roses Set A & Pink Tone 5/8" Roses Set B, Recollections Flowers, Copics.

Copics Used:
Grass-YG03, YG25, YG17
Sky-BG0000
Wheelbarrow-E42, E43, E44, E47, W1, W3, W5, E15, E17
Rocks-E40, E42
Flowers-B02, RV21, R83, V12, V15
Greenery-YG03, YG17

Cornish Heritage Stamps Used:
Flower Wheelbarrow - (digital) available now
Beautiful - (rubber) available Apr. 19th

Cornish Heritage Stamps Store Link
Cornish Heritage Stamps Blog Link

• Don’t forget to check out all the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• This month we have 17 backgrounders, 3 ATC Sets, 2 individual Rummage Bin Stamps and 3 Rummage Bin Stamp sets being released.
• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Thursday19th April 10 PM EST, starting on the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog.
• New Release Stamps available in the Cornish Heritage Farms Store from Thursday 19th April 10 PM EST.
• "First 24 Special" - receive 15% off all orders that are placed within the first 24 hours of the release.

See you tomorrow at 10 pm EST!
Deneen

CHF Sneak Peek Day 3!

Wow!! Have you seen the amazing creations by the Cornish Heritage Farms DT so far, I bet you can't wait until Thursday until you can order some of them?? Welcome to Day 3 of Sneak Peeks. Don't forget Thursday, April 19th at 10pm is the Blog Hop with a chance to win some Blog Candy!

Here's my card for today.

Card Size: 5" x 7"

The image is a Rubber Stamp Set called Wonder Is Best When Shared, isn't it sweet? The flourishes I added using white embossing powder on patterned paper, they are from the Rubber Stamp Set called Beautiful...one of my absolute favourite sets.

I inked the section where the sentiment is in black, and then ripped the edges and pop dotted it onto the image so that it would stand out a little more. I added Crystal Ice Stickles to the word 'Shared'.

Inside:

I used the flowers from the Beautiful stamp set along the edge inside the card.

Recipe: CHF SS-Wonder Is Best When Shared LL114 & Beautiful LL6004, PP-My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Howdy Doody Like Ledger Paper, CTMH CS-White Daisy, Black & Pansy Purple, CTMH Ink-Pansy Purple & Black, Versamark, White Embossing Powder, Celebrate It Basic Basic 7/8" White Grosgrain Ribbon, Foam Squares, Pearls, Crystal Ice Stickles, Copics-R81 & B02.

Cornish Heritage Stamps Used:
Wonder Is Best When Shared - available Thurs. Apr. 19th
Beautiful - available Thurs. Apr. 19th

Cornish Heritage Stamps Store Link
Cornish Heritage Stamps Blog Link

• Don’t forget to check out all the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• This month we have 17 backgrounders, 3 ATC Sets, 2 individual Rummage Bin Stamps and 3 Rummage Bin Stamp sets being released.
• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Thursday19th April 10 PM EST, starting on the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog.
• New Release Stamps available in the Cornish Heritage Farms Store from Thursday 19th April 10 PM EST.
• "First 24 Special" - receive 15% off all orders that are placed within the first 24 hours of the release.

See you tomorrow,
Deneen

CHF Sneak Peek Day 2!

Hello and welcome here to Day 2 of Cornish Heritage Farms (CHF) Sneak Peek Week! CHF has digital stamps available right now in their store, BUT on Thursday Apr. 19th, 10pm there will be Rubber Stamps available as well.

Here's my card for Day 2!

Card Size: 4.75" x 4.75"

I used a flourish from the Rubber Stamp set Beautiful to stamp around the cream CS mat, and sentiment. The sentiment is a digital stamp called Here's Wishing and it is available right now in the store.

Inside:

I also used a flourish from the set Beautiful to decorate the inside of my card.

Recipe: CHF SS-Beautiful & Here's Wishing, PP-BoBunny Ambrosia Collection, CS-Dark Green & Cream, CTMH CS-White Daisy, Distress Inks-Tea Dye, Old Paper, Antique Linen & Peeled Paint, Spellbinders-Labels 22 & Fleur de Lis Squares, EK Success Flower Punches, Marianne Designs Flourish LR0116, Grosgrain Ribbon, Cream Lace Ribbon, Pearls, Foam Squares.

Cornish Heritage Stamps Used:
Beautiful - (Rubber) Flourishes, available Apr. 19th
Here's Wishing - (Digital) available now


Cornish Heritage Stamps Store Link
Cornish Heritage Stamps Blog Link

• Don’t forget to check out all the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• This month we have 17 backgrounders, 3 ATC Sets, 2 individual Rummage Bin Stamps and 3 Rummage Bin Stamp sets being released.
• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Thursday19th April 10 PM EST, starting on the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog.
• New Release Stamps available in the Cornish Heritage Farms Store from Thursday 19th April 10 PM EST.
• "First 24 Special" - receive 15% off all orders that are placed within the first 24 hours of the release.

Enjoy, hope to see you tomorrow!
Deneen

Cornish Heritage Farms Sneak Peek Week!

Hello and welcome here on a Sunday. I have a big, HUGE, surprise to share with you...I was accepted on the Cornish Heritage Farms (CHF) Design Team!! YAY!! We are so excited to share our CHF creations with you all. You can find the DT links in my sidebar where you' re sure to be inspired.

AND

This week is a Sneak Peek Week of some rubber stamps being released and available to you on Thursday April 19th...they have Digital Stamps already available to you in store. Each day this week - beginning today - all of the DT will be sharing a creation with you using the Rubber Stamps being released on Thursday.

AND

On Thursday at 10 pm EST there will be a BLOG HOP with some Blog Candy available to be won! And the Rubber Stamps that we've been using will be available to YOU in the store.

What an exciting week CHF has in store for you!!



Here's is the card I made for today's Sneak Peek.

Card Size: 4" x 5.25"

I used the Rubber Stamp set called Beautiful, and the Digital Stamp called Baby's Basket. I coloured the image using Copics, and used Spellbinders to cut out the image and mat it. I finished it off with a simple ribbon and a few pearls.

Inside:

Here I used a flourish from the Beautiful Stamp Set, and left a space for writing.

Copics Used:
Basket-E33, E34, E35, E37, o
Skin-E0000, E00, YR01, R20
Hair-YR30, Y32, Y00
Ribbon/Flower/Outfit-V12, V15, 0, YG03
Pillow-C0, C00
Blanket-G24, G40, G82, YR30, Y32
Background-C00, C0, C1, BG0000

Recipe: CHF SS-Beautiful LL6004, CHF Digital-Baby's Basket, CTMH CS-White Daisy & Pansy Purple, CS-Swiss Dot Mauve, CTMH Ink-Pansy Purple, Spellbinders-Classic Ovals Lg, Floral Ovals, Big Scallop Ovals Lg & Fancy Tags, Celebrate It Sheer Creations 5/8" White Satin Edge Ribbon, Mauve Pearls, Foam Squares, Copics.

Cornish Heritage Stamps Used:
Beautiful - (Rubber) sentiment & flourish, available Apr. 19th
Baby Basket - (Digital) available now


Cornish Heritage Stamps Store Link
Cornish Heritage Stamps Blog Link

• Don’t forget to check out all the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• This month we have 17 backgrounders, 3 ATC Sets, 2 individual Rummage Bin Stamps and 3 Rummage Bin Stamp sets being released.
• Join us for our release Blog Hop this Thursday19th April 10 PM EST, starting on the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog.
• New Release Stamps available in the Cornish Heritage Farms Store from Thursday 19th April 10 PM EST.
• "First 24 Special" - receive 15% off all orders that are placed within the first 24 hours of the release.

Enjoy, I hope to see you tomorrow!
Deneen

Top Tip Tuesday Spotty Dotty Card

Hello and welcome here. It's amazing how lost one feels when their computer is missing. Mine's out getting fixed, so I'm borrowing one to get my post done. There was no photo editing on here either, so what ya see is what ya get, lol.

The Top Tip Tuesday Challenge for the next 2 weeks is called Spotty Dotty, let's see how many polka dots you can add to your creation. Annette has an awesome Box in a Bag Tutorial for you too.

Challenge - Spotty Dotty
Tutorial - Box in a Bag by Annette

Card Size: 4.25" x 5.5"

Sorry it's so dark, but until I get my computer back, this is all I can do for now. The challenge is Spotty Dotty, and I made sure to have lots of dots on my card. I used polka dotted paper, I added polka dots to her dress, and I made the background with dots too. I had seen this done on lots of images but hadn't tried it out, I really like the look and look forward to attempting a dotted background again.

Sponsor's

For a chance at the following prizes, be sure to link your creation to the Spotty Dotty Challenge at Top Tip Tuesday, you can enter up to 3 times!! For a chance at an extra prize leave a tip on your blog and be sure to leave 'tip' after your name in Mr. Linky.
Don't forget the challenge runs for 2 weeks.

Simon Says Stamp

Stamp Fairy

A huge thank-you to Stampfairy for the image I used, she is called Molly Throughout the Year May. She was super fun to colour, and looks so sweet holding a flower. I added dots to her dress with a Copic colourless blender, it adds a nice soft dot. I used a white gel pen for the dots on her headband, you would not see them if I had used the colourless blender pen there.

Copics Used:
Skin-E0000, Eoo, YR01, R02
Hair-E08, E09, E19
Dress/Headband-BG10, BG23, BG32, 0 for dots
Socks-YR30, Y32
Flower-R21. R22, Y32, YG03
Background-C0, C1, C3

Recipe: PP-Fancy Pants Lilac House Chamomile, CTMH CS-White Daisy & Vineyard Berry, CTMH Ink-Black, SS-Flourishes Tag Line, EF-ProvoCraft Kassie's Brocade, Nestabilities-Lacey Circles, Labels 22 & Ribbon Banners, Martha Stewart Pinking Scallop Border Punch, Celebrate It Basic-Basic 7/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Copics, Foam Squares, Rhinestones.

Enjoy,
Deneen

Top Tip Tuesday Easter Card

Hello and welcome here! Wasn't the Top Tip Tuesday's Mother's Day/Craft Buddy Challenge fun?! This time we'd love to see your Easter or Animal projects, and Heike has a great Easter Basket Tutorial for you...and don't forget the DT has some TIPS to share with you.

Challenge - Easter or Animal
Tutorial - Easter Basket by Heike
DT Tips

Card Size: approx. 3.5" x 4.75"

I made this easel card using ovals because it reminds me of an egg shape, and I thought it would be perfect with the cute little chick image. A big thank-you to Bugaboo Stamps for letting me use the digital stamp EC Flower image, isn't she sweet?

The Sponsor's

For a chance at the following prizes, be sure to link your creation to the Mother's Day Challenge at Top Tip Tuesday, you can enter up to 3 times!! For a chance at an extra prize leave a tip on your blog and be sure to leave 'tip' after your name in Mr. Linky.
Don't forget the challenge runs for 2 weeks.

**edited to add: don't link to the Mother's Day Challenge, lol, you'll need to link to the Easter or Animal Challenge:)

Bugaboo Stamps

7 Digi images for their choice

Sew Sweet
£10.00 voucher

Fred She Said $20 voucher!

I added Crystal Ice Stickles to the leaves of the flower to give it some sparkle.

Copics Used:
Chick - Y11, Y15
Beak - YR07
Heart - R29
Headband - YR000, Y00, YR02
Flower - YR30, Y32, YG00, YG03, YG17
Sky - BG0000

Recipe: PP-My Mind's Eye Howdy Doody "Baby" Lacey Paper, CTMH CS-White Daisy & Sweet Leaf, Nestabilities-Petite Ovals Lg., Classic Ovals Lg. & Lacey Ovals, Celebrate It Basic-Basic 7/8" White Satin Ribbon, Pearls, Foam Squares, Crystal Ice Stickles.

Enjoy,

Deneen

Top Tip Tuesday Teapot Card & Tutorial

Hello and welcome here! This week the challenge at Top Tip Tuesday is for Mother's Day or a Crafting Buddy, and lucky me, I get to share a Teapot Card Tutorial with you.

Challenge - Mother's Day or Crafting Buddy
Tutorial - Teapot Card by Deneen
Tips by DT

Card Size: 4" x 6"

Our Lovely Sponsor's

For a chance at the following prizes, be sure to link your creation to the Mother's Day Challenge at Top Tip Tuesday, you can enter up to 3 times!! For a chance at an extra prize leave a tip on your blog and be sure to leave 'tip' after your name in Mr. Linky.
Don't forget the challenge runs for 2 weeks.

Simon says Stamp

Crimson Cloud

Karen's doodles

Now for the Tutorial and Template too!!
Template returning soon

Print Template so Teapot (without lid) measures approx. 4" tall & 6" wide.

Recipe: PP-Making Memories Je t'adore Floral Ledger, SS-KaiserCraft Decorative Lamp & Flourishes Tag Lines, Close To My Heart SS-My Mom & Tender Tags, Close To My Heart CS-Colonial White & Sorbet, Distress Inks-Forest Moss & Fired Brick, Close To My Heart Ink-Black & Garden Green, Spellbinders-Labels 18 & Classic Scallop Circles Lg., Martha Stewart Punch-Butterflies & Branch, Pearl, Foam Squares, Golden Rod Stickles, Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers- 5/8" Pink Tone Roses Set B, 1" Pink Tone Roses Set A, 3/8" White Open Roses, 1/8" Pastel Tone Rosebuds & 5/8" Green Rose Leaves.

BE SURE to head over to the Top Tip Tuesday Blog, the DT has rocked my Tutorial!! You will be inspired by the little variations to the template...because I sure am:)

Okay, time for you to go and create,
Deneen

Masculine Stitches Card

Hello and welcome here! Have been over to Top Tip Tuesday to see if you have Caught Our Eye?? The Stitches Challenge is 1/2 way through, you have 1 more week to enter for a chance at some great prizes. You can find all the info at Top Tip Tuesday.

To continue with the Stitches theme, I decided to make a quick masculine card.

Card Size: 4.25" x 5.5"

I cut an oval into the planks patterned paper and then added foam squares behind to make a frame for the lighthouse. I hand stitched x's along the oval and in the corners...just like cross-stitching. I used a felt pen to add some detail around the oval and corners. I added Stickles to the glass to make it 'shine'.

Copics Used:
Lighthouse/Rocks-E42, E43, E44
Grass-YG03, YG17, YG25
Sky-BG0000

Recipe: Digital Stamp-Cornish Heritage Farms Lighthouse 3, PP-My Mind's Eye Dolled Up "Day" Worn Paper, CTMH CS-Black & White Daisy, CTMH Ink-Black & Outdoor Denim, SS-Flourishes Taglines, Black Floss, Spellbinders Ovals & Banner Tags, Black Felt Pen, Foam Squares, Stickles-Golden Rod & Crystal Ice.

Hope you're having a great week!
Deneen

Top Tip Tuesday Stitches Challenge

Hello and welcome here! Where is this year going?? I can't believe it's almost March, at least we have an extra day this month to hold March off, lol:) On to the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge for the next 2 weeks...it's a Sewing Challenge, real or faux, and Janette has an awesome comparison Tutorial on sewing. Be sure to check out this weeks blog for Tips from each of the DT!

Challenge - Stitches (real or faux)
Tutorial - Sewing
Tips from each DT member!

Card Size: 5.5" x 5.5"
(shocked I know, I made a card other than 4.25" x 5.5", lol!)

Here is my creation for the sewing challenge. Be sure to click on the picture to check out the stitches, it's difficult to see because I used white thread. I stitched around each square, around the large square, and across the ribbon border.

A big HUGE thank-you goes out to Saturated Canary for giving me this gorgeous girl to colour, she's called Nevaeh. It gave me a chance to practice colouring folds.

The Sponsor's
For a chance at the following prizes, be sure to link your creation to the Stitches Challenge at Top Tip Tuesday, you can enter up to 3 times!! For a chance at an extra prize leave a tip on your blog and be sure to leave 'tip' after your name in Mr. Linky.
Don't forget the challenge runs for 2 weeks.

Saturated Canary - 2 Digi images

The Crafty Pad - 2 digi images

I added Stickles to her skirt, the hearts in the top corner and to the rose on the bow. I added some shimmer to the tulle part of her skirt and her top with a Spica pen...but it's so fine you can't see it on the photo.

Purple is one of my favourite colours to work with, but Copic doesn't have a wide range of purples to work with so I had to improvise a little bit with the lightest purple to get the look of pleats...talk about challenging myself, lol. I see from the photo that I could have extended the shadow area a bit more, but I'm still happy with how it turned out especially since I haven't yet mastered folds/pleats.

Copics Used:
Skin-E000, E00, R21
Eyes-B21
Hair-E08, E09, E13, E19
Dress-V01, V12, V15, BV0000
Dots on Dress-RV14
Under Dress-R81, R83, RV000
Tights-YR30, Y32
Shoes-C5, C7, E55, E57
Background-W00, W1

Recipe: SS-Saturated Canary Nevaeh, PP-First Edition Dreamcatcher, CTMH CS-Petal, Pansy Purple, Black & White Daisy, Textured CS-Cream, Spellbinders-Labels 14, Labels 10 & Twisted Metal Tags & Accents, Martha Stewart-Pinking Scallop Border Punch & Branch Punch, Celebrate It Ribbon-Pink 7/8" Satin Ribbon & Pink Scalloped Edge 5/8" Organdy, Recollections Purple Flower, Clear Spica Pen, Pearls, Foam Squares, Crystal Ice Stickles, Prima Heart Embellishments.

Challenges Entered:
CMC Copic Challenge - Challenge #37 Bright, Fun Colours
Crafty Card Makers - 123 Challenge - 1 image (Nehaeh) , 2 patterned papers (purple butterfly & yellow butterfly papers), 3 embellishments has to include heart (hearts in corners, pearls & flower)
Robin's Fetish Challenge Blog - Challenge #96 People
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Photo Inspiration Challenge
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Getting Digi With It