Finally, a set for the folks (like me) who feel like they are spinning circles all the time! This set is called Round & Round We Go. This is my life….
Stamps: Round & Round We Go – Rummage Bin from Cornish Heritage Farms
Cardstock: Super Smooth White Prism, Striped notecards – Target
Ink: Black StazON, Red Pepper, Citris, Peach Bellini, Pink Cloud Adirondack
Accs: Dimensional Dots
Posted in Cornish Heritage Farms, Ranger Products, Rummage Bin
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands so that you might win the respect of outsiders and so you will not be dependent upon anybody. ~ I Thes. 4:11
It’s time for my monthly Divine Design upload. We’re posting on the 9th this month because the 8th fell to a Sunday. It wasn’t hard for me to find a verse to focus my attention to this month. With vacation, the end of school, committee work, church activities and my real job…we’ve been a flurry of activity. It’s so easy to get caught up in the race, isn’t it?
I’m praying that I can find that quiet life in the warm, still days of summer. Of course, I’m not so naive to think it will just pop in on me. It will take due diligence on my part: saying no, scheduling some quiet time, resisting the urge to sign up for many fun summer activities and a tough one for me, getting enough rest. I hope that your summer will be about finding balance and a quiet life, as well.
I used my large rectangle scalloped Nestabilities to create this 5″ x 4″ card. It did require piecing to rectangles together, but with scallops and a little ribbon it’s easy to hide the ‘seam’. Stamps from “Beautiful” and “Time to Stamp” made quick work of the main image panel. the flowers and corners are embellished with Latte Pearls from Kaiser Craft. (I got mine at eP.) The ribbon is May Arts, available from Jacksonbelle.
You can see other inspiration from Taylor, Nancy, Angel and Jami. Please feel free to participate, you can load to your blog or share in the Splitcoast gallery using keyword: BVC08. And, as an aside, when I went to grab the link for the SCS gallery, I was so humbled to see the vast number of ladies who are sharing in this challenge. May God be glorified through our desire to walk closer to Him.
Blessings ~
Posted in Cornish Heritage Farms, Divine Design, Fresh Wind, Rummage Bin
Two quick cards tonight that feature the Kim Hughes, Paradise Found stamp set that was released last week. If you are working with your church’s Vacation Bible School this summer, chances are pretty good your theme might be Outrigger Island from Lifeway. These images are perfect for postcards, invites, snack picks, favors or a stamped craft.
There are line art and silhouette images in this set, making it an easy choice for kids. Speaking of kids, I have that issue of Paper Crafting with Kids to give away. I read through all of the responses. They were great! So many good ideas to tell a child, ‘hey, you’re special to me! I hope you have fun with this!” Kim Leach had a fabulous, fabulous idea:
My favorite gift to give is a “spy kit” using a simple plastic “school” box with a handle and adding cool looking sunglasses, magnifying glass, small steno book, pencil, a washable ink pad and index cards (for fingerprinting of course!) disguises {mustache–sometimes the groucho marx glasses come attached:), hat, clown makeup, etc} and a wallet badge I make using black CS…Prism would give it the perfect leather feel, wouldn’t it?… I use the computer to print their name and official-looking graphics; I cover it all with some contact paper (to make it flexible and easy to “flip” open…”Detective Leach here. I just have a few questions…” The badge takes the longest but it’s worth it!
My son is 22 and STILL has his wallet badge and glasses (with airplane propellers…great disguise!) He used that thing to death!!!
What a great mom!! And what fun, fun memories. Kim, send me your snail mail, and this PC issue will be heading your way! Thanks for all the time that you gals took to share some of your favorite things. I know you have been a real blessing by sharing these gifts with the kids in your life.
Tomorrow, I’ll be posting my Divine Design card for the month. I’m a tad anxious to see what everyone else has come up with this month. See you in the morning!
Posted in Cornish Heritage Farms, Kim Hughes
The Kim Hughes Blitz continues at CHF this weekend with lots of fun cards and prizes. Today’s challenge is about using any Kim stamps with wings. I thought this would be fun to send to some folks who are expecting for the first time. I love my Kaiser jewels these came from a sweet friend for my birthday, but their available from eP…they come in a whole rainbow of colors, and who doesn’t think of their pending arrival as precious jewels?
The colors a little washed, that happens at 6:40 in the morning, but here’s a closer look at the detail on the main panel. Love how I could make this coordinate with my new K&Company Berry Sweet paper. I’m hoping to look at more new stuff from CHA releases when I hit Archiver’s tomorrow afternoon.
Busy, busy day around here. The library is having a ‘pounding’ – not this kind of pounding, but the kind where they bring in a whole load of wood and nails and let the kids have at it with hammers…The hammers are on the kitchen table, and the girls have their clothes picked out already. 😉 After that, we have the wedding that I made the card for yesterday and then a baptism for my niece tomorrow. It’s gonna be a special 48 hours. Hope your weekend will contain some memory making material, as well.
Blessings ~
Posted in Cornish Heritage Farms, Kim Hughes
We have a wedding this weekend, and we’re all pretty excited about it, well the girls and I are pretty excited about it. Wes doesn’t get excited about much except for Disney World! I used Lizzie Anne’s Say it in Script and Beate’s sketch to put together a pretty fast card. The paper is Lily Kate by Basic Grey, the ribbon is sheer blue from one of TexasJodyLynn’s awesome bulk buys. The border punch was just stitched on my machine with no thread.
The flower from Lizzie Anne’s Jolies Fleurs is colored with Copics and highlighted with a Spica Glitter pen. I used Nestabilities to cut the panel. You can see lots of inspiration if you visit Beate Johns, Cambria Turnbow, Charmaine Ikach, Jenn Balcer, Laurie Schmidlin, Mary Jo Albright and Sharon Harnist.
And just because I haven’t made you look at my cute kids in a while (and their grandma reads this blog!) 😉 Here is a shot from our first swim meet of the summer taken last night.
I owe a sweet family a thank you for something very nice that they have done for me lately. This little giraffe and butterfly are from Kim’s new Baby Love set. CHF is hosting a Kim Hughes Blitz thru Sunday, and this card fits the Limited Supplies challenge (cardstock, stamps, ribbon & buttons only).
Yesterday, I received my complimentary copies of Paper Crafting with Kids from Paper Crafts. I had 2 projects published in this issue. The idea was to find projects appropriate for children to make or give as gifts. Lots of fun ideas to share paper crafting with your kids!
This little set of colored pencils was one of my projects. I made a simple box with Cryogen White cardstock and the Geometric Flowers II Backgrounder from CHF. Wouldn’t it be sweet with some simple line art stamped notecards? What’s your favorite thing to give a child for a simple birthday or thinking of you gift? Leave me a comment with your answer, and on Sunday, I’ll pick a winner and mail out one of my extra copies. Have a great day!
Posted in Copics, Cornish Heritage Farms, Kim Hughes
Last night my youngest asked me if I would make her a card. Since it’s the first day of summer school (PTL!) I thought I’d suprise both of my daughters this afternoon. Here’s the card I made for Courtenay. I’ll try to post Ashley’s a bit later.
I used the CHF color challenge today for my palette: Tawny Light, Classic Red and Iced Teal. This is a 5.5″ square card. I love that the new Scrapblocks ™ (being released tomorrow) are 6×6 so stamped image can go landscape or portrait or cover a big ole square. I used Writing Paper. First I inked the stamp with Aqua Light, then using just the corner of the Classic Red ink pad, I went over the dashed guidelines. You could use a marker easily, too. I used a stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the sentiment on the paper.
You can see other cards using this color combo at these fancypancy blogs: Julie Campbell, Dawn Lusk, Kim Hughes, Michele Boyer, Kristine Reynolds, Becky Olsen and Lisa Strahl. I’ve got a busy day planned and hopefully that equates fun stuff to show you all week long! 🙂
Stamps: Writing Paper Scrapblock ™ & Making the Grade – Cornish Heritage Farms
Cardstock: Tawny Light, Classic Red & Supah Smooth White – all Prism
Ink: Old Paper Ranger Distress, Pitch Black Adirondack, Light Aqua & Classic Red Adirondack
Accs: Cut & Dry foam – Ranger, Stamp-a-ma-jig, American Crafts flower and ribbon
Posted in Cornish Heritage Farms
