CR84FN46 - Sweetest Moments

 The CR84FN colors this week are soft and sweet and perfect for Valentines. 

I was working on another project and  had a scrapling leftover.  I picked it up as the base for my project: 

I decided to make a bookmark for my daughter using the scrapling. It has a fold so she can put it over the page.  You can also add a tiny bit of magnet (the kind you get as advertisement for the refrigerator) to the bottom to help keep it closed and on the page. 

Products: Hero Arts Sweet Hearts, Cornish Heritage Farms, My Favorite Things - Pure Innocence - Bee Mine,   Memento Angel Pink, Ranger Archival Coffee,

Here are the lovely inspirational photos and quote:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

The wonderful CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Stephanie Kraft * Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville *

Have a blessed Sunday!

Suzz

B Mine

I rolled up three challenges into one: Mojo Monday Sketch #223, Simon Says Stamp and Show a Red Letter Day and City Crafters Challenge - Back to Black.

I started from the idea of the scarlet letter and used the red B in the B Mine to put together my card. 

All kinds of inspiration here... I was inspired by Linda's valentine card,  Tracy provided a beautiful card and the meaning behind red letter day. The back is black challenge is to use a silhouette and the pussy willows on the panel is my silhouette.


The stamps are from the Cornish Heritage Farms and the papers are from My Minds Eye.

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Suzz

Cityscapes

Cath over at Moxie Fab World put forth a new challenge called The Cityscapes are on the Rise. I had created this skyline image awhile ago and it was sitting in my scraps box. I loved  the colors but set it aside as I had no inspiration for the design of the card.  Here is the end result.

 

The skyline was on one piece and I ended up cutting it into two circles and making a third circle to complete the design.   The skyline image is from B Line Designs and the map is from Cornish Heritage Farms and the sentiment Hero Arts. The images were stamped with Versafine Smokey Gray and clear embossed. The skyline is a combination of black dye ink and Rangers Distress Inks Wild Honey.  

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

The Beauty in Neutrals

The Flourish challenge for Bring Back Beautiful is Neutral Beauty. I love working in neutrals because the shading and highlights are the focal points.  I had sitting in my scrap pile a stamped map background (Cornish Heritage Farms) in a lovely soft gray. As soon as I saw the challenge I pulled it out.

 

I decided to pull out my flowers from Hero Arts to layer them over the map background. This also applies for the Hero Arts Challenge this month which includes layering of stamped images. 

I stamped the flowers first using the Ranger Archival black ink.  I then colored them using a variety of watercolor pencils (black, brown, gray, and sepia). I highlighted with the white gel pen at the end to bring back touches of white. 

After I finished the flowers I really wanted to make the center pop, I decided to draw a box around the image using the same shades of watercolor pencils and add a touch of the aqua brush to soften the effect. I finished off with the bees (Cornish Heritage Farms) and the sentiment from Stampscapes. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Twelve days of Tags - Day #4

Loved that Tim's tag #4 today featured patterned paper. I used to never use PP and always stamped my backgrounds but there are so many pretty papers out there and you can stamp on them too! :)

Here is my take on tag #4.  I am also going to pop this over into the Simon Says Stamp and Show your Tag challenge and The Artistic Stamper December Challenge. :)

The paper is from the Father Christmas pack of paper from Pink Paislee. The edges are sponged and images stamped using Faded Jeans Ranger Distress Inks. The Postcard and Script are Stampers Anonymous. The tiny snowflakes are from Memory Box. The sentiment is Cornish Heritage Farm.  The snowflakes on the pendant is the Hero Arts DesignBlock. Once again this was really fun to create. I won't mention that I created it twice because I wanted my image to work with the Postcard stamp. :)

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Twelve Days of Tags - Tag # 3

Okay.. What's not to love about trees, birds and nature!  Tim's tag today has a bunch of my favorite things on it and I learned a couple different uses for the tissue tape that I had sitting in a drawer. So I am one happy camper this morning.  Here is the beautiful inspiration tag from Tim. He shows how to make a tissue tape flower too. Another great idea.  I am also going to pop this over into the Simon Says Stamp and Show your Tag challenge and The Artistic Stamper December Challenge. :)

Now here is my tag. I was cruising along following his tag and his inspiration and then I started to do my own thing. (A problem of mine...)

I didn't want to use the tissue flower on my card but definitely going to try it on another project in the future.

The background is a combinations of Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint and Forest Moss. I stamped the script from the Stampers Anonymous set in the background in Vintage Photo and Shabby Shutters. The bird is from the Sizzix Die by Tim Holtz. The tissue tape is from Ranger. The ink on there is actually Versafine Crimson Red. I tried the dye inks but they weren't giving enough color so I put the Versafine ink on and clear embossed it. I then added the Stickles Rock Candy but it didn't give enough texture so I added some crystal fine glitter and a pearl for an eye.

The other stamps are from Cornish Heritage Farms, Impression Obsession and Penny Black. Loved the idea of using the splatter stamp with the Adirondack Paint Dauber. Fantastic effect.

The birds nest... Hmm.. I didn't have the moss and my birds around here are known for picking up junk from my dryer vent and using it in their nests. So I made a nest from the scraps on my desktop from cutting my trim on the bottom and the top. :) A little messy and not as fun as the moss.

Onto my second card for today.

Suzz

On the way to the Market

I stopped here... and here... before finally arriving. :)

Do you ever find you start with something and it takes you a few tries to get there?  Well... I had this Santa image stamped and colored on my desk.  I saw the wonderful sketch #66 from Kazan from 2S4Y and decided to combine the two. Here is the output of this little crafting session...

Here is the final card:

Before that version was this version which was sitting on my desk since last night and this morning I took a long look at it and thought the proportions were wrong. So I re-sized it and cleaned it up. (Off popped Santa and the gems to re-use on the new card.)

And in between those cards was my original stamped Santa and his card.  

The good news is that I ended up with two Christmas cards to send out! :)

Here is the great sketch from Kazan:

The products used in the projects; Making Memories Christmas Tissue Tape, Versafine Vintage Sepia, Black Onyx, Stampers Anonymous Letter to Santa CMS053, Cornish Heritage Farm - Scrapblok - Aged Sheet Music, Stampabilities - Vintage Holly IR1026, Cornish Heritage Farm - Night Before Christmas

Thanks for sticking with me on the way to the market. :)

Have a lovely Tuesday!

Suzz

Embellish Challenge - Yellow, Black, Grey and White

I saw some beautiful cards using these colors out in blogland and they are from the Embellish Challenge to use the colors yellow, black, grey and white and to stamp a background or a pattern. 

Love the colors and the fun pictures!

I created two cards.  The first one is very me... The second one is... Well... you will see.. 

I pulled out my Damask stamp and created a pattern on the grey paper using a Judikins Damask and a new Cover All stamp from Impression Obsession which I love it looks like paint splatters.  So this card I think is very me. 

Here's my second card for the challenge:

So much empty space. Very hard for me to not add any more details. I tried to add gems and do other things to detail it up!:)  But ended up leaving the clean lines. Same splatter background with an overlaid stamp from Stampin up. The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms.

There is a little frost on the berries but you cant see it in the pictures.

Hope you have a wonderful Monday!

Suzz

PDCC #47 Part II

I decided to play with the PDCC colors this morning again. :)  Challenge #47  was to use turquoise, real red, leaf green and black and white.

I pulled out another Paperbag Studios set as inspiration for my Christmas card.

Love this little Christmas tree with the music underneath. After I pulled it out and saw the music under the tree, I knew I had to pull out my CHF music background and use it in the same colors.

The paper is Webster's Pages, perfect fit for my red in the card. The birds are from a bird cube from B Line Designs. (Everyone needs a bird cube!)

Fairly simple layering of different sizes and shapes of papers. Accent the tree with some of my favorite Memory Box pearls and done!

Products not mentioned so far: Versafine Deep Lagoon, Versafine Black Onyx, Adirondack Meadow, May Arts Silk Ribbon.

Hope you have a beautiful Sunday! We are off to church and SRE and then back to clean the house. Ugh.

Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #39

Julie selected the colors this week for the Play Date Cafe Challenge.   I have been wanting to create a card with just these colors.  There is nothing more stunning than all neutral tones and punch of black.    Here are the inspiration photos.

Here is my card using the inspiration colors. I felt like I could have made several cards using this color combination and probably will in the near future.

Love these mushrooms from Cornish Heritage Farms, when I ordered them I wasn't sure how I was going to use them and already have inked them up twice.   The butterflies and ladybugs are from Hero Arts. The lined paper stamp on the background is also Cornish Heritage Farms. (I stocked up since they are closing their doors and I love their stamps).

The inks are Hero Arts Shadow Ink Soft Sand, Ranger Distress Inks - Antique Linen, Versafine Black Onyx.

I used watercolor pencils to color in all my images and added a touch of this fun black glitter from Clearsnap.

The lovely sentiment is from StampScapes.

Now onto some really important stuff...

Like our fabulous sponsor...

Unity Stamps

who is offering up not one, not two but three stamp sets (retail value 75.00!) as the prize for one winner this week on the PDCC! Which sets you ask....

and

Aren't they adorable?

We also have a fantastic Guest Designer this week..

Maren Bendedict who you can find sharing her wonderful work on her blog Zany Not Crazy.

If you need any further inspiration we have our own wonderful PDCC design team creating their share of gorgeousness. Go check out their blogs.

Sarah Anderson

Stephanie Kraft

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

I think this color combo is going to have so many fun projects and I can't wait to see the projects using the PDCC colors!


Suzz

Moxie Fab World - Card Style - Shabby Chic & Vintage

Another entry in the Moxie Fab challenges.   These cards  are for the shabby chic and vintage challenge.

I tried to create a card for the cute and fun challenge this morning and failed miserably. Nothing more frustrating than spending all morning and creating something ugly! So I decided to move onto shabby chic and vintage. 

Both of these cards had an easy element to them. The first one was easy because I started from this gorgeous chipboard frame from Tattered Angels.  The frame was so beautiful and inspiring it was very easy to put this card together.  

The stamps for the butterfly (Etched Engravings) and background (Antique Flower Background)  are Hero Arts and the sentiment is from Verses - Irish Blessing.

The ink is Memento Plum. Lovely color. The chipboard is Tattered Angels and the lovely ribbon is May Arts. The lace is from the Antique store. Flowers I just bought but they were in a bundle and not labeled.

The second card was a scrap I have kept in my pile for a long time. It was created using glimmer mists and glimmer shields inked up with glimmer mist. I have been wanting to use it for awhile but was intimidated by the size of the image. I decided to pull it out and use it today on my second card.

The background is a Cornish Heritage Farms Scrapblock of music. Add a little distressing to the image panel and the Prima flowers a little ribbon and done.  Very simple and I hope shabby chic?

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Cornish Heritage Farms - Summer Fling - Week 3

This weeks CHF challenge and blog hop is to use All Things Considered Stamps.  I apologize because once again the only stamps I have from CHF for this brand are..... (Drum roll) Yep you guessed it... Christmas stamps. :)

The set I used is called Evergreen Holiday ATC-5002FUM.  Sometimes (rarely) I get an idea ahead of time and I can see it. This was one of those times. I was thinking about this since Saturday.

Isn't this fun?  I was thinking about an old fashioned washboard decorated up for Christmas. It is the size of a 5" x7" card and actually is intended to be a card. The matching shape will be made for the backside.  (Although I think this would make a great tag in a smaller size!)

I also was going to create an image in the opening on the top and decided I liked it with the handle.

Hope your Monday was good!

Suzz

Cornish Heritage Summer Fling Part II

My second entry for this weeks Cornish Heritage Farms Summer Fling. I finished it late last night and posted it up to the gallery because the deadline is on Thursday. This card wasn't selected as a designer favorite but they did showcase my other card on the Be Creative blog today. Yeah!

When I stamped my golden Kinkade image I stamped a second image using grey pigment ink. The background is colored using a combination of sponging, painting with distress inks and watercolor pencils. I then added a layer of stickles over the snowy area and smooshed it on with my fingers. :)

After all that I clear embossed the entire image multiple times.

The rest is all cutting and piecing using my nestabilities, EK Success Border Punch and my handy dandy Cuttlebug embossing folder.

The card is a Memory Box card and love the yellow popped against the red. Not a traditional Christmas combination but I liked how it looked.

We had the biggest thunder boomer pass through here a little while ago and our power was out for about an hour. Glad it was during the day and not later. (The kids get worried)

Have a lovely weekend.

Suzz

CHF Summer Fling Week #2

This week in the Cornish Heritage Farm Summer Fling is to use a Kinkade Stamp. I happen to have one Kinkade stamp TK-106T Slient Night. :)

So another Christmas card in June. :) I stamped the image using the Versafine Toffee pigment ink and heat embossed it using clear embossing powder. This was just to give it a little boost in the color.  The lights in the picture are accented with yellow and brown watercolor. The snow is accented with a little Crystal Stickles to give it the tiniest touch of glimmer.

I had purchased this book on clearance after Christmas with Christmas stories and articles and pulled a page from that for my background paper. I just realized after the picture was taken that it says limited churchgoing. What a bad choice for a Christmas card. :(

Have a lovely day! I will be posting later tonight with the new colors for the PDCC and they are awesome!

Suzz

You are at the right blog, really...

I finished my second card with the appropriate backgrounder for the CHF summer fling. :)  I shared it with my youngest DD(she is 8).  I asked her if she would have guessed this was my card. Her reply was "No, because it is fun!) LOL. Love when she says thing like that. Then she repeated about how my cards are always modern. (Translate: Vintage)

Too funny. Anyways, Tanya gets a shout out because she helped me come up with a topper for the party hat. She drew me a picture and helped me create his little pom pom.

The backgrounder is CHF SL-3151WUM Grid Paper and the main images are KH-5034FUM Christmas Critters.

The sentiment is from the newest Memory Box Release and is C1373 Happy Birthday Candle.

Hope you enjoy my penguin holding his bouquet of seal balloons. :)

Have a lovely day... I will be posting later tonight the new PDDC color challenge!  They are very fun colors and hope you will play along!

I am hoping to get in my Tag Tuesday still this week along with an entry for the Hero Arts Monthly contest!

Suzz

CHF Summer Fling

I am a big fan of the Cornish Heritage Farms stamps. They are beautiful and of high quality.  They are hosting a 12 week summer fling which you can find the details about at their blog Farm Fresh.

This week's challenge is to use Backgrounders.  I love their backgrounds one of the first stamps I purchased from them was a background.  Unfortunately I created this card using a Scrapblock which doesn't work towards the challenge this week. :(

Here is the card I created to play along in their challenge:

Although it won't apply to the challenge I am really pleased with the way it turned out.

The inks are Versafine: Spanish Most, Vintage Sepia, Habernero, and Toffee.   The stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms - Newspaper Ads, and  KH-5011RFUM Silhouette Blooms I.  The bird is from Memory Box B1359 Very Best.

I used Nestabilities Label 10 for the main images.

Well I hope you are having a lovely day! I am off to create a few more things for a few more challenges.

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge #32

Louise's challenge this week is a Happy New Year challenge. The rules allow anything related to Happy New Year... I don't have very many celebration stamps so I decided to use my Cornish Heritage Farms set which has all different time stamps.

The background is sponged using Ranger Distress inks (Spiced Marmalade, Broken China, with a touch of Brown Corduroy). I stamped the images using Versafine - Habenero, Vintage Sepia and Deep Lagoon. The images for the time stamps are all Cornish Heritage Farms and the Flourish is a Stampabilities and the Happy New Year is from Hero Arts.

After I sponged the background I dripped water across the front to give it the watermarks. I also added a few star gems that I colored with my Copic. I felt like I had to have some bling for New Years!

Thanks for stopping over...

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge # 26

Pink, Burgandy and Brown Holiday tag... Sounds deliciously vintage doesn't it?

Louise's challenge this week for her tag this week is a color and Christmas tag challenge.

This beautiful ornament was something I picked up at Hobby Lobby in the Christma aisles and have been wanting to use it on a card. Unfortunately the picture does not show how pretty the ornament is.

The ribbon was a RAK from Anna-Karin (thanks anna-karin). I have been wanting to use the script behind the stamped embossed image ever since I saw Lisette's gorgeous cards. (Check out her blog here)

The script stamp is from Stampers Anonymous - Letter to Santa. The Holly stamp is a Hero Arts Design Block- Holly Flourish. The Christmas Wishes sentiment is from a collection from Cornish Heritage Farms - Night before Christmas.

The script was stamped using a pigment ink onto a pink tag. Then the holly background was stamped using versarmark. Heat emboss using clear embossing powder. Sponge brown dye ink over the top.

Outline partially the images using white gel pen.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Suzz

More grids and tags!

Continuing on with the grids and tags... I created this card using scraps from Jacqueline. I wanted to do more of a patchwork quilt look and used the pieces with the sizes that I had and trimmed as needed.

I then created another tag which used the distress inks on my craft mat with water to get the deep colors and added layers of stamping and finished with the flowers and buttons.

Then I moved onto another grid tag...

Creating the inchies was so much fun. I used a ton of different stamps that don't get used enough!

The bee's wings are layered which doesn't show up on the picture but adds a great dimension to the little inchie.

There are little flowers punched out and attached to the asian leaves.

The number 13 is from a new stamp I just purchased in a shape of a playing card. Stamped and cut out!

The butterfly is from a collage stamp from Hero Arts and love the little butterfly. It was stamped on a distress inked background and highlighted with white gel pen.

The tag was created by stamping the Cornish Heritage Farms Lined Paper Stamp on ivory cardstock and cutting it out in a shape of the tag.

I ended up stapling the ribbons to the top because I punched a hole and ended ripping it trying to tie the ribbon in.

Too many products to name them all but a great mix of Stampers Anonymous, Hero Arts, B Line Designs, Inkadinkado, and Cornish Heritage Farms stamps. The inks are mostly Ranger Distress Inks along with my favorite Versafine Vintage Sepia. The patterned paper is Basic Grey.

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Raspberry Suite Challenge #16

I decided to use Dawn's color challenge: http://dawnmcvey.typepad.com/these_are_a_few_of_my_fav/2009/08/raspberry-suite-color-challenge-16.html as part of my Hero Arts challenge: http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2009/08/31/the-men-of-hero-arts-its-our-man-week/ which is masculine cards.

The colors are very complimentary for a masculine card.

I used the embossing powder to pick up the orange gold color which was the hardest to incorporate into the card.

Products:

• Zing - Butter
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Kraft cardstock
• Ivory Cardstock
• Cornish Heritage Farms - Newspaper Print
• Hero Arts - Three Ferns
• Hero Arts - Birthday Messages
• Twine
• Washers

Thanks for stopping by..

Suzz