CHF Grand Re-Opening Blog Hop Winner!

We have a winner!  I've used Random.org to choose a winner from the 92 comments received in the first 24 hours of the blog hop.....

The winner is #71, who is.....

Monika/Buzsy said...

Fabulous projects Jean. Love the digi images, especially the vintage palace! The coloring is so pretty!

November 20, 2011 10:04 AM

  

Congratulations, Monika!  Please email me (by clicking on the little bluebird in my sidebar) with your contact information, and I will pass it on to Tanya at CHF!

I want to thank everyone for coming around for the Cornish Heritage Farms Grand Re-Opening blog hop!  I appreciate all of your lovely comments. :)

Cornish Heritage Farms Grand Opening Blog Hop!

Welcome!  I'm so excited to be part of the Cornish Heritage Farms Grand Re-Opening!   Today I'm playing with some of the fabulous new digital images available on the Cornish Heritage Farms online site.  For my Thanksgiving card, I've mixed it up a bit and printed a background image (Fall Harvest) onto some patterned paper, the sentiment onto cream cardstock, and the Boy with Pumpkin onto white cardstock.  I colored the boy with Copics, cut him out, and adhered him into the center of the background scene.  A bit of distressing, a felt leaf, and some pleated paper strips finish it off.

Next up, I decided to play with a few of the cute Pumpkin images - I think they're just perfect for place cards for the table.  I layered them with some felt leaves and a few coordinating buttons.  The whole little embellishment sits atop a place card made from corrugated cardboard.  Now, so that I don't have to do this all over again next year, I made sure to stick the names on with just a little temporary adhesive - that way I can change them out, depending on who's at the table next year. ;)

 

I love playing with this series of vintage palace images (you can see the first one - Palace #2 - in my previous blog post).  As before, I printed out Palace #1 on a subtly patterned Prima script paper and colored with Prismacolor pencils.  I changed up the color scheme this time, but the idea is still the same, using Graphic 45 patterned papers, a rose diecut, and a tiny crown bottlecap.

Thanks for visiting and having a peek at some of the over 500 digital images now available on the Cornish Heritage Farms website.  And for those of you who love rubber (like me!), over the coming weeks there will also be a special rubber stamp section on the website, too - featuring some old favorites like The Rummage Bin, Thomas Kinkade, and the wonderful backgrounders!

So, want a chance to win a Cornish Heritage Farms gift certificate? Just visit each of our blog hop sites (see the list below). Leave a comment on each site before you hop to the next site.  Each DT member will randomly draw a name from the comments left in the first 24 hours of the hop.  That means you have 8 different chances of winning!

Good luck and Happy Hopping!

Cornish Heritage Farms Blog 

Frances Byrne  

Holly Brown

Lisa Silver

Jean Franks Beck - (that's me!)

Dawn Lusk

Laura O'Donnell
Jennifer Roach

Cornish Heritage Farms Sneak Peek

So apparently there are these things called "digital stamps".  No really, there are!  And they are just like stamped images, only you print them on your own printer.  Yes!  It's true!  Onto any paper you'd like.  Even Patterned Paper.  ROFL!!!

Okay, if you've visited here often, you know I am a dinosaur when it comes to digital.  Stubbornly avoiding the bandwagon.  And when I found out that Stamper's Ink was going to be offering lots and lots of Cornish Heritage Farms *digital* stamps, I was, shall we say, "tentative." :)  I love me some rubber.  However.... I am now hooked.

No, I'm not giving up rubber, no how, no way.  But I had fun with this!!!  I am definitely adding digital to my repertoire.  Especially with these yummy new vintage images from Stamper's Ink, the new home of CHF.  This card came together in a snap.  I printed the Palace #2 image onto some Prima script patterned paper and softly colored it with Prismacolor pencils.  Distressed the edges a bit (with Gathered Twig), framed it up on some cardstock, and added it to another patterned paper background, this one from Webster's Pages.  All it needed was a special little embellishment - some big box petals, some vintage lace, and a vintage mother-of-pearl button.  That's it! Done!  Oh yeah, I'm feelin' it, LOL!  I can see how this could fit in for me, tee hee.

So now that I'm at least friends with the digital bandwagon, I hope you can join me and the rest of the CHF team on Saturday, November 19th.  We are going to officially launch Stamper's Ink's new Cornish Heritage Farms website, filled with lots of never-before-seen CHF images - the ones that hadn't made it to primetime yet.  (Along with a few old favorites coming soon.)  If you followed CHF before, there will be lots of familiar blogs on the hop, along with some new ones.  And I'm told that eventually there will be rubber, too..... the best of both worlds. ;)  See ya then!  (If you want a bit more of a peek, there are a couple of images available now - but most won't appear until the big day.)

Visions of Sugarplums with Rogue Redhead Designs

A "sweet" little card I made for the Rogue Redhead Designs blog today.  You can check it out *here* and get all the deets.

Happy Veteran's Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day to all - thank you to the service men and women who have risked or given their lives so that we may be free.  My dad was a teenager in the US Navy during WWII.  Now my cousin's son serves in Afghanistan.  We all know someone.... take a moment to give thanks. :)

Glue Book on the Go

Well, I am not getting into my craft room nearly as much as I would like, and when I'm in there, I'm cleaning!  Luckily, I still have my vintage train trunk full of scraps that I take with me in the car.  I tend to work with nature themes a lot, and so the next few pages I decided to try to combine a bunch of this sort of image.  For this layout, I also happened upon a few scraps that fit together beautifully - completely serendipitously.  It's so fun when you find the perfect combination in your stash!

For the right-hand side of the layout, I discovered two clock images that fit together rather nicely.  I used them to highlight the fairy image (a leftover if a Craft Individuals image stamped on a glimmer misted background).

On the left side, I found two butterfly images that fit together - a stamped image and an image on a scrap of patterned paper.

Another couple of nature themed pages - these with a "field notes" kind of a feel.  The large bird image is from an old Christmas season bag from Pottery Barn.

Finally, one last Halloween page that I forgot to post.  I love this one, because I happened to find a piece of vintage sheet music that had the lyrics "name a spell" on them.... a perfectly witchy little tune, I think. ;)

That's all for now.  Got to get cleaning!