Dog or Hydrant

Hi everyone,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.  Lynn Put our challenge hostess for April, brings one another fun challenge. 

Did you know that today is National Pet Day? For our challenge this week, create a card or project using some type of pet as your inspiration.

I recently purchased a Dog themed stamp set from My Favorite Things, so I decided to use those for my card this week. 

For the base of my card I have used the Katie Label Pivot Card die set designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

I just love the sentiment I used on this card.

Here is the rear view of my card.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Anja de Regt
• Barbara Anders
• Danielle Lounds
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Karen Aicken
• Kelli Hull
• Lynn Putt
• Peggy McCurry
• Raquel Mason
• Vicki Burdick

Stamps: You Make My Tail Wag - MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Yellow; Red; Dog Stripes DP - Karen Foster Designs

Dies: Katie Label Pivot Card - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs; MFT Die-namics Pet Accents

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Chameleon Markers

Hug in a Mug

Hi everyone!

It's release Day!!!!!!! Riley and Company will be releasing 29 Funny Bones sentiments and 26 Inspirations sentiments today on their web site, you will find them there NOW!!!.

The Inspirations line is a lot like the Funnybones line - but BIGGER! The messages are still awesome, but geared towards a more personal theme. These not only make terrific statement cards, but they are fabulous for art journaling, Project Life and all those projects where you needed a really terrific saying! 

Of course release day normally means some specials for you too, so here are this month's specials.

Special #1:  Buy the entire unmounted set of 29 new Funnybones  for only $95.00! (Save $50!) (Offer not available to wholesale customers.) Limit one per customer. Offer ends April 17th.

Special #2:  Buy the entire unmounted set of 25 new Inspirations stamps for only $75.00 (Save $50!) (Offer not available to wholesale customers.) Limit one per customer. Offer ends April 17th.

Special #3:  You can also get a set of 3 FREE Funnybones stamps (our choice) during this release by simply placing an order of $30 or more (before tax) in the first 24 hours of the release! (One per customer please.)

  

Special #4:  But wait - there's more! As an added bonus, we are giving EVERYONE FREE SHIPPING from now until Sunday night (April 12th) at midnight CST! Just enter FREESHIP in the coupon code section!

For my card today I have used one of the new Funny Bones Sentiments "Hug in a Mug" along with Riley and Company's Mister Coffee to create an Accordion Card.

To create the Accordion card I have used the Fancy Labels Accordion Card die set and Star Fancy Frame Edges designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Here is my card when it is closed ready to be popped into an envelope.

• Don’t forget to check out all the Riley and Company Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• 29 Funny bones Sentiments and 26 Inspirations Sentiments to be released
• New Release Stamps available in the Riley and Company Store from Friday 10th April 10 AM EST.

Stamps: Mister Coffee; Coffee is a Hug in a mug - Riley and Company

Paper: White; Black; Pink; ForeverYoung DP - Bo Bunny

Dies: Fancy Label Accordion Card; Star Fancy Frame Edges - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Chameleon Pens; Copics

Happy Birthday

Hi everyone,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. As challenge hostess for April, I continue to issue the challenges.

This time round I have challenged the Design Team to use a stencil when creating your card. 

Why is it you can use something all the time then when it comes to using that same thing for a challenge you have no idea what to do LOL ... It took me a few days to figure out what I wanted to do for my challenge card this week. I finally decided to use Tim Holtz' Stripes Stencil which I placed on my card diagonally and added the blue color to the stencil and then moved the stencil to the opposite diagonal position and added the pink color to get a plaid effect.

Today I am playing with a new die set I purchased last week, I already had a Centre Step die which I like,  but I recently saw this one by Tattered Lace. At first I ignored it as it wasn't cheap, but the more I thought about it the more I liked that it was a different size to the one I already had (this one is just under 8 inches wide) and the set also contained a ton of dies to give different options to decorate the card, so I had to make a special trip to the store to buy the die set ... what a pity hehe!

I have used an Art Impressions stamp set, Giant Cake Set to decorate my card. 

On either side of the card I added a Star Border from Marianne Designs which I purchased at a recent Craft Show, I have a feeling I may use this a lot. I die cut the star border using double sided adhesive and then added Sky Silk Microfine Glitter. 

Here is the inside of my card, I guess I could have decorated the side panels using designer paper, but I didn't for this one ... maybe next time.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

• Amber Hillman
• Anne Harmon
• Joanne Grzelak
• Liz Williams
• Lois Bak
• Lynn McAuley
• Maryann Einam
• Sabrina Friel
• Vicky Gould

Stamps: Giant Cake Set - Art Impressions

Paper: White; Bright Pink; Turquoise

Dies: Centre Stepper Card - Tattered Lace; Star Border - Marianne Designs; Happy Birthday - MFT Stamps

Other: Black Ink; Stripes Stencil - Tim Holtz; Pink Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs; Elizabeth Craft Designs Transparent Double Sided Tape 64mm; ECD Sky Silk Microfine Glitter; Foam Tape; Copics

Find Joy

Hi everyone!

Welcome to day three of the sneak peeks of the new stamps that will be available from Riley and Company this coming Friday 10th April. This time round Riley and Company will be releasing 29 Funny Bones sentiments and 26 Inspirations sentiments.

The Inspirations sentiments is a brand new line designed to be used in Art Journalling, Scrapbooking, Card Making etc.

For my card today I have used another two of the sentiments from the new Inspirations line from Riley and Company. On the front of my card I have used the Find Joy sentiment.

Here is the inside of my card, this time round I have used the "Accept what is...." sentiment from the Inspirations line of stamps from Riley and Company.

• Don’t forget to check out all the Riley and Company Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• 29 Funny bones Sentiments and 26 Inspirations Sentiments to be released
• New Release Stamps available in the Riley and Company Store from Friday 10th April 10 AM EST.

Stamps: Find Joy; Accept What Is - Riley and Company

Paper: White; Brown; Green; Safari DP - Bo Bunny

Other: Black Ink; Glossy Accents; MFT Die-namics Stitched Square Frames; MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flags Stax; MFT Die-namics Blueprints 8; Foam Tape

Tough Times .....

Hi everyone!

Welcome to day three of the sneak peeks of the new stamps that will be available from Riley and Company this coming Friday 10th April. This time round Riley and Company will be releasing 29 Funny Bones sentiments and 26 Inspirations sentiments.

The Inspirations sentiments is a brand new line designed to be used in Art Journalling, Scrapbooking, Card Making etc.

For my card today I have used two of the sentiments from the new Inspirations line of stamps. For the front of my card I have used the Tough Times sentiment and also Riley & Company's Pointing Midge Retro image. 

I thought this sentiment I added to the inside of my card worked well with the sentiment I used on the outside ... I can imagine someone being determined and saying something like this. It is all about a positive attitude!

• Don’t forget to check out all the Riley and Company Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• 29 Funny bones Sentiments and 26 Inspirations Sentiments to be released
• New Release Stamps available in the Riley and Company Store from Friday 10th April 10 AM EST.

Stamps: Pointing Midge; Tough Times; I Can & I Will - Riley and Company

Paper: White; Green; Poolside DP - Pebbles Inc

Dies: MFT Die-namics Stitched Speech Bubbles

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

Celebrate

Hi everyone,

It's time for another CHF challenge over on the Cornish Heritage Farms Blog. This week the challenge is hosted by Kelly.

For our challenge this week, Celebrate Earth Day! Make a card reflecting the celebration of Earth Day (plants, trees, rivers, ocean etc.)

For my card today, I decided to use one of the Thomas Kinkade stamps ... Streams of Living Water. If these images don't reflect the celebration of Earth, nothing does! 

The sentiment is from the new Birthday Greetings stamp set.

For the inside of my card I have added another sentiment from the Birthday Greetings stamp set.

Want to play along?????

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you!

To play create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project ... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.)

Once you have created your card/project come back here and place a comment with a link to your card/project to the CHF blog post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to included the keyword CHF76. We can't wait to see what you create!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the Design Teams blogs today to see what they created for this challenge.

• Amber Hillman
• Monica Taylor
• Steph Ackerman

Stamps: Thomas Kinkade Streams of Living Water; Birthday Greetings Stamp Set - Cornish Heritage Farms

Paper: White; Victoria's Fantasy - Fab Scraps

Dies: Labels - Spellbinders

Other: Black Ink; Blue Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

I Am Happy!

Hi everyone!

Welcome to day two of the sneak peeks of the new stamps that will be available from Riley and Company this coming Friday 10th April. This time round Riley and Company will be releasing 29 Funny Bones sentiments and 26 Inspirations sentiments.

The Inspirations sentiments is a brand new line designed to be used in Art Journalling, Scrapbooking, Card Making etc.

For my card today I decided to play with a couple of the sentiments from the new Inspirations line being released ... for my card I used "I am" and "happy", and there are another 4 sentiments which can be used with the "I am" sentiment ... brave, strong, hopeful, at peace.

I have created a easel type card using the Rectangle Pull Card die set designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. By turning this card on it's side you can get an easel card which is what I did here. 

I have used the "I am" Inspirations sentiment on the front of my card.

On the inside of my card I have added the Inspirations sentiment "happy" and on the base of the card I have used the new Funny Bones sentiment "Always find time for the things that make you HAPPY to be alive."

On the spinner included in the die set I added Riley and company's Happy Homemaker Retro image. 

Here is another photo of my card when it is opened, this time at a different angel so you can see the sentiment and pop up portion of my card.

• Don’t forget to check out all the Riley and Company Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• 29 Funny bones Sentiments and 26 Inspirations Sentiments to be released
• New Release Stamps available in the Riley and Company Store from Friday 10th April 10 AM EST.

Stamps: Happy Homemaker; I Am; Happy; Always Find Time …. - Riley and Company

Paper: White; Orange; Woodland DP - Creative

Dies: Rectangle Pull Card - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

Gathering Nuts

Hi everyone!

Well it is that time again! Today starts the beginning of the sneak peeks of the new stamps that will be available from Riley and Company this coming Friday 10th April. This time round Riley and Company will be releasing 29 Funny Bones sentiments and 26 Inspirations sentiments. 

The Inspirations sentiments is a brand new line designed to be used in Art Journalling, Scrapbooking, Card Making etc.

For my card today I have used one of the new Funny Bones sentiments to create a Pull Card using the Circle Spiral Pull Card die designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. I masked off the second part of the sentiment so that I could use that on the inside of my card.

I was lucky enough to get a large pad of designer paper from a friend for my birthday recently which had this scene featuring the squirrel ... perfect for this card.

Here is the inside of my card when the card is pulled open ... Love this funny sentiment!

• Don’t forget to check out all the Riley and Company Design Team’s blogs for more sneak peeks everyday!
• 29 Funny bones Sentiments and 26 Inspirations Sentiments to be released
• New Release Stamps available in the Riley and Company Store from Friday 10th April 10 AM EST.

Stamps: I Noticed the Squirrels - Riley and Company

Paper: White; Blue; Woodland DP - Creative

Dies: Circle Spiral Pull Card - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other: Black Ink; Green Candy Dots; Foam Tape

Just Buzzing By

Hi everyone,

Today I am sharing a Stand-Ups card I created a while ago using the Sizzix Elegant Stand-Ups Card Framelits and the Sizzix Bee Triplits Framelits.

The sentiment on the label is from a stamp set from The Stamps of Life.

Here is my card closed ready to be placed in an envelope.

Stamps: Bee4Me - The Stamps of Life

Paper: White; Black; Yellow; DP

Dies: Sizzix Elegant Stand-Ups Card Framelits; Sizzix Elegant Labels Framelits; Sizzix Bee Triplits

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape

Wish Big!

Hi everyone,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Being a brand new month it is time to introduce our new challenge hostess which is Lynn Put.

The flower of the month of April is the daisy. Create a card or project using a daisy/daisies. Be creative,  think stamped, die cut, punched or paper pieced but your project must have a daisy on it.

For my card this week I created a pivot card using the Katie Label Pivot Card die set designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. 

I used Wild Rose Studio's Bella with Daisy stamp and for good measure I added some die cut daisies too. 

Along each edge of my card I used the Paris Edges die.

Here is the view of the back of my card. 

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Anja de Regt
• Barbara Anders
• Danielle Lounds
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Karen Aicken
• Kelli Hull
• Lynn Putt
• Peggy McCurry
• Raquel Mason
• Vicki Burdick (April Guest Designer)

Stamps: Bella with Daisy - Wild Rose Studio; Big Greetings - MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Pink; Yellow; Green; DP - American Crafts

Dies: Katie Label Pivot Card; Paris Edges - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs; MFT Die-namics Oopsie Daisy

Other: Black Ink; ECD Lots of Dots Embossing Folder; Foam Tape; Copics

Hello

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by today! My card I am sharing today uses the Tag Pivot Card die set designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. 

To decorate my card I have used the Honey the Bear die set.

Here is the inside of the card. On the two smaller tags on the right hand side of the card I have used the "Hello" die from the Rectangle Accordion Card die set which I have layered up 5 times to give it some depth.

Here is the back view of my card ... I always love how the back of these cards also have some interest to them :).

Paper: White; Teal; Orange; Hoopla DP - Authentique

Dies: Tag Pivot Card; Honey the Bear; Rectangle Accordion Card - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other ECD Products: Transparent Double Sided Tape 64mm

Other: Foam Tape

Maturing is Optional!

Hi everyone,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Being a brand new month it is  time to introduce a new hostess which this time round is Me!!!!

Yesterday was April Fools Day and apparently this month is also National Humor Month. In honor of both these events let's include some Humor in our cards using either a funny sentiment. a humorous image or both.

I love the humor of many of the Art Impressions stamps and I have a fair collection of them so I decided to use one of those for my card today. This one is one of their newer stamp sets called Maturing which is one of their back and front sets. 

I had planned on using the circle spiral pull card for my card but the feel on this maturing group were sticking out from under the circle so I had to go to plan b which was to use the Rectangle Pull Card designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Here is my card when it is "pulled open", you can see the back of the image that I used on the front. I used the speech bubble from the Rectangle Accordion Card die set for the sentiment at the top of the image. I also added another sentiment on the panel on the right.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

• Amber Hillman
• Anne Harmon
• Joanne Grzelak
• Liz Williams
• Lois Bak
• Lynn McAuley
• Maryann Einam
• Sabrina Friel
• Vicky Gould

Stamps: Maturing Set; 29 Again Set - Art Impressions

Paper: White; Cream; Red; Yellow; Impervious DP - Authentique

Dies: Rectangle Pull Card; Rectangle Accordion Card - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs; MFT Die-namics Circle Stax; MFT Die-namics Star Border

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

Elizabeth Craft Designs March Designer Challenge

Hi everyone,

It's time for our March Elizabeth Craft Designs Designer Challenge. Check out the Elizabeth Crafts Designs blog today at 8AM MST when you will be able to see what all the designers created for the challenge this month.

This time round our theme for the challenge is "Flower Power", so anything with flowers and bright colors!

I decided to play with Elizabeth Craft Designs Victorian Flower Set 1 and Victorian Overlay Set 2 to create my card. I die cut the base of the flowers from Pink Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz and Purple Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz.

For the overlay flowers I added Transparent Double Sided Tape 152mm to my card and then die cut the flowers and added Fuchsia Silk Microfine Glitter and Lavender Silk Microfine Glitter over the adhesive. 

The leaves I added to the flowers are from the Big Triple Leaf and these were die cut using Green Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz. 

The base of my card uses the Rectangle Pull Card designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs. 

I used the Winter Spring sentiment to the sentiment panel on the left. I also added two smaller flowers to the card using the spiral die which comes in the Rectangle Pull Card die set. 

Stamps: Winter Spring - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Paper: White; Purple; DP - My Memories

Dies: Rectangle Pull Card - designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs; Victorian Flower Set 1; Victorian Overlay Set 2; Big Triple Leaf - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other ECD Products: Transparent Double Sided Adhesive Tape 152mm; Transparent Double Sided Adhesive Tape 6mm; Green Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz; Pink Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz; Purple Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz; Fuchsia Silk Microfine Glitter; Lavender Silk Microfine Glitter