Sunday, April 29, 2012

Doodle Pantry English Bluebells

Hello!
 Today's card is for

Doodle Pantry is sponsoring this week, 
so I just had to play along! 

I used the lovely image English Bluebells.
The theme for challenge #161 is Spring Bling.


I printed this image onto watercolor paper 
and used watercolor crayons to paint it.
My 'bling' is the tiny metal dots.
 These are currently one of my favorite embellishments!
Thank you for visiting today!
I hope you'll come by again!
Happy Spring!



Saturday, April 21, 2012

Doodle Pantry Ant Accents

Today my card uses the digital image
 from Doodle Pantry called Ant Accents. 
This set has a bunch of different ants. 
I used three of the ants and a 
saying that is also in the set.



I colored the images with colored pencil.
 I hope you will visit Doodle Pantry and check out what is new for April!

Thanks for visiting today!
See you soon!


Friday, April 20, 2012

Clear Dollar Stamps CIC 50

Hello! Welcome to CIC 50!
 The theme this time is SPRING! 
I am ready for spring!
For my card I used a newly released set
 from CDS called Bless My Bloomers.
I watercolored this image with my
 Tombow markers and a water brush.
 I added a few details with my white Signo pen.
I hope you will join in this fun challenge!
Can't wait to see what you will create!




Thursday, April 19, 2012

Cornish Heritage Farms Blog Hop


Welcome to Cornish Heritage Farms blog hop! 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 change 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!


I am the second stop on this fun hop! For my cards today I used the backgrounder rubber stamp - Woodgrain.
My first card also uses the digital image Garden Chair. 



For my second card I used the digital stamp, Old Stable.



From here, you want to hop over to :


Make sure you leave some comments 

for a chance to win some Blog Candy! 

Thanks for stopping today!

See you soon!


Wednesday, April 18, 2012

CHF Day 4 sneak peek!

Welcome to day 4 of our sneak peek week for 
Cornish Heritage Farms!
Today I used the backgrounder stamp,
 Lined paper (available for purchase on the 19th).
I paired it with a digital stamp (CHF, available now) and
 a die cut alphabet from Quick Kutz.
I made the card large so I could use the entire stamp. 
Digi was colored with colored pencil.
I am happy with how it turned out!

Tomorrow is the big blog hop! 
Rumor has it that there will be blog candy!
Hope to see you there!


Tuesday, April 17, 2012

April Digital release for Clear Dollar Stamps

Hello! 
It's time for Clear Dollar Stamps Digital release!! 
They have a wonderful assortment of new digis this month!!
 I am lucky enough to preview two of the new sets! 
My first card uses the set called Splash.
 Designed by our very own Lisa Lara!

I printed onto colored paper and 
then added color with colored pencils. 
One of my favorite techniques for using digis!

Card number 2 features the set, 
Bless My Bloomers. 
I don't know about you, 
but I am ready to get out there and garden!!


This image was colored with colored pencils.

Thanks for stopping today!
Have a great day!
See you soon!



Cornish Heritage Farms - Day 3

Here we are at Day 3 of our sneak peeks for 
Cornish Heritage Farms!
I hope you have been enjoying all the exciting new samples you have been seeing!

For today, I used a rubber stamp set called 
Key Elements (available for purchase on the 19th).


Key Elements is an ATC set. 
I had forgotten how much fun ATC's are to make!
For these ATC's I distressed the backgrounds and stamped the images in black. Pretty easy!
I will be back tomorrow with Day 4's sneak peek! 
Don't forget the blog hop on Thursday the 19th!
See you soon!




Monday, April 16, 2012

Cornish Heritage Farms Sneak Peek Day two

Welcome to CHF's day two sneak peeks!
For today's cards I went all digital.
These digis are available right now at the store!
I made mini square cards (3 x 3). 
Images were colored with colored pencil
 and blended with mineral spirits.
Come back tomorrow for day three!
See you then!



Sunday, April 15, 2012

Clear Dollar Stamps April Blog Hop!

Welcome!
It's time for the April CDS blog hop!


Our theme this month is : 
We're not Horsin' around!

You should have arrived here via 
Kathy's Blog!

I'm sure she had something 
AMAZING to share with you!!

For my card I used an image called Charlie Fenced in.


I did a little paper piecing with this image to give it some dimension. Image was colored with colored pencils.
Your next stop on the hop is
Enjoy her beautiful creation.

Be sure and leave a comment for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate for digital stamps!







Cornish Heritage Farms Sneak Peek Week

Sneak peek week starts today!! 

I am so excited to start my term 
with Cornish Heritage Farms!

  • 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.
  • New Release Stamps available in the 
  • Cornish Heritage Farms Store 
  • on Thursday, April 19th,  10 PM EST. 
  • "First 24 Special" - receive 15% off all orders that are placed within the first 24 hours of the release.
My first card for the sneak peeks uses a new backgrounder stamp called "woodgrain". I paired it with two digital stamps from CHF, Pig digital stamp and Sow's things digital stamp.
The digital stamps are already available at the store!
 I printed the image onto colored paper and then
 added color with colored pencil.
Woodgrain is inked with Distress ink and 
stamped onto kraft paper. 

Be sure and check out what my fellow DT members have created! Stop back tomorrow for day 2!





Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Eureka Dog in Box

Greetings! 
Today I am featuring a 
Eureka stamp called 
#25805(263)



Image stamped onto watercolor paper 
and colored with Tombow markers
 with a blender pen.

I just love his silly face!
Thanks for stopping today!
See you soon!
Barb

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Eureka April Blog Hop

Welcome to Eureka's April Blog Hop!
 This month the theme is butterflies. 
For my card I used the stamp
 On my heart from Eureka.


I used the spotlight technique for my card.
I colored with colored pencil.

Your next stop on the blog hop is

Thanks for visiting today!
Enjoy the hop!


Friday, April 6, 2012

Clear Dollar Stamps - CIC 49 Go Green!

Hello! Today for Clear Dollar Stamps
 CIC challenge #49, 
we are going GREEN!

I used a cute new digi called Hopper, 
designed by our very own Lisa Lara. 

This digi is just so cute!!


I printed the digi onto green paper 
and then colored with colored pencil.

Thanks for stopping today!
Hope to see you back here soon!





Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Iris - Doodle Pantry

Hello ! 
I am entering this card in 
I love using sketches! 

It takes all the worry about layout away!

For my card I used a digital image 
from Doodle Pantry called Iris. 


I printed onto watercolor paper and 
then added color with my 
Tombow markers and a waterbrush.

The tag and word stamp are from
 Little Inker Designs.

A new month means new 
images at Doodle Pantry! 
Head on over  to see what's new!

Thanks for stopping today!



Sunday, April 1, 2012

Doodle Pantry April Release!

Hello! 
Welcome to the April 
Doodle Pantry release! 

I can hardly believe it is April already! 
Laurie has a FABULOUS selection
 of digis that are being released TODAY!


For April 1 - 3 only, there 
are TWO specials!


1. Use the coupon code NOFOOLING 
to take 25% off your purchase!  
(Excludes gift certificates and watermarks)


2. Ant Paper Pack is free with
 purchase for 3 days only!!!

For my first card today I used
 the image Quirky Parrot


Quirky Parrot is FREE when you join the
 April Doodle Pantry Digi Challenge (DPDC22). 
Contest starts today at 11AM (EDT). 
To participate all you have to do is to create 
something using a Doodle Pantry Image. 
It's as easy as that !! 
Click here to read the challenge details.


My next card features Umbrella Ants.
 This adorable image is FREE with 
any purchase, from April 1 - 24th!

Those silly ants are always up to something!

Thanks for visiting today!
Head on over to Doodle Pantry 
to get in on all the newest stuff!
See you soon!