Make a Difference

I cut up my Thomas Kinkaid Christmas Series Paper Pack on Saturday morning and made 8 cards in less than an hour for the Snow Challenge at Cornish Heritage Farms. I’m going to use similar, simple layouts and finish up the rest of them. I can get 48 cards from this pack of gorgeous paper with larger images for gift wrap or bags and solid coordinating paper left over.

The scenes in the Christmas pack are all snowy, so with ‘warm wishes’ from the Joyeux Noel snowflake set, I can package these up in sets of 4-6 for quick, thinking of you gifts at Christmas. They’ll be perfect for Christmas thank yous or New Year’s cards that the recipients can send.

These are accented heavily with glitter in snowy spots. Love how quickly these cards came together for me. Wonderful sense of accomplishment.

• Stamps - Joyeux Noel (Aimee Nugent Line) Cornish Heritage Farms
• Cardstock - Thomas Kinkaid Christmas Paper Pack & Kraft (Prism)
• Ink - Snow Cap Pigment Adirondack & Espresso Adirondack (Ranger)
• Accs - flourish strips that I cut up (Prima Marketing), Sukura Quickie Glue Pen, White Glitter - unknown, dimensional foam dots

See you tomorrow!

I have been wanting to try soldering for a long time and got this kit a month or so ago. I love the collage type stained glass charms that the really artsy people make. So, I packed up all the stuff, headed off to Wes’ work bench in the basement, and this is the result of my first try…well actually, my third try. I discovered that to work down there in the man-cave, I need 3 more hands and an OTT light. I sure hope that lead solder will flake off of his big ole manly man work vise.

This image is, perhaps, my favorite Thomas Kinkaid stamp in the CHF collection, The Forest Chapel. Here I have stamped it in Brilliance Pearlescent Beige and then accented with swirls from the Beautiful stamp set in Pearlescent Chocolate. The ‘divine’ and ‘design’ are BOTH from the Sassy Petites stamp set (released today along with Christmas Expressions). Isn’t that cool? DIVINE DESIGN!! I’m going to try to make a few of these charms, and hopefully improve my solder skills along the way.

I’ll see you tomorrow! Have a great, fabulous day!

Ms. Mona Lisa Strahl released a brand new product line for Cornish Heritage Farms yesterday. I’ll let her tell you all about it, but suffice to say the CHF team is pretty excited about these gorgeous patterned papers featuring beautiful Thomas Kinkaid art. Here’s a little blip that she shared with me. You can see more and get more 411 by visiting her blog Mona Lisa Moments.

I’ll be later today with some stamping… Have a good one!

I made it through my first cardio workout in a while… I’m still here. Of course, I made that 12 week commitment, so I guess I’ll go to the gym again today.

My card this morning uses the same layout as my Elvis card from Monday, but the stamps and embellishments change the ‘feel’. I am always short on masculine cards, and honestly, they are harder for me. I’ll add this one to my stash.

The Thomas Kinkaid image (The Good Life) is monochromatic with Lettuce ink. I stamp and use these TK images monochromatic about 84.2% of the time. I *could* color them, but why? I’ll leave the coloring to Sherrie! Magic Mesh, Prima Flowers and a Copper Krylon Pen complete this quick card. Here’s a hint for the Krylon pen: I use a piece of paper to mask off the inside of the image layer (so just the 1/8″ - 1/4″ border shows). Then take your leafing pen and mark the edge in one swift swoop without stopping or lifting your pen. You will have a very smooth, polished edge to frame your image without the need to add another layer.

• Cardstock: Cryogen White, Spring Willow Medium, Paypaya Puree Dark and Suede Dark Brown - all Prism