CHF Summer Fling!

What’s the 12 Weeks of Summer Fling? Each week will feature one of the rubber stamp lines at CHF with a blog hop and special gallery showing new samples using stamps from that line. The featured line will also be on sale for the week so definitely the time to add to your collection:) Two Gift Certificates will be awarded to 2 lucky winners who successfully follow the blog hop & comment as they go in the time allotted.  This is not a race. All Blog Hops will start from the CHF Be Creative Blog on a Monday, comments must be made before midnight EST on the Thursday of that week & winners will be announced on the Friday. 1st prize is a $20 CHF Gift Certificate, 2nd Prize is a $10 Gift Certificate which will be emailed to the winning participants. The Gift Certificates will be valid for 6 months from date of issue. PLEASE NOTE that if you have a Club CHF award awaiting you on your next order, you will need to wait for the following order to use your Gift Certificate as the store only allows one discount per order.


If you upload a qualifying card (using the featured week’s stamp line) to the CHF special gallery for that week you will be eligible for the Design Team’s Favorite prize which will be a rubber stamp/stamp set of your choice up to the value of $16.99. The deadline for uploading cards for the prize will also be Thursdays at midnight. Looking forward to having you play along with us for the summer.

The Design Team has been working hard to bring you a fun-filled summer! In addition to the blog hops one of the team members will post a tutorial here on this blog each week, again featuring the line of the week in the tutorial. Blog hops, prizes, free stamps, discounts, tutorials…isn't that thrilling?!?

Be sure to join us on Monday for the first of our hops!  It all starts on the CHF Creative Blog... right HERE.

Thanks for visiting!
lise

Sweet Spring Blog Hop

The trees are in bloom, the birds are singing and the tulips are peeking out of the garden... it's SPRING!  YEAH!!  I'm so glad Winter has made way to warmer temperatures!

The Cornish Heritage Farm team has decided to celebrate the season with a little blog hop.  Be sure to stop by the CHF team's blogs for more inspiration and fun.

Becky Olsen
Joanne Allison
Julia Stainton
Kristine Reynolds
Sherrie Siemens

CHF Creative Blog - where the winners of the recent challenge are also announced!
So, here are my cards for the "Ode to Spring"!
Spring into Style:

I couldn't stop at just one card.  I created a quick set of cards, all simply made with the same style and colors.  All are made with White Prismatic cardstock that has been embossed with the Labels Four Nestabilities dies.  And I used the Sweet Spring stamp set from Cornish Heritage Farms for all of them.  I don't think it could be any simpler.  Here are each of the cards up close:

Thanks for stopping by,
Lisa

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Supplies:
Stamps:
-Sweet Spring stamp set (Kim Hughes Collection) by Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink:
-Pitch Black Adirondack ink by Ranger

Paper:
-White Prismatic cardstock by Prism

Patterned Paper:
-Urban Prairie by Basic Grey (I can't stop using this paper!!!!)

Other:
-Stickles by Ranger
-Liquid Applique by Marvy
-Nestabilities by Spellbinder
-Ribbon from www.ribbonsandbowsohmy.com

Shady Tree Studio Images

The CHF Be Creative Blog has been sharing sneak peeks all week on the new line of floral images, illustrated by Nancy Baier.  Her flowers just make me SO happy!!!!  I've been watercoloring and penciling these gorgeous, yummy flowers.

I thought I'd share one with you today...

AND let you know that the CHF Be Creative Blog will be giving away four of these beautiful stamps... so post soon!

Poppin' Poppies:

Seriously... is that not the most lovely poppy image ever?  I love how it makes you feel like an artist to color and paint them!

I did paint in this one.  I used Peerless watercolors to give these poppies a red-orange-yellow feel.  A bit of slate gray was added to the center for depth, shading and those lovely seeds in the center.

Since the watercoloring yielded such a bold result, I had to pair it with the black and white of the Making Memories Spiral Journaling paper as a layer.  I love the pattern, don't you?

The release is just around the corner.  Be sure to stop by the team blog for a giveaway and more lovely samples!

Thanks for stopping by,
lise
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Supplies:
Stamps:
-Poppy Pair (Shady Tree Studio) by CHF


Ink:
-Stone Gray Stazon ink by Tsukineko


Paper:
-Desert Coral Medium, Black Prismatic by Prism Papers
-Staedtler water color paper


Patterned Paper:
-5th Avenue Spiral Journaling book by Making Memories


Other:
-Peerless Water colors
-Scallop black ribbon by May Arts
-Piercing Tool by Making Memories

Giveaway at the CHF Be Creative Blog

I know it's been ages since I've posted... but since you are all friends, I know you've overlooked my lapse.  Right?  OK... sorry... I promise to do better.

I come bringing news of a JUICY giveaway at the CHF Be Creative Blog.  All you have to do is take a peek at the recent posts of Kim Hughes upcoming release (just in time for CHA) and comment on your favorite.  Just that easy.  Or hard... if you're like me and can't pick which one is the cutest!  Kim's images are always a hit with me!

I'll catch you over at CHF Be Creative Blog for some Farm Fresh Kim Hughes images!

And I'll have a creative post of my own tomorrow.  Promise!

Hugs,
Lise

Be Creative

Blogging and stamping go hand in hand, don't you think?  It's been a powerful tool to share our creative talents, to make connections in the community and to learn / educate.

Cornish Heritage Farms is excited to announce a new blog for our creative endeavors.  It's called CHF Creative Blog and is Farm Fresh and yummy!  Isn't that clever?!?!?

Head over to see what we're talking about and there might be a bit o' candy in the offing!

Thanks and I hope to see you there!
lise