Cornish Heritage Farms Summer Stamp Star Contest

Cornish Heritage Farm is hosting a "Summer Stamp Star" Contest with weekly challenges. This is my project for Challenge #1 Color It !! They are awarding weekly winners and then 1 Over-all Winner. So there is still time for you to qualify to enter one of the weekly Catagories.

I used Single Blackeyed Susan stamp and one of my favorite colorization techniques - H2O Watercolors.
Cornish Heritage Farms has an AWESOME BACKGROUND COLLECTION. I used Polkadots. I love polkadots and new this one would be a good investment, something I would use over and over. They also have a great sentiment collection under MONA LISA. I found a beautiful set of friendship sentiments.

Corner Punch is by EK Success. I also used Spellbinders Label and Bird Dies. I added the eye and wing to the bird. I'm not sure who the button and ribbon are. I got it from my huge stash. Patterned paper is by Basic Grey. I used Pearlescent Chocolate Ink to stamp polkadots / sentiment and Palette Noir to stamp image. Micron 005 Black Pen to accent doodle.

Helpful Links :

Cornish Heritage Farms

CHF Blog

Summer Stamp Star Details

Twinkling H2O's

Impression Obsession Challenge

Since I have started participating in challenges, I am sooooo much more productive. And of course if there is a prize involved, I'm really motivated. So, in my search for Manufactures that host challenges, I ran across a blog for Impression Obsession. I don't think there is a set day that they host the challenges, so I recommend you subscribe to the blog. This challenge catagory was "Male". Lots of cute owl phrases I could add to this one for different occasions. I'm gonna set it aside til I decide what I'm going to use it for and add my sentiment later. I had so much fun coloring this litte guy !! I used prismacolor pencils with OMS and then brushed over some Shimmerz Paints. Man, I wish you could see the Shimmerz. I love Shimmerz and H2O Water colors.

This little guy needed a perch. I have branch stamps, but none this big. So I decided to use my one of my Cuttlebug emobossing folders and then colorize with H2O water colors. What do you think. I'm so glad to hear that they are not going out of business.

Pattered paper by Carolee's Creations.

Links
Impression Obsession Website

Impression Obsession Blog

Shimmerz Blog

Buy Shimmerz Paints

Buy Twinkling H2O Watercolors

Center Stage DT Blog Hop !

One of the things that attracted me to GinaK's stamps was the "unusual" images they provide. Honestly, I have enough floral images to last me a life time. So when I'm shopping for stamps now, I look for something different. And I have found GinaK's illistrators to be so original. This set is by Melanie Muenchinger. You have to check out some of the cool idea's for using this stamp set. Melanie created some awesome projects. Check them out in the StampTV gallery, HERE. Melanie has several projects posted, so look for her name, and make sure you don't miss the one where she leave off the stem and turns the image into a candle voltive! So cool!! You can also check out Melanie's Blog !

So today is the last day of being a part of the GinaK Center Stage DT and GinaK is hosting one last Blog Hop for us. I wasn't able to create a project with "Many Wishes", but you can hop over to the other blogs and check out some wonderful projects!

Gina K

Carla

Caroline

Jennie

Pam

Selma

STAY TUNED FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE JULY GINAK

CENTER STAGE DT !!

Gina K New Release Blog Hop !!

Good Morning Stampers! I'm so excited to be posting today along with GinaK and all the other DT Memebers for GinaK Designs. This month includes another round of awesome stamp images available for you to purchase and play with as well. A total of 6 new sets are being released!! Gina K is hosting previews for these sets through Thursday until the sets go live and are available for purchase Thursday Night

Today Gina is previewing "Arranged with Love" and "Bug Me Anytime". There is also a "Bug Me Anytime" Digital Paper Pack as well!!

Here is my first project. I used the "Bug Me Anytime" Digi paper and stamp set designed by Nina B. I LOVE it. The digi pattern on this card printed in brown and I colored in the images with Prismacolor Pencils. I like this sheet the best because it is so versatile. You can colorize with any colors you want. The stamp set had 3 open flowers to design with, but this one was my favorite.

Isn't this stamp set and digi paper fun! I thought it would make a cute little mini album to store some summer memories in. I HAVE to tell you how I made the pages. First let me say I had never tried GinaK cardstock before ... holy smokes, this is some awesome cardstock. Very thick and sturdy enough to create pages for this mini album that I know will hold up. I cut an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet into 2 pieces = 4 1/4" x 11". Then I scored each piece at 5 1/2" and folded in half to create each page of the book. So each page is doubled and the fold line is along the outside line. Then I covered the pages with some of the colorful digi paper. It's ready to add my photo's and journeling later. Wouldn't this be a great gift.

I had so many idea's for this set that it was hard to decide what to go with. But here is my last project. Aren't the ladybugs adorable!! I love them!!

Now it's time to hop over to Gina's Blog. Don't forget to check out all the projects designed by the other DT Members:

GinaK

Carolyn

Cathy

Cindy

Donna

Emily

Jessica

Kurtis

Lee

Lynn

Melanie

Theresa

And my fellow Guest DT Member - Carla

The next preveiw for the last 2 sets will be Thursday Morning with a follow-up Release Party over at SCS Thursday Night.

Release Party Details: Join us here in our forum on this thread-Thursday, June 25th from 7-10 PM Central Time for all the fun! Then at 10 PM central time, we will release 6 new stamp sets, new Pure Luxury card stock and some great new accessories! Gina will be giving away lots of freebies too, including templates and digital paper! We hope you'll come and party with us!

GinaK Color Challenge

One of the fun things about being a Guest Designer for StampTV this month is that I get to host a Color Challenge. If you have time, hop over and play along. As always Gina is generously giving away a free stamp set with this challenge. I love these 2 colors together and I LOVE this stamp set by GinaK. So much fun to design with. I hope you like it! Here is the link to all of the GinaK "Current Challenges". You have to be a member to play along. So here is a link to the "Home page"! If you are not a member sign up today!

Project Supply List:

Stamps : Gina K Sweetest Blessing

Patterned Paper : MME(polkadots), Prima(wordPP), Bound+Determined(hot pink)

Ribbon : Aqua-American Crafts, Pink-unknown

Colorization-PrismaColor Pencils with OMS

Clear Stickles

Fiskars Border Tool, Making Memories Distress Tool

Stick Pin : Fancy Pants

Buttons : Unknown

Lizzie Anne Designs Challenge

I created this one for a Lizzie Anne Designs Sketch Challenge. This set is so cute!! I own so many stamp images now, that what I look for is something different, that I don't own already. The popsicles and icecream were perfect to add to my collection and I love the "sweet" sayings that went along with it.

You can check out Lizzie Anne Designs HERE. Blog HERE.

Challenges over at Lizzie Anne Land HERE.

Thanks for looking!

Unity Hip Hop Hangover

I just purchased my first Unity Stamps a couple of weeks ago and had soooo much fun playing with them today. What I have discovered is that Unity is also a very generous company. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out the company blog HERE.

Every Wednesday there is a "Garage Sale" with special sales. Then on Thursday's they host a huge blog hop and challenges/give-a-ways. You can check out the challenges / give-aways over at SCS HERE. I played along for the first time today. The above card was created for the "Unity takes the cake" challenge. We had to use a little "icing". I chose to add Stampendous Crystal Glitter on my topiary to qualify.

Wanna play along too??

Click on the blinkie above to get your Unity Stamps. Through the weekend there is a 30% off sale. I hope I'm off on a thursday again soon, so I can play along.Project Supplies :Stamps - UnityPatterned Paper - Daisy DRibbon - MichealsColorization - Prismacolor Pencils with OMSStampendous Crystal GlitterTools - Nestibilities Circles and Scalloped CirclesSentiment - Unknown