First Saturday of the Month…

Posted by Jen | Cornish Heritage Farms, cards, challenges, designer of the month | Saturday, June 6, 2009

Hip hip hooray, it’s the first Saturday of the month which means that I have a new Designer of the Month to introduce. Many people have asked me how to “try out” for this, but there is no “try out.” I just search blogs and galleries and bookmark ones as I go. When it comes time to ask someone, I reference the list and go from there. I haven’t updated my blog roll in forever, and I certainly go beyond the names on there {just so you know}.

Back to this month’s Designer of the Month…

Please give a warm welcome to ASHLEY NEWELL…
Portrait Session: Ashley and Nichole

A little about Ashley in her own words…
I am very grateful for Jen and the design team for hosting the challenges and creating great cards every week! I’m truly honored and thrilled to be June’s guest designer and face the sketch challenges for the month.

To pay the bills (and support my craft), I am a legal editor for a non-profit publisher located outside of Washington, DC. When I’m not working, I enjoy spending time with my husband, McArthur, and being his photography assistant. I also enjoy traveling and cooking new dishes. I started scrapbooking in high school using limited supplies, such as magazine clippings, pipe cleaners, sequins, and markers that I found at the local craft store. I rediscovered my passion two years ago after finding the online crafting world and realizing how much the scrapbooking industry has changed since my high school years. I was introduced to card making after taking a class at my local scrapbooking store and immediately was hooked. I am glad that I have found a wonderful craft as my creative outlet and lease on life, but most of all to be able to share it with fellow crafters and meet more along the way!

Here’s this week’s sketch…
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Here’s my sample using gorgeous Cornish Heritage Farms stamps {Ornamental Beauty and Ornamental Borders Scrapblock} from Julia Stainton {thank you!}…
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Isn’t Ashley’s sample so bright and cheery!?!…
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Want more samples? Check out the SFYTT Sisters…
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Susan Liles
Kelly Lunceford

Carole isn’t playing this week, but she’ll be back soon :)

Ok, so the Mr. Linky that I had all set up before has apparently died and gone {to a temporary} heaven due to server issues. Just go ahead and leave your creation link in the comments. Don’t forget…I moderate comments, so if it doesn’t show up {meaning some far off computer god didn’t recognize your name}, I will approve it shortly.

FS101, Playing With Bugs…

Posted by Jen | Bella, Cornish Heritage Farms, cards, challenges | Sunday, January 11, 2009

Wanna win $450 worth of stamping goodies? Click HERE to see how. HERE is the official entry post.

More blog tarts on this weeks Sketch For You To Try post HERE.

I’m trying out the Featured Stamper Challenge again this week. Hopefully I got it right this time! LOL! Last week I accidentally used a card that was part of a different sketch challenge. That’s what happens when I RARELY stamp on Sunday! I think Bethie and all the other SCS’ers gave me a pass. This week I was a little more cautious about which card I chose. This week’s featured stamper is jaydekay. HERE is the card that I chose to work with from her gallery. And, here is my card…

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As, the title of this post suggest, I played with bugs to complete this card. HUGGABUGS that is! OMG, as if everything else at Stamping Bella wasn’t awesome enough, she comes out with these little bits of cuteness {there’s even a stamping and a crafting one!!}. That’s part of what I changed up for the challenge. Everything I changed…
1. Stamp and sentiment
2. Used Swiss Dots embossing folder instead of polka dot stamp background
3. Instead of embossing the heart, I stamped it with Geometric Flowers II backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms
4. I used a mat for both the white panel and behind the ribbon

Hope everyone is having a relaxing weekend. See ya tomorrow!

Sketch For You To Try…

Posted by Jen | Cornish Heritage Farms, Holidays, cards, challenges, designer of the month | Saturday, November 22, 2008

Things I need to work on with my Sketch For You To Try Saturday…
1. Uploading my card to SCS on SATURDAY!
2. Commenting on EVERYONE’S creations. I go to them, I PROMISE! I just need to get better about leaving you all some of the love that you SO VERY KINDLY leave me. I love you guys!
3. Coming up with more sketches that you ABSOLUTELY LOVE. I’ve got my sketch book here and I am working away!

This has been an exceptionally crazy week. The change to the new gym was stressful because of the circumstances, but I love it there and Ellie LOVES the daycare center there. I have started to go to Lady of America Fitness. I have driven by it a million times and wrote it off as an old lady gym {sorry, but I did!}. I went and checked it out and did a trial week and today yesterday I signed up. It will definitely work for me and my goals.

Well enough about all this non-stampin’ and sketchin’ stuff! Here’s this week’s SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY…

Is it possible to be inspired by yourself? LOL! I really liked my card that I did last week and played off of it for inspiration for this week’s card of mine…

Becca Feeken, November’s supah dupah Designer of the Month, created this cutie card…

Check out the samples from a few of my stampin’ friends, Amy R., Amy S., Carole, Shannan and Susan!

Wanna play? I hope so!…really, I do!! Here’s what you should know…
1. ANYONE can play.
2. Have fun with this!
3. When uploading to SCS, use the keyword SFYTT.
4. Post a link to your blog or gallery on this post.