Another Sneak Peek….

before the release Dec. 1!

A little break from Christmas cards today… but my plan is to finish up this week so I can get the bulk of them out this weekend! Whew! Stamp marathon coming up!

And guess what…!!!…. It SNOWED this evening!

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This is Simple Things and matching Clover Die, available the 1st from Our Daily Bread designs. I’m always excited at release time, even more so when we get a matching die!!

See those teeny tiny bees? Yup, they’re part of the die cut! Too cute!! It’s colored with Copics. The DP is Prima Alla, the Spellbinders die is Fleur de Lis Squares.

But, WAIT…. there’s more! I did another one, same sketch, but totally different look!

This is The Word of God, also available the 1st. When I started this one, it just had an ‘old’ feel to it…. especially when I decided to do Cracked Glass!

I put 3 layers of UTEE (ultra thick embossing powder) after heavily sponging with Distress inks… set it aside while I did the card layout, then cracked it. Then I took my Walnut Stain pad direct to the cracked glass, which let it seep into the cracks, then I wiped the excess ink off with a paper towel. Cool, huh!

The DP is Bo Bunny Timepiece, the Spellbinders die is Lg/Sm Labels.

I think you’re really going to love this release! The girls have made some fantabulous samples! Of course I think that every month! LOL!

Oh, btw… this is also the
Sketch Challenge  on Splitcoast!

I just had to snap a couple pics of the snowfall!! It was gorgeous last night, but I waited until this morning…. beautiful!

Out my front door…

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Winter Time… #92 a Sassy Challenge

Our Sassy Challenge today, is again from our Sassy Sistah, Pat, who wants us to think WINTER already! I do love snow and Winter, just not sure I’m ready for it yet!

Noah, Tweety & Waldo are all ready for the white stuff!

Colored with Copics, sponged with Distress ink.

For more Winter fun,
see what the other gals did.

Ann English ~ Cathy Edgar
Pat Frank ~ Judy Kreucher ~ Peggy Marsh
Jackie Mooney ~ Jeni Tidwell

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

No Shopping for Me…Just A Sneak Peek!

You can stand in line and fight the crowd for those deals…but I’ll take my cozy bed and home comfort thank you! Did you get what you went for? Maybe 10, 20 years ago I might have braved it… lol!

Anyhoo, this is a peek at some awesome new stuff coming Dec 1 from Our Daily Bread designs, Honeycomb Background and Simple Things.

I stamped the Honeycomb Background and the quote in…wait for it… Wild Honey Distress ink. This is a Picture Frame Fold-Up Card from Creative Cuts & More, Bazzill Sugar Cookie Criss Cross. It’s made to put a photo then a flap covers it on the back side, and then it opens like a normal card… leaving the inside looking “finished”! I decided to put the quote there instead, stamped on white.

Ok….see the awesome clover? It has a matching die! Way cool!! And those little bees too!  The larger bees are part of the same set, I cut those out myself.

Here’s the inside.

I added a piece of black cs that made the whole thing pop! This set and background is going to be so fun.

Well… I think I’m going to have a piece of pie!
LOL.. gotta love leftovers!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Giving Thanks…

Happy Thanksgiving
to all my US readers.
I hope you enjoy your day
with family and friends.

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Kelley at Our Daily Bread designs is having a "We Give Thanks to God" sale. This will include 10% off and free shipping! Several of the design team members also created cards and layouts with the ODBD Give Thanks set for today.
Four winners will be randomly chosen from the comments to receive a $20 gift certificate to the ODBD store!! You have until Sunday, 12 midnight EST.

Details about the sale and the other designers' creations can be seen on the ODBD blog.

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Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Did She OR Didn’t She… A Sale and Anything Goes #91 Sassy Challenge

Last week you remember we tried to stump Cheryl who claims she can tell which designer makes which card! Oh yeah….she’s SASSY alright…so aptly named! She thinks she’s sooooo smart!

This week our Sassy Challenge is from our 0h-so-talented Sassy Pat, Anything Goes.

But before I get to my card for today, I have a sale to tell you about!

This is Noah and Patches, awww, aren’t they cute! I haven’t used my water color pencils in quite some time, so I dusted them off for this one!

The DP is DCWV and I doodled a bit with a fine tip pen.

So, what was your guess for last week’s challenge? Did you think Cheryl would even come close?? Oh, I can hear her now….last year she claimed WE cheated, how I don’t know!!
This year I mixed it up a bit by NOT using Copics like I usually do and using Prismacolor Pencils like Sassy Judy. I also tried to create my card like one of our ex-Sassy gals, Alina! AND I did the inside of mine like Sassy Pat (well, maybe not just like hers…that woman is phenomenal!)

So….here we go! I HATE to admit it….but, dang, she’s good!

This is Sally and Her Blue Birds. DP is DCWV Holiday Collection Winter Stack, Scripty Writing from CHF Kim Hughes, Spellbinders Snowflake Wonder and Contemporary Hearts, Martha Stewart punch.

So, go ahead and gloat Miz SASSY Cheryl!!
You did it!
AND, I THINK YOU CHEATED THIS YEAR!!!

Have a look-see at the rest of the Sassy gals

Ann English ~ Cathy Edgar
Pat Frank ~ Judy Kreucher ~ Peggy Marsh
Jackie Mooney ~ Jeni Tidwell

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

A Blog Hop that’s GRAND!!!

It’s the Grand Re-Opening of Cornish Heritage Farms!

Prizes!!

We will be randomly be giving away
8 gift certificates!

Here is how to enter: 

Visit each of our blog hops sites, beginning with CHF blog. Leave a comment on each site before you hop to the next site! Each designer will randomly draw a name from the comments left in the first 24 hours of the hop! That means you have 8 different chances of winning!

Now, here’s my card

For my card, I used this fun Skiing Snowman digi…too cute right?! He’s colored with Copics and some Sakura white gel pen.

For my background I stamped some of my ‘rubber’ CHF images, Christmas Expressions and Joyeux Noel. The snowflakes were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with Ranger Holographic and Antique Gold embossing powder, then sponged with Distress ink for some emboss resist.

I thought he’d look cute flying down the slopes… I tore strips of cardstock and laid them at an angle on my base, then trimmed the edges even.

All the edges have Icicle Stickles just like glistening snow!

Stop by Cornish Heritage Farms store and see all the goodies! Nothing over $2.99… a .99 cent bin…reward points…. FUN!!

Now, hop on over to Laura O’Donnell 

Have fun!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

A Little Bird Told Me…..

Cornish Heritage Farms is back under new ownership and having a Grand Re-0pening tomorrow with a blog hop!

If you missed my first post about CHF, that’s where I got my start on a design team! Lots of memories!

I love birds, so when I saw this digi I had to have it! I’m calling it simply, Robin. Right now the images have a number but I’m sure will have names once the store is up and running!
It’s colored with Copics, sponged with Distress inks. The layer the Robin is on it just white cardstock that I drug my Distress ink pad over.

The rose is Spellbinders Spiral Blossom 1. I didn’t want the tulle to be so stark white, so I just used a Copic close in color to the DP and ‘dirtied’ it up a bit! I also hit the ribbon and tulle lightly with my heat tool to distress them. Oh, and the leaves are Spellbinders Shadow Flowers. The DP is DCWV Mirabelle.

See you at the Hop tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping!!

Dawn

Another CHF Peek!

The Grand Re-Opening of Cornish Heritage Farms is just a couple of days away! Here is another peek at one of the digis that will be available.

BTW….not all CHF stamps will be digis, but with soooo many images, over 2000!… Tanya decided what doesn’t go to rubber will become digital. Cool!

I’m going to call this one Jingle Bells Poinsettia, it’s colored with Copics and sponged with Distress ink. The base is embossed with Holly Ribbons and that twill is some I’ve had forevah, probably from Michaels or Joann’s.

One more Christmas card down…. how many more to go??!!!

Don’t forget to stop by CHF now and pick up several digis that are on sale and were just featured in Scrap & Stamp magazine! You can read all about it on the CHF blog.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Seems I’ve Come Full Circle!

Way back in 2007 I was accepted on my very first design team, Cornish Heritage Farms. I had a good time, made new friends and learned sooo much! I eventually went on to other DT’s and the owners decided to sell the company.

Fast forward a few years….

I was contacted a few weeks back about making some samples for the Grand Re-opening of CHF! Wow! Really?! Sure!!

This is one of the digitals that will soon be available. I’m calling it Top Hat Snowman (as he just has a # right now). The sentiment is from an older set called, Joyeux Noel.
He’s colored with Copics and a little white gel pen. I put some Blizzard Mudd Puddles  on for fun too!

The next card is a free digi Tanya offered this week! Flower Wheel Barrow.  How cool is that! Check out the CHF blog too for another special!

Here’s a card I did using the digi.

I made it ‘Fallish’, colored with Copics, sponged with Distress ink. I sent it as a ‘thinking of you/get well’ to my hay man who just got out of the hospital. Perfect for a farmer!

We’ll be having a blog hop this Saturday, November 19 to kick off the Grand Re-opening!! Hope to see you then!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

It’s Time to Stump the Boss, #90 A Sassy Challenge!!

Hi friends... we've got a bit of sassiness going on at Sassy Cheryl's challenge today. Sassy Cheryl always says that she can tell which one of her design team members created a card without looking at the watermark. So.. the team has put her to the test and created these...

Yeah, she thinks she soooo smart, hmmmph, we’ll see!

Here's one of the DT member's card...
is it mine???!!!???
Yes? No? Maybe?

You get to play along in this super challenge. Anything goes… and then leave a comment on the challenge blog saying whether you think Sassy Cheryl guessed all of the designers' cards correctly. If you say 'yes' and she did guess correct, then you get another entry in our random drawing. If you think Sassy Cheryl missed the mark and didn't get them all right, leave that comment.

It's quite simple and worth playing along... there's a $10 gift certificate for the lucky winner. Check out all the details at Sassy Challenge blog.

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So, have a look at the other Sassy gals and see if you can out guess da boss!! LOL

Ann English ~ Cathy Edgar
Pat Frank ~ Judy Kreucher ~ Peggy Marsh
Jackie Mooney ~  Jeni Tidwell

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

A Fairly Quick Gift Bag!

Have a gift but need to wrap it and have NO wrapping paper? Are you like me and save all those bags….because ONE day you’re going to need them?!

I took this ‘Prada’ bag from who-knows-what, and quickly slapped some embossed, stamped and colored cardstock on it… stamped, colored and die cut my bird, stamped and embossed Merry Christmas on my ornament….and voila! A decorated gift bag!

All images are Our Daily Bread designs… You Will Find Refuge/Chickadee Die, Sacred Season, and Holiday Ornaments.

After embossing the background with my Holly Ribbons folder, I used a scrap oval mask (the cut out oval hole) and my scoring tool to flatten out the embossed area where the pinecones would go, stamped them with the ‘oval mask’ in place, then colored with Copics. I used Icy Stickles for the snow, Spellbinders ovals for the frame.

You all know I love this Chickadee! Using the Chickadee Die makes it so easy for those fussy parts!

This ornament is stamped on white cardstock! I stamped in black, stamped and embossed the Merry Christmas in gold ep…then using my Distress ink, I applied it DTP (direct to paper)! Then used Spellbinders Holiday Tags to die cut.

Gold embroidery floss holds it to the branch, both the ornament and Chickadee are popped up.

Cool, huh!

Hey, Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Swirling Snowflakes…but on a card, not for real!

Y’all know I love snow…but I’m not quite ready for the white stuff just yet!

The sketch challenge today on Splitcoast is an easy one with simple layers. Here’s what I did…

This is Our Daily Bread designs Snowflake Background, embossed in silver, and Ornaments 2, also embossed in silver.
While still in the Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornaments die, I sponged Distress Bundled Sage on the tree and Tumbled Glass on the rest…wiping with a paper towel afterwards to remove any ink left on the silver embossing. I also sponged over the swirling snowflakes on the base layer.

If you go to a show where ODBD is set up, you can get some of this cool Mirror paper! I embossed it with the Swiss Dots folder. The trim is some I’ve had in my stash forevah! As a finishing touch, I added some white gel pen to the snowflake centers.

Well, it’s yucky rain here today which means it’s not cold enough for snow! So, for that I’m thankful… but you know when it does get cold enough I’ll be doing the happy dance to see the ground covered with Snow!

I hope I’ve inspired you today to maybe try something new or just make a card with a technique you haven’t done in a while!

As always… thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Emboss It! #89 A Sassy Challenge AND a Guest Designer Slot!

*NEWS FLASH*

For the remainder of November's challenges (8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th) we'll be checking out all of the entries and selecting one lucky person who will be our guest designer for the month of December!!

Our Sassy Challenge this week is from Sassy talented Peggy…Embossing, wet or dry. Remember you can play along and you don’t have to use a Sassy Cheryl’s image, BUT if you do you double your chances of winning!!

This is Cup of Cocoa… such a cutie and so perfect for so many kinds of sentiments and occasions! She’s colored with Copics. Her cup is embossed with clear ep, I embossed the chair back thingy… what are those called anyway? I remember when I was little there were doilies there… anyhoo… I embossed it by taking my embossing folder on the front and stylus on the backside only in that area!

The sentiment (by Stampabilities I think) is also embossed with clear ep. The bottom edge is Spellbinders Edgeabilities with an embossed piece behind. The DP is DCWV Holiday Collection.

For lots more inspiration… check out the rest of the Sassy gals

Ann English ~ Cathy Edgar
  Jeni Tidwell
Pat Frank ~ Peggy Marsh
Jackie Mooney ~ Judy Kreucher

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

November 10th Gingerbread Chipboard Album Blog Hop - YouTube

Check it out! Too Fun!!

BTW…this is the ‘other’ Dawn on the team, not me *wink*