A Scrapbooking Day!

So, this Saturday is National Scrapbooking Day, who can believe that we get our own holiday! Whoot! Whoot! At CHF, from Noon to 3PM this Saturday, we are having some fun challenges, a tutorial by yours truly and some chatting with Becky Olsen and Kim Hughes. Mark your calenders! Here is more info: National Scrapbooking Day.

Until then, at CHF, we have started scrapbooking with our stamps, and I have created a sketch for the design team, and they are doing wonders with it!

Here is the sketch:

CHF Stamps: Kim Hughes (Pretty Birds), Fancy Pants Rub-ons, Ranger Stickles, Basic Grey Paper and Chipboard, Doodlebug Brads, Strano Ribbon, Prima Flowers.

Other girls playing along:

Alli Miles

Lisa Silver

Lisa Strahl

Kim Hughes

Dawn Lusk

Kristine Reynolds

Becky Olsen

CHF Challenge Chicks! A Chalk Challenge...

This week, we took to working with chalks! I have one set of shimmery chalks from Pebbles Inc. I decided to chalk up a background and some pink scallops for my card design today. I also took a little chalk to the little Kim Hughes lady bug from the Hugs and Kisses set. :)

Check out the creations done by this weeks players:
Julia Stainton
Lisa Silver
Kim Hughes
Dawn Lusk
Kristine Reynolds
Val Stangle
Lori Craig

You can play too! Upload your project using chalk and CHF stamps in the CHF gallery.

Elvis Sketch Released Today!!!

As the exclusive stamp producer for Elvis images, CHF just released another stamp today! It's called Elvis Sketch and is available now, wood mounted. Here is a card I made using the new stamp, along with some Distress Ink and Cut n' Dry Foam. I just think this image has so many possibilities for masculine cards. Inside, it can read Love me tender or thank you, thank you very much.

Supplies:
CHF Stamps:Elvis Sketch
Ink: Distress Ink (Vintage Photo, Frayed Burlap)
Paper: Making Memories, K & Co.
Other: Tag and String, Cut n' Dry Foam

CHF Challenge Chicks: A Sketch!

For this Monday, we are taking our inspiration from a sketch which can be seen at CHF. Here is my take on it, using Little People Collage Stamp, and "just a note" from Script Essential Expressions. I picked up that little frame at the dollar store, cut a little piece of paper to place on back, and used clear lacquer to make it glossy.

If you have some CHF stamps and want to play along, just upload your card at CHF and let us know in the forum that you've played along and we can oogle your design!
Supplies: Stamps (CHF), Paper (Cosmo Cricket, Rusty Pickle, Bo Bunny, Prism), Die Cut (Making Memories), Chipboard (Basic Grey), Ink (Ranger Distress Inks, Staz-on), Other (Spellbinders Nestabilities, Cuttlebug).

Other girls playing are:
Julia Stainton
Lisa Silver
Kim Hughes
Dawn Lusk
Kristine Reynolds
Sherrie Siemens
Julie Campbell
Lisa Strahl
Val Stangle

CHF Backgrounder Blitz

I need to spread the word - giveaways happening!

Quote from the CHF Forum:

The week before the next backgrounder release, we’re going to be focusing on innovative ways to use backgrounders and we’ll have daily challenges with designer samples.

We’d love you to play along too! Design some backgrounder projects and upload them to our CHF gallery. The more samples you upload the better, because it increases your chances of winning some backgrounder stamps.

Each day, two names will be randomly drawn from the Backgrounder Challenge submissions and each winner will receive a backgrounder stamp. Sound like fun?! Now because we really want you to play along…we’re giving you some advance notice of the challenges. That way you can work around YOUR schedule. We know how busy life gets. It doesn’t really matter when you create your challenge designs…you can start now.

The Backgrounder Blitz kicked off this Friday (past) evening at 7 pm EST in the CHF Forums. Make sure you stop by for a chance to win then as well. Challenges start on Saturday April 19, and follow through each day including Friday April 25, the release date for our new latest backgrounders. The list of challenges is below. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have on this thread. I hope you can join us!

Mona Lisa Moments: New Script Essentials!

A stamp set with every word and sentiment you can possibly need for card making is here! CHF has come out with Mona Lisa Moments: Script Essential Expressions, designed by Lisa Strahl. I just love how versatile this set is, I know I will get a ton of use out of it.

Available today (release day) for $24.99 at CHF. See other designs using this set in the gallery here.

Card: Shasy Daisy (CHF), Scrip Essential Expressions (CHF), Ink: Ranger Distress Ink, Paper: Basic Grey, Doodlebug, Prism Cardstock.

CHF Challenge Chicks! What I Love About CHF...

Well, there are quite a few things, but let me name three reasons:

1. CHF promotes and sells only the BEST and TESTED products. Distress Inks and Ranger products come to mind.

2. The images are so versatile and can suit any stamper or scrapbooker.

3. I love that CHF is committed to helping people stamp their images to their full potential (ie techniques, blog tutorials, etc.) See Technique Talk here to learn new stamping techniques.

Going back to my Number 2 - I have created a layout using 2 CHF backgrounder stamps (Grid Paper and Large Polka Dots). I know that typically, backgrounders are perfect for card making, but I couldn't wait to put them to the test on other projects. I applied the grid paper backgrounder 2 times to make a pattern on the cardstock. I also used the large polka dots to create a piece of patterned paper as an accent. FUN possibilities here. And they have so many backgrounders available too. I could find ways to use them all on projects other than cards.

Check out the other CHF girls playing along this week!

They are:
Julia Stainton
Lisa Silver
Kim Hughes
Dawn Lusk
Kristine Reynolds
Sherrie Siemens
Alli Miles
Julie Campbell
Lori Craig
Lisa Strahl

A New Release! Photo Op! and Flower Backgrounder

It's release day!!!! I am excited for yet another Rummage Bin release. What do you think? They are available for sale today at CHF ~ Click here for Shady Daisy! Click here for Photo Op!

The girls on the design team at CHF have had fun these last couple weeks designing with these stamps, and their projects look FANTASTIC. Click here for the Shady Daisy Gallery, and here for the Photo Op! Gallery.

Thanks for stopping by!

CHF Challenge Chicks! A Distress Ink Challenge...

If you have these inks, any of them, you will fall in love! These inks by Tim Holts for Ranger Industries have phenomenal stamping, distressing, and blending capabilities, not to mention a WIDE range of colours with re-inkers available. Right now, they are on sale at CHF, you can find them here > Distress Inks. To showcase these inks and to have a little fun, the challenge chicks at CHF have been working with distress inks to show you what can be done with them.

I used Mustard Seed as my distress ink for today's challenge. I used CHF stamps from The Rummage Bin: Story Book, The Ticket Counter, Mona Lisa Moment: Cardmaker's Shapes, and Kim Hughes: Silhouette Blooms II. I love the look of the distress ink on photo paper, which you can see on my ticket and corner embellishment. Thanks for looking!

Visit the other ladies blogs - you'll be in for a treat! They are: Julia Stainton -Lisa Silver -Kim Hughes -Dawn -Kristine -Sherrie Siemens -Alli Miles -Julie Campbell -Lori Craig -Lisa Strahl.

The Greatest Gift

Hmmm...I was thinking of what I could show you, something new. And since I have been scrapping lately (as opposed to card making), I will show you my newest layout. The pictures go back about 2.5 years! And I had a whole bunch of them printed, so I cut them all up and used multiple photos for this layout.

Is anyone out there tired of the 1 photo layouts? Don't get me wrong, I adore white space and have been known to mostly craft 1 photo layouts. I am now deliberately trying to use 2+ photos. For goodness sake - I have so many images I need to scrap!!!

Supplies:
Paper: Making Memories, Flair Designs, Rusty Pickle, Autumn Leaves
Flowers: Prima
Brads: Making Memories
Chipboard: Basic Grey
Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms (flourish from Beautiful Set, clock from Time to Stamp, hearts from Hugs and Kisses, sheep from Primitive Beginnings)
Markers: Copic
Clip: Heidi Swapp
Eyelets: Karen Foster

Other: fabric paint, ribbon, pins, effloresce font