Category Archives: Quick and Easy

Need a quick card?  For this one I just used patterned paper, a strip of lace, some punches and one stamp.  I did take the time to emboss the sentiment so it would stand out better on the patterned paper.  (Just a little trick I’ve learned along the way.)

Celebrate

My table is a terrible mess at the moment.  I can’t seem to stop myself from starting several projects at once.  So anyway, those Perfect Petals punches are still sitting there.  I layered a few different flowers here, sponged the edges and glued a button in the center.  Done.  🙂  Those punches are working out well for me as I don’t have many Primas (and I don’t really like to buy so many of one thing, not knowing if I will ever use them all).

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Stamps:  Cornish Heritage Farms “Birthday Centers” (Mona Lisa Moments)   Ink:  Adirondack Pitch Black   Cardstock:  Prism Vanilla Cream (base)  Patterned Paper:  My Mind’s Eye Wild Asparagus   Accessories:  McGill Perfect Petals punches, button, Prima lace, clear embossing powder.  Card size 5” x 5”.

 Hi everyone!  Another very quick post from me.  (I’m not really here, you know.)  🙂

This is another one of those quick and easy cards…I can’t decide if all the white space bothers me or not.  (Actually, it’s “Natural.”)  What do you think?

Brighter Days Ahead

I used a Polka Dot backgrounder (just because I didn’t have dotted paper in that color) and the Large Daisy Patch image.  (Dawn made me buy that one.)  😉

Thanks for looking!  Have a great day!

Stamps:  Cornish Heritage Farms “Large Daisy Patch“, “Polka Dot” backgrounder, “Get Well Centers” (Mona Lisa Moments)   Ink:  Adirondack Pitch Black   Cardstock:  Prism Butter Cream, Natural Smooth, Black   Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Ambrosia (orange)   Accessories:  Copic markers, ribbon, slot punch (EK Success).  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

TGIM (for me anyway)!  Today’s Chick Challenge at Cornish Heritage Farms is to make quick cards.  That’s a bit of an oxymoron for me as none of my cards tend to be quick.  Even the most simple designs usually take me a while to create.  I just hope this one doesn’t look like I quickly threw it together.

Congrats

It helps me to speed things along by using patterned paper.  One less thing to stamp, right?  The green background and dotted paper are both from CHF’s Mocha Chica paper pack created by Kim Hughes.  I cut a strip of black cardstock using a scallop blade in my Fiskars Rotary Trimmer, adhered a thin strip of bright pink paper, zig-zagged and added some white dots.  Pretty quick and pretty easy.  🙂   

Be sure to check out these other CHF designers.  They are sure to have fabulous quick cards for your inspiration!

Julia                    Jen                    Kim                       Kristine

Val                      Alli                     Joanne                 Carole

Julie                    Sherrie             Becky                    Lisa Silver

In the CHF gallery, a separate category has been set up just for quick cards!  You can see it here.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a great day!  (If you haven’t had a chance to sign up for my give-away, check out the next post.  And thanks for helping me to get rid of duplicates and triplicates! 🙂 )

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms “Baby Love” (Kim Hughes Collection)   Ink:  Stewart Superior Palette Noir   Cardstock:  Prism White (base), Black, Intense Azalea   Patterned Paper:  Cornish Heritage Farms Mocha Chica (Kim Hughes Collection)   Accessories:  Prima flowers, Basic Grey buttons, May Arts ribbon, Inkssentials white gel pen, Fiskars Rotary Trimmer/scallop blade, white string, sewing machine, glue dots.  Card size 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.

Today at Cornish Heritage Farms there are quite a few single images being released in the Kim Hughes Collection.  Here are a few…

Baked with Love

Meet Ed the Moose.  He’s one of the Christmas Critters but just a tad bit smaller.  I tried to be a little creative with the hat, but when my husband saw the card, he said, “That moose has a pie on his head.  Why does he have a pie on his head?”  Ok…*I* thought I was successful in making the PIE look like a chef’s hat, but maybe I’m the only one who thinks so.   Actually, now that I look at it more closely, the moose looks a bit like a sailor. Oh well. 🙂

And to give credit where credit is due, I didn’t bake the cookies.   My husband did.

Stamps:   Cornish Heritage Farms “Ed the Moose” and “Baked with Love” (Kim Hughes Collection)   Ink:  Adirondack Pitch Black   Cardstock:  Prism White (base), Super Smooth White, Suede Brown Dark   Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Offbeat   Accessories:  Copic markers, ribbon (May Arts), loopy brad (Karen Foster).  Card size 5” x 5”.

Merry & Bright

This is Snowy Sophie.  She has a heart covered with Star Dust Stickles.    The patterned papers are from CHF’s new Scrapblocks Layers.  Once I cut the wavy edges on the white paper, I lightly sponged with Adirondack Aqua ink and added a little line of the Star Dust Stickles.  There’s a tiny gem in the star at the base of the ‘y’.

Stamps:   Cornish Heritage Farms “Snowy Sophie” (Kim Hughes Collection)  and “Christmas Expressions” (Mona Lisa Moments)   Ink:  Adirondack Pitch Black and Aqua   Cardstock:  Prism White (base), Super Smooth White   Patterned Paper:  CHF Scrapblocks Layers   Accessories:  Copic markers, ribbon (May Arts), eyelets (American Crafts), Ranger Star Dust Stickles, Hero Arts Gemstone, sponge, Crop-a-dile.  Card size 4” x 4”.
Happy Birthday

And this is Cosmo the Turtle.  He comes bearing the gift of a lollipop (which here is covered with Aleene’s Paper Glaze.  The sentiment is from Train Expressions (which are not just for the trains! 🙂 ).

Stamps:  Cornish Heritage Farms “Cosmo the Turtle” (Kim Hughes Collection) and “Train Expressions” (Mona Lisa Moments)   Ink:  Adirondack Pitch Black and Red Pepper, Ranger Walnut Stain Distress   Cardstock:  Prism Vanilla Cream (base), Natural Smooth, Desert Coral Dark   Patterned Paper:  Cosmo Cricket Mr. Campy   Accessories:  Copic markers, Aleene’s Paper Glaze, Piercing template/needle, sponge.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.
Whew…that was a much longer post than I’m used to posting.  But it doesn’t stop there.  There are quite a few more images…some you’ve seen in sets and some new ones.  You can see them all here.  Have a great day!

I have been waiting and waiting for these papers…they are finally here!!!  Today Cornish Heritage Farms releases two Thomas Kinkade 8″ x 8″ paper packs, a Masculine series and a Christmas series.   (You can see the full packs here.)  Each pack includes background papers and images!  None of the images below were stamped.  I just cut them from the paper pack!!  🙂 

Birthday Wishes

I’m sure you already know the Masculine series is my favorite!  I love the distressed look of these papers.   Both of the brown background papers are from the pack.  The lighter brown has a distressed leather look.  (I wish I could get a whole pack of just that one paper!  It looks awesome!)

The edges of the focal image and Natural cardstock were all sponged using Ranger’s Walnut Stain Distress ink.  The sentiment is from Mona Lisa Moments Classic Essential Expressions.  The eyelets are inserted through all layers on the front of the card so I could wrap the hemp without having a bulky lump between layers.

Peace on Earth

For this card I used both the Masculine and Christmas packs.  Obviously the focal image is from the Christmas pack.  But that distressed canvas paper is from the Masculine pack.  This is another background paper I love.  (And would love even more to have a pack of THIS paper in different colors, but then I am always drawn to the textiles.)

I lightly sponged the edges of the focal image and sentiment with Adirondack Slate ink and there’s a little pop dot under the outer edge of the tag just to add a tiny bit of dimension to the card.  Yellow/gold cardstock is Prism Candleglow Medium, button is by Autumn Leaves and ribbon by SEI.  Button is held in place using glue dots.

Go Confidently

This last card uses the Masculine paper once again.  Although this is not my favorite card of the three, this is one of my favorite images in the pack.  Maybe because when I was young(er-ha!) our family went out into the Chesapeake Bay on my grandparents’ boat just about every Sunday.  It wasn’t a sailboat, it was much bigger, but those are some treasured memories for sure.  **sigh**

Anyway, this is my husband’s least favorite of these cards…because it looks like it’s been in the road. Well, I like it.  I distressed the edges (what he hates most-lol) and then sponged with Adirondack Slate ink.

• I use a lot of darker colors for my base cardstock so to avoid having to line the inside of the card with a lighter color, I prefer to cut the darker color to fit the card front and use either a sturdy vanilla or white as my base.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you’re a TK fan, I hope you’ll check out these papers.  They truly are beautiful.  Have a great day!

p.s.  My Cardinal friend was back yesterday.  That annoying bird was staring in the window watching the Olympics.  And pecking.  And pecking.  (Maybe he was cheering.  **eyes rolling**)