Irresistible Fat Chicken ~ CCMC440, PP326

Oh boy!  Create with Connie and Mary is back again with a classic color combo for you this week.  I'm playing with brand new stamps and it's so much fun!  I just love, love, love this chicken set called {Hey, Chick} from the Sale-a-bration catalog.  The images in it are so cute!  I can't wait to use it more!  For now I settled on the fat hen.  We live on a farm and up until two years ago we've always had chickens.  I can tell you that there's nothing better then farm fresh eggs.  Chickens are such fun creatures...funny to watch.  I colored my fat hen like some of the classic leghorn chickens we had here on our farm.  I stamped her three times. Once on the Crumb Cake circle, and twice on scrap white.  I fussy cut one entire chick out and only the wing off of the other.  I used the smooth end of my poker tool and a mouse pad to give my chicken a little dimension.  Then I lined her up with the chicken on the crumb cake and popped her up with dimensionals.  Lastly, I popped up her wing. I ran my Crumb Cake marker over the lines or feathers on her body and then colored her comb and wattle red.    

I'm also playing along with the Paper Players this week.  The challenge there is to used a recycled item.  My recycled item it the black and white Irresistibly Floral Specialty paper.  This was a cast off from a different project and I'm so glad to be recycling it here because it works great!  I think I used my brayer with classic black ink to ink up the paper.  I remember that it wasn't black enough for the project I intended it for, but I like it here.  It gives kind of a chalk board type feel.  I like the pattern because it reminds me of eggs.

I also used the Hexagons textured impressions folder to mimic chicken wire.  I love the way it looks!

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Hey, Chick, Gorgeous Grunge

Ink: Crumb Cake, Black, Real Red, Versa Mark

Paper: Black, Crumb Cake, Real Red, White, Irresistibly Floral DSP

Accessories: White EP, Nesting circle die, linen thread, Hexagons textured embossing folder, dimensionals

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny 

Lovely Pair ~ CMCC72

Hey!  It's Colour Me Wednesday!  This week we are using Bermuda Bay, So Saffron & Pear Pizzazz... have fun! 

My card shows off a sneak peek hostess stamp set from the new catalog....{Sihlouettes & Script}.  It's got a nice variety of fun images.  I thought this one went nicely with the color combo!

Make sure you stop by and give the other gals some blog love!

Angel Johns

Hayley Kew

Jenny Engelke(me)

Julia Wilson

Katie Brooks

Sandy Mathis

Tanja Kabel

Tara Bourgoin

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Can't Thank You Enough ~ CQC245

This card is for Colour Q Challenge 245 using Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Summer Starfruit, Pacific Point and White.

I needed to make a stack of thank you cards for a friend and this was one of the cards I came up with.  I also used the sketch from Saturday Sketchbook 122.  I missed the deadline for uploading to that site tho....shoot!  Oh well, I like the way this turned out and it was easy to mass produce!

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Work Of Art, Gorgeous Grunge, Chalk Talk

Ink: Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Summer Starfruit, Pacific Point

Paper: White, Coastal Cabana, Summer Starfruit

Accessories:  Itty Bitty punch pack, Honeycomb EF, Calypso Coral bakers twine, rhinestone, dimensionals

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Thanks a Latte ~ RS73

 

Although I've been stamping for several years now (17 to be exact), and I've been wooed by a few Stampin' Up Demonstrators in the past, I finally bit the bullet and became a demonstrator myself!!!  I am so excited!  My sister-in-law has been a demonstrator for a few years and has recently landed herself a full-time teaching job. She has made the decision to step away for demonstrating for a while.  It was the perfect opportunity for me to pick up where she left off.....after all, I was her best customer! 

I chose this stamp set called "The Perfect Blend" as part of my kit.  I'm a sucker for anything coffee....I'm a big coffee drinker and lover!  I mixed in a few stamps (the heart and "a latte") from another of my favorite old coffee sets called "Like It A Latte".  The year on the set tells me it's from 2006. 

Retro Sketches #73 was my main inspiration for this card.

 

 

I also used a couple of other new products on this card for the first time.  The Crumb Cake background is splattered with Gorgeous Grunge stamps and then dry embossed with my Alphabet Press EF.  I also added some punched chevrons from my brand new Chevron punch. 

 

 

 

Stamps: The Perfect Blend, Gorgeous Grunge, Like it a Latte, Trendy Trees

Paper: Island Indigo, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Print Poetry and Festival of Prints DSP

Ink: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Soft Sky

Accessories: Chevron punch, Alphabet Press EF, Oval Famelit die, Neutrals button, Linen Thread

 

To order any of these supplies go to my Stampin' Up Website

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny