Hearty Bird FREEBIE and a CASology Challenge Card

And a 365 Photo of the Day too.

“On the Radio, yea-ah, On the RADIO”

I imagine in the day of this vintage radio it was a very big thing to listen.  When I fire this beautiful thing up I am in awe it still works and receives a station or two.  The writer inside me dying to get out makes up all sorts of bits of an audible crazy quilt of themes where this radio sits and feeds the ears of people in a bygone era in all manner of home situations. 

I think about a farming family on the prairies and the wife kneading bread and looking out the frosty panes of windows in the long winter when the wind blows and keens. I think about the radio as bringing someone inside to visit while she goes about providing food and comfort to her family.  I also imagine the farm Mr looking forward to getting all the chores done on an early Saturday morning and being eager to sit later and listen to news, politics or a sports game.

Oh, how many more scenarios beg to be spoken here, however I’d best stop here as my post may be a tad long.

CASology 133 Challenge Card – “LOVE” theme. 

I chose to make a card in the suggested theme used by Ardyth which asks us to “Choose only one or two large graphics elements to keep your card clean’ 

Well, I’m counting the bird as one large elements and perhaps the teeny hearts don’t really count at all?  No, you don’t see them there at all do you?  At any rate, I thought I’d place my card under that theme and hopefully this fits in. 

Supplies:

Embossing Folder by Darice

Hearty Bird Cutting File and Digital Scrapbook Template – Barb Derksen

In fact, I created this file today to give away to YOU!  Whether you desire to use this file to cut out this sweet bird, or use it as a template for a Digital Scrapbooking Project, I hope you’ll enjoy it.

Personal Use

Zipped file contains:

Fully layered PSD

PNG

SVG

.STUDIO

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I ♥ Cherries sooooo much - I’ve made a Cherry FREEBIE for YOU!

Living in the heart of the beautiful Okanagan Valley in British Columbia is living in fruit heaven. 
This year I’m all about the cherries.  I’ve never seen them so BIG! 

A BC cherry is a HAPPY cherry I say!

I’ve been freezing them in batches, so yes, my fingernails look horrible and my kitchen is speckled red and my fingers were getting awfully tired of my regular cherry pitter (though I’m sure it’s a drastic improvement over the ones our grandmother’s must have used) 
And then my sister came to visit and we were at Home Hardware in town - our Home Hardware is AMAZING - truly people come from all over to shop there.  Our Home Hardware is a shop with a heart - they do all sorts of good for our community and we’re really proud of them. 
So, we went and looked at all the gizmos and gadgets that might be new when we came across one of these:

This is a Chef’n quickpit One-Handed cherry and olive pitter. 

And it not only WORKS… it did not take my sister and I to declare a “show down”

That’s right, this hot little “cherry gun” PITTED sister against sister hehe. 
Well, actually we turned on our photographer (my Mr) who clued in at the last moment and just barely avoided being maimed.  He may take my cherry gun away if I’m not careful.
All this “cherry-ing” has inspired me to make a fun .studio cut for YOU!  I also built a card to showcase it for you - I think it turned out perfect!

Sentiment reads:

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Supplies:

Designer Paper - Your Life Beautiful by Brandin O’Neill

Inks - Versafine, Colorbox

Cutting File - Cherry Love by Barb Derksen

Method:

I cut the file on my Silhouette SD.  I inked the cherry pieces and then I heat embossed the cherries. 

I’ve created this file both as a .studio cut but also as separate png’s as well so if you’re a digi-scrapper you can adapt the cherry for your needs as well. I would ♥ to see what you make with my files, send me a jpg and I’ll feature your artwork here!

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Crop Stop Challenge #82

I’m having a ball trying out some new challenges, just hunting them up via Google.  Today I thought I’d give Crop Stop a whirl. 

Crop Stop Challenge #82

Use any three colors from the image below:

And so, I made:

Supplies:
Designer Paper - Young and Active in the Backyard by Ronni Mccray

Stamps - Studio G “Hello” and trim
                Inkadinkadoo for the flower and stem

Inks - Versafine and Studio G

Paint for leaves - Niji Pearlescent watercolors

Embossing powder

I struggled with this card, I must admit and was a bit thrown off that the red ink looks so much darker on the blossom than on the Hello sign but I think it works!  I really like the pearlescent watercolors - I’ll definitely be playing with these in the future.  I was told they do “magic” on black…