Woodblock Wednesday January 2024 Edition

 

 

Hello and welcome to this month's Woodblock Wednesday challenge.   My card this month is using another Thomas Kincade stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms.  I haven't used this stamp in years probably because my migraines have been so bad and there is a LOT of detail to the images.  Now, if you love deep "cut" red rubber stamps, then these stamps are not for you.  Due to all of details in his paintings, the image is, or was, pressed onto the rubber.  I tend to use the sticker image, or the book of Thomas Kincade paintings I received as a RAK, as reference to help me see what's tree, flower, snow, and so on.  Also, the medium (markers, ink, paper, pencils, watercolors, etc) you use, determines how well the detail shows.

I started out by stamping the image in memento tuxedo black on Neenah white card stock before coloring using my Castle Arts watercolor pencils with a blender pencil.  Once my image was colored and blended, I added memento tuxedo black ink directly to the sides of the "painting" before layering, adding brads then adhering it to a ballet blue card using glue dots (very important step).  I then added some Sakura Moonlight 3D pens to color the "ornaments" on the pond's Christmas tree before adding LOTS of waterfall and crystal ice stickles.  The reason for using the glue dots to adhere is because of all of the glitter glue can make the image layer "warp" if not adhered well enough.  I've found thatwhen using only mono adhesive to adhere the layer, it will not stay put.  Just saying.  I'm thinking I may make using the Thomas Kincade stamps I have my monthly Woodblock Wednesday projects since it does take time to get the coloring right and they all might finally see ink again.

Here's a side by side view:

Challenges entered:

 

Woodblock Wednesday - January 2024 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2024 - Use Those Unloved Stamps/Stash (stamp, 3D pens)

Inspiration Station Jan 2024 - See Inspiration Pic (inspired by night, snow)

Double D Jan 17 - Sparkle and Shine (used ice stickles for snow, silver brads) 

Christmas Craft Creations January - Glitter and Sparkle (used ice stickles)

Shopping Our Stash #514 - Winter Wonderland

 

Inspiration Station

 

Double D Challenges
 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin UP

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pencil, Brads, Glue Dots, 3D Moonlight Pens, Ice Stickles

 

Graceland At Christmas

Hello again.  I stamped this card for the Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade challenge over a week ago, but have been unable to upload due to my migraines.  I just LOVE my Thomas Kincade stamps!! 

For this image, I decided to go with a clean and simple (CAS), monochromatic look.  After stamping the Graceland Christmas image in memento bahama blue ink, I layered it on Stampin Up! navy and pacific pointe card stock before adding three alternating layers of scalloped borders along with silver snowflakes.  The card took me a total of about 20minutes to make and would be easy to make for mass reproduction of Christmas cards.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Graceland Christmas
Ink: Memento Bahama Blue
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Night Of Navy, Pacific Pointe
Accessories: MFT Jumbo Scallop Die-Namic, Silver Brads, Silver Snowflake Brads

Two Roads

Happy Sunday everyone.  This week's Cornish Heritage Farms blog challenge is in celebration of Canada's Thanksgiving holiday - make a card in red and white.  Well, I cheated just a tad and added a little gold to mine.

For my card I pulled out three of my favorite CHF stamps that haven't been re-released yet: trees backgrounder, Thomas Kincade Sunset at Riverbed Farm, and Mona Lisa Moments Motivational Centers.  I stamped all my images, background and saying in Tim Holtz fired brick ink onto white card stock layered onto Stampin Up! ruby red with gold brads.  The final touch was adding some red organdy ribbon with gold trim.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Sunset at Riverbed Farm, Mona Lisa Moments Motivational Centers, Trees Background

Ink: Tim Holtz Fired Brick

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Ruby Red

Accessories: Ribbon, Gold Brads

Twine and the Gingerbread Cottage

Hello and welcome to Monday.  Today I am sharing a card I made using one of my favorite artists, Thomas Kincade, whose paintings are being produced into stamps by The New Cornish Heritage Farms.  I bought this stamp, called Gingerbread Cottage, a few months ago and haven't inked it up until today for the CHF twine challenge over on the CHF blog.

After inking my stamp using some Tim Holtz walnut stain distress ink and layering onto Stampin Up! card stock, I added some vintage brads since I hadn't planned on coloring my image.  However, once the card was assembled, and the twine added, it looked too plain so I pulled out my Stampin Up! woodless pencils and lightly colored select areas of the image before lightly stippling Tim Holtz broken china distress ink for the background sky before stamping the inside with a saying from the retired Mona Lisa Moments Motivational Centers.. Now I was satisfied with my card.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Gingerbread Cottage, Mona Lisa Moments Motivational Centers
Ink: Tim Holtz Walnut Stain, Broken China
Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm, Stampin Up! Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Twine, Brads, Woodless Colored Pencils

Mix And Match

Happy Wednesday folks!! The week is almost over! Today I have another Kincade for you. This one is called A Perfect Summer's Day vignette.

I stamped the image in pallet noir black and then colored with prismacolor pencils and a blender pencil before stippling Tim Holtz tea stain ink around the edges of the colored image to age it a bit and then walnut stain around the edges of the card itself. Once I was done aging my image and card, I ready for the layering and to add the necessary brads to finish it off. Easy peasy.

The saying is Psalm 23:2 from the Thomas Kincade line of stamps at Cornish Heritage Farms.

Working with the Thomas Kincade stamps seems hard and intimidating, but they are really easy and lots of fun. Give it a try!


Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade A Perfect Summer's Day, Still Waters
Cardstock: White, Garden Green, Night of Navy, Old Olive
Ink: Pallet Noir Black, Tim Holtz Tea Stain & Walnut Stain
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Blender Pencils, Brads, Stipple Brush

He Is Risen Indeed!!!

This stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms Sunrise, is one of Thomas Kincade's paintings from The Cross of Christ.

As we go about our daily parties, egg hunts, picnics, BBQ's, let us not forget the real reason we celebrate this day, Christ's rising from the dead.

He Is Risen!!!

Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Sunrise

Cardstock: White, Stampin Up! Close to Cocoa, Summer Sunrise, Garden Green, Going Grey

Accessories: Stampin Up! Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Brads, Aquapainter

Ink: Pallet Noir

Cottage In The Woods

Happy Tuesday Everyone! Where has February gone already? Geez, it seems like we were just celebrating Christmas and now it's almost March.

I have another Kincade from the archives for you today that I thought I had posted, but, nope not yet. This stamp is called A Perfect Summer's Day by Cornish Heritage Farms, but it also reminds me of Spring with all of the flowers blooming and the green grass, since Spring is the only time you see green grass in Central California.

This image is stamped in pallet noir on watercolor paper and then colored using Stampin Up! Watercolor Wonder Crayons and an aquapainter. I used the Stampin Up! photo corner punch with vintage brads to frame the image and stippled Tim Holtz walnut stain ink around the edges to "dirty" it up a bit for more of a rustic feel.



Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade A Perfect Summer's Day
Cardstock: Stampin Up! Handsome Hunter, Watercolor Paper, Ruby Red, Night of Navy, Sage Shadow
Ink: Pallet Noir, Tim Holtz Walnut Stain
Accessories: Stampin Up! Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Aquapainter, Vintage Brads, Stampin Up! Photo Corner Punch, Stipple Brush,

Happy Birthday To Me!

"When you wish upon a star......" Remember the opening line of Disney's famous song? It's tied to pretty much anything Disney.

Yesterday was my 42nd birthday, and what a birthday it was. Besides dealing with a sick cat, and my mother in law having the outside of the house painted causing a migraine, I did get some stamp time as well as taken out to dinner. I would like to introduce you to my birthday present/thank you for taking care of me for 3months with my broken ankle present from my husband.

Yes! Those three Thomas Kincade "paintings" in the picture. They are actually gallery wrapped canvas prints of actual Thomas Kincade paintings from his Disney Dreams collection. We were watching ShopNBC one night as Thom was guest starring and un-veiling the newest painting in the collection - Cinderella! Well apparently ShopNBC got a special deal since he was there so my husband got the three that have been released in the gallery wrap (Cinderella hasn't been released this way yet) for the price of two!

Here they are closer up.

I have never owned, let alone dreamed of owning, a real Thomas Kincade painting/print. Now I have three! Thank you honey for a wonderful present.

Old Fashioned Christmas Candle

Today I have another Thomas Kincade from the archives only this time instead of a card, how about a Christmas present? This image is the Thomas Kincade Village Christmas Vignette stamped in pallet noir on vellum cardstock. Once the ink is dry, flip the cardstock over and color on the "reverse" side.

Once the coloring is done, wrap your cardstock around the outside of a candle with a hole drilled into the top of it with a drill press. (Most husbands will love helping you out with this part. I know mine did.) The outer wrap can be secured with glue dots easily and it'll hold there just fine as well.

Once the wrap is in place, just place a small votive holder, with votive candle, inside the drilled out section; and you have a beautiful gift for someone.


Now, to "spice" up your gift a bit, try adding some ice stickles to some of the snow covered areas on the roof-tops, or to highlight some of the iced over areas where you want just a little bit of sparkle.

Here's a side view of our lit candle. If you look closely on the right hand side, you can see some of the ice stickles I added next to the cars.

Once my husband drilled out the holes in my candles, my gifts took a total of 15-20 per candle to make not counting drying time for the ice stickles.






Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Village Christmas Vignette
Ink: Pallet Noir
Cardstock: Vellum
Accessories: Rose Art Colored Pencils, Candle, Drill Press, Ice Stickles, Glue Dots, Votive Holder, Votive

From The Archives - Framed Light Of Peace

Framed home decor is normally not one of my specialties. I was just playing around one day with Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade's Light Of Peace and my new (at the time) Prismacolor markers, when I decided to try framing one of the images I was coloring.

So, after stamping the image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloring with Prismacolor markers, I found one of my $2 special antique looking frames from Walmart and lined up the lighthouse scene inside the matte opening and taping it down. After re-assembling the frame, I found it actually looked pretty good. I mean, not art gallery quality, but not too bad either especially for using alcohol markers for the first time too.

I ended up giving the framed Light of Peace to one of my nuclear technologists that was leaving and moving back east. She really seemed to appreciate it too.


How about using framed stamped images for holiday presents? Or what about birthday or anniversary presents?

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade Light of Peace
Cardstock: White
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Walmart Frame

Cobblestone Bridge Compare And Contrast

Hello. Two more Thomas Kincade cards from the archives called Cobblestone Bridge from Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade series.

The card on the left I stamped in Pallet Noir on watercolor paper and then water colored using Stampin Up!'s Watercolor Wonder Crayons. I love to watercolor the Thomas Kincade images because they tend to look more like a mini painting then a stamped image. For this particular one, in order to make it look a bit more "rustic" I stippled some Tim Holtz tea stain distress ink over the image once I was done water coloring. Adding punched photo corners with vintage brass brads only helped add to the "rustic" look I was trying to achieve.

Now for a contrasting look, try stamping in white on black paper. I've been wanting to see if I could make this village look like it was covered with snow and this is the closest I could come. I totally love the effect though.

The Cobblestone Bridge village is stamped in Pallet Canvas White on Stampin Up! basic black paper before being layered on silver designer paper. A clean and simple card with the wow factor already tied in.

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade Cobblestone Bridge

Cardstock: Stampin Up! Black, Always Artichoke, Brilliant Blue, Watercolor Paper, Silver Designer Paper

Ink: Pallet Canvas White, Pallet Noir, Tim Holtz Tea Stain Distress Ink

Accessories: Stampin Up! Watercolor Crayons, Aquapainter, Stampin Up! Photo Corners Punch, Vintage Brass Brads, Dimensionals, Stipple Brush

Still Waters Church

Wow!! Can't believe how long it's been since my last post. Life sure has been interrupting my stamping and posting.

Found this Thomas Kincade card in my computer archives that hadn't been posted yet. In fact, I found a lot of Kincade cards that I'll be posting over the next week or so.

This image is called Streams of Living Water and was stamped in Pallet Noir then colored with Prismacolor pencils with a blender pencil. I really love the softer tone the pencils give the image, yet, totally bring out the details of Thomas Kincade's painting as well. Off to the left of the stream are two deer coming to drink and they just add to the peacefulness of the whole image. Sections of the stream are highlighted with diamond ice stickles to look like the water is going over rocks, or the sun is reflecting off the water.

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Streams Of Living Water

Cardstock: Stampin Up! Brilliant Blue, Handsome Hunter, Black, White

Ink: Pallet Noir

Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils & Blender Pencils, Brads, Diamond Ice Stickles

Make A Wish

Happy Sunday to you all. Thought I would post a cool card since it's so hot here in Central California - 106 again today and we're looking at another 10 days of this kind of weather. Yuck!

Doesn't this card look like a cooler climate to you? To me it does. I had submitted this to Paper Crafts coloring contest back in April, and of course, it wasn't one of their winners. This is Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade's Make A Wish Cottage; from Thom's cottage series paintings.

I had stamped the image in memento tuxedo black in and then colored with prismacolor markers. Keeping the embellishments simple, the only things I used were vintage brads in the corners and just a hint of ice stickles on the stream behind the wishing well.

So, what do you wish for today? Me, cooler temperatures!

Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Make A Wish Cottage
Cardstock: White, Stampin Up! Glorious Green, Gable Green, Black
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Brads, Ice Stickles

Trifold Kincade

Every once in a while, you get an idea that just will not go away until you finish it. This was me with Thomas Kincade's Friendship Cottage from Cornish Heritage Farms. I had created it as a possible backup entry for their Summer Design Coloring Challenge, yet did not enter it.

I first stamped in memento tuxedo black and then colored with Koh-i-noor pencils and a prismacolor blender marker. Afterwards I stippled Stampin Up! brilliant blue dye ink around the image before adding vintage brads and layering onto brilliant blue, kraft and bravo burgundy cardstock.

I then made my trifold card and stamped Cornish Heritage Farms retired Lattice backgrounder in Stampin Up's garden green dye ink on the outside to match the lattice work on the bridge leading to the cottage.

On the front inside panel, I added some velcro to hold my card closed and stamped the flowers from a former Stamp Of The Month, Freesia and then colored it with pencils and a blender marker as well. The detailed images are below.

The final inside panels hold the saying from Mona Lisa Motivational Centers "Make Each Day Your Masterpiece".

So what's your masterpiece going to be? What will your day hold for you?

Stamps: Thomas Kincade Friendship Cottage, Mona Lisa Momements, Freesia

Cardstock: Stampin Up Garden Green, Bravo Burgundy, White, Kraft, Brilliant Blue

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Brilliant Blue

Accessories: Koh-I-Noor pencils, Prismacolor Blender Marker, Brads, Stipple Brush

Remember Our Troops

Here's another Thomas Kincade found in my computer I had submitted for publication, this time to Cards Magazine last year that didn't make it.

I love this image because it reminds me of a quiet, small town street, and just has such a warm feeling to it.

The image is stamped in memento tuxedo black and colored with prismacolor markers. The only embellishments used are the gold brads in the corners and a simple yellow ribbon folded in the street.

With Flag Day having just past, the Fourth of July coming up, and tensions in the Middle East escalating, please remember our troops serving overseas, Europe, or wherever their orders may take them. Say a prayer for them; for their safety during their service, and for their safe return home.

Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Hometown Pride

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Ribbon, Mini Glue Dots, Prismacolor Markers, Brads

CardStock: White, Stampin Up! Brilliant Blue, Real Red

World Cardmaking Kincades

Second Post Today.

While cleaning out some of my computer photos, I came across a couple of Thomas Kincade cards I hadn't uploaded since they were submitted to Paper Crafts for their World Cardmaking contest last October. Unfortunately, I wasn't one of the finalists, however, I'm still a winner in my opinion because I actually got them done and sent in so that's an accomplishment for me. Submitting is always makes me so nervous to the point I sometimes back out and that just drives my husband totally nuts.

Stonehearth Hutch is one of my favorite Thomas Kincade images Cornish Heritage Farms produces. This image I stamped in pallet noir on watercolor paper and then watercolored using Stampin Up's Watercolor Wonder Crayons and an aquapainter. The Christmas tree lights and wreath ribbon were highlighted with Prismacolor markers.

Vintage Skating Pond was stamped in Stampin Up! basic brown dye ink on white paper and colored with colored pencils using the spotlighting technique. I only wanted certain areas of the house and the skating pond colored so your eyes were drawn to the middle.

The edges were distressed with Stampin Up's distressing tool and the main panel popped up on dimensionals. As a friend of mine would say, easy peasy!

Two different Thomas Kincade stamps, two different coloring mediums and two different end results, however, both still classy.

Stamps: CHF Thomas Kincade Stonehearth Hutch, Skaters Pond

Ink: Pallet Noir Black, Stampin Up Basic Brown

Cardstock: Handstome Hunter, Designer Paper, White, Brilliant Blue, Always Artichoke, Watercolor Paper

Accessories: Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Aquapainter, Prismacolor Markers, Colored Pencils

Pencils, Kincade and Mice!

Have you ever had a total "oh duh!" moment? I had one of those in Michaels the other day when I was pricing their Koh-I-Noor woodless pencils and comparing them to the prices online. I have an old set that needs replacing plus a Prismacolor 72 pencil set I bought on ebay several years ago and have never gotten the "full effect" out of them since I can't use mineral spirits or gamsel with my asthma. While I was in that particular aisle, I saw Prismacolor's new "pencil accessory set" that contains their blender pencil, alcohol marker blender, eraser, pencil extender/extension, and some other do-hickey I've never seen before.

What really caught my eye was the alcohol marker blender. I use that to blend my Prismacolor markers!!! Well duh! You mean to tell me I could have been using that blender marker all this time with my pencils? After seeing that set, I got out of Michaels in record time to get home and try it out on a couple of images I had colored when my husband came home from the hospital after having surgery for a broken ankle.

The first image I tried blending was a House Mouse one from Stampendous, and it came out beautifully! Just like I do when I'm blending with my markers, I started with the lighter colors first, beginning in the middle and then working to the outside.

Once I was done blending everything, I then stippled Stampin Up soft sky ink lightly over everything to give a soft "satin" feel to the image and the card once I started assembling it. I made sure the embellishments used were small to match the "size" of the mouse.

Here's a close up of the card details:

After finishing with my House Mouse card, I began to wonder how this technique would look with a more detailed image so out came one of my Thomas Kincade images I had received in a swap. Now this image was a little bit of an unknown since it was stamped in Tim Holtz walnut distress ink so I wasn't sure if the ink would run when the pencils were blended. As you can see, the ink stayed put and everything blended great. In fact, I think this technique works great with Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade images. With the image below, I didn't color in the sky, but chose to stipple it instead with Stampin Up soft sky dye ink again.

And a close up of the card:

I'm really happy with the way these cards turned out and just wish I had discovered I could use my blender marker a whole lot sooner. Needless to say, I have a bunch of blender markers on order. :)

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade Church In The Woods, Stampendous House Mouse
Ink: Tim Holtz Walnut Distress Ink, Black, Stampin Up! Soft Sky
Accessories: Stipple Brush, Brads, Photo Corners, Ribbon Bow, Mini Glue Dots, Koh-I-Noor Woodless Pencils, Prismacolor Marker Blender
Cardstock: Mauve Mist, Celery, Soft Sky, White, Close To Cocoa, Going Grey, Garden Green

Easter Morning And The Road Not Taken

I finally got to do one of Cornish Heritage Farms blog challenges. This we were to make a project or card for Spring/Easter. Right away I thought of Thomas Kincades release of Sunrise. This stamp just reminds me of Easter Morning; the day my Savior, Jesus rose from the dead leaving behind an empty cross on a hill, and an empty grave; taking my sins away and making me new again.



I'm really pleased with the how this card turned out since I stamped and colored it while on migraine medication...not an easy task let me tell you. However, I needed to relax somehow, and stamping is my form of relaxation.

I stamped the image in memento tuxedo black and colored with prismacolor markers before sponging Stampin Up! pumpkin pie ink around the edges of the card. I stamped from Mona Lisa Moments Motivational Centers the following phrase on the inside:


"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost"


This phrase is from one of my favorite poems by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken and to me it goes perfect with the Sunrise image. We are presented daily with two roads, or paths, to take and what is/are the outcomes of that choice.

What road did you take today?


Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade Sunrise, Mona Lisa Moments Motivational Centers
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Sponge, Vintage Brads, Martha Stewart Ribbon Bow

Let's Talk Kincade Stamps

I'm not an art connoisseur but there is just something about Thomas Kincade's paintings that draws you to them. Maybe it's the tranquility of the old English cottages he's painted, the soft flowing streams, his new Disney paintings, or just the way he can capture modern day life in the simplest of ways. In each, there is a message for you. The challenge is finding that message.

Cornish Heritage Farms has been given the lisence to take the Kincade paintings and turn them into stamps; and they have done an awesome job at that. Each stamped image comes out looking like a masterpiece on it's own just waiting to be colored. Now, I've read on a couple of boards about people being intimidated about these stamps. Really folks, they're pretty easy to color and if you don't like to color, they work great as a monochromatic stamp too. As for me, I love to color them instead of the monochromatic look, but have done both.

For example, my Cobblestone Bridge below was stamped in memento tuxedo black ink and colored with prismacolor markers with silk flower stickers placed on the side of the image.

By coloring with the prismacolor alcohol markers, I can control how deep I want the color and if need be, blend a few colors together. Same with The Perfect Yellow Rose card below.

On the shaded areas of the stamp, a darker yellow is used and blended with the brighter yellow of the unshaded areas.

Monochromatic works too as in these cards I made for a Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade card blitz a few weeks ago.

So there's really reason to be intimated by these stamps except our own fear of them. Once you start working with them, they are so addicting.

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade: Cobblestone Bridge, The Perfect Yellow Rose, The Open Gate, Nothing Gets Better Than This

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up choc chip, PTI plum pudding, lavender moon, vintage cream

Accessories: prismacolor markers, ribbon bow, mini glue dots, primas, brads, silk flower stickers.

Sunrise

I'll get the hang of this blogging stuff yet. This post was my first blog post and I needed to edit something.

One of my favorite types of stamps are the Thomas Kincade ones from Cornish Heritage Farms. CHF just released a new Kincade stamp called Sunrise one week ago and I was fortunate enough to win one during their Thomas Kincade Blitz. I stamped this image in pallet noir and then watercolored it using Stampin Up! watercolor wonder crayons and an aquapainter.


Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms Thomas Kincade Sunrise
Paper: Watercolor, Stampin Up Elegant Eggplant, Summer Sun, Going Grey, Garden Green
Accessories: Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Aquapainter, Brads, Diamond Ice Stickles