Sneak Peek Day 2: Farm Life, Boo, and Faithful Florals

Welcome back, thank you for hopping through Day 2 of our sneak peeks this month! Lots to share today, first up is the newest set from Theresa Momber, "Farm Life". Drawn in her signature vintage style, you will love these charming pastoral images. I started with this beautiful barn, which is stamped on Pure Luxury White, colored with Copics (Cardinal, Coral, Strong Red, Moss, C3), and sponged with Antique Linen Distressing Ink.
I chose a very fancy label for this stately image (Labels Four) to die cut my image and then used my Scor-Buddy to score lines every half inch on the Lipstick Red CS to make the planks of a barn. I swiped a Cream White pad over the paper to tone down the brightness of the red as well add a few more lines and give it a worn look. The little photo turns add the hardware to create the illusion of the door. Card base is Pure Luxury Ivory and Stitched ribbon. Greeting is part of a sentiment from Tami's set, which you'll see in a moment! I almost added more to this card, but restrained myself, thought the simple life depicted here should be presented somewhat simply. :)

Next up we have Asela Hopkins "Boo!" I don't think I noticed the scaredy cat up in the tree until Gina peeked it the other day LOL! I knew I wanted to use the little haunted house framed up in a circle, and she has this straight little row of BOO pennants like a banner, but when you cut the rubber out you can curve the image on your block so I stamped it this way under the die cut. I colored them with Copics and added a shadow to give it dimension, then sponged over the house with yellow and orange inks.

I stamped some of these fun swirly bats, added some gingham and made my own little pumpkin embellishment to finish the card, very easy to do! Locate a two hole button from orange assortment and draw on a nose and mouth with a black glaze pen (which I also used to draw the little loopy ties on the sides of the banner). The grooves and stem were done with Copics. Isn't he sweet? Card base is Vibrant Violet.

Finally we have Tami Mayberry's "Faithful Florals", a set with three flower silhouettes and sentiments and scripture. use the direct to stamp technique and color the rubber with markers to get the different colored blooms and stems before stamping. this first card is clean and simple, cardstock is White, Red Hot and Ivory.

Next I have a "kicked up" version. I turned the card, stamped "Faith" in black over the image, which really pops, and added some gingham to tie in the black. Last I added a red button.

( If it looks like I got a smudge on the inside of the card, that is actually more of the flowers peeking out that I stamped inside, hee!) Totally loving these colors today!

For more samples with the stamp sets being previewed tonight, please check out these participating designer's links:

• Gina



• Jessica



• Melanie



• Theresa - *Illustrator of Farm Life*



• Tami - *Illustrator of Faithful Flowers*



• Cathy



• Lee



• Lynn



• Kurtis



• Carolyn



• Asela - *Illustrator of Boo!*



• Suzanne

• Miesje - *our CenterStage Guest Designer!*

You are invited to join us for our Release party this Thursday night, August 26 from 7-10 central time for contest questions, challenges, and chatter along with tons more samples! The party leads up to the new products featured this week on our blogs being available for purchase online through GinaK Designs at 10 pm. We hope you'll make plans now to be able to join us in all the fun!

See you back here for day 3, thanks for visiting my blog today! I hope you enjoyed these projects, such wonderful sets to work with!