Happy Birthday!! - Lawnfawnatics Challenge Blog!

Hi Friends!!

Today I am sharing with you my entry for the first challenge of the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Blog!
When creating my card, it brought back such a familiar and fun feeling of why I started making cards!  For the joy of just CREATING!  I have been a die hard fan of Lawn Fawn's since the very beginning, and I've entered into many challenges of the old Lawnscaping Challenge Blog and was even apart of the FB team for that Challenge blog!

So - it is SO FUN to see that they've breathed new life into this new challenge blog and for all of us that have a love affair with Lawn Fawn products, this is the perfect place to show off our how much we love them!

For my card - I wanted to make a bold statement!  I wanted to show how much I am happy they are celebrating another birthday, and what better way to do that than to combine a bunch of Lawn Fawn sets!

I used a total of 7 sets for this card!!!  YES - 7!!  I think one is discontinued, but I couldn't help to use all of these to create my little scene!

Lawn Fawn is known for their critter sets, but they have a lot of birdie images, and I thought it would be fun to create a row of birdies holding little flags to spell out 'Birthday'  using Harold's ABC's. The small bird images are from Elphie Selfie, and the bigger birds are from Love Letters.  I colored my birds various ways with Copic Markers.  I also stamped, colored and die cut a banner from Bannerific ( one of their very first sets) and spelled out 'HAPPY' with Sally's ABC's.  I wanted to fly my banner high so I thought the plane from Bon Voyage was perfect!  It is one of my very favorites!

For the inside, I wanted it to be as fun as it was on the outside, so I stamped, colored and die cut the adorable elephant from Elphie Selfie, and he is holding up a sweet birthday cake!

I love how this card came together!!  Happy Birthday to Lawn Fawn!!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Kari

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Lawnscaping Inspiration Team's Valentine's Day Blog Hop

Welcome to our very first Lawnscaping Inspiration Blog Hop!!  Hope you have had fun so far on this lovey-dovey journey as we are feeling the love on this Valentines Day! You should have arrived to my blog by the way of my girl Lizzy!!  She's always got something fabulous to feast your eyes on!!

I wanted to create something really special for this hop - and I hope you feel that it is!  

I did a technique that I haven't done in a while called "Mirror Stamping".  It is super fun, but it is a little tedious at times.  I wanted two seals in love :)  So I had to get this by having two seals that were facing each other - and to accomplish that - mirror stamping was involved. I used the seal from "Critters in the Sea".  It only took me a couple of tries to get the image I wanted to use - but it was worth it.  I also stamped out my own custom sentiment used the alpha sets - "Harolds ABC's" and "Sally's ABC's".  I love mixing the two fonts together.  

I created my "water" by first using some scratch Coastal Cabana card stock, and I used the diagonal stencil from Simon Says Stamp and some Judikins Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder, and then I took a die from Mama Elephant Landscapes dies and created a wave to my water.  And, what is two seals in love without a heart in between them :)  I used a small heart image from "Into the Woods" stamp set stamped with Lady Bug Memento ink, and added a little bit of shimmer using my Wink of Stella pen. 

I like how this card came out - and I hope you like it too!!  Well - its time for me to send you on your way to the lovely and super fun Lenny!!  Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!!  Happy Valentine's Day!!

Kari

Lawnscaping Winter Blog Hop!!

Hello, Hello!!  Welcome to the Lawnscaping Winter Blog Hop!!  You should have come my way by the talented Nancy Thomas.  If you have gotten lost along the way, never fear you can head back to the Lawnscaping Blog to find you way back on track.

I'm so tickled you are visiting me today along this fun event from Lawnscaping!  I'm am especially honored and proud to be apart of this being a member of the Lawnscaping Facebook Inspiration Team.  There are a ton of talent along your journey, so be sure to visit each and every person!  There will be lots of inspiration, and not to mention prizes and giveaways! 

"Meow-y Christimas" :)  Since I am a cat lover and a fur baby mama to two cats, Katie and Daisy - this was fitting for me to create !  I used 5 different LF stamp sets for this card!  Winter in the Park, A Birdie Told Me, Harold's ABC's, Hats off to you, and Critters in the Burbs.  I used my favorite dies for my cards - the Femme Frames from Mama Elephant, and I started by stamping on the smaller panel the light posts, and the park bench.  I actually did some masking, but after I paper pieced my kitty, I realized I really didn't need to.  No biggie!  I stamped  out some snowflakes from the Winter in the Park set and white embossed it, and then added some Tumbled Glass Distress ink to bring out the snow flakes.  One of my favorite techniques is emboss resist!  

Then, I started working on paper piecing my kitty cat, and the Santa hat.  By this point, my kitty is pretty festive!!

I started working on my sentiment, which is as you see is a customized sentiment.  I stamped and die cut one of the speech bubbles from A Birdie Told me, and used Harold's ABC's and stamped out my sentiment - "Meow-y Christmas!".  I added some Liquid Applique to the park bench and ground to add extra texture and fun.  I also added some Wink of Stella to the bows on the lights, and kitty's hat.

I die cut the largest scalloped frame from Femme Frames from some pattern paper from the Peace, Joy, Love 6x6 pad, and then adhered my panel to the patterned paper, and then adhered that to my black stock card base.

Fun huh!!  Well - its time to send you off to your next stop along the hop to the talented Heidi!  :)

LSC#53 Stamp a Scene

Hi!!  I'm returning today on the blog to share with you my card for the latest Lawnscaping Challenge.  This one was really fun!!  Well - they all are :)  I am always wanting to "think outside the box" on these challenges, and this one is no exception.

For this card - my inspiration was my mom.  She is the book reader in my family and she loves owls - so I thought this card would be fun to give her and submit for this challenge. It was a fairly simple card - the longest part with making it would be of course stamping out the custom sentiments.  I used some of the pattern paper from the Dewey Decimal 6x6 paper pad.  I stamped out my owl from "Critters in the Forest", and did some "altering" on his eyes to make them look like he is a surprised owl. Then, I stamped, cut out and colored my little bird from "A Birdie Told Me" set. The, I used "Harold's ABC's" for the custom sentiments " You're cool for reading books" - "Who Me"??

I know how much my mother LOVES her books, and I envy her for that.  I am more of a magazine girl! HA!

Thanks for stopping by my blog!!