LSC #98 Create a Background with stamps

Hi all!!  Welcome to another challenge for Lawnscaping!!  This challenge focuses on creating a background with your stamps.  So - its time to look at those stamps a bit differently and stretch them to a new level!!  For this challenge our sponsor is the one and only - Lawn Fawn!!  Have you seen there upcoming release!!  WOW!!  Can't wait to get my hands on these fun new goodies!

Back to challenge talk!!  Here is my card I created!

So I wanted to ink this cute set Whale you be mine? And, I wanted to use the coordinating dies.  So, I used the sentiment and the little heart in this set to create my background. I inked up the heart in Hero Arts Pale Tomato ink and the sentiment in Soft Vanilla ink.  I love this whole color combo! So fun and cheery. I die cut a piece of white card stock from the Stitched Journaling Card Die, and created my background, and then I stamped my whales, and colored them in with Copics.  I also created some water for them out of vellum.  I didn't want my stamped background to be covered up too much, that is why I chose vellum.  I also used a B02 Copic to color my vellum and I used one of the Stitched Scallop Border Dies and created my waves for my water piece.  I adhered all my pieces onto the stamped panel, and added some Lemon Lawn Trimmings. And, my card base is a Mermaid Lawn Fawndamentals note card.

So cute!  Loved how it turned out.  Hope you are able to join us for this new challenge!! Can't wait to see what you all come up with!!  See you soon!

Kari

Inspiration Sunday : You are Seriously Awesome!

Hello, and Happy Sunday! Happy Mother's Day to all mother's out there!! Today's Inspiration Sunday features a stamp set that is new to me - Avery Elle "Write It". This stamp set has 3 beautiful sentiments in scripty font that I am sure lots of us will love!! Here is the video and below are the supplies used!! Enjoy!!

Write It Clear Stamps	*Memory Box VIOLA 6x6 Paper Pack 101551	*Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BLUE VIOLET BV13	*Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad BLUE VIOLET ink013
*PRE-ORDER Lawn Fawn LIME Single Cord Trimmings	*Mama Elephant FEMME FRAMES Creative Cuts Steel Die MEL-001D	*SSS Small TEFLON BONE FOLDER Tool	*Ranger EMBOSSING POWDER SILVER Rubber Stamp Ink
*Pretty Pink Posh 4MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins	*Ranger Inkssentials MINI GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive .5oz	*Simon Says Clear Stamps STAMPtember?äó APOTHECARY LABELS sss06125	*Plus REFILL Honeycomb Dot Tape Adhesive Glue Double Sided

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LSC #76 Dust 'em off

Hello, hello!  Wow - time sure is flying!  I can't believe we are starting up a new challenge already!  We want you to "dust 'em off" - get out a crafty tool or stamp that you don't use or haven't used in a while and show the love!

I used two stamp sets, and a few of my Stampin' Up inks that I haven't used much. In fact the My Silly Valentine stamp set I've never inked up!!!  I know, right!?!  I also used Interlocking Backdrops - and I inked up the hexagon strip with Coastal Cabana, Pool Party and Pistachio Pudding inks.  I die cut two panels from my Postage Edge frame dies from SSS, and I stamped out my hexagon background first - then I stamped on the square panel the two pears and colored them in with Copic Markers - and of course had to add shimmer like the rest of the card making population with my Wink of Stella pen :)  I, then stamped out my sentiment which "pairs" up with my pears :)  Super punny on that one!  I doubled up on the foam squares for the small panel, and adhered it to my stamped panel and then I added some Lawn Trimmings and then I added both panels also with foam adhesive onto a Pistachio Pudding card base which is A2 size.   

Hope you are able to join us for this new challenge!!  Lawn Fawn is our wonderful sponsor this week!!  And, the new release will be available this week too!! YES!!  Sorry - a little excited there!

See you soon - thanks for stopping by!

Kari

*Lawn Fawn MY SILLY VALENTINE Clear Stamps

*Lawn Fawn INTERLOCKING BACKDROPS Clear Stamps

*Mama Elephant FEMME FRAMES Creative Cuts Steel Die MEL-001D

*ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER CLEAR Brush Tip Marker 025320

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LSC #66 - Monochromatic

Hi all!  I am a little tardy getting my post up for the latest Lawnscaping Challenge - but I did get it up in the same day - so it counts, right??

This one was a bit of a challenge for me - but I think I handled it well!!  What do you all think??

I used one of my favorite back ground building stamps - "Interlocking Backdrops" and stamped it out onto a Crisp Cantaloupe card base using Crisp Cantaloupe ink - I also got out my " A Birdie Told Me" set and stamped the biggest word bubble onto some pattern paper from the "Yes, Please" 6x6 paper pad from Amy Tangerine/AC. My sentiment comes from the "Many Thanks" set from LF.  I stamped out that cute little birdie onto a strip of washi of the same color combo that I am trying to achieve and I stamped it using some Staz-On Ink and then used the coordinating die.  For some finishing touches, I added some enamel dots and some Lawn Trimmings twine.

Be sure to take some time out and get crafty with us and submit your projects to this challenge!!  There will be some awesome inspiration on the blog with the design team, and also be sure to check in with Facebook and visit Lawnscapings Facebook page for the LF Facebook Inspiration Team's inspiration as well!!

See you over at the blog!!  Have fun!

Distress Mania LSC #64

WOW! Back again to introduce a new Lawnscaping Challenge!!  We getting Distressed!!  This challenge is all about making your projects look Distressed with inks, sanding, etc.

Up for grabs is a gift certificate to the oh so wonderful Lawn Fawn!!  And, with there new releases about to be available very soon - now it is a great time to enter!

Here is my card for this challenge!

I used some Core'dinations paper that I had in my stash and I dry embossed my paper with a diagonal stripes embossing folder, and then sanded my paper to bring out the color core!!  I, then added some washi tape with the same color scheme that I was going for.  Then, I stamped out the polaroid from "Say Cheese" ( my very first Lawn Fawn stamp set - I treasure it!) onto some more Core'dinations paper but on the color core side to make it look "aged".  Then, I took one of the element stickers from the Dewey Decimal collection, and added it to the middle of my frame using foam adhesive.  I felt like my card needed one more thing, so I found a peach colored button in my stash and added some Lawn Trimmings to the button and adhered it to my frame.  This whole card panel was adhered to a piece of Hawaiian Shores card stock, and then onto a Kraft card base.

Hope this inspires you to enter into this week's challenge!!  I am looking forward to all the entries!!

Be sure to watch throughout the week for additional inspiration from the Facebook Inspiration Team!

-Kari

LSC # 51 Be My Valentine

Hi crafters!  I needed to get in some crafty time this Wednesday evening!!  What a better way to spend it than to make and submit my next card for the latest Lawnscaping Challenge.  As we all know - Valentines Day is right around the corner!  There were so many ideas flowing in my head on how I should go about making my card for this week's challenge.  But, like last week - I am continuing with my "simple" method!  This card I will probably give to my hubby for Valentine's Day.

This card is simple and gets the point across! ( and its not too girly!! - haha)  I started out stamping the heart sentiment from Many Thanks from Lawn Fawn, but I altered it a bit.  Instead of inking the "thank you" part of the sentiment, I opted that out, and added " I love you" from Love 'N Breakfast, also from Lawn Fawn.  I "fussy" cut my heart out, and then worked on the base of the card.  I used some pattern paper from the new My Mind's Eye - Lucky in Love 6x6 pad.  I, then added some aqua wood grain washi tape to frame out the pattern paper.  I used Sally's ABC's to add "Simply" to my card base to be apart of my sentiment. To finish the card off I added some Lawn Fawn trimmings in the red and white.  

I hope my hubby likes it!  

Thank you for stopping in to look at my card!!  See you back here soon!

LSC #49 - Happy Birthday, Lawnscaping!

Happy New Year Everyone!  I haven't posted since Christmas - so I thought I would wish everyone a happy and healthy 2013!!  It is time for another post for my favorite challenge blog, Lawnscaping.  It is time to party!!  Lawnscaping is celebrating two years - which is awesome!  I hope they have many more birthdays!!

I broke out my "Bake Me a Cake" LF set - ( which I have never used - I KNOW).  I paper-pieced  four layers of the cake with Pebbles "Sunny Side" 6 x 6 papers, and stamped two candles - because of their 2nd birthday :)  I die cut two layers using the Windows Frames Framelits from Sizziz/Stampin' Up ( I just those in the mail today and HAD to use them)  I embossed the black panel with the Honeycomb embossing folder from CuttleBug.  I wanted to give that black piece some texture. I added some yellow pom-pom trim and two bows made from some Lawn Trimmings at the top of the black panel.  The birthday sentiment came from a card stock sticker/frame set I had in my stash.  I added some washi tape to the bottom and top portion of the card ( you will see that when its laid flat)

Here is the card when its flat.

Happy Birthday Lawnscaping!!  You make it so fun to play with my Lawn Fawn stamps!!  Here's to many birthdays in the future!!

I am also going to enter this card into the first EVER Pinspired Challenge!  They are having a party too!!

LSC #47 - COLOR

Hi crafty peeps!  Sorry I have been M.I.A. for a couple of weeks on my blog.  Ya know how things go - you get busy with life, and other things take over!  I've been around though looking at all the wonderful crafty projects in blog land - and wanted to get back into the swing of things.  Today I bring you my entry for the latest Lawnscaping Challenge.  It is all about color this go round - three colors to be specific - blue, red, and kraft.

Since Valentine's Day products and projects are showing up around blog land - I thought it would be adorable to make to dolphins in love :)  That is why I've named this card dolpIN LOVE.  Maybe cheesy - maybe I am reachin' there a bit on the title - but at least the card came out cute!  I used "Critters in the Sea" and did some reverse stamping.  Reverse stamping can be tricky, but if you practice on it - you will get a pretty good stamped image.  That is why I like doing this technique with Lawn Fawn stamps because their images have a thicker outline.  

I used the "swirls" Cuttlebug folder and did heat emboss some waves of water in blue embossing powder.  I made my hoops from a 1 3/8' circle punch and a 1 1/4" circle punch.  For the male dolphin, I used some Peppermint Lawn trimmings to wrap around the hoop, and left the female dolphin's hoop as is in white.  I created my own custom sentiment from "Harold's ABC's".  

I wanted to add a heart above the dolphins - and then used my red Sukura glitter pen for something "extra".  

To add "kraft" to my card - I just wrapped some "natural" Lawn Trimmings around my sentiment piece.  Hope you all like it and have been inspired!  See you soon!