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 #71 Tags or Treat Bags

Welcome back to yet another Lawnscaping Challenge.  We only have two challenges left in the year 2013!!  That is craziness!  Since everyone is gearing up for the holiday season - which by the way is craziness too!! - we are focusing on those tags or treat bags you will be using this holiday season!!

Here is my bag that I created.

I started out with a plain canvas bag.  I wanted to "doll up" up my canvas bag - so I decided to stamp on it.  This is a lot of fun if you have never done this.  I chose two stamp sets - Let it Snow and Interlocking Backdrops.  I used all pigment inks - Colorbox Cranberry, Memento Luxe Pear Tart, and Hero Arts Silver.  I stamped first the chevron pattern in the Cranberry ink, and then I stamped the trees in Pear Tart and Silver inks.  Then, I stamped my sentiment from the Let it snow set in the Cranberry ink.  I wanted some "snow" so I took my Liquid Applique in white and dotted on randomly on the bag, and then heat set it to make it puff up a little.  And, that's it! Super easy, super fast!!  These bags are fun to stamp on!

I hope you are able to join us for this fun challenge!!  Simon Says Stamp is our fun sponsor!!!  Someone will win a $25 dollar gift certificate to SSS - will that someone be YOU!! :)

See you soon!

Lawnscaping Challenge #54- Stitching

Hello all!  I am back to share with you my submission for the latest Lawnscaping Challenge.  It is all about stitching whether is faux, by hand or by a sewing machine.  Personally, I am not sewer, but I have done a little in the past.  I don't do it on my cards hardly ever - but its a fun change to add something new to my card designs.

For my card, I used Lawn Fawn's set - "Happy Easter".  What a cute set this is! AND - you can use it so much more than for Easter cards.  I started out my stamping in Versa  mark ink my "hopping lines".  I needed a guide to paper pierce my holes for my hand stitching.  Then, I went to town with my hand stitching.  It was fun to have this fun element on my card.  Then, I stamped and paper pieced using various pattern papers for my bunny, one of my clouds and my sun and one of the Easter eggs for some fun patterns on my card.  I had die cut some clouds previous that I didn't use and decided to add them to this card.  I changed the "Happy Easter" sentiment slightly by using Sally's ABC's and inserting one of the Easter eggs for a fun element to the sentiment.  I like mixing up different fonts in the sentiments too.

I added some yellow Stickles to the sun, and Star Dust Stickles to the egg - and for the bunny's tail - I added some white Liquid Applique for a "puffy" tail.

Thanks for stopping in!!

CAS-ual Friday Challenge: Krafts-men

Helloooo!!  Happy 4th of July weekend! ( U.S.A).  Hope all of you crafty people are doing well and having fun doing some crafting!  I wanted to share with you another submission to the CAS-ual Friday Challenge for this week.  This time we create a masculine card out of Kraft card stock.  Game on!  :)  You wouldn't think making a clean and simple card is hard, but for card makers, sometimes it if very hard - and to add making a masculine card on top of that!  So - this is what I came up with ...drum roll please.....

 

This card took very minimal supplies - Kraft card stock, black card stock,  nestabilities die, baker's twine, white gel pen,  liquid applique,  and glossy accents.  Not bad.  I would take that cupcake from that cute lil guy anytime with those eyes lookin' at me like that.  *snicker*.   What ever your plans are for the 4th, be safe, and have fun!!!

~Kari~

Decemb-urrrrrrr

It is December 1st - can't believe it!- We are officially in the countdown to Christmas now!  The bad part is, I haven't even started my Christmas shopping yet.  I have only purchased one item for my Christmas shopping list.  I am happy there is such a thing as gift cards...they are easy,  and fast! :o)  Also- good thing about gift cards, you can put them easily into a greeting card...so without further or do- let's get to today's card.

Liquid Applique- this stuff is soooooo cool!  You can do so many things with it, and that is how I created my snow.  It is super duper easy to use too!  You can get it is several different colors.  I have three colors, white of course, pink for doing frosting on cupcakes or fur on a coat, and black....I haven't used black yet, but I am sure I will find a good use for it.  I colored the little truck with Copic Markers for some definition. 

We are nearing to Friday which means a fun filled weekend ( I hope) for my birthday!  My hubby is taking me to my favorite place to eat in Springfield (Missouri) called Cheddar's.  It is a very good place to eat...it is constantly packed, so you know everyone that is in the area feels the same way as I do about it.  Well, I am going to call it a night on today's post.  I will post again tomorrow, and for Friday, I will be posting a card on Sat.  I will be busy on Friday, as for the reason mentioned before!  :o)  Till then! Take care friends!

- Kari