Lawnscaping Challenge# 34 - Embossing

Hello!!  It is time for another fun challenge over at Lawnscaping!  This time it is all about embossing.  First, let me say, I am obsessed with Instagram - and I thought it would be a cute idea to turn the polaroid from Lawn Fawn's "Say Cheese" into an Instagram camera.  So - I did a few things by hand ( which is amazing within itself - I can't draw to save my life).  I first drew the colorful Instagram lines on the camera.  Then, I made my own mini polaroid.  This may have been done before - I am not sure, but I think its so stinkin' cute!!

I created a "love bird" scene with the birds from "Gnome Sweet Gnome", added the tiny little heart from " Plus One" and my sentiment comes from "Grand Greetings".  I did two types of embossing.  I did dry embossing, but with a twist.  I inked up my tiny hearts embossing folder with "Love Letter" Memento Ink, and then dry embossed my card stock.  I heat embossed both my camera, and my little birdies.  For dimension, I added pop dots to both my camera/polaroid, and my sentiment.  I hope you all think its as cute as I do!!  

Crafty Smiles!

RAK from Sharon :o)

Hi all!  I wasn't expecting to make a post today - but I wanted to share with all of you my first RAK from Sharon Martinelli ( smscrapper ).  I wasn't expecting do receive anything from her at all.  I know I should do a video showing all the stuff here in detail - but honestly - don't have time for a video right now, and I wanted to acknowledge Sharon the day I received it - SO - Sharon!!!  Thank you girl so much for all the nice goodies!!  I love all the trims, and such you've sent me.  I don't buy trims and little flowers like this on my own - so its neat to be able to see what I can do with these!  You're card is gorgeous!!  So much detail!!  I'm in awe!!!!  I appreciate you thinking of me so much!!  You've made my day!!!

You're awesome and I thank you so much for thinking of  me!!!  I love it all!

Flying By....

Hi Friends - I'm on a roll - can't stop me now... **grin**  Back to share with you a card I finished for a challenge going on over at Paper Smooches - a Card stock challenge..  Make a card using nothing but card stock - no patterned paper. Sometimes that is harder for me than anything, because I {heart} my 6 x 6 paper pads - and I've got enough to last me for a lifetime.


 I am also submitting this into the latest Lawnscaping Challenge.  So -  this was another fun challenge for me.  I just made my scene with PS set "Metropolis".  I know at times I have a "lead foot" - so I "ran" with the idea of this cute lil car speeding down the road.  He's got good intentions though - he's speeding to make it into this challenges and saying "hi" at the same time!  HAHA.

                 

I used not only this PS set - I used a couple of Lawn Fawn sets - like " Flying by" for part of the sentiment, and " You've Got Mail"  - the wavy lines to represent the car speeding by.  :o)  The "Hi" sentiment comes from PS "Word Up".  

Have a great day everyone!

- Kari

CFC# 51 - Happy Birthday!

Monday, Monday...I'm actually enjoying Monday today as I am on vacation, and free to be crafty a little bit more this week than usual.  This morning, I wanted to share my card for this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  Over at the blog, they are celebrating their 1st birthday.  So - its all about making birthday cards!!

Who doesn't love getting a birthday card - and to me birthday cards are suppose to be colorful!  Since its CAS-ual Friday's birthday, I wanted to incorporate the logo's birthday colors - blue and yellow.  I love this embossing folder!  And - I thought the sentiment went well with the occasion.  It comes from Stampology.  I stamped my balloons from one of my Fiskars stamp sets ( sorry, I don't have the name on this set).  

So - Happy Birthday CAS-ual Fridays!!  Here to many more happy birthdays and fun challenges. :o)

Have a great day, everyone!

- Kari

A Rainy Day Challenge - Lily Pad Cards/SSS

Hi Friends - **This is my second post today - **

I'm getting all of my challenge submissions done today - and this time I am back with the latest SSS challenge over at Lily Pad Cards.  Make a card representing rain, or rain related.  I got out my "Ain't Love Grand" hostess set from SU!.  It has this cute umbrella image in it.  I wanted to do a emboss resist technique, and I did that with the water drop from the Lawn Fawn set " Plus One".  The Distress Inks I used were Tumbled Glass, and Chipped Sapphire.

My sentiment also comes from Lawn Fawn - but from the set " On the Mend".  You can't really tell in the photo, but I added some glaze gel pen to the water puddles.  I finished off the card with some Twinery Twine.  If I was feeling down or blue - getting this card would perk up my spirits for sure.  :o)

- Kari

ABNH- Topsy Turvy Challenge#3

Good Sunday afternoon!!  I am sharing with all of you today my first submission to ABNH ( A Blog Named Hero) for the Topsy Turvy Challenge.  Use a sentiment as something other than a sentiment.  So - I was looking through all of my Hero Arts stamp sets - and saw a rainbow - and it clicked in my head!!  Make a rainbow using different sentiments!!  This was so much fun to create!!  I love color - and rainbows!!

So I took sentiments from these Hero Arts sets - "Sky's the Limit", and "Friends".  All my inks are Memento ink colors.  I love Memento as you all know!  When I got the the bottom of my rainbow - I didn't have a sentiment that was short enough to curve around to finish off the rainbow - so  I saw the "moon" image on the "Sky's the Limit" set - and though perfect!!  

This was a fun challenge!  I look forward to all the creativity that comes out of this one!!  Everyone get crafty and see what you can do with it!!  :o)

** On a side note** - I am on vacation all this week from work - and I'm so happy to have the time off to enjoy some crafty time, and just the break in general!  

Take Care!!

- Kari

CFC # 2 - April Showers.....

Hello everyone!  Hope everybody's week is going smoothly!  I wanted to pop in real quick, and share with all of you my second  submission to this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  I got inspired today by seeing one of my very first cards I ever made!!  I have an embossing folder that I haven't used in a VERY long time, and had  the idea today to use it on another submission.  As I mentioned in my first post - the "theme" is to made a CAS card inspired by trees or flowers since we are celebrating Spring time!  So - I got home - and I thought it would be pretty cool to do "color embossing" ( that is what I call it at least).

All of my inks are my much loved Memento Inks - Lulu Lavender, Dandelion, Summer Sky and Angel Pink.  To add a bit of color to my embossed flower, I took my Copic Markers G05, and FYG2.  I added a pink gem in the middle of the flower to finish it off.   It turned out so cool!!  I feel it represents Spring, don't you!!  

Take Care!!

- Kari

PDCC129

**This is my second post today**

I must be in a very crafty mood today, as I have made four cards - including this card for the Play Date Cafe Challenge # 129.  This is my first time participating in this challenge.  I like the retro feel of this challenge blog, and thought I would give it a go.  In this challenge there are colors that are suggested to follow to incorporate into each submission.  For my card I used my SU! set  Sprinkled Expressions.  This was Sale-a- Bration set that I earned after purchasing $ 50 dollars or more.  So, I was happy I was able to pick up this cute set.  Since graduation is right around the corner, even though I don't have anyone that is graduating, I thought the theme was nice, and could be used for other things other than graduation.

I like this colors together.  they are so striking!  I wanted to add some sparkle to my "shining stars", so I added some Stardust Stickles.    I had fun making the card - and its fun to play for the first time in this challenge.  :o)

- Kari

CFC: April Showers Bring May Flowers

We are starting another week, and thought I would start by making a clean and simple card for this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge.  This time we are challenged to make a CAS card featuring trees and or flowers since Spring is here.  One of my favorite SU! sets that I have is Trendy Trees, and I haven't played with it in a long time, so I thought I would get it out, and use it for my card.

In order to use this set properly, you will need to use a stamp-ma-jig, which is something else I haven't played with in a while.  It was fun stamping these trees in spring like colors.  Brings so much "happy" to the card, in my opinion.  I wanted to do add "something" to the card besides my tree images, so I just made a border on my card base by scoring the outer edges.  I punched out my trees with a 1 3/4 circle punch and popped them up on my card.  The colors I stamped the trees in are SU! colors Pink Passion, Daffodil Delight, and Lucky Limeade.  The tree trunks I stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa ink.  

I wanted to add a simple sentiment to my card - and this "Hello" sentiment comes from the Stampendous set, "Happy Messages".

In other news - I am looking forward to Friday for two reasons, one to see who has been chosen as this weeks challenge winners, and two I will be on 11 days of leisure!!  May 4th- 14th, I call VACATION!  I am so looking forward to the time!! 

I feel there will be shopping in my future for craft goodies during this time. :o)  Everyone have a nice week!!

- Kari

My obsession with 6 x 6 paper pads

I have a confession...actually I have confessed this before, but I wanted to dedicate a full post about it :o)  They are small, they are compact, they are simply wonderful, they are 6 x 6 paper packs!  They are so wonderful for card makers, like myself, and so many manufacturers are producing them now!!  I have to say that my favorite is My Mind's Eye!  Their papers are so gorgeous, and so yummy!!  There is no way in this world I will ever use all of this paper, but just knowing that it is in arms reach, just brings a simple smile to my face!  I have discovered some others manufacturers I like - Simple Stories comes to mind.  Their line FabUlous is right up my alley with the color palette.  Fancy Pants and Basic Grey are others that I like a lot.  My small obsession is growing and growing, and its seems that it is turning into a hoarding issue.  :o)  Of course this ever changing, but here is a pic of my collection - and as I am writing this, I've bought more today online to add to this collection of mine.



 **Since posting this last night, I decided to share an updated picture with you on how much my collection has grown.  This first picture is from a few months ago, and the second is what it is currently**  :o)

I must say that I sometimes feel guilty buying more, but not enough to stop!!  hahaha.  It doesn't hurt anyone, and it makes me happy - goes right along with my happiness of creating!!  

So - let me hear from you!  What is your crafting obsession - what is the one product you have that you can't get enough of!!  I'd love to hear from who ever would like to share with me!!!

- Kari

CAS-ual Friday Challenge : Sketch

Good Monday Evening to you all - I just finished making my submission for this week's CFC. This week is a sketch we had to follow.  I played around with a couple of ideas - and then my eye's met all of my Ranger Blending Tools for my Distress Inks - and thought - "hmmm - I could do something different with those".  So - I picked to bright Distress Inks - Ripe Persimmon and Mustard Seed, inked up each of my blending tools really well, and applied the ink straight down.  No blending - nothing - so it would take on the shape of that blending tool.

Then, I cut out the middle of the two rectangles and thought of my sentiment I was using.  I thought having little twinkling stars went well with my sentiment from Hero Arts.  It is hard to tell, but I added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to my stars.  I popped up my card panel from my card base for dimension - and I edged my panel with Black Soot Distress Ink to make it pop against my card base.  

That concludes my take on this challenge!  See you on the flip side :o)

- Kari

Lawnscaping Challenge : Stamp a Scene

Hello my friends!  Happy Sat. to you!  This is my entry for this week's Lawnscaping Challenge.  This is actually my second try on this card.  It actually went a different direction than where I was going.  When I was making my card earlier in the week - I just kept making mistakes, and messing up, so I gave up, and stepped away from it.  So - today I thought of something else that is much better!  I used "Bon Voyage"  and "Say Cheese" for my card.  I thought a pretty sunset would be neat behind this cute little airplane.  It just screams "vacation", doesn't it?

I paper pieced the airplane from My Minds Eye 6 x 6 - Fly a Kite. The bird images comes from a SU! set I have called Up, up and away.  My card base is some from SU!, and the twine is from Lawn Fawn.  I used  this Chevron background stamp from Hero Arts.  

This was a fun card to make - after I knew what I was going to do :o)  

- Kari

CAS challenge - Opposites Attract

It's that time again to show you my submission for this week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge - Opposites Attract.  Like most of us I love color!! So, this week we had to choose to opposite colors on the color wheel for our CAS projects.  I choose yellow and purple! I started out by stamping my houndstooth pattern from my Paper Smooches set Debonair.  I just love this set!  It is awesome, people!!  I stamped one in Grape Jelly Memento Ink, and the other in Dandelion Memento Ink.  I love the coverage that these inks give me on photopolymer stamps.

Then I picked some paper flowers from my stash that were yellow and purple, and added black in the middle to compliment my sentiment, which comes from HA set Sky's The Limit.  I popped up my card panel on foam adhesive, and called it done.  I love the contrast of these two colors.  I hope it makes you smile, like it does me!!

Stay Inspired my friends!!  Be back soon!

- Kari