Lawnscaping Challenge #100: Birthday Celebration

Good morning! Today is a special day at Lawnscaping because this is the 100th challenge!!!! Can I get a woot, woot?! So excited to be a part of this team. I had a lot of fun creating this card. Check out all the details on the Lawnscaping blog to participate. The challenge is birthday celebration. SO fun...

You'll want to because our amazing sponsor, Lawn Fawn, is giving away a great prize for this. LOVE me some Lawn Fawn, but then again, who doesn't??

AND there is something even more special to this challenge...we each invited someone to create a project as well! I chose the super talented (and amazing photographer) Latrice Murphy to play along with us! I'm so glad she accepted the invitation. Check out our projects below!

Be sure to check out the Lawnscaping Challenge blog where you can see ALL the Design Team projects as well as ALL of our special guest projects. You'll love all the inspiration, so grab a cup of whatever you please (always coffee for this girl!) and check everyone's amazing projects out today.

Here is the card I created for this challenge:

I found a similar layout on Pinterest (sorry, I can't recall which pin!) and went with it. For the card base, I chose a white card. Then I cut another white panel a little smaller and started playing with some paper in my stash and cut them at varying widths and glued them onto the white card piece in a diagonal. I had fun with that! 

For the circles, I cut out 6 circles in white and started stamping!! I used Memento in Tuxedo Black for all of the stamped images/sentiment. I used the Lawn Fawn Monster Mash for the monsters and I colored everything in with Spectrum Noir Markers. I used some fun little elements for each monster circle using Lawn Fawn Trim the Tree, Winter in the Park, Deck the Halls, and Beep Boop Birthday. 

I used Memento Luxe, Dandelion, Memento, Tangelo, and Radiant Neon inks in Electric Pink and Green for the little elements. 

I just love how this came out! So fun for a kiddo's birthday. 

Here is my special guests, Latrice Murphy, card she created for this challenge. Check out the details at her blog post! 

Big shout out to Latrice for accepting the challenge to play along today with our 100th challenge!! 

I hope you join us and play along with this Lawnscaping challenge.

Lawnscaping Challenge #97: Sponsored by Ellen Hutson

Happy 2015!! Here is my first project of the new year for you that's for the Lawnscaping Challenge #97. The theme for this challenge is winter Pinterest inspired images. I had a lot of fun with this challenge.

The wonderful new sponsor is Ellen Hutson. Check out the store because it is amazing! You have a chance to win a gift certificate to spend there.

On to my project for this challenge! 

I decided to use the bird and snow inspiration from the Pinterest photos in the badge for my card. The patterned paper, which looks like snow to me, is from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Snow Day Petite Paper Pack. I cut out a simple circle in the top center of the paper to create a little window for my snow scene. 

For my scene, I used the bench with Memento Luxe ink in Rich Cocoa from the Lawn Fawn Winter in the Park set. The snow on the back of the bench is also from that set. I used some Stickles to make the snow sparkle! For the little bird, I chose him from the Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends set and colored in with my Spectrum Noir Markers (TN3, TN5, TN7, OR2) and paper pieced his scarf from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Sweater Weather Petite Paper Pack.

Under the bench, which is a little hard to see in the photo, I colored in a light shadow with my Spectrum Noir Marker in IG1 and blender pen. It creates a sense of dimension there! 

The snowflakes were from the Lawn Fawn Winter in the Park and I used Memento in Summer Sky to stamp them. It's a pretty soft blue color.  Love it! 

The sentiment was stamped from the Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends set in Memento Luxe ink in Rich Cocoa. I trimmed the right edge into a pennant shape and added a simple bow using the Lawn Trimmings Natural Hemp Cord. You must get some of that!!!

I hope you join us in the challenge! You have until Wednesday, January 14th to enter. You can view all the details at the Lawnscaping blog. Hope you enjoyed the project.

Lawnscaping Challenge 94: Count Me In!

Hey there! We have a new challenge over at Lawnscaping. The theme is COUNT ME IN! Use numbers somewhere on project, Birthday, anniversary, whatever comes to mind.

Special thanks to Lawn Fawn for generously sponsoring our challenge!

Here is the cute little card I came up with for my son's birthday next month. I cannot believe he's going to be 5. Wow!

I used the Lawn Fawn Beep Boop Birthday stamp set for the robot, cupcake and happy birthday wording and speech bubble. I also was able to cut these out super easy with the Lawn Cuts for the set! I'm telling ya, I need to get any Lawn Cuts for any set I have because it's so much easier and quicker than fussy cutting. I colored these in with my Spectrum Noir Markers. 

For the number 5 the robot is holding in his hand, I stamped the 5 from Lawn Fawn Milo's ABC's and fussy cut around it (yes, it took me a little bit!). I stamped the dotted border at the top with Memento Rich Cocoa from the Lawn Fawn Deck the Halls set. I just thought it was a fun place to put a faux stitch type element. 

The sketch for the card was something I pulled off my Pinterest board. I often refer to what I've pinned (isn't that the point?? ha!) when I need some fresh ideas. 

I hope you liked my project and that you play along for the fab prize up for grabs from Lawn Fawn!

PLEASE READ the rules in the sidebar in order to be eligible for the prize!!!!!

Don't forget to keep checking our Facebook page, where our 

Facebook Inspiration Team will be sharing projects throughout the challenge!