Challenge 138 Sponsored by Lawn Fawn

 

We are sponsored by the always amazing Lawn Fawn! Those folks just rock and they are sponsoring this challenge with a free stamp set of the winner's choice!

 

Let's get on to the project I created!! I had a lot of fun with this one. Even my oldest laughed at it. 

 

He laughed at the sweater weather and the sheep. We just went to the county fair so we had sheep on the mind! It is pretty funny. 

 

I used a bunch of shapes in this card for the geometric challenge. I hope you play along with the challenge and enter your project in for a shot at the Lawn Fawn prize. Good luck!

PRODUCTS USED: 

• Lawn Fawn Into the Woods
• Lawn Fawn Holiday Party Animal
• Lawn Fawn Baaah Humbug
• Lawn Fawn 6x6 Sweater Weather
• Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers
• Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock
• Memento, Tuxedo Black & Nautical Blue

 

Lawnscaping Challenge #105: Watercolors

Good morning! It's a new week, which means a new Lawnscaping Challenge. We are in May already. I'm very excited for the kids to be out of school, summer days, sun, and much more. It's been a LONG winter (I know that sounds silly, but when most of your year is cold, it's very much anticipated when it starts to get sunny and warm out) here!!

The wonderful, fabulous Ellen Hutson! is sponsoring this challenge!!! Certainly you are familiar with her and her store, but if not, a little bit about the store in her own words:

Ellen Hutson, LLC began their adventure in November 2006 as an online web store committed to bringing you the finest paper crafting products and related product education. They are always looking to provide their customers with quality products, excellent customer service, and education and inspiration for the products they carry. You can shop with Ellen by clicking HERE. As well please join them to be inspired and learn some fun techniques in the CLASSroom, or stay up-to-date on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and/orPinterest.

Ellen Hutson will be sponsoring our first challenge of each month in 2015! The prize? 
A $25 gift certificate to the online store! Thank you Ellen!

Here is my take on the challenge:

I had a lot of fun with this card. I'm wanting to make some Mother's Day cards and I thought this was too cute. It's not a traditional card, but I love it!

I started with my card base in kraft. Simply scored, folded and rounded the bottom corners. 

Next, I took a piece of watercolor cardstock (I just use this pad you can get in the kid's craft aisle at Target; it's inexpensive and it works beautifully for all my projects that I use for watercolor), cut it to size and rounded the bottom corners to match my card base.

I pulled out my Lawn Fawn Love You A Latte set and the lightbulb went on. I took the Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts, Circle Stackables and I used my Chestnut Spectrum Aqua Marker to color on an acrylic block. I then spritzed it with water to make it into my watercolor paint! Then I used the cut side of the die and pressed it down into the watercolor paint I created on my block. I then used it as a stamp to create the "coffee stains" you see on the card. I made two circles, and then just simply used a paper towel laid over the top and I pressed gently to pick up the extra watercolor paint. I flicked on some Mister Huey's Warm Calico, used a little embossing powder and a heat gun to dry it. I love the way that came out! I took the little coffee bean stamp from the Love You A Latte set and inked it up with some Distress Ink in Tea Dye and randomly stamped that onto the background. I cut a simple strip from the Lawn Fawn Snow Day 6x6 Petite Paper Pack and glued that to the top of the piece. I glued that all to my card base.  

I created a little tag for my sentiment using the Lawn Fawn Tag, You're It Lawn Cuts. I stamped the "love you a latte" onto the tag with Memento in Rich Cocoa and added a little red heart from the same set using Memento Luxe in Love Letter. I adhered that to my card with some foam adhesive. 

Since the card is coffee themed, you have to have a cup of coffee and a little tasty treat to accompany it, right? I used these items from the same Love You A Latte set. I stamped the cup and donut onto the same watercolor stock using Versafine in Onyx Black and cut them out. The plate was stamped onto a scrap of paper from my Lawn Fawn Sweater Weather 6x6 Petite Paper Pack. I colored the cup and donut with my Spectrum Aqua Markers and water brush pen. I added the steam coming from the cup using Memento Luxe in Grey Flannel; it's stamped onto the actual card and then on the top of the cup and I lined them up when I adhered it down with foam adhesive.

One final look at the details on the card: 

I hope you play along with this challenge. It's so much fun! You can use so many different items for the watercolor look, crayons, and more! 

Don't forget to keep checking our Facebook page, where our Facebook Inspiration Team will be sharing projects throughout the challenge!

Lawnscaping Challenge #103: Dimension

Good morning! We have a new challenge over at Lawnscaping today. This one is really fun - DIMENSION. See details in the image below.

The sponsor for this challenge is Ellen Hutson! The prize? A $25 gift certificate to the online store! 

Here is what I created for the challenge: 

I embossed a shimmery blue cardstock for the background. Then I built my little scene. I round cornered some white cardstock and used the green dotted paper from Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Petite Paper Pack. I took the top of the green piece I cut out and just snipped the top to look like grass! I thought it was super cute. I then rounded the bottom corners and adhered to my white piece.

I used a yellow strip from the Sweater Weather Petite Paper Pack for the top of the piece. 

I took the sentiment, we bee-long together, and curved it on my acrylic block and stamped it onto the white piece with Memento in Tuxedo Black. 

For the bees, I stamped them first onto the white cardstock one at a time. I took Memento in Rose Bud to stamp the heart/dotted line image from the Lawn Fawn Bugs & Kisses set and then stamped the other bee at the other end. The bees were them stamped onto the same white cardstock and colored in with my Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Markers. I took the Aquamarine marker and used a water pen to apply a slight glow around the bee image stamped onto the white piece. It gave a little highlight to each bee. For the wings, I used my Wink of Stella pens in Silver and Clear to add in some glittery accents. I also used a Black Spica pen on the bee stripes, facial features, and antennae. I used foam adhesive to pop them up off the base. 

I needed a little dimension in the center of the heart, so I stamped the same heart/dotted line image onto the pink heart paper from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Petite Paper Pack and adhered that with foam adhesive in the center. 

I hope you play along with the challenge! Be sure to follow the rules for the challenge and upload your project to the blog post! Good luck and have fun creating. 

Happy Birthday, Lawn Fawn!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAWN FAWN!

As a shout out to Lawn Fawn and to wish them a happy 5th birthday, a bunch of us joined together to create cards in their honor with a blog hop! You should have arrived from Suzanne's blog. If you have any trouble, or would like to see all the participants, please visit Jenn Shurkus' blog. :)

Here is my card that I created for the Happy Birthday blog hop for Lawn Fawn. I listed the supplies below. Since it's still fairly cold here (come on, spring!!), I wanted to create a cute little winter birthday card. I thought the snowman holding this little bright yellow balloon among the snowflakes was adorable. 

Your next stop on the blog hop is Lynn. Be sure to visit everyone's blog who participated and wish Lawn Fawn a very happy birthday!

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn, Making Frosty Friends Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn, Winter Penguin Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn, Milo's ABC's Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn, Beep Boop Birthday Stamp Set and Lawn Cuts

Lawn Fawn Vivid Triple Pack Cord Lawn Trimmings

Lawn Fawn 6x6 Petite Paper Pack, Sweater Weather

Lawn Fawn 6x6 Petite Paper Pack, Let's Polka

Versafine, Onyx Black

Memento, Tuxedo Black and Summer Sky

Memento Luxe, Grey Flannel

Spectrum Noir Aqua Watercolor Markers

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 #93: Fall & Pumpkins

Who doesn't love fall?! It is my favorite season. I adore the leave changing colors, the crispness in the air, sweaters, hot coffee, fleece blankets...I could go on and on. Again, my perfect year-round weather would be fall like and decorated like fall/Halloween. Sigh. A girl can dream, can't she?

We LOVE the amazingly wonderful peeps over at  Simon Says Stamp! They are super awesome, super talented and just super sweet!  They are sponsoring this challenge with a $25 gift card to Simon Says Stamp!!!!

Here is my card this time for the Lawnscaping Challenge for Fall & Pumpkins. It incorporates my favorite things - leaves and coffee! I turned this card into a gift card holder on the outside. I was inspired by a layout I saw on Pinterest that was similar!

I used the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Sweater Weather pad of paper for the fall leaf paper behind the gift card pocket. For the pocket, I just cut a piece of kraft cardstock to fit onto my leaf patterned paper and rounded the top corners and scored it where I wanted my "holder" to be. For the notch in the center, I used a circle punch and just lined it up to the center of the circle and punched it out. You could certainly use a smaller size circle for a small notch, but this is what I had on hand :) 

The coffee cup is from the Lawn Fawn Love You a Latte set. I colored in the shadowing on the cup with my Spectrum Noir Markers in light grey tones. For the corrugated band, I actually used some stock I had on hand, but you can use the back side of the Starbucks cup sleeve and do the same. I then used a green enamel dot to mimic the Starbucks logo! So much fun. 

The smile sentiment is also from the Lawn Fawn Love You a Latte set. I thought it was fitting for this card. I'd def smile if I received this!

The leaves are from Lawn Fawn, which I sponged on different distress inks (Festive Berries, Pumice Stone, Tea Dye, Iced Spruce, and Scattered Straw). The blend so nicely on the wood shapes!!! 

Play along with the challenge!! You can find all the details at the Lawnscaping Challenge blog.