Lawnscaping Challenge #113: Texture

Good morning! Today is another fun challenge day with Lawnscaping. Today's challenge is Texture, Texture, TEXTURE. Just add texture to your creation.

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!

Now, on to what I created for this challenge. 

Since this is a new set from Lawn Fawn, and it's Halloween, I HAD to have it. I couldn't wait to make something with it, so I decided on an idea I had to add texture by using embossing powder for the background. 

Here is what I came up with:

To create this, I used the new Lawn Fawn set, Booyah. I chose some fun orange and black papers to coordinate with this Halloween card. 

I used the Happy Halloween sentiments from the Booyah set and stamped in Versarmark on my black piece of cardstock. I embossed those with a clear embossing powder, so when it's dry, it appears to be a shiny black; very subtle! I wanted one of the sentiments to pop out, so I used a white embossing powder on just that one. I love the way it came out!

The ghost has her trick-or-treat bag, which I just stamped onto a piece of scrap Halloween paper and cut out. I cut off the handle so I could add a simple orange and white twine handle for a little fun element.

She has on her bride of Frankenstein costume, which I love. I colored her and her hair in with Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Markers (begonia, black, slate and charcoal) after I had stamped them with Versafine in Onyx Black onto watercolor cardstock. I fussy cut them out, but you can definitely use the coordinating dies for this set! Makes it much quicker!

For the white stripe in her hair, I wanted something fun, so I used some Stickles to add a sparkly accent! I also popped on a few black sequins from my stash as well. 

I hope you're inspired to have a fun time creating for this texture challenge! It's a favorite thing of mine to do. So use that imagination and have fun creating. Make sure you check the Lawnscaping Challenge blog for full details on entering to win. 

Chalkboard Inspired Card

Good morning! Today I have a card that was inspired by a chalkboard. I love the white on black look and I added some fun bursts of colors with feathers and watercolor cardstock and Spectrum Aqua Markers. I've listed all the supplies below.

I used a black piece of cardstock and stamped the sentiment and used some white embossing powder to make it pop. I did the same thing for the borders. Now when I used the Rock-A-Block with my border edge, I did get some ink on the edge of it so when I rolled it, it left that little line that you see and I love the way it looks! It almost looks intentional ;)

For the chalk look on the black cardstock, I used a small round finger dauber with some white ink and rubbed gently in a circle here and there to give it a soft look of a chalkboard. 

I used my Spectrum Aqua Markers on watercolor cardstock and colored them in various colors and then stamped the feathers on the top of them with Versafine ink after the paper dried. Once that set, I cut them out and adhered them with foam adhesive to the black chalkboard I created. 

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PRODUCTS USED:

Sheena A Little Bit Sketchy, Falling Feathers

Die'Sire Sentimentals EZMount Stamp Set, Vintage

Textures EZMount Stamp Set, Basket and Burlap

Versamark Watermark Ink Pad

Versafine, Onyx Black

Memento Luxe, Wedding Dress

White Embossing Powder

Spectrum Noir Watercolour Cardstock

Spectrum Aqua Markers: Red Violet, Sea Green, Aquamarine, Kingfisher, Begonia, Crimson, Sunflower, Amber and Orchid

Lawnscaping Challenge 112: Embossing

Good morning! I'm back with another fun challenge. This challenge is EMBOSSING. You can use a variety of different embossing methods including heat, dry, texture paste, etc.!

We are sponsored by the always amazing Lawn Fawn! They just rock and they are sponsoring this challenge with a free stamp set of the winner's choice! It's a tough decision :)

And now on to my challenge card I created...

I used a kraft card base to start with. I then picked an orangish color cardstock for a punch of color and used my Sizzix large dots embossing folder to add some texture. The orangish color matches the color I used in the center of the ice cream container!

I created my own stencil with die cutting a piece of plain white cardstock using the Lawn Fawn Heart Lawn Cuts. It took me a little while to cut this out, but I think it's well worth it! I encourage you to use your dies in the same way. It's really a fun way to create your own stencil. 

Then, I laid my stencil down and secured it with painters tape (you can use washi as well) to my craft mat. I applied the texture paste with a piece of scrap cardstock. You can use a knife or palette tool to spread the paste onto your stencil. It dries really quickly, so you have to work a bit fast and clean up right away. It's like cement! 

I set my piece aside to dry before I used a water brush pen with my Spectrum Aqua Markers on an acrylic block. I just scribbled on a small section of color from the marker and pick it up with the water brush pen. This helps to really showcase the texture of the paste. I like to leave my paste layer a bit thicker and not as smooth to really make it fun to look at and feel. 

For the little image, I used a simple circle diecut with a piece of purple and white striped cardstock and curved the sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Treat Yourself set and inked it up with Memento in Tuxedo Black. That's the beauty of clear stamps! You can bend and curve them just how you want 

to in order to fit your project.

The ice cream container, lid and spoon were colored in on some watercolor cardstock with my Spectrum Aqua Markers and my water brush pen. I wanted it to have a softer feel this time, and the watercolor markers are a perfect way to do that. These images are also from the Treat Yourself set. It's a must-have little set!

I hope you're inspired to get to embossing and enter our challenge!! Have fun!