Lawnscaping Challenge #139 sponsored by Ellen Hutson LLC

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 issponsoring our first challenge of each. The prize? A $25 gift certificate to the online store! Thank you Ellen!

 

And now on to my take on the challenge! I had a blast with this since fall IS my favorite time of year! They say that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, welllll I think fall is!

 

For this card, I used the Stitched Leaves dies from Lawn Fawn and partially diecut them onto some watercolor cardstock. I placed paper shims in the die cutting machine to make sure they didn't cut all the way through. I did have 2 that did, but I just glued a plain white piece of cardstock behind that diecut panel. It kept everything in place. 

 

I used some white pearls colored in with a gold Sharpie marker to add some dimension.

 

The leaf background was created using Distress Inks, water and a brush. So easy and so rich looking.

 

I added the striping under the panel with a simple gold Sharpie!

Have fun with this challenge!! 

PRODUCTS USED:

• Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Leaves
• Lawn Fawn Into the Woods
• Lawn Fawn Booyah
• Distress Inks: Festive Berries, Scattered Straw, Dusty Concord, Tea Dye, Iced Spruce, Orange Marmalade
• Gold Sharpie Marker
• Memento Luxe, Wedding Dress
• Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Cardstock 

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 #130 Sponsored by Lawn Fawn

It's Monday, so you know what that means - a new Lawnscaping Challenge is here!! This one is so much fun because who doesn't love a little sparkle and shine in their life?! I know I do.

We are sponsored by Lawn Fawn! Those folks just rock and they are sponsoring this challenge with a free stamp set of the winner's choice! So many stamp to choose from, I know. It's tough.

I had a lot of fun using my Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens for this card because they sparkle like no other. I wish I could master capturing that amazing sparkle on my camera (working on this). But I assure you, there is plenty o' sparkle coming up.

 

 

I wanted something bright and kind of in-your-face for this simple card. Who wouldn't smile receiving this?? I used a beautiful summer-like palette here with turquoise, darker blue, jade, and a pop of peachy/orange. I heat embossed the flower from the Flutter By set onto the pennants I cut out of watercolor cardstock and then just had fun with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens, water and my heat gun. It helps to spread out the color in a fun way and of course, dries super fast. I mean, who wants to wait???

Here's another view of this vibrant card:

 

I hope you will play along with this challenge and get your sparkle on! Check out the blog for all the details for entering your project into this challenge and good luck :D Most of all, have fun creating!!

PRODUCTS USED:

• Lawn Fawn Into the Woods
• Lawn Fawn Flutter By
• Versamark
• Versafine, Onyx Black
• White Embossing Powder
• Heidi Swapp Color Shine, Mustard
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens: Soft Jade, Starry Sky, Blue Topaz, Moonstone 
• Spectrum Noir Watercolor Cardstock

Lawnscaping Challenge #125: Splash of Color Sponsored by Ellen Hutson

Another Monday, another challenge!! This is seriously the best thing about Monday to me. Today's Lawnscaping Challenge is Color Splash. Make a black and white creation with a splash of color. Sounds easy, right? It was actually really fun but also challenging.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Ellen Hutson. SO MANY PRODUCTS! Thank you for sponsoring this challenge! Check out the site for many amazing things to help you with your crafting desires wants NEEDS. ;)

I had an idea in mind and it came out just like I had envisioned it. I LOVE this. I honestly might make a lot more of these types of cards using black and white with a splash of color. It's really different and fun.

 

Isn't that fun?! This was the perfect set to me for this challenge. I've linked up all the supplies I used below. But I love the bright pop of colors in the butterfly against all that black and white. What do you think?

 

I used foam adhesive to pop up the hello bubble and butterfly to make them stand out even more. It's a great way to make a little more impact!

I hope you're inspired and I sparked some creative juices in you to enter this challenge. GREAT prize. 

SUPPLIES USED:

• Lawn Fawn Into the Woods
• Lawn Fawn Flutter By
• Versafine, Onyx Black
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Claudine Hellmuth Studio Semi Gloss Acrylic Paint, Blank Canvas (dots on butterfly wings)
• Wink of Stella Brush, Gl. Clear
• Spectrum Noir Ultra White Premium White Cardstock
• Embossalicious 6x6 Embossing Folder, Lattice
• Spectrum Noir Markers: GT1, GT3, BP1, BP4, CG1, CG4, TN2, TN7, PL1, PL4, OR1, and OR3

Lawnscaping Challenge #115: Sentiments Sponsored by Ellen Hutson

Good morning! Today is another fun challenge day with Lawnscaping. Today's challenge is Sentiments. Make sentiments the focal point of 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!

Here is what I had created for this challenge:

I decided to use a really simple approach to this challenge and make sure that the sentiment stood out from the other elements on the card, so that's why I used them sparingly. I have a list of supplies below that I used to create this card.

For the fall leaves, I just glued them down, overlapping them and then took some brown twine I had. I wanted it to be reminiscent of twigs with the fall leaves. Then, I took my sentiment and used some foam adhesive and glued that down to where I felt it looked best. It's not exactly centered and I liked that! 

For some interest and movement, I added 3 little pearls to the card. In our family, we have quite a few fall birthdays, so this is the perfect card to give to a family member that says celebrate your birthday with a little fall flair :) 

I hope you're inspired to have a fun time creating for this challenge! Make sure you check the Lawnscaping Challenge blog for full details on entering to win. 

SUPPLIES USED:

• Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Leaves
• Lawn Fawn Stitched Labels
• Lawn Fawn Holiday Party Animal
• Lawn Fawn 12x12 Into the Woods Cardstock
• Spectrum Aqua Markers
• Woodgrain Embossing Folder
• Memento, Tuxedo Black
• Watercolor Cardstock

Lawnscaping Challenge #104: Sketch

Good morning! Lawnscaping has a new challenge up today. See the image below for the sketch we are following. Lots of ways to go about this one :)

The sponsor for this challenge is Lawn Fawn! I hope you participate because they have SO many things to choose from to order...

And now for my project I created using this sketch:

For this card, I used a variety of different Lawn Fawn stamp sets to create this card. I wanted the sentiment and feathers to really pop, so I chose to use a black/chalkboard looking paper to use for my blocks behind the main focal point.

I trimmed them all down and grabbed my Memento Luxe ink in Wedding Dress and started having fun. 

The upper left block, I used the bow and ties of the bow from the Lawn Fawn Winter in the Park set, as well as the small star which I stamped in Radiant Neon, Electric Yellow. It's very subtle on there which is just what I wanted. 

For the upper right block, I used the three hearts that come in the Lawn Fawn, Love You a Latte set. I grouped them on my stamping block and started stamping, rotating the block to create the background.

The large block at the bottom of the card was fun. I used the dotted line from the Lawn Fawn Deck the Halls set and swirled it on my stamping block in the shape you see here. I then stamped the three berries in the open spaces from the same set. 

For my fun little cluster, I picked a large dark wood flower from my stash and adhered that to the card. I pulled the SMILE sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Into the Woods set and stamped it onto a piece of pattered paper from the Snow Day 6x6 Petite Paper Pack. I used my Versafine in Onyx Black to really make it pop! It's a juicy ink pad. Love it. 

I simply cut around that and used foam adhesive to glue to the card, right in the center of the flower. 

I took the two feathers from the Lawn Fawn, Dream set and stamped them with Versafine, Onyx Black onto some watercolor paper. I diecut them out using the coordinating Lawn Cuts set. 

To color them in, I used my water brush pen with Distress Ink in Scattered Straw, Radiant Neon in Electric Yellow, Electric Blue, and Memento in Nautical Blue and Tangelo. I painted the colors on so they blended nicely. I snuck in a piece of cording on the flower using my Lawn Trimmings Triple Pack Cord and used foam adhesive to stick on the feathers. I found a cool arrow chipboard piece in my stash that I snuck in there as well. It brought a little movement and color to the entire card! 

I hope you enjoyed my project and that you play along with the Lawnscaping Challenge this time. Check out the BLOG for full instructions and to link up your project. Happy crafting!

Lawnscaping Challenge #102: Distress Addicts

Welcome back to another challenge! This time, we have a really cool one, I think. And I have a non-card project I created. What?! That's right. 

Let's get on to the challenge:

DISTRESS! Who else is addicted?! I just love distress anything. For this project, you can use your distress inks, edge distressing, and anything else you can dream up. Have fun with it! Because up for a prize is a gift certificate to Lawn Fawn! They are an amazing sponsor and naturally, I love them so much. Every set is one I love and use over and over. 

This project is something different since I typically create cards for these challenges, but I found this little FAMILY linen/wood piece at Michael's. It was pretty inexpensive ($3). I had set it aside because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it. So when the challenge came up, the lightbulb went on. I grabbed the Into the Woods and Woodgrain Backdrops sets and pulled the smaller heart and arrow images. I used my Staz-On Midi inks in Cloudy Sky, St. Valentine, Spiced Chai and Orange Zest. It's hard to see, but there are some that I stamped with Brilliance Ink in Cosmic Copper as well. 

After I had stamped them on (no particular pattern or anything!), I pulled out my Distress Inks in Scattered Straw, Tea Dye, Festive Berries and Pumice Stone and used a craft sponge to add them over the stamped images. 

I wanted something a little extra, so I grabbed the large heart from the Woodgrain Backdrops set and I used Festive Berries and Pumice Stone and stamped that onto some watercolor paper. I love the mottled look it gave the heart. I left a slight border around it and used some foam adhesive to stick it to the piece. I then tied a piece of the cord from the Lawn Trimmings Vivid Triple Pack Cord around the heart and between the A and M. 

I decided I'm going to prop this up above a frame I have with family photos. 

I hope you have a ton of fun with this challenge, just like I did! Do something out of the box this time. Distress away! Make sure you read all the rules and enter over at the Lawnscaping blog. 

Lawnscaping Challenge #102: Dots & Stripes

Welcome back to another fun challenge from Lawnscaping! This challenge is #102 and is dots and stripes. Who doesn't love dots or stripes, or both?! This was a fun challenge, so I hope you'll play along. And of course there is a prize at stake - a gift certificate to shop at Ellen Hutson!!

Now, onto my project! I created a cute little card that is perfect for a little pick-me-up or just to say hello to a friend or family member. Everyone loves to get some real mail that makes them smile once in a while. Just for no reason :) 

Here are my simple steps for creating this card:

1. Cut, score and fold kraft cardstock for base card (folds to 4.25x5.5).

2. Cut and glue down the blue/white striped patterned paper to card base. (I always cut it about 1/4" shorter on all sides to let the base show). 

3. Diecut shaped label. Use Memento in Summer Sky and apply to the top of diecut label to mimic a sky. For the "grass", I used a piece of green polka dot paper from Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Petite Paper Pack. I freehand cut out a hill shape and glued that down, trimming edges off. 

4. I stamped the jar from Lawn Fawn Bugs and Kisses with Memento in Tuxedo Black. I cut out around the jar. 

5. The lid is also from Bugs and Kisses and I stamped that onto the grey striped paper, also from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Petite Paper Pack  I used some Spectrum Noir Markers to add shading to the lid to give it dimension. 

6. Inside the jar, I stamped the twig in Memento Luxe in Rich Cocoa. I then stamped the worm in Tuxedo Black onto the twig along with the leaf. I then stamped both those images again onto some polka dotted paper from Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Petite Paper Pack. I cut and adhered them over the stamped images with foam adhesive. 

7. I used the speech bubble with the heart in the center from Lawn Fawn, Into the Woods set and stamped it in Memento Luxe in Love Letter onto a pink patterned polka dot paper from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Petite Paper Pack  I fussy cut around that and used foam adhesive to glue down. 

8. I cut a piece of brown/kraft polka dotted paper to glue down behind the label "scene" I created. 

9. For the clouds, I stamped the cloud from Into the Woods set, with Radiant Neon in Electric Blue onto the striped paper from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Petite Paper Pack  I love how they came out! I used foam adhesive to layer them behind the jar. 

10. I stamped the Smile sentiment from Lawn Fawn, Love You a Latte in Memento Luxe in Rich Cocoa on the bottom right of the patterned paper and added a simple bright green enamel dot to the "i" for fun. 

I hope you play along. Please remember to read the rules and enter your project for this challenge over at the Lawnscaping blog!

Have a Very Fawny Holiday Week!

Hi everyone! I am excited to be taking part in A Very Fawny Holiday Week where the Lawnscaping Challenges design team girls are teaming up with the Lawn Fawn design team girls to bring you LOADS of holiday inspiration! Make sure to tune in each day for loads of fun and inspiring holiday projects! AND there are prizes!! 1Check the Lawn Fawn blog for details, other amazing projects, and find out how to win a prize!

For my card today, Deer Joy, I used a lot of different things to create this little scene! I had an idea in my mind that I really wanted a Polaroid type feel to the card, so I took a white card base, scored and folded that.

I glued a piece of the Peace, Love, Joy Lawn Fawn paper from last year's line. I just love it, so I kind of keep it and don't use it. But for this card, I did! :) I then took a strip of corrugated kraft paper and glued a strip to the bottom. I just wanted to give it a little interest down there. I then rounded the bottom corners.

I stamped the Christmas tree from the Trim the Tree set and colored it in with my Spectrum Noir Markers. I then fussy cut that out. For the deer, I used him from the Into the Woods set and colored him as well with the same Spectrum Noir Markers, and fussy cut him out. For the bow, I used that from the Beep Boop Birthday set and you guessed it, fussy cut that out as well. The hat on his head I used another of last year's paper from Lawn Fawn and cut out the hat from the Winter Sparrows set.

The "Polaroid" frame was something I just handout out to fit my little scene. I cut that out and placed my colored deer and tree the way I wanted it and then glued that down to the patterned paper background. 

The joy wording was die cut out of Lawn Fawn patterned paper using the Scripty Joy die. I tucked the black in behind the red to make it stand out. I just didn't use the dot over the J on this particular card.

The pennant in the upper left corner is another small scrap I had leftover that I just hand cut into the shape, stamped the open heart from the Trim the Tree set. I simply stamped that in Memento, Tuxedo Black. I then added a little piece of the corrugated kraft to the top of it.

I hope you enjoyed the card I made for Lawn Fawn's, "Have a Very Fawny Holiday" Week!