Lawnscaping Challenge 135 Sponsored by Ellen Hutson

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!

 

Now on to my project!! I had a lot of fun with this one. I wanted to create a very simple patterned paper with a sentiment stamped below it. I love creating my own backgrounds. I think it's a challenge in itself.  And I'm so happy with how this card came out!

 

We fish in this household and we all enjoy it. Well, I think my husband enjoys going alone more than going with us just because he's always untangling line, putting worms on the hooks, getting fish off the hooks, etc. BUT we do like it. I grew up with a dad who enjoyed fishing and I did as well. I was the only one that would sit with him for hours on end, patiently fishing.  So I wanted to use this part of the Lawn Fawn Dad + Me set. I kept it simple, but really masculine and fun. Love the sentiment. Very punny ;)

 

Another angle. I kept the color palette more neutral and not very bright since lake fishing around here have these colors. I hope you enjoyed seeing how I made my card pattern and that you're inspired to join in on the fun! Swim on over to the Lawnscaping Challenge blog to see the rest of the amazing design team's projects and enter your own project for a chance to win! Remember, just keep swimming. I'm here all day, people. ;)

SUPPLIES USED:

• Lawn Fawn Dad + Me
• Lawn Fawn 6x6 Paper, Let's Polka In the Dark
• Mister Huey's Water Cooler Spray Mist
• Versafine Ink, Onyx Black
• Spectrum Noir Watercolor Cardstock
• Staz-on Midi Pad, Cactus Green
• Spectrum Aqua Markers

Magical Greetings

I have a few people in my life that love things like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and fantasy things like that, so when I first saw the Sheena A Little Bit Magical, Once There Were Dragons set, I knew I had to have it! I could use this for a few people. Plus, who doesn't think dragons are cool?! 

For this card, I colored the dragon in with Spectrum Aqua Markers onto the Spectrum Noir Watercolor Cardstock and cut it out leaving a slight border. I used the sentiment from the set with some Staz-On ink on a craft card base. To give the bottom some color and interest, I embossed some Shimmering Cardstock in Green Envy with a lattice embossing folder. 

I hope you enjoyed this and if you're looking for fantasy images like this and more, visit the Crafter's Companion website to see all the awesome stamps they have to offer with this theme in mind. I'll be grabbing a couple others as well in the near future!

SUPPLIES USED:

• Sheena A Little Bit Magical, Once There Were Dragons
• Shimmering Cardstock, Green Envy
• Embossalicious - Lattice Embossing Folder
• Staz-On Midi Ink Pad, Cactus Green
• Versafine, Onyx Black
• Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Cardstock
• Spectrum Aqua Markers: Sunflower, Crimson, Marigold, Moss, Leaf Green, Evergreen, Slate

Friends Like You

I'm bringing you a pretty little card today using this amazing new Shimmering Cardstock from Crafter's Companion today! I used the Silver Starlight. I wish I could capture the sheen on camera for this stock...it's GORGEOUS. This stock would be perfect for wedding or anniversary cards, and dare I say Christmas. Don't be mad. I had to! You still have a little less than 6 months. Okay, I'll stop :)

I took my Shimmering Cardstock and used the Bold Floral Embossing Folder. I love the look it gives and I chose to just leave it be, not adding any ink to this particular card because of the look I was going for. You can certainly use your inks as watercolors, rub them on with a craft sponge, anything you wish! This is one of my favorite embossing folders I recently purchased. I can just imagine all the different looks it would give with various papers and inks like I mentioned. (Wheels never stop turning for the creative.)

For the lace strip, I inked up my Stamp-It Australia, Ornate Accessories set using the lace image. I chose to use my Staz-On Midi Ink Pad in Ganache because I was stamping onto the Shimmering Cardstock and I didn't want it smudged and I wanted it to dry quickly. Perfect.

I then fussy cut around the bottom of the lace. I chose a simple patterned paper strip for underneath the lace strip that coordinated and to add a pop of color.

The sentiment is also stamped on the Shimmering Cardstock with the Ganache ink as well. I chose the "Friends like you are far too few..." from the Sentimentals, Imagine set.

I glued that all down to my white card stock base, and I simply added a strip of little self-adhesive pearls on the left side for some interest.

I did find a similar card I had liked on my Pinterest board (follow me!) and I used that for my inspiration. I suggest pinning cards or projects you see for that - inspiration. I love Pinterest!