Hello, folks!
Here to share a couple of Lawn Fawn cards!
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This shaped card [I love shaped cards!] features the cute typewriter from Lawn Fawn's Just My Type stamp set. When I made the typewriter on this card, I made another just like it, and that's the typewriter you see here! I can't exactly remember why I made two -- it was a while back. I guess I'm just weird. Ha! I'm diggin' the scalloped and rickrack borders on this card -- I think they're fun! :o)
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This card features a sentiment from the Hello Friend stamp set. Isn't that Sassafras vintage brooch embellishment awesome? I used to collect vintage flower brooches -- I just think they're so happy!
I made both of these cards a while back and tried submitting them to Paper Crafts. I didn't have any luck with these particular cards, but that's okay. Win some, lose some, right? :o)
Speaking of Paper Crafts, my Christmas Deer Mini Card Trio appeared on the Paper Crafts Connection blog today! Woo-Hooooo! Happy dance! The card trio is an online bonus project shown here on the Paper Crafts website, but the post on the Paper Crafts blog today shows a larger photo! :o) I used super-cute Memory Box stamps to make the card trio. Memory Box has one of the best angel policies I've come across -- it's simply, "You may sell your handstamped (no mechanical reproduction) cards for profit." So simple and to the point -- love that!
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Hello there!
Here to share a mini card that I made a while back...
It's a super-simple mini card, but I like it. :o) Isn't that chipboard bird cute? The 'hello friend' speech bubble is from Lawn Fawn's Hello Friend stamp set. I coloured in the word 'hello' with a pink marker -- thought it was a nice tie-in with the pink accents on the chipboard bird! I think a mini card like this would make for a nice lunchbox note for a kid. :o) The line or 'wire' that the bird is standing on is from PTI's Banner Builder stamp set, but you could easily create a similar look with a black marker or the line and bow stamps from Lawn Fawn's Lunar Lights stamp set, if that's in your stamp collection!
I'll be back tomorrow to share a couple more Lawn Fawn projects!
Hope you got a smile here today! :o)
Hello there, fellow crafter. :o)
This week will be somewhat of a 'catch-up' week on the ol' blog. If you're a Paper Crafts reader, you have probably already seen this:
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This is the July/August 2011 issue [Image courtesy of Paper Crafts magazine!], and the 'Picture Perfect Friend' card there has been brought to you by yours truly. :o) I ain't lyin' when I say that I'm already REALLY overjoyed if they just pick a card for print -- that, to me, is icing on the cake. So this is really like icing on the already iced cake! :o)
I haven't seen the issue in-person yet -- it's stuck in the mail somewhere because of the postal drama here. I can't wait to see it, though -- I love the candy colours of the cover!
When the issue arrives, I'll share my favourite card that I contributed to this issue -- it's a card that I made for Humble Bumble! :o)
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Hello there!
I haven't been online as often lately [and when I am, it's usually just for a short time here and there], so I'm behind on my web surfing. When I got caught up on a few blogs, I was super-happy [crazy smile kind of happy] and surprised to see some of my cards out there! I thought I would share the links to 'em here...
Earlier this month, my Sew Happy card made an appearance here on the Moxie Fab World blog, and several days ago, my Girls' Night card appeared here! Woo-Hoo! Thank you, Cath!
On Friday, my Foxy Father's Day card made an appearance here on the Paper Crafts Connection blog! Thank you, Kelly!
Yesterday, the mini cards I made that I posted here were shown here on the Simon Says Stamp blog! Thank you, Steph!
Speaking of the Simon Says Stamp blog, they're giving away a Lawn Fawn catalog on that post!
Hmm...that's a lot of exclamation marks, eh? And that's me trying to tone it down! :o) Ah ha ha!
If you haven't already, check out the current call for submissions for the January/February 2012 issue of Paper Crafts -- they post their submission calls here! Fun categories, as always!
Happy crafting! :o)
Hello there!
Today I'm happy to share the news that I'll be joining the new Jane's Doodles design team as a guest for their first release! HUGE thanks to Jane and Judith for the fun opportunity to be a guest! Today we've got an awesome blog hop going on to showcase the three new releases -- Garden Friends, Noah's Ark and Little Miss Mia!
Before I share my cards, I'd like to say, please pretend that the colours in my card photos are not out of whack -- I have no idea what my camera was up to, but I took the pictures in the same time frame and still wound up with very different results! Ha! Well, without further ado, here are the projects I made with some of these new stamps from Jane's Doodles...
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This card features a snail and sentiment from Garden Friends. I coloured the little guy with Copic markers and hand-stitched his shell and the path he's on. I re-stamped his face, coloured it in, cut it out and attached it with dimensional adhesive. The little gift boxes are stickers from Martha, and the border punch I used is from EK Success.
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This card is my favourite of the three I'm sharing today! It features stamps from Noah's Ark. Again, I did the colouring with Copic markers and attached the faces of the animals with dimensional adhesive. The patterned papers I used here are from Echo Park, and the banner sticker is from Sassafras. I backed the banner sticker with paper so that I could bend up the ends a bit and not have the banner stuck down entirely.
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For this card, I chose to highlight a sentiment from Little Miss Mia, available through Claudia & Co. I love this particular sentiment -- I say this to Humble all the time! :o) The patterned papers I used here are from October Afternoon, and I die-cut the striped piece with a scalloped square Nestabilities die from Spellbinders. The heart was die-cut with a PTI die, and all of the layers were attached with dimensional adhesive.
You'll see that all three cards have 'a common thread'...it wasn't my plan at first to use black embroidery floss on all of 'em, but that's just the way it went!
Anyhoo, I hope you're enjoying the blog hop so far! Here's the complete list of crafters on the hop...
Jane
Alice
Kelly
Mariana
Joy
Carly
Aga
Emily
Chan [you are here!]
Cristina
Jennifer
Judith
Jane’s Doodles blog -- all three stamp sets will be given away to one winner on the Jane's Doodles blog!
ETA on June 21st: My apologies, folks! When I scheduled this blog hop post for yesterday, I set it to publish the way I usually do [with comments not open]. Thanks to those who wrote to me about it -- I appreciate that! I have now edited the post to include the comment option [although comment moderation is on, so any comments left will not be displayed right away]. Jane is going to pick the winner randomly from one of the blogs on the hop this Friday, June 24th. Best of luck!
Thanks for stopping by today, and have a crafty week! :o)
Hello there!
Today is the last day of projects for June's Lawn Fawn inspiration week! Today is Blissful Botanicals day! Here's the card I made...
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Lately I've been doing a lot of hand-stitching -- I really love the homespun charm that it adds to projects! It's been great, too, to see my crazy embroidery floss collection get a little smaller and a little smaller...Ha!
I didn't really have much of a plan when I made this card -- I just started with the border along the bottom, then the sentiment [from Happily Ever After], then the corner...the card seemed to need a little something else, so I added the butterflies and pearls. I'm still not 100% sure on the layout of the card, but it took quite a while to stitch and I was low on sleep, so I couldn't start over. Ha!
Tip! If you'd like to try something like this, what I did was stamp the images in a light-coloured ink, then I pierced holes along the stamped lines for stitching through. Just be sure not to pierce the holes too close together.
For more super-fun projects using the Blissful Botanicals stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Lawn Fawn girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
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Hope you're enjoying Lawn Fawn inspiration week so far! Today is Schoolhouse Backdrops day! Here's the card I made...
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I like the idea of using stamps to look like doodles on a page -- I posted a card with that general idea when I first started the ol' blog, actually! For today's card, I used two of the Schoolhouse Backdrops stamps to create my miniature notebook page. There's a single line stamp in the set so you can easily add a red [or whichever colour you like] line, just like on real notebook paper! The doodles and message on the notebook page have been brought to you by Sophie's Sentiments, Bake Me A Cake [just the star], and Hello Friend! I love the hand drawn and handwritten styles of these stamps -- they really make the notebook page look more authentic, I think!
For more super-fun projects using the Schoolhouse Backdrops stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Lawn Fawn girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Thanks for stopping by today!! :o)
Hello there!
For the next few days, the Lawn Fawn DT will be bringing you projects for three of the new stamp sets released last month! Today is On the Mend day! Here's a simple project I made using a couple of stamps from this cute stamp set...
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It's a little wrap for a certain brand of hot liquid medicine. Ha! Isn't the turtle adorable? Originally, he started out with a blue heating pad, but I thought a cheerier colour would be better. I stamped a new one, coloured it pink, cut it out and attached it with a bit of dimension. This pink twine was a good match, so I decided to add some! The border punch I used is an EK Success one called "Bumpy Road" -- it reminds me more of clouds, though! A cute punch!
For more super-fun projects using the On the Mend stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Lawn Fawn girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Thanks for stopping by today!
Hello there!
This week, the Lawn Fawn DT has been sharing some projects made with Lawn Fawn stamps and adhesives we received from Helmar! Here's the card I made with the super-fun Bake Me A Cake stamp set:
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I'm a major fan [I should say Major Fan] of dimensional adhesive -- I use it on almost every project I make! For this card, I used Helmar's foam square Zapdots to attach the patterned paper block and the cake, which I stamped and coloured very simply with Copic markers. I stamped and coloured the little flower details, cut them out and attached them with Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dots, also a dimensional adhesive.
Before I go, I want to say a big thanks to Lindsay for showing my mini cards on her awesome blog Craft Buds! Thank you, Lindsay! :o)
Hope you have a crafty weekend!
