Lisa Crafts Too

Hope You Feel Better Card :)

My fiance, Bryce, has been ill these past few days. He is finally starting to feel better and I'm pretty sure that's because I made him this really cute "feel better" card from me and the cats. I am having so much fun playing with Lawn Fawn stamps! Anyways, I just had to share this card that I made for him last night:

Again, the cats are Samson and Dalilah - Lilah's the best at catching bugs, that's why she's the one with the bug in her mouth. Lol. Bryce absolutely loves his card :) He thinks it's really cute.

So... here are the products I used to create it:

Lawn Fawn: Bright Side 6x6 Paper pack

Lawn Fawn Stamps: On the Mend, Critters in the Burbs

Hero Arts: Vertical Cloud stamp

Jenni Bowlin: Speckled Egg Ink Pad

Colorbox Pigment Ink: Espresso

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Peeled Paint

Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder: Peeled Paint

Copic Sketch marker: C4 (Cool Gray No.4)

Faber-Castell Pitt artist pens: Leaf Green 112, Light Green 171

Martha Stewart: 1-inch circle punch

 

Hope you love the card - bye!

Lawnscaping Challenge #32: Stamp a Scene (Submission No. 2 - I Pine For You)

Oh my gosh, I am running along a deadline here, but I just had to make another card for this challenge this evening after work. (Wow - my first challenge ever and I ended up making two entries!) I happen to think this is the best card ever, but I'm biased. I can't believe I made a masculine card - and, considering how few cards I've made in my life, I really can't believe this came out as awesome as it did. I totally love it! I'm going to give it to my fiance this weekend :)

Okay, so, as before - the link to the Lawnscaping challenge:

and the link to Kelly Marie's inspiration photo:

and now I present to you, my entry, I Pine For You:

Isn't it super cute? I will be back to edit this post and tell you the details in just a minute - I want to make sure I get it submitted on time. Here I go!

Okay, so I'm back - I officially submitted my second entry! Yay!

Okay, so... it's hard to tell in the photo, but some of the trees are adhered directly to the page, but a couple of them I put the 3D dots underneath to give them more dimension and make it look more like you're right in the forest. The front hedgehog also has a 3D dot underneath :)

Actually, here's another pic to give you a feel for the dimension:

Okay, so all the papers and stamps are from Lawn Fawn, which has quickly become my most favorite stamping company ever. Finally there are whimsical stamps out there that are totally my style, which is cutesy, just like Kelly's (the owner of the company.) I just want to give her a big hug for creating such adorable products! The papers are from the Bright Side 6x6 paper pack and the stamps are all from the Critters in the Forest collection. The brown paper is just plain kraft cardstock, which I used for the tree stumps and the hedgehogs and the bottoms of the mushrooms.

So, the mushroom background that I stamped is admittedly a little messy, but I was working fast trying to get the card finished. It's still cute. I did all the stamping with Colorbox Pigment Ink in Espresso.

I also did a very tiny bit of coloring with Copic Markers (C1: Cool Gray No.1; R24: Prawn; BV29: Slate)

I think I got everything... I really hope you love the card as much as I do!

Happy Birthday, Mom! ...and card :)

Here is a quick post to wish my mom a very Happy Birthday! Mom turns 62 today! Mom, I love you so much and hope you have a wonderful day :)

Here's some pictures of the birthday card that I made for her this year, which she has already received in the mail:

 and the inside: 

I love owls :) and I love my mom :)

 

Ok, so the products I used are:

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass

Martha Stewart Alphabet Set (larger letters)

Hero Arts Alphabet Set (smaller letters): JS 161 cleardesign - designer alphabet from 2008

Lawn Fawn Bright Side 6x6 Paper pack

Hero Arts Sentiment wood-mounted stamp: F2540 Special Birthday

Birthday Owl: cling-mounted rubber stamp by Hampton Art studio g called Party Owl (IC0066)

Balloons stamp

Colorbox Pigment Ink: Espresso

 

Okay, so, the deal with the balloons stamp...there are three balloons that I stamped over and over. There is no marking on the wood block who manufactured the stamp. I am sure I bought it from Michaels years ago.

Same thing with the Martha Stewart alphabet - not sure why I don't have the packaging anymore, but I have no idea whether this set of Alphabet stamps is still being made. I bought it years ago from Michaels. An internet search got me nowhere, sorry!

Anyway, I hope you like the card! Happy Birthday, Mom!

 

Lawnscaping Challenge #32: Stamp a Scene

I can't believe it, but I am entering my FIRST EVER crafty challenge. I spent the past few days making a couple of birthday cards for my mom, who will be 62 on Wednesday, and had so much fun playing with Kelly Marie Alvarez's Lawn Fawn stamps and papers! The first card I will wait to post here until Mom's birthday on Wednesday, but the second one, made for mom by the cats (with a little help from me) was perfect (or should I say purrfect) for this Stamp a Scene challenge. I'd like to wait to post it until it arrives for my mom to see in the mail, but the deadline for entering the challenge is Wednesday, so I need to just go ahead and post it. So mom, here is a sneak peek of the card that "Samson and Dalilah" made for your birthday :) They even signed it with their paws, how cute is that?

So first, I need to post the link to the challenge:

and also Kelly Marie's inspiration photo:

So, here is my entry for the challenge:

The kitties are Dalilah on the left and Samson on the right. The stamps used are all from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the 'Burbs stamp set and the papers from Lawn Fawn's Bright Side 6x6 paperpack. For the sky, I used Tim Holz Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass and for the grass I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Peeled Paint. Since I didn't have a cloud stamp, I got all creative and used the top of the tree you see here :) I was pretty proud of myself for that. I used Martha Stewart's 1-inch circle punch for the sun, but only punched part of it. This card features a lot of paper piecing, which is when you stamp onto patterned paper and then cut out the image to adhere to your card. It's a great method of using your stamps in fun ways! The brown ink throughout the card is Colorbox Espresso pigment ink.

This was my first card using Lawn Fawn stamps and I am absolutely in LOVE - I want all of them now. Of course, that will happen a little here, a little there, but let's just say that I know what's going on my birthday wish list and Christmas wish list until I've got them all, however many years that might take.

Oh yeah - and here is the inside of the card, complete with Sammy and Lilah's pawprints (heehee):

I hope "Grandma" likes her birthday card! The kitties put a lot of thought into it!

Be sure to check out the other entries at the Lawnscaping Blog - lots of great inspiration there!

My First Mini Album - Gus

Over the summer I created my very first scrapbook album, which also happens to be my very first mini album. The subject was my friend's beautiful new baby boy, Gus. I refrained from posting the pictures for a while because my friend, Alex, and her husband, Tamas, both live in Ireland and I wanted them to see the album in person before I posted it online. Well, now it's been months since I gave the album to Alex and Tamas, and I've only just posted them to my Lisa Crafts Too Facebook page (go like me there if you don't already - I'm slowly getting things organized over there!) So, I figured I should go ahead and do a blog post about it!

I started with a small chipboard album by Maya Road. It has a plain canvas cover and comes with two canvas pockets, which are absolutely adorable! I used some Adirondack Color Wash in Sunset Orange and Tim Holtz alphabet masks to spell out 'GUS' for the cover and 'love' and 'dream' on the pockets. The misting was super fun!

For the pages, I covered the chipboard with papers from a really cute paper pad I found by K&C Company called Itsy Bitsy. I chose this one for both the colors and because the paper featured hippos, one of Alex's favorite animals! I pretty much matched the papers to the different outfits Gus was wearing. I cut Gus out of the pictures, which I had first shrunk down a bit, and then used YES! paste to attach him onto the papers.

I used some rubons for the phrases that you see throughout, although I can't for the life of me remember where they are from - sorry!

I also used THE MOST ADORABLE little canvas Alphabet Stickers by Prima. LOVE THESE and they come in so many beautiful color combinations! Although I chose to leave them plain here, you could totally mist these, too.

So, now that I've told you how I created this album -which I happen to be very proud of, especially considering it was my first one! - sit back and enjoy the photos - Gus is a total cutie! And, Alex totally loved this album, BTW!