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Lawnscaping Challenge #68 - Pinterest Inspired

 

I really didn't think I was going to find the time to enter this week's Lawnscaping challenge to make a Pnterest inspired project, but at 10:00 tonight I said, "what the heck" and typed "fall leaves" into the search box on Pinterest. Up popped this adorable photo of a black cat playing in some leaves. Since I had spent a lot of time stamping and fussy cutting some Lawn Fawn leaves and Halloween critters a couple of weeks ago, I already had the purrfect supplies on my desk and ready to go. So, here I am and here is my inspiration photo and card!

 

 

 

SUPPLIES:

Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Harvest Season	Lawn Fawn CRITTERS IN COSTUME Clear Stamps	Authentique 6 x 6 THRILLING Paper Pad	Bright Side Petite Paper Pack (Lawn Fawn)
Lawn Fawn DEWEY DECIMAL Petite 6 x 6 Paper Pack	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4" Adhesive Glue Gun	3M Scotch ACID FREE 1/4" x 36 Yard REFILL Advance Tape Glider Rolls	Recollections® 12" x 12" Value Pack Cardstock Paper - Essentials
Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two Applicators	Lawn Fawn HANDMADE WITH LOVE Clear Stamp	Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool	Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK
Martha Stewart Precision Scissors

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A Memory Box For a Special Furry Friend

Hello, friends!

Today I have a wonderful project to share with you, although the circumstances in which the project came about are heartbreaking. My good friend, Morgann, and I bonded instantly this past summer partially over the fact that both of out cats were named Samson! Our friendship is really a purrfect match! Sadly, a few weeks ago, Morgann's Samson became very ill, seemingly very suddenly, with what was either liver disease or cancer. It happened so fast and, unfortunately, she needed to make the tough decision to say goodbye to her beloved furry friend just one week after she learned he was sick, that's how quickly his condition deteriorated. Anyone who has shared this type of special bond knows how difficult it is to say goodbye - especially so unexpectedly. I made this special memory box for Morgann so she'll remember that her Samson will always be watching over her from kitty heaven.

 

A Cute Chalkboard Halloween Card

Good morning, friends! This morning I'd like to share a cute Halloween card that I put together last night. What's great about this card is that I took something that started out as a mistake and created something wonderful with it!

If you've been following my last few posts, you know that I've been digging through my leftovers/scraps from last year's cards to see what I can create with them. Well, I found a black cardstock base that I had attempted to white emboss and failed miserably. I'm not sure what went wrong, since I emboss all the time, it might have been that I had put the sticky embossing powder on and then forgot to add a glitter or whatever I had had planned before heat setting. Anyhow, I held onto it even though I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it.

Enter this year's chalkboard trend! Up until now, I've enjoyed this trend from afar, but when I dug this emboss-fail piece out, the chalkboard look immediately popped into my mind - it was like that little light bulb turned on and I said "Aha!" I thought my mistake resembled the chalkboard look, so I just took out my white ink pad and a dry baby wipe and smudged a little ink on it to get that messy, erased look, and voila - I had the perfect base for my critters!

Last week I spent a couple of days stamping, embossing and fussy cutting some Lawn Fawn critters onto some fun Halloween-themed Authentique paper. (I've got a ton to make cards with, so you'll be seeing lots of these!) Don't they look absolutely adorable on my card?

 

 

SUPPLIES:

Lawn Fawn HEEBIE JEEBIES Clear Stamps Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Happy Haunting Ranger Stickles ORANGE PEEL Glitter Glue Lawn Fawn CRITTERS IN COSTUME Clear Stamps Lawn Fawn CRITTERS IN THE FOREST Clear Stamps Authentique 6 x 6 THRILLING Paper Pad 3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4" Adhesive Glue Gun 3M Scotch ACID FREE 1/4" x 36 Yard REFILL Advance Tape Glider Rolls Recollections® 12" x 12" Value Pack Cardstock Paper - Essentials Martha Stewart HEATING TOOL Ranger STICKY Embossing Powder Versamark WATERMARK Rubber Stamp Emboss Chalk Resist INK PAD Lawn Fawn TRICK OR TREAT Clear Stamps Lawn Fawn HOPPY HALLOWEEN Clear Stamps Lawn Fawn HANDMADE WITH LOVE Clear Stamp Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two Applicators Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK Clearsnap Colorbox FROST WHITE INK PAD Pigment Stamp Martha Stewart Precision Scissors

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Lawnscaping Challenge #67 - Pattern Paper Craze! Thanks :)

Well, I'm back AGAIN to share ANOTHER entry for the Lawnscaping Patterned Paper Craze Challenge!

 

 

Why not, huh? I sat back down at my craft desk after dinner and whipped out a super fast card using even more of those pumpkin scraps leftover from last year. Even the sentiment was already stamped and cut, all I did was turn it into a banner. This is the first card I've ever made this quickly - it definitely would've qualified for that 10-minute craft dash challenge I've been too chicken to participate in!

This card is just clean and simple, but still super cute with the patterned paper! Here it is:

 

SUPPLIES:

Bright Side Petite Paper Pack (Lawn Fawn) Lawn Fawn MANY THANKS Clear Stamps Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Harvest Season Copic Sketch Marker E37 SEPIA Brown Zots 3D YELLOW BOX Clear Adhesive 200 Dots 3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4" Adhesive Glue Gun 3M Scotch ACID FREE 1/4" x 36 Yard REFILL Advance Tape Glider Rolls Recollections® 12" x 12" Value Pack Cardstock Paper - Essentials Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two Applicators Lawn Fawn HANDMADE WITH LOVE Clear Stamp Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK Martha Stewart Precision Scissors

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Lawnscaping Challenge #67 - Pattern Paper Craze! Happy Turkey Day!

Hello again! I'm back again to share with you all my second entry to the current Lawnscaping Challenge, Pattern Paper Craze!

 

 

As with the last card, I dug through my Lawn Fawn scraps and found a ton of pumpkins, a couple of stamped but uncolored turkeys, and a speech bubble that already had Happy Turkey Day! stamped inside it, so I decided to put together a Thanksgiving-themed card. 

After playing around a bit, I decided not to use the green grass; Instead I went through my bag of larger scraps and found the brown and blue polka dotted paper which I liked much better - especially since I'd already inked up the sky. The brown ground felt much more fall than the green, so I'll just use that on another card instead. (In case you're wondering why I had so many pumpkins already stamped and cut, check out this post from last year's Lawnscaping Fall Blog Hop!)

I'm in love with the Wink of Stella glitter brush pens but always forget to use them on my cards! Out of habit I'm always grabbing my Copics. So I decided the turkey would look super cute all sparkly. Other than that, I didn't have to do very much. I found a couple of cute little birds all ready to go in my stash and used a circle punch to create the sun. I popped up the turkey and the two small pumpkins for some dimension and voila! A cute Thanksgiving card using mostly elements I'd stamped and cut a year ago. Here's the finished card:

 

 

SUPPLIES:

 

Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, So Thankful Copic Sketch Marker E37 SEPIA Brown Lawn Fawn DEWEY DECIMAL Petite 6 x 6 Paper Pack 3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4" Adhesive Glue Gun 3M Scotch ACID FREE 1/4" x 36 Yard REFILL Advance Tape Glider Rolls Recollections® 12" x 12" Value Pack Cardstock Paper - Essentials Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad TUMBLED GLASS ANM 264 MINI POP DOTS Glue Adhesive Puffy Sticky Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two Applicators Lawn Fawn HANDMADE WITH LOVE Clear Stamp Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK Martha Stewart Precision Scissors Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING FOAM REFILLS Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL Applicator Foam Bright Side Petite Paper Pack (Lawn Fawn) Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Turkey Day ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER YELLOW Brush Tip Marker ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER RED Brush Tip Marker ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER ORANGE Brush Tip Marker ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER BROWN Brush Tip Marker Martha Stewart 1" CIRCLE PUNCH Paper Craft critters in the 'burbs

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Lawnscaping Challenge #67 - Pattern Paper Craze! Happy Halloween!

Good afternoon, friends! I'm back to show you all my first entry into the latest Lawnscaping Challenge to use patterned paper on your project. I absolutely LOVE patterned paper and use it all the time on my cards, so this challenge was right up my alley.

 

 

I actually decided to give myself a challenge within a challenge. I have this tiny little box where I put all of my extra Lawn Fawn images that I've already stamped and fussy cut that I have left over from other projects. Here's my box:

I always forget to dig through here, but I really have a lot of images already ready to go, and most of them are on patterned paper! So, I decided to see what I already had and decided that I'd make a card for this challenge using only images that I had left over from previous cards. As it turned out, I had more than enough images for a Halloween-themed card - check out the pile of stuff I found in there!

I also decided, while I was at it, that I would use only scraps that were already on my desk, so I found the black cardstock and the spider web paper and cut them to size. The only thing I used that was not a scrap was the flourescent yellow base, because it really did need that something extra. Here is the resulting card:

 

I might not have made the card this way had I been creating from scratch, but for using a bunch of scraps, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out - plus, the process went much, much faster for sure! I'm pretty sure the haunted house was colored with some Martha Stewart markers one day when my then-5-yr-old niece was over and we colored together. They definitely were not colored with my Copics! Oh, and I did sneak in a little bat that's actually from a Paper Smooches set!

I hope you enjoyed the process of how I created this card! I'll be back in a little bit to share a Thanksgiving card I'm about to make using the same process. Have a wonderful Wednesday afternoon!

 

Supplies:

3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4" Adhesive Glue Gun 3M Scotch ACID FREE 1/4" x 36 Yard REFILL Advance Tape Glider Rolls Martha Stewart Crafts - Halloween Collection - Mat Paper Pad - Haunted Paper Smooches SPOOKALICIOUS Clear Stamps Kim Hughes Martha Stewart HEATING TOOL Versamark WATERMARK Rubber Stamp Emboss Chalk Resist INK PAD Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two Applicators Lawn Fawn HANDMADE WITH LOVE Clear Stamp Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK Martha Stewart Precision Scissors Martha Stewart Crafts Arts and Crafts Marker Set, 36 Pieces Stampendous DETAIL WHITE Fine Opaque Embossing Powder Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, So Thankful Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Happy Haunting Lawn Fawn HEEBIE JEEBIES Clear Stamps

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Paper Smooches SPARKS Trend Watch Challenge - Lace

Hi everyone! I'm back to share with you my entry for the latest Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge, and this week the challenge was to use lace on our project.

 

 

Well, I didn't have any physical lace to use on my project, so I didn't actually use lace. Instead, I used the inspiration of a lacey look for my card, and to me, the first thing that came to mind was spider webs! I knew I wanted a Halloween theme to my card and the warm glow of the candle in this photo reminded me of jack-o-lanterns! So, there you have it! I absolutely LOVE the end result of my card and I think the inspiration from the photo is absolutely apparent. I'm gonna link this up to the challenge real quick (since I'm under a tight deadline here!) and then I'll be back to add more details of how I created this card.

 

 

Ok, I'm back! So, once I figured out that I wanted to use spider webs as my lace I went in search of paper. Well, I found some awesome paper in my stash from a Martha Stewart photo mat Halloween pad that I found last year at Michaels that had the spider web print on a vellum-type paper that you could see through! This was brilliant, because I knew immediately I'd layer it over some orange card stock, and while the effect is subtle, you can definitely see an orange glow behind it (a little better in person that the photo.)

Next I looked through all my Paper Smooches Halloween stamps and realized I'd never played with the jack-o-lantern stamps from the Spookalicious set! I thought featuring these stamps would be a great way to keep to the orange and black theme of the card. I really wanted to keep the card to those two colors. All the stamping I did with black embossing paper so the images would really stand out against the spider web paper. 

I wanted to also bring in the scallops from the top edge of the lace in the inspiration photo and decided to use the scallop border stamp from the Fascinators set along the inside edge of the card. I've never tried this before but I love how it turned out, and I think it's the perfect way to create some interest when the mat layers are all the same shape. I embossed the scalloped edge as well.

Then, I added the Happy Halloween sentiment on a banner, also from the Fascinator set, and used dimensional adhesive to pop up the jack-o-lanterns from the card.

As a small final touch, I took the cute little spider, and embossed him to the upper left corner of the card. All done!

I only wish that I had some adhesive that isn't visible through the vellum. Any suggestions??

 

 

Supplies:

Paper Smooches SPOOKALICIOUS Clear Stamps Kim Hughes Paper Smooches HALLOWEENIES Clear Stamps Kim Hughes 3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4" Adhesive Glue Gun 3M Scotch ACID FREE 1/4" x 36 Yard REFILL Advance Tape Glider Rolls Recollections® 12" x 12" Value Pack Cardstock Paper - Essentials Martha Stewart Crafts - Halloween Collection - Mat Paper Pad - Haunted Stampendous detail black embossing powder Versamark WATERMARK Rubber Stamp Emboss Chalk Resist INK PAD Martha Stewart HEATING TOOL Zots 3D YELLOW BOX Clear Adhesive 200 Dots ANM 264 MINI POP DOTS Glue Adhesive Puffy Sticky Lawn Fawn HANDMADE WITH LOVE Clear Stamp Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool Martha Stewart Precision Scissors

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