Lawnscaping Challenge #30 - Enjoy Your Day

It's been some time since I participated in Lawnscaping challenges. I bought some Lawn Fawn goodies recently and there's no better time to join in the current challenge.

My card was mainly inspired by 2 crafters. Chari was one of them with her mirror image of the flamingoes and this other card with the Gnome Sweet Gnome set. Vicky also inspired me through her How-to video last Sunday and I just loved the Spring scene she created.

Here is my card:

My sister bought some liquid appliqués for me from Korea. I wanted her to get me the Korean pens but she couldn't find it and bought me an equivalent. She wanted to see the effects so I used it on the gnomes. I thought they were just so cute and their hats and beards were perfect to use appliqué on. Think I'll need to add more of the appliqué to get more poofs with the Korean ones.  I used white appliqué by Marvy for their beards. I also added glaze on their belts.

I'm also submitting this card to the Outlawz CAS March 25th Challenge. The challenge this week is to create a CAS card that uses something warm & fuzzy (Think felt, pompom trim, yarn...)

Supplies Used:

Pattern Paper - Bright Side by Lawn Fawn

Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black, London Fog, Ranger Distress Inks Tumbled Glass, Broken China
Stamps - Lawn Fawn Gnome Sweet Gnome, Bannerific, Bon Voyage, Harold's ABCs
Others - Copics, Liquid Applique White by Marvy, Korean Pens, Sakura Glaze Pens, Pop Dots

C&S Week 2 Card 11 - Woo-Hoo!

Today's class was interesting with Jennifer McGuire touching on more techniques and a cute card by Lisa Spangler. 

Jennifer McGuire gave tips on doing mirror image stamping and I've seen others sharing how they do it but haven't given it a try so I thought why not. The mirror image stamping is a lot easier than I thought too. Will definitely be trying that again. The trick is using the 'right' stamp for the mirroring.

Here is my take on mirror image stamping and taking inspiration from Lisa's card:

Actually made some mistakes with this card but luckily the mistakes were easy to cover up. 

There were a couple of leaves with my log but they got stuck in my cuttlebug and was pulled out when I decided to do some dry embossing to add some texture. That's for not thinking ahead.  Ha...

Masked the inside and colored with Distress Inks Tumbled Glass and Peeled Paint. I really liked how the card turned out despite the minor mistakes during creation.

This card will be added to my stack of cards for the card drive.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Soft Stone, Stamper's Select White
Inks - Momento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Inks Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint, Iced Spruce

Stamps - LF Critters In The Forest, HA Leaf & Floral Background

Others - Spellbinders Circle Die, Pop Dots, PTI Woodgrain Impression Plate, Copics, Copics Multiliner 0.3, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper

Card 38 - Sending Smiles

 

I've been in a crafting mood and here is another card I did.

Valentine's Day is not necessarily just for couples. It can be for friends or anyone you love so I thought this Lawn Fawn sets were just asking me to ink them up. I've had these stamp sets for a while but sad to say I've not used them much except for the clouds.

All images were paper pieced. Colored the nose of the airplane with Copics, added glossy accents and to the to the windows as well. Layered the clouds at different heights and added Rock Candy Stickles to give it some texture.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White

Pattern Paper - Lime Twist Fly A Kite by My Mind's EyeInks - Momento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink Tumbled Glass

Stamps - Lawn Fawn Bon Voyage, Bannerific, Hello Friend

Others - Copics, Rock Candy Stickles, Glossy Accent, Copics, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper, 1/8" Pop Dots, 1/16" Pop Dots, Charcoal Twine by The Twinery

HCBC Week 2 Card 7 - Merry Christmas

Time flies... It's the start of another week of Boot Camp and it'll end in no time. I'll definitely look forward to the next one.


On a happy note, I was actually featured in the Students' Spotlight. I didn't even think they had this segment. I'm just so surprised. There are so many lovely cards out there.

Ok, back to the topic. Today's inspiration came from the sketch above. We were given 3 sketch choices and I decided on this circle since I've not done a circle card before. I used my Silhouette to cut the circle shapes.

Here's my card:

Anyone experienced doing something differently from what your brain tells you? Well, I wanted to add some twinkles and snowflakes to finish my card in subtle tones and I was thinking through the ink colors when the next thing I realized, I had stamped my image. Although it was in gray, it wasn't the subtle effect I wanted. Anyhow, I shall keep my hands to my side the next time I'm in my thinking process to avoid history repeating itself.

I added glossy accents to the ornaments which are paper pieced and a couple spritz of Tsukineko Sheer Sparkle. And the next thing on my to buy list is Spellbinder's Circle Dies. Ha...

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Vintage Cream
Pattern Papers - 12 Days of Christmas by My Mind's Eye

Inks - Distress Inks Antique Linen, JBS Speckled Egg, Stick Candy, Seed Packet, Momento London Fog

Stamps - Lawn Fawn Ornate Ornaments, Hero Arts Very Merry Christmas (Inside Sentiment)

Others - Silhouette, Ranger Silver Embossing Powder, Tsukineko Sheer Sparkle, Glossy Accents, Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue

HCBC Week 1 Card 4 - Friends Warm The Heart

Day 3's inspiration is doing window cards. I do like the idea of window cards and I will most likely do a couple more cards this style.

2 awesome videos by Jennifer McGuire and Shari Carrol. My favorite was Jennifer's on faux letterpress technique. I've seen this technique before but I've not gotten to try it. I've bought the Hero Arts Shadow ink pad just to try this technique out. Besides being inspired by the video tutorials, I was also inspired by Vicky from Lily Pads. She is doing a "Spotlight on Lawn Fawn" this week.

Here is my card:

Here's a close up:

I didn't have a matching stamp set to go with the embossing so I just inked my embossing folder with Soft Pool ink and dry embossed. The 2 snowmen are layered in between the front panel and card front. The inside is stamped with Tiny Flakes background stamp in versamark and lightly brushed with perfect pearls to give it some shine.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White

Pattern Papers: 12 Days of Christmas by My Mind's Eye

Inks - JBS Spiced Tin, Speckled Egg, Lemon Drops, Archival Jet Black, Versamark, Hero Arts Shadow Ink Soft Pool

Stamps - Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends, Ornate Ornaments (Inside Sentiment), Hero Arts Tiny Flakes

Others - Sizzix Peppermint Twist Embossing Folder, 1/2" 3D Dots, Glossy Accents, Ranger Black Enamel, Hero Arts Mixed Accents, Crystal Stickles, Diamond Stickles, Spellbinders Label 8 Die, Ranger Perfect Pearls, Dover Blender Pen

Card 21 - Have A Merry Christmas

After seeing so many inspirations on Christmas cards, I was definitely inspired to do some myself. Got myself a few Lawn Fawn stamps when 2Peas was having 25% sale on stamps.

Just love working with Lawn Fawn stamps. They are so fun to use and mix around. I will be entering this card to the Lawnscaping Challenge #19: Layers & Dimensions. It will be my first time joining the challenge and since I have more Lawn Fawn stamps on hand now, I should be able to participate more often.

I colored all the images using my Faber-Castell Aquarelles. The sentiment 'card' was inspired by a "To Santa" stamp in the set. I drew my own card on pattern paper to size and stamp the sentiment with versamark and heat embossed.

The mantel is layered on 1/16" foam adhesives and the tree is layered on 1/16" & 1/8" foam adhesives. I also added glossy accents to all the lights bulbs for added interest.

Supplies Used:

Card 15 - Congrats!

I just received my new goodies from PTI and I was really excited to try them out. It's just 3 sets from their July release for now as I will be buying again in a couple of days' time in conjunction with the Stamp-a-faire event on Saturday. I didn't wanna wait till later as this particular stamp set, Hanging Out, which is an absolutely lovely baby stamp set, is what I want to use to make a card for my brother-in-law (hubby's brother) who just had a baby boy about 3 weeks ago. I had bought some baby clothes as gifts for my nephew and it will be more complete with a card. Will be sending the package out tomorrow.

Card Set-up:

1) Prepare square card base using Rustic Cream card stock

2) Die-cut tee-shirt, bib, socks, pocket and overalls using Cuttlebug with the various paper choices

3) Stamp matching overall image onto die-cut using Spiced Tin

4) Stamp grass image in Stick Candy and poles in Brown Sugar onto card front

5) Adhere die-cuts onto card front and stamp in peg image in Brown Sugar

6) Stamp cloud image twice in Soap Powder, color and trim image. Adhere onto card front with different dimensions of pop dots

7) Stamp floral image in Chicken Feed randomly on grass area

8) Round bottom corners with corner chomper

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Rustic Cream, Spring Rain

Pattern Paper - Hazel Papers by My Mind's Eye

Inks - JBS Stick Candy, Spiced Tin, Soap Powder, Brown Sugar, Chicken Feed

Stamps - PTI Hanging Out, Lawn Fawn Bon Voyage, Jessie's ABCs (Inside Sentiment), Happily Ever After (Sentiment)

Others - Faber-Castell Aquarelle, Cuttlebug, 1/16" Pop Dots, Pop Dots, WRMK Corner Chomper

SCC Week 3 Card 4 - May You Always Have Love

I received my online purchase today and decided to try using some stamps that I bought. I've been eyeing this Itty Bitty stamp by Unity for ages since I used it on a class I attended at Archivers. The stamp was on sale and I decided to grab it. Although the first impression on this stamp is it's a 'love' stamp, I thought that it could also be used to convey love for friends who are married or in a relationship.

I based my card on one of the sketches provided by Kristina Werner, making some modifications on the layout.

Card Set-up:

1) Trim card base to 4.25" square

2) Stamp umbrella image on Red Poppy card stock with Onyx Black

3) Stamp hearts image with versamark onto umbrella image, clear embossed and trim out

4) Trim 1/8" off of card front

5) Trim a strip of pattern paper, punched with scalloped border punch and adhere to card front

6) Trim a thin strip of Red Poppy card stock and adhere to card front

7) Stamp image on card front with Onyx Black and colored image with color pencils

8) Adhere umbrella image with pop dots

9) Stamp sentiment with Brown Sugar

10) Round top corners with 1/2" corner chomper

Supplies Used:

Paper - SU Crumb Cake, PTI Red Poppy

Pattern Paper - Candy Shoppe Collection by Echo Park

Inks - Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark, JBS Brown Sugar

Stamps - Unity Rain Or Shine, Lawn Fawn Happily Ever After (Hearts), Stampendous Love Health Friends (Sentiment)

Others - Stamp-a-majig, WRMK Corner Chomper, Faber-Castell Aquarelles, Prismacolor Blanc Color Pencil, Fiskars Scalloped Sentiment, Pop Dots, Clear Embossing Powder

SCC Week 3 Card 2 - Sending You Birthday Wishes

Today is Technique Day with Jennifer McGuire. I'm always anticipating her videos or tutorials. They are always so interesting. Today's no exception featuring Finger-inky technique and zig-zag styled card.

Needless to say, I just had to try it out. It was a pretty fun process doing the card. However, I didn't have the right browns and the colors turned fall-ish as it dried (I think it's also partly the perfect pearls as I didn't realize it was so pink after mixing them together). I also didn't have the right background stamp, the right sentiment and the right perfect pearls to use but I think the card turned out alright for a first attempt at least.

Card Set-up:

1) Die-cut 2 shaped panels measuring 4 3/8" x 2 1/2" using watercolor paper and White card stock on the Silhouette machine (I don't have a shaped die)

2) Stamp floral stamp with versamark on watercolor panel and white embossed

3) Using my fingers, I inked the watercolor panel with Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Fired Brick, each ink mixed with water

4) Added Blush perfect pearls around the embossed flower and set it aside to dry

5) Stamped music background stamp onto the insides of card base

6) Score card front at 2 1/8" and fold

7) Take watercolor panel and sponged edges with Chocolate Chip and adhere left side of the panel to card front

8) Line White panel and adhere on the inside of the card. Stamp sentiment

9) Trim a strip (approx 1/2") of White card stock, write in sentiment and adhere to card front

Supplies Used:

Paper - SU Crumb Cake, PTI Stampers' Select White, Strathmore Watercolor Paper

Inks - SU Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Distress Inks Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Fired Brick, Versamark

Stamps - PTI Wildflower Garden, Lawn Fawn Teeny Tiny Backdrops

Others - Silhouette SD, Zing White Embossing Powder, Ranger Perfect Pearls Blush, Copic Multiliner 0.3

SCC Week 1 Card 3 - Sending You...

Time flies and it's already the 4th day of Summer Card Camp. Today Kristina shared on the design principles that she uses on her cards. It was a pretty comprehensive video with illustrations from the cards that she made.

Basing on one of her 3 sketches, I chose to do a symmetrical card using the week's color combo.

There were a few things that I knew I wanted to incorporate in today's card. One was using Lawn Fawn Fanciful Frames set and creating a garden scene. I stamped the frame on pattern paper and cut the frame out. Then I worked on my scene by inking the top portion of a smaller piece of white cardstock with tumbled glass and broken china. I stamped my flower stamps using concord crush and pink cheeks and used a green marker to color the stems. Placed my frame using foam adhesive onto card front, added stickles to the center of the purple flowers and glossy accent to the pink ones as I do not have pink or clear stickles.

I wonder if anyone has days when they just can't figure out how to finish the card. It was certainly such day for me. I couldn't figure out the placement of the sentiment.  As the frame was relatively big and I was using white cardstock, I had to balance the card so that it doesn't look top heavy or the card looking empty at the bottom. After several tries, I knew I was getting no where and thought to check out the camp blog gallery to see if I could get any inspiration. Lo & behold, it was right there and I quickly went down to execute it.

I proceeded to trim a purple and pink cardstock to 1 1/2 and 1 1/4" respectively. Stamped my sentiment with versamark and white embossed. Layered the sentiment strip to the purple one, rounded the corners using the 1/4" chomper, added blue twine and adhered to card front. Rounded the 2 right corners of the base card with 1/2" chomper and finished the card by sponging the edges with tea dye.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White, Plum Pudding, Hibiscus Burst, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist

Inks - Archival Jet Black, Stampin' Up Concord Crush, Powder Puff Pink Cheeks, Distress Inks Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Tea Dye

Stamps - Lawn Fawn Fanciful Frames, PTI Wild Garden, PTI Big & Bold Wishes (Sentiment)

Others - WRMK Corner Chomper, Pink Paislee Twine, White Embossing Powder, Pop Dots, Marvy Le Plume II Markers, Milled Lavender Stickles, Glossy Accent, Pop Dots

Summer Card Camp 2011 Week 1 + PTI MIM Polaroid 2-Step Masking Challenge

Today is the start of the Summer Card Camp 2011 which I signed up for. It's being hosted by 2 very talented and sweet ladies Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire. I've actively checked out their blogs which are full of tutorials on card making and techniques. And as a newbie in paper crafting, I figure out I'll definitely be learning even more on this camp.

This is the SCC color challenge of week 1.

I don't wanna reveal how long I spent doing the card but it was pretty long. Besides figuring out on how I want to take on the color challenge, I also wanted to try participating in PTI's Make It Monday - Polaroid 2-Step Masking Challenge. Talk about being overly ambitious :P I'm also still slowly increasing my stamp and ink collection so had to make do with whatever I had.

Anyway here is my card for both of the challenges.

I did the polaroid masking and masked the center. Sponged the edges of the white card (3x4inch) with tumbled glass. Then I masked the edges and stamped in my Daffodil image twice. Colored in with color pencils as I don't have copics. I then cut out one of the daffodil and popped it up with foam adhesive. I sponged the edges of the card with spun sugar and adhered it to a lavender cardstock (3.75x4.5inch).  Sponged the edges again with spun sugar, added white twine and adhered to card base.

The sentiment was stamped, cut out, edges sponged with spun sugar and popped on foam adhesives.

Supplies Used:

Papers - PTI Stamper's Select White, Raspberry Fizz, Bazzil Lavender

Inks - Distress Ink Spun Sugar, Tumbled Glass, Versafine Onyx Black, Archival Jet Black

Stamps - Wplus9 A Special Lady, LF Bannerific, PTI Beautiful Blessings

Others - Foam Adhesives, AC White Twine, Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle