A Blog Named Hero - Thanks a Bushel!

Hi friends!  You can find me over on A Blog Named Hero today with an adorable card using supplies from Hero Arts & Lawn Fawn, this month's collaboration partner!   Here's a quick sneak peek! Check it out!

A Blog Named Hero October Challenge

Hello!  Can you believe it is October already?!   Goodness, the year is flying by!   We had a wonderful weekend picking apples and pumpkins....so I hope you'll forgive me for jumping the gun a little with a holiday card, lol!

This month A Blog Named Hero is collaborating with none other than the fabulous Lawn Fawn for a super fun challenge - just use a critter (or critters) on your cards along with some Hero Arts goodies and link up over at A Blog Named Hero!

For my card, I combined stamp sets from Hero Arts (trees, lights, present & sentiment from Holiday Animals) and Lawn Fawn (critters from Beary Happy Holidays).  I stamped the trees onto blue cardstock using Distress Oxide inks - they look so vibrant, I just love it!   Then I flicked on some gesso mixed with water to create a snowy scene.  I tucked my Copic colored critters and accessories into some stitched hill dies from Lawn Fawn to finish things off!

Hope you've enjoyed my card today - be sure to link up your own critter card at A Blog Named Hero....can't wait to see what you create!!

Happy Birthday!

Hello!   You can find me over on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. blog this morning....here's a sneak peek of the card I created for my son's 16th birthday today!   Happy Birthday Alex - I love you to the moon and back!

Sweet Strawberries!

Hello there!   I've been having fun using lots of new stamping goodies I received around/for Christmas.   Yesterday I spent some time playing with the Strawberry Layers stamp set from Strawberry Jude.    There are a ton of layers to create these awesome strawberries, and the results are so impressive!   They look good enough to eat!   Several of my "color experiments" were good enough that I decided to put them to use on some cards!  

First up is my favorite - this one uses a die cut sentiment from Li'l Inker, the stamped sentiment from Sunny Studio, a die from MFT and paper from Gina K.    Lots of my favorites here!    

The next card uses a sentiment from MFT, scallop border die from Simon Says Stamp and paper from Lawn Fawn.

Have a fantastic weekend!   See you next week! :)

CHALLENGE

SSS - SOMETHING NEW

Happy Halloween!

Hi friends!   I'm sharing a fun card featuring loads of Lawn Fawn goodness over on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. blog today!  Head over and check out how I made it!!

Flamin-go Together!

Hi guys!   I'm up on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. blog today with a fun card using the new Lawn Fawn stamp set, Flamingo Together!   This stamp set is so stinkin' cute!    I love the sweet flamingo lovebirds!

I'm also entering my card in the latest Lawnscaping Challenge - Off Kilter!   I thought the sentiment on a curved angle, along with the cool cover-up fit the bill nicely!   Click the graphic to play along!

Mega Rainbows!

Hi there!   It's my turn on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. blog today and I'm sharing this bright & cheery card featuring Sugar Pea Designs stamps!   Head over to the BRI blog to check out  how I made it!

Join Me For My First Post at BRI!

I'm so excited!    Today is my first post for Butterfly Reflections, Ink.   I'd love it if you pop over there to say hi and check out my card!    If you've never shopped with BRI, I highly recommend you do -   Vanessa has lightning fast shipping and an awesome assortment of the latest and greatest goodies!   

Happy Wednesday, friends! 

Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday

Hi everyone!   It's Friday!!   Let the weekend begin!!   I'm popping in quick today (again!) to share a card I made for the Lawnscaping Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

I was so excited to use some new Lawn Fawn goodies on this card.   I used birds from a variety of sets - Party Animal, Critters on the Farm and Gleeful Gardens.   The awesome fractured background is a Spellbinders die.  It was begging to be made into a shaker card, so I used Distress Ink in Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon and Salty Ocean to make a blue sky background.   I thought the background just popped with the black die in front of it!    I filled the shaker with Distress Glitter and sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.   The Happy Birthday border die was colored with Copics (as were the cute birds), and made for the perfect finishing touch!  

Hope you get a chance to play along with these awesome challenges!  

Happy Holidays!

Hi there!   I'm back today with a couple of (relatively) quick Christmas cards.   I decided to enter these into the Lawnscaping Challenge - Merry Christmas.   

Sorry for the iphone photo!   I was in a hurry to get these guys in the mail and didn't pull out my good camera.   The background is debossed snowflakes and the sentiment panels are Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles.   The sentiments are heat embossed in silver and the cute little skating penguins are colored with Copics.   See?   Pretty simple!

I hope everyone is having fun with last minute holiday prep.   I still have a batch of cookies to bake and Christmas tags to make.  I like to make my tags each year - don't ask me why!   It is a bit of an undertaking, that's for sure.  I got about 20 done yesterday and I'm hoping to at least get that many done today.   Maybe then I'll be able to relax and enjoy Christmas Eve tomorrow, lol!   Hopefully I'll be back later today or tomorrow with pictures of tons of tags!

So Thankful For You

Just two more days of school for my kids, and then summer can truly begin!   I was all about the end of the year gift for my 5th grader's teacher today.   A very cool new shop opened nearby that carries a ton of flavored popcorn, so I thought that would be a unique gift....and it was an excuse for me to get a few varieties for us!   We ended up with BBQ, caramel corn, orange soda (yuck!) and dill pickle!   Yes, dill pickle!    It is really, really good....more of just a dill flavor than vinegar-y pickle.   In any case, after our stop at the popcorn place, I needed a card to go with the gift.

I pulled out several Lawn Fawn sets - Critters in the Forest, Hats Off to You and Fanciful Frames.   To make the wood frame, I took a PTI Impression plate and embossed the wood onto kraft paper.   I then used Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo distress inks to color over top.    I added some detail with the Vintage Photo distress marker.  The coolest part of this frame happened when I decided to put Glossy Accents on it.   It looks like a real glossy frame!

For the little owl, I first stamped the mortarboard and then masked it and stamped the owl.   He's colored with Copics - the burgundy hat for my daughter's school color!   The owl and log (stamped on the inside of the frame) were then cut out.   I brought out a Heidi Swapp star stencil and sponged some ink in the corners of an off white strip.   I went over them with Wink of Stella, because God forbid I make a card that doesn't have some sparkle to it!!!   I really need to use stencils more often!   A little strip of gold glitter paper along the side and the card is done!

I'm entering this card into two challenges - Lawnscaping - Stars & Stripes (play along here!) and Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge (play along here!)

Hope your week is off to a great start!