Lawnscaping Blog Hop

Hello! I am super excited to be included in Lawnscaping’s very first blog hop!  Lawn Fawn are one of my favourite stamp companies, their stamps are just so so cute!  I love how the bring out the fun card making style in me.

If you came here from Kristy Smith’s blog then you’re in the right place, if not you can start the hop from the very beginning by clicking here.

The theme is holidays and I chose Halloween and made this little card using the ‘Heebie Jeebies’ set…


The bat at the top is raised using foam dots for dimension, the little spider is paper pieced and the bat on the button has had glossy accents added to him to make him nice and shiny.  There’s a full supply list shown at the bottom of this post.



Full details of the blog hop are here…

WHEN: The hop starts now. You have until Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, 11:59 pm EST, to leave comments on all of the blogs to be eligible for a prize!  The winners will be announced on Monday, Sept. 12th.

THEME: HOLIDAY! That includes Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Valentines Day, etc. Create any project (card, scrapbook page, home decor) using at least ONE LAWN FAWN stamp. Other stamps may be used, but please try and keep Lawn Fawn as the focal point of your project.

Prizes: Lawn Fawn is sponsoring us.  4 winners will receive a free Lawn Fawn set of their choice.  One will go to a random hop participant (DT members not eligible) and then THREE will go to three random people who comment along the hop!   We have Mold Muse sponsoring us too and as if that's not enough we will also be offering up mystery prize packs to another random hop participant and commenter….  Not only will you be inspired, but you have lots of chances to win!

Your next stop is Britta Swiderski who has created something fabulous to inspire you with.  I just LOVE her work!

Have fun hopping!

Heebie Jeebies Lawn Fawn	Lime Twist Life Of The Party MME	Brackets Die Tim Holtz Sizzix	Grosgrain Ribbon Stamping Up	Thickers Glitter Tiara American Crafts
Charcoal Black Twine The Twinery	Amethyst Boutique Buttons DeNami Design	Rebellious Collection Revolt Prima

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Play Date Cafe & DRS Designs

Hi there

It’s time for another fun challenge with us over at The Play Date Cafe!  This week I have a cute giraffe to share with you.  I think he’s adorable!  Thank you DRS for sponsoring us and letting us choose such lovely stamps!



Firstly I attached a corner rounded panel to the card base that I had tied around with a stripey ribbon.  I then coloured Jenny with Copics, BG78, BG72, BG70 and YR24, YR23, YR21 before fussy cutting him out and attaching him to a Go Kreate concentric tag cut out of various patterned papers, using pop dots for added dimension.  Finally I added a wooden chipboard letter ‘B’ for baby.  (oops I thought Jenny was a ‘he’ so I’ve been calling him Gerry in my head!!)  Well he/she would look good in any colour, sooo cute!

Inside I stamped the sweet little sentiment stamp (Diapers, Rattles and Blankets Baby Greeting’ onto patterned paper, I then die cut it and added a little Ranger Distress Ink ‘Faded Jeans’ around the edges and to finish I cut a strip of patterned paper to match the front tag.  Sorry my photo’s not great, the light had gone by the time I had tried to take this pic.

These are our colours this week, with the suggested colours of teal, mustard and navy.


So don’t delay, pop on over to the main Play Date Cafe blog for lots more inspiration from my fellow teamies! 

There’s a fab prize up for grabs from our sponsors, DRS Designs.

Sadly we are saying goodbye to two wonderful girls   Libby Hickson and Tracy Kuzniak are leaving us.  What I love about Libby is how she keeps us up to date with everything that’s going on, she is such a sweetie and fun to be on the team with.  My favourite work of hers is when she paints different things, but one card in particular stands out in mind for me when I think of her.. this Hero Arts one, just beautiful! That gorgeous black glossy centre is enamel accents, yum!!  You can see more about this card on Libby’s blog here.



Tracey is also such a kind hearted and friendly person to be around.  She sent me a wonderful surprise package through the post of a little embossing buddy to help me sort out my embossing problem, but more special was the little card that I am now the very proud owner of!  It is still my favourite card of hers, I just love it, the colours, the design and the words, it sits on the windowsill in my office.  I really should get it framed!  You can see more about it on Tracey’s blog here.



We will truly miss you girls, it’s been so much fun being on the team with you and getting to know you.  We’ll keep up with your creative endeavours in blog land though I’m sure

Don’t forget you can also follow The Play Date Cafe on facebook!  We’d love to see you.

Have a great day everyone!  I’m hoping to get time to play on the new linky linking up tool soon, it sounds as though it will save so much time.  Watch this space!

Smile!

* Edited post to update links *

Hello!

This little teddy is sure to make you smile!  I made him for the latest Color Me Creative challenge, which is to be fall or halloween themed.  We are being sponsored by Stamp Fairy and were fortunate enough to choose an image to play with.  I chose this little cutie!



I tried to stick with a CAS style this time.  I used paper from Cosmo Cricket’s Pixie-licious with Bazzill cardstock, Cuttlebug Seeing Spots embossing folder, Spellbinders circle and scallop dies, ‘Smile’ sentiment from Paper Smooches stamp set ‘Giddy Bugs’ and finished off with some mandarin twine from The Twinery.

I really enjoyed colouring this image, it was nice starting to use autumnal colours for a change.  Thanks for the fun image Stamp Fairy!

I was inspired to use this sketch over at Clean and Simple Stamping, which as you can see I flipped a bit (well, not me personally, I mean I flipped the sketch lol). I’m entering this card into Cardmaking Mama’s Challenge Blog (to use digi) and Polka Doodles (autumn leaves or colours).

For some more inspiration pop on over to my team gals to see what they’ve been up to!  You’re sure to find lots of halloween fun on your visits.

Charlene Randall

Brook Guinn

Anary Baumgarth

Melanie LaBelle

Marie Gamber

Pat St. Martin

Jenn Cochran

Michele Spera

Sandie Dunne

I do hope you enter our challenge, I love getting inspiration from other Copic fans, especially where I’m a newbie!

Copics;

Bear (E39, E35, E33) main and E34, E33, E31 for his paws and tummy
Ears (E34, E33, E31)
Nose (E59, E49, E29)
Leaves (YG17, YG13, YG11
Flower (YR18, YR16, YR15, Y38, Y35) & flower centre (E59, E49)
Hearts (YG25, YG23, YG21)

Time for a splash of colour over at The Play Date Cafe

Hello everyone, it’s time for a 'color’ splash over at The Play Date Cafe and this time it’s black and white with a splash of red.  I have a bit more of a wave than a splash to be honest but it needed to be Rubied!

We got to play with some fun stamps from Tradefish.  I got sent a birthday set called ‘Another Year’, and at first was going to go with the lovely cake stamp that was in there but I was lead off creatively in other directions so just went with the flow.  I thought the little party hat would look fun in gingham.

I also did something I have only just started doing, wait for it…. I cut a stamp in half!   I wanted to split the ‘happy birthday’ sentiment up so that it would fit on my label so I decided to bite the bullet and cut it in half. Oh the stress of it lol. I took a deep breath, cut it and then breathed a sigh of relief that I had cut it in the right place and do you know what, life went on!  I can see lots of my stamps being ‘attacked’ now, it really is so fun making your own stamp up.#


Isn’t that cake beautiful? 
I decided to try and stamp onto some acetate for the first time.  I had bought Staz-On a while back and thought it was about time I used it.  As I was trying to clean off my background stamp (and getting nowhere) I remembered I had bought a cleaner for it, it’s hard stuff to get off isn’t it!  So many things to remember too, don’t use it on this, reink it with that, wipe off this with this lol. Then because it’s acetate you have to do everything you did on the front on the back as well to cover up what you can see, phew.  Anyway, I got there in the end with a finished card and a stamp that I can use again so it was worth the effort after all!  The card itself is pretty self explanatory, lots of sticking and die cutting, the little hat was paper pieced twice (once for the inside, once for the outside).

The card was quite hard to photograph due to the shine on the acetate but hopefully you can make it out.  It looks a little bit bowed but that was just so that I could show you the pattern created with the Staz-On ink.  It is perfectly straight, honest.

My little polka bow was being naughty doing its own thing too!

We have more exciting team news for you… Stacey Rodriguez is going to be joining us!  She will officially start on September 15th, we are really looking forward to seeing more of her work.

Pop on over to the main  Play Date Cafe blog to see all of the wonderful inspiration there and don’t forget to be eligible for a prize you have to do just the black and white with a splash of red.

Supplies:
Dies: PTI Limitless Layers, Mat Stack, Friendship Jars tag
Stamps: Tradefish ‘Another Year’, PTI Friendship Jars (tag), Polka Dot Basics 2
Papers: Lost and Found by MME
Accessories: Staz-On, acetate, polka dot ribbon from stash