lawn fawn meets xyron week!

Hi there!

The Lawn Fawn team is collaborating with Xyron this week! I love their tape runners, and I use the adhesive eraser to clean up my messy crafty efforts on a regular basis.

For my card, I used the flamingo pair from Flamingo Together. They are sitting in the little lake image from Dad + Me, and against the hello sentiment from Yay! Kites.

The card base was done with a ruler and the highlighter edge of a copic marker. So quick and easy! I created the candy cane stripe pattern by alternating using the just the tip of the marker edge and the entire weight of the broad tip.



I hope you like it! Check out the LF blog (HERE) and the Xyron facebook page (HERE) for more!

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brand new baby {just ME digital stamps}

Hi there!  I'm continuing to show off the summer collection of digital stamps found in my etsy shop: Just ME digital stamps.

There is nothing sweeter than a Brand New Baby:

You can change out the word girl for boy, or brand new.

I printed, colored and cut out the image, and hung it onto the card with a piece of soft, fuzzy yarn.

The image is sized big enough to stand alone on a card-front, but you can certainly shrink it for use on baby shower invites or tags.

I also used the image to celebrate my littlest sister's weekend announcement:



TWINS! We are all so excited! Come Christmas, there will be 2 more babies to love and hold. Congrats, Nadia!

I hope you like the image! Check it out in the shop: CLICK!

Do you have multiples in the family? What's your best advice for the new mom and the rest of us wanting to help?

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Harry Potter party!

It all started when Sofia, turning 11, asked me to throw her a Harry Potter party. She has read through the series at least a handful of times, and chats all things HP when she gets together with some of her friends. But, she wanted it to be a "cute" HP party...

I looked around, but didn't find what I wanted, so I drew my own images for the party. They are available in my etsy shop - CLICK!



This party was so much fun to put together. There are so many ideas out there for foods and desserts, and I picked my favorites and ran with it. Let's take a closer look at everything!

When the girls came in, I gave them each a little vial to drink to start off the party. They thought it was hilarious. Sparkling peach juice!

The butterbeer cake was obviously homemade! Everything was, and I'm really proud of that. You can throw your kids a party on a budget and still have it look amazing.



I manipulated the Hedwig graphic to create a simple cake topper.



Some vellum wings glued to Ferrero Rocher chocolates made for the cutest golden snitches.



I found a tutorial online for decorating owl cupcakes.



They are like teeny baby alien owls, ha. Here's a party tip for you: I always bake a smaller cake (like, recipes usually are geared for 8 or 9 inch cakes, and I bake mine in 6 inch pans.) This way, there is enough leftover batter to make cupcakes! No extra baking required. I ended up with 8 extra cupcakes, and they all went on the table. Same cake, same frosting, just differently decorated.



Jelly beans are my kryptonite. I can willpower-myself into avoiding cake and chips, but I double-fist jelly beans like it's my last day on earth. oh boy.

Apart from baking the cake, this was the easiest party to put together (dessert-wise.) I mean, jelly beans in jars? I can handle that. Dipping long pretzels into chocolate? Got it. Melting chocolate into frog molds? No problem.



The water bottles were labeled with each girl's name:

And I also created labels for a green punch,

It was limemade and 7up! I also labeled a bottle of milk:

We also had some party games! We did a little wand painting:

I found a tutorial online for wrapping hot glue around chopsticks, and then painting it. Sofia and I did the hot-glueing ahead of time, and they were able to paint their own magic wands!





We also took some fun photos with a prop idea I found online:

I found this graphic online, but recreated it for our party because I wanted the fonts to be consistent throughout. The poster, printed on engineering paper at Staples, was 18x24 inches and only costed 2$! I added another dollar to purchase a foam core board of the same size, and glued them together for stability.

The backdrop for the dessert table (scroll up to see the full party shot at the top) was created in the same way. I just typed up Harry Potter "locations" and had the file printed onto a 24x36 inch engineering print. It was under 5$! We had a frame that size which I borrowed for the event. Super easy!



Who knew the snitch wings made such great mustaches? ha. And I love that Sofia let her little sister tag along all day!



To finish off, the girls got to take home their wands, all the jelly beans they could carry (because I can't control myself around them!) and a little box containing the cutest golden snitch necklace.

I hope you've enjoyed this look at our Harry Potter party! It was so much fun to put together!

If you'd like to check out the party invitations, click HERE.

The Harry Potter digi stamp set can be found in my Etsy shop HERE.

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Flamingo floating!

Hi there!

A few weeks ago, I introduced a few new images to my Etsy digital stamp shop, Just ME Digital Stamps.  I never got a chance to show them off or promote them here! for shame.

Why not kick things off with a brand-new, just added this morning, new image?

I'm obsessed with all the weird pool floats that are for sale everywhere: swans, pizza slices, donuts, unicorns... but flamingos just scream summer fun!

Flamingo Floating features a little girl beating the heat in style.



I printed her out at full-size. She covers almost the entire card-front. After coloring everything in with copic markers, I used glossy accents on the flamingo:



Looking all plastic/pool floatie, right? I love the subtle dimension and shine you get from the gloss layer.

I hope you like it! Check out the new image in the store, and see my entire collection - click!

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3 smart cookies {lawn fawn inspiration week}

Hi there, and welcome back to the last day of this month's Lawn Fawn inspiration week. Today, we're showing off the mini graduation set, Smart Cookie.

I have 3 smart cookies at home, so I thought I'd create a card to give them when school ends next week. And possibly some cookies to go along with.

I stamped and colored 3 cookies and 3 graduation caps. I gave the cookies the larger smiley face from So Smooth instead of the glasses provided in this set.



I love the 3 smart cookies tossing the caps in the air! I used a black multiliner pen to add the motion lines.

The large congrats is from Big Scripty Words. I really love that set, and how perfect the words look stamped and cut out.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

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timber! a lumberjack birthday card.

**If you're looking for my Lawn Fawn planner card, scroll down or click HERE!**

I've got a little sneak peek of the birthday card I made for my nephew's first birthday. My sister is planning a lumberjack-themed party, and I had just the thing to make a card to match.



I stamped the lumberjack (from Lumberjack Love,) some trees, and the tree stump and colored them in with copic markers. I then die-cut them and set them aside.

The card-base was treated to a wash of dark blue sky, with distress inks in Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans and Black Soot.  I wet my fingers a bit at the end and flicked some water onto the panel. Most of the texture was covered up by the images, but you can see a little of what the water did around the lumberjack's head.



From the side, you can better see how I then cut 2 white panels and layered all of the images either behind or in front of the popped up panels.

To end off, I used our new journaling alpha die set  to personalize the card for my nephew's no. ONE birthday.

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

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happy 8th birthday! {lawn fawn inspiration week}

Hi there, and welcome back to another day of Lawn Fawn inpiration. Today, we're showing off the planner set, Plan On It: Calendar.

I don't have a planner, or a cute little calendar. Truth be told, I just get everything written down in my husband's agenda. I figure we'll both know what's going on better if it's all in one place. And I don't think he'd appreciate me stamping cutesy things in his planner.

Luckily, Plan On It: Calendar can be used for birthday cards:

When the packaged stamp comes your way, the numbers are laid out in the same way I stamped them on my card. I recreated the layout on a big clear block, and highlighted the number 8.



To make it even more obvious, I stamped party hats for these 3 party-going-cuties and added the number 8 to them. The set includes all the number circled, as well as plain.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

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for Dad {lawn fawn inspiration week}

Hi there, and welcome back to another day of Lawn Fawn inspiration! We're showing off new dies today, including the Grassy Hillside Borders.

I die cut the Grassy Hillside Borders, the Stitched Mountain Borders, the Simple Puffy Cloud Frames, and the Stitched Hillside Borders - whew! I die-cut them all out of white cardstock so that I could color them very softly with some of our Lawn Fawn inks (mermaid for the sky, manatee for the mountains, and celery stick for the grassy areas.) I used a sponge and a very light hand to rub the ink onto the pieces.



After all the inking was done, the big-bear/little-bear from Dad + Me were colored and popped onto the backdrop.

I can't wait to use this mountain die for winter/Christmas cards! It will make such an easy backdrop for all sorts of images.

There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

we blend well together!

Hi there! It's time for this month's Lawn Fawn inspiration week! We're kicking things off with a closer look at the fun blender-themed set, So Smooth.

I love smoothies, and I love this set! Last night (since the hubs and I splurged on a huge taco and churros lunch date) I had a lemon, pineapple, cucumber and parsley smoothie for supper. YUM!

I used the Stitched Rectangle Frames to create different sections.  The card takes on a comic-style this way. I love the sunglasses you can stamp onto the super cool glasses!



I used a speech bubble from A Birdie Told Me to house the greeting.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

Neat and Tangled with We R Memory Keepers

This is my 2nd post today! If you're looking for my LF teacher card set, scroll down or click HERE!

The Neat and Tangled team is partnering with WRMK this week!

I was lucky enough to find the Fringe and Score Board in the mail - just my thing!  I can't wait to make allll the tassle garlands. For now, I thought I would show off 2 ways to use it for card-making.

My first card features my favorite donut girl with some party fringe:

I stamped, colored and die-cut the girl from Say Yes to Donuts, and stamped a sentiment from the set to frame the donut top. It's so easy to bend and manipulate sentiments to get a whole new look!

To ground the donut girl image, I folded a few sheets of blue tissue paper so that I had 3 tiers. Then, with one quick pass of the blade, I had the entire fringe piece, ready to glue onto the card front.

In order to hide the top part of the fringe (which I had stapled together since I am a lazy crafter!) I cut an extra white panel the same width of the card front and tied some twine around it.

My second card uses the Fringe Board in an even easier way:

I used the girl from Better Together, and created a little square shaker behind her. With a quick pass of the fringe blade, I had strips of pink tissue paper that I cut into little squares with a set of paper snips.

Visit the NT blog this morning for even more WRMK inspiration. Thanks for stopping by!

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mermaid graduates!

Hi there,

I'm here and on the Lawn Fawn blog this morning, to show off a quirky set of teacher thank you cards... mermaid graduates!



I combined Mermaid For You, A Good Apple, and Smart Cookie to create these end of year cards.



To create the chalkboards, I first stamped the graduation hat, from Smart Cookie, and masked it before stamping the top half of the mermaid. After that I stamped the apple, masked all of the elements and stamped the big chalkboard image. The edges of the chalkboard were then masked to be able to rub black ink onto the chalkboard.



I heat embossed the sentiment after everything was done. With bated breath. Because it would have been just my luck to mess it all up at the end with a simple embossing. ha. Thank goodness it all worked out!



For a final touch, I added glossy accents to the apples, but I don't think you can tell by the photos.

I hope the teachers will like them!

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band camp!

Hi there!

I am so happy to have gotten to play with an adorable set from Avery Elle's newest release, called Band Camp.

We don't really have "band" in Quebec like schools do in the States. Is band a big deal in most American high schools? I live for my friend Bethany's band stories. Marching, in the extreme heat, wearing woolly band uniforms. That's hardcore. These animals are only doing it halfway, all naked and stuff. At least the owl's in a sash, but the rest of them...

I stamped a trio of band-mates, and shaded the ground beneath their feet. A bright yellow backdrop from the Brights Collection Paper Pad rounded out the cheery card.



A quick note: my role in the AE design team has changed a bit. I was having trouble balancing out 3 design teams, stamp illustrating, and general mom life. I'll be posting once a month for them, and so thrilled that Jamie was willing to keep me on like this!

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