hey, good lookin'!

After all the fussy-cutting I did for my latest Gallery Idol card, I was in the mood for something simpler :)

(and speaking of Gallery Idol, have you voted yet?  Click on the pair of baby cards to go vote! ---------->)

Here is this week's Retro Sketch:

And here is my take on it:

I grabbed all 3 pairs of glasses from lawn fawn's "clear to see" and stamped a whole panel with them.  Then, I printed a sentiment onto white cardstock (I seem to be on a kick of printing my own sentiments lately...) and scribbled a red copic marker over the sentiment before die-cutting a heart-shape.  The twine and the 3 black rhinestones finish off my stab at this fabulous sketch.

Thanks for peeking!

Keep it casual, man!

If the title of my post sounds a little old school, it's just the theme of this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge: making a masculine card with patterned paper.

If you've been following my blog for awhile, and have a super-amazing memory, these patterned papers will look like a re-run.  They're the scraps that are left from my Father's day projects last year :)

I spent some time organizing my scraps and decided it was time to use up the last of this pack (such a crafty hoarder!)

After adhering the strips to a white mat (for more stability), I grabbed a "tag sale 5" die cut (PTI), folded the top over, and was left with the perfect fish-tailed banner.  I die-cut the letters and black-embossed the folded glasses image (from Lawn Fawn).

The glasses were propped up with foam dots, as was the patterned paper mat, to give some extra dimension to the card.

I'm also entering this into the current lawnscaping challenge: embossing.

Thanks for peeking!

mini blog hop!

One of my blogging buddies (I love making blog buddies!) remarked on how many lawn fawn stamps I've been accumulating (not enough, in my opinion - they're so darn cute) and wondered if I had "clear to see" in my stash. I do, I wrote back, and it hasn't seen ink yet!  What to do, except invite another friend and organize a "clear to see" mini-blog-hop!  So, here's the oh-so-extensive lineup for our lawn fawn mini-hop - hope you'll check us alllllll out, and leave some love along the way.


Elena - that's me!

Joyce

Gayatri

Since we heard talk of early snow, I put on my cold-weather glasses for this one (groan, I know!)  I used the folded glasses from "clear to see" and stamped them repeatedly to make my own background paper.  I also stamped them to form the double "O" in "cool" onto my mat stack 4 shape.  The "c" and "l" are paper-pieced, and from "quinn's abcs". 

My winter-dude was completed with the ear-muffs and scarf from "making frosty friends."  I stamped the die shape with snowflakes from the same set, and stamped over the glasses on the background paper too. 

Thanks for looking - now hop on over to the blogs of my other cool friends ;)