Lawnscaping challenge: distressed.

You all really know how to make a girl's day.  Thank you soooo much for your kind comments on my sister's baby shower!  We worked so hard to make everything look great, and it's nice to know that you thought so too :)

After all the pictures of yesterday's post, I thought I'd keep it simple... this one's for the lawnscaping challenge: using distress inks.

I used some masking to create my little scene.  Everything on the card front is flat, except the sweet little heart popping out of the tree.  I used distress inks and an ink blending tool to create my sky and grass...

Thanks for peeking!

lawnscaping challenge: fall apples

A fall photo-inspiration for the newest lawnscaping challenge:

To this card:

I used 3 lawn fawn sets: "silly valentine," "blissful botanicals," and "critters in the burbs."

I created several masks for my smiley-apples and stamped them repeatedly into a large pile.  They were colored in with copics.  The leaves and tree were also stamped and colored with copic markers.  

Thanks for looking!

i just want to say hello.

hello.

oh, baby!

Just a quick card, filled with lawn fawn cuteness for a baby-card-in-a-hurry.  I already had the critters and tree cut out, waiting to be assembled on some kind of project (that's how much I like those little lawn fawn stamps - just color and cut them out for no good reason - they'll eventually end up on a card!)



supplies
stamps: critters in the 'burbs (lawn fawn), A to Z (SU!)
ink: memento black, bashful blue (SU!)
misc: sentiment is an old SU rub-on

One layer.

Do you ever make 1 layer cards?  Do you find it easy?  I find it pretty difficult to created enough interest on a card with no layers - I think my foam squares were feeling a bit put out that they stayed in their drawer for this one :)  But they call them "challenges" for a reason, right?  And it's the new one over at the lawnscaping blog.

I have to admit that I planned this one out completely in my head before I ever put ink to paper.  I stamped the banner and the cat images and then created masks for them so that I could stamped the word "meow" repeatedly in shades of grey.  The sentiment and envelope pattern background in pink, and it's one cool & girly card.  (My husband did question the coolness of it, but what does he know about cards, really.)

Supply list
stamps: (lawn fawn) bannerific, critters in the 'burbs, smitty's abcs, (hero arts) envelope pattern background
paper: (PTI) grid lines cardstock
ink: memento black, (SU) basic grey, going grey, blushing bride, various copics

dog-gone it!

I had so much fun making my long birdie card, that I wanted to create another card in that 4x9 size.  I stamped the adorable dog from lawn fawn's "critters in the 'burbs" and fussy cut it out before coloring him in.  He was mounted onto some PTI gridlines cardstock with foam squares.

I used PTI's 2.5 inch circle die collection to cut the kraft medallion layer, and then snipped some scrap patterned paper (I think it's leftover SU, but not sure).  The long white layer was stamped with PTI's chevron stripes and then distressed.  That was mounted to a layer of early espresso cardstock and then again to riding hood red (both SU).

I'm counting this as my final entry into the lawnscaping challenge!

Thanks for looking!