this is gonna sound corny... {lawn fawn}

hey there! Lawn Fawn's August inspiration week is wrapping up with a look at Holiday Party Animal, the companion set to the original Party Animal(s).

I did something a little corny:

I stamped the 3 party-ready-critters with a pie each, and paired them with the sentiment from Happy Feast.

I curved the first part of the sentiment so that it followed the curve of my oval die-cut, and added the latter part on a straight piece of kraft cardstock.

I keep adding frames to my cards! I usually batch-craft my cards for the month, and I guess that's what happens. I like something on one card, so I'll add it in a different-but-same way on another. I think adding the oval frame gives the card a more tailored look.

The striped tone-on-tone orange paper that I used for the background is fall perfection, no? I love the new Polka in the Dark paper collection. Stripes and polka dots in all the fall colors!

I hope you like it! This is my favorite card this month, and now I wanna bake some pies!

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

♥.

counting blessings.

With Canadian Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought I'd graciously give you a small break from Christmas cards *wink*

Lawn Fawn is teaming up with Epiphany Crafts this week to show off their shape studio tools.  You can create custom embellishments for your cards or scrap pages.  Check them out!

I used the square craft tool to number my cute fall images.  I used these lawn fawn sets: happy feast, so thankful, into the woods.

Of course I'm thankful for mostly food, haha. You know how some people stop eating when they're stressed? I wish.  My husband and I have packed on a few extra pounds in the last 6 weeks, caring for Sofia with her double casts.  sigh. We're crawling to the finish line, folks.  I'm thrilled to say that her legs will see the light of day this Thursday. Thank you for all of your encouragements and cards - I am so thankful for you!

♥.

You want a piece of me?

My blog post title is all bravado, but I'm bashful and all tingly warm inside to be October's CASE study muse!

The inspiration photo is taken from a mini cherry party I threw some time ago (click!)

So, real cherry pie, meet sassy cherry pie:

I stamped the smiley-faced-wanna-be-tough pie, colored it cherry, and added a computer generated sentiment to fit into lawn fawn's speech bubble.  (If you haven't noticed by now, I keep using the same 2 or 3 fonts.  Font snobs:  let it go, or help a sister out.)

Although I painstakingly stamped all of the red and aqua stripes in the inspiration party, I took a lazier (read: faster) route here:



Sorry the photo is a bit fuzzy.  Nothing like holding the camera over your head so you could get markers and everything in the frame.  The colors I used are R29 and BG32, if you are interested.

I hope you like my card!  Check out the CASE study blog to see what the rest of the design team has made based on my photo (shriek! I can't believe I just typed that.  This is some kind of out of body craft experience...)

If you have some time, I'd love for you to create something as well!

sweet as pie.

I'm being featured over at Paper Crafter's Library with this card:

I'd love it if you'd click on over to check out the full how-to and extra card pictures!  They're hosting a stamp set and paper pack giveaway, so hurry hurry.

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corny stuff and typography love {lawn fawn sneak peeks!}

Are you loving the new lawn fawn sets so far?  I get to show off two cards today: something corny, and a new alphabet set!

First up, the new alpha set called "milo's abcs"... just because it's my favorite lawn fawn font so far.  I love the tall, skinny letters.  They are so trendy!

The idea for this card just sort of popped into my head, and oddly enough, I have a few friends who I know would love to get it in the mail:



I hope you are giggling right now, or smirking or something.



For the longest time, I wondered why my favorite blogs featured new fonts by typing out this sentence...



I didn't realize it was the cleverest way to show off all the letters of the alphabet, all at once.  So there you go, all the Milo letters, laid out for you to see.  wink.

My second card is, er, very corny:

Yeesh.  I didn't know I'd be featuring them on the same day - sorry for the abrupt change in lighting.  (In case this would be interesting to you, I took the first card picture outside, on a cloudy day, and this one, with a bounce flash in my basement.  I thought the lighting was more dramatic and cozy... you know... for fall... or thanksgiving stamps... hee)

I colored the background images in very neutral colors, and with quick swipes.  I wanted the copics to look more like watercolors...



Can I just say, the new twine is making me very, very happy.

Check out more over at the lawn fawn blog!