happy birthday, Kelly Marie!

Yay! Welcome to our {surprise} blog hop in honor of the sweet Kelly Marie, owner of lawn fawn stamps!  There is a long list of participants, so if you ever lose your way, you can refer to the full list of stops over at Tiffany's blog (click *here*)

You should have clicked over from Cristina's blog (my fawnie idol, by the way. I am constantly awed by the amazing stuff she creates!)

I hope Kelly is in a good mood by the time she reaches my blog.  This could go either way:

hee hee.  are you giving me a one-eyebrow stare, or an eye-roll? (because between this and the dancing hot dog card, I am definitely on a groan-inducing punny roll...)

I used critters on the farm, fanciful frames, into the woods, and milo's abcs to create this card.

Kelly, I hope we've put a smile on your face today!  You are such a beautiful person, so generous and kind, and I am honored to be getting to know you better and designing for lawn fawn!  mwah!  I hope you have an amazing 33rd birthday!

Keep on hoppin'! Your next stop is to the lovely Britta's blog.  click!

♥.

a jar full of critters.

I have a quirky critter card up on the lawn fawn blog today!

yep.  critters.  a whole jar-ful.  I hope they put a smile on your face today.

See you next week!

lawnscaping challenge: inspiration

For the latest lawnscaping challenge, we're to take inspiration from a fellow crafter.  I had this invite in my etsy favorites and used it as inspiration to create my own barnyard card.

I might have changed the colors around a bit... and paper-pieced the entire thing... and changed the animals to chicks... but the inspiration is definitely there.

 I used patterned papers from the Dear Lizzy Neapolitan collection - I am in love with the patterns and the bright summer colors... I stamped images from lawn fawn's "critters on the farm" to create the barnyard scene, and a hero arts background stamp to get the sun-rayed effect.

Oh, and the little basket I created behind the card?  You're getting a sneak peek, my friends!  Sofia's "sew seven" birthday party is in a month and I've started creating little decorations, favor baskets, and invites - I'm so excited to share it all... very soon!

And now, time for another installment of "things my kids said thursdays": this one comes to you in visual form... and sorry for the fuzzy pic, but there was alot of running around and screaming of "en garde, monsieur!" going on (from both Thomas and Maia...)  For the record, dress-up is a way of life in our home... we regularly feed breakfast to Wolverine, and dinner to Zorro... Maia is just starting to get into it all, but she puts together her own outfits.  Here, an upside down tiara and a superhero cape, and a princess wand.  In a word: awesome.

Thanks for peeking!

think pink.

The new lawnscaping challenge is paper-piecing!

My daughter and I sat down to read "Pinkalicious" yesterday evening, and I think I still had pink on the brain when I made this:

Paper-pieced-pink-pigs... *history lesson: when we were really young, my sister swore up and down she wanted to be a pink pig when she grew up... they are so cute when they're little!*

I stamped the pig from lawn fawn's "critters on the farm" onto various patterned papers and cut them out and mounted them with foam squares.

I created a focal point of pigs (!) by stacking them onto a strip of white cardstock and tucking half of a decorative label shape on either end.

I glued that to a white mat, which I'd stamped with "schoolhouse backdrops" - also in pink, naturally!

The sentiment was created with "smitty's abcs".

Thanks for looking!

lawnscaping challenge: embossing!

I had so much fun participating in the lawnscaping blog hop, and I thought I would keep the lawn-fawn-fun going with the current lawnscaping challenge.

Hay there!

I paper-pieced myself a little barn scene out of newsprint patterned papers (and more gingham again, like no other patterns exist!) using lawn fawn's "critters on the farm" set.  A little barn and 2 huge bales of hay.  And a little banner in the background (from "bannerific") because I've been spending way too much time on Pinterest drooling over all kinds of barnyard weddings and parties... so chic - I love it!

The die-cut scallop at the bottom is PTI, and the awesome embossed-striped background is courtesy of an SU folder.  I love how bold is it!

thanks for looking!

lawnscaping challenge - it's distressing!

Lawn fawn stamps? distressed inking or edges?  Yes, yes, yes!  I broke out my lawn fawn stamps for the newest lawnscaping challenge and had some fun... I made enough cards to share with you over the next few days.... so be prepared... cute critters and a Christmas card (even though I missed the whole "Christmas in July" bit, right?)

I inked up, copic-colored, and cut out the barnyard critters... and that fence!  I colored and cut it out also... what I learned is that my craft knife is a smidge on the dull side... I kept wishing that I had the PTI fence die - but this one turned out pretty cute, I think!

The clouds backgrounds is a Hero Arts stamp - I inked it up in pool party ink (SU) and used tumbled glass distress ink around the edges.

The kraft base was also stamped with a Hero Arts background (envelope pattern) and was then distressed using white ink.

Thanks for looking!