something old, something new for lawn fawn inspiration week.

Hey all!

I'm doing things halfway this month, since we're covered in plaster and primer and all kinds of dust from sanding down the new house.

I do have a new Lawn Fawn card for tomorrow, but there have been a few on there this week that I already blogged.

In case you missed them, I thought I'd link up the original posts.

Gingham sweetness in the garden - click!

It's a jungle birthday party - click!

I will be back to posting more regularly next month, I promise! In the meantime, I'll be bringing my camera over to the new house today to snap a few in-progress pictures.  I think an update is in order!

♥.

Lawnscaping celebrates 100 challenges! {guest designing}

Ah, I'm so happy to be back in my old stomping grounds over at Lawnscaping! I am helping them celebrate their 100th challenge, as Yainea's special "plus one" guest.

For the occasion, I made a critter-filled birthday card:

The scene is a one-layer deal. You might think that I did an insane amount of masking to achieve the look, but you would be mistaken. ha.

The only thing that I masked was the long, swirly, happy birthday sentiment (from the new Scripty Sayings.) The rest involved me wiping ink off of key areas (like the top of the Gleeful Gardens bird's head, or the top of the sunflower) before stamping down. I filled in lines that were missing with a copic pen after the fact.

so. much. easier.

Check out the Lawnscaping blog today, and my good friend Yainea's blog. I am so excited to have been invited to celebrate with them today!

There are prizes to be won, so click on those links for more details!

♥.

lawn fawn's february inspiration week begins!

It's finally here! Lawn Fawn's Spring Release will be for sale when this month's inspiration week wraps up - woot!

Today's showcase features "Gleeful Gardens," a super adorable garden-themed set which includes those smiling mushrooms.

I made this card last month, for Lawn Fawn's CHA week. The original post could be seen *here.*

I still love the gingham background that sets off the little garden scene!

And don't forget to visit the lawn fawn blog this morning to see what the rest of the design team has come up with - click!

I'll be back tomorrow with a brand-new project!

♥.

Lawn Fawn's CHA sneak peek week, day 1

Hi there!

Happy New Year!

In the almost 3 years that I've been blogging, I don't remember ever having taken as long of a break as I did over these past few weeks. But with good reason: if you follow me on instagram (mom2sofia), you'll have seen that our home is up for sale, and we'll be *fingers crossed if this house sells* moving to our newly-purchased house in the spring.

Sooo, I'm excited, nervous, and feeling completely rusty at this whole blogging thing. gah.

Lawn Fawn is heading to CHA (the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show) this week with 13 new stamp sets and 25 new dies - whee! They are showing off some of the new stuff today on their blog.

I'm showing off 2 cards I made, with the new sets: Baked with love, and Gleeful gardens.

I am in love with the cute critters found in this set, and the giant mushrooms. I fit them all onto a NEW Stitched circle die, and popped the sentiment (not from Gleeful gardens, but from another new set) into a NEW Flirty frames image. And, what's more garden than gingham? I'm so happy lawn fawn is coming out with a gingham background set - it's so pretty!



Baked with Love is my absolute favorite set of the entire new release. I love to bake, I love to eat, and I love to gift baked goods. So I needed this set.

I wasn't ready to put away the winter bunnies just yet. I had them doing all of the cupcake decorating. slave labor. and I paid them exclusively in cupcakes.

I hope you like both cards!  Don't forget to check out the Lawn Fawn blog all this week for sneak peeks at everything new!