olive you.

When one of your bffs asks you to create a card with an olive-theme for her 6 year old to give to her lunch monitor at school's end, you say yes.  You don't even think about how you don't have an olive stamp.  There must be a digital stamp online that would work, right?

When I didn't find anything online that I liked, I decided to get a bit creative.

Kind of swanky for a 6 year old, right? ha.  Just focus on the olive :)

Here's how I made it:  I found a balloon stamp (from an old Clear and Simple Stamps set - I couldn't find it online to even tell you its name)...see the one I mean - with the arrow pointing to it?

I stretched it a bit on my clear block to create more of an "olive-y" shape, and left out the balloon "nub" when stamping it.

Do you see the olive?  Lastly, I found a tiny heart (from lawn fawn's "love and breakfast") for a cute red pimento.

With a little coloring, I give you my olive:

I don't usually post tutorials to the blog, but tell me what you thought of this mini one!  I'd like to start doing these a little more often :)

Olive you!

Thanks for peeking and have a great weekend!

lawnscaping blog hop: spring edition!

Hi peeps!

Welcome to the *spring* edition of the lawnscaping blog hop!  You should have arrived here via Christy Rueling.

With it being Easter weekend and all, I thought I'd whip up a bunny-in-a-jar:

 I even staged it with a chick-in-a-jar, for your viewing pleasure :)

I stamped my kraft card-base with a woodgrain pattern, and layered a white felt banner over that before adding my focal image.  I stamped a jar image, and then went in with the grass from "critters in the 'burbs" and the bunny from "silly valentine."  I stamped the banner on either side of the jar, to make it look longer, and used "sally's abcs" to spell out "happy 4 you."

The blog hop runs until April 8th, and we have many talented designers with projects to inspire you!  So grab a cup 'o coffee, and enjoy the browsing!  Comment along the way for a chance to win prizes.  Check out the lawnscaping blog for all the details.

Next, bunny-hop over to Brandi's blog!

ps, I'm also entering this card into this week's colourQ challenge, since I was inspired by their spring-time color palette.

Happy Easter, all!

the milk to my cookie.

a cute little lovey card, just because.

A newsprint-stamped card-base, a red die-cut "you"...

a cute sentiment, made from lawn fawn alphabet sets and images from "cozy christmas", 

and a layer of shimmer, just for fun.

You are the milk to my cookie.  complete with milk and cookies.

happy friday, all!

CAS-ual Fridays: no orange!

This week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge?  make a halloween card without a spot of orange on it!

Is it just me, or did it suddenly become so hard to not use any orange?  hee hee.  I feel like my 6 year old!  Orange was my forbidden fruit....

But I did it!  Here's my take:

No orange!  Some black, some kraft paper, and purple coloring - but no orange!

I stamped the image from SU's "greeting card kids" onto kraft cardstock using memento black ink.  Her hat, cape and socks were colored with a purple copic marker (her socks got a tiny shock of yellow, too).

The sentiment was created using lawn fawn's "sally's abcs".

The kraft edges were sponged with black ink, and a quick border was created with a run through my sewing machine.

Thanks for looking!

thanksgiving napking rings/place-cards...

Canadian thanksgiving is this weekend!  I know you Americans wait about a month longer (but if you want to pig out this weekend, feel free to tell yourselves "the canadians are doing it!")

I've been collecting toilet-paper-rolls for such an occasion as this:  my sister asked me (ok, no, I decided) to make napkin rings that could double for place-cards.

Soooo, thanksgiving is usually held at my mom's.  The food is plentiful, and so delicious, but there is no emphasis placed on seasonal decor.  My sister made place-cards for my mom's 60th birthday party, and I think we were the only ones oohing and aahing over them.  I'm pretty sure my dad said "nice," as he was moving it off his plate and over to the nearest counter.  Ha!  We'll see how these makeshift napkin rings go over :)

It was so easy, my son helped me out (and he's 4!)  We chopped toilet paper rolls in half, and then cut strips of patterned paper in the same width as the roll.  Place one end of half of the double-sided tape (that was placed down the middle of the roll) and wrap it around until you can rest the paper on the tape that is still exposed.  My son did the wrapping, and to keep it super easy, I had him gently rip the paper when he was done.  We left that seam exposed (although on a few of them, too much seam was exposed and I redid them. Such is crafting with kids...)

The longest part of creating the tag was stamping each person's name (with lawn fawn's "sally's abcs".)  But once that was done, I stamped PTI's "background basics: gingham" across the bottom in a burnt orange color, and stamped lawn fawn's "turkey day" stamp off to the side.  He got a quick coloring, and the tag was stapled onto the ring.  I like the look of the staple, but if you didn't, you could always just glue it on...  The tag shape and leaves in the back are both SU punches.

Here are some of them, all assembled.

And, just for fun, on a plate.  With a wine glass, that I didn't take out just for this photo-shoot, and then decide some juice would really hit the spot... My husband came home and asked why there was 1 good wine glass on the drying rack...

To end off, I also created these super-quick notecards that we can all share things we've been thankful for this year.  Kelly-Marie created some on the lawn fawn blog yesterday, and I thought it was a really wonderful idea.  I down-sized some index cards, stamped "so thankful" in the same alphabet set as my place-holders, and the same turkey and gingham too.  No fuss, no muss, but I think they'll be fun to share after a hefty thanksgiving dinner.

Who's about ready to get their turkey on?  *waving hands wildly in the air*