mini blog hop!

One of my blogging buddies (I love making blog buddies!) remarked on how many lawn fawn stamps I've been accumulating (not enough, in my opinion - they're so darn cute) and wondered if I had "clear to see" in my stash. I do, I wrote back, and it hasn't seen ink yet!  What to do, except invite another friend and organize a "clear to see" mini-blog-hop!  So, here's the oh-so-extensive lineup for our lawn fawn mini-hop - hope you'll check us alllllll out, and leave some love along the way.


Elena - that's me!

Joyce

Gayatri

Since we heard talk of early snow, I put on my cold-weather glasses for this one (groan, I know!)  I used the folded glasses from "clear to see" and stamped them repeatedly to make my own background paper.  I also stamped them to form the double "O" in "cool" onto my mat stack 4 shape.  The "c" and "l" are paper-pieced, and from "quinn's abcs". 

My winter-dude was completed with the ear-muffs and scarf from "making frosty friends."  I stamped the die shape with snowflakes from the same set, and stamped over the glasses on the background paper too. 

Thanks for looking - now hop on over to the blogs of my other cool friends ;)

Christmas case

I saw a cute little trio of snowmen scrunched together in a frame on the lawn fawn blog this morning, and I just had to use it as inspiration for my own Christmas card:

my favorite part?  The liquid applique on the smallest snowman's hat, so it actually looks like a fuzzy pompom...

Come back tomorrow to see more lawn fawn cuteness!



stamps: (all lawn fawn) making frosty friends, cozy christmas, say cheese
papers: patterned papers - SU, vinntage cream - PTI
misc: holly jolly die (PTI)

Moxie fab challenge: beads & baubles

I've never played along with "Tuesday Trigger," but the photo is beautiful!  It would have been a shame to sit this one out...

I picked out the wavy line separating the background, all of the gorgeous flowers, and that little owl on the right.  And here's what I came up with:

I hand-tore a strip of basic grey patterned paper and glued it to a vintage cream base.  The focal point is a kraft tag sale 5 die (sorry to repeat from yesterday, but I love the shape!  And also, I had cut two, lol.)  A few MFT dienamics rosettes, with pearled centers, and a lovely brown owl (from SU's "aviary" set) were adhered to the tag.  The finishing touch is the sentiment, from lawn fawn's "on the mend."

I hope you like it!

MIM #39 - multi-stamp-background

Using different stamps, in different sizes, you can create your own background papers.

I custom-made the floral background paper, using the following steps:

step 1: stamp rows of the circle border (from "tag its #2")

step 2: stamp the flower inside each circle (from "in bloom")

step 3: fill in the gaps with the tiny circle image (from "fly away") - I just noticed that I missed to stamp one area!  Can you spot it?  ha ha.  I'll go back and stamp the live card :)

I did create an extra step, which was to stamp over the whole thing with the hero arts envelope pattern background stamp.  I feel like the subtle pattern helps to unify everything...

The colors I used (crumb cake, baja breeze, and very vanilla - all SU) fit in with this week's Play date cafe challenge.  I'm sliding my card under the door, so to speak.  I think there are only a few more hours of play on that one.

Thanks for looking!

from the scrap pile

Do you keep a little scrap pile of stuff that didn't work on other cards?  I do!  I made the embossed-woodgrain-brayered background for last week's MIM challenge, but never got around to creating a card with it before we left for Henderson Harbor.

The cupcake image (from PTI's baby button bits) was stamped onto a bookprint and colored in with copics.  And then I never used it.

A blank mat stack shape was also in that pile.

And a strip of leftover brown cardstock, stamped with lawn fawn's "schoolhouse backdrops".

Put it all together, and I have my entry for this week's CAS-ual Fridays.  In about 10 minutes.  'Cuz sometimes, that's all the time you've got.

A crafty break: henderson harbor mini-getaway

Just thought I'd share the reason why there isn't a card on my blog this morning :)  We met up with another family of 5 and shared a lake-front-cottage for the weekend.  It was loud and so much fun!

the view from our balcony of lake ontario

trying to figure out where our friends are at!

late nights made for some cranky mornings :)

nothing that a delicious zucchini bread can't fix (thank you, Paula Dean!)

mmmm.... why can't we get this stuff in Canada?!

smoothies for the kids

and lots of giggling thrown in...

walks on the beach, all bundled up

our weekend home

practicing our cursive writing...

all the kids, minus Maia.  And yes, Liam is quite the little poser!

roasting marshmellows in the fire-pit

chubby bunny.

so calming and beautiful

marshmellow faces

so cute, hee hee!

silly faces, and zoolander on the left...

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!