happy howl-o-ween {lawn fawn inspiration week}

Hi there, and welcome back to another day of Lawn Fawn's August inspiration week!  We're showing off our best hallowieners today - Happy Howloween is an amazing dog-themed Halloween set, where you can dress up your pups in all sorts of cute costumes.



I kept my scene simple and cute, with the male pup handing over his Halloween winnings to his lady friend. Right?

I'm still a huge fan of using a black copic-friendly pen to fill in the lines once the die-cuts are in place. The images look so much more seamless like this!



Without adding the black lines and coloring the white spaces, you wouldn't be able to tell that the bucket strap is in the dog's mouth. It would just look like it's resting on top.

It's an extra step that take hardly any time, but makes a huge difference!

I hope you like it - there's way more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

♥.

Lawn Fawn August inspiration week!

Hi there!

Are you ready??

At the end of this week, all of Lawn Fawn's fall/winter products will be available for purchase!

I have 2 cards on the LF blog this morning. They've already been blogged here, but in case you missed them, here they are:

You can find more details on the original blog post - click!

And check out the Lawn Fawn blog this morning for so many amazing design team projects - click!

♥.

A little something old, a little something new

Hi there!

I'm here and on the NT blog this morning, with a card that mixes a little fantastic something from our newest release, with a more vintage Neat and Tangled set.

I was so inspired by a card that Debby made for Neat and Tangled's birthday blog hop - click! - where she used the new Hooray die as a frame. I snipped off the scripty Hooray and used the die, in plain white, to frame the woodsy lumberjack (from Lumberjack Love.)

I really can't wait to use this little guy on some holiday cards! But it's still too hot outside. In the meantime, I rubbed some blue ink (Mermaid, from Lawn Fawn) onto a circle die-cut to make sure everything in front of it would pop. 

The bottom half of the card was colorblocked by rubbing a soft brown ink over a separate panel, and splattering it with grey ink.

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

♥.

Neat and Tangled turns 4!

Hi there!

It's day 4 of Neat and Tangled 4th birthday blog hop celebration - have you been tuning in so far?

I created this card for the occasion, using my new stamp set Little Stinker. It's in the NT store right now.

Did you see that watercolored background? It's watercoloring for dummies. If that's a club, I'm the president. I have no clue what I'm doing, but I used a new-to-me product from Cosmo Cricket and it's a game changer. It's called Pixie Paints, and I used the Candy color here. Check it out - click!

And don't forget to go by the NT blog this morning - there are amazing prizes up for grabs and an all-star lineup every day of the hop!

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T is for Thomas

My kids all have their birthdays within the same 10 days, at the end of April/beginning of May. I'm usually sweating my way through 3 birthday party weekends, and in a sugar coma at the end of it all. This year, my sweet Thomas turned 9 and asked for a party in the summer so he could play outside with his friends.

"Outside" and "later" were the 2 most beautiful words I had ever heard.

We usually do properly themed parties, but Thomas said he just wanted the party to be "all about me."

So I ran with it.

I printed up an 18x24 inch poster (on engineering print paper, it costed just a few dollars at Staples,) mounted it to a foam core board and framed it out with electrical tape.  That poster, and a roll of striped wrapping paper was all I needed for a striking backdrop.



The rest of the photos are just close-ups of the desserts, haha. Every treat started with the letter T, to carry our little theme.



These peanut butter balls had graham crackers in them for a bit of crunch. They were delicious! You can make them for yourself: click!



I was so excited to have an excuse to buy a trifle bowl! I love all the pretty layers. We did a lemon pudding with angel food cake and blueberries. I am still sneaking bites from the fridge, it is so good.



These little tartlets looked so elegant!

Vanilla cupcakes, injected with caramel sauce and a chocolate frosting to top it off = twix cupcakes. There were none left over.

My favorite dessert hands down were these s'mores cookies. Honestly, so chewy and yummy and you'll want the recipe: click! I don't have a kitchen torch, so I turned on the broiler at the end of the cooking time to toast those marshmallows.

I hope you liked this simple party spread! It was so fun and easy to put together, and Thomas felt like a star.

♥.

Little Mermaids {Waffle Flower guesting}

Hi there!

I'm here and on the Waffle Flower blog this morning, with a set of fun cards featuring Little Mermaids.

My first card combines Little Mermaids with Birthday Fishes.



The little fish checking out the fish balloon cracks me right up.

My next card shows off both monkey mermaids. The one on the left is sporting a hair jewel that I thought was a perfect match for the swooping edges of the Doily Square Die. Especially when I colored in the little pink drops. They look like jewels all around the die-cut frame!



I hope you have a pearl-fect day! Thanks for stopping by!

♥.

let's party! with avery elle

Hi there!

I am starting to get inky again, after taking a break for a few weeks. It feels strange, and wonderful. I am so rusty!

Today, I'm sharing a card I made awhile back, using Avery Elle's Wild Birthday set:

I love these cute little safari animals - they are so fun to color! I stamped a p-a-r-t-y banner and the rest of the sentiment, I popped into the balloon.  They look too innocent to know what WILD means. ha.

I hope you like it! If you'd like to recreate this card, here's what you'll need from the Avery Elle store:

Wild Birthday Clear Stamps

Wild Birthday Ellements Dies

Wonky Stitches Ellements Dies