Lawn Fawn CHA Opportunity!

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It's a long shot, but I thought I'd try make a couple cards to enter for Lawn Fawn's newest contest. The contest is for an opportunity to be published in their latest catalog and to have your project displayed at their booth at winter CHA! So I decided to do a twist on an old favorite of one of my very first Lawn Fawn cards I ever made.

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I first stamped the clouds from their Bon Voyage stamp set in Versa Mark ink and sprinkled sea foam embossing powder over them. After I heated it with my heat gun and let it cool for a bit, I went over the entire piece of paper with Tim Holtz's distress stain in Tumbled Glass. Before it had a chance to dry I used a finger foam tool to blend in some of the distress ink (not stain) in Tumbled Glass to the sky around the clouds. Then I spritzed it with an October Afternoon opaque white sprinkler spray. I dabbed off as much as I could, then went over the sky parts around the clouds again with the distress ink and finger foam tool.

I stamped the Ferris Wheel then cut the insides out with an exacto knife. It's always best to cut before you spend time and waste ink coloring when using an exacto knife, just in case you mess up with the exacto knife. Trust, I've learned this the hard way before! I just colored it pretty simple with Copics and adhered mini gems to the tops of the Ferris Wheel cabins and one larger one in the center. I always see real life Ferris Wheels with lights on them, so adding the bling kind of reminded me of the fancy lights of the Midway. Once everything was ready I adhered it with foam adhesives to the cloud paper background.

For the tickets I did pretty much the same, except I distressed the side edges a bit with my distress tool so that they'd look like they were freshly torn from a giant spool of tickets. I adhered the center ticket first with a slightly thicker foam adhesive and then the other two were added with the thinner foam adhesives. I also wrapped some green baker's twine under the Ferris Wheel to kind of ground the wheel so it didn't look like it was floating in the sky. Grass I guess.

The last thing I did was cut my, "You make my world go round" stamp into two separate stamps so that I could curve it a tad and stamp it horizontally. Lawn Fawn stamps are super easy to cut because they're so well made! I can easily piece them together on my acrylic block if I want to go back to using the stamp as it was intended. I stamped out a banner from Lawn Fawn's Bannerific stamp set and stamped the sentiment on it. Then I added some Copic coloring and cut it out. I layered it on a couple pieces of plain cardstock to give it a lil height, but not too much.

Thanks so much for stopping by! And thank you so so much to my new followers! You're all awesome! When I reach 30 followers I'll post a contest for a random draw for a huge stash of blog candy to give away as a thank you!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Lawnscaping Challenge #24, Texture.

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Well girls and boys, it's the last Lawnscaping Challenge of the year and it's all about texture! I love texture on cards and scrapbook pages. Nothing else can quite make a paper project pop more than a touch of texture.

This image from Pintrest was my inspiration for this card. After seeing this, I really wanted to make a Valentine/Love card with embroidered hearts! :) The thing I love about Valentine items is that you can use them year round. This card could easily be a Valentine, but also works for a, "Hey, I love you!" card as well. Just as long as you don't stamp Valentine anywhere on it, but use excessive amounts of hearts.

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For my texture I decided to use embroidery, Grunge Paper, and foam adhesive. I also stamped hearts with Lawn Fawn's Teeny Tiny Backdrops in red ink over Fancy Pant's One Heart Love Story Paper. I think it added a wee bit of texture while still keeping the paper flat. For the Grunge Paper all I did was stamp the dog, fox and shakers on it and cut it out. Then I adhered it to the back of the regular card stock that I stamped and Copic colored for a bit of a dimension. After the glue dried I adhered the dog and fox with foam adhesives to the paper I stamped. Then glued the shakers on with regular glue to the animals. This way the shakers are still propped up a bit because of the Grunge Paper, but not with the foam adhesive because they were too small. The last thing I did was add a heart sticker that is sewn up the middle and set on a piece of foam adhesive.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope your holidays were/are merry and bright! It's amazing how time flies by so fast! I can't believe in a week's time it will be a new year already!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

This card was featured on Lawn Fawn's Fawny Flickr Friday blog post on January 9, 2012!

Halloween at Home, 4x6 Photo Love

This is a sketch by Shimelle Laine that uses 11 4x6 photos on one layout. I changed the layout a tad because I had mostly portrait photos. All the photos on this layout that were portrait were taken with my iPhone. When I use my iPhone for pictures I tend to take more portrait photos than landscape, mainly because it can be a little awkward to hold the phone in the landscape position. However, if I use my regular camera they almost always end up landscape, funny yea? It was a little difficult to photograph this layout for the blog simply because it was interactive with that center half page that held six 4x6 photos. I felt I needed to photograph them in my album to get the full effect.

I used some different fall papers and Tim Holtz's autumn distress inks. I also got the chance to finally use the American Crafts' Nightfall chalk board stickers. Basically they're just black cardstock stickers, but they look a lot like chalkboards. I used a white gel ink pen on them and I love the way they turned out! I also used a Tim Holtz "31" Plaquette that I had been hoarding for a Halloween page. The scalloped edge at the bottom is from Martha Stewart, it's her Scallop Dot edge punch. The patches are from American Crafts and the stickers are from Echo Park. I basically hoard anything that has a black cat on it because I love them so much. So I put as much black cat goodness on this layout as I could! I'll put some more close up pictures below .....

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Three 4x6 Photos

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This is a layout I did with three 4x6 photos. I like to do new and fresh designs, but I almost always keep it "old school" with 4x6 photos. I love this layout because one would think you'd need to stick with patriotic colors when doing a page about Washington, DC. You never have to stick to any specific color scheme, you can do whatever your heart desires, but still keep it pretty!

For this page I used Bo Bunny papers, Acrylic paint spatters, ribbon, and SRM stickers. By putting stars, gold paint splatters and the Washington DC stickers from SRM I feel even though the colors are not the norm, you can still see the patriotic feel.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Lawnscaping Challenge #23, Tags or Treat Bags

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Another fun Lawnscaping challenge! This week's was all about tags and treat bags. Since it's the holidays I chose to make a gift tag. I'm infatuated with Lawn Fawn's Making Frosty Friends stamp set. Maybe it's the Hawaiian/Southern girl in me longing for a white Christmas, but snowmen and snow flakes around the holidays make me happy.

I saw this picture on Pinterest and it just looked so pretty! So I decided to encase the snowman and penguin in an icy snow sheath.

I started off cutting out a tag on my Cricut with white cardstock. I stamped snow flakes from two different Lawn Fawn stamp sets (Making Frosty Friends and Critters in the Snow) with Versa Mark and then sprinkled with white embossing powder. After tapping off the excess embossing powder I heated the snowflakes with my heat tool. Once it cooled I blended two blue distress (broken china and stormy sky) inks with a distress stain in tumbled glass and sponged off any excess ink with a paper towel. Then I free handed some snow hills and out lined them in Copic markers and stickles and adhered them to the bottom of the tag. Because the plastic (just some excess packaging from a cheap-o digital camera) I ran through the Cuttlebug and embossed with a snowflake pattern was pretty thick, I decided to back the animals and tree with some thin chip board so that they stood out more by adding dimension. I had a snow making pen and decided to add some puffy snow on the snowman's hat poof and to the tree. I also added some mini bling and pearls to some of the snowflake centers and three black gems for the snowman's coal buttons. Tied a bow at the top of the tag with some doodlebug Christmas twine. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment or send me an e-mail and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

I hope you like my tag and thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky & glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

This project was chosen as Top Mow It All at Lawnscaping!