GSS: American Crafts

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Happy Friday, bloggers! Today I've created a card that showcases some American Crafts goodness for Ginger Snap Scraps. I also used some Lawn Fawn, Studio Calico, and Copic too. I didn't have a reverse corner chomper, so I used a circle punch to make the design on the edges.

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Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Entered into this week's Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes challenge.

Sweet Stamp Shop: Sentimental Birds

I made this card using Sentimental Birds from Sweet Stamp Shop. When I saw SSS was teaming up with CAS-ual Fridays I was beyond excited that I could enter this card into both challenges! Yay! CAS-ual Fridays' challenge was to make a CAS card that featured soft pastels with black: The Bold & The Beautiful! So I decided to make my bold with black embossing powder and my beautiful by painting with mists and white washing with Tim Holtz Distress stain in Picket Fences. Once the paint dried I adhered black and white washi tape to the edges to make a frame. Then I stamped a sentiment to the flag and affixed it to the cardstock with a black brad.





Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

ETA: Yay! This card won the grand prize over at Sweet Stamp Shop!!

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!

Lawnscaping Challenge, Getting Texty!

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The new challenge with Lawnscaping is to make a project using text. I chose to spell out "thankful" with Sally's ABCs, use the "thank you" stamp from sophie's sentiments, and spell out "give thanks" with
smitty's ABCs in Tim Holtz's Vintage Photo to create the background layer of text for this card on Kraft cardstock.

After I stamped out all the text, I stamped and cut out six leaves from the harvest season set on scratch paper and used them as masks. I adhered the leaf masks down with removable adhesive and sprayed with Mr. Huey's mist in cream and Tattered Angel's Glimmer Mist in gold. I let it dry completely and removed the masks. I then stamped the areas that were under the masks with the same leaf stamp in Versamark ink. Sprinkled clear embossing powder on them and heat embossed.

Now that the background is complete I stamped out the cornucopia from the same Harvest Season stamp set and colored it in with Copic markers, cut it out and set it aside. I cut out a piece of textured cream cardstock and ran Tim Holtz's Distress Stain in Antique Linen over it. While it was still wet I took my foam tool and ran Vintage Photo Distress Ink over it ever so slightly, then spritzed it once with Sand Glimmer Mist. I blotted off the excess with a paper towel and dried it with my heat tool. Once dry I stamped it with the same leaf stamp as before with Vintage Photo, but stamped it off on a scrap piece of paper twice before stamping it on my cardstock. Lastly I edged it with the same Vintage Photo Distress ink and adhered it to another piece of cardstock from My Mind's Eye. Now it is perfectly distressed for that organic autumn feel. I adhered the cornucopia with foam adhesives and stamped the "Happy Thanksgiving" stamp on a piece of canvass tape with brown Stayzon ink and stuck it down. Glued it to the texty background and it's all finished.

Thanks so much for stopping by and happy first day of Autumn!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Lawnscaping Challenge, embossing.

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The current Lawnscaping challenge is using either wet or dry embossing on a paper project. I chose to use wet heat embossing. I used black embossing powder on the fence, the bats, and the house. I used Distress walnut embossing powder for the tree. The Lawn Fawn stamp sets I used were: Happy Haunting, Harvest Season, and Heebie Jeebies.

I distressed the night sky on the card with Tim Holt'z foam applicator tool using four different Tim Holtz distress inks (concord grape, stormy sky, broken china, vintage photo) and two mists by Tattered Angles (sand and peacock). Everything but the fence and the tree trunk were stamped, cut, and paper pieced. The ghosts and the large bat have foam adhesive behind them.

Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to check out Lawnscaping Challenges if you're interested in all their awesome challenges that come with fabulous prizes!

Inky and glittery fingers for all,
Gaby