Lawnscaping: Make it Shine!

Alright everyone, last Lawnscaping challenge of the year! This should be the last Christmas card I make of the year too, but don't quote me on that!  The challenge is shine, this is when you pull out anything that glimmers, sparkles, or shines ....then you toss them all together ...kidding, sort of!  I wanted to make ornaments, so I used the gnome and added a Santa hat for an instant transformation into Mr. Claus.  Then I used the gingerbread guy (my favorite cookie, btw!) and colored them up with Copics and highlighted accents with stickles.  Set them aside to dry, and adhered them with glossy accents the next morning to fragment charms.  Then I heat embossed pine sprigs with a bunch of different embossing powders that I mixed together before applying.  Then, I distressed/resisted the embossed cardstock with distress ink, glimmer mist, and gold acrylic paint (watered down) over and over again till I got the right look.   I strung the "ornaments" up with my ever trusty burlap twine and attached it to a Kraft card base.  Then I made a flag for my beautiful Merry Christmas sentiment, and distressed it a wee bit more.  The final touch was adding the Tim Holtz tinsle I've had for two months that I couldn't quite figure out what to do with.  I think it added a great final touch of shine to my super shiny card!  I wish I were a better photographer, because half of the shine wouldn't pick up in the photos.  Hrrrmm, maybe that's a good thing?  ha!

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Inky and SUPER GLITTERY fingers for all!
-Gaby

Challenges Entered:

•  Simon Says Stamp and Show's Gift-spiration challenge.
•  Lawnscaping's Make It Shine Challenge.
•  Simon Says Stamp Challenges' Simon Says ......Merry Christmas!
•  Ribbon Carousel's RCC75 - Holiday Spirit

Karber DT Card of the Week: Aquarius!

This week for my Karber design team card I used the Aquarius digi for their Zodiac line. Isn't she cute with her Snorkel gear on? I added a die cut doily, some orange baker's twine, and some neat self sticky turquoise round sparkle embellishments. I edged everything with a Tim Holtz ink from his winter line. I Copic colored her and made her snorkel mask orange and her bathing suit aqua. I left out the bubbles as I ran out of room, sadly.

An all new Karber Challenge starts on the first. Be sure to enter!

Also don't forget that Karber has an all new Flickr Group, be sure to check it out! Periodically the owners of Karber will be picking random winners for prizes, as well as guest design team spots to those who upload to their Flickr group page!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

CAS Lawn Fawn Card

I'm trying to hone my CAS card skills, so that's what I made this week for some challenges. I was inspired by the CAS-ual Friday challenge, but was too late to enter it. However I just love the teal and orange together, plus I got to use my new May Art's chevron ribbon!

I first stamped the butterfly directly onto the Kraft base. Then I Copic colored the butterfly from Lawn Fawn in orange hues on white cardstock and fussy cut it. I adhered it onto the stamp I had already stamped on the Kraft with Glossy Accents only in the center of the butterfly. Measured out how much room I'd need with the ribbon strip before laying it down and stamped the sentiment first. Then the most taxing part of this card was to get those loops just right. It's a lot harder than it looks and has me thinking I need some proper ribbon glue if I ever do this again!! Those little buggers did not want to stay at first! To finish off the card I added two Doodlebug orange gems and cropped the top right corner. Oh and I also went back to the butterfly and curled up the edges of it to give it a lil dimension, this is why I only put adhesive in the center. I tell ya, CAS cards are no joke! When you can't hide your flaws behind heavy embellishments it can be hard, but I'm really pleased with how this turned out! :)

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Entered into the following challenges:
Ribbon Carousel challenge: RCC49
Whoopsiedaisy Challenges
Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge: Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes Challenge: Anything Goes
Challenge #1 at Just keep on creating