Celebrate the Red, White, and Bl-ewe!

 Happy fourth of July week, American bloggers! I made this card with the holiday in mind for the Simon Says Stamp Patriotic challenge and then I added dimension for the Lawnscaping Dimension Challenge. I hadn't used any punny goodness for a while, so I was super happy when I came up with this one! :) The black frame was cut and embossed for extra dimension with a Nestabilities die, the sheep are on pop dots, as is the banner. I used the little tiny star from the Critters Ever After set to make blue and red stars on the middle ewe with Tim Holtz distress inks. Hope you like it and I hope you have a lovely fourth of July! :)


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Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby  

Featured on Fawny Flicker Friday Saturday July 7, 2012!!

Ginger Snap Scraps DT: Buttons & Bows

Good Tuesday, bloggers! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Today I have this card made from goodies from the Ginger Snap Scraps store. I used some Lawn Fawn, a lil Bazzill, a touch of Distress ink, the back of a My Mind's Eye wooden button from the Lost & Found collection, and some Copic action. All the items I used are below in the thumb nail links. Just click the thumb nail to take you to the items used. Be sure to check out the Ginger Snap Scraps' blog and see the other designs from the design team!

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby


Entering this card into the Lawn Fawn Color Splash Challenge!

ETA: This card was featured on Fawny Flickr Friday for June 29, 2012 and won a spot in the Top Mow it Alls for Lawnscaping Challenges Color Splash #36 challenge!!

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!

Interactive Christmas Card

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Well we all know how much I love Lawn Fawn stamps ...so when I saw the new challenge at Two Peas for Lawn Fawn Christmas cards, I couldn't resist! I made an interactive Christmas card with four of their stamp sets. The "door" with the wreath is the top layer of my card and for that I used Lawn Fawn's Bows and Holly stamp set. Inside the door I used their Critters in the Forrest for the tree, the raccoon, and the fox. The Santa hat is from their Hats Off to You set. The snowflake background I stamped in Versa Mark on the Kraft paper is from one of their newer sets, Making Frosty Friends.

I cut the card on my Silhouette, but made a couple modifications so that the door was different from the frame on the front and that the inside would be kraft so that it would be easy to write on. Everything was colored in with Copics and paper pieced. Heaps of Stickles were used and plenty of bling and pearl bits were also used.

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This last picture is just to show you that you can have an interactive card and still have the same amount of room to write a note inside as you would a regular card. You can also substitute the Christmas tree with the animals inside and instead adhere your family photo for holiday cards. The possibilities are endless with this type of card! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Featured on Fawny Flickr Friday's Blog on 11/18/2011. :)

Lawnscaping Challenge, Paper Piecing ...received the award of Honorable Gnome!

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It's time for another Lawnscaping challenge! It's their 20th challenge and this one is to use paper piecing on a project. I'm really excited as I thought I had missed my chance to enter, but I didn't! I'm getting this in just under the wire as it's due today. Whew!

I was inspired by this card by Yainea. I die cut a circle in the American Craft's night sky paper and placed it over a moon I drew with Copics. I then die cut a tree from my Cindy Loo cartridge from my Cricut, once with the kraft paper and once with the Hambly woodgrain overlay. Edged the kraft die cut with Tim Holtz's Vintage Photo and adhered it to the overlay with Glossy Accents adhesive and adhered it to the card. I stamped and colored in the owl from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the forest on Kraft and cut it out. Then I stamped the witches hat from Lawn Fawn's Hats Off to You and adhered it to the Owl's head. Then paper pieced the witch owl with foam adhesives to the tree. For the sentiment I cut a strip of vellum and stamped it with Lawn Fawn's Happy Haunting stamp set's "Have a Spooktacular Halloween" with a white paint dabber as the ink. I folded the left over edges around the back and adhered it that way so you couldn't see adhesive through the vellum. I also wrapped some of Doodlebug's Halloween twine around the top and bottom of the vellum to secure it a little more. The last stamps I used were the little bats from the same Happy Haunting set to make the moon look a lil spooky. Lastly I cut and pieced some clouds from the AC's cardstock and paper pieced them with more foam adhesives and added a couple of bling bits here and there.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you and your family have a super "spooktacular" Halloween!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

This card won Honorable Gnome for Lawnscaping challenge #20!! It was also featured on the Lawn Fawn Blog for a Fawny Flickr Halloween post.

Thank you so much for all the comments on this post and throughout my blog, they all put huge smiles on my face! :)