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! :)

Trick or Treat Bunny Card.

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For this card the stamps that I used are the Hero Art's woodgrain stamp, Lawn Fawn's Happy Haunting stamp set & Heebie Jeebies stamp set, and American Craft's Spooky Night small set. I started off cutting out a tree on my Cricut from the Cindy Loo cartridge. I sprayed the tree with chocolate chalk spray from Tattered Angels and let it dry. After it dried completely I stamped the tree with the woodgrain stamp from Hero Arts with Versa Mark ink and covered the tree with clear embossing powder. After heat embossing with my heat tool I went over it with Vintage Photo distress ink with a foam ink tool. Adhered the tree and cut off the edges that were hanging off. The next image I stamped was the bunny trick or treater from the American Craft's set, Copic colored it, and paper pieced it to the card. I did the same with the bat and the moon from the two Lawn Fawn stamps.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

I love Halloween with all the black kitty goodness!

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When I saw last month's Close to My Heart stamp set I just knew I had to have it! The witch is a little on the sultry side and the sentiment is pretty cute. A little homage to 'Wicked', yea? However, there is a black kitty with a curly tail!! <3 I seriously love black cats. Isn't my kitty a beauty?

OK, I'll stop with flaunting my cat's beauty and get back to card making! The card base is Kraft and the background with the purple sky is Doodlebug. I edged the purple sky cardstock with Stamp'n Up's Rich Razzleberry ink. It's a very deep and rich purple and a perfect accent to the paper.

I paper pieced everything and that witch was one pain in the okole to cut out! I used a craft knife where my scissors couldn't go, it was pretty tedious! I didn't cut it perfectly though. A good trick to fix the little bits that you couldn't cut is to run a black Copic marker along the edges to fill in what you missed. I outlined the sentiment with an orange copic (YR07 Cadmium Orange) marker and also colored in bits of the witch's hat and her stockings.

The twine I used is a super cute Halloween baker's twine also from Doodlebug. It has black, orange, and white threads twisted together. I placed a Doodlebug dark purple gem on the center of the bow to draw the purple into the final accent to the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

This project was entered into:
Freshly Brewed Challenges

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