Lawn Fawn Wonderful Window

When I saw this sweet die, Lawn Fawn’s new Wonderful Window, I just had to buy it!  This is my first card with this die and there are so many possibilities that I will be using it again and again!  The tulip base slides into the little flower box.  If you want to make the windows open, you can!  There are also little cut outs for each window pane with tulip cut outs, if you want to totally different look.

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Supplies Used:

Dies:  Lawn Fawn – Wonderful Windows & Grassy Hillside Borders

Stamps: Lawn Fawn – Joy To The Woods set

Paper:  American Crafts May Berry Paper Pad; Recollections Metallics and Vellum

Markers: Copic

Ink:  Momento Black

Twine:  Doodlebug Inc. Doodle Twine

Embellishments: Glossy Accents

Entries:

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #230 – Photo Inspiration

Make My Monday: Challenge #40 – Birds

Happy Little Stampers: February CAS Challenge – Blue

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Warm & Cozy Wishes

 

I just love this image by A Day for Daisies called Hot Coco.  It speaks to me because hot chocolate is my warm drink of choice, since I”m not a coffee drinker.  It was so fun to color with my Copic markers.  I love the little doggy, following along behind.  I used a silver metallic paint marker on her pompom.  I added glossy accents on her bag of marshmallows. The little polka dots were added with a white gel pen.  I popped the image and part of the banner up with fun foam and foam tape.

 

Products used:

• Paper: Neenah Solar White 80 lb
• Designer Paper: American Crafts
• DIE-Namics Pierced Squares & Dimensional Banners
• Fun Foam & 3M Foam Tape
• Gel pen – White Uniball Signo Broad
• Glossy Accents
• Sentiment:  Stampendous Snowy Short Stacks
  • Inside Reads: ” to warm your heart <3″

Challenges:

• A Day for Daisies Challenge – #158 – Two or More Layers
• The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog – Challenge 107 – Winter Warmers

 

One in a Minion

 

I recently learned that my dear Mother-in-Law loves the Minions.  So, this just had to be done.  Happy Birthday to you!  I am glad we share our youthful love of whimsical things!! This minion’s name is Dave.

Here is the inside and the back.  I used a Minion language translator website for these. .  Just do a web search for minions translator.  The minion eyeballs on the site follow your mouse – really cute!

The sentiment.

The last word – on the back!  

Products used:

• Paper: Neenah and Misc. cardstock
• Circle Punches -Creative Memories
• Circle Dies – We R Memory Keepers QuickKutz Nesting Circles
• Font:  Mignone
• Gel pens

Challenges:

• The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog – Challenge 104 – Five of a Kind (There are 5 black circles on this Minion!)
• One Stitch at a Time – Challenge 272 – Anything Goes with Monochromatic 

Inspiration/pattern credit: Stamps Well with Others

Halloween Scene

 

Halloween is coming!   I love all the candy and cute kidlets in costumes and candy and well, the CANDY! I could do without all the scary movie commercials though! :).  I decided it was time to create a few fun cards for my Halloween loving friends 🙂  The card set was a labor of love because I rarely make multiples.  I used the Misti when I could, but these cards included lots of masking, layers of stamping, and Copic coloring!  This is the cutest one of the set, I think!

 

Products used:

• Stamps:  Lawn Fawn Sets: “Let’s Celebrate”& “Sweater Weather”; Pumpkin – Hot Off the Press
• Markers:  Copic
• Cardstock – Lawn Fawn – Let’s Polka in the Dark Petite paper pack
• Inks:  Stampin’ Up

Challenges:

• Lawnscaping Challenge:  Pinterest Inspired
• Double “D” Challenges: Pumpkin Time
• The Crafty Addicts Challenge:  Anything Goes/Autumn Colours

Hagrid!

 

Wow…look at all these cobwebs around here!  I wish I could say it was because Halloween is coming – but really, I’ve just been posting my cards more on Instagram lately.  I tend to make more cards in the colder months – when I’m stuck inside – so card season is coming up here really quickly!! 🙂

I made this card for our niece – her 12th birthday is today!  She recently got to experience the joy of reading the Harry Potter books…so I just couldn’t resist buying this digi from Bugaboo Stamps!  I bought another of the set – and there are so many others that I just love!!

 

Products used:

• Digi Stamp:  Bugaboostamps.com – “Har Repotter The Gentle One”
• Markers:  Copic
• Cardstock – Club Scrap, Neenah
• Dies:  Nestabilities Curved Rectangles, DIEnamics Dimensional Banners
• Embossing Tinsel – Ranger Copper

Challenges:

• Catch the Bug: October Anything Goes Challenge
• Cards in Envy: Frame It! Card Challenge
• Cute Card Thursday:  Challenge 446: Anything Goes

Some Things Old, Some Things New

 

Christmas has gone by, and I only got half the cards out that I’d hoped.  In this New Year, one nice thing is that we are just seeing our first snow here. I think snowflakes work out great for thank you cards for those holiday gifts!  This is one I’ll be sending out soon.

For this card, I dug out my vellum and embossed my new Crystal Flurries stamps by The Ton stamps on it with some glittery blue embossing powder I have had in my stash a long while.  I adhered the vellum down just under the snowflakes, so it looks like a loose overlay around the edges.  I just love the new DCWV Glitzy cardstock I received as one of my gifts!  The glitter doesn’t come off at all and the sparkle is awesome!   I used a cute die cut from Simon Says Stamp.

 

Products used:

• Stamps:  The Ton – Crystal Flurries
• Cardstock – Neenah Solar White
• Metallic Cardstock  – DCWV Glitsy
• Embossing Powder – Stamp-n Stuff Blue Tinsel Translucent by Stampendous
• Die:  Simon Says Stamp Small Hello Craft Die

Challenges:

• Cards in Envy: Shiny New Year Card Challenge 
• Shopping Our Stash: #234 – Something New
• A Snowflake’s Promise – Challenge 14 Anything Goes

Crystal Flurries

 

As my obsession with snowflakes continues, here is a card I made with my new Crystal Flurries set by The Ton stamps.  I embossed the flakes with Ranger Platinum embossing powder and then water colored the paper.  I embossed the edges of the white cardstock with the same embossing powder so that it would match the stamps.  The vellum banner is hand stitched with a silvery thread I found in my cross stitching stash.

 

Products used:

• Stamps:  The Ton – Crystal Flurries
• Watercolors:  Sakura  24-Piece Koi Assorted Water Colors Field Sketch Set
• Cardstock – Neenah Solar White
• Watercolor Paper:  Strathmore
• Embossing Powder – Ranger Liquid Platinum
• Metallic Floss – Unknown

Challenges:

• Paper Sweeties Inspiration Challenge #39 – Jan 2016
• Cards in Envy:  Let It Snow Card Challenge
• Eureka Stamps: Challenge 3173 – Snowmen or Snowflakes