bling wreath

Doodlebug Sequins and Lawn Fawn Bows and Holly Stamp

CFC-146 joy

Messing around with the snowflakes inspiration for CAS-ual Fridays 146. 

Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes

Lawn Fawn Scripty Joy

MFT Chevron Stripes

Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins

CFC-146 merry christmas

CAS-ual Friday's inspiration this week was snowflakes, nice and simple for this time of year.

I cut the Lawn Fawn stitched snowflakes from an acetate sheet and used it as a mask to ink on some old white ink, then I cut the wonderful 'Merry Christmas' from the Hero Arts from some glitter paper and decorated with a few Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins.

Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes

Hero Arts Fancy Cut Christmas

Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins

remember me

My gran would have loved this card, I always made things that were shiny and textured so she could make them out.

Lawn Fawn Blissful Botanicals

Hero Arts Hello Stamp & Cut

Lawn Fawn Stitched Squares

Copics

rainbow balloons

Still inspired by the Lawnscaping 'rainbow' challenge.

Lawn Fawn Party Balloons

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Lawn Fawn  Stitched Scalloped Rectangles

Lawn Fawn Stuck on You

Mama Elephant Birthday Script

birthday balloons

I'm going through old stash and trying to use it up... and I found some really old stickers from DCWV that I've attempted to make up with some of my newer stuff.

My Favourite Things Chevron Strips

Lawn Fawn Party Balloons

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear 4 & 6 mm

the bling thing

I've had a go at this weeks Wednesday challenge from Simon Says Stamp - Sparkle and Shine.

Paper Smooches Congratulations die

Bling from stash

owl folk feel better

When I have a busy paper I like I just like to leave it well alone to shine... a little embellishment and a woodgrain stamp and another simple card kit for my mother.

Papermania Owl Folk

Hero Arts Woodgrain background

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Pretty Pink Posh Turquoise sequins 4 & 6 mm

5 colours

I've been back at the chevrons again, this time with the broad chevrons.

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Mama Elephant scripty happy

Mama Elephant scripty birthday

MFT Dienamics Chevron Strips

Doodlebug Sequins

owl folk birthday wishes

I think I've probably said before that I make card 'kits' for my mum who only has use of one arm. The kits have everything cut and prepared, all stamping is done and everything needed is included.

My mum gave me a pad of paper from the Papermania Owl Folk collection, so that I could make some cards to share with U3A (whose logo is an owl); instead I've been making kits for her to make up.

This is the first that I shall share.

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Mama Elephant scripty birthday

Lawn Fawn Belinda's Borders

Lawn Fawn Stuck on You

think pink

Continuing my lessons with the MFT summer school, and this lesson was about using a monochrome family of colours. I dug out my MFT Beautiful Bows dies, and some old scraps of paper and instant new card :)

MFT Beautiful Bows

Hero Arts Hello stamp and cut

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins

red, and yellow, and pink, and green

Messing around, not much more to say...

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Borders

Lawn Fawn Year Five

Lawn Fawn Party Balloons

Mama Elephant happy die

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles

Pretty Pink Posh Sequins

sparkle

Another go at the Sparkle & Shine challenge, and I'm happier with this one.. even if my balloons are a bit bright.

Mama Elephant Up & Away

Lawn Fawn Year 4

Mama Elephant Borderlines Trio

Lawn Fawn Scattered Showers

Lawn Fawn Stitched Journalling Card

Hero Arts hello stamp & cut

Copics

Lawnscaping 110 - rainbow chevrons

I've been messing around with my MFT chevrons again, in fact these chevrons are actually the waste between the two die sections :) It also nicely fits this weeks Lawnscaping challenge, which is to be inspired by a rainbow.

My Favourite Things Chevron Strips

Lawn Fawn Year Three

Lawn Fawn Winter Penguin

Lawn Fawn A Birdie Told Me

Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear in 4, 6 & 8 mm

being complementary

I'm still playing along with the MFT summer school, and lesson 7 was about the use of complementary colours. I think this card would work well with any pair, but it needed the little bit of neutral on the card base, as white blue and orange all looked silly. BTW did you also spot my placement follows the rule of thirds?

MFT Dienamics- Chevron Strips

Lawn Fawn Scripty Hello

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

cas(e) myself

Cas(e)ing myself with another one of the stamps from the Stampin' Up Crazy for Cupcakes set.

Stampin' Up Crazy for Cupcakes

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Lawn Fawn Treat Yourself

Copics

Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear 4 & 6 mm

cas(e) this sketch 132

Cas(e) this sketch 132 made me want to dig out an old Stampin' Up stamp set, and an old Hero Arts background stamp, sometimes its good to dig out old favourites.

Stampin' Up Crazy for Cupcakes

Hero Arts Envelope background

Lawn Fawn Treat Yourself

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Copics

Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins, 4 & 6 mm

sparkle and shine challenge 10

The Sparkle and Shine Challenge this week was a  sketch challenge, and I've found it incredibly

revisiting the theme and variations

I really quite liked my sunset skies cards, and since the inks were  still out on my desk I thought I'd try a variation... This time I tried to 'shade' with a grey as well as the black stamped image... I have my big star down by the word 'my' that was cover a splat from when I took the lid off my copics... secret fix :) and its a nice simple one layer card.

Lawn Fawn Admit One

Mama Elephant Borderlines Trio

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Copics

This card was featured on Fawny Flickr Friday on 17th July 2015

merry

The challenge this week on Daring Cardmakers was 'Christmas in July', and so I am getting a head start on those christmas cards, go me! I don't know where this whole Christmas in July thing has come from but I even heard it out in the wild in town today... very strange.

Lawn Fawn Bows & Holly

Lawn Fawn Stitched Journalling Card

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

elemental

I have loads of little flash drives, all tiny, all identical, and each containing different things and so I wanted to find a way to identify each drive.

I love science, I really do, and all of my hard drives are named after elements, and I just thought mixing in the conical flask from Science of Love just worked so well with the Quinn's abcs on shrink plastic. A 3/16 hole punched with my crop-a-dile before shrinking with my heat gun and I was done.

Lawn Fawn Science of Love

Lawn Fawn Quinn's abcs

is it a bird?

Playing along again with the July challenge from Mama elephant to have a colourful rainbow card and decided I would colour my superhero in a rainbow uniform :)

Mama Elephant Tiny Heroes

Mama Elephant Purrfect Pair

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Lawn Fawn Scattered Showers

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear

cas(e) this sketch 131

I found this weeks sketch from cas(e) this sketch almost impossible to make into a card, ah well I had a go...

My Minds Eye Boy Crazy 6x6 pad

Lawn Fawn Hearts die

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles Die

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Pretty Pink Posh Aquamarine 4 & 6 mm sequins

Edited to add: this was a CAS(E) this sketch honourable mention

theme & variations three

A year ago I made a wedding card for a pair of surfers, and now it is their wedding anniversary, so another surfy card was in order. More handout surfboards.

Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine

Mama Elephant Borderlines Trio

mft summer school - rainbow bright

The My Favourite Things summer school was talking about colour today, specifically primary colours and colour wheels. So I've used my much loved chevron die and a few sequins to make a lovely rainbow.

MFT die-namics chevron strips die

Lawn Fawn year one

Doodlebug sequins

theme & variations two

Another effort at a sky, but this one is less perfect in my blending :( I was impressed with my up cycling of the sentiment from year five!

Lawn Fawn Blue Skies

Lawn Fawn Year Five

theme & variations one

I've bought the 1" distress ink pads, and have been trying to use them, practicing my blending. I'm not great with using them yet, and I'm always surprised how much smoother the ink is after fully drying.

Anyway, this was my attempt at a sunset sky, I've tried a few after making a mask, I'll share them in the coming days.

Lawn Fawn Home Sweet Home

Lawn Fawn Scripty Sayings

Weeeeeee!!!!!

I think the Lawn Fawn Cruising Through Life bike is sooo much fun and I was really excited to see a matching die for it in the latest release. I feel I'll use it so much more now I can easily cut it out :)

Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders

Lawn Fawn Cruising Through Life

Lawn Fawn Scattered Showers

Lawn Fawn Year Three

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Mama Elelphant Femme Frames

a-chev-ron-ron-ron, a-chev-ron-ron

New toys, I'm late to the chevron party, but there is some great inspiration out there...

My Favorite Things Die-Namics Chevron Strips

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Lawn Fawn Scripty Hello

wPlus9 Strictly Sentiments

birthday tweeting

The challenge this month at Make the Day Special is to use a christmas stamp set for a non christmas set. I've discovered I have very few christmas sets, but one set I do have is Winter Sparrows from Lawn Fawn.

I've taken the bird with the ear muffs, and turned them into ear phones... I've also used part of the sentiment, the music notes and branch and leaves.

Lawn Fawn Winter Sparrows

Lawn Fawn Year Five

Lawn Fawn Feathered Friends

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Lawn Fawn Fluffy Clouds

Copics

Pretty Pink Posh Sparking Clear

that's fintastic

Quite a few of the design team at Lawnscaping Challenges have been using their new Lawn Fawn So Jelly and Fintastic Friends stamps, and I just had to give them a go too as they've mostly been unused since buying a few weeks ago.

Lawnscaping Challenge 109 was 'sparkle & shine', and since buying my first Pretty Pink Posh sequins I've used them on everything so this one was easy for me :)

I've attempted a bokeh background, starting off with a selection of blue distress inks, and circle template cut from a sheet of acetate. I was quite pleased with my first effort :)

Lawn Fawn So Jelly

Lawn Fawn Fantastic Friends

Lawn Fawn Critters in the Arctic

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Copics

Distress Inks

Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear, 4, 6 & 8 mm

Edited to add: this won me the queen of green

get well

Needing a get well card for an older gentleman, this is what I came up with. More distress ink blending :)

Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves

Lawn Fawn Get Well Soon

rainbow paw prints

The July challenge on the Mama Elephant blog is to create a colourful rainbow. So I decided to make a rainbow background with paw prints and a little heart to show off my pure white cat.

Mama Elephant Purrfect Pair

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Mama Elephant Bold Banner

Copics

Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins

sparkle and shine challenge

The challenge on the Sparkle & Shine blog this week was all red white and blue for American independence day, but I'm not american so I just interpreted the colours and used it as an excuse to try out my new ocean waves dies from Lawn Fawn,  I'm really loving the sparkling clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh, I'm using them on almost everything at the moment :)

Lawn Fawn Float My Boat

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Lawn Fawn Ocean Wave borders

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Pretty Pink Posh Sparking Clear 4 & 6 mm

Edited to add: this won the sparkle and shine challenge :)

roller rink

I found some glitter tapes in Paperchase, 4 colours, 5 m of each for only £3. For some reason the colours remind me of the 70's specifically roller boots and disco. Simply teamed with a sentiment from Paper Smooches I think I've got a cute card :) and it fits perfectly with this weeks Anything Goes at Paper Smooches Sparks

Mama Elephant Femme Frames

Lawn Fawn Puffy Stars

Lawn Fawn Stitched Journalling Card

Paper Smooches Congratulations