FUSION Floral Wall Birthday Wishes...

Super fun FUSION this fortnight, inspired by this gorgeous photo and colour pallette, I fussy cut some cute flowers from an old sheet of SEI patterned paper and backed this with teal weathered wood background paper from My Mind's Eye, together with diecut Lawn Fawn letters for Happy and Ali Edwards (or it could be Studio Calico) scripty Birthday.

Check out some more fabulous FUSION inspiration from the Design Team

Barb Ghigliotty - Jeanne Jachna - Jen Mitchell

Karren Johnson - Linda Callahan - Michelle Leone

Michelle Lupton - Michelle Williams - Wanda Cullen

Can't wait to see what you create!

Monster Fusion

Super fun colours for this fortnights FUSION inspiration, created a kid's birthday card using MFT Rectangular Peek-A-Boo Window diecut, MFT Monster Sized stamp and sentiment paired with Lawn Fawn Birthday diecut.

Hop on over to the FUSION blog for some more super sized inspiration from our fabulous Design Team...

Becca Cruger - Betty J. - Jeanne Jachna - Jen Mitchell

Karren Johnson - Linda Callahan - Michelle Leone

Michelle Lupton - Michelle Williams - Wanda Cullen

Hope you can join in the fun this fortnight @ FUSION.

Can't wait to see what you create!

Also joining in the fun at
Seize the Birthday!

Baby FUSION...

Loving this fortnights FUSION super sketch and gorgeous baby room inspiration photo! My CAS baby card was created using a combination of Hero Arts patchwork elephant, paper pieced with this super cute Lawn Fawn hearts patterned paper, in a gorgeous Lil Inkers stitched circle die, fittingly topped with Mama Elephants' sentiment.

To play along you can take inspiration from either the FUSION sketch or inspiration photo - or combine the two as I have!

Hop on over to the FUSION blog for some more super sized inspiration from our fabulous Design Team...

Becca Cruger - Betty J. - Jeanne Jachna - Jen Mitchell - Karren Johnson

Linda Callahan - Michelle Leone - Michelle Lupton - Michelle Williams

Hope you can join in the fun this fortnight @ FUSION.

Can't wait to see what you create!

CAS(E) this Sketch on a Merry Monday...

Stamped these gorgeous Mama Elephant deer and bird silhouette images in Momento ink onto Lawn Fawn patterned paper, only to find you could still see the background through the image. Not wanting to see my patterned paper go to waste, I stamped onto plain paper in Watermark ink and heat embossed with Copper for the deer, and clear over red Momento ink for the bird, fussy cut and adhered the heat embossed images over my original stamping - patterned paper crisis averted!

The circular shaker box was created using Lil Inkers Stitched Circle and Dienamics Circle diecuts, to create a sandwich of foam sheet, clear acetate, and inserting "snow" glitter before adhering to the stamped pattern paper base. Added snow drift created using Mama Elephant diecut, and topped with Simon Says Stamp "Merry" sentiment.

So glad you could stop by!

Playing along with this versatile CAS(E) this Sketch, Merry Monday Birds, 

52 Christmas Cards Embossing (Heat), Winter Wonderland Frosty and 

Less is More Acetate or Vellum challenges.

Fabulous, Foxy & Fifty...

I had this card all lined up for FUSION this fortnight, but as FUSION has taken an early Summer break (see you back in September!) and as the card is for my hubby's 50th (hence the fabulous, foxy and fifty), I thought I would link it up to this weeks Simon Says For Him, and Seize the Birthday challenges instead. Created with Coute Coture embossing folder, wood veneers from Lawn Fawn and Studio Calico, letter stickers from Lily Bee, and papers from my stash.

Hubby noticed the the markings around the "fabulous" and asked "Does this mean you think I'm burnt out!?" LOL.

Spent a lovely couple of days relaxing in the Yarra Valley to celebrate - wine, cheese, chocolates and staying warm by the fire, while listening to the rain on the roof - perfect!

Playing along with Simon Says For Him and Seize the Birthday.

Joy to the World... The Christmas Challenge

With all that is happening in the world today, I thought I'd spread a little JOY. 

This began as an idea I had for the FUSION challenge this fortnight, but took a turn and ended up here! Based on the FUSION sketch, I created the Lawn Fawn snow bunny's ski run (or more accurately his sled run), and combined with the fabulous kraft, white, red and glittery silver from The Challenge A Christmas Colour Challenge. Falling snow background created using Winnie and Walters mask and modelling paste, and added Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday Christmas sentiment.

The Challenge A Christmas Colour Challenge

All Hearts Come Home for Christmas...

Are you like me and ought to have all your Christmas cards done by next Christmas LOL! There's so much inspiration out there I'm finding it hard to keep up!

I do love the idea of double-tagging on cards, as featured in the current Muse (Caroline) and Tag You're It! (Maureen) challenges. Christmas tag card created using Lawn Fawn papers, Paper Smooches Bookmark die cut, (shortened by die cutting just the fishtail end a second time to remove the excess length), My Favorite Things sentiment embossed in Silver, Prima wood veneer house, heart sequins from the ArtShed and twine from Annabelle's Stamps (now closed).

Playing along with Color Throwdown, Muse and Tag You're It!

I Fall 4 U...

Now I dare you no to have that song running around your head for the next 20 minutes LOL!

Created with left over leaves from this card, I thought I'd create a Valentine's Day card to play along with Lawnscaping Pumpkin / Fall Challenge. Seize the Birthday have a Monochromatic Orange challenge at the moment this would be perfect for - but for the slightly excluding fact it is not a birthday card LOL! 

The Lawn Fawn Autumn Leaves were die cut from watercolour paper with Twinkling H2O (Egyptian Gold, Autumn Butternut, Poppy) and LuminArte (Sunflower, Yellow Rose, Orange Peel, Persimmon), and the Lawn Fawn Into the Woods fox was stamped and paper pieced using scraps of Basic Grey papers. The sentiment was created using Lawn Fawn Into the Woods "fall" and Riley's ABCs.

Also Playing along with Card Concept Thank"fall" Clean & Simple and 

The Pink Elephant Photo Inspiration Challenge.

PS. Tag You're Christmas!

I've been meaning to play along with the fab Tag You're It Challenge for ages, and decided to combine this last minute entry with my Online Holiday Card Class Day 1 Homework (inspired by Debby's gorgeous tag card), Less Is More Colour Challenge - Non-Traditional Christmas, Paper Smooches Sparks Anything Goes, and Addicted to CAS Tags. Created using Paper Smooches Christmas Word dies, Lawn Fawn Tag You're It (although I probably would do the next one in Paper Smooches Stitched Tag) and Lil Inkers Stitched Snowflake. Version two added a border in the same cardstock colour as the sentiment and snowflake.

HINTS for Mass Production:

• Die cut the tags first, then the "Christmas and "Merry" from the striped tag, then the negative space can be used to line up the coloured letters.
• Using striped paper makes it easy to align the word dies.
• If you die cut the white base of the tag from thicker cardstock (or even chipboard), you don't need to worry about pop-dotting the tag.

 

Winnie & Walter Winner...

Have you had a chance to check out the amazingly fabulous Winnie and Walter new release - count them 10 new stamp sets, and they have released some super cool stencils and gorgeous dies too!!!

I am drawing the lucky winner of the $30 Winnie and Walter gift certificate (from comments left on my Leading Lady posts in September) just in time to hop over to shop for the fabulous new release. Without further ado, Mr Random (aka my son) chose comment #64 out of the 172 comments recieved, so the lucky winner is...

 Berina RGA said...

beautiful projects... love the paper piecing..
-Berina
Moxie Craftie

Sunday, 14 September, 2014

 

Inspired by a number of gorgeous Autumn challenges, this Heartfelt Thanks card was created using Lawn Fawn Autumn Leaves die cut from watercolour paper with Twinkling H2O (Egyptian Gold, Autumn Butternut, Poppy) and LuminArte (Sunflower, Yellow Rose, Orange Peel, Persimmon). Winnie and Walter The Big, The Bold and You and The Big, The Bold and Blessings sentiment and WPlus9 Pretty Patches Pumpkin die cut stamped in Momento Luxe Toffee Crunch then sprinkled with Zing Copper embossing powder.

Cure for the Monday Blues Feasts of Fall

Card Concept Thank Fall (clean and layered), 
The Cutting Edge Challenge #13,
Dies R Us Thankful, Catered Crop Gratitude Attitude, 
and Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes.

WCD Vintage Joy...

Hope you all had a FABULOUS World Cardmaking Day on Saturday! I was lucky enough to have spent the weekend away crafting with some gorgeous crafty friends, Jenny, Cecilia and Iwona. I made a few cards, but only two so far that I'm able to photograph and share.

My first card was created to play along with this weeks Color Q, World Card Making Day Pattern Play Challenge at Winnie and Walter, Hero Arts Holiday Challenge Tag It, and as a reminder for this months Mixed Media Card Challenge Vintage. Created my own patterned paper inspired by the colours of the Kaisercraft floral paper by layering stamps including Hero Arts Postcard, Penny Black , Prima Vintage and Antiques stamps. Papers are a mix of Kaisercraft and MME, with green and brown Copics for the leaves and branches. Stamped in brown Archival Ink and aged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Pop dotted and added burlap ribbon.

My second card was created to play along with this fortnights Festive Friday, Little Red Wagon In Stitches, Lawnscaping Patterned Paper, Simon Says Stamp Transport It and Mama Elephant's Anything Goes. Loved the combination of white and green with natural timber, and that too cute sled in the Festive Friday inspiration photo. Paper pieced the Lawn Fawn bunny, added Lil Inkers Stitched circle and square (cut down), together with this fabulous sentiment from Mama Elephant, and clear stickles under the sled for snow.

Remember there is a huge World Cardmaking Day Challenge over on 

Winnie and Walter's blog, with 6 challenges, open til Saturday 11 October at midnight. 

 

I'm Fawn'd of Sequin Shakers...

If you're fawn'd of Sequin Shakers, make sure you stop on by Paulina's Pretty Pink Posh Sequin Shaker Blog Hop for some SUPER Sequin Shaker inspiration (and SUPER prizes too!) You can join in by creating your own Sequin Shaker and linking it up, or just stopping by and leaving a little love!

Also playing along with Lawnscaping Mini Challenge, I created this mini Sequin Shaker, using Lawn Fawn's Say Cheese die cut as the shape. Created by stacking and gluing two Lawn Fawn's Say Cheese die cuts from craft foam as the sides of the shaker, adhering these to the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine background paper, filling with a mixture of large and small cupped sequins, topping with a Lawn Fawn Say Cheese die cut from Hello Sunshine paper and Lawn Fawn Year Four hippo, birdie and balloon paper pieced with Hello Sunshine papers. Lastly added the Lawn Fawn Year Four sentiment, and these cool googly eyes - perfect for shaking!

Also playing along with Lawnscaping Mini Challenge and

joining in the fun at Seize the Birthday!

To show that Sequin Shakers come in all Shakes & Sizes, I thought I'd add my other Shakers here. Click on the photos to get to the original posts...

For Super Stars...

A Musical Note...

Jars of fun...

For the young...

Everyone loves a mover and shaker...

Fall for you...

Hope you're having a FABULOUS day!

This made me smile...