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.

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...

A Lil Christmas Bauble Tag...

Second card for the day...

I had so much fun stamping this card, that I thought I'd try a variation on the theme for this weeks Lawnscaping Tags & Treat Bag Challenge, and the Paper Players Evergreen Challenge with my evergreen wreath and bauble.  Combined three Lawn Fawn sets to create this cute wreath and two turtle doves. Peace, Joy, Love branches, heart and birds, Happily Ever After bow Trim the Tree sentiment, stamped in Momento Luxe Love Letter, Pear Tart and Dandelion inks.  Used Lil Inkers Stitched Circles to create the bauble - sandwiched two smaller circles between two larger circles and punched the hole for the Twinery Marascheto twine to thread through.

 

Spot Me a Hug...

Second post for the day...

Inspired by Lawnscaping Polka Dots Challenge, thought I'd challenge myself to create using only polka-dotted papers - a mix from Lawn Fawn Into the Woods and Echo Park Dots & Stripes, great for playing along with this weeks gorgeous Color Q palette, and I even added a giant polka-dot from this fortnights fabulous Seize the Sketch. Stamped Lawn Fawn Yeti Set Go yeti and pine trees, and So Much to Say sun and sentiment in Cup O'Joe (not quite Early Espresso, but close LOL!) and fussy cut.  Die-cut the sentiment banner with Lawn Fawn Home Sweet Home die, the hillside with Paper Smooches Borders 1 die, and negative die cut the super-sized polka dot with Lil Inkers Stitched Circle die. Playing along with Catered Crop Animal House Recipe Swap too.

Hope you are having a FABULOUS week!

    

Addicted to aMus(e)ing Lawnscapes...

Loved Laurie's gorgeous Muse Challenge card this week, and it created the perfect opportunity to play along with Lawnscaping Sentiment Challenge and Addicted to CAS Anniversary Challenge too.

Alpha die-cuts are Lawn Fawn Quin's ABCs, together with an ampersand from my stash, pop dotted against MME The Sweetest Things papers (appropriate I thought!) This card would be perfect for a wedding, or in my case a Happy Anniversary card. The most fiddly part was adhering the lacy paper strip to the bottom of the card and hand cutting it, but I think the effect was worth it!

Addicted to CAS have their one year anniversary celebrations at the moment - 

so why don't you come & join the party!!!

  

This made me smile...    

 

and this too!!!!! 

A Dash across the Lawn...

8 Minutes and 7 seconds later...

with a few of my favourite things...

Die cuts,

Foam tape,

Fussy cutting,

Patterned paper,

Combining Challenges,

Living in the Land Down Under...

So what's a girl to do when Lawnscaping Challenged with using her favourite supplies to create a card?!? Here's what I did!  

First up start the clock for the 10 Minute Craft Dash!  Then adhere a piece of brown Fancy Pants paper to cardstock before stamping this gorgeous Lawn Fawn Critters Down Under roo & kanga, once onto the brown and once onto the teal Childish papers, then fussy cut the images (see the first 10 Minute Tip below on how to save time when fussy cutting). Next up die cut Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs - the BEST thing about Lawn Fawn alphabets is that they come with ALL the letters - which means that "baby" was cut in one pass through the machine! Cut the Fancy Pants Childish check paper to size and adhere to the cardstock base. Position and adhere the die cut "baby" and stamp the "welcome" sentiment in Cup O Joe ink (another favourite!) Pop dot the roo & kanga, and stop the clock!

I interpreted the gorgeous overlapping hearts from Lisa's Wanna Sketch as the baby and mama roo - 'cause you can't get much more overlapping hearts than that!

10 Minute Tips...

• When fussy cutting overlapping images, first cut the top layer image edges that overlap (in this case the back of the roos head around to his nose) before adhering to the bottom layer image, then you can cut the common outline (in this case the front of the roos head) with the two pieces already glued together so you only need to cut the outline once.
• Choose a die cut alphabet which has ALL the letters -  the b and the q, the d and the p, the n and the u - which means that you can die cut words such as "baby" in a single pass through the machine!
• I find glue pens are the easiest adhesives to use for smaller fiddly pieces - especially when you are in a rush!
• Grid or check background paper makes aligning stamping & die cuts a breeze! 

Also playing along with Simon Says Stamp Animal Antics!