Inspiration Week--Oh Snap and Love you a Latke

Welcome to another day of inspiration with Lawn Fawn! Today we are sharing the cards and projects we made using the two sets from the newest collection; Oh Snap and Love you a Latke. Both of these sets are smaller sizes and have coordinating dies! I just love when they have smaller sets because that means they are a cheaper price but what I love is that Lawn Fawn always delivers the cuteness even in the smaller sets! Oh snap is definitely one of my favorite minis right now for Christmas because of the cute ginger bread men, and it's punny sentiment! When creating this card I also used the Christmas pattern paper, Let's Bokeh in the snow--the 6x6 pad includes an array of bright Christmasy colored paper that is perfect for sets like Oh snap but can also work with sets like Love you a Latke with the light blue and creamy tones! Lawn Fawn thinks of everything when it comes to provided us crafters with products that we need--especially for the holiday season!

For a better view at both of these sets and to check out all of the other DT samples head over to the Lawn Fawn blog by, clicking here, you could also watch an intro video and leave a comment for your chance to win a wonderful prize!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and I look forward to tomorrow!

Happy Crafting!

Day 4 of the Fawny Holiday Inspiration Week

Hello everyone! It's another day in the Fawny Holiday Inspiration week--a week full of awesome cards, videos, and giveaways. You get a chance to win a stamp set ever day, this week, on the Lawn Fawn blog. You can click here to be directed to their page for your chance to win. 
I created a card this week on Monday (you can view it here) but today I'm making a video and sharing a fun DIY project. This mini snow globe is simple, clean, and easy to mass produce if you plan on giving them away as little stocking stuffers; or, even just have a fun craft day with the gals! I found this plastic picture snow globes at my local Michaels craft store--but I'm sure you can find them at so many other craft and hobby stores, too. These are the types of snow globes that one would typically place a picture in; however, as a crafter I thought it would be fun to create the snow globe insert pictures out of stamps by my favorite stamp company! I hope you enjoy this video as much as I enjoyed making it! 

Lawn Fawn Inspiration Week--Scripty Joy and Winter Penguin

I'm so excited to be sharing my creations using the new, Scripty Joy die, and the Winter Penguin mini stamp set. I can't say enough how adorable the winter penguin set is! It's a small yet super affordable set, and you can also purchase the coordinating die. I loved working with the, scripty joy, die and I used it on the card shown above with the Violet's ABCs alphabet stamp set to create the sentiment, "Joy to the world". Since it's a well known song I thought it would be fitting to use the music sheet paper from the new Snow Day collection. I love that sheet paper so much! When creating the "Happy Holidays" penguin card I wanted to make it look like she was skating in over a frozen lake so I used the forest boarder die along with the stitched hillside boarder dies to achieve that look. I also used the trees from the, Snow Day, stamp set and stamped them in a few different colors for some added interest. To tie these cards together I also used some of the metallic gold sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. I hope you love them!

To view the other cards created the Lawn Fawn design team click, here. When you get to the blog you'll also get a chance to win a stamp of your own!

Lawn Fawn Inspiration Week--Hedgehugs

Today is day 3 in the Lawn Fawn Inspiration week celebration, and the set being featured is, Hedgehugs. While this set may be small it sure does contain a whole lot of cuteness. You could use this stamp set to send some love to a friend; or, separate the sentiment and use it for a holiday theme card like I did with my card. I also used the new lawn fawndamentals in the cranberry color and I love how those notecards are perfect for Christmas cards. I also used the awesome stitched rectangle dies—and they make card making a cinch! If you’d like to view all of the other samples by the design team head over to the Lawn Fawn blog by clicking, here. While you’re there check out Kelly Marie’s intro video for a more detailed look at this mini set, and even get a chance to win your very own stamp set! 

Christmas Card Crafternoon

Since Christmas is getting closer and closer I thought it would be fun to have a Christmas Crafternoon with my sisters, Angie, Melanie, and our friend Mabel. I’ve had a card making crafternoon with my sisters before but all three girls were still relatively new to creating cards. Since ‘handmade’ is still going strong—and pretty popular, they wanted make their gift giving a little more personal by making their own cards for friends and family, this year. So, what I did was come up with a few sample cards that I could teach them how to make but they were also free to use all the stamps, paper, and embellishments to create their very own designs. I’d say they had the most fun, getting messy and making their own cards—who wouldn’t have fun doing that?! Hehe. 

To set up, I covered the dining room table with Kraft wrapping paper, and simply organized by stamps, paper, makers, acrylic blocks, paper trimmers, ink, etc. on one edge of the table—so they could have everything within reach. 

Here are a few of the cards they created…

I love all of the cards they made, I’m happy that I was able to teach them a few new techniques but most of the designs they created came from their own minds. We’re already talking about having a Christmas Crafternoon part 2, where we will make Mason jar snow globes, treat bags, and tags. I’m definitely going to enjoy that one!

Gnome for the Holidays

I know Thanksgiving hasn't even passed yet but I still can’t help but make holiday cards over and over again. After all, Christmas is nearly around the corner. Before we know it, Thanksgiving will have come and gone and December 25th will be coming in faster than we realize. Especially if you’re a seller like me—getting holiday cards done in advance is the only way I’ll be able to send anything to my friends and family in the mail. Once orders start piling up I won’t have time to make cards at detailed as this.

This is actually my first circle card, and I learned how to make them by watching one of Lawn Fawn’s awesome videos on the subject. You can learn how to make it by watching this video (skip to minute 7:00 to learn how to make the shaped card). I've learned so many techniques from watching card making videos by Lawn Fawn, Simon Says Stamp, and many other amazing crafters out there in the YouTube world. If you’re interested in learning more card making techniques videos by your favorites card making artists will definitely help. To create this lovely card I used the following stamp sets by Lawn Fawn: Gnome sweet gnome, Let it snow, and Trim the tree.

I also used an embossing and distressing technique to create the blue sky in the background of this card. I've never been that great at working with distress inks but watching videos on how it’s done has given me the confidence to give it a try. I also did a lot of fussy cutting and paper piecing on this card—and that’s also something I've learned from watching YouTube videos. Before Lawn Fawn videos I had no idea what paper piecing was, hehe. I used a variety of Copic makers to color in the gnome and his cute little home. I also used my new wink of Stella glitter pen (in clear) on the snowy hills but the camera didn't do a great job of picking up on that (actually it’s probably my fault that you can’t see it, not the camera’s, haha). But in person the snowy hills shine so beautifully—this glitter pen is magical. To create the perfect circles I used some circle dies that I purchased from Michaels with a 50% off coupon but you can buy those at many online and local craft stores.

The distress inks I used to create the blue sky are: Peacock features, and Broken china. If you’re new to distressing you may want to watch some videos on how it’s done there are lots of awesome videos on the subject. I hope you loved my gnome Christmas card. I fell in love with this card right away and I’m seriously thinking of making many, many more to give to mail for the holidays. 

Winter Wonderland Collection

Today I wanted to share a little part of my 2013 Christmas card collection. This year I’m going to have two different themed collections in my shop, and each collection will have cards, matching tags, and matching cupcake toppers (maybe even some banners, if I can find the time to make them, hehe). I was so excited to use all of my new Christmas themed stamps to make these cards, Lawn Fawn and many other stamp companies created such amazing images! The first collection is almost finished and I've already uploaded a few of them to my shop today. This collection is named, The Winter Wonderland Collection; namely because I’m using white card stock for each design and I’m also going with a clean and simple snow-time-fun feel. In this collection I have a few single handmade cards, and one set of 8 cards. Last year I sold the ‘Hipster Snowman’ cards as a set and I’m doing that again this year—but in white. I’m still leaving the original ivory hipster snowman cards in my shop just in case anyone wanted to buy those again this year.

The tags, and cupcake toppers will be uploaded shorty, as well as my second collection which is my ‘Vintage Christmas’ collection. I love making vintage themed paper items and again like last year I’m going to offer a variety of vintage themed cards, tags, and cupcake toppers. I can’t wait to share everything with you, and I’m working so hard to finish the collections—but it’s kind of hard when I’m also working on orders at the same time. I hope you enjoyed this little sneak peek of my 2013 card collection and if you decided to shop with me this year for Christmas and you’re a blog reader feel free to contact me so I can give you a coupon code!

Click here to view the new Christmas Cards in my shop. 

Four Layer Christmas Card

For a while now, I’ve been trying to think of something unique. Something I’ve never seen before and I came up with this four layer card. This technique is not something I’ve invented but it’s definitely something I haven’t seen as a card, before. When I was very young I used to attend an after school art class and they taught use how to make these really cute books with this simple layering technique. Since this is a technique I’ve never used with card-making before I wanted to enter it into the newest LawnscapingChallenge. The rules for the 44^th Lawnscaping Challenge are to create a card using a new technique. 

Here are a few more pictures of the inside of the card + I have a new video at the bottom showing how you can make your very own four layer card! Go ahead and give it a try :D 

Thank you for stopping by!

What I’m working on—Orders and New projects!

Hi! It’s Monday once again and it’s been so busy for me. I’ve been keeping busy with orders, blogging, picture taking, new items, and so much more. The picture above is a 4 layer card (or sort of a mini book) that I’m excited to share. I’m going to be making my first video showing how I went about making that holiday card and I can’t wait. To be honest I made a video over the weekend showing how I make it and it was a total fail, LOL. The content I recorded was so funny and awkward so I’m just going to film it all over again. In the video you could kind of tell that I didn’t prepare what I was going to say and in the middle of filming my tri-pod tipped over and fell! It was so embarrassing—even though no one was around. All an all it was a good first try and now that I got that out of my system I’m going to try it again; and I’m hoping the new video will be much better.

The reason today’s post is not really an  A+ post is because I’ve been working on orders this whole weekend and today as well—but I didn’t want to simply not blog today. So I thought I’d just update everyone as to what’s going on over in my crafty corner. 

Also, I picked up this awesome ATG gun from my local craft store this weekend and I can’t believe it took me this long to finally get one. I just got tired of using the small tape gliders because they run out so fast. This will last me a lot longer (and it should because of the price, hehe). If you haven’t tried this tool yet, and you make lots of cards, you should give this ATG gun a try. It’s a time saver. 

I thought I’d share a sneak peek of the new 2012 X-mas line I’ve been working on. This year I’m have new tags, cards, card sets, gift card holders, cupcake toppers, wrappers, and even gifts; such as, purses, new coin purses, totes, and more. Here are two pictures of what you can expect to see in my shop soon. 

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave a comment letting me know what you think. Also, stay tuned for upcoming holiday D.I.Y.’s, project ideas, and more. Things are getting so busy around here and I love it! Take care :-D 

Card of the Week #7

I know I keep going back and forth between Halloween and Christmas items but I can’t help myself. I’m in love with these holidays and I can’t help but work on them both at the same time, haha. I have to admit that I’m also working on Christmas items because within the virtual shopping world it’s best to be ready three months prior to the upcoming holidays, like Christmas. So as of now I’m already stockpiling the things I want to sell in my shop; and, this card is one of the OOAK cards that’ll be available in my shop soon.

I’m so in love with this card. This Christmas I have a feeling that the popular Christmas theme will be the red and white peppermint colors. The red and white colors is one of the reasons why I love Christmas so much—that and all the wonderful smells of Christmas too. 

I used Kraft card stock for the base of this card (my favorite type of cardstock), and I used ivory card stock for the border. The stamped used for this border can be found here, on the Lawn Fawn website. The gingerbread girl and the sentiment can be found in that set as well. Did you happen to notice the sweet little text bubble? It’s one of my new favorite things, as far as stamps go, and you can find those and more in different shapes and sizes here. Definitely a must have for papercrafters or stamp lovers. 

Lastly, I’ve packaged my card in this cellophane card sleeve and for more information on where I purchased these you can check out the blog post I dedicated to it by clicking here. 

Thanks for stopping by for another card of the week! I hope this will spark some inspiration! 

Card of the Week #6

Today is one of my favorite posts’ days. Sometimes I get so busy that I don’t have time to do anything other than finish orders, and create new items for my website. So, I created this ‘Card of the week’ series so that I can take a break from my business and simply create for the fun of it—and to keep my sanity. For some reason making cards makes me feel incredibly calm; and, I guess that’s why I love papercrafting as much as I do.

I made this card using the NEW Lawn Fawn stamp set ‘SweetChristmas’. It’s so cute! And it’s easy to use. There are so many possibilities with this set that sometimes I just stare at it and imagine all the things I can make with them. Now here’s how I made the card: 

Thanks for stopping by to check out another ‘Card of the Week’. Happy crafting!