Hi, everybody! We’re kicking off a new Clean and Simple challenge today at Make it Crafty’s inspiration blog! Thanks to everyone who entered our October challenge, “Bright Colors”! We had so many fabulous entries last month, and I can’t wait to see what everyone creates for this one!

We’re focusing this challenge on frames! I chose MiC’s “Bethany Winter Jacket” digi for today’s card and altered the “Delicate Love” chipboard frame with gold embossing powder and my heat tool.

I’ll have a new card to share with you on the Make it Crafty inspiration blog on November 9th, and I’d love it if you stopped by to say hello!

For all of the details on this challenge, stop by the Make it Crafty blog and look for the challenge graphic on the right-hand side of the blog! Our challenge runs through the month of November, so there’s plenty of time to play along with us! We can’t wait to see your entries!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope your weekend is off to a great start!

Hi, everybody! I’m pleased to announce that I’m back on the Lawnscaping Facebook Inspiration Team (FIT), and we are kicking off a new challenge today at the Lawnscaping blog!

After birthday cards, the kind of cards I make most often are the type we’re featuring for this challenge! Here’s my card:

I used two of the mouse stamps from the special Lawn Fawn/Simon Says Stamp “Merry Christmouse” set for my card. I used the heart stamp from “Critters Ever After” to create the cheese heart and layered it over where the mouse was originally holding a present. The sentiment is from “So Much to Say.”

Lawnscaping Challenge #117 is sponsored by Ellen Hutson! One lucky winner will receive a gift certificate to the Ellen Hutson store!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Make sure you get all the details on this challenge and link up your entry for Lawnscaping Challenge #117 at the Lawnscaping blog!

I’ll be posting on the Lawnscaping blog on November 13, and I hope you’ll stop by there to say hello!

Hi, everybody! It’s time for our monthly Facebook Inspiration Team blog hop at the Lawnscaping Challenges blog! You’ve probably arrived here from Kim’s blog, but in case you’re starting here, you can find the full list of the blogs in today’s hop at the bottom of my post!

This month’s hop is once again being sponsored by The Ink Road! We’ll pick a winner from all of the comments left on our hop to receive a $25 gift certificate to The Ink Road!

Our inspiration color for this month’s hop is ORANGE, so I made a pair of fall holiday tags: one for Thanksgiving and another for Halloween.

On the Thanksgiving tag, I combined the mice from Lawn Fawn‘s “Thankful Mice” stamp set with the “So Thankful” set. Both tags feature a heat embossed background strip using the “Gingham Backdrops” set.  The scene on the Halloween tag combines stamps from “Monster Mash” and “Spooktacular” sets.  I tied a length of Candy Corn Lawn Trimmings twine to the top of each tag.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Don’t forget to leave a comment for me before you hop over to Angel’s blog! Make sure to include your e-mail address so we can contact you if you’re chosen as the lucky winner of a $25 gift certificate from The Ink Road!

Lawnscaping blog
Marina
Lexa
Lenny
Jessica
Kate
Kim
Suzanne
Angel
Jess
Heidi

Hi, everybody! I’m sharing a new card on the Lawnscaping challenge blog today that was inspired by this paper coffee cup, which you might have seen if you’ve gone to Starbucks for a coffee lately:

Although several crafters have used an extra cup as designer paper for their cards, I never remember to save mine. I challenged myself to use my Lawn Fawn stamps to create a similar design, and here’s the card I made:

For some of the smaller accents like the groups of dots, I just looked through my stamp sets and used some of the tiny stamps to fill in the space between the bigger leaves and pumpkins, like the chocolate chips from the Milk and Cookies set and some doodle accents from the  Sophie’s Sentiments set.

Here’s my supply list! Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Hi, everybody! It’s my day to post a card at the Make It Crafty inspiration blog, and today I’m sharing this card that I made with MiC’s Melody digi stamp:

Our Clean and Simple (CAS) challenge for this month is to create a card in a clean and simple design and use bright colors on the card. I don’t normally craft with a lot of orange, but since I’ve been using my fluorescent Copics more this month, I colored Melody’s dress with the FRV1 marker and carried the color orange throughout my card design.

I used one of the Doodle Celebrate Word Chipboard pieces for my sentiment. I altered it with a white marker to make it pop a little more off of the orange paper.

For all of the details on this month’s BRIGHT COLORS CAS challenge at Make it Crafty, visit the MiC inspiration blog at this post or just click on the challenge graphic on the right-hand side of the blog.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have some time to craft over the weekend! I’ll be studying for my midterms, but I hope to make something when I take a break!

Hi, everybody! We’re kicking off a new Clean and Simple challenge today at Make it Crafty’s inspiration blog! Thanks to everyone who entered our September challenge, “Shades of Black and White”! We had so many fabulous entries this past month, and I can’t wait to see what everyone creates for this one!

We’re turning the color dial up to 11 this month and leaving the shades of black and white behind for “bright colors”!  I chose MiC’s “Sandra’s Lizard” digi for today’s card (I typed the sentiment next to the digi stamp before I printed it).

I’ll have a new card to share with you on the Make it Crafty inspiration blog on October 9th, and I’d love it if you stopped by to say hello!

For all of the details on this challenge, stop by the Make it Crafty blog and look for the challenge graphic on the right-hand side of the blog! Our challenge runs through the month of October, so there’s plenty of time to play along with us! We can’t wait to see your entries!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope your weekend is off to a great start!

Hi, everybody! It’s time for our monthly Facebook Inspiration Team blog hop at the Lawnscaping Challenges blog! You’ve probably arrived here from Jessica’s blog, but in case you’re starting here, you can find the full list of the blogs in today’s hop at the bottom of my post!

This month’s hop is once again being sponsored by The Ink Road! We’ll pick a winner from all of the comments left on our hop to receive a $25 gift certificate to The Ink Road!

Our inspiration color for this month’s hop is DARK BLUE, so I made this sweet little card:

I used the adorable little critter from Lawn Fawn‘s “Winter Alpaca” stamp set. I stamped the alpaca and the moon, then heat embossed the stars. I masked the alpaca and the moon, then sponged dark blue ink on top to make the night sky.

After the sky was finished, I colored in the moon and the alpaca, then added some texture on the bottom with Distress Stickles (Rock Candy)and a white paint marker. Here’s another look, so you can see that it’s also a one-layer card!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Don’t forget to leave a comment for me before you hop over to Jess’s blog! Make sure to include your e-mail address so we can contact you if you’re chosen as the lucky winner of a $25 gift certificate from The Ink Road!

As promised, here’s the full list of the blogs in today’s hop:

Lawnscaping blog
Kate
Kim
Lenny
Lexa
Jessica
Suzanne – you’re here!
Jess
Angel
Heidi
Marina

Hi, everybody! I’m up on the Lawnscaping Challenge blog today sharing a new card! I’d love it if you stopped by to say hello!

Hi, everybody! We’re kicking off a new Clean and Simple challenge today at Make it Crafty’s inspiration blog! Thanks to everyone who entered our August cropped image challenge! We had so many fabulous entries this month, and I can’t wait to see what everyone creates for this one!

Our new challenge has a “shades of black and white” theme. I’m still loving the “cropped image” idea, so I chose Make it Crafty’s Witchy Wanda digital stamp for today’s card. (The sentiment is a wooden stamp from my stash).

I love making fall and Halloween-themed cards, especially since October is my birthday month and fall is my favorite season!

I’ll have a new card to share with you on the Make it Crafty inspiration blog on September 9th, and I’d love it if you stopped by to say hello!

For all of the details on this challenge, stop by the Make it Crafty blog and look for the challenge graphic on the right-hand side of the blog! Our challenge runs through the month of September, so there’s plenty of time to play along with us! We can’t wait to see your entries!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope your week is off to a great start! School started again for me last week, so I’m getting in the groove of a new semester. See you soon!