Lawnscaping November Blog Hop - Violet!

I hope those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday had a wonderful holiday! This is Kim from the Lawnscaping FIT team and welcome to the November  Blog Hop - we are loving Violet this month! The wonderful sponsor for this hop is The Ink Road you could win a $25.00 gift certificate to this store!  All you need to do is leave a comment with a trackable e-mail on each stop on this hop!

You will have arrived here from the talented Kate's blog

For my project I started with a Neena Solar white backing piece with three distress inks (Victorian Velvet, Wilted Violet and Seedless Preserves) to blend the violet background. I then stamped a starry background stamp in Memories Unicorn White (you can see the stars through the die cuts). With my second Neena panel I took a bunch of stars and snowflake dies from multiple Lawn Fawn sets and die cut the base of a tree and used some gems, I added foam tape and a mix of sequins then glued the two pieces together.  I coloured my Rudolph, Sleigh and Gifts from Toboggan Together with Copics and some gel pens. I then embossed my sentiment and used some Washi tape to back it.

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Marina

Lexa

Lenny

Jessica

Kate

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Suzanne

Angel

Jess

Heidi

Your next stop on the hop is Suzanne's blog

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge

I have finally finished 70 holiday cards that I was asked to make! So, now, I can finally just enjoy and create slowly. I made this one for the current Simon Says Stamp Flickr Colour Challenge. It worked out perfectly because this one will go to my youngest niece - I have always wanted a pet pig (no joke) and my nieces and nephews all know this, so it's a fun one.

I must order the new Dexter and Simon holiday set but for this one I used the original Dexter and Simon from Simon says stamp and simply added a Santa's hat! Masked off Dexter and stamped some presents and I stencilled a snowy background. I also used the SSS Falling Snow stencil with some shiny embossing paste for the frame. The card base is also SSS Smoke cardstock and finished it off with a mix of aqua, pink and white PPP sequins! 

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Fawny Holiday Week Day 5

Happy Friday! Participating in Fawny Holiday Week this year has been such fun for me! This is my 3 and last post and the last day for Fawny Holiday Week over at the Lawn Fawn Blog. Go check it out, as always they are offering some wonderful prizes!

This is a remake of a one-layer card I made earlier on this fall for the Lawnscaping Challenge. I have never been a fan of the one-layer even with 110lbs cardstock. I need a hefty card to mail it out, so I re-created my card but with a stitched rectangle die cut. I also used Let it Snow (snowy background), Joy to the Woods (trees) and Toboggan Together for the reindeer! I masked with he snowy borders (mask from dies) and used White Flower Soft for the snow!

Thanks for taking the time! And don't forget to check out the Lawn Fawn Blog all week for more inspiration and some great prizes!

Kim

Fawny Holiday Week - Day Three!

This is my second project for the Fawny Inspiration Week! I am very excited to be participating for more fantastic inspiration that will go all week please go to the Lawn Fawn Blog!

This is my project for today!

This Lawn Fawn Penguin is from last years release, I adore this guy I thought using him in the Ready, Set, Snow Shaker add-on would be such fun and turn it into a gift tag.  I stamped the snow from the Let it Snow set on vellum and white embossed it.  I also coloured the ice and hat from the Critters in the Arctic set, I cut two full white snow globe pieces for the back of the snow globe and the add-on to write my message. The front snow globe piece is slightly shaded with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and the Merry Christmas from the Ready, Set, Snow set is embossed on wood veneer. Put everything together with Flower Soft White for the snow and some flat sequins!

Thanks for taking the time! And don't forget to check out the Lawn Fawn Blog all week for more inspiration and some great prizes!

Kim

Fawny Holiday Week!

I am so excited to be able to participate in the Fawny Holiday Week! Lawn Fawn is one of my favourite companies and for fun and whimsical holiday cards you can't ask for more! For more inspiration that will go all week please go to the Lawn Fawn Blog!

This is the first of three projects submitted, I will feature the other two later this week!

I started by stamping the Winter in the Park snow, bench and light post I then masked them off and used a mix of distress inks to blend my background. Once I cut the cover frame, I felt the scene needed a little something, something so what better then a set of the Lawn Fawn birds from Chit Chat paired with the Santa's hat from the Holiday Party Animal stamp set. 

I created the snow in the background with my Sakura white Gellyroller added a red sparkle embossed bow to the light post and my snow pen for the bench. I filled my shaker with White Flower soft and some flat sequins.  Put everything together with fun foam and finished it off with the red Lawn Trimmings!  

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

AEIheartU Challenge #30 - Holiday Tag

I love making holiday tags, I try and make 3-5 of the same design.  For the AEIheartU Challenge, my first thought was the Avery Elle Snow Lift die from the Snow Cap Elements die set! These tags will be fantastic for my nieces and nephews!

I partially die-cut two (for each tag) of the snow lift to make the backing tags solid, for the top portion of the tag I used the full die-cut and used the border stamp from Naughty or Nice with my Misti Stamp tool to try and line the "lines" up as well as possible. I used a bit of Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on the window piece just to give a bit of dimension. I the Copic coloured my critters from the Snow Much Fun set and die cut them. The sentiment is also from the Snow Much Fun set. Finished them off with some twine and some fun jingle bells!

Thanks so much for taking the time!

Kim

Lawnscapaing #118 - In with the Old!

Happy Monday! It is time for another Lawnscaping Challenge - In with the Old! Time to break out the older less used stamp sets! 

I chose Blissful Botanicals while I have used the smaller flowers in the set quite a bit I had never stamped the leaves and butterfly in this wonderful set! I watercolored the leaves and butterfly with my wonderful Zig Clean Color Brush Pens. It also gave me a nice break from holiday cards, they are my favourite to make but a break from the Santa sanity is welcome, lol! I finished it iff with the Lawn Fawn Hugs die and the Argyle background stamp and some PPP sequins.

LAWN FAWN is the wonderful Sponsor for this Challenge, Woot! You could win Lawn Fawn stamp set of your choice! You have until Wednesday, October 28 to enter the challenge!

Head on over the Facebook Inspiration page for more project inspiration!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Lawnscaping Snow Globe

Happy Tuesday, Kim here from the Lawnscaping FIT team with a fun holiday themed project featuring the Ready, Set, Snow and Shaker add-on. I started by stamping the Winter in the Park snow, bench and light post I then masked them off and used a mix of distress inks to blend my background. Once I cut the cover frame, I felt the scene needed a little something, something so what better then a set of the Lawn Fawn birds from Chit Chat paired with the Santa's hat from the Holiday Party Animal stamp set. 

I created the snow in the background with my Sakura white Gellyroller added a red sparkle embossed bow to the light post and my snow pen for the bench. I filled my shaker with White Flower soft and some flat sequins.  Put everything together with fun foam and finished it off with the red Lawn Trimmings!  

Thinking of you is the current Lawnscaping Challenge theme, you have until tomorrow to enter for a chance to with $25.00 at the Ellen Hutson Store!  

Thanks so much for taking the time! Have a great week!

Kim

Making multiples of one design

Happy Sunday! I am working on a series of Holiday cards for a company that uses my cards as their Holiday Greetings to customers! I recently ordered the Misti Stamp Tool by My Sweet Petunia and I don't know what I did before! I like to make a set of five for each design and using this makes my life so much simpler! 

For this one I used a series of snowflakes and the greeting from the PS Fresh Snow stamp set that was released a few years ago, I love the design of these snowflakes. I used Ranger glitter embossing powder for the snowflakes and sentiment added a few white dots with my Sakura White Gellyroller. The diagonal lines on the card base were created with an MFT stencil and MFT Wild Cherry Hybrid ink (my favourite red for Christmas). Finished them off with a sparkling of PPP sequins!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Penny Black Parisian Engagement

I was asked to make an engagement card for a couple that were engaged last summer in Paris. What better set to use then the Penny Black J'aime Paris set!

I decided to try my hand at a black and white watercolour, this is a first for me and I am happy with the way it turned out. Long live my Zig Clean Color Brush Pens and Strathmore Bristol paper!

The frame was die cut with a Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle and I finished it off with Pretty Pink Psh sequins.

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Lawnscaping Challenge #117 - Thinking of You!

Happy Monday all Lawnscapers! Kim from the FIT team here with my project for the Thinking of You challenge that starts today on the Lawnscaping blog! 

I love this Lawn Fawn Fox, it's an older stamp but I was so excited when they introduced the accompanying die this fall! I thought this stamp with the coffee cup would be a great thinking of you for a friend that is far away. Mixed it with the thinking of you sentiment from the awesome Lawn Fawn Chit Chat set. This stamp is so stained by ink from usage, one of my all-time favourite sets! Also used the Stitched Rectangles and Circle dies also by Lawn Fawn. With a scattering of PPP sequins!

The lucky winner of this challenge will receive a $25.00 gift card from the fabulous Ellen Hutson on-line store!

Thanks for taking the time for more wonderful inspiration go to the Facebook inspiration page 

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

My Favorite Things (MFT) - Holiday Elves and a challenge!

Quiet grey Sunday in Montreal, great day to escape! I know for some of you the holiday thing is a little early... But, I need to get a head start on holiday cards and I have been working on them for three weeks already! I know, sounds early but I like to enjoy the December season and do my holiday shopping so I get these done now for orders and for me!

The following three are made with one of my favourite sets released this year. My Favourite Things Santa's Elves!

I am entering the one just above in this months MFT Color Challenge

MFT Santa's Elves, Joyous Christmas Sentiments

Hero Arts Falling Snow embossing folder

MFT Mix-ables stencil

Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Tim Holtz window die

Lawn Trimmings

Lots o' Copics

Thanks for taking the time!

Like all crafters I love comments, please feel free to leave one for me they make my day! :)

Kim