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Friday, October 5, 2012

Lawnscaping Bloghop Fall


A warm welcome to the lawnscaping blog hop!

I've been looking forward to welcoming you to this hop!  You should have come to me by way of Lynette.  I hope you have been enjoying the hop so far ? :) Seeing all those beautiful fall colors!?  Yes, you might have already noticed that this month's theme is all things pumpkin and beautiful changing leaves: FALL!


I have created 2 fall cards for you today! Both cards are inspired by the beautiful photos above. The gorgeous pumpkins and the orange colors!

No fall card without pumpkins, right? The cute Lawn Fawn owl (winter owl) is hopping of joy to see you! He is paperpieced with some cosmo cricket papers and the eyes are black gems with rangers white enamel.

Supplies: 
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Winter Owl, Lawn Fawn So Thankful, Lawn Fawn, Lawn Fawn Claire's ABC.
Papers: Cosmo Cricket, Bazzill 


For my next card I used orange colors on kraft - I love orange at this time of the year! I was actually looking at the small half moon stamp in the same set Lawn Fawn Hoppy Halloween and that inspired me to create a bigger half moon (using spellbinders nestabilities) for the bunny to sit on!





Note, the hop runs from Friday, October 5th, all the way until Sunday, October 7th.  Make sure to comment on all of the blogs to be eligible for some FANTASTIC prizes!  All of the details can be found on the lawnscaping home page. 

Thank you so much for hopping along with us all today! 
Enjoy the rest of the hop!

Now, please head on over to the talented Barb's blog.  If you've gotten off-track, don't worry!  Head back to the lawnscaping blog to see the complete list of designers and prize information!


Sunday, September 30, 2012

Harvest Time & Pumpkins ;)


I always adore the Autumn & harvest time. The colors are so beautiful right now and today we went to a cute pumpkin patch to get some pumpkins, picked some of our own apples when we came home, and now it's time to make this autumns' first apple pie, I think ;)

First up some very Clean & Simple cards - made with Ali Edward stamps from Technique Tuesday. I love her handwriting and the very clean look of these small cards, they would go perfectly with a gift from your garden to a friend or neighbor - huh!? Very quick and very simple to make.


Here are some of the pumpkins we brought home...  (needs to be arranged later)


My favourite is this green one! Just love it!!


The 2 small pumpkins on the table I got from my sister - along with some homemade jam. Now I need to label my pickled beetroot and Jan's Queen Jam (made with blueberry & raspberry) :-)


And here are some of our apples  - picked today. Don't they just look lovely ! ?


Have a great Sunday! And thanks for stopping by!

Monday, September 24, 2012

take it easy

I made this fun little card using the cute "Dad's Day" set from Lawn Fawn. I made the chair looking very cosy and comfy by stamping over a white stamped background using the Leaf and Flower Background from Hero Arts. This is leaving a nice pattern on the chair!
 

Could be used as a gift card for a man loving his old comfy chair :-)  I punched a half circle and added a flat masculine looking embellishment - tones down that bow, don't you think? ;)


Btw, Stay tuned for a Lawnscaping Blop Hop on October, 5th.
I am sure we are all in for an inspirational treat with the Fall Themed hop!
I am looking very much forward to it!


Friday, September 14, 2012

Giant Fall Manilla Tag


A friend of mine gave me some HUGE manilla tags and I must admit this is the first time I have used them. I tell you - they are huge!  8 x 4,5" !

I used the overthetop cute set from My Favourite Things Primitive Pumpkins to stamp the backgrounds and the pumpkins with the coordinating dies.


Yummy Hero Arts Shadow Inks was used - love these colors so much! (Soft Orange, Cup o´Joe & Soft Olive)! Btw, Jan brought the yummy chanterelles home from Germany yesterday - we'll cook these for dinner tonight! Yum!!


And here is the tag hanging from my cabinet !


I love Fall and soon I will be on the hunt for some real pumpkins!! Yay!

Have a great weekend!

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Hero Arts Challenge - Orange


I am back with a CAS card for this months Hero Arts Challenge ;)  It has really been too long!

I stamped the cat with versamark ink first and then I white embossed it. I wanted a clean and crisp edge so I  masked off both the cat and the "hill" using some masking paper.
Finally I inked the background with the new Orange Soda ink. The stamped sentiment is from the Live Life set - pulls in the orange in a very grafical way, which I kind of like!


I mounted the piece on a Mandarin layering paper (inside out).


Supplies


Thanks for stopping by - have a great Sunday!

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Spectacular bookmarks?

.... well maybe not - but these are indeed made with the gorgeous Circus Spectacular set, designed by Lisa Johnson for MFT (see also this post on my other blog).


I used this book mark die, to make the kraft bookmark - and did some very simple stamping. I thought the text stamp from Hero Arts would fit these circus themed stamps beautifully ;)


Another one - simple stamping on kraft - using Hero Arts Shadow inks! Love those inks!!


Have a spectacular Sunday and thank you very much for stopping by!

Friday, August 10, 2012

tuning in...


to say I am still here ;)  This is an older CAS design I have not shared here before, I think ;)

I am using some lovely Lawn Fawn Stamps here - the Chevron Backdrops  and the fun set Stay Tuned.


The TV screen is covered with Rock Candy Stickles ;)


Have a great weekend y'all!