Peace and Joy

Hello!
Samantha here, and today I'm sharing a sweet holiday scene with you!

I am totally in LOVE with houses right now! Especially around the holidays, it just seems like houses and snow falling are so warm and cozy!
I used the bird houses from Home Sweet Home stamp set and just made them people houses instead! Ha!

I watercolored all of the images with Distress Markers, and then lined them up in a circular pattern around that watercolor 'sunset' I created!

I used Seedless Preserves, Worn Lipstick and Dried Marigold Distress Inks to create the sweet sunset and then flicked some white acrylic paint on it to add the snow!
I heat embossed the sentiment from Snowy Backdrops stamp set!

Be sure to check back here on Monday for the start of an ALL NEW challenge! Yay! :)
~Samantha

My Christmas Wish

Hello!
Samantha M here, and today I'm sharing a cute little card with my new favorite Christmas image, Winter Unicorn!

I colored that little guy with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, and then popped him up over the background!
And speaking of the background, I used Tumbled Glass and Cracked Pistachio Distress inks to create an abstract little scene!

I also used that tiny list image from the Baaah Humbug stamp set! A little glitter on the horn finished off the card! :)
Hopefully this card made you smile and chuckle to yourself!
Be sure to check back here on Monday, when a NEW challenge will start...any guesses?!
~Samantha M

Beep beep!

hello!

Samantha M here, and today I'm sharing the first of my (many to come!) Christmas cards! lol!
So let's get to it:

Aw, love that ADORABLE cute, car from the new Home for the Holidays stamp set! I colored all of the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and fussy cut it out!

The background of the insta-scene was created with Distress Inks and water and lots of watercoloring! The snow was created with a stencil and some embossing paste! I used the #awesome die set to create that fun scene, all on the SUPER COOL white woodgrain paper!

I heat embossed the sentiment from the new Merry Messages stamp set! Love those sayings on that set!!
This card has a little bit of a hint as to what the new challenge that starts on Monday will be...can you guess?

Thanks again for checking out my card!
~Samantha M

Getting in the holiday spirit!

Good morning, Jess here!  I'm telling you...I am SO over hot, humid weather...I made several cards this weekend and realized they all featured snow!  On the plus side it's building my stockpile of Christmas cards! :)

To start I stamped the trees from Joy to the Woods with versamark onto watercolor paper and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder.  Then I covered it with frisket and let it dry before I worked on the rest of the background.  I smooshed Seedless Preserves, Chipped Sapphire, and Victorian Velvet distress ink onto a craft mat and then spritzed it with water.  I used my finger to blend the colors around a little and then picked up the ink with a piece of acetate.  I brought the ink to my watercolor paper and smooshed it on.  I repeated the process a few times until I was happy with the coverage and then let it dry.  Once it was totally dry I flicked white paint across the background and let it dry.

Next I rubbed the frisket off of the trees and used Hickory Smoke distress ink and a dry paint brush to add some shading to the trees.  I die-cut two hills from white cardstock using the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders and the Stitched Hillside Borders dies.  I stamped the sentiment from Joy to the Woods with versamark on one hill and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. 

Finally I stamped the two cardinals from Joy to the Woods, colored them with copic markers, fussy cut them, and adhered them to the card with foam mounting tape.  And now I'll go back to dreaming about the first snow we'll get this winter!!  Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day!

-Jess

Christmas Card with Heidi

Hello everybody, Heidi here, I hope you had a Merry Christmas and super happy holidays! Even though Christmas is over, our currently Lawnscaping Challenge No. 120  sponsored by Lawn Fawn, it's about Christmas, that's why I have a final Christmas card for you since this is my lass post as part of the Lawnscaping Challenge Facebook Inspiration Team. I want to thank everyone of you who read my posts and left kind comments, I also want to thank all the lovely ladies who who worked and coordinated this team, it was a very busy half of the year for me, and I appreciated all the help and support from Laurel, Chrissie, Lenny for their patience, and to all of the lovely ladies from our team for their amazing feedback and sweet comments! 

For this card I used the Christmas lights from the "Baaah Humbug" stamp set, as well as the Christmas hat. the monkey is from the "Critters in the jungle" stamp set. I colored all the images using Copic Markers, and I added some glossy accents to the lights. The sentiment is from the "Snow day" stamp set.

I hope you enjoyed this simple card and that you continue to enter your cards on our challenges. To enter the current challenge click HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a Happy New Year!

Holiday Joy Card

Good morning! Roxanne here today with a holiday themed card I created. Let's check it out! My supplies are listed at the end as well.

I wanted to make something really bright and cheery for a holiday card. I used the green tree paper from the 6x6 Snow Day Paper Pack and cut to my card size (4.25x5.25) and adhered to the card base. That green is the perfect color for the other elements I used. It makes them really pop off the page. Okay, foam adhesive helped there too ;)

I diecut the "joy" from the Scripty Joy Lawn Cuts out of some beautiful shimmering cardstock in Candy Red (what a perfect name). I trimmed some foam adhesive down to fit onto the back because I really wanted dimension to this card.

For the circle elements, I used the Let's Bokeh Lawn Cuts and cut out 5 circles out of the largest die out of my white cardstock I used for coloring. I stamped my little elements in there using the Baaah Humbug set. I colored them all in with my Spectrum Noir Markers and added some sheen in there with my Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens. I wish you could see the sparkle it adds!

I arranged the circles and joy diecut on my card and used foam adhesive for everything to pop it up off that bright green tree paper. I hope you enjoyed my project. There is still a little time to create some adorable holiday cards, or even a quick gift of thank you notes, matching envelopes and a pretty pen for giving. Happy Holidays!

SUPPLIES USED:

• Let's Bokeh Lawn Cuts
• Scripty Joy Lawn Cuts
• Baaah Humbug
• Crafter's Companion Shimming Cardstock, Candy Red
• Distress Ink, Evergreen Bough
• Memento Luxe, Love Letter
• Spectrum Noir Markers: IG1, IG4, IG7, GG1, JG1, JG3, DG1, DG3, TB2, TB4, IB1, LG1, LY3, TN3, CR5, IG2, Blender
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens: Moonstone, Crystal Clear, Moonlight

A Tag and Gift Envelope Combo!

Hi, everybody! Suzanne here with you today to share a tag and a gift envelope that I made with Lawn Fawn's Goodie Bag die! With so much going on at this time of year, I love discovering and sharing ideas that make everything that's on my to-do list a little easier! 

This gift envelope was inspired by a tutorial that I did earlier this year. I used the pieces cut with the Goodie Bag Lawn Cuts die and rearranged them to make an envelope that's the perfect size for a gift card. You can check out the full tutorial HERE.

I chose paper from the Let's Bokeh in the Snow petite paper pack to make the envelope and stamps from the Toboggan Together set to decorate the front.

I used the Gingham Backdrops set to make a glittery background for my tag:

I chose the sweet little skunk from the special limited stamp set offered by Lawn Fawn to Black Friday shoppers and dressed him up with the hat and present in the Baaah Humbug set. Instead of "naughty or nice", I mixed a few of my Lawn Fawn sets to make a "skunky" sentiment.

And, don't forget about the current Lawnscaping Challenge...you could win a $25.00 gift card from the fabulous Ellen Hutson on-line store!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend filled with lots of crafting time!

One Layer Fall and Christmas Cards

Hello everybody, Heidi here, welcome to the Lawnscaping Challenge blog. We are currently having our Lawnscaping Challenge No. 114 "One Layer Cards", sponsored by Lawn Fawn. If you haven't enter it, you can do it HERE
To inspire you to participate, I had created couple of one layer cards, one for fall and one for Christmas. One layers cards are great for mailing, and also can be quickly made. So here are the cards that I made, I hope you'll enjoy them and enter this challenge, I can't wait to see all your creations

 For this card I sued the "into the woods" the leaves were from the "Happy harvest" and the banner from "bannerific" stamp sets by Lawn Fawn. I used a little bit of masking and I finished the card with some 4mm sequins. 

For this card I got inspired on a card that I made back in July, however it wasn't a one layer card nor a Christmas card, but the idea came from that card you can see the card here. For this card I used the "Baaah Humbug" stamp set, some masking, and some subtle ink blending. I used the stitched borders to emboss some decorative border along the left and bottom sides of the card, and finished with some sequins.

Masking is a great way to add dimensions to a one layer card. you can do a lot more complex masking, or you could make simple fast cards to send easily over the mail, the possibilities are endless. 

I hoped you enjoyed these cards and that you give them a try. I also hope that you enter the current Lawnscaping Challenge.

Have a wonderful week! 

Merry Christmas

Hey everyone, Samantha here wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I created this little holiday scene with a wide variety of Lawn Fawn supplies, and I had so much fun making it! I really wanted to depict the joy and also some of the chaos that may occur during the holiday season.

Materials Used:
Cozy Christmas
Critters at the Dog Park
Critters in the Forest
Mistletoe Single Cord
Peace Joy Love Petite Paper Pack
Snow Day Petite Paper Pack

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Christmas tags

Hello, it's Sabine from the Facebook inspiration team. Are you already done with your x-mas cards, tags and little gifts? Not me...I just started*panic*.The fun current challenge is about tags or treat bags, so this is what I came up with. I used my "Sweet Christmas" set to make these. The one with the gingerbread man is very glittery (just hard to see in the picture). I heat embossed the whole tag with holographic glitter. The gumdrops are popped up and glossy.

Have a great day! Hugs, Sabine

Fawny Holiday Week

Hello and happy Monday to all of you. And happy Veterans Day. Thank you to ALL who serve. Our military, our military families, active and retired! God bless ALL of you for keeping our country safe.....

The Lawnscaping Design team and the Facebook Inspiration team will be joining the Lawn Fawn Design team this week showcasing projects over on the Lawn Fawn blog all week long. Get ready to get into the holiday mood because ALL of the Lawn Fawn Christmas sets will be showcased this week. Yup, every single one of them.

See you there!