My Lawn Fawn Products have arrived!!!!

I have been loving Lawn Fawn  products from afar for months and trying to find someone in New Zealand who either stocked them or could get them for me. Finally the wonderful Ella at Artful Crafts  in Timaru, was able to get them through their supplier. So I now have in my possession:

Into the Woods                  6 x 6 paper pad
Into the Woods                  4 x 6 clear stamps
Woodgrain backdrops          4 x 6 clear stamps
Peace Joy Love                   6 x 6 paper pad
Peace Joy Love                   4 x 6 clear stamps

Have spent the last two nights sitting up till 1am playing around with the stamps and trying to colour them in so they look kind of cute. I don't own any Copic Markers and love watching the tutorials that Lawn Fawn has of people colouring in their critters etc. I ended up raiding my 8yr old's gel pen sets, markers and crayola crayons. I showed her in the morning and she thought the critters looked so cute but I'm not so sure.

Anyway, I finally sat down last night and made this card. At this point I only own ink pads in black, green and sky gray from Versa Color.  Definitely need to order a nice red and light blue. 

The string of lights stamp is quite long and I only have one small acrylic block about 10cm square so had to become inventive. I ended up by using a lid from a Sistema container. The stamp stuck to it quite well and was see-through so I could see where the lights were going. I have my eye on a Fiskars large rectangle push down stamp thing. I see alot of people using them in their tutorials. Fingers crossed no one outbids me!!!

Pouring with rain here today which is great for my garden and maybe I won't feel bad making some more cards during the day today instead of gardening.  Have two more cards to share with you, will save them for tomorrow (unless I make a million today....).

Take care
Shona

My first sympathy card

A friend of my mother's (who also became a friend of mine) died last week and my mum asked me to make her a card to send to the family. Having never made a card that wasn't 'colourful' and 'joyful' in some way, it was quite hard for me to work out what to do. So sat down quietly and went thru all my papers, finally coming up with this pattern from Teresa Collins. 

I love grey for anything and thought it was sombre without being depressing. I didn't want to use flowers as they always seem to be on sympathy cards. I thought this pattern represented her age (she was in her 80's) and the grey and white showed her style and simplicity in life. She had been sick for years but she was always so positive and I will miss her stories of her wonderful life. 

Barbara was a wonderful woman who did amazing handcrafts herself, so hopefully she would have loved this card.

Not enough hours in the day!!!

Can't believe so much time has passed since my last post. We had a wonderful holiday on the farm and didn't want to come home. I arrived home to 363 emails which really made my day. Took me ages to get through them all and had missed so much on my favourite blogs in a week. We then had the second week of the holidays to get thru until the kids went back to school this week. Have still been catching up with myself and helping my Mum who just had shoulder replacement surgery. As always it's go, go, go!!!!

So, as you can imagine I have had so many ideas but so little time to actually craft. By the time I finish all my jobs its 10.30pm and my energy has waned. But have managed to fit in a few cards and projects here and there.

I finally had a chance to use some sequins that I found at The Warehouse. It is a mix of this colour blue in 3 different sizes along with a darker blue. It also has a light and dark green. The colour is so beautiful I didn't use any others on this card in the end. I also found the greyish glitter ribbon at a local $3 shop. Am only just getting into stamping and haven't got my hands on a decent black ink pad yet but have finally found someone who sells Hero Art Ink Pads in New Zealand.

Let me know what you think and may even get a chance later tonight to put up another project. And hopefully I will do some more crafting into the night since its the weekend....yippee!!!!

Take care
Shona