Loads of Thanks

I wasn't sure I would make it into my craft room tonight.  I'm fighting a bit of a sinus headache and I really just thought about crawling in bed, but it's Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs!  How could I sleep through that?  In fact, I have to thank those guys because in between periods (and overtime!) I played around in my craft room because I needed a thank you card.  I pulled out a Newton's Nook stamp set called Wagon of Wishes that I think is just adorable and stamped out the wagon with the apples.  I played with my copics trying to color the apples to match the apples that grow on the tree in our backyard.  It was kind of hard to get that green, yellow with a little red combo, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  I was a little stumped for a layout for the card, but then I remembered that I loved the Mojo Monday layout and I haven't participated in that for a while so it seemed like the perfect time to try my hand at it.  I've also been playing around with trying the current Inky Paws challenge which was to use wood, metal or cork on a card.  So I started by breaking out the Hardwood stamp I bought during the Stampin' Up free shipping promotion a while back.  I used Vintage Photo Distress Ink on some watercolor paper then used a damp brush to spread the color a little.  To be honest, I wasn't sure I liked it and I really wasn't sure I liked it with the image I had colored, but I kept plugging along.  I broke out my Lawn Fawn Circle Stackables and Scalloped Circle Stackables to set off the cute sentiment from the Newton's Nook set and then remembered how much I liked the tag stamp and die from the Lawn Fawn Winter Gifts that I used on a card a week or so ago.  So the last piece I wasn't sure about was the strip on the right.  I knew that a red strip would help tie it all together, but plain red wasn't working for me.  I pulled out a couple of embossing folders.  Wood grain didn't look quite right and I ended up debating between a dotted texture and this Quick Kutz Zig Zag folder.  Fortunately, I have a great resource when I can't decide:  my husband!  So then it was just some glue, a couple of chomps of the corners of some pieces and a few wood veneer hearts to balance what seemed to be a bit of a plain spot in the corner and it was done.  I actually walked back out to the family room and commented to my husband that I wasn't really sure about the pieces going together but I loved how it turned out in the end.   I'll be linking this up to both challenges, but come play with me because it's always more fun if everyone plays.  You have until Friday, June 6th for the Inky Paws challenge and until Sunday, June 8th for the Mojo Monday challenge.

Lawnscaping Challenge #74: Inspired By...

For today's card, I'm playing along (for the first time ever) with the Lawnscaping Challenge, this one #74.  I love, love, love Lawn Fawn stamps.  They are by far my favorite and I've amassed quite a collection of them.  But today, I'm putting them to use.

For this challenge, we're supposed to pick a Lawn Fawn Design Team Member and make a card inspired by their work.  I knew that I wanted to do something similar this card published a while back on Netter's Notables, Design Team Member Lynette's blog.

I really liked how sweet this card was when I pinned it awhile ago.  So while I used it as my base, I also challenged myself to use only stamp sets I've bought but not used yet.  I was stunned: a) by how many stamp sets I was able to use on one card and b) how many new stamp sets I have.  So I ended up with the Yeti, snowflake and sentiment from Yeti, Set, Go, the banner from Bannerific, the sweet little heart from Bee Mine, and the wood grain from Woodgrain Backdrops. I even used dies from my newest purchases:  Circle Stackables and Scalloped Circle Stackables. 

I colored the yeti ever so slightly with my Spectrum Noir markers then fussy cut him out.  I cut out the circle, stamped and heat embossed some random snowflakes.  I then used Broken China and Weathered Wood Distress Ink to color my circle and finished it off with some hearts stamped in Barn Door.  I cut a frame with my scalloped circle dies.  I stamped the wood grain background on some kraft card stock cut and folded into an A2 card using some Tea Dye Distress Ink.  Then it was  just a matter of stamping my banner and sentiment, a little fussy cutting and adhering it all together with some glue and pop dots.  Then I finished the card off with some sequins form the Peace Joy Love line, a little Glossy Accents on the hearts, some Wink of Stella on the Yeti, and a corner rounder for the bottom edges.