LAWNSCAPING CHALLENGE 99: CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Clean and Simple is always so challenging.  What to put in, what to leave out.  Just one little embellishment.....  Anyhoo, here is my card for this challenge.  

LAWN FAWN: JOY TO THE WOODS, LUCKY STARS, A BIRDIE TOLD ME,GNOME SWEET GNOME

DISTRESS INKS

PALETTE HYBRID CHARCOAL

HERO ARTS UNICORN WHITE

WINK OF STELLA

STAMPENDOUS DETAIL WHITE EMBOSSING POWDER

COPIC SKETCH MARKERS

LAWNSCAPING CHALLENGE: CRITTERS

Love this challenge, can never get too many critters!  This card, however, morphed from my original idea a bit and took a lot of masking and hand cutting (really don't like to do that) but I think it ended up pretty cute.  There are a lot of supplies which I will try to list tomorrow but I wanted to get this up tonight .

This is my working sketch (using all the masks I made).The original idea was to just cut out the middle but I did't like that and ended up changing it up.

LAWNSCAPING CHALLENGE: WATERCOLORING

So here we are mid-summer and haven't had a minute to get anything done craft wise.  Family visits and trips have been our primary activity so today it has been great to have a chance to work on a card for this challenge.  I opted to do a very bright and shimmery card using LF Critters Ever After and my Twinkling H2O's.  I didn't want any black on the card so I stamped and embossed all the images with Versamark and heat embossed.  The sentiment is from LF So Much to Say.    What I learned from this card: It is hard to glue stuff to twinkling H2O's and for the vellum sentiment I had to resort to spray adhesive and the H2O's look fabulous in person but not so much in the photograph.

LAWN FAWN SO MUCH TO SAY

LAWN FAWN CRITTERS EVER AFTER

LAWN FAWN 6X6 LET'S POLKA

LAWN FAWN CRITTERS EVER AFTER DIE

TWINKLING H2O'S

HYBRID PALETTE INK FRENCH LILAC

VERSAMARK

ZING METALLIC FINISH GREEN

ZING GLITTER FINISH SILVER

RANGER MICRO FINE SILVER

3M DIMENSIONAL TAPE

MAMA ELEPHANT FEMME FRAMES AND LANESCAPE TRIO DIES

LAWNSCAPING CHALLENGE #84: STARS AND STRIPES

     

I have only made one other box card but I thought I would try another for this challenge.  Whew, they take me forever and they are so difficult to photograph.  I used a ton of supplies which I will try to list below after this is entered for the challenge ( we are leaving for Mammoth and I didn't want to have to take this project with me so I worked all morning!).  

I was so annoyed at the quality of my photos yesterday that I retook this under my Stella light and I think it is much less washed out.

What looks like white around the edges of the red card stock is actually Encore metallic silver ink (pad).

Back of card which I decided to not put a sentiment on.  Just the stars and another piece of the embossed stripes.

The silver stars are Tim Holtz and in this view you can see the stars stenciled on the back.

This is one of the embossed squares.  I used the Simon Says diagonal stencil and mixed Aleene's Glittler snow embossing paste with Distress reinkers - Festive Berries and  Fired brick. You can see bits of the glimmer.

 

The stick is a toothepick colored with Copics

The cloud has that puffy Liquid Applique on it and of course the butterfly has a bit of Wink of Stella.The dog tag is Viva Pearl Pen Gold. 

Paper- Navy- stash

Lawn Fawn Peace and Joy

Tim Holtz Mirror Stars

Lawn Fawn Stamps: Critters in the Burbs, Love you S'mores, You Color my World, Penelope's Blossoms, Starry Backdrops (cloud), A Birdie Told Me.

PTI - Red White Blue  (sentiment)

Encore silver ink pad

Hero Arts Metallic Silver ink pad

Distress Ink Reinkers- Fired Brick, Festive Berries

Impression Obsession Greenery background stamp

Avery Elle Celery and Lemon Grass Pigment Ink Pads

Simon Says Stencils: Diagonal Stripes and Stars and Dots

Copics

LAWNSCAPING CHALLENGE #83: EMBOSSING

It has been so hot in Southern California that I decided to do a winter themed card for the embossing challenge.  I am still stuck on my distress marker backgrounds so I did a wintery night background (need to figure out how to do northern lights) and then I versamarked the WHOLE thing and embossed with clear embossing powder.  The WHOLE thing! I then used Stampendous chunky white to get the effect of snow and snow falling. I added a bit of Stamp n Stuffs Kaleidoscope to the snow on the ground.  It was hard to keep the embossing powder on the card and then I had a problem with overheating it and it bubbled and melted.  I colored the rest of the images with my copics and used my embosser tool to press out the back of the igloo to give it a little depth. I attached the pieces with Glossy Accents to hold them onto the shiny background.  Then I embossed the banner and sentiment on an old piece of slightly grayed vellum that had snowflakes on it but they ended up being invisible.  I used a ton of double stick tape on the back because the background piece was very warped from all the embossing.  Hope you like my crazy amount of embossing card!

Here you can see the embossed texture and the glittery snow effect.

Always hard to photograph shine so this is the best I could get.

DISTRESS INKS

STAMPENDOUS ULTRA DETAIL CLEAR EMBOSSING POWDER

STAMPENDOUS CHUNKY WHITE EMBOSSING POWDER

STAMP N STUFF KALEIDOSCOPE EMBOSSING POWDER

FILIGREE SILVER EMBOSSING POWDER

LAWN FAWN CRITTERS IN THE SNOW

LAWN FAWN HATS OFF TO YOU

LAWN FAWN BIRTHDAY TAGS

VELLUM FROM STASH

COPIC SKETCH MARKERS

WINK OF STELLA CLEAR 

             

LAWNSCAPING CHALLENGE: DISTRESS MANIA

 

Happy Memorial Day everyone!  I am entering this card into the Lawnscaping Distress challenge.  I did a partial die cut at the top over two layers so the card would fold over without having to be attached to a separate backing.

SUPPLIES:

Lawn Fawn: Puffy Star Stackables; Starry Backdrops

Distress Inks: Dusty Concord, Chipped Sapphire, Salty Ocean

Filagree silver embossing powder

Bazzill 40 lb vellum

Glossy Accents

Gold glitter

Copic sketch marker

3D Foam Creative Sheets