I Love Winter

I'm cutting it close with getting a card in for week 2 of the 400th sketch celebration at Freshly Made Sketches. This one had me a bit stumped but I finally went with one of the ideas I had.

I used the Lawn Fawn set Yeti, Set, Go for my card. I colored up the yeti in a very soft blue and gray and then colored up some trees to go behind him. I stamped the sentiment in black and then colored in the heart. I'm all about winter right now....my part of Alaska has had the warmest summer on record and we are in a mild drought. This weekend we had wind kick in and our fire crews are working around the clock as we have 2 major wildfires burning north of the town I live in, the closest one about 20 miles away as the crow flies. We really need cool weather and rain for this area and lots of snow this winter.

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You can see the card I created the first time around for this sketch HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

A-Maize-ing for Sunday Stamps

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge for everyone. I think these colors are so pretty but I had a tough time coming up with a card...the beginning of October is always hard for me, as it's the anniversary of my dad's passing, and my creative mojo is usually nowhere to be found. An idea finally came to me though and I got this card done.

The images are from Lawn Fawn and I colored them with copics, then adhered them to the Lawn Fawn patterned paper I used. For some added dimension I popped up the scarecrow and bird with dimensionals. 

I'm also playing along with the challenge over at the Lawn Fanatics blog, as the theme is autumn. It's been autumn here in Alaska long before the calendar declared it. Most of the leaves from my trees are on my lawn, I need to get out there and rake!

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see how you use these colors!

Grateful

2 weekends ago I stamped a bunch of images, cut them out with my Scan N Cut and then colored them and set them aside. When I saw the new challenge over at The Paper Players I knew my PI images of a girl raking leaves would be perfect for this sketch.

To create my hill I used Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Border dies along with some of their retired Sweater Weather paper. The plaid paper is also Lawn Fawn and I used an MFT die to cut that out. I adhered them together and then cut out some leaves from the hillside paper and popped those up around my girl, like the wind was blowing up leaves around her as she raked. It's perfect for my neck of the woods today, as the wind is whipping and blowing leaves all around.

 I kept the sentiment simple, adding the "grateful", which is from another MFT PI autumn set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: PI Thankful Friend, PI Jumping for Joy (both MFT)

Paper: Rich Razzleberry (SU), Neenah Solar White, Sweater Weather (Lawn Fawn retired), Perfectly Plaid Fall (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Rich Razzleberry (SU)

Copics: Y08, Y19

B91, B93, B95, B97

G24, YG63

E23

E37

C3, C5

W2, W4, W6

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 15 and 29, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Border, Dimensionals

Many Thanks for Sunday Stamps

We've got a great new sketch this week at Sunday Stamps! Autumn is almost over here in Alaska so I decided to go will a fall themed card. My craft room looks out over my backyard so the last few weeks I've been distracted from crafting by watching the leaves fall from the trees!

I used patterned paper from Lawn Fawn along with their Small Stitched Leaves set. I love these leaves, they are so pretty! The colors I used for the leaves were pulled from the patterned paper.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us, we'd love to see your interpretation of the sketch!

Stamps: Happy Harvest (Lawn Fawn-sentiment)

Paper: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango (all SU), Perfectly Plaid Fall PP (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Early Espresso (SU)

Accessories: Small Stitched Leaves (Lawn Fawn), Cuttlebug, MFT Die-Namics 20, SU TIEF Square Lattice

Worlds Beary Best Dad

This week The Paper Players have a Tic- Tac- Toe challenge and I really enjoy those so I sat down to make a card tonight before the challenge ended. I originally was going to do 'masculine, patterned paper, texture" but I couldn't decide on a paper that I was happy with so I instead went with the very bottom row across "texture, scene, die cut".

Right now I've got bear on the brain....I watch the bear cam on explore.org every night and next month is our trip to Denali Natl Park, where we get to drive the park road all the way to the end. Last time I drove the road I saw some big bears so I'm hoping that this time doesn't disappoint either. Since my brain is so focused on bears I decided to use the set Dad + Me from Lawn Fawn.

I created my little scene by stamping the mtns in Always Artichoke and then layering them inside the MFT Stitched Cover Up Horizontal Die. The sky above the mountains is Lost Lagoon and for texture I embossed some Garden Green card stock with the retired SU Square Lattice EF. This reminds me of the grassy meadows you can often find bears in. I gave Mr. Bear a hat and then popped him up with dimensionals. I was going to add a few cubs but male bears usually eat cubs and since I'm "that type of person" I couldn't bring myself to add the babies. I'll let the sentiment do the talking LOL

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Dad + Me (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Garden Green (SU), Chocolate Chip (SU), Lost Lagoon (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Copics: G46, BG78

E47, E59, E49

E44, E57

Accessories: Cuttlebug, SU EF Square Lattice (retired), MFT Stitched Horizontal Cover Up, White Embossing Power, Dimensionals

Color My World

Happy Sunday! I spent the day in Anchorage yesterday and forgot to set up my Sunday Stamps post for today, oops!

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a fun color challenge....rainbow colors. I immediately thought of the Color My World stamp set from Lawn Fawn. I grabbed my copic markers and got to work!

This card is really simple. I just took the crayon images and stamped it repeatedly across the card front. I then took my copic markers and colored the images with the colors of the rainbow. For the sentiment I used a sittched die from MFT to cut it out and then popped it up on the card front.

Make sure you head over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us!

Stamps: Color My World (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Real Red (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Real Red

Copics: V04, V17

R14, R27

YR15, YR16

Y02, Y08

YG13, YG09

B21, B24

Accessories:  Cuttlebug, MFT Zig Zag Stitched Circle Die, Dimensionals

Pizza My Heart for FM

It's Friday, woohooo! I am so glad this week has come to an end, it's been a busy one! Today is even more special because it's my 22nd wedding anniversary. I can't believe it's been 22 yrs! It's been quite the ride and I look forward to the next 22 with my hubby!

Today's Friday Mashup is perfect for my special day....it's either about creating a project for your Valentine or create a project featuring a candy image. We don't do Valentine's Day in my house but hubby is my love so we'll go with the general love theme.

I don't have any candy images so I used a new set from Lawn Fawn called Pizza My Heart. Pizza is very popular in my house and while my husband, daughter and nephew love all kinds of stuff on their pies me and the other kids like good ol' pepperoni, so that's the pizza I made. I did some basic coloring with copics and then popped with pizza up on an embossed panel.

My layout was inspired by the current Freshly Made Sketch, although I had to make all my elements bigger than what the sketch called for due to the size of my sentiment.

Head on over to The Friday Mashup to see what the rest of the design team came up with and then play along with us!

• Create a project for your Valentine. 
• Create a project featuring a Candy image. 
• or Mash it Up!! and create a V-day Candy themed project. 

You're a Rare Find

This week at The Friday Mashup we have a color challenge. I think I got most of the colors. I'm having a week from hell and I have to say my mind wasn't fully into this challenge, as I'm trying not to stress and blow a gasket over what I'm dealing with right now. Anyway....

I grabbed some items from Lawn Fawn to create my card. Yeti's are always good for a snowflake card! I embossed the Navy card stock with a falling snow folder and then used Lawn Fawn large stitched snowflakes in a slate gray to accompany the yeti. The yeti was colored in with gray copics.

Head on over to The Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

• Create a project featuring at least 3 of the colors above and Neutral of your choice. 
• or Create a project featuring Snow/Snowflakes. 
• or Mash it up! and create a Snow themed project using the colors above.

TTS is Back!

'Tis The Season is back and I'm ready to start building up my Christmas card stash for 2016!

We're starting off the year with a soft and feminine color challenge. It was a big tough for me but I ended up drawing inspiration from the beautiful sunsets we see here in Alaska during the winter, hence the pink/peach sky in the snow globe.

I used Lawn Fawns set Ready, Set, Snow and kept the background pretty simple, only using the Snowy Backdrop die. I wanted the colors of the images to be the standouts and main focus.

I hope you'll head over to the 'Tis The Season blog and check out what the rest of the DT came up with, and then play along with us!

Sketchy Leaves for Friday Mashup

It's time for a new Friday Mashup challenge and this week Holly is our hostess. She has a fun sketch for us, and would also like to see leaves on our projects. Here in my neck of the woods the leaves have been off the trees for about a month and we're supposed to have snow showers most of Friday! Wooohoooo for snow!

I used the small stitched leaves die from Lawn Fawn to cut shapes into a white panel. I cut the 3 leaves out of various DSP and then did the inlaid technique (which we did as part of a FM a few weeks ago). I used a green pen to create faux stitching around the leaves and for a border around the white piece. I then sponged the green color around the edges of the white panel.

The sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn set Thankful Mice and I used Doodlebug Sprinkles for embellishments.

Head on over to The Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

This week's Mashup Challenge:

• Use the Sketch.
• Create a project with some Leaves.
• or Mash it Up! and create a project using the Sketch and some Leaves. 

Stamps: Thankful Mice (Lawn Fawn-sentiment)

Paper: Mossy Meadow (SU), Neenah Solar White, Hello Honey DSP (SU), Mossy Meadow DSP (SU), Tangelo Twist DSP (SU)

Ink: Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow, Tangelo Twist, Early Espresso (all SU)

Accessories: Big Shot, Small Stitched Leaves Dies (Lawn Fawn), Doodlebug Sprinkles

Leaves and Thanks for Friday Mashup

This week on The Friday Mashup we have a color challenge for you, plus we'd love to see some masking done on your project.

I feel bad because I got my card done and realized I forgot the masking part. I didn't have time to get a new card done so I only have the color challenge done on my card.

I used the new Lawn Fawn die Small Stitched Leaves and cut 1 left out of Early Espresso, 2 leaves from So Saffron and 2 from Hello Honey. I used Avery Elles Wonky Stitches die to cut out a panel from Neenah Solar White, and adhered the leaves to that, popping up the Early Espresso leaf in the middle. The sentiment is from the Thankful Mice set and is stamped in Early Espresso.

Head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

This week's Mashup Challenge:

• Use all 5 or 3 of the colors listed above.
• Create a project using a Masking Techniques.
• or Mash it Up! and create a project with the colors above and some Masking.

Stamps: Thankful Mice (sentiment, Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Early Espresso (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: Big Shot, Small Stitched Leaves Die, Avery Elle Wonky Stiches Die

Many Thanks Pumpkins

For today's card I played along with the new Freshly Made Sketch and also with the The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge.

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to use the new Lawn Fawn set Happy Harvest. I was originally going to use the scarecrow but he wouldn't fit the way I wanted him too so I used the favorite image in the set, the wagon of pumpkins. I did some masking and added some more pumpkins and also a bird on top. The paper is from Lawn Fawns Sweater Weather stack. I really need to buy the whole collection, I only have a few papers from it and today I realized it's just not enough!

Stamps: Happy Harvest (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Sweater Weather Paper Stack (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Chocolate Chip (SU), Old Olive (SU)

Copics: R27, R29, R39

C1, C3, C5

R05, YRO0, R17

B21, B32 B34

YG13, YG61

E13

Winter Yeti

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a color challenge and it's all about the neutrals. It stumped me for a bit but then I went through my stamps and decided to pull out the Lawn Fawn Yeti and create a winter card so I could also play along with the current Jingle Belles challenge.

I used the Avery Elle Wonky Stitches die on a piece of retired Basic Gray DSP. One of the circles is cut from Sahara Sand and the other one Whisper White, which was then cut with the Lawn Fawn Snowy Backdrop die. My banners were made with Whisper White and retired Baked Brown Sugar DSP. My yeti is colored with copics and popped up with dimensionals. To finish the card off I added some Sahara Sand candy dots around the end of the banners.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

Don't forget to check out the Jingle Belles blog, there is still time to play along with their winter theme challenge!

Stamps: Yeti, Set, Go

Paper: Basic Gray (SU), Sahara Sand (SU), Whisper White (SU), Baked Brown Sugar (retired SU)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Gray

Copics:

Accessories: Big Shot, Nestabilities Circles, Snowy Backdrop (Lawn Fawn), Wonky Stitches (Avery Elle), Sahara Sandy Candy Dots (SU)

Many Thanks for Sunday Stamps

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a fun sketch challenge for you to try out.

I used a brand new set from Lawn Fawn called Happy Harvest. It has so many great fall images in it, I just love it! For this card I used the wagon carrying 3 pumpkins and then using the masking technique I added 3 more pumpkins with a bird sitting on top of the last one. The image was colored with copics and popped up with dimensionals on a  card base that I created with Neenah Solar White paper and paper from the Lawn Fawn Sweater Weather pack. The sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh.

Head over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

Stamps: Happy Harvest (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Lawn Fawn Sweater Weather

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Early Espresso (SU)

Copics: B00, BG01, B02, B04

Y18, YG13

E13, E17

N4

R24, R27, R29, R46

R08, YR07, YR09

Accessories: Sequins (PPP), dimensionals

Winter in the Park

Don't you hate it when you have to sit at home all day and wait for a technician? I work nights and had to get up early today in order to wait for a DirecTv technician to come by. Of course they just called and said they won't make it today, it will be tomorrow morning. Oh, joy. Good thing my husband will be home to deal with them.

The time around the house did allow me to create. I used the sketch from FMS to create this card. I love the Winter in the Park set from Lawn Fawn and was so excited when they released dies to match it in their latest release! I also used 2 other new products...the Santa hat is from Toboggan Together and the die cut background is the Snowy Backdrop. I accidentally got a bit of blue ink along one of the edges so I just fixed that by sponging lightly all around the white card base. The bench and hat are both popped up with dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope your Friday was better than mine!

Stamps: Winter in the Park, Toboggan Together (both Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Night of Navy (SU)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler (SU), Copics

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Snowy Backdrop, Stitched Hillside Borders, sponge, dimensionals

Alpaca my Scarf

Have you seen the new release from Lawn Fawn? They have some of THE cutest sets and one of my favorites is Winter Alpaca. As soon as I saw the sentiment in the set I laughed, such a great play on words and honestly, an alpaca for winter or Christmas? Awesome! Even my husband got a kick out of it and he is hard to please when it comes to stamp sets!

This card was made for 2 challenges....the tic-tac-toe challenge at Jingle Belles and the sketch for Freshly Made Sketches. For the tic-tac-toe I did a diagonal row....stamping, die cuts and glitter. Its hard to see in the picture but all the small stars and circles surrounding the alpaca have Wink of Stella on them.

I won the Snowy Backdrop die during one of Lawn Fawn's inspiration weeks and I had fun trying it out for the first time. Look at the fabulous background it creates! You can do like I did and save the cut out pieces to use them for something else, here I used them to fill in the space around the alpaca on the patterned paper. They would also be great to use on a shaker card! The sentiment banner and alpaca are both popped up with dimensionals and the scarf on the alpaca is paper pieced.

Make sure to check out both challenge blogs, there is still time to play along!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Winter Alpaca (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Real Red (SU), Neenah Solar White, Let's Bokeh in the Snow (Lawn Fawn), Snow Day (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Real Red (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: W2, W4

Accessories: Big Shot, Snowy Backdrop Die (Lawn Fawn), Dimensionals, Wink of Stella Clear 

A Christmas Scene for Jingle Belles

For their current challenge Jingle Belles has a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. I love those, and when they're Christmas? Even better! I just got some new stamps from Lawn Fawn so this was the perfect way to break in the stamps and play along at Jingle Belles!

I used the set Toboggan Together to create my little scene. I have a little reindeer sitting in the snow, watching his little buddy Mr. Penguin pull a sled of snowballs along. I used the row " Bling/ Die Cuts /Snow".  Unfortunately this morning I couldn't get a good photo that shows it but for "Bling" I used Wink of Stella on all the snowballs and along the paper pierced edges of the snowbanks. I also used red Wink of Stella on the sled for even more bling. In person it sparkles very nicely! My "Die Cuts" are the reindeer, penguin, snowballs, sled and rope for the sled. For "Snow" I used new paper from Lawn Fawn Let's Bokeh in the Snow Collection. I also made my own snowbanks with some Neenah Solar White and paper pierced the edges.

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check out the Jingle Belles blog, there is still time to play along!

Stamps: Toboggan Together

Paper: Real Red (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Real Red

Copics:

Accessories : Cuttlebug. Toboggan Together Lawn Cuts, Wink of Stella Clear and Red, dimensionals

Season's Tweetings

When I woke up today I took a look through my blogger feed and saw this great sketch at Less is More. It really intrigued me and I had to play along!

I grabbed the Lawn Fawn set Winter Sparrows. This is such an adorable set and I haven't inked it up since I got it months ago, so it was definitely time to play with it!

On a panel of Neenah Solar White I stamped the branch in the middle of panel in SU Early Espresso and then used my Early Espresso marker to extend it to the edge, I didn't like how it was just floating there. I colored my birds with Copics and then cut them out with their matching dies.Before adhering the birds to the panel with dimensionals I embossed it with the CB Swiss Dots folder. On a smaller panel I stamped the sentiment in SU Real Red, added some music notes and then also embossed that with the Swiss Dots folder. Both panels were then popped up with dimensionals on the card base,

I changed the sizes of the panel just slightly from the sketch in order to accommodate the images and sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Winter Sparrows (Lawm Fawn)

Paper: Neenah Solar White

Ink: Early Espresso (SU), Real Red (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: B00, BG01, G07, G28, YR31, YR14, YR15, R27, R46, R24, R29, YG25, C1, C3

Accessories: Cuttlebug. Swiss Dots EF, dimensionals

 

Use Your Stuff Monday

We all have crafty friends that enable us, and who we enable in return, right? My enablers are Holly of Hollybeary Creations and Rita of Rita's Creations. Recently Rita and Holly were talking about the crafty items we were all accumulating but not using and what better way to get our stuff out and used but to encourage each other and work together! That is how Use Your Stuff Monday came to life and here we go!

Today we are using Lawn Fawn products and playing along with the Lawnscaping Challenge, which is to use some type of dimension. I decided to pull out the set Critters in the Arctic. I spent Saturday afternoon photographing a beautiful young bull moose so I have moose on the brain, but what else is new :)

I used papers from Lawn Fawn's Snow Day collection to create the photo frame and the background. I love how versatile these papers are! I used the Lawn Fawn  Forest Border to create the little scene behind the moose and then used a white gel pen to create a stitched border.

For dimension my moose is popped up as is the sentiment banner.

It sure felt good to get these items out and used! If you'd like to play along with me, Holly and Rita feel free to grab your forgotten Lawn Fawn products and link up below! Make sure you head over to their blogs to see what they created!

The young bull moose I photographed Saturday at Potters Marsh, in the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge. You can tell it's a bull moose by the nubs above his eyes, where the antlers are just starting to come in. Only the males get antlers, female moose do not.

Stamps: Critters in the Arctic (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Garden Green(SU), Soft Sky (SU), Lawn Fawn Snow Day Collection

Ink: Early Espresso, Real Red, Garden Green (SU), Various Copics

Accessories: On Film Framelits (SU). Big Shot, White Gel Pen, dimensionals

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Wish you were here.....

Today's card is for a challenge taking place over at the Lawn Fawn Flickr group. They want you to use Lawn Fawn products along with kraft on your project (you can also do Simon Says Stamp products or combine SSS with Lawn Fawn, I only used Lawn Fawn on mine).

I used the Lawn Fawn Sets Wish You Were Here and Wish You Were Here Too. I was so happy when Lawn Fawn came out with the Alaska stamp and die! I stamped the US on kraft paper and then also on some paper from the Lawn Fawn Snow Day collection. I fussy cut  (I thought I had bought the matching dies to WYWH but ooops, need to get those!) them out and adhered the green one to the kraft paper so it was more stable. I then did the same thing with the Alaska stamp, but actually had the die for that one :) The arrow was fussy cut and all 3 layers are popped up for dimension. The arrow is pointing to the area I live in, an hour north of Anchorage.

My idea for this card came from a popular photo that gets shared on Facebook a lot by proud Alaskans :)

Stamps: Wish you were here, Wish you were here too

Paper: Kraft (SU-retired), Lawn Fawn Snow Day collection

Ink: Early Espresso (SU)

Accessories: Round Corner Punch, Paper Piercing Tool, dimensionals