"World Card Making Day"

Hey folks, Heidi here today celebrating "World Card Making Day" with "Paper Craft Magazine" After a big long break from blogging! 

When my college classes start I really have to slow down on blogging for time reasons, I am not really a good English writer so blog posts take some good deal of time from me. However, I have not taken much time off from paper crafting; in fact I think I had paper craft a lot more lately. Only I have been using Flickr to post my cards and crafts. So if you don't follow me on Flickr, please go on and follow me so you can see all my cards and crafts! Heidi's Flickr As soon as I get caught up with work, I will post all my cards and supplies on my blog and I will update a link to it on Flickr. For today I am brining you two cards using the cute Boo-Tastic stamp set by Mama Elephant! (That is for this morning, I am working on something cute for this afternoon, even though they're not cards)

                                    

For this card I took a piece of purple "Papertrey Ink" cardstock and folded it to standard size card 5 1/2 x 4 3/4, I stamp the stars background with Versa Mark ink, using the "Starry backgrounds stamp by Lawn Fawn. Then I cut a piece of black ("My Favorite Things") cardstock 2 x 5 1/2 and punched three squares with a 1 1/4 punch. I adhered a smaller piece of white cardstock directly on the card base. I also use "Broken China" distressing ink on this white piece. Then I placed the vampire, the witch and mommy die cut stamped pieces, (From the "Boo-Tastic" stamp set by "Mama Elephant") which I previously colored with "Copic" markers. I stamped and embossed with black embossing powder, the "You're Boo-Tastic!" sentiment from the stamp set with the same name, from "Mama Elephant" on orange cardstock Finally I stamped and die-cut the spider and poped it with foam adhesive, and trace a white dash line for the spider to hang on!

  

                                      

For this card I used the ‘Stitched rectangles stackables” by Lawn Fawn to cut my card base (5 1/2 x 4 1/4) them I cut a piece of light blue cardstock and stamped the bat from the "Boo-Tastic stamp set using "Versa Mark" ink, forming a pattern, and also distress the piece using Vintage Photo distress ink. I stamped and die cut the Polaroid photo frame from the "Say Cheese" stamp set by Lawn Fawn and distressed with Vintage Photo distress ink. I stamped the "Peek-a-boo” sentiment from the "Boo-Tastic" stamp set from Mama Elephant on the Polaroid frame. Then I took a piece of white cardstock and distressed it using the "Chipped Sapphire" distress ink, and stamp the city silhouette from the "Central Park" stamp set by Mama Elephant and the circular moon. I used a little of yellow distressing to reflect the light. I stamped, color, and die cut the princess and the mommy from the “Boo-Tastic” stamp set from Mama Elephant and drew a surprised mouth on the princess since she is been photo bombed by the mommy. I placed them behind the frame and cut off the excess. I finally adhere all of this directly on to the light blue piece, which, I poped with foam adhesive on to my purple card base.

Challenges:October Challenge Mama Elephant

Anything goes!

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Lawnscaping Challenge No. 87 Back to school

 

 



Hello everybody! Heidi here, stopping by real quickly today to share a couple of new projects for the Lawnscaping Challenge Since I made that pattern on the brown lunch paper bag, I found how fun it is to make patterned paper with stamps, so I decided to created some more back to school projects. Anyhow, here are my new back to school projects using Lawn Fawn products, I hope you'll enjoy them!

 

 Pencil toppers and a little back to school mini box to fill with cookies for my little boy.

 For the pencil toppers I used "the science of love", and the "a good apple" stamp sets, for the custom sentiments I use "Claire's ABC's, and cut some stars out of some "let's polka" papers with the puffy stars stackables dies all by Lawn Fawn

 

For the box background  I used the "a good apple" stamp set. For the fun message I used the "flying by"  and the "Claire's ABC's stamp sets, I also added a paper airplane from the "flying by" stamp set and a flair button from the "Hello Sunshine" collection.  

The chalk board paper is from the "peace joy love" collection, also by Lawn Fawn.

The label die that I used for the pencil toppers is from Hero Arts- Sizzix  and the box is from Sizzix

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Lawnscaping Challenge No. 87 Teacher s'mores kit

Hi! Today to bringing you my entry for the Lawnscaping Challenge No. 87 This time it's all about back to school, teacher gifts, cards, tags, lunch notes, etc.
I was searching for inspiration on pinterest and I found this cool pin about sayings for teacher gifts. I repinned to my School and teacher cards, tags, and gifts board, so if you need any inspiration, there are all kind of sayings to pair with different gifts. You can follow me or any of my boards on Pinterest, I guarantee you won't be disappointed!
To begin with I took a regular brown luch bag and stamped a patter using the word s'more form the "love s'more stamp set, and also use the ruler and the arrow from the "A good apple" stamp set; using some craft color ink (Stampin' Up) them I create the tag usig the chalk boar paper from the "peace joy love" collection and some wood veneer paper from Simon Say Stamp. I stamped, colored with Copic markers and die cut the s'more image from "love you s'more stamp set, I created a custom sentiment using the Claire's ABC's and used the word s'more from the "love you s'more" stamp set. Also on the back of my chalk board tag I adhered some magnet tape, so when the teacher is done with the s'mores kit she can still keep the tag as a magnet in the classroom or such. I temporary adhered the tag to the bag using removable glue dots. Finally I punched some holes in the brown paper bag and I used some Lawn trimmings to secure the bag closed.

All supplies are from Lawn Fawn otherwise noted.
I hope you'll enjoy this gift kit and I will see you soon with more Crafty Time 4U!

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Lawnscaping challenge No. 86 Watercoloring

Hi everybody!  Is Heidi here, with a new Lawnscaping Challenge. I am so excited about this challenge because it encouraged me to play with the water color technique a lot, and now I feel like I'm in love with water coloring.  It's a wonderful technique because in my opinion there's not really right or wrong.

For this challenge, I played with water colors in all the different ways that I possible could with the supplies that I have. For example I made different water color washes by sponging dye inks on water color paper, then spraying them with lots of water, moving the paper around, absorbing the excess of water with a paper towel and letting it dry on its own. I also colored some stamped images with distress markers and used a fine brush to apply water, move and blend the color along the stamped image. The other way I played with water color techniques was by applying some distress ink on the craft sheet, spraying with lots of water and using a brush to paint some strokes and splatter on the water color paper, which  is the technique that I used for today's card.

 If you browse around my blog you'll find bold and bright colors along most of my cards, because I love color! for this challenge I have something different but I love it! I used the Dream stamp and dies by Lawn Fawn, I also die cut the feathers using vellum and placed them a little off  over the colored feathers, and finally I stamped the word "laugh and love inside card (not picture using Claire's abc's stamp also form Lawn Fawn.

I hope you'll enjoy this card as much as I do. All the supplies that I used are listed bellow. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Dream, Claire's ABC's By Lawn Fawn,
Dies: Dream Lawncuts by Lawn Fawn
Inks:Tim Holtz Distress in peacock feathers, picked raspberry, mustard seed by Ranger; Versafine Onyx Black
Water color paper: Simon Says Stamp
Card base: White marshmallow cardstock by Bazzil
Others: craft sheet by Ranger, water spray bottle, small paint brushes (1 or 2), vellum, paper trimmer, die cut machine, bone folder, heat tool (optional); foam adhesive glossy accents ( a little dab to adhere the vellum feathers)

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Lawnscaping Challenge No. 85 Summer Color Combo

 

Hey! It’s Heidi here, and I am so glad to be back to blogging after a big break, which I am going to call “World cup brake” since I’ve been watching the Brazil 2014 World Cup! I am a big futbol fan or soccer as is commonly known in the United States. I was born and raised in South America, so futbol is big part of our culture. Every four years, we love to watch the world cup because the world's best teams meet and we get to see great games and great things! (Occasionally, some bad things as well.) Today was the last game and Germany was the well deserved champion! Congratulations for the Germans!

Mean while in the crafting world: I am very glad to get back to my craft room to create a card for one of my favorite challenges, The Lawnscaping Challenge, which this time is about creating a card or a craft project using the given color palette. I got a few new products, (mostly from Lawn Fawn) so I am very excited to use them! For me this challenge is also about using a new technique: embossing paste. Yep it’s been out for a while but I hadn’t had the opportunity to use it, till now. 

 I really enjoyed making this card; I actually made two of them! It’s so fun to work with inks and using the blending tool, then get to use the embossing paste with stencils, and finally die cutting, which is one of my favorite paper crafting techniques! I hope you’ll really like this card!

 

Supplies used:
Sentiment stamp: Life is good by Lawn Fawn
Dies; Script thanks and puffy star stackables by Lawn Fawn
Patterned paper(star): Hello Sunshine collection by Lawn Fawn
Card stock: white marshmallow by Bazzil
Inks: Versafine onyx black(sentiment);, Peacock feathers by Ranger, Tangerine and banana by Color Box
Embossing paste: Dreamweaver white
Stencil: Falling stars by Simon Says Stamp
Others: Blending tool, paper trimmer, die cut machine, adhesive, bone folder

 

 

 

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Doodlebug Design Sugar Shoppe Card

Hey there!
I haven't had a post that wasn't for the Lawnscaping challenge in a long time.
I am stopping by today to bring you a card that I created using the Sugar Shoppe collection by Doodlebug Design.
Doodlebug Design is one of my favorite brands, because it has colorful collections that really match my style of crafting. Here recently the had huge release parties full of great inspiration and prizes! They have an awesome design team, and every time I check their blog I get blown away by the beautiful projects!  you can check this link to their blog Doodlebug Design blog  or go to my Pinterest page where I have lots of Doodlebug projects pinned along different boards.
I created a two whole birthday party decorations using the Sugar Shoppe collection and the Hip Hop Hooray collection by Doodlebug but I have yet to picture them, so keep coming for more Doodlebug Design projects! Meant while enjoy this card.
I found very similar cards on Pinterest and I thought the Sugar Shoppe collection would be perfect for this type of card so here it is!

 

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Lawnscaping Challenge No. 83 - Embossing

Hi there everyone! Heidi here with a new Lawnsacaping Challenge, this time is about embossing dry or heat. Honestly I was never into embossing but I finally realized why. It was because I didn't have a good heating gun, the results were never pleasing to me, and I was trying hard not to use embossing on any of my projects. Well now I got a better heating tool, that works great so things are going better now with embossing! Yay!!!
So for this challenge I created a card using heat embossing on vellum ( something I had not done before) also colored stamped images with Copic markers and added a little dimension, which I found a little hard to do with vellum, fortunately I found this clear foam tape, it helps a lot.
Any way I hope you'll like this card and have a happy week!!!

Supplies used in this card:
Patterned paper: Let's Polka Collection by Lawn Fawn
cardstock: Marshmallow by Bazzil,
Stamp sets: Love you tons, Year four, Bon voyage, and Claire's abc's by Lawn Fawn
Markers: Copic
Dies: I love you tons,  Year four,  Bon voyage by Lawn Fawn  
Adhesive: Tombow Stamp Runner, Kool Tak foam, Tombow Mono Multi liquid glue
Inks:Versa Mark and Memento Tuxedo black
others: Vellum.

 

 

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