Sunday, June 3, 2012

Winners: Embossing - Queen of Green, Top Mow It Alls, Honorable Gnomes

Sorry for the late winners post! Been a crazy end of the week!!!!! But the good news is it seems like our embossing challenge was a hit! We had a lot of participants and a lot of wonderful projects! If you haven't check out the submissions, I encourage you to do so because you will be blown away and sure to be inspired to get crafty!

A big thanks to Lawn Fawn for sponsoring! The winner will receive any in stock stamp set of his/her choice! And with the newest release, I think the hardest part will be choosing which set! So, let's get to the winners!!!!


Queen of Green - 150

Jean M


Jean, congratulations. Please email me at laurebeard at me dot com and let me know which stamp set you would like!


Top Mow It All 150

And now for our Top Mow it Alls, in no particular order:







YAY Top Mow It Alls...... And now, let's check out our Honorable Gnomes, in no particular order:

Honorable Gnome Blinkie 200

Grisel
Pamela
Marie
Kelly
Sanketi
Lalo
Michelle
Kelly

Congratulations to everyone. Please be sure to pick up your winners badges either on the side bar or here! And everyone can pick up the Lawnscaping Challenge Badge!!!! We'd love to have you display it on your blogs!

Be sure to check back tomorrow for a new challenge and a new guest designer (or two, he he)........

Friday, June 1, 2012

Fresh Cut VIDEO: same stamp used 3 ways

Welcome to another FRESH CUT VIDEO by Lawnscaping. (How cute is that name by the way, thanks Melissa)...

I am going to be late announcing the winners of our last challenge, so I hope this wonderful video by the talented Marie, one of our loyal challenge participants, gets you by!!!! She shows you how to use the adorable stork from Lawn Fawn's Plus One stamp set three different ways!! So not only will you be inspired to get more out of stamp, you get to see the three adorable cards she made in this video!   All supplies she used will be listed at the end of this post! Thanks Marie for making it for us!!!!!





We will be back tomorrow with the winners post.... And Monday with a new challenge and June Guest Designer! :)

Supplies:

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Lawnscaping Design Team CALL

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That's right! You read the header right!  The Lawnscaping Challenges is having a design team call! We are in need of one, possibly two NEW DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS!!!!

We are pretty excited about this so let's get right to it!!!

Requirements:
  • Have an active blog
  • Own a minimum of 6 Lawn Fawn stamp sets (see under "chit chat" for explanation)
  • Create two projects per month for the challenges. Projects are due the FRIDAY before each challenge
  • Comment on assigned challenge participant entries
  • Promote Lawnscaping AND our sponsors (Lawn Fawn and Simon Says Stamp) in every challenge post
  • Have ability to take good photographs of your project
  • Promote Lawnscaping on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Flickr - whatever social networking outlet you have access to
  • Graphic Design (to help with badges if need be: and ability to make video/picture tutorials is a PLUS!! (please mention this in your app) - NOT REQUIRED
  • Ability to create scrapbooking layouts/altered art also a plus - NOT required (please mention this in your app)
  • Term is July-December. In December, discussions will take place privately about potentially extending your term
CHIT CHAT:
  • This blog was created by our love of Lawn Fawn stamps. If you have an extremely limited supply of these stamps, then this position might not be for you... While we do not require the use of Lawn Fawn for our challenge participants, it is required for the design team members!
  • The projects you created are open ended! It can be a card, layout, altered art, etc.....
Does this sound like something that would interest you? If so, please email the following information to Laurel at laurelbeard at me dot com with "Lawnscaping DT Call" in the subject line:
  • Name, email address, blog link and any online galleries you may have (flickr, youtube, etc)
  • 4 photos of your best work that you feel defines you as a designer
  • Short bio including your design style
  • Current design teams and terms
  • Previous dt experience, if any! Previous experience on a design team is NOT required.
  • Mention if you have any graphic design experience or ability to make video/picture tutorials. (NOT REQUIRED).
  • Mention if you have scrapbooking and/or altered art experience (NOT REQUIRED).
The deadline for submissions is:  JUNE 8th at 11:59 EST


We are always reluctant to do design team calls because we know it hurts if you aren't selected. Believe me, we have ALL BEEN THERE!!!! Please know whatever decision is made, it will be a hard one! 

Thursday, May 24, 2012

VIDEO: Watercoloring with crayons and Lawn Fawn

Hi there! We are kicking off our Lawnscaping Video series with a video by one of our challenge participants, the talented Amy Lucimar! She has created a fun video using Lawn Fawn stamps and water color crayons!!!!! Let's check it out!!!! 

Thanks to Melissa Shea for suggesting the name of our new series! FRESH CUT VIDEOS!



Supply list:




Thanks Amy for creating this super fun and inspiring video for us!!!!!! This is just the first of many, MANY videos to come in this series! We want to provide you with inspiration during our off challenge weeks and down time on the blog!!! We hope you are as excited about that as we are!

If you are interested in creating a video or photo tutorial for the Lawnscaping challenge blog, please email Laurel at laurelbeard at me dot com.