Waving Hello with Audrey!

Hello there!  Audrey here!  Today I have a card to share with you that goes along with our current challenge... Distress Mania!  I used Distress Inks to "ink smoosh" my underwater background!  If you are not familiar with "ink smooshing", it's very easy to do and the results are so fun!  You will never get the same effect twice!  All you need are Distress Inks and a piece of acetate or old plastic packaging.  You can even use a sandwich bag.  You just press the ink pad onto the plastic, add a few squirts of water, and press the wet ink on to your paper.  I prefer to dry each layer before moving onto the next, but you don't have to if you prefer not to.  The colors will just mix together more.

Once my background was completely dry, I added a stitched edge with the largest die in the Small Stitched Rectangles Stackables die set.  I cut a second stitched rectangle from kraft cardstock, and used the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders to add a slope to my sand.  For added dimension, I added some Walnut Stain Distress ink to the edges with an ink blending tool.  I stamped and colored a mermaid, rock, seaweed and the cute little seahorse from the Mermaid for You stamp set and then diecut them using coordinating dies.  I adhered some pieces flat with a glue pen, and some with foam tape, and added a sentiment from the same stamp set.  Then I mounted the panel to a white card base using more foam tape.

That's all for me today!!  Thanks for stopping by! :)

I Wheelie Like You

Hi there!  Audrey here with a fun watercolor card for you!  I love making mini card sometimes, because the change in "canvas size" is refreshing to me.  I often make mini cards when I want a smaller stamp set to be the star of the show.

For this card, I started off by creating a watercolor background for my little scene.  When it was dry, I diecut it with one of the Small Stitched Rectangles Stackables die set.  I stamped, colored and diecut the cute little hamster and wheel from the Wheelie Like You stamp set.  I wanted a pair of hamsters, so I stamped and colored two of them.  I used a snippet of Perfectly Plaid patterned paper to ground my scene, and then popped the hamsters and wheel up using foam tape.  I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set just above the images, then mounted the panel on a white card base, and added a twine bow to the top of the card to finish it off.

That's all for me today!  Thanks so much for stopping by! :)



Loads of Birthday Fun!

Hello there!  Audrey here! Today I have a fun card to share with you that mixes and matches a bunch of my favorite Lawn Fawn stamp sets!

To start my card, I diecut a piece of Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor paper with the largest die in the Large Stitched Rectangles Stackables die set. I challenged myself to use a color combo that seems to be everywhere lately - Mint and Coral.  Truth by told, I don't love these colors (I'm probably the only one on the planet that feels this way LOL!), which is why I challenged myself.  I watercolored a background with Cracked Pistachio and Pumice Stone distress inks.  A while back, I saw a polka dot washer and dryer on Pinterest, and I couldn't wait to recreate it by paper piecing the washer from the Loads of Fun stamp set with some Lawn Fawn patterned paper!  I stamped and colored a bunch of other images from that set and die cut them with the coordinating dies.  Inspired by one of the sentiments in the stamp set, I decided to create a birthday card, and pulled out my Party Animal stamp set, and I will never turn down the opportunity to use the Baaah Humbug sheep.  He's the cutest!  I played around with placement, and adhered some pieces with a glue pen, and others popped up with foam tape.  Finally, I glued the panel to a white card base.

I am quite happy with how this turned out.  I sure to love mixing and matching my Lawn Fawn stamps, especially when it's an unlikely combination.  Stretching your stamps = more bang for your buck!

Hope you like!  That's all for me today!  Thanks for stopping by! :)

Supplies:

All listed and linked above ;)

Have an Unbelievable Birthday!

Hello there!  Audrey here with an unbelievable birthday card for you using the new Lovable Legends stamp set and coordinating dies!

I just LOVE this little Big Foot, and couldn't wait to ink him up!  I started off by diecutting a piece of white card stock using the largest die in the Small Stitched Rectangles Stackables die set.  Then I used Tumbled Glass and Vintage Photo distress inks to sponge a  background.  I also splattered some Vintage Photo along the bottom dirt line, and added some clean clear water droplets to give more dimension.  I stamped, colored and diecut the big foot, trees, party hat, and a few sets of foot prints from the Lovable Legends stamp set.  I added some white gel pen accents, and accents with copic markers to the solid stamped images.  Then I diecut some clouds using the Puffy Clouds border dies.  They are cut from white cardstock and again from vellum.  I stamped a sentiment from the stamp set on the white cloud, and popped that up on the panel with foam tape.  Then I adhered all of the other pieces to my scene with either foam tape or a glue pen.  The little big foot looked empty handed, so I stamped the balloon from the Year Four stamp set, and fussy cut it out to pop up.  Finally, I matted the panel on brown cardstock, and popped the matted panel up on a kraft card base using foam tape.

That's all for me today!  Thanks for stopping by! :)

Great Chemistry by Audrey!

Hello there!  Audrey here with a fun watercolor card to share with you!  Our current Lawnscaping Challenge is all about Watercoloring, and I couldn't resist making another card, because watercolor is my favorite!

To make my card today, I pulled out a bunch of distress inks.  I tapped Picked Raspberry, Mermaid Lagoon and Squeezed Lemonade onto a large acrylic block.  Then, I added water to each color with a paint brush.  I made a small puddle of distress ink and water on my watercolor paper, and then simply blew air through a straw, turning the paper to send the ink in the direction I wanted it to go.  I repeated this with different colors, letting sprays of color mix to create new colors.  Then, I loaded my paintbrush with Picked Raspberry and a good amount of water, and tapped the paint brush to get splatters.

When my watercolor piece was dry, I diecut it with the largest die from the Small Stitched Rectangles Stackables, and then I stamped, colored and diecut the little beakers from the Science of Love stamp set.  I felt like they were getting lost on the background, so I used the middle heart from the Stitched Heart Stackables to cut a vellum heart.  Adding the vellum mutes out the background enough to show off the beakers better.  I popped them up with foam tape, and then heat embossed a sentiment from the same stamp set on to a strip of black cardstock using white embossing powder.  

That's all for me today!  Thanks for stopping by! :)

Please welcome our newest Design Team Members

Hello, Hello, Hello! Laurel here......

Wow! We can't believe how many submissions we received to our latest call. You all warm our hearts with your excitement and talent... You made the decision very hard for us, and I am not just saying that. Thanks to all of you who applied. Everyone should have received an email from me.... If you didn't, please email me at laurelbeard@me.com... Before I introduce our three new designers, stay tuned for another post. Because of all the submissions we received to our call, we came up with something fun and special.... Just sayin'!

Now, please help me is welcoming our three newest designers to the Lawnscaping family! The designers will begin in July.... :) Here they are and a little bit about them in their own words! :)

Charlene Bopp

Hi it’s Charlene! I live in New Jersey with my awesome husband and two adorable young kids. I work as a clinical research associate by day and a paper crafter in my spare time, usually when the kids are asleep. My other hobbies include having fun with my family, cooking, and photography. I LOVE stamps, markers, pretty papers, cool embellishments and coffee. I’m hooked on Lawn Fawn stamps as they are so much fun to work with especially when paired with their coordinating dies.  I am so thrilled to be part of the Lawnscaping Challenge Design Team (am I dreaming?). 

Elise Constable

Hi, my name is Elise and I live in State College, PA with my wonderful husband. We met at Grove City College where we both studied mathematics – we’re math nerds! I currently work as a bank teller and I am also very involved in my church serving as the treasurer, youth leader, and nursery volunteer. As for my paper-crafting, I started making cards shortly after getting married four years ago, when my mother-in-law bought me a Cricut! I have since become passionate for stamping and I was excited to find such cute stamps on the market, like Lawn Fawn! I am a huge fan of the Lawnscaping challenges and I am so thrilled to be on the design team! Please visit my blog at www.whimsipost.blogspot.com

Audrey Tokach

My name is Audrey Tokach and I am a SAHM to two beautiful boys, Logan (11) and Joshua (9).  My wonderful husband Drew and I have been married for almost 12 years.  We live in sunny Florida, but I grew up in the Philadelphia, PA suburbs and will always call it home.  I am an animal lover (just ask my 2 Cocker Spaniels and 4 felines!).  I started scrapbooking in 2001 while pregnant with my oldest son and in 2009, I was introduced to the wonderful world of stamping.  After a few orders of clear stamps and Copic markers, and I was hooked!  Apart from stamping, I enjoy altered art and 3D home decor projects.  Please visit my blog, Pink Ink Originals, to see what I've been up to!!