It's Friday! Treat Yourself!

Hi, everybody! Suzanne here with a sweet card to share with you today! 

We love to treat ourselves to ice cream at a wonderful place near our house that also sells mini "pup cups" of ice cream for dogs. So, we bought one and brought it home for our dachshund, who LOVED it. I know that if given a chance, he would totally be like the dog on my card! 

I colored the dachshund from "Critters at the Dog Park" to match our dog, and stamped the scene so that he's diving into a big ice cream sundae (one of the images from "Here's the Scoop").

I cut four one-inch strips of paper from the Let's Polka Mon Amie petite paper pack to make a custom patterned paper design for the background. The sentiment is from the new "Treat Yourself" stamp set. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my card and are planning to treat yourself to something fun this weekend!

Don't forget, there's still time to enter the current Lawnscaping challenge, "Sparkle and Shine"! Check out this post for all the details and to link up your entry!

Lawnscaping + Caffeine = Happiness Blog Hop WINNERS

Hi there! Laurel here to announce the winners from our recent blog hop! We had 41 hop participants and so many comments left on all the blogs it was amazing!!!!!!!!! So many adorable projects that left me feeling so inspired! Thanks to all who participated in the hop by either creating a project or leaving a comment!!! ONTO THE WINNERS!

To recap, here are the amazing sponsors!!!   Lawn Fawn, Ellen Hutson, The Ink Road, Crafters Companion, Spectrum Noir, The Alley Way Stamps, Newtons Nook, Faber Castell, and Right at Home!  9 sponsors and 10 prizes. So 10 prizes are up for grabs!!!

I decided to pick 2 winners from the hop participants and then 7 winners from those that commented along the way!!! The winners were chosen at random by using Random.org to be completely fair. For the commenters, I used Random.org to direct me to the blog and then used Random.org again to selected the chosen commenter based on the amount of comments that blog had (it took a while to do this, lol) so anyone who commented (including the hop participants) were eligible..  So here we go!

Hop Participant winners:

• Coralynn ($25 Lawn Fawn Gift Certificate)
• Kristina B (The Ink Road Prize Pack)

Commenter winners:

• Miamikel (Spectrum Noir, 1pk of Spectrum Noir Markers + 1pk ultra smooth cardstock)
• BubblegumPaper ($25 Ellen Hutson gift certificate)
• Taunya Butler (Faber Castell 15pk of just gelatos)
• Janis/Her Peaceful Gardens ($15 Crafters Companion gift certificate)
• Beaumonde Designs (The Alley Way Stamps Tea-Par-Tea stamp set)
• Michele Smith (Newtons Nook stamp set of your choice)
• Nicole Diedrich (Right at Home prize pack)
• Niki Garcia ($25 Lawn Fawn Gift Certificate)

Ladies, please email me directly at laurelbeard at me dot com. Please note in the subject line (this is important so I don't overlook your email): your name/hop winner/the prize you won and in the email be sure to include your mailing address.  Most prizes will come from the sponsor directly, but I am your point of contact for this process. You have until July 10th to email me. If I don't hear from you, I will select another winner!

Thank you all so much for making this blog hop a huge success! Back to my cup of coffee now, out of my Harry Potter mug of course, lol).......

Lawnscaping Challenge: Sparkle and Shine sponsored by ELLEN HUTSON

Hello and welcome to another Lawnscaping Challenge!!!!! Laurel here... Before we get into today's fun and sparkly challenge, I wanted to say goodbye to one of our original design team members, Tamara Laan. She has been with us from the get go and has been an absolute gem to work with! Tamara, we will miss you! We also bid farewell to our previous FIT team as the new team started on July 1st...   Kari, Sabine, Isha and Yuki! You will be missed here! Your artistry has been so contagious here on the blog! We will continue to look forward to seeing you on your personal blogs. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

On to today's challenge! Let's get a little bit of sparkle back into your lives, shall we? Because that is what we are challenging you to do today! Sparkle!! That could be interpreted in many ways... Sequins, glossy accents, glitter, Wink of Stella glitter pens, BLING...... If it sparkles or shines, then we want to see it! :)

The wonderful, fabulous Ellen Hutson! is sponsoring this challenge!!! Certainly you are familiar with her and her store, but if not, a little bit about the store in her own words:

Ellen Hutson, LLC began their adventure in November 2006 as an online web store committed to bringing you the finest paper crafting products and related product education. They are always looking to provide their customers with quality products, excellent customer service, and education and inspiration for the products they carry. You can shop with Ellen by clicking HERE. As well please join them to be inspired and learn some fun techniques in the CLASSroom, or stay up-to-date on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and/orPinterest.

Ellen Hutson has generously offered up a $25 gift certificate to the online store! Shopping spree time!  Thank you Ellen and gang!!!

Before we get to to the design team creations, allow me to introduce to you our July Guest Designer!!! A fabulous designer/artist, and my friend, Laura Sterckx. Look at this ADORABLE card she created for the challenge! 

Are you ready to check out what the DT made??? Let's get to it If you click on the name under the image, you will be taken to the individual blogs with all of the juicy details on the projects!

Laurel (with a video you can watch HERE.  She used those Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers that are all the rave right now)

Christy

Nette

Chrissie

Karin

Audrey 

Elise

Samantha

Roxanne

Samantha C.

PLEASE READ the rules in the sidebar in order to be eligible for the prize!!!!!

• You have until Wednesday, July 15th to submit your entries!

Don't forget to keep checking our Facebook page, where our Facebook Inspiration Team will be sharing projects throughout the challenge!

An InLinkz Link-up

Hello sunshine ... a shaker card!

Hello Lawnscaping friends!!

How are you all doing on this first Saturday of July? I'm having Summer break right now! wohoo!!! Almost melting ... really hot weather these last couple of days. 
It would be awesome to be at a beach ... bit of sand, sun and some wind.
That was my inspiration for this card ... .


Here's my card ... 

It's a shaker card ... with some real (decoration) sand! :) 

Lawn Fawn products used for this card: 
 + Hello Sunshine petite paper pad + mixed sequins (out of stock) 

   

 

For a full list of supplies: click HERE!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!! 

Stay tuned for a brand new and fun challenge on Monday!! Hope you'll play along!!

hugs . . .

lenny