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 ;)

Happy Belated Birthday!

Good morning!  Jess here with a belated birthday card!  I'm always bad about sending out birthday cards on time so I always try to have a stack of belated birthday cards for the inevitable late card!

I've owned the Year Two stamp set from Lawn Fawn for years now but had never used it until this week.  Now that I see how absolutely adorable it is I will definitely be using it again soon!  I also had another revelation during this crafting session...I need the Party Ballon dies!  Can you tell what I used to create my faux balloons?

To start off, I used distress inks in Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass, and Chipped Sapphire to create a smooshed watercolor background.  While that was drying I stamped my turtles from Year Two and colored them with copics before fussy-cutting them.  Next I die-cut the round stitched tag dies and cut off the bottom of each die to create my "balloon."  I colored them with copics and then stamped the sentiment inside.  To finish the card I tied black twine bows to each balloon and used more twine and foam mounting tape to adhere the turtles and balloons to the watercolored background.

Thanks so much for visiting today and don't forget to enter our current challenge: Winter Wonderland!  You have until Wednesday, January 13th to enter!  Click here for more details!

Have a fantastic Monday!

-Jess

Lawnscaping Challenge: BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: IT'S OUR 1O0TH CHALLENGE SO WE ARE PARTYING - Sponsored by Lawn Fawn

Hi everyone! Laurel here!  Today is a very special day! We are celebrating our 100th challenge! Can you believe it? 100 challenges under our belt!!!! It is amazing! Thank YOU for all your support! It's because of you this challenge is thriving! And it's because of you we are in triple digits now! And to make things even more awesome, today's is my daugther's birthday! My sweet little girl is 2! So this definitely means IT'S TIME TO CELEBRATE.

Our challenge theme this week seems appropriate. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION! And for some extra fun, each design team member has invited a special "party peep" as I like to call it to be their special guest this week and celebrate with us. What that means for you is there is LOADS of inspiration below! LOADS from talented designers and friends...

We are sponsored by the always amazing Lawn Fawn! These folks just rock and they are sponsoring this challenge with a free stamp set of the winner's choice! So many stamp to choose from, I know. It's tough. We just heart them! Thank you Kelly Marie and gang for sponsoring us! YOU ROCK!

And now.... Get ready for A LOT OF AWESOME projects from the DT and Party Peeps!!!! Our design team members will post their projects and immediately below their photos will be their party peeps project!  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 

Laurel's special party guess is two fold! First up is the super sweet and fun Laura Stercx. She just celebrated her 18th birthday and created this adorable card and also has filmed a video for it as well!

And Laurel's second guest is the fab Julie Ebersole! Her giggle is contagious and I just heart her so! She puts up with my crazy and inspires me with all her work! She is a rock star!!! I was sooo thrilled when she said YES to my invitation!

Christy

Christy invited the lovely and extremely talented Paulina Nakamura to the party.
She created this adorable card to help us celebrate. Doesn't it just make you grin? 

Jenn

Jenn invited a fellow creative east coast girl, Cheiron Brandon. They get to be creative together in real life a few times a year and she inspires Jenn always. She created this fun Lawn Fawn Party!

Nette

Nette's invited guest is the amazingly talented Tenia Nelson who created this fun paper-pieced card. 

Chrissie

And Chrissie's special guest is the fantastic Anika Lerche! She has the most incredible style and shows it off perfectly in this card!

Anika

Karin

Karin is so happy to tell you that my special party guest is no other than Miriam Prantner ( Sooner rather than Later ). You probably already know her, but if not; Miriam is SUPER talented, has won more challenges than I can count.  She also designs the coolest stamps and I just LOVE her fun and clever card designs! Isn't this just the cutest birthday card?!!!

 

Tamara

Tamara's special party guest is the very talended Lenet Mos!

Love her vintage style a lot. And this is what she has made for our 100th party challenge:

Audrey 

Audrey's special guest is Kay Miller of My Joyful Moments. I love Kay's whimsical style!  So glad that she could join us today.  Here is what Kay made for our birthday celebration:

Elise

Elise's special guest is Allison Patrizio! She is one of the sweetest crafters around and she always creates some of the cutest scenes! I'm so glad she was able to join us today!

Samantha M.

Samantha's guest is that fabulously talented Jocelyn Olson! Check out this adorable card she created and the coloring? Fab!

Yainea

Yainea's special guest is Elena Roussakis! I love her cute style, she's a great inspiration and friend! Aaaand I know you've missed Elena here in Lawnscaping challenges! I'm so happy she could join us during this big celebration :)

Here's her fun and amazing card:

Roxanne

Roxanne's special guest is Latrice Murphy! She is an all around crafter and photographer, so they share the love of being creative in many aspects! Here is what Latrice created for the challenge. HOO doesn't love it? :)

 Samantha C.

Samantha's special guest is Nikki Foraker! She has such an incredibly fun personality and her sense of humor allows her creativity to shine in her projects. Check out her amazing card she created for this celebration! 

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

• You have until Wednesday February 25th 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!

Birthday Card & Gift Topper

Hi everyone! It's Yuki here with a super fun birthday card and coordinating gift topper. I made these for our dear friends who recently celebrated their son Connor’s first birthday. Our friends have a super cute pet Boxer and I thought it would be so fun to have the Boxer from the “Critters at the Dog Park” set holding a birthday balloon.

I started off by die cutting the background panel using the A2-sized stitched rectangle die. I used “Harold’s ABCs” to spell out “happy birthday” and white heat embossed the sentiment directly onto the background. I then masked off the stitched edges and the clouds from the “Hello Sunshine” set and colored the sky using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I stamped the dotted clouds slightly off-set with a matching blue pigment ink. I then stamped the sun in a yellow pigment ink and inlaid it onto the background panel. I used one of the “Stitched Hillside Border” dies to cut a hill and colored the hill using Shabby Shutters Distress Ink. To complete my sentiment, I stamped the balloon from the “Hello Sunshine” set in blue dye ink and then white heat embossed the “1st” from “Harold’s ABCs” directly onto the balloon. I then colored the Boxer, tennis ball and bone using Copic Markers. To finish the card, I attached some yellow twine to the balloon and tucked it behind the Boxer’s paws.

Instead of a gift tag, I thought it would be a cute idea to make a custom gift topper that my friends could keep and display. To create the gift topper, I die cut Connor’s name using “Finley’s ABCs” from white cardstock and white craft foam. For the O’s, I die cut the balloon from “Hello Sunshine” out of green cardstock and then added some highlights to the balloons using my white gel pen. I colored two of the little birds from the same set using Copic Markers and cut them out using the coordinating dies and also cut them out from white craft foam. I adhered the die cut pieces onto a panel of pattern paper from the “Let’s Polka” 6x6 Paper Pack I had die cut using one of the large stitched rectangle dies. To anchor the balloons, I attached some “Cloudy” Lawn Trimmings behind the balloons and tucked the twine behind the focal panel. To finish the gift topper, I matted my focal panel onto some yellow cardstock I had die cut from one of the larger stitched rectangle dies.


I really love how the card and gift topper turned out and my friends totally loved it too! Thanks again for stopping by and be sure to visit the Lawnscaping Challenges Facebook page for even more awesome inspiration and visit my blog for a full list of supplies used to create today’s projects. And don't forget to check out the latest Lawnscaping Challenge: Create a Background, you have until Wednesday to play along! ♥

Happy Birthday!

Hey everyone, Samantha here with a super fun birthday card! I recently purchased some products from the last Lawn Fawn release, and I just had to use them right away.

 The "Year Four" stamp set coordinates perfectly with the "Birthday Tag" stamp set. The proportions allow you to create a mini birthday scene within the tag. I also love that the "Birthday Tag" stamp set works perfectly with the "Tag You're It" craft die. I hand die cut my stamped tag, and then layered it on top of a kraft tag. I adhered the layered tag on top of a fun pattern paper from the "Into the Woods" petite paper pack. Under the pattern paper is a strip of washi tape. I used a cute star border punch on the bottom of the card. Polka dot pattern paper was placed behind the stars to coordinate with the birthday theme. Twine and star embellishments were added to create additional texture and dimension.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Lawnscaping Challenge: LET'S PARTY, IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY sponsored by Simon Says Stamp

Hello, hello! Laurel here and welcome back to another Lawnscaping Challenge AND THE FIRST CHALLENGE OF 2014.... This challenge marks the beginning of our 4th year! YEA!!!!! Can you believe it???  So it is only fitting we carry on the tradition of having a PARTY THEMED challenge! Show us your best party themed projects!!! :)  Birthdays, graduations, new baby.... Whatever cause to celebrate is where it's at for this challenge!  Bring out the cake, the candles and let's celebrate!

We are thrilled to announce that the AMAZING Simon Says Stamp will continue their sponsorship for 2014!!! THANK YOU SIMON!!!!!!! The winner will receive a $25 gift card from Simon Says Stamp!!!!

Ready for the inspiration from the Design Team???? Let's get to it!!!

Laurel 

Christy

Jenn

Chrissie

Karin

Tamara

Lynnette

 

Elena

Yainea

Audrey

Charlene

PLEASE READ!!!! IMPORTANT!!!!! To play along and be qualified for the prize, you must do the following:

• Be a follower of Lawnscaping.

• Create a NEW PROJECT based on the challenge, link our challenge AND inspiration photo to your post and add your direct link to your post or online gallery to the Inlinkz below.

• TURN OFF WORD VERIFICATION

• You many combine a total of 3 challenges with your entry as long as the other challenges are not the same theme as ours. You may enter the challenge a maximum of 3 times!

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

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

You are welcome to upload your entries to the Flickr group! The Spotted and Hearted Patrol checks flickr regularly, hint hint! :)