Jellyfish Greetings

Good morning! Roxanne here today with honestly one of my favorite cards I've created recently. I don't say that often, but I just love this one. I just bought this set and I couldn't wait to use it. I love the little jellyfish so much. Let's get started!

I knew I wanted to use my jellyfish image from the So Jelly set, so I started off by creating my blue water background. I used several inks and sponges and blended it until it was the color I desired. Seriously, my blue fingers and thumb for a day were totally worth the result!

Now, I actually made a bit of a mistake which turned out to be a neat look since this is a water scene after all. My ink that I had blended wasn't quite dry when I stamped on the bubbles from the same set in Versamark. I applied my white embossing powder and some of the powder around the bubbles actually stuck to the damp ink blended background as you can see. I didn't bother trying to wipe it off because I loved the way that looked! I heat embossed away and as you can see, it looks like some smaller bubbles. I like when a mistake turns out to look intentional! Just a tip...make sure your ink blended background is dry BEFORE you apply your embossing powder. Or, use that look to your advantage like I did.

For my jellyfish, I stamped 3 of them onto my premium white cardstock (all products used listed at the bottom of the blog post) in Tuxedo Black ink and I colored them each a slightly different color using my Spectrum Noir Markers and trimmed them out by hand. I added a light gray outline around them and left just a hair of white around that when trimming them out.

The sentiment is from the Love You A Latte set and I stamped that onto white cardstock I cut using the Stitched Labels Lawn Cuts. I added a simple rhinestone pearl to the dot of the "i".

To make that blue background I worked so hard to blend pop off the card, I decided to use an embossed black panel behind it. The panel looks like bubbles reminiscent of the water bubbles, so I thought it was perfect.

I have a simple white cardstock card base trimmed and scored to 4.25x5.5. I then adhered the embossed blak panel to the card base.

I stuck the jellyfish on with some more foam adhesive, leaving one off the edge of the blended panel. I flicked on some white Mister Huey's Color Mist all over to look like more bubbles under the water. I grabbed some white and turquoise twine and wrapped that around the bottom of the card three times and stuck my sentiment label on top of that off to the left with some foam adhesive. Then I used more foam adhesive to adhere my water background to the black.

And there you have it! A sweet little card filled with adorable little jellyfish! Thanks for checkout my project this month and I'll see you again next month. Happy crafting.

PRODUCTS:

• Lawn Fawn So Jelly
• Lawn Fawn Stitched Labels
• Lawn Fawn Love You A Latte
• Memento: Tuxedo Black, Nautical Blue and Summer Sky
• Radiant Neon Ink: Electric Blue
• Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass
• Versafine: Onyx Black (for sentiment)
• Versamark
• White Embossing Powder
• Cuttlebug Bubbles Embossing Folder
• Mister Huey's Color Mist, Opaque White
• Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock
• Spectrum Noir Markers: FS5, FS8, PP2, PP6, CR3, CR7, CR11, BP5, BP7

Halloween Treats Using Clear Embossing

Hello everybody! Heidi here, I'm not ready for fall, and more much less for winter, but us paper crafters have to work a little bit ahead of the seasons in order to share inspiration and ideas. So today I am sharing with you some Halloween treats using Lawn Fawn products and some heat embossing! We are currently having our Lawnscaping Challenge No.112 sponsored by Lawn Fawn, which it's all about embossing, if you haven't enter yet, you still have about three days left to do so, you can enter HERE

Let me show my project and I'll tell you a little bit more about it! 

For these treats I used the "candy box die," the "Spooktacular," the "starry backdropes," and the little banner from the "small stitched journaling card" die set. 

For the backgrounds, I used the "starry backdropes" and some of the little elements from the "Spooktacular" stamp set, I stamped those using Versamark ink, and I heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I stamped the images randomly to create fun patterns.

For the sentiment I used the "happy" from the "spooktacular" stamp set, and the "halloween" from the "hoppy halloween" mini stamp set. I color the images using Copic Markers, and tied some bows, using baker's twine. 

I hope you enjoyed this fun project! Have a lovely day! 

Rainy Day Hello Card

Good morning! Roxanne here with a card that I thought was fitting for the rain we've been having here in Chicago. Seems to have rained quite a bit so far this spring/beginning of summer. I decided to make a bright little card today that is inspired by the rain.

I recently bought this Lawn Fawn, Hello Baby set and I have been wanting to use it. I also wanted the main image to really be the only thing in color, so it really stands out.

I went with a white card base, scored and folded to 4.25x5.5. Then I cut two smaller panels, both 4x5.25. I glued one down to the base. The other, I used an embossing folder with little dots on it and ran that through my machine. I then took a die I have in my supplies and die cut out the shape in the center of the card. For this panel, I did use a watercolor cardstock for texture and because I was going to be coloring in my little scene with my watercolor markers.

With the diecut piece, I started with my little scene. First, I stamped the duck from the Lawn Fawn Hello Baby set. I then stamped that again on a sticky note to create my mask. I cut out around that from the sticky note and stuck it over my stamped image on the watercolor cardstock. This will allow you to stamp over that and create a fun look that makes it look like he's holding the umbrella. I next stamped the umbrella and then the grass below his feet. For the grass, I just used the grass image from the Hello Baby set with some Memento Luxe in Pistachio and stamped that randomly to make it look like he's standing in the tall grass in a field.

I colored in my little ducky with my Spectrum Aqua markers (colors listed at the end), and the umbrella as well.

I made another mask with the umbrella and clouds by using the same sticky note technique above. This way, you can layer stamped images and it allows you to give so much dimension to your scenes! I used the mask for the clouds for the rain as well. I used the triple dotted lined image from the same set and stamped that with Memento ink in Summer Sky (how appropriate!) to give it some movement. I added several sequins from Lawn Trimmings I had on hand.

Next, I actually adhered the embossed panel down first over the plain panel I had glued down previously to line them up. I used a thick foam circle adhesive for this to pop it further off the card. For the stamped/colored scene, I used a thinner foam circle adhesive to give it a tiny bit of pop, but to leave room between that and the embossed panel I stuck down. I just then snuck that into the opening and pressed down to adhere.

In my stash, I had this little Basic Grey chipboard tag and stamped the hello from that same set in Memento in Tuxedo Black. I tied a simple bow around the end of the tag with some Lawn Trimmings cord, and then glued that down underneath the diecut panel.

I just love all the white and pop of color in the center from my little stamped scene. I hope you enjoyed my project today! Thanks for stopping by. :)


Supplies:
Lawn Fawn Hello Baby!
Lawn Fawn Lawn Trimmings - Triple Cord, Natural  and Fall Sequins
Memento, Tuxedo Black & Summer Sky
Memento Luxe, Pistachio
Basic Grey Chipboard Elements, Hey You Collection
Cuttlebug Embossing A2 Folder, Swiss Dots
Spectrum Noir Watercolour Cardstock
Spectrum Aqua Markers - Kingfisher, Charcoal (clouds); Sunflower, Sunset, Jasmine (duck); Red Violet, Sea Green (umbrella); Moss (grass)
Papertrey Ink - Mat Stack 3 Die

Lawnscaping Challenge #55

Happy April and welcome to another challenge!!!

We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp! The lucky winner will get a $25 gift certificate! 

Our Guest Designer for the month is the incredibly talented Jennifer McGuire! We are so excited to have her joining us for April!

Jennifer has been scrapbooking and stamping since about 2002. Her creations have been featured in countless publications, including numerous magazines and books. In 2011, she was named a Go-To-Gal – a contributing editor for Paper Crafts magazine. Her creations have been featured in countless publications, including numerous magazines and books. Jennifer is well-known for her article in Creating Keepsakes magazine, Tools & Techniques, where she demonstrated the many things you can do with one tool or product. Two Creating Keepsakes books based on these articles, 101 Things To Do With Your Scrapbook Suppliesand 101 More Things To Do With Your Scrapbook Supplies, were released in 2007 and 2010.  Jennifer is well-known for her very popular, energetic, fast-paced technique classes. Being Ranger and Copic certified, she shares creative ways to use papers, stamps, inks and more, taking your papercrafting to a whole new level.

Not only does Jennifer have an uber cool card to share, she used a really innovative technique to achieve this clean look.  All of the details are on her blog!

Since our lovely Laurel is on 'maternity leave,' we have Kari Webster filling in for her this month! Thank you so much to Kari for filling in - we are thrilled to have you with us! :)

Kari

And here are rest of the Design Team's fantastic inspiration projects, to kick start your creativity!

Christy

Karin

Lynnette

Elena

Melissa

Shien Shien

Chrissie

Yainea

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, April 10, 2013 to submit your entries!

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