Give Thanks Card with Heidi

Happy Monday, Heidi here, I hope you had a great weekend, I am sharing with you today a very simple Thanksgiving card to put you on the Thanksgiving mood this week. I know lots of us are really busy with Thanksgiving preparations and other holiday related tasks, so I thought you might appreciated a quick card, let me show you the card and will tell you a little bit more about it.

For this card, I used the "Thankful Mice" mini stamp set by Lawn Fawn the "Thanks scripty die" and the "Polaroid Lawn cuts" by Lawn Fawn. I applied a soft shading on the card panel through a stencil, I also apply some soft shading to the Polaroid frame. 

  

 I colored the little mice using Copic Markers, and I used some orange dotted paper from the "Let's Polka in the Dark petite pad," I adhered all the elements to the card using foam and liquid adhesive. 

I hope you enjoyed this card, I wish you a lovely and happy Thanksgiving! 

Lawn Fawn Thanksgiving!

Good morning! Kim from the Lawnscaping FIT team this morning sharing a fun and easy Thanksgiving project. It was Thanksgiving in Canada this past weekend and I always make nameplates for everyone as my husband and I collectively have a large family, this makes everything so much easier! My project would also work for the current Lawnscaping Challenge - Sentiments , which is open until tomorrow so you still have time to submit!

I die cut Kraft 4x4 squares and folded them in half, die cut the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Leaves also from Kraft. I used various colours of Distress Inks to colour the leaves. I then used Milo's ABCs for the "give" and the names on the black tags, I used the Scripty Thanks die and cut from black and orange cardstock and I used Gathered Twigs Distress on the orange and glued them offset so the black would allow for a shadow.  Once everything was glued I felt the Holiday Party Animal Pilgrim Hat would be a cute topper to the "h" in the thanks. I used older Lawn Trimmings in the Orange and Brown to attach the nametag!  Don't forget you still have time to submit to the current challenge sentiments the lucky winner of this challenge will receive a $25.00 gift card from the fabulous Ellen Hutson on-line store!

Thanks for taking the time and for more wonderful inspiration go to the Facebook inspiration page 

Kim

No stamping autumn thanks

Hello.

Its Kate here today and i have four cards and not one single bit of stamping.

I wanted to show off some of my favourite dies from Lawn Fawn.

This first card was going to be my project for today but as I was making it my mind was just flowing with ideas so i went with them lol.

I wanted to just do some inlaid die cutting  but I only inlaid the leaves from the Stitched leaves dies.

Once each piece was cut I coloured it with distress inks.

Everything was adhered back in place and I wanted some extra detail so I used the awesome stitched borders dies...seriously these are the most versatile dies.

The scripty thanks sentiment was cut from black card stock and adhered over the leaves.

Everything was adhered and placed on a ready made  card blank.

Next up I started with a white panel and using a scrap piece of  card that had 3 of the small stitched leaves cut from it i used it as a stencil.

I covered the whole panel and overlapped the leaves and went through a range of distress inks in autumnal colours.

I had a spare large leaf die cut so coloured that in the same colours and added to the panel before placing the scripty thanks over it.

It was then finished with some gold glimmer  mist some gold sequins and gold twine from lawn fawn.

Card number three and that centre panel is the stencil i used on card two. 

No waste here :)

I simply used a scrap card and double sided tape and made a panel using the gold lawn fawn twine to go behind the open spaces.

Before adding the scripty thanks i added some drops of gold glimmer  mist to the panel.

And lastly I used the three small leaves left from making cards two and three. 

Again i coloured them with distress inks and then tapped the lower section of the leaves onto a gold inkpad.

I then did the same with the black scripty thanks.

They were all adhered to a white panel that had been die cut with the scripty borders.

Thanks for looking.

Layering Clear Embossing Over Distress Ink for a Subtle Background

Hello crafty friends! It's Jess and today I have a card featuring some fun ink blending with embossing layered on top and the Lawn Fawn stitched borders for added interest. I really like how the stitched border can add a layer of texture to make the white space on a card more interesting. For more on how I achieved this look check out my video.

As discussed in the video I added some distress ink after masking off the stitched area with some tape. I love how the Starry Backdrops looked layered on the blending and how it gave me another way to use that fun scripty sentiment from So Jelly. This would be fun to create with any of the backdrops and word dies you happen to own.

I hope you enjoyed my card and video! Don't forget to participate in the latest challenge Back to School!

Scripty watercolour

Hello. 

I am  thrilled to be here with my first post. 

I wanted to combine two of my favourite things.....

Watercolour and scripty fonts.

I have 3 very different looks featuring both to show you.

First up I have gone all out rainbow ...another favourite thing :)

To start i simply heat embossed the scripty "thank you" from scripty sayings stamp set repeatedly in white. 

I staggered them so that they were not all on top of one another.

Then to add the colour i used some watercolour markers.

I drew on the colour then loosened it with  a very wet water brush.

Once that was all dry i die cut the scripty thanks and left the background white, although id like to try with black as i think there would be a better contrast.

Again have have stamped the scripty sentiment more than once however this time i used archival ink in black.

I changed the colours to and love how different it looks compared to the first rainbow of colours.

And finally very clean and simple with minimal watercolour.

The sentiment is again stamped in black archival ink as I'm using watercolours.

I used the long tail from the sentiment as somewhere to place the little flower from Gleeful gardens.

The flower was coloured with the same watercolour markers and once dried i added some wink of stella and glossy accents to it. 

All three cards are finished simply with some clear sequins.

Thanks do much for looking.

End of the Year Teacher Gifts

Hi everyone! Roxanne here today with end of the year teacher gifts that I came up with for both my boys. They each have 2 teachers, so I had to make this project affordable, cute and simple!

My husband always laughs at me, but I reuse all sorts of containers for gift giving. I think it's quite resourceful myself, but I do amass quite the collection of containers and jars and boxes...you get the idea here! For this project, I chose to reuse strawberry containers. Just the simple clear plastic ones you get at the grocery store. I washed them all out, let them air dry and began thinking of clever gifts to put inside.

I wanted to do a popcorn/candy and movie themes for these. I thought it was different and totally fun. Here is what I made up:

 

Inside the containers:
- About 1-1/2 cups of popcorn kernels
- Homemade popcorn seasoning inside a little jar (found those at the $1 spot at Target)
- Sixlets candies (also found in the $1 spot at Target; I bought 2 bags to split between all 4 gifts)
- 2 brown kraft paper bags (found on clearance at Micheal's for 19¢ each)
- AMC Theaters gift card

For the container, I simply measured the rounded indentation on the top and bottom of the containers to cover with fun papers. This hides the stickers I didn't want to sit and remove! What I did was make one for the outside and one for the inside of the container for both the top and bottom. I chose a double sided patterned paper and used one pattern on the outside and one on the inside. I simply rounded the corners and glued to the containers. Such a fun and simple way to repurpose a fruit container! Think of all the containers you could use - fruit, donut, muffin, egg cartons, jars, and so much more. The possibilities really are endless. It makes a fun presentation for gifts like gift cards that are more exciting to get when they're wrapped creatively. At least I think so.

For the tags, I chose coordinating papers to match the patterned papers I used to dress up the plastic containers. I did two different patterned papers and matching tags for each of my kids. I made 2 of each, as I had mentioned above, for the boys. I simply had them sign their names on the opposite side of the tags.

Here are the products I used for the tags and jar label:
- Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks Lawn Cuts
- Lawn Fawn Happy Trails (the little clouds of exhaust I actually used for popcorn!)
- Lawn Fawn Tag You're It Lawn Cuts
- Lawn Fawn Triple Pack Natural Cord
- Lawn Fawn 6x6 Sweater Weather Petite Paper Pack
- Lawn Fawn Milo's ABCs
- Memento, Tuxedo Black Ink
- Versafine, Onyx Black Ink
- Spectrum Aqua Markers

The labels for the little jars of seasoning were also from the $1 spot at Target. I stamped "popcorn salt" onto the labels using Milo's ABCs. That font is so much fun!

I think this was one of my favorite teacher gifts I've created. I can't wait for the teachers to get them!!

So, save those containers and get crafty with them for gift giving this summer. AND if you have space to save them until then, they would make amazing holiday gift containers for gift giving - I can just picture a little loaf of bread inside one of these, or a line of yummy homemade cookies.

Thanks for checking this out! I hope you enjoyed my project today.