Category: Lawnscaping

Lawnscaping #84: Stars and Stripes

I’m delighted to be guest designing over at Lawnscaping Challenges today!

Lawnscaping Challenge Number 84 is all about incorporating Stars & Stripes on your project. The prize for this challenge is a free stamp set of the winner’s choice from Lawn Fawn.

With July 4th around the corner, I created a red, white and blue card featuring both stars and stripes.
YoureAStarJMI stamped the fireworks from the Happy 4th set in white pigment ink on the card base front. I die cut the stars from the Stitched Journaling Card set repeatedly to create the rows of stars. I then backed the journaling card with stripes in blue and red. The sentiment from Lucky Stars was heat embossed on a red stripe.

Be sure to head on over to Lawnscaping Challenge to see what the Design Team has done for this challenge! Hope you’ll play along!

Supplies: Stampin’ Up cardstock, ColorBox white pigment ink

Hello Sunshine

While I was crafting my card as a guest designer for Lawnscaping Challenge Number 83, I created another summer-themed card. 

LFWatermelon

Lawnscaping Challenge Number 83 is all about using heat or dry embossing on your project.  I heat embossed the watermelons and the ant. The watermelons are colored with Copic markers. I kept the background simple with bright-colored, solid cardstock.

Have you played along yet? There’s a prize of a $25 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp! Head on over to the Lawnscaping Challenge to enter! You have until  Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 to submit your entries!

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Guest Designing at Lawnscaping Challenges

I’m delighted to be guest designing over at Lawnscaping Challenges today!

Lawnscaping Challenge Number 83 is all about using heat or dry embossing on your project. The prize for this challenge is a $25 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp!

Here’s my card featuring heat embossing.

StrawberriesHelloJM

I stamped and heat embossed the Mason jar from Summertime Charm on white cardstock and on vellum. I stamped and heat embossed the lid out of gray cardstock. I used the Summertime Charm Lawn Cuts to cut out the pieces. I also stamped and heat embossed the strawberries, colored them with Copics, and then cut them with the Lawn Cuts.

I glued the vellum overlay onto the white cardstock, using the embossed line as a guide for where to put the glue. I had attached the strawberries to the white cardstock before adding the vellum, so they wouldn’t spill out! I topped off the jar with its lid and some twine. I die cut Scripty Hello from patterned paper and adhered it to my card base panel. Once I had attached the jar to the sentiment panel, I scattered a few more strawberries at the jar’s base.

Be sure to head on over to Lawnscaping Challenge to see what the Design Team has done for this challenge! Hope you’ll play along!

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The Owl and the Pussycat

This week’s Lawnscaping Challenge is to try a new technique.

I started a list of techniques I hadn’t tried and realized I’d never cut multiple die cut layers. My card’s inspiration is the “nonsense” poem “The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear.

The Owl and the Pussycat - Lawn Fawn

 

I cut the waves individually and glued them to the stamped black background. I then ran the panel through my Big Shot cutting out the scene with a large circle die. I finished the panel off with a thin die-cut circle. I made the boat using origami technique.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon. And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand. They danced by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon, They danced by the light of the moon.

Supplies: Spellbinders Nestabilities circle dies; Stampin’ Up cardstock, origami paper