Winter Peace with the Lawnscaping Winter Blog Hop

This is my second post today. 

My post for Fresh Squeezed Stamps is a short scroll away!

I was one of the lucky group who snapped up a space for the Lawnscaping Winter Blog Hop!!!

You should have come here from Amy's card at Tsuruta Designs.  If you started with me, be sure to head to the Lawnscaping Blog to start from the beginning.  There are also details there about the great prizes and sponsors available as part of this hop.

Being a winter hop, it gave me a chance to pull out Making Frosty Friends.  I am so in love with Lawn Fawn's sweet little animals that I tend to forget this set, but it is a great set to work with. There are two sizes of snowmen plus individual stamps and dies for everything you might need to dress up the snowmen - hats and scarves and mittens and even a broom.  Of course, I had to pull out one little creature from Into the Woods.

Next on the hop is Erica from CardsByErica.  Just remember that if anything goes wrong on the hop - head back to the beginning at Lawnscaping Blog.
Have fun!!

• Stamps: Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends, Lawn Fawn Into the Woods, Lawn Fawn Critters in the Snow (the bigger snowflake)
• Paper: Papertrey Ink Winter Wisteria, Authentique Seasons Winter 6x6 dsp
• Ink: Memento Black, Copics, Papertrey Ink Winter Wisteria, Soft Stone, Spring Rain
• Accessories: Lawn Fawn dies for Making Frosty Friends and Into the Woods, Lawn Fawn Cole's ABC dies, Lawn Fawn Silver Sparkle Hemp Cord, Cuttlebug embossing folder (retired but see this post for an alternative), misc gems

Clean & Simple Lawnscaping: Sounds Corny

As I got all of my Thanksgiving cards ready to mail, I realized that I had missed one very special person - my sweet 5-year old niece.  In a family of big and tall people, she is a tiny little thing - and unlike the rest of us, has very little interest in food.  So I thought the Happy Feast set from Lawn Fawn would be a fun message for her!


The layout comes from clean&simple stamping.

My choice of paper comes from the current Lawnscaping Challenge to use polka dots.

• Stamps: Lawn Fawn Happy Feast
• Paper: Simple Stories Snap Color Vibe
• Ink: Memento Black, Copics
• Accessories: Hemptique twine, Papertrey Ink Terracotta Tile button

CAS(E) this Sketch: You're So Cool!

It's time for a new sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch!  It has some very fun angled panels.

I have recently been ruthlessly purging my stamps and stamp supplies, but I've been following the advice of Susan at Simplicity who says she puts things in a box for six months and if she hasn't needed them in those six months, it is time to get rid of them.  One of the things that I just stuck in a box was a tool that was popular some years ago, but I haven't seen much of lately - a paper crimper!!  I love how it turned out for my snow drifts.  So this tool - that I hadn't used in probably four or five years - went in the six-month box, but got pulled out less than a week later.  I think it's safe!

The stamps are Critters in the Snow by Lawn Fawn.  I would have said that I was only recently converted to Lawn Fawn - but in the midst of my purge this last week, I found this set hiding in my older Christmas stamps!  I guess I knew about them earlier than I thought!
I hope you play along - I am excited to see what everybody else creates with those angled panels!

• Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters in the Snow
• Paper: Stampin' Up Coastal Cabana
• Ink: Stampin' Up Coast Cabana, Memento Black, Copics, Versamark (to apply heat/stick and glitter)
• Accessories: Fiskars Paper Crimper, Stampin' UP Heat and Stick Powder, Martha Stewart Fine Crystal Glitter

CAS(E) this Sketch: Pick of the Patch

Happy Halloween!!!

It's time for a new sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch!

I made a number of Halloween cards this year, but none of them were quite right for my youngest niece. I found this older A Muse sentiment in my collection and added some of the charming stamps from Lawn Fawn.  I had to fit it into this sketch so I could have a Halloween card on my blog today!!


I hope you bring out your flags and pennants and play along with CAS(E) this Sketch!

• Stamps: Lawn Fawn Into the Woods, So Thankful (pumpkin), A Muse sentiment
• Paper: Stampin' Up Pumpkin, Avery Elle white woodgrain, unknown green
• Ink: Memento black and Copics
• Accessories: Lawn Fawn Into the Woods, So Thankful dies, My Favorite Things Fishtail dies, Divine Twine Black Licorice, clear sequins

Merry Monday and dahlhouse: Let It Snow

This week's Merry Monday challenge is Christmas birds.  I just got the Winter Sparrows from Lawn Fawn and had to use these sweeties, and I just re-discovered the cute snowflakes in Frosties, also from Lawn Fawn, that has been hiding in my stash for awhile!  As an added bonus - I love the wanna sketch #9 from Lisa at dahlhouse designs!

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to my Canadian friends!

Go Broncos for my Denver friends!!

Now I am off to catch up on some accounting classwork that is due today so I can be done and totally prepared to watch some football with my boys!

• Stamps: Lawn Fawn Winter Sparrows, Frosties
• Paper: white
• Ink: Memento Black , Copics
• Accessories: Lawn Fawn Winter Sparrows die, Divine Twine Cotton Candy, Stardust Stickles, WPlus9 tag

CAS(E) this Sketch: So Thankful For You

It's time for a new sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch!

Remember - this is for inspiration only.  If you don't have word bubbles, check out the design team cards - there are clouds and leaves and snowflakes!

I did use word bubbles, mainly because I had finally gotten my hands on a set that seemed to have been sold out everywhere for awhile.   I love the charming creatures from Into the Woods by Lawn Fawn. I finally managed to get my hands on the stamps, dies, sequins and paper - although if I have to admit it - it took orders from three stores to get them all!  Here is the sweet fox!

Sadly, after all of that, I also have to admit that the sentiment is not even from Into the Woods.  The word bubbles do come from the coordinating die set but I cut up and used the sentiment from So Thankful, a small-sized pumpkin set.
I hope you have fun with this sketch - it's a fun one!

• Stamps: Lawn Fawn Into the Woods, So Thankful (sentiment)
• Paper: Stampin' Up Tangerine Tango, Island Indigo, Papertrey Dark Chocolate, Simply Chartreuse, Lawn Fawn Into the Woods 6x6 dsp
• Ink: Memento Black, Copics, Versamark, Papertrey Dark Chocolate
• Accessories: Lawn Fawn Into the Woods dies and sequins, white embossing powder, Martha Stewart Fine Crystal Glitter (on the log - I like a little frost in my autumn scenes!)