essentials by ellen: mix it up with waffle flower crafts

Hello there!  I'm playing along with a couple of challenges today.  The first is the Essentials by Ellen Mix It Up Challenge, where we are combining Essentials by Ellen and Waffle Flower Crafts products.

The second challenge is CAS(E) this Sketch, where we are using the following layout.

Putting together the two challenges, I made this...

For my card, I used the Wild Garden dies for the flowers. The sentiment comes from Balloon Messages.

Thanks for taking a look!

cas(e) this sketch #184

Hi there!  I can always count on the CAS(E) this Sketch challenge to help me get out of a creative funk...you know when you want to make a card, but just don't know where to start.  This week's sketch -- CAS(E) this Sketch #184  -- was a bit tough for me.  Here it is:

After struggling to come up with something I turned the sketch on its side, and I got the much needed spark of creativity to make this:

This card uses Lawn Fawn products: Year Two and Party Animal stamp sets.

Please come on over to the Butterfly Reflections Ink blog to check out my process for making this card.  Thanks for looking!

joyeux anniversaire!

Oh my goodness, I'm in loooove with this Poppy Stamps Ooh La La stamp set, which I got from Butterfly Reflections Ink.  The penguin can wear a beret!  I mean, come on!!!

I made this card for the CASology challenge, where our cue word is sunshine.

I kept my card CAS by using just two images and leaving a lot of white space.  The sunshine was made by masking off the bottom portion of the card and blending in distress ink to look like the sun.  I then stamped the images, colored them with Copic markers, and die-cut them.  They're adhered with glue and foam tape.

Note: The heart that the penguin is holding is drawn in.  I wanted it to be smaller than the heart that was included in the stamp set.  Also, I don't have many stamp sentiments in French so I hand-wrote the sentiment.  The card is for my French-speaking friend for his birthday:)

Thanks for looking!
Supplies:
Stamps: Poppy Stamps Ooh La La
Dies: Poppy Stamps Ooh La La
Inks: Copic markers; Memento (tuxedo black); Tim Holtz distress ink (squeezed lemonade) 

lawnscaping challenge: in with the old (part 2)

I am loving the current Lawnscaping Challenge, where we're using older Lawn Fawn products. It's great to dust off the oldies, but goodies. Here's my card:

This card is for my friend who I'm having dinner with later. I missed her birthday last week, and since next week is Thanksgiving, I thought it totally made sense to have a turkey with a party hat.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies: Lawn Fawn - Turkey Day, Year Two, Year Five

lawnscaping challenge: in with the old

I've been away from my blog for some time, mostly because my computer has decided to stop working...so here's my attempt to use an iPad my sister gave me to get back into the blogging world.  Fingers crossed, hope this works!

Here's a card I made for the Lawnscaping Challenge: in with the old. I used stamps from Lawn Fawn's Year Two set.

We were asked to dust off some old supplies, so I grabbed this set and in fact used it for the first time.        

                      

This card is for a friend of mine that I used to work with.  I completely forgot his birthday, but I'm hoping this cute little turtle will make up for it.  Thanks for looking!