Follow your Dreams

Hi again!

I've been 'feeling the CAS vibe lately' so I went with it! This week's challenge at the Lawnscaping blog is

I really loved how my gorgeous friend Chari did the hand-drawn border around her ADORABLE card HERE (well actually I loved the entire card, but the border just stuck in my mind ever since I saw it.)

 So super simple. In real life? This card is so pretty. (If I'm allowed to say that myself)

Glossseeehhhh


Here's what you'll need (as well as a black fine-tipped pen. I use American Crafts precision pens).

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Thanks for stopping by!

Linda xxoxoxoox

Pinwheel goodies :)

Hello!

I'm here with two VERY short posts today for two very CLEAN and VERY VERY simple cards!

I'm entering them into this weeks Lawnscaping Challenge!

 Some cute washi tape (or really it's 'decorative tape' as it's not made of paper), some stamping :), some colouring and some stickles :)

and here's a closer shot of the cute little pinwheels in all their glittery goodness.

Here is what you need to make this card:

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That's it from me, till the next post which will be up in oh, five minutes lol (You need a separate post for each entry into the challenge) !

But apart from these two cards for the Lawnscaping challenge, I've been card-making up a STORM lately, so I'll be back to share more VERY soon

Linda xx

Congratulations Jennifer!!

Hello!!

As I'm sure you're ALL well aware, Jennifer McGuire has been pregnant for about, oh, 4 years (it seems like that for us, so I'm sure it's felt like even longer for her!) and SO, given how amazing she is, how much support she has shown us all, and (most importantly) how much of an inspiration she is to us, we thought it would be nice if all of the A Blog Named Hero Team would make her a baby card!
**editors note: Jennifer has named her GORGEOUS baby girl Lila Grace. A fitting name for such a sweet little thing.

Well, I am just SO excited to be showing you this card today!

That's it!

Head over to A Blog named Hero to see all the rest of the cards :)

Wishing Jennifer and the rest of the McGuire family our biggest congratulations, sending all our love and happiness!! To Baby McGuire, WELCOME!!! We're so excited to meet you!

See you soon

Linda x

Sketch it video on ABNH

Hello!

I've got a VIDEO over on the A Blog Named Hero blog today, I thought I'd send you over there to see it.

I was originally going to show it here, but then I realised I'd added all the ABNH graphics to it lol (what an airhead!)

I hope you'll pop over there to see it :)

Linda xoxox

Simon Says Stamp Card Kit Layout

Hi there!

A really quick post today as I have to get Izzie to kindy.

So, you know when you get a card kit from Simon Says Stamp, and truly love it....but have no idea what to do with it!? No? Just me?

Oh, well anyway. I love love LOVE this month's kit, but the colour combination is REALLY foreign to me. After staring at it for a few minutes, out the corner of my eye I spotted a photo of my gorgeous nephews sitting on my desk. BINGO.

So here's what I came up with. And I have to say, I love it :)

The journalling basically says that despite the fact that I'm very far away from them, I think of them every moment and love them with all my heart. I can't wait to see you again boys.

The only thing that I used that WASN'T in the kit, was the twine through the button at the top, some adhesive, scissors to cut the chevron paper into a zig zag & a pen. EVERYTHING else was in the kit :)

Anyhoo, I'd better go before i get teary (Or I'm late for kindy!)

Take care darlings!

See you soon

Linda x

Fluorescent flower :)

Hello!

I'm here to share a card I whipped together last night.

I've been noticing a trend of fluoro yellow and black and I have to admit, I love it!

So I went with that colour scheme and pulled out my new Hero Arts Studio Calico Lattice background cling. My good friend Leslie and I did a bit of a stamp swap (I had two of something and she switched for this Lattice background)

SO here it is!

VERY simple to make! I used the Lattice background and some Memento Tuxedo black ink, stamped onto kraft cardstock, which I then cut to size and matted onto black Bazzil cardstock. Those layers were then adhered to a white cardbase.

Next I stamped the Flower image from Pattern Hearts and Flowers, (Memento ink again), cut around it and coloured in using my brightest Prismacolour pencils.

For a finishing touch, I added some Stardust stickles to the petals.

Next I stamped the sentiment panel and cut it out, before adhering it to the centre of the card, then placing the flower image over the top, on dimensional foam tape.

Lastly I added some pearls!

Here is a closer look

 and so you can see the dimension (and a random white dog hair that decided to adhere itself on the back of the flower LOL) Thanks Toby.

I gotta say, i love this card!

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Thanks for looking!

Linda xoxo

Happy Earth Day

Hello darlings!!

Happy Earth Day!

Truth be told, I'm a bit of a hippie at heart. I think it's SO SO important to recycle, reduce, reuse (all that jazz).

After living in Japan several years ago, where they have to split their rubbish (trash) into about 7 seperate sections (glass, burnables, plastic, P.E.T bottles, cardboard/paper, general etc etc) and you have to pay a fee for any rubbish that doesn't fit in a standard bin bag; I became really aware of it. Did you know that Kansai International Airport (in Osaka, Japan) is built on a landfill of rubbish??? ISN"T THAT CRAZY?! There is so much waste, that they've been able to build an airport (and a big one at that), on top of it all.

Anyhoo, in Australia we don't have anywhere near as many people, so that helps the problem to be much smaller, but I really hope that people start to take recycling (and the environment in general!) much more seriously NOW before it does become a problem.

Ok, off my soapbox :)

So a couple of weeks ago, I was super surprised and excited to get an email from the lovely Stephanie at Simon Says Stamp who asked if I'd consider making a project for a special Earth Day post they were hosting. Obviously after I stopped jumping up and down, I said YES!

I wanted to make something that LOOKED recycled. (not hiding the fact that it was)

Here is a little sneak peek of what I made (almost entirely from recycled/used products)

The only 'new' things I used were some Mr Huey's mist, jenny Bowlin paint dabber, some washi tape, ink (and the Hero Arts Zig Zag stamp stamp), and the little string of black bling.

Sorry its a bit glary, I got a bit overzealous with the brightening tool in PSE lol.

So hop along over to the Simon Says Blog and check out the full project!

Linda xoxo

Lawnscaping challenge entry

Good afternoon to you all!

Just a very quick post today as I've got an idea for a card in my head and I need to get it made before I forget (lol)

But quickly, I just want to say a huge thank you to my twitter girls, I've had a bit of a rubbish week (that's Australian English for trash by the way LOL) and y'all have made me feel SO much less lonely and down in the dumps. You girls make my saddest days brighter and my happy days even happier.   I'm so blessed to know you xx

I'm here to show you the card I made for the current Lawnscaping Challenge, which is 

Now any of you who have been visiting my blog for a while now, will know I have a bit of a penchant for creating the weirdest cards using the Lawn Fawn Snowmen, today's card is another view of my warped mind. I just cant help myself. haha.

Here it is:

Now, just in case like my husband you couldn't tell, the other snowman has melted. I couldn't draw a puddle properly but I still think this works.

And it seriously makes me laugh. Yes I need help.

Anyhoo, that's it for me today! Super fast post, I'll be back with another one soon hopefully!

Don't forget to pop over to A Blog Named Hero and enter a project into our challenge, for the chance to win a gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp!

Lots of love--

Linda xx

Window Card

Hello!

I thought I'd share the project I made for the second challenge we have going over at A Blog named Hero! This week's challenge is

Now window cards are NOT the style I usually do but I always love them when I see others make ém!

So here's mine :

a better look at the window :)

After I cut my white cardstock to size and folded it to make a card, then I ran it through my Big Shot, cutting out a circle in the bottom corner, using a Spellbinders circle die. Next I embossed it using the Swiss Dots embossing folder, then rounded all four corners. 

Next I took several small strips of paper from the Konnichiwa Basic Grey 6x6 paper pad, and punched them with the Fiskars scalloped border punch and lined them up along the top of the card so they'd create a fringe effect.

I ran another piece of the Konnichiwa paper through the Big Shot twice, cutting it with two circle dies (in concentric sizes) to create the 'ring'. I then adhered it to the cardfront, which gave a frame effect to the window.

I cut a piece of acetate to the same size as the cardfront. Carefully positioning my stamp in place, I stamped the image using Black Staz On ink. (Be careful with Staz on--its SUPER slippery!)

When the stamped image was dry, I adhered the acetate to the back of the cardfront (so it sits on the inside cover).

Finally I cut a small strip of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment, and cut a tail into the end :) (love that look)

VERY VERY easy! I'll be making more window cards soon!

For all the details on the challenge, please visit www.ablognamedhero.blogspot.com and enter for a chance to win 

Thanks so much to Heidi at Simon Says Stamp for being generally wonderful and sponsoring us!

I have my folks visiting this week, so I'll be back again in a few days with some more projects for you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda & Mary Dawn 

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