Hearts and Flowers

Hello all you crafty people! 
I'm back with the first post of 2017. 

For this post I have a card for the Inky Paws Challenge over at Newtons Nook Designs.
I LOVE the way this card came out, and the best part is it was a happy accident. I intended for this card to be a completely different design. Then the ADD kicked in and I started messing around with a shading technique(that is the background heart) and it totally flipped my idea for the card. 
The flowers and sentiment on the card are from Versatile Vases stamp set, colored in with Distress Ink and embossed with clear to make them pop. 
The printed paper and extras are from my stash. 
Hope you enjoyed my card and don't forget to check out all the other amazing card in the link below.
Bye for now
DIANE


                                                    
                                                        http://www.inkypawschallenge.com/

My Mug Tree

Today we are playing along with the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

For my card, I chose stamps from Newton's Nook Stamps, Including one of favorite stamp sets 

"Newton Loves Coffee".

"Newton Loves Coffee" is the first stamp set that I purchased from Newton's nook, and this set has been a "go to" stamp set in my stash ever since. 

Snowflake's

Hello to everyone!                                  

Hope that the holidays are treating you well. 

Today we have a card for the Inky Paws Challenge.

Since it is the holiday time, a quick and easy card comes in handy. 

I used three images from the Serene Silhouettes Stamp set and the colors in the Challenge (see below).

First, I stamped the sentiment, then I randomly stamped the snow flakes around the sentiment. 
For a little bit of texture, I added White Nuvo Drops around the snow flakes. Bit of a plug, if you have not purchased Nuvo Drops, GET SOME! I am in LOVE with how easy they are to use and CUTE they look.

Back to the card, finishing the card was easy with a simple black boarder on a white card. 

A quick and simple card that could be mass produced if necessary.

That's all for now. Make sure that you check out all the other amazing cards on the link below.

Thanks for stopping by.

Have an amazing holiday!

Diane

  

Tag your it!

Hello everyone!                                                                            

I hope that everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving. 

Now that the turkey is done, this means the Holidays are upon us.

 During the holiday, there is so much going on that I decided to come up with a simple idea for Lawnscaping Challenge # 142  " Give Thanks". 

Tags have always been my "go to" item for the holiday. They are quick, simple and add that personal touch to any gift.

 For this challenge, I came up with 3 tags. I kept it simple by die-cutting the top part of the tag, and single layer stamping.  A quick swish of the paint brush with distress ink to add color to the images.  Finishing them out with cute printed paper and a tassel. All told, it took about 30 minutes to produce these 3 tags.
 (most of that time deciding on what color to make them).😊

And there we have IT.

I hope you enjoyed my tags, and don't forget to check out all the other amazing projects that are posted in the challenge. (link below)

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by

Diane

                                                                       

http://lawnscaping.blogspot.com/2016/11/challenge-142-give-thanks-sponsored-by.html

                                                                      

Clean and Simple. Friend or Foe?

Hello crafty people!
Coming to you today with a card for the Lawnscaping Challenge #141 Clean and Simple. For some of us, clean and simple can be a bit challenging. It requires a bit of finesse' with card making, because you can take the card too far REAL fast. 
I found that it is best to layout the items that you are intending to use for the card and nothing else. 
For this card I have done just that.  Craft paper card stock, white Sakura gel pen, black Micron pen, and my winter penguin stamp set from Lawn Fawn.





The hardest part about making  this card was to decide how everything was going play together, and where to add the accents. Once I started stamping, everything seemed to come together. 
 In the end, this card turned out to be cute, easyand a lot of fun.  I know that I will be playing around with the clean and simple concept and see what else develops. That's all for now.   Diane

                                  http://lawnscaping.blogspot.com/

Black, Purple, and Flamingos?

Hi everyone!
Halloween is almost here and fall is in the air.
THIS card come with a story.
My sister was(and is) a HUGE fan of pink flamingos. She had these two plastic pink flamingos in her front yard for a long time, so long that they were no longer pink.
Everyone in the family hated these flamingos, and they were threatened with the trash on a regular basis.
One October, my sister went to work and left myself, my nice and nephew in charge to create the grave yard for our annual Halloween party. Everything looked good, except for two faded ugly sort of pink flamingos in our spooky graveyard.  Since I knew that touching those flamingos was considered an act of war, we drove down to the local Michales and got us a couple of cans of black spray paint.
When my sister came home from work later that afternoon. She saw her spooky graveyard complete with zombies and BLACK flamingos. I thought I was going to be joining the zombies on the lawn, but she loved them! This card is a tribute to those Black Flamingos, from trash to treasure.
No longer with us but never forgotten.
That's all for now.
Diane

http://lawnscaping.blogspot.com/2016/10/lawnscaping-challenge-color-scheme.html

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/

Nuts for You.

Hello to everyone and I hope the day is treating you well.

Coming to you today with a card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. 

This card has a interesting beginning. 

I was not intending to make a card, I was just messing around late one night, using  my stamps from the October Card Kit and the color scheme inspiration (see below). I starting out with white card stock in leftover shapes from other projects. I started stamping in the images with Versamark and embossed clear. It was when I started to add the Distress color to the images that I stamped, that the crafty light bulb went on.... these would make a great card together.

 The colors I used were Scattered Straw, Rusty Hinge, Seedless Preserves, and a hint of Fossilized Amber. These are some of my favorite colors in the distress pallet, and naturals for fall crafting. Hope your enjoyed my card and don't forget to check out all the other fantastic cards on the link below.  

That's all for now.  

Have an amazing week.

Diane

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/