Lawn Fawn and May Arts

Hi Friends,

The fun with Lawn Fawn and May Arts continues today!  May Arts ribbon is just so beautiful and high quality. I just love it, and I am so grateful that we’ve gotten the chance to play with it this week. 

For today’s post, I had this idea in my head for awhile after seeing something similar in one of my cooking magazines, or books. I wanted to make a tree out of ribbon on a card, so this is what I came up with:

I started out with a different design in mind, but this is how it ended up. I think it’s pretty fun.  In looking at it now with all the characters wearing scarves, I should’ve made the sentiment, “warm wishes” or something along those lines. Oh well, maybe next time.

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to head to the Lawn Fawn and May Arts blogs to have  a chance to win some fabby prizes.

Hugs and blessings

Nette

Lawn Fawn + May Arts

Hi Friends

I’m so excited about this post and the pairing up of Lawn Fawn and May Arts.  I just LOVE ribbon, and when we got the chance to do this with May Arts, I was so excited.

The designers received a HUGE amount of ribbon from May Arts, they were seriously so generous.  I wanted to showcase as much of it as I could on my project, so here’s what I came up with:

I took a tin that I bought at Michaels (you could use a soup can or whatever old tin, but I was lazy and didn’t want wash it all out).  So I used as much of the pretty May Arts ribbon that I could. I laid it on and arranged and rearranged the ribbon until I got it in an order I was satisfied with and then started attaching to the can.  I used red line tape. I started out with a glue gun, but it was bubbling up the ribbon.

I cannot locate the photos of the ribbon that are on the tin, but when I find them, I will link them up later.

Be sure to head to the Lawn Fawn blog for details on giveaways!

Hugs and blessings

Nette

Thanksgiving Wishes

Hi Friends

I love seeing the long weekend in my sights!  Of course, tomorrow will be crazy busy but filled with fun and family. 

In honor of the U.S. holiday, I thought I’d share a Thanksgiving card

Isn’t the Lawn Fawn turkey just so cute?  I colored him with my Copics which is my favorite thing to do. Coloring is so therapeutic for me.  I curved the sentiment from Harvest Season to headline the card.  And I used some patterned paper from My Mind’s Eye “All Spice”.

Thanks for stopping by and have a happy Thanksgiving to my U.S. friends.

Hugs and blessings

Lynnette

Lawnscaping Challenge #22

Hi All,

Happy Monday! I hope you enjoyed your weekend. It went by fast for me, as they all seem to. I'm looking forward to a short work week and to seeing our family on Thursday. I won't get into the mild stress I am feeling about getting the house in order and food prepared. It will all come together and be fine.

We're starting a new Lawnscaping challenge today. And it's another fun one, we are to create a papercrafting project inspired by this photo:

This challenge is sponsored by Lawn Fawn. The winner gets their choice of stamp set.

Here's the card I came up with:

One of my favorite people from church recently moved away, and I miss her a lot. I'm going to put this in the mail to her to let her know how much she means to me.

Thanks so much for all your sweet comments on the collaboration Laurel and I had last week. We had so much fun. We really want to do it again! I have picked a winner through random.org

This means that the sweet Brandi is the winner, she was the first comment on Day 2 of the collaboration week with Laurel. Brandi, shoot me an email and let me know what stamp set you would like and your address where I can send it. Congrats girl!

Thanks for stopping in today, I hope you play along with the Lawnscaping challenge.

Hugs and blessings

Nette

Collaborating with Laurel

Hi Friends

I hope you’ve been enjoying your weekend.  Today is the last day of collaborating with Laurel (for this round anyway, we’ve already decided we want to do it again). We decided that we wanted to play with patterned paper today.  This is right up my alley, I love patterned paper (you may have noticed if you’ve visited my blog for any length of time, like more than once).

I decided to go with the pocket gift card holder (see this blog post for the first one).  I thought I’d show the steps to make the pocket card. I will do another step by step instruction to make the other card holder. (This is my first attempt at trying this, so be patient with me, I am still learning Photoshop and not good with it).

Step 1:

Get a square piece of paper. I used double-sided patterned paper from Stampin’ Up! You can always makes your own double-sided paper (my paper is 7 inches by 7 inches but you can vary the size depending on what you want to put in it)

Step 2:

Fold two corner to touch and score the fold

Step 3:

Fold a corner across

Step 4:

Fold the other corner across

Step 5:

Fold one layer from the top down to create a pocket

Step 6:

DECORATE!

Please note that if you want to tie ribbon around it, I recommend using  drop of glue or small piece of tap because it slides due to the angle of the pocket. 

I used Lawn Fawn’s  Making Frosty Friends, Ornate Ornaments, and Bow and Holly to decorate. 

Be sure to go see what Laurel came up with. Remember to comment for a chance to win your choice of Lawn Fawn stamp set.

Hugs and blessings

Nette

Saturday

Hi Friends

Just a quick post to let you know that tomorrow will be the last day of collaborating with Laurel, not today. She had another post to do, so we decided to wrap up our fun week tomorrow.

I will still be drawing for a winner of your choice of Lawn Fawn stamp set tomorrow night at 9:00p.m. EST.  So you have until then to comment.

For today, I thought I’d share a Thanksgiving card.  I’ve been posting so many Christmas cards, I thought it was important to remember Thanksgiving.

I have so much to be Thankful for. Sometimes, I am overwhelmed by the grace that God has shown me.  I need to be more continually grateful and acknowledge my Heavenly Father for His blessings.  The greatest gift being salvation through Jesus Christ, and I praise Him for His sacrifice for me and my sins.

Now, onto today’s card:

I wanted to put the pilgrim hat on the pumpkin for awhile, and this is how I made it work out. I used Lawn Fawn’s Harvest Season and Hat’s off to you. 

Have a great day, and be sure to come back for tomorrow’s collaboration post.

Hugs and blessings

Nette

Hi!

I hope you are having as much fun with our collaboration week as Laurel and I are. I had no clue how much this would be. Today’s project is to use the colors: Kraft, white, teal/robin’s egg blue, and red.

This started out as a big challenge for me. Sometimes, I can run with color challenges, and others, I hit a wall. It finally came together in my head, and this is what I came up with:

I adore the little birds from the Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends stamp set, so I decided to use them. I used the snowflakes from the the same set, and the sentiment came from Bows and Holly. You might be able to see a little of the sparkle. I added some to their scarves and to the centers of the snowflakes. I pleated the ribbon and added a couple of gemstones.

I also used my 1/8 corner rounder and I love it!

Thanks for stopping in, be sure to head to Laurel’s blog to see her creation. Remember to comment for a chance to win your choice of Lawn Fawn stamp. I will draw a winner Sunday night (9:00 p.m. EST) and post it on Monday.

Have a great day and wonderful weekend. (We do have another post on Saturday which will wrap up the collaboration week).

Hugs and blessings

Nette