Grey Birthday Card

 This is my entry for the MarkerPop challenge.  The theme is, "We're feeling grey."  I absolutely love color, but this card was a blast to create.  I decided to use my brand new lawn fawn baked with love set and create a fun birthday card.  I have been asked to create around 150 birthday cards for the ladies at church, so each lady gets a card on their birthday this year.  You will be seeing birthday themed cards for awhile, that's for sure! :)

Stamps: Lawn Fawn- Baked with love
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Coloring:  Tombow Dual Brush Pens/Wink of Stella Clear Shimmer Pen
Embellishments: Silver Sequins from Joann

Greeting Farm Fresh Challenge: 3D

Hello there!  Today I am sharing this fun mailbox I made for my Valentines Day decor. When I think of Valentines days of my childhood, I remember making Valentines mailboxes for school parties. I would cut a slit in the lid of a shoe box to make a mailbox opening, and decorate the box with hearts and such.  

I had an old freebie mailbox cut file from silhouette that I used to create the mailbox.  The cut file worked fine, but I don't love that the sides stick out funny at the top, and once put together you can't open the mailbox up.  So much for a cute treat box or something, but it does make cute decor!

I colored up one of the girls from Greeting Farm Mini remix-Happy.  These girls are so much fun to color!  I used Tombow markers, and loved how it came together.  I finished her up with a bit of wink of stella to add some shimmer.  

Supplies:

Ink: Versafine onyx black

Stamps: Greeting Farm mini remix Happy, Honey Bee Special Delivery

Finishing Touches: Wink of Stella Clear Shimmer Pen

I will be linking up to the Greeting Farm Fresh Challenge: 3D

Fabulous Florals & Masking

Hello there!  Today I am sharing a card I am so excited about!  I have been wanting to try masking a bunch of critters on a card, and found a video here that really helped me figure it out.  I love how she shows her process of figuring out what she wants in front, and how to stamp a mask quickly while stamping the card also!

 I am waiting for some cute critter stamps to arrive in my mailbox (my motivation for learning masking), so I decided to try it with some gorgeous flowers I got for Christmas.  I colored these in quickly with my tombow dual brush pens, while blending with a wink of stella shimmer pen. 

Supplies Used:

Paper: Recollections Card Form, full sticky post-its for masking

Stamps: Lawn Fawn:  Flutter By,  Honey Bee:  Special Delivery

Coloring: Tombow Dual Brush Pens, Wink of Stella

This was a little bit time consuming, but a very rewarding technique to try.  I will keep trying it until I'm fast at it.  I am a big fan of making 4-6 cards at once, so hopefully I can figure out a system to help me do this with masking too.

Thanks for Reading!

~Lynette~

Valentines 2017

Hi there!  Today I am sharing a Valentine I made for my 2 year old daughter, who loves PINK!  I went with a monochromatic pink card, and really had fun coloring this greeting farm image (oh I love how cute their people are!).

I made this card quickly on Valentines day during nap time.  I was racing the clock, so I had to do something quick and fun.  My daughter has been carrying it around the house, so I think she likes it!
I am linking this card up to MarkerPOP's blog challenge.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Image-Greeting Farm Mini-Remix Happy, Sentiment- one I found randomly a few years ago at Tuesday morning

Ink: Versafine onyx black, Versamark, Distress Ink-spun sugar

Paper: Recollections card form and Bristol Smooth for coloring

Markers: Tombow Dual Brush pens (LOVE THESE!) & Wink of Stella Clear Shimmer Pen

Thanks for reading!

~Lynette~

Clean & Simple #5

I think this is my favorite of the bunch.  I bought a sizzix texture boutique to be able to do embossing.  I am so excited about it!  I know this machine doesn't cut like the big shot, but I have a silhouette cameo, and I am happy with it.  I got the boutique for $15 at Michael's with a 50% off coupon, so I really can't complain. :)  I am loving it, and my kids are too.  I really like investing in crafting toys my kids can participate in also.  I just cut up pieces suitable for cards, and let them go to town. :)

Linking up to SSS Challenge.

Thanks for reading!

~Lynette~

Clean and Simple #4

I have been asked to make 150ish Birthday cards for next years gift from our Relief Society Presidency (ladies church group leaders).  Whew!  A big project, but one I am very excited about.  It's still in the workings, but I am playing with ideas.  This was a 2 minute card.  I think I will need to stick to easy, but still totally cute for this project. :)

Linking up to SSS Challenge.

Thanks for reading!

~Lynette~

Clean and Simple #3

Hi!  I really ended up liking this one because it appears that the blue bird is just flying in to share the news!  I had fun with this one.  I head embossed the banner shapes, which was a fun touch.

Linking at SSS Wednesday challenge.

Thanks for reading!

~Lynette~