Make it a Mini!

What's that you say Lawnscaping Blog? A Mini Card-making challenge? Well count me in!

I L.O.V.E. mini, right from when I was pretty mini myself (still am on the short side as it happens...) I remember being fascinated by an older relative's collection of mini porcelain. I used to draw in mini too, row upon row of mini ladies an inch or so high all dressed in different gowns and with different hairstyles, but that's another story!

I decided to chuck everything at this card, layering? Check. Whimsy? Check. Diecutting, stamping, check and check...!

Wanna see?

I challenged myself to use only what I had lying about on my desk and as it turned out it was mostly Lawnfawn goodies anyway.

Thanks for looking today!

Nikki xx

Bling it up (a bit)

Hi there!

Has it really been 2 months since I last blogged? Oops!

Well I'll keep it short and sweet as I only wanted to make sure my latest Lawn Fawn creation made it into the Lawnscaping challenge. I took delivery of some of the most recent Lawn Fawn releases last week and ofcourse I cannot stop playing!

Here it is...

A bit of sequin and glitter bling (blink and you might miss it!) in keeping with the challenge.

I have also joined in with Challenge #67 at CASe this sketch this week

And I was inspired to use Peach by the current Curtain Call challenge but was too late to enter =)

Thanks for looking!

Nikki x

More Lawnfawn fun

Hi There!

Hopefully I'm just managing to squeeze in this latest little make for the Lawnscaping challenge this week #71 Tags and Treatbags

My OH took delivery of a bunch of LED light bulbs the other day and they came in packaged in little 4cmx4cm square boxes, my crafty soul soared at the sight of them, lemme tell ya! so this is what I did...

I used Cosmo Cricket 'Golly by Jolly' PPs, Some gold glitter card, a TH Rosette die and the rest is all lovely Lawnfawn die and stamp deliciousness.

Thank you for looking today! I'll leave you with a top view of the box, just for fun..

Papercraft Christmas Tree

Hi there!

Are you feeling Christmassy yet? Ofcourse you are! I'm feeling a little panicked as I'm not ready at all so instead of doing something sensible, like online shopping for Christmass presents I made this...

I had been toying with the idea of making a tree with some new rosette dies I acquired recently but as soon as I saw this gorgeous tree on pinterest my heart was set!
What's even better is I used a fair fair bit of unloved stash making it, some old Christmas PPs & half a polystyrene ball covered decoupaged with Tim Holtz tissue paper and pom pom trim. Decorated with my current obession, Paper Smooches stamps! As the Challenge on the Paper Smooches Sparks blog is anything goes this week I would like to enter my little tree.

Thank you for looking today!

Nikki

Lawnscaping polka dot challenge

Hi There!

I've been wanting to play along with a Lawnscaping challenge for quite a while but just have not had the time until now. As soon as I saw that the challenge was polka dots I knew I wanted to create a dotty skunk! I did this by stamping the skunk in black first, masking off the white bits and stamping over again with a dotty background stamp, he looks so cute! especially with glossy accents on the nose and eyes, the camera picked up the shine so well!

I'm not usually able to think out of the box when using my stamps so I am really proud that I used the log stamp from the same set to create a border round my card, next time I think I'll make sure I stamp in either all horizontally or all vertically though so the grain all goes in the same direction.

Thanks for looking today!

Nikki xxx

Paper smooches colour challenge

Hey there!

I'm really glad that I managed to catch some decent light this morning to take a pic of my latest creation for the Paper Smooches challenge. It's one of those crisp, sunny Autumn days here in the UK, cold but utterly beautiful!

I was inspired not so much by the colours of the Paper Smooches Sparks cool shades colour challenge this week, but by the name of the pallette, 'giving thanks'. I have been desperate to ink up a turkey (or peacock) with my 'My Peeps' set and practice my masking! So I made a thanksgiving card, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK obviously but I do have a couple of American friends who I hope would appreciate recieving this!

You can't see on the pic, but I used glossy accents on Mr Turkey's eyes and his cute little Quaker Hat. I also had to colour all the little yellow leaves red to tie in with this week's colour scheme, a labour of love, lol!

I would also like to enter this card for the thanks giving challenge at simon says stamp

SSS blog

Thanks for looking today!

Nikki xxx

A card with SSS sept 2013 kit

Hey there!

Just popping in to share a quick make with the september card kit from Simon Says Stamp.

It's a great masculine card and will be given to a very good friend of mine for his birthday. Loved making a rainbow with the banner stencil! It's a good job becuase I had to do it twice after messing up the stamping on my first attempt!

Here it is...

Thanks again for visiting!

Nikki xxx