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Thank You Kind Bear – Shaker Card ft. Lawn Fawn & Mama Elephant {video}

on October 30, 2016

Hey there friends!
Have you ever felt that you are constantly playing catch up? Like your To-Do list is more of an essay? That is exactly how I have felt recently! Its been busy at work, and we had a wedding to go to which required planning and organising, and all in all, I haven’t really had much time to get my crafty therapy on!

I know that I do this crafty thing for me. It is 100% for me. And believe me when I say that it is therapy. In the last few days in particular, I have felt myself being impatient and grumpy – like a wicked wasp. I don’t like that version of me – but alas the ugly beast arises every now and again.

And lucky for me, I have an amazing husband who knows me, and understanding me and my needs. Today he made some arrangements to take Princess Piper out of the house so I could get some crafty therapy. He even came home with some grocery shopping! I am one lucky duck! I love him!

It felt great! Not only to get some crafting done, but also to cross some things of the list. I could felt the tension slipping out of my shoulders. YAY!

It wasn’t until I was finishing making today’s card that I realised something, and had a little giggle to myself. I had made a ‘Thank You For Your Kindness’ card, and I had put a bear on it. Funnily enough, my nickname for my hubby is BEAR! I guess I was truly very grateful, and this subliminal gratitude seeped out into my card making! LOL.

Anyway… enough rambling, and more crafting!

Today I am mixing up some Lawn Fawn and Mama Elephant stamps and dies. This card features the Page Huggers stamps & Park Avenue dies from Mama Elephant and the Big Scripty Words and Jump for Joy stamps along with the large and small stitched rectangle dies from Lawn Fawn.

Be sure to watch the video to see how this card evolved. You can probably tell that I didn’t quite know where it was going to end up, but I just kept going and it all turned out rosy in the end!

Here’s the video for you to enjoy! Please do leave a LIKE if you enjoy it, and subscribe for more videos.

Have a fab day and I will be back tomorrow with a card featuring some Honey Bee Stamps as I am also on their blog tomorrow. See you then!

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You Did It – Let’s Party! – A Terrific Party Animal Trio! {video}

on October 16, 2016

Hello crafty friends,

ohhhhhhh what a week! It’s been a bit of a mad house with us! Play dates and commissions, and meetings and homework! And to top it all off, our printer was on the fritz! It has been driving me crazy for months, and finally I just splurged for a new one! HURRAH for technology that works!

The great news is that I finally got the Lawn Fawn Party Animal stamp and die set -YAY!! – it was been on back order for weeks and weeks, and then SURPRISE – it arrived! Of course, the postie tried to deliver it within the only 20 mins of the day that we were all out of the house! GRR! So I nipped out on Tuesday to get it from the depot – took a quick excited look in the package, uploaded a quick celebratory ‘HAPPY MAIL’ photo to Instagram and then set to the side until later in the week when I finally had some time to play!

I have been drooling over this stamp set for ages, so I knew exactly what I wanted to make with it. So it wasn’t until tidy-up time that i realised that one of my stamps was missing – the little party hat with the flag!

Oh boy I hunted high and low! I looked at every item i used throughout the card making process. I pulled out stuff that i didn’t use. I patted down my clothes, I crawled round the floor… and about 1am I decided to refer to the video footage on my video camera. I then realised that the stamp wasn’t in the set right at the very start of the video. huh?

I was tired, and grumpy, and frustrated – so I made my way to bed! As I climbed into bed, I was reading some instagram comments from lovely sympathetic people, when I remembered my Happy Mail photo from the few days before. And on the photo, you can clearly see that the stamp is not in the package! HOW DID I MISS THAT? Crazy! But, I phoned the shop who told me to contact Lawn Fawn, and so I am hoping we can get my stamp replaced. Fingers crossed!

BUT
over to the card! Here it is!

I have paired up some of the animals from the Party Animal stamp set, with the skunk from the Stinkin’ cute set. I wanted to keep the card bright, so i coloured the image with light copic colours, rather than going very dark. To add a pop of background colour, I used some SSS dye inks to blend some colour onto the die cut circles in the background!

I wanted to use the ‘Let’s Party’ stamp from this set, but to make it more interesting, I paired it up with a smaller greeting from the Jump for Joy set – i think they work well together, don’t you?

This time, I decided not to use black ink for my greeting (I nearly always use black!), but instead kept my colours to the pink-blue-yellow colours that I used for the background circles! I think it gives a nice lift to the card!

Thanks for stopping by, and fingers crossed I get that little stamp sorted!

cheers

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Hog In A Hammock – Lawn Fawn | Copics | Die Cutting {video}

on October 9, 2016

Hey there crafty friends!

I am still in the Autumn Mood – how about you? Today we went for a long walk with my doggy friend Hugo, and Princess Piper was going crazy picking up beautiful leaves, acorns, and ‘helicopters’. 🙂

And so I was inspired to create another autumnal themed card- so i reached for the new Lawn Fawn Jump For Joy set – which has lots of cute critters and autumn images- and before long, an idea came to mind.

I love to mix and match my stamps, and I LOVE how the Lawn Fawn stamps work so well together. For this card I used the Joy To The Woods set for the trees, the Jump For Joy set for the leaves, hedgehog and birthday greeting, and the Life Is Good set for the hammock and the word Relax!

My original idea was to make a shaker card with the leaves as the ‘Shaky Bits’ (YT commenter HumanGammaBomb thinks it is funny when I say that phase! LOL), but throughout the video you will see how i change my mind in the end. In fact, you will see me change my mind several times throughout the video! 🙂 I am still happy with the final result though!

Heres the video for you to enjoy, and be sure to come back over tomorrow as I am sharing a card for Honey Bee Stamps.

Have a good one!

Lesley

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