Thankful

Happy belated Thanksgiving, Canadian friends! And Happy World Cardmaking Day also belated!

Dani here to share a quick and fun project to celebrate Thanksgiving, Fall and the World Cardmaking day! Yep, I know, I'm so lazy that I have to group 3! major dates to go on and create a card... Oh well, what can I say... I hope it is worth the work (it took me 20 minutes, but don't tell anyone) and I can give you all some inspiration:

When I saw this Lawn Fawn stamp set with the three different backgrounds (it's called Interlocking Backdrops, a MUST HAVE) I thought "Self, even you, the lousiest stamper in the World, can make an awesome stamped background with them." And I was right as usual. So go check all the Lawn Fawn stamps at Scrapbooking Cafe Online and, if you can't ind what you are looking for, Kristy will be delighted to bring it in just for you! Isn't this awesome? My husband totally disagrees with this statement, ha!

Hope you have all had a wonderful Thanksgiving surrounded by family and friends!

Dani Donner

First Day of School Card!

Hello there!  It's Thursday and it's Anita from http://www.craftygrldesigns.blogspot.com/  today is my daughter's first day of Grade 2!  Boo!  I love having her home with me and I can't believe that she is in grade 2 already!  Previous years I cried a lot but this year I managed only to get teared up!  :>

Today I have a card to share that I made for her lunch!  I always make her a card for her first day, and in case I forgot she reminded me!  LOL  I used some Lawn Fawn Stamps My Silly Valentine, Scrapbooking Cafe Online is getting some Lawn Fawn Stamps very soon!  I also used the Hello Summer pad by Echo Park!  

I stamped the apple from the My Silly Valentine set and paper pieced him with cardstock and added some googly eyes!  I thought that this apple and the sentiment was a great one for the first day of school!  I also used the Polaroid stamp from the Say Cheese set by Lawn Fawn!  I also used the Binding Edge Punch by Ek Success. And I used some bakers twine, Scrapbooking Cafe has a lot of twine you can see some here.

Well that's it from me!  I hope this card brings a smile to my daughter's face today!  :>See you next week!

Summer Cards!

Hello!  Happy Thursday!  It's Anita from http://www.craftygrldesigns.blogspot.ca/ and today I have some summery cards to share with you!  I used the perfect summery and fun paper Hello Summer by Echo Park!  Summer is my favorite season and we are currently squeezing out the most fun we can have these last few weeks before school starts!

I cut strips out of leftover sheets from the Hello Summer pad, it's a great way to use the leftovers!  Used a set by Lawn Fawn Flutter By (Scrapbooking online is actually getting Lawn Fawn stamps soon!)  

For this card I focused on using only a sentiment stamp and the rest of the elements of the card from the pad of paper.  I fussy cut the flowers from one of the papers and popped them up with dimensional adhesive (foam squares) to add dimension.  I used a sentiment from Hero Arts.  And another patterned paper from the pad.  

Hope you've enjoyed my summery fun cards today!

Masculine Lorelai Leaf Card!

Hello!  Happy Thursday to you!  It's Anita from http://craftygrldesigns.blogspot.com/ And I am happy to be here today!  Today I have a masculine card to share with you.  Masculine cards don't seem to be anyone's favorite to make but I don't mind them at all!  I used a Poppy Stamps die Lorelai Leaf which I think is a great die for any kind of cards!  But I couldn't resist making a masculine card with it, I mean leaves are green and green is a masculine color right?  Do you like my reasoning?  LOL

I die cut the leaf with green bazzill cardstock.  I love the look of canvas (and I think it looks masculine too) and stamped the Hero Arts Newspaper Background onto it with vintage photo by ranger ink.  Distressed with edges with ink and pulled some strings out too.  I love this Hello Handsome sentiment, it's so masculine!  Added some twine by Dooblebug and some buttons!  Quite happy with how this card turned out!  Am I the only one who feels a sense of accomplishment when you make a great masculine card?  

Products used:

Loreali Leaf Poppy Stamps die

Doodlebug Twine

Hero Arts Newspaper Background

Hero Arts Year Round Sentiments

Bazzill Cardstock

I also wanted to share that Scrapbooking Cafe Online can now order Lawn Fawn Stamps!  I love Lawn Fawn and happen to have a few of there sets already so I thought I would share a few of my cards I've made with them!  Please contact Scrapbooking cafe online with what you would like to preorder from Lawn Fawn and she will bring in what you want!

Using Flutter By (my favorite set)

 Using Ever After:

Using Flying by:

That's it from me today!  See you next Thursday!