Spooktacular Halloween - Pretty Pink Posh

Hello Crafty Friends! I hope you have a spooky evening tonight! Halloween has always been a favorite holiday for me. I love horror movies, books etc ever since I was a kid. However I HATE haunted houses! I'll walk through a real graveyard at Midnight on devils night before I do another Haunted House. Ha! I used to not make Halloween cards even though I loved all the images, I mean who do you give them to? My answer now is, other crafters! I love getting Halloween cards. I will be sending out a few this year including this one.

This card features distress oxide ink blending over the Pretty Pink Posh Spider Web Stencil. I used Faded Lilac first in the center. Coming in from the edges I used Blueprint Sketch and then lightly with the black soot. I then splattered the background.

MFT Card Design Superstar Contest 2019

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card that will be my entry for My Favorite Things  2019 Card Design Superstar contest. I chose to do a clean and simple design this year. This card features the new BB Sweater Weather in the Woods stamp set. The clouds I got from another MFT BB set called Prehistoric Fun.

I did some center ink blending on this card with some distress oxide in peacock feathers and then splattered with copic opaque white. The bear is colored using copic markers and then die cut. Marker #s E47, 44, 43 & 41. The jacket is B02, 00, 000 wwith some BG75 & 72 for the details. I added just a hint of BG10 to the edges of the clouds along with some glitter brush pen that cant be seen in the photo.

Hope you enjoyed today's entry!

Thanks for visiting.

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 48 – Inspired by a Book, Movie or Song!

I was so excited to see this months challenge and I have been so inspired by everyones cards. I had a couple ideas in mind but I really had to make one as a favorite childhood cartoon; David the Gnome. I got my love of gnomes from that show. My card features David and his best friend Swift the Fox.

The card features the new Lawn Fawn speckled papers in blue and green. I also used some of the woodgrain cardstock in the dark brown for David's house. 

Copic colors:

RV66, R29, R27, R24 for the reds.

B97, B95, B93 for the blues.

E18, E17, E15 with a glaze of YR24 for the fox with some E49 for the legs.

I love avocado - Lawn Fawn

Today on my blog I thought I’d pop in with another Lawn Fawn card before I head out to see the Fawnies in person at Creativation & I used some more of my paper stash too. Couldn’t resist the Avocado Toast and not ashamed to admit how much I enjoy eating it.

Supplies Used:
Lets Toast stamp set - Lawn Fawn
Lets Toast lawn cuts - Lawn Fawn
Knock on Wood petite paper pack - Lawn Fawn

Rainbows & Unicorns!

Products Used:
A Little Sparkle stamp set - Lawn Fawn (not yet available for purchase, Black Friday Special)
Rainbow Lawncuts - Lawn Fawn
Puffy Cloud Border - Lawn Fawn

Breathe Rainbows Blog Hop

Hello I'm back with a new card; this time for a an adorable hop! Today we're showcasing the brand new, exclusive Butterfly Reflections Ink and Kimma Parish Collab stamp set - Breathe Rainbows!

These images are absolutely adorable; plus with that sloth I HAD to have it!
Some of the Butterfly Reflections Ink Design Team (past and present) have joined together to show off this cute & whimsical set! We can't wait for you to see all of the amazing creations!




Thank you so much for hopping along with us!
Hop Along below if you missed any stops!


Butterfly Reflections Ink
Cassie Tezak
Mona Toth
Lynnea Hollendoner
Samantha Mann
Christiana Reuling
Laurie Case &
Sharna Waksmulski...You are Here

Crafty Christmas Collaboration

I was so super excited when my friend Jess asked me to be a part of her Crafty Christmas Collaboration series! If you are new to the collaboration please visit the original post by Jess here. Basically we all know what its like to face last minute holiday cards and as a way to combat this Jess decided to make cards all year long. As an extra exciting way to keep up the spirit she decided to invite her friends to play along in a crafty collaboration. Each of us put together some supplies to send and an extra for ourselves and this is what we used to make our cards! I was so anxious to see what she would send! See what she made with my supplies here!

Oh man I had a tough time deciding what to send! I had picked out four different company stamp sets and just couldn't narrow it down. So like Christy did last month I snooped her feeds for what she didn't show having used before. This cut out two companies right away. And in the end I had to go with Lawn Fawn since that was the company I bought my first real set of stamp from. Since I didn't get to use this set over the holidays, I figured it was the perfect time to bring it out! I went a little overboard in sending stuff I hoped she would like...

And so here is what she sent me:

I was immediately inspired by what she sent that I sat down that day to make my card. I mean who can resist The Greeting Farm? Jess must have snooped too because I don't own this set. (but I plan on fixing that really soon) As well as the Be Merry Sentiment from Wplus9. That sentiment set was my go to this year. 

For my own card I did a quick distress ink background, a little copic coloring and finished it off with some layers of Lawn Fawn papers. Which I also didn't use much of this year even though they are very much in my favorite colors!

and a close up: 

When I got Jess' supplies I was in the middle of playing with my new Distress Ink Oxides and decided to do a bunch of ink smooshed backgrounds. These are some of my favorite non traditional colors for the holiday.  I used the same inks to color the scarf on the bead. Jess knows how much I love to watercolor and my images were stamped on watercolor paper so I had a blast watercoloring all my stuff. I just had to use all the critters and used the banner to tie everything together. I even had to add tiny stars to the bears scarf. 

and a close up:

Seriously this bear tho!

Please head over to Jess' blog to discover what she made with our supplies. Be sure to leave a comment at both our blogs for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Lawn Fawn! Plus you can link up your own cards all year long at Jess's blog for a chance to win a big grand prize in December so you have to go check it out!

Hope you have a wonderful day, thanks for stopping by!

Feb Card designs for Craft Fancy!

I'm back again with more cards I designed for Craft Fancy. If you live near Arlington Heights, IL you should stop by! They have an amazing selection of paper crafting supplies. And the people who work there are super nice.

Lawn Fawn: Baaah Humbug, Hello Baby & Milo's ABCs along with Lawn Fawn pint sized patterns paper

Lawn Fawn: Scripty Xoxo die & Stitched Heart Stackables

Lawn Fawn: Scripty Xoxo die

Mama Elephant: Lunar Animals & Lawn Fawn Party Animals stamp sets & Lawn Fawn papers

Merry Xmas Lawn Fawn - BRI

My new card!
Details plus a video over on the BRI blog!
Thanks so much for stopping by.

New cards

Sometimes I forget about my other media platforms so I thought I would share everything I have been making lately... Follow me on Instagram for my latest & greatest!

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Happy 10th Blogiversary Jenn!

My good friend Jenn Shurkus is celebrating her 10th year of blogging! Isn't that amazing? I'm so excited to be a party guest at this celebration! If you you didn't get here from there, go visit her HERE. We aren't celebrating alone, be sure to check out the other party guests and even join in the fun too! Plenty of fun prizes to be had! And some pretty awesome sponsors too.

Jenn was one of the first crafters to really encourage me with her kind words and helpful comments. I love visiting her page and seeing what new project she is working on.

So we are all going to CASE a card from Jenn. I chose these guys since they are so much fun. Anyone who follows me on instagram (Littleyellowbirdy118) you saw a preview a week ago.

I just love Jenn's bright colors. I hope I did OK! What do YOU think?

My Card:

I used Tim Holtz Crazy Birds, Distress Ink in Dusty Concord & Simon Says Stamp Sketchy Banner Greetings.

See my card on BRI for all supply details and information.

Snail Mail - LawnScaping No. 103

Not the best picture, but I adore this card. Made using the new Lawn Fawn into the Garden set. I made this to enter into the new Lawnscaping challegene so it has a ton of dimension! I mean I normally use a bunch of 3m tape but this thing has layers ontop of layers. The sky background is the bottom layer which is popped up, the white frame layer is popped up with two layers from that layer, the white clouds are one layer sitting between the background and the frame along with the flowers. The humming bird and snail are also popped up from the frame along with the snail mail banner.

A New Shaker - W Plus 9

Made this card using one of the new WPlus9 sets Unforgettable. First I cut the mint card stock with the Mama Elephant Femme Frames dies and cut the pink & white from the rectangle of the same set. I layered 2 layers of 3m foam tape around the cut out circle & filled the shaker pocket with the spring mix sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.




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Wish You - Lawn Fawn

Got together with some "Fawny" friends to wish one of our
favorite stamp companies a very happy 5th Birthday! 

Who can resist all their adorable stamps & 

their super sweet owner Kelly Marie and the rest of the staff. 

You guys rock! Here's to many more years!!

All paper & stamps from Lawn Fawn!

I made this card using the 6x6 paper pad Hello Sunshine & Lets Polka, small stitched rectangles dies, the new flirty frames stamps & the year three cake stamps. The inside of the card says 'Smile... it's your birthday!' also from the year 3 stamp set.
Sequins in sparkling clear from Pretty Pink Posh.

You should have arrived here from Caryn's.
The next stop on the hop is Suzanne's!

For a full list please visit Jenn's page at Shurkus.com.

Thanks for visiting!

So Lucky - Lawn Fawn

So I knew I wanted a to use my new Lawn Fawn stamp set "My Lucky Charm". I also knew I wanted to make a shaker card & this is what happened! Polka dotted papers are also from Lawn Fawn, the mint from the newest 6x6 pad Lets Polka Mon Amie. The scalloped border is from the Lawn Cuts Stitched Scalloped borders set, the second smallest one. The papers were die cut using the small Stitched Rectangles dies.

Sequins in the shaker are from Pretty Pink Posh in Mint, Sparkling Clear & Gold.

I used 3M foam tape doubled up to make the shaker pocket and ran my anti static powder tool around the inside edges to make sure the sequins didn't stick to any of the tape.

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Watercolor Card Class day 1

My first set of cards for class! I had fun making these. I struggled a bit with the stencil & water color, but I think it turned out ok the second time around.

Stencil & dies are memory box
stamps are from simon says stamp
birthday card is distress ink in salty ocean, evergreen bough, shaded lilac & raspberry.

Birthday Feathers - Mama Elephant stamps

I just got this stamp set this week and could not stop playing around with the feathers. I also got the matching dies for them and my desk is covered with all kinds of cut out feathers from my experiments. I also got the We R Memory Keepers sew easy... I need twist the trimmer I think, I couldn't keep a straight line to save my life. It still came out cute though!

Products used:
Fair Feathers Stamps - Mama Elephant
Sew Easy - We R Memory Keepers
Neenah-80-LB Solar White Card Stock

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New Year 2014

Its a new year and with a new year comes reflection and considerations of the new plans and goals. In the past year I have come so far in my card making and crafting. Being a part of this community has helped me grow in so many ways. I really have to thank Instagram for putting me in touch with new friends; Jenn, Nicole, Steph, Andrea & Vanessa and so many more... Their kindness, encouragement and general friendliness helped me open up and share more.

For the new year I have several new plans and goals. I really liked Jenn's post on choosing a word for the new year. I thought a lot about if I had to pick one word for what I wanted to accomplish what would it be? I decided for both my personal & creative life that would would be Explore. Explore new ideas, new places, new techniques, new possibilities. It covers so much, but I think some things have been holding me back. I plan to take that word and run with it. So... for the new year I will:

1. Try and post on my blog at least once a week. You may not know but I post so much more to instagram that never makes the blog. Either I am on the run and giving away the card, or I simply end up not liking it. This year I want to post no matter what. (see examples below of projects that didn't make the blog)

2. Learn to use my video camera! I get asked how to do a certain technique or how I used a tool a certain way a lot on instagram. I want to be able to direct people to my videos instead of somewhere else! Seeing Jenn & Nicole brave the recording front has really motivated me to get off my butt.

3. Reorganize and make a dedicated card photographing space in my craft area. I often make cards REALLY late at night & have to take that same card with me in the AM and sometimes do not have a chance to take a nice picture (see 1. above) So if I can set up my lights and a soft box I plan on getting an area that I can just add backgrounds & props to on the fly and not worry about lighting as much.

4. Get more people to my blog. I really think the Blog Hop from Lawnscaping Challenges really spoiled me. (Thanks Jenn!) I want more people on my blog to get to know and share with. So my last resolution is to start participating more in all the challenges. If you have a favorite, please let me know!