Happy Birthday to Me and Stick It Down March Card Team reveal!

It's time for the March Card Team reveal at Stick It Down, and it's also MY BIRTHDAY!!!! 

WOOHOO!!!!  No matter how old I get, I think I'll always enjoy celebrating my birthday.

Here's the Stick It Down card sketch for this month:

and here's my take:

I really enjoyed the snow we had last week, but I am READY for some warmer weather so I thought I would channel that with this card.

Challenges Entered
CASology Week 137:  Tropical
Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' March Card Challenge--Sun/Sunshine

Supplies Used

Jillibean Soup Watermelon Gazpacho Soup 6x6 pad (The bathing suits on the line were fussy cut from a sheet in this same pad.)

Linnie Blooms canvas sunflower (which I actually cut down a little because I didn't have a smaller one)

Tim Holtz Distress Stickles in Scattered Straw

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you'll join in on one of the challenges at Stick It Down this month.  Happy scrapping, everyone!

Freedom card for Linnie Blooms

Happy Hump Day!  Ashley here with my Linnie Blooms July challenge creation for you!  I decided to make a patriotic card, so I used the canvas stars from Linnie Blooms.

I painted each star with watercolors (Yes, I painted the one on the left, too!).  The background paper is Celebrate Paper from the Simple Stories Sea to Shining Sea collection, and I inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Barn Door.  The sentiment in the bottom right corner is from a Studio G patriotic set and was stamped using Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Faded Jeans.  I adhered the canvas stars to the background paper with fabric glue, then I added some Stickles in Xmas Red and Star Dust.  The blue glitter I added was from Studio G.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you're enjoying our projects this month!

Flower bookmark for Linnie Blooms

Happy Hump Day, everyone!  Ashley here with another Linnie Blooms design project for you!  Today I've made a flower bookmark using two canvas flowers and a canvas bookmark, all from Linnie Blooms.

I colored the larger flower with three different shades of pink using my Fibracolor markers; then, I colored the smaller flower using three shades of yellow.  I finished the flower off by adhering the two together and adding some yellow sequins around the edge of the smaller flower and a couple of purple sequins in the middle.  I stamped the stem and leaves using a border stamp from a Fiskars Borders clear stamps set using spearmint ColorBox ink from Stephanie Barnard.

I also want to share today that a previous challenge project I completed for Linnie Blooms won a blue ribbon in our county fair!

I was SUPER excited!!!

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to come back tomorrow to see what else we have going on this month!

Owl Tag for Linnie Blooms

Hi, everyone!  Today I'm here with a Design Team project for Linnie Blooms.  I decided to make a cute owl tag using Linnie Blooms' Flutter Stencil and Mask set.

The tags were in my stash, and I thought it needed just a little something extra.  I used the branch and owl stencils with my Pebbles Inc. Chalking Set, then I added a couple of (what I call) googly eyes and a small purple nose with my ZIG Writer in Pure Violet.  The back of the tag is blank, so it can be used for any type of gift tag.

Supplies

Thanks for stopping by today!  Be sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team has for you this month on the Linnie Blooms blog.  Have a great weekend!

Summertime, Summertime, Sum-, Sum-, Summertime!

Happy Hump Day!  I hope you're all having a great week and are getting to enjoy some fun things this summer.  Here in Arkansas, we've had rain EVERY SINGLE DAY for the past few weeks.  I don't remember a summer like this, and I grew up in Arkansas!  We need a few days WITHOUT rain so everything can dry out, and the kids can get outside to play some.

The Design Team's Challenge this month is to show what we love to do in the summer by using Linnie Blooms' canvas, stencils, and/or masks.  In my family, we LOVE to sit outside and grill while the kids play in the yard, so I created this fun outdoor grillin' card:

First, I painted the canvas sun with watercolors, using yellow around the edges and a combination of red, orange, and yellow in the center.  While that dried, I painted the bottom of my cardstock with green watercolor for hills and the top with a combination of blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple watercolor trying to simulate a sunset.  Using some stamps I found in my stash, I then created the scene with the grill, deck chair and umbrella, and tub of beer & wine.  I used a couple sentiments to finish off the scene, then I adhered the sun with Liquid Stitch fabric adhesive.  I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out!

Here are the supplies I used:

Linnie Blooms canvas sun










Thanks for stopping by to check out my project!  Be sure to hop over to the Linnie Blooms shop to pick up your own canvas pieces and try your hand at creating a project showing what YOU love to do in the summertime.  Have a great rest of your week, and be sure to come back to see what the rest of the Design Team has in store!

Linnie Blooms Butterfly Congratulations

Happy Friday!  I always look forward to Fridays, because I know I'll get to spend more time with my family on the weekend AND I get to sleep late on Saturday!  WOOHOO!!!

Today I have a butterfly congratulations card for you:

Using the butterfly stencil from Linnie Blooms, I grabbed my Pebbles Inc. Chalking Set for my colors.  I used the darkest blue I had, then I added a little black around the edges and finished the top butterfly off with some black rhinestones from my stash.  On the bottom, I (obviously!) used the lighter pink for the majority of the butterfly, darker pink for the edges, then light pink rhinestones for the center.

The ribbon came from my stash.  First, I adhered a single piece of ribbon around the front of the card base.  Then using my bow maker from 3 Girl Jam, I made a small bow and affixed it to the top of the ribbon with a ZOTS clear adhesive dot.  The sentiment is from the We R Memory Keepers banner set.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!  I'd love it if you also checked out the Linnie Blooms blog.  Happy scrappin', everyone!

Linnie Blooms Stenciled Bird Tag

Guess what day it is?  Wait for it . . . wait for it . . . HUMP DAY!!!  I hope everyone's having a great week!  Today I've got a cute little stenciled bird tag to show you.

I found this tag in my stash and thought it might be perfect to do something with.  It was part of a six-piece set of gift tags that I think I got as part of a prize package at some point in the past few months.  I went through my Linnie Blooms goodies and came across the bird stencil, then I saw my Pebbles Inc. Chalking Set, and voila!  A beautiful tag was born!

First, I traced the stencil onto the tag using my Pure Violet ZIG Writer.  Using my darkest color of purple chalk, I chalked inside the stencil (while still holding the stencil in place) and added a purple rhinestone for the bird's eye.  I used a lighter shade of purple chalk on the canvas piece that serves as the bird's wing, and I used my Big Bite II to punch the hole and found a shiny purple brad in my stash to hold the wing on.  I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!  You can also find this on the Linnie Blooms blog.  I'll be back on Friday with another design project for you!  In the meantime, get your craft on, and happy scrappin'!

Linnie Blooms May Challenge--Flowers!

Happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone!  I can't believe it's May already!  Hopefully this month will be a little calmer than April, with all the storms at the end of the month.  Please continue to keep the residents of Mayflower and Vilonia, Arkansas, in your thoughts and prayers (along with other communities) as they rebuild after the devastating tornadoes.

I'm here today with my first Design Team post for Linnie Blooms!  The challenge for the Design Team this month is to show what we can do with Linnie Blooms flowers.  I decided to use one of the smaller flowers I received to make a Mother's Day card for my mother-in-law.

I've never worked with canvas ANYTHING before, so it was definitely a challenge!  Check out the mess I made while trying to work with the glue I decided on:

Oh, mercy!  It took a while to finally clean this up, and my flower was at one point completely BURIED beneath this glob of white glue!  LOL!

I thought I'd try something different this time for my supplies.  Instead of making a list, I took a pictures:

   

 







I really enjoyed working with my products from Linnie Blooms, and I can't WAIT to work with them more!  Thanks for stopping by!