Have a lovely holiday week! Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

This traditional candy is my focal point for CASology week #24 . I hope all CASology fans have a peaceful holiday week and a prosperous 2013. Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Here is my entry for Lawnscaping Challenge #48 . I tried to capture the sparkle of glitter on the list but it does not show up too well. If anyone has a trick to make glitter twinkle in a photo, please let me know! At least I got the rhinestone nose on the reindeer to look luminous. I hope all you Lawn Fawn fans have a great holiday time. I hope Santa brings me more of their stamps! Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

I finally got to play with Quinn's ABC's. It is a great set. This is a hybrid card with the rest of the words printed in my favorite font. "Just wavin' hello" is stamped on the inside. Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

I made nine of these little guys last night for Operation Write Home. I also stamped matching envelopes with hearts for them. The inside reads "Happy Valentine's Day." This is a simple one-layered card; hope you like it. BTW, Operation Write Home is accepting Valentine cards until December 31.

My poor uncle is not feeling so hot lately so hopefully this card will cheer him up when I send it to him. I cased this layout from Julie D. Stamps and decorative papers: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Geometric-themed cards seem to be a trend lately, so I pulled out this set from the current catalog for some experiments. These can easily be made into Ten Minute Totables. I only used Basic Grey for the ink, the pennant punch and a handful of little scraps. That's Summer Starfruit with Bashful Blue for the bottom papers; Cameo Coral, Summer Starfruit and Baja Breeze for the top ones.I lined the inside of the bottom card with Summer Starfruit. It looks more awesome than the photo shows. Stamps and supplies: Stampin' Up!

I thought I would get the ball rolling on some simple quick projects for Workshops on the Go. This is a little one that is in my handbag for this month. It is a 3x3 notecard and envelope. I tried doing Workshops on the Go after listening to a webinar earlier this year. Although I love my Lawn Fawn stamps, I always have a complete all Stampin' Up! project at the ready wherever I am. So far I have had good results. I have all I need in my carrying case to make ten of these. Think it doesn't fit into a little case? Well, it does! I hope you can see what I've used here. I've got River Rock, Pretty in Pink, and Bashful Blue for markers. Textured River Rock cardstock, and Pretty in Pink and Whisper White smooth stock. There are also dimensionals and glue dots there, too. I always carry the personalized wooden stamp to demonstrate the wood mount.

Here is a general purpose card using the Top Note Bigz die and some retired papers. My mom loved this card so much when I showed it to her last night that she asked if she could have it. Well, of course.

Yeah, so I made a Valentine in November...but if you are going to be sending cards to Operation Write Home, they are asking for Valentine cards now! It takes a while for them to get to the soldiers. Stamps and decorative papers: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

  Here is a simple little birthday card that I made last night. I cased the colors and layout from SU demonstrator Julie D . I think I will be casing a lot of her stuff in the future. I intend to send a lot of cards for Operation Write Home in the months ahead and her card layouts look like they are going to work well for that. Stamps and decorative papers: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Managed to whip these up today on my lunch break at work. Tomorrow I am going to make a portfolio pocket to hold them all. Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Here is another birthday card which is a cased design from Mary F. , an amazing Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. I look at her blog on a daily basis and this card helped me get acquainted with my new Woodgrain embossing folder and my Apothecary Accents Framelits dies and paper piercing templates. Thanks, Mary!

  Here are two little layouts that showcase the Dewey Decimal patterned paper. I've been practicing using decorative paper. I'm a little timid about using it, but I thought these layouts worked with it. Thanks for stopping by. Stamps and decorative paper: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Here's my entry for Lawnscaping Challenge #44 : a pretty poor attempt at paper quilling which has been on a list of techniques for me to try. I know olives usually go into a traditional martini, but I smashed some glitter on pink paper to make a Shirley Temple martini so my dolphin does not get too silly. Now I am thinking that maybe my olive should have been a cherry. Then maybe my quilling attempt would have been over quicker. Well, at least I tried! Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Just a riff on Yainea's fun Lawn Fawn DT card for Hoppy Halloween with bunnicula sucking out the vitamins from the carrots. I loved that SO much. Tried to keep the pointy teeth motif theme with pointy pennants, tiny pinpoint dotted ribbon and a pointy staple. Stamps and decorative paper: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Welcome to my stop on the Lawnscaping Fall Blog Hop . You should have come to me by way of Christiana . We've had some great sleeping weather here in central Massachusetts. What about you? I was inspired by that, the covered bridge (a big thing here in New England) showing the row of support beams, and the vibrant yellow-orange colors. I made the hammocks out of the bottoms of the snowmen in the Making Frosty Friends set. Let me know if you need me to explain how. Also, the snowman arms are the rakes. Now, head on over to Danielle . If you've gotten off-track, don't worry! Head back to the Lawnscaping blog  to see the complete list of designers and prize information! This hop runs from Friday, October 5th, all the way until Sunday, October 7th. Make sure to comment on all of the blogs to be eligible for some FANTASTIC prizes! All of the details can be found on the Lawnscaping home page.

Well of course I am going to participate in this week's CASology theme. I LOVE animals! I've had three sets of friends have babies within the year and I've been needing some baby cards. This is for the latest new parents, who just had a boy. They decorated with a monkey theme, but I have no monkeys. I thought a koala was close enough. Stamps and decorative paper: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

  Got a little short on birthday cards so I played around with my new Birdie Told Me set from Lawn Fawn and the Dewey Decimal Petite Paper Pack. Also did battle with Stampin' Up's new Sticky Rounds to create the ribbon rosette. The rounds are like fly paper, so that ribbon is not going anywhere for sure. Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Lawn Fawn and Stampin' Up!

In my opinion, there is no time like Halloween season to try to conquer one's phobias. One of my biggest is arachnophobia. This morning I went downstairs to feed my guinea pigs and found a huge spider on the wall. I let him survive, but I hope he moves out of sight soon. Ugh. If only all spiders were as cute as this one in Lawn Fawn's Heebie Jeebies set. This is my entry for the Getting Texty Lawnscaping Challenge . Stamps and decorative papers: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Finally beat the clock for Lawnscaping Challenge #41 . It's a bit of a stretch but all the nautical themed DT entries along with the sketchy scallops got me thinking about the last flings of summer. I used Lawn Fawn's newest set, A Birdie Told Me, along with some of their decorative papers from the Bright Side and the Fa-La-La collections. I just cut out wavy shapes from the paper and a skinny oval for the surfboard. Stamps and decorative papers: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

This week, Operation Write Home is teaming up with Lawn Fawn to gather up some cards for service people to send to their children. This is a general purpose one I made that says "hello" on the inside. Tried to emboss with a texture that reminds one of the aroma of fresh toast! Hope the young person who may receive it will like it!

Yesterday I saw this awesome card at Artfelt Impressions and I had to copy it almost exactly. It was perfect for Lawn Fawn's Flying By set. Deb is, like, the ultimate teacher if you want to learn how to make CAS layouts. Stamps: Lawn Fawn; Supplies: Stampin' Up!

Had some fun making my own patterned papers for the Lawnscaping Challenge #40 . I'm so-so about printed patterns. I'd rather do this because it is more organic and kind of a meditative activity. Spent the past weekend visiting friends in NYC and made a stop at The Ink Pad in Manhattan to clean them out of Lawn Fawn stamps that I did not have yet. :-) Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

My latest attempt at CASology #6 and also for the premier Ten-Minute Craft Dash #1. Speaking as a person who had a fair share of anxiety in my elementary school years, this CASology theme spoke to me in a different way than might be expected. Although I do not have children, I remember what is was like to be a little one struggling with academic and social excellence. I hope this gives people ideas to run with. This clocked in at under eight minutes for the craft dash. I wanted to find an ideal clip art shield for bravery to trace but finally made my own in Illustrator for you to share with my compliments. You may download it for FREE here . I printed and cut it out on heavy cardstock and traced around it with a marker.

 I'm doing double duty on challenges this week. This is for the 5th CASology Challenge and Lawnscaping Challenge #39 . I sincerely hope that more people will come on board with CASology's challenge. I like the thoughtfulness that is put into it by their design team. Of course, I'll be forever hooked on the Lawnscaping Challenge as long as there are Lawn Fawn stamps to play with. Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Had some fun last night with my new Lawn Fawn Hats Off to You set. I added the smiles from the Love and Breakfast set to them and drew on the feet and the hands. I'm trying to save up for "Making Frosty Friends" so that I can recreate this card using the snowman arms, but I wanted to give this to a co-worker who is moving on to greener pastures this week Interestingly enough, Lawn Fawn has announced a new contest today and I want to enter this idea in it, but I will be traveling right up until the day before their contest deadline! I wanted to make a longer card to fit the dimension guidelines. We'll see what I can do in the next day ahead. I really want the prizes they are offering! Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

Tried practicing with Crystal Effects yesterday to add a little dimensional fun here. For me, it's always a 50/50 chance that the colors underneath it will bleed, but in this case, I think the bleed is okay on a turtle shell. Inside I used "happy" and "birthday" from the Hats Off to You set. Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!  

This would be a good card for a consistent over-acheiver, or maybe a little one who is just about to begin the fifth grade. :-) Practiced last night with Blender Pens, paper piercing, and a tab label punch. This is patterned paper from SU called "Rebecca." It's retired so I try to use it sparingly. I want to make it last forever! This is also my entry for CASology #4 , a new challenge blog that is right up my alley. Stamps: Lawn Fawn; supplies: Stampin' Up!

These were photos I took to use for scrapbook pages in my Artisan Award 2012 entries (Of course, I lost, but what fun trying!). I'm not a big scrapbooker and, frankly, I think my pets' good looks weren't helped any by my clunky layouts. :-) So here they are solo. You simply can't improve on perfection!