Anya I love Fall Card

Hello everyone! I'm back today with a quick card post. I made this fall card using The Greeting Farm's I Heart Sweaters Anya stamp. I love this set so much and it also comes with a super cute Ian stamp as well. I am entering this card in  The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Friday fall themed challenge. I really enjoyed this challenge because I ended up using color combinations that I rarely use. You can check out the other fabulous Greeting Farm challenge entries here.

I am also entering this card in Sketch Saturday's #328 sketch challenge. Check out the beautiful inspiration sketch and other entries here.

Here is what I used:

The Greeting Farm's I heart Sweaters Anya stamp

Lawn Fawn sentiment from Into The Woods stamp set

DCWV patterned paper and solid cardstock

Martha Stewart border punch

Lifestyle Crafts circle dies

Recollections leaf punch

Copic Markers

Papertrey Ink solid cardstock for base card

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Lawn Fawn Happy Holidays Card

Hello! Today I have a Lawn Fawn shaker Christmas card to share with you. There are so many fabulous Christmas crafting products coming out right and looking at all of them totally inspired me to get a head start on my Christmas crafting. I made this card for the Lawnscaping Challenge themed Critters Galore. You can see the other fabulous entries here.

Lawn Fawn stamps are so much fun to work with and I had a blast making this shaker card. I used FIVE different Lawn Fawn stamp sets and one Lawn Fawn die set on this card! That's the beauty of their products. They coordinate with each other very well. I originally stamped the owl from the Winter Owl set but then I decided I wanted to turn him into a her so I used the bow tie from Critters at the Dog Park to go on top of her head. Then I decided she still looked a little cold so I added the ear muffs from the Yeti Set Go stamp set to her. The holly berries and sentiment are from the Winter Gifts set and the banner and birds are from the Bannerific set.

Here is what I used:

Lawn Fawn Winter Owl

Lawn Fawn Yeti Set Go

Lawn Fawn Critters at the Dog Park

Lawn Fawn Winter Gifts

Lawn Fawn Bannerific

Lawn Fawn Stitched Party Banners Die

Lawn Fawn let's polka petite paper pack

Darice sequins

Studio Calico wood veneer tree

Copic Markers

Papertrey Ink solid cardstock

clear transparency

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Some Odd Girl Mermaid Card

Hello everyone! I'm back today with a quick post of a card I made with the Some Odd Girl Under The Sea Mae stamp set. I am entering this card in both the week #327 Sketch Saturday challenge and the Some Odd Girl Blog Semptember Linky Party. Please click on the names of the challenges to see the other fabulous entries.

Here is what I used:
Some Odd Girl Under The Sea Mae stamp set
Copic markers
Papertrey Ink solid cardstock
patterned and mettalic cardstock from my scraps
pearl strand
Prima flowers

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Double Cupcake Anya Card

Hello everyone! I'm back today with another card featuring The Greeting Farm's Double Cupcake Anya. Isn't she adorable? I have so much fun coloring the Anya stamps with my copic markers. It's my routine to watch a little television and simultaneously do a little coloring. It helps me wind down and relax.

 I made this card for The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Friday challenge. The challenge is anything goes! Easy Peasy! Check out the other fabulous entries here.

Here is what I used:

The Greeting Farm Double Cupcake Anya

Avery Elle Bonjour sentiment

Martha Stewart patterned cardstock

Papertrey Ink solid cardstock

My Favorite Things Doily Die

Copic Markers

Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen

I hope you enjoy her! Thanks so much for stopping by.

Papertrey Ink Candy Corn Collage Card

Hello everyone! I'm back today with a card I made using the Papertrey Ink Candy Corn Collage Die. I think this die is so adorable! When Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday challenge came around and the challenge was to emboss resist using a die I knew I wanted to use this specific die. Check out the challenge and all of the other fabulous entries here.

Here is what I used for this card:

Papertrey Ink Candy Corn Collage Die

Papertrey Ink cardstock

black embossing powder

Tim Holtz Distress Inks in ripe persimmon and squeezed lemonade

Pink By Design Halloween sentiment stamp

Sakura Gelly Roll white pen

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One Layer Lawn Fawn card

I made this card for the Lawnscaping one layer card challenge. Check out all of the other great entries here. This is actually my first one layer card ever! I found it to be quite difficult because I am so used to adding a bunch of layering mats to all of my cards and cutting out my stamped images. This is one of the reasons I like to do challenges. It gets you out of your comfort zone and makes you try new things.

For this card I stamped my Lawn Fawn yeti image and then masked him off along with a background mask made with the new Lawn Fawn Forest border die. I used Tattered Angels glimmer mist to spray the background and get the sky and hills. I'm pretty pleased with the effect. I think I might try more one layer cards in the future!

Here is what I used:

Lawn Fawn Forest Border Die

Lawn Fawn Yeti, Set Go stamp set

Memento Ink

Copic Markers

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Carribean Blue

Papertrey Ink cardstock

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My Blogging Return and a Greeting Farm Card!

Hello everyone! It's been such a long time since I have been able to blog. I got married a little over a year ago and things have been so busy since then. I have since changed my last name and as such have decided to create a brand new blog to go along with it. If you would like to see any of my previous projects please visit http://melissabelldesigns.blogspot.com/.

...Anyways, on to the card!

I created this card for The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Friday Challenge. The challenge was to use watercolors on your card. Check out all the other fabulous entries here. I was so excited to get my new stamp Holiday Anya 4 that I knew she would be the center of the card. I have all of the other Holiday Anya stamps and I love everyone of them!!

I recently got a set of Peerless Watercolors from friend for my birthday but I haven't been able to get the results I have in my head with them yet. I think I just need a little more practice. I ended up using my Tim Holtz distress inks instead for this project. I stamped the ink pads on to my craft mat and then sprayed a water mist over them. After that I placed my watercolor paper on top of them. The colors blended together very nicely I think.

I also chose to make the colors of this card different than the traditional holiday color palette but added in some gold glitter cardstock to still give it back some holiday magic. What do you think? Does it still give you a sense of the holiday spirit?

Here is what I used:

The Greeting Farm's Holiday Anya 4

Copic markers

black embossing powder

Papertrey Ink cardstock

watercolor paper

Versamark ink

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in picked raspberry, ripe persimmon, and squeezed lemonade

Lawn Fawn winter gifts sentiment

American Crafts gold glitter cardstock

rhinestones from my stash

UPDATE: Yay I won the challenge! Thanks so much to the Greeting Farm!

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