Happy (Escape) New Job....

Hey! How are you all?

Ok.. this card will take a little bit of explaining. 

It all started as I was thinking about the Lawn Fawn Ready Set Snow Shaker die set. It's temporarily out of stock but this die will work perfectly instead.

I got thinking about snow globes in general and about the poor little people and animals who are permanently stuck inside the globe and can't get out. This led me to thinking it would be fun if they made a bid for freedom and so the 'new job...escape from the old job' idea came into being.

I was explaining the idea to one of my daughters and she looked at me and said 'Mum are you doing drugs?!!

Well I wasn't, but granted, it's a slightly 'out there' idea!

 I had so much fun creating the scene. You wouldn't believe quite how many different Lawn Fawn sets I've used...

How many can you see?

Here goes.... Milos' ABC's ( for the sentiment)

Thankyou Tags (for the diddy bird)

Joy To The Woods (for the bird, chipmunk and fox)

Hello Baby (for the little rabbit)

Happy Trails (for the trees and the landscape line)

And last.. but not least..Penelope's Blossoms

AND they're ALL in stock. Every single set!

I hope you like my little furry friends sliding down the outside of the snow globe. I had to choose the smallest critters so they'd look more in proportion with the globe!

Anyhow, enough from me.

Hope you have a lovely and sane Tuesday!

I'll be back next week with maybe something a little more sensible (although I wouldn't hold your breath!)

Keren xx

Faux Painting on Wood

Good Morning :0)
Well it's been an indulgent weekend here with new Lawn Fawn stamps and dies arriving :0)
I also picked up a pack of the Wood Veneers that Tara has in store and I thought I'd have a play with them to see what I could make...

As you can see straight away, it's green!! I took the piece of pine veneer and sponged white pigment ink across it before swiping Bundled Sage distress paint over the whole piece... I love that you can see the grain through the colours.

I wanted to achieve a stencilled paint look so I used Lawn Fawn's Penelopes Blossoms stamped first in Memento Pistachio dye ink to give a tone on tone effect. I then used this as a guide to over stamp the individual leaves and flowers using a selection of Avery Elle and Memento pigment inks.... had you noticed the individual elements in Penelopes Blossoms are exactly the same size used in the semi-circular display???

Being pigment inks you have to remember they need drying time although you can easily use a heat tool on this veneer at a gentle heat and remembering to keep the tool moving!!
Whilst the pigment inks give good coverage on the wood I still love the translucent quality of some of the colours, to finish I edged the trimmed piece with white ink and matted onto grey card for contrast :0)
The veneer has a self adhesive backing which is super sticky and makes life a lot easier :0)

                                      

It's the 1st of September so our next monthly challenge will be launched later today and this time we have a sketch for you so stay tuned for that and as always a reminder that the new Paper Smooches Sparks challenge went live yesterday. It's Anything Goes and I've used Market Fresh and Streamers for my DT card... check out the challenge details here :0)

Thanks for stopping by :0)
Jenny x

Blooming Lovely

Happy Tuesday..and Happy April too!

 It's totally blooming where I live. Awash with bursts of blossom & vivid colour. I just love this time of year. I wanted to get this flower filled set inky & do something a little different with it. Instead of just inking & adding the banner, I wanted it to be all inclusive (but good, not like those nasty all inclusive cheap holidays!!). In order to do that, I had to do quite a bit of masking, plenty of careful trimming & lots of different hues of leaves. I love the brightness & the clarity of the colours (thanks to the fab quality of these stamps).

The set is Penelope's Blossoms

and you can see the ton of potential in the set. This card was perfect for Mother's Day but could double for a Birthday too.

I had made a mistake when stamping (you can see it on my blog) but due to a cover up, you can't see it. Can you guess where it was?!!

I'm off to smell the flowers (with the hope I don't start with the hayfever!!)

See you next week,

Keren x

Penny Blossoms

Happy Sunday y'all - hope you're having a great weekend.   One of my favourite TV Shows is The Big Bang Theory so when Lawn Fawn brought out a set called Penelope's Blossoms I had to have it as it reminds me of one of my favourite episodes when the gang sit up all night making barrettes for Penny - ie Penny Blossoms!   Here's my first make with it.

I was inspired by a new challenge - Virginia's View - where the inspiration is water colour and I felt the big stamp in the set would be prefect if embossed to provide a focal point to a watercolour background.  I stamped it twice to create a frame for the sentiment (also from that set) onto watercolour card in vanilla white.  Once dry I used the "mush the pad onto a craft mat" technique with some distress inks and pounced it into the puddles of colour a couple of times allowing each layer to dry in between.  Once i was happy I cut it out with a spellbinders die and used some of the scraps to create faux buttons.  Some vellum, sheer ribbon and subtle bling in the form of glitter, sequins and tiny gems brought it all together.

That's all I have time for this week as I have work to do on the store - we have some exciting new things coming soon, but I can't tell you yet - it's a secret ;-)