Lawn Fawn Cards for Kids Blog Hop

I am so excited to be a part of this fabulous blog hop supporting Cards for Kids. I've made a few cards already, but thank you Kelly Marie for helping motivate me to make a few more! The hope is to encourage you to also make cards for this great cause and have fun along the way, too! So please hop along with us, and make sure to leave comments as there will be prizes for commenters and participants! So let's get going! Also, if you are lost in the hop, you can always start at the beginning at the Lawn Fawn blog. Thank you so much for hopping along with us today!

You should've come from Gretchen's site, http://gscrapbooks.blogspot.com and the next stop is Laurie, www.soapboxcreations.blogspot.com.

Here are the two cards I made for the hop. I wanted to make something bright and cheery to help brighten those very special children's lives.

The second card uses the Taylored Expressions sketch challenge. The first card uses some faux stitching so I'll enter it in this week's Corrosive Challenge blog.

Thanks for checking out my cards, enjoy the hop! Prizes, prizes... you have till Thursday 10 EDT (for those of you on that side of the date line) to comment on the blogs to be in the draw for one of 10 sets of Lawn Fawn stamps or a number of other surprise goodies.

Materials: First card: Hero Arts snail, Lawn Fawn sentiment, fun patterned paper from my stash, bic marker for faux stitching, Stampin Up black ink, yellow, orange card stock from Spotlight, Stampin Up red card stock

Second card: Stampendous Elephant stamp, Lawn Fawn sentiment, Fiskars circle punch, card stock scraps, Stampin Up black ink

EBTKS tin foil cards

Everything But the Kitchen Sink is challenging folks to try to incorporate tin foil into their cards and I was a bit stuck. So I asked my husband for some input and I was pleasantly surprised to see that he got completely absorbed in the project. He even made a card! The best part of this family agenda was that after we left out all the scraps on the coffee table our 5 year old son decided he wanted to make a card too. The most precious thing of all was when I asked him what he wanted to do with the card and he said "I want to enter it in a card competition." How sweet! (Hum, starting to think perhaps I spend a bit too much time making cards! But if I can drag the family into a challenge or two once in awhile that might not be a bad idea?). We decided to make Christmas cards, a great way to celebrate our winter wonderland outside our window.

These are Ben's cards. I love how he put these pieces together. He even dipped the small punched snowflake on the right in blue ink.

This is Dan's card. He'll probably not like that I've posted this, but then again he doesn't read this blog!

Flourishes' Timeless Tuesday is for a Christmas card. Unscripted Sketches & Corrosive Challenge, Christmas All Year Round, Stamp Simply are celebrating Christmas in July. Stampendous is having any "anything challenge".

Materials: for my card: Stampendous snowflake stamp, silver ink, Kaiser stamp sentiment, snowflake punch, velum, tin foil, Making Memories silver eyelets, American Crafts red ribbon, E-1953 snowflake stamp

Black, white, red thank you

An elegant thank you card using the Taylored Expressions sketch. I am so impressed by all the comments I got on my other 3 flowers card from the Speedy Cat challenge, that I'm going to enter this one in the Mark's Finest Papers challenge (the 3 flowers are kinda hiding, but they're there). Aly's Sunday Challenge is to use flowers. Crafty Creations wants to the cards to "shine" and this black and white paper has got sparkly glitter and looks amazing in the light. Corrosive Challenge is celebrating flowers. Character Cafe is challenges us to use vellum.

Materials: cool black and white paper from my stash, Stampin Up red card stock, black card stock, vellum, white card stock, Stampin Up sentiment, Stampin Up square scallop punch, Fiskars Rotary scallop cutter

Friend

I made three cards while playing around with the same elements. One can connect the dots between the cards, it might be a bit harder to follow my logic. This card is for the Everything But The Kitchen Sink sketch challenge. It also uses black & white plus one color, which works for the Corrosive Challenge. The Res Q challenge has a "medical report" challenge, which means using words.

Materials: Black and white card stock, vellum, Hero Arts digital Friends image, Fiskars Circle Cutter, Two Peas in A Bucket Free digital kit with daisy (and now I can't seem to figure out which one it is, I've looked... eek).

Black and Pink Big Blossoms card

I'm really enjoying my new set of Waltzingmouse stamps. This card uses the Mojo Monday sketch. I used felt for the tab, which qualifies the card for one of this week's Res Q challenges. I love how these challenges make me go digging in my craft supplies for things I wouldn't normally use. The use of flower qualifies it for this week's Practical Scrappers Challenge & Aly's Sunday Challenge. The black and white and pink qualifies it for the Corrosive Challenge of B & W and one color and The Pink Elephant's Pink & Black challenge.

Materials: Waltzingmouse Big Blossoms stamps, black paper, Stampin Up Black ink, pink ink, pink felt tab