LINDA TRACE DESIGNS

crafty adventures of a makeup loving Japanophile!

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Sunday, 22 April 2012

Lawnscaping challenge entry

Good afternoon to you all!

Just a very quick post today as I've got an idea for a card in my head and I need to get it made before I forget (lol)

But quickly, I just want to say a huge thank you to my twitter girls, I've had a bit of a rubbish week (that's Australian English for trash by the way LOL) and y'all have made me feel SO much less lonely and down in the dumps. You girls make my saddest days brighter and my happy days even happier.   I'm so blessed to know you xx

I'm here to show you the card I made for the current Lawnscaping Challenge, which is 



Now any of you who have been visiting my blog for a while now, will know I have a bit of a penchant for creating the weirdest cards using the Lawn Fawn Snowmen, today's card is another view of my warped mind. I just cant help myself. haha.

Here it is:



Now, just in case like my husband you couldn't tell, the other snowman has melted. I couldn't draw a puddle properly but I still think this works.

And it seriously makes me laugh. Yes I need help.

Anyhoo, that's it for me today! Super fast post, I'll be back with another one soon hopefully!

Don't forget to pop over to A Blog Named Hero and enter a project into our challenge, for the chance to win a gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp!

Lots of love--

Linda xx

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Florida Snowmen

**this is my second post for today. for the first, go HERE**

Yep, I'm back with another kooky snowman card...there will be more too, I can't help myself lol

This card is dedicated to my gorgeous friend Laurel, who was having a bad day and a sneek peek of this really made her laugh out loud--guess I know which christmas card to send her now! heehee

So here it is:

Heading South Snowmen

LOL. i can't stop laughing at them.

So i stamped the snowmen (and women :)) and then added some copic oclouring for shading and the noses. I then paper pieces the bathing suits/floaty. 

My 4 year old daughter Izzie saw the cut out bikini top and said "oh look mummy, these look like sunglasses!" and she put them on the snowman's face. *facepalm* BRILLIANT!!! So I immediately pulled out some acetate, stamped the bikini onto it using Staz on, then on the back of the acetate I coloured in using a brown Copic Marker so the glasses looked like sunglasses (they were tinted I mean).

Next I just cut a white piceee of cardstock with a curve, to make the snowbank and added a line of stickles. Then I added some snowflakes using white PTI ink and added the setniment to the bottom (which is clearly a shortened version of "heading south for the winter"--hope that makes sense!)

Finally I just adhered it all together, matted the main piece and then put it onto a piece of scored Mocha layering paper!

On the inside it says:

Heading South Snowmen_inside

Here are the products I used:


       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       
       
           
                                                               
       





Well that's it for me today!

Thanks so much for stoppign by!

See you soon

*hugs*

Linda xx