easter lamb.

I don't know if you've noticed, but I tend not to buy very many stamping supplies.  I'm lucky enough to design for Mama Elephant and Lawn fawn, and they make my favorite images.

Once in awhile, though, a set comes along that I must have.  The new Wplus9 Easter Blessings set was one of them.  I inked it up immediately after ripping open my package.

I've been looking for a set for Easter that was cute, but that included more spiritual sentiments. I like the "easter blessings" and "rejoice" that are included, along with "happy easter."



I created a mask around the images and inked up a sunburst stencil in beige and blue inks.  I love that it all works to highlight the little lamb.  Isn't he adorable?  I'm also loving the new lawn fawn scallop borders. The stitching gives them an airy, dainty, lacy feel - perfect for springtime projects.

I hope you like it!

♥.

milk & cookies for santa {lawnscaping winter blog hop}

Hi and welcome to the winter edition of the lawnscaping blog hop!  You should have clicked over from the always beautifully styled and photographed Nicole's blog.

There are prizes up for grabs and a complete hop list up on the lawnscaping blog, if you lose your way.  Since you have many stops to get to, I'll keep the chatter to a minimum. I was so inspired by this pin:

I mixed stamps from lawn fawn (specifically, the gnome, the banner, the cookies, and the gingerbread man), Wplus9, CSS, and Papertrey Ink to create my version:

The focal panel is one layer.  I wanted it to look like a print, so everything was carefully (sooo carefully) masked.  I started with the cookies, then the milk bottle, santa, the banner and finally the sunburst background.  whew!  I held my breath the entire time, and when I was coloring in the images, I prayed to Santa, "please Santa,  no red-marker-bleeding.... and let my 3 year old still like what I've bought her for Christmas, because she keeps changing her mind."

So there you have it. hee.

Your next stop is the lovely Sarah's blog.  Don't forget to check out all of the prize and giveaway details on the lawnscaping blog.  To be eligible, you can leave comments along the way, from now until Sunday December 15th at 11:59EST.  Good luck!

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deerie me, it's almost December.

Have you taken out any Christmas decorations yet?  I know most Americans wait until after Thanksgiving (ours was back in October).  I usually like to wait until early December, but that doesn't stop me from ogling new decorations.

My husband is appalled that I have my eye on this, from Target:

or this one, from the WFT shop (Etsy):

Until I can talk my husband into letting me buy one of these beauties, I decided to whip up a stag-inspired card:

I stamped the entire card base with the oh-so-cozy "fair isle backgrounds" from Wplus9.  The reindeer was isolated from *this* silhouette file.  The scarf was hand-drawn using a copic multiliner and stamped with the cutest tiny greeting.



And glittered antlers never hurt nobody.

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