Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Stamp Fever Birthday Blog Hop for Lawn Fawn!

Hi There!

The Stamp Fever store, in Orange, California is hosting a Lawn Fawn 3rd Birthday celebration! The party is on Saturday March 16 from 1-4. If you are in the area, please stop in for a visit and to share some birthday cake with Kelly and Mike, owners of Lawn Fawn. Kelly will share a special Make ‘n Take featuring one of Lawn Fawn’s newest sets “Summertime Charm."
 
 

There will be prize drawings at the party but we don’t want to exclude our blog readers. We will randomly choose one winner from those who comment at The Stamp Fever blog and one more random winner from comments on the Hop Participant blogs. To increase your chances of winning: Follow the Stamp Fever blog in a reader or by email subscription; sign up for our Newsletter; follow Stamp Fever on Facebook and leave us a comment there. Each winner will receive a Lawn Fawn Stamp set and coordinating Lawn Cuts Die set.

Comment to enter the prize drawing by 10:00 pm PDT on Friday March 15. The random drawing will take place at the party. The two winners will be announced Sunday, March 17 on the Stamp Fever blog.

Here is a list of all the blogs participating in the hop. Comment on as many as possible for your chance to win!

Nicole- Unify Handmade
Chari- MossyMade
Lynnette- Netter's Notables
Virginia- Yes, Virginia
Melissa- Love My Scraps
Annette- My Clever Creations 

I'm so excited to be a part of this special day and I had such fun creating a card using four different stamps sets from Lawn Fawn! 

 
I used the adorable camera and Polaroid images from the "Say Cheese" set. I colored the camera with gray Copic markers and used Distress Inks for the sky and grass. The tulips were stamped across the the grass and also colored with Copics. They're from the "Happy Easter" set - so cute! That sweet little bird, talk bubble and "yay" are all from Lawn Fawn's, "A Birdie Told Me" and the birthday sentiment is from a set called, "Year Three." 

I had a hard time putting these fun stamps away, and even though this is a blog hop celebrating Lawn Fawn's Birthday, I just couldn't help myself and HAD TO create an Easter card too! 


 All the stamps used on this card are from the "Happy Easter" set -  just love it! I masked off the bunny and chick before stamping all the tulips. 

Don't forget that Stamp Fever carries all of these adorable Lawn Fawn stamps and SO MUCH MORE!  

Here's a little bit more about this fabulous store, in case you haven't heard of them before. 

Stamp Fever is a charming little store in Orange, California. We carry all things related to the crafting hobbies of stamping, card-making and paper crafting.  We stock a variety of stamps, papers, inks and supplies. We can also provide special orders for items you find online. We offer weekly stamping classes along with demos and make ‘n takes throughout the month. 

Stamp Fever participates in the "Southern California Shop Hop!" Our design team goes all out to deck our store in theme related finery and we always have a charming Photo Op to add to the memories of your Shop Hop experience.

I want to send out a special thank you to my sweet friend, Nancy, for inviting me to be a part of this special celebration, and thank you for stopping by! :) 
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Crafting With Marcy and a Challenge For You!

Hey everyone!

There's a challenge for you at the end of the post - we'd love it if you'd play along!

My good friend Marcy and I met for the first time back in October at Scrapfest and we hit it off right away. Ever since that weekend, we've kept in touch by e-mail, Flickr messaging and phone calls. She has become a very dear friend! We both wish we lived closer to each other so we could craft together and today, we did the next best thing. 

We challenged each other to created a card, at the same time, while talking on the phone! Now, I know what you're thinking - why didn't we use Skype? The answer is because neither of us have it set up on our computers. Maybe next time!

So, we first chose a photo from Pinterest. Take a look at this beautiful, fun cake!

 
 I adore those colors and that flower is awesome! We took a bit of time last night thinking about the photo and what we were going to use. Then Marcy called me today, and while she was creating her take on the photo, I was creating mine! 

I took the photo quite literally and came up with this:


It was so fun die-cutting all those circles, coloring the Hero Arts flower and adding the tiny, inked circles with the end of an eraser on a pencil, all while gabbing with Marcy! We talked, we laughed and we could hear each others thought process as we created. It was almost like we were sittin' next to each other - so fun! :)

You can click on Marcy's blog post here to see her gorgeous take on the photo, and we have a challenge for YOU too! We'd love it if you would play along and create a card using the same photo for inspiration. We both have a little prize package to send to two random winners! The deadline, the rules, and the details of where to link your card, are here on our Flickr discussion thread.

Thanks for sticking with me for this long post! Hope you'll join us in this fun challenge! :) 
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