Starry Skies Craft n’Chat w/Thia

This Thursday some Lawn Fawn Facebook friends and I will be creating this fun card that I envisioned as I was driving through lake arrowhead and big bear last weekend. It was perfect that it fit so well with the current lawn fawnatics challenge! 

Valentine Hugs

 Thia’s daughter here with my inspirational post for the current challenge. If you like to see how I created this card...YouTube is where you’ll find my very first How To video. Thanks for stopping by! Go get your craft on and don’t forget to enter your creations into the challenge too!

February Sketch and Challenge 2022

Here is this month’s sketch and our first welcome back challenge that will end on February 26th at midnight pacific time. We can’t wait to see what you create! Here’s a look at what Thia’s daughter created with this sketch (and with some inspiration from the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge):

 

So post those card creations on your blog and upload them to join in the fun! No prizes this month, as we learn how everything works, but we will be offering fun prizes from the Blue Moon Creation Crafting Station in the coming months! So get your craft on and practice uploading your images here before we really get the party started!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Valentine Flowers

 

Sorry we’ve been MIA for a while. One of us has been busy working on another project this week which was keeping us from our regular weekly schedule. We haven’t forgotten about you. We have lots of fun planned for here and on our YouTube channel. So stick with us!

PSA…Only a little over a week left until Valentine’s Day. I love flowers. I love how they smell, how they look, how they make me feel. What I don’t love though, is when they die. I think I’ve finally solved that with these! 

Using Lawn Fawn papers, inks, and stitched circle dies, along with my floral dies, I created these fun flowers that can hold messages on the backs for your friends and loved ones. 

To create the box, first I took my walnut lawn Fawn ink pad and rubbed it over the wood grain to make the embossing pop.Then I measured the green floral foam block I got at Michaels. I then scored my Lawn Fawn Wood Grain embossed card stock so I could fold it up around the long length of the foam (score at 3.75” from each 8” side). Then I scored along the 11” side only 1/4” in. I then made two 1/4” cuts along the score on each side so that I could fold in those little pieces to attach 3.75”x3.5” panels to the sides to complete my flower box. Covered the foam with moss, then carefully arranged my flowers with the taller ones in the back.

Sketchy Weekend

 The weekend is here! Which means it is time for a sketch. Feel free to use this sketch to help inspire you for the Valentines that you should be working on. Not much time left before February 14th is here. Is it just me, or are these days flying by?

Okay, guess what time it is? You got it! Go get your craft on!

Fantabulous Flower Friday

 Hey there crafty friends! I was asked by a friend to make a bouquet of flowers that could be given to her boss. She is planning on having her coworkers sign the backs of them and it’ll be a cute little display. (She’ll attach the flat flowers after everyone writes their message to the back of the 3D flowers.) This is such a fun challenge for me as I’ve never made 3D paper flowers before. This is my first attempt:

Here’s what I used to create this blossom:

12 Big Petals from Sizzix Succulents Thinlits

4 Medium Petals Pieces

4 Small Petals Pieces

1 Stamen/Pistil from Sizzix Stephanie Bernard Framlits 3D Drop Ins

1 Skewer Colored with G29 Copic Marker

1 Section of Green Ribbon

1 Brad

2 Large Sizzix Flowers for the base

Lawn Fawn Plastic Flamingo Ink

This took some time to ink up each petal, but oh so worth it!

Fun for a Friday! What fun are you having? If you aren’t having fun, you must not be crafting! Go get your craft on!

Throwback Thursday With Thia

 

Hey there crafty friends, Thia here with this weeks throw back. I pulled this sketch out of my archives for ya! I’d love to see what you end up creating using this sketch. Come find us on Facebook and post a picture of your card in the comments section of our post with the sketch! 

I went ahead and created a card using my Lawn Fawn Stamps and Spiced Sunshine Stamps (I sure do miss those days creating stamps sets). Of course when I showed my son this card, he said it’s cute, but the pun has been used a lot (then he proceeded to show me a Disney short). 

Whatcha Working On Wednesday

Whatcha working on Wednesday? Thia here, today I created this fun Valentine using Lawn Fawn’s Whale You Be Mine set and an old Spiced Sunshine Stamps Languages of Love set. The sentiment was created with white embossing powder to make it pop out on the black card-stock. Used a paintbrush to dust off unwanted powder surrounding my sentiment. The whales were colored using Copic Markers colors C0-C5.

You can find these crafting supplies and more in my shop.

Lawn Fawn Bumblebee Birthday Card

Super cute bumblebee shaker card using the Studio Katia Honeycomb Shaker Die. In order to make the shaker, I layered the cut outs to get the proper thickness of my shaker elements. Queen and Company yellow gemstones, clear seed beads, and Robin’s Nest Dew Drops were used as the shaker elements. The Lawn Fawn bee images on the front were colored using Copic markers. Y06 and Y08 for the head and body, as well as RV000, Y00, BG000, and 0 for the wings. Used a Spica glitter pen and a Sakura Glaze clear on the wings also. The splashes & sentiment on the front are stamped images that I created when I designed stamps for my own stamp line, Spiced Sunshine Stamps. They are no longer available, unless I find someone interested in carrying my designs again. Bees on the front, as well as the sentiment, and pop up bee on the inside are from Lawn Fawn.

The inside of the card has this adorable Lawn Fawn pop up bee. 

Blue Butterfly Birthday Card

Thia here with my Blue Butterfly Birthday card for the Crafting Station. Need crafting supplies to create cards similar to this one? They are available over at the BMC Crafting Station. I love using Lawn Fawn stitched dies to give my cards that extra special look. I used Stitched Rectangles and Inside Out Scallop Squares. The sentiment on this card was something that I created while I was designing stamps for a small company that is no longer producing stamps. The line of stamps was called Spiced Sunshine. The Crafting Station has all that’s left of that stamp line, although they aren’t all currently listed at this time. For the butterfly, after using the die cut to cut it out, I ran it through my embossing machine. Then I took Lawn Fawn Fish Tank ink pad and rubbed it over the embossed image. I hope I inspired you to now go and get your craft on!

Lawn Fawn Fun Alert!

Lawn Fawn Release Week starts tomorrow for their May 13th release, but today they have a sneak peek for us to enjoy! If you see something over there that you like, let me know. I’ll make sure to get it into the shop! Lawn Fawnatics Challenge is underway and the theme is kids cards. Head over there if you’d like to participate in this current challenge. To get Lawn Fawn products as well as other fun crafty things for your cards, head on over to the Crafting Station Shop for our Birthday Sale going on all month long! Happy Wednesday...Now go get your craft on!

We Are Back!!!

The BMC Crafting Station is finally back! Did you miss us? Are you excited, because we are! Head on over to the shop daily because each day we are adding 5 new items of crafting fun for you to purchase and enjoy! Brand new products are being released on the 13th of this month by Lawn Fawn, so we will have some of those items listed at that time. If there’s something you’d like that you don’t see, ask us! A few more fun things in the works at the Crafting Station...Thia is getting classes ready to color and craft with you over Zoom at discounted prices! AND our Crafting Club Box of Fun is back in stock & loaded with goodies for your crafting pleasure! You never know what treasures you will get and what you’ll be inspired to create! 

Crafting Station Club Winners

Melissa "Sunshine HoneyBee"

cghundley (Carla from Utah)

Gail

Petra

Mary

happyscrap

Maria Calderone

If you participated in the Sweet 16 Blog hop on Thia's Blue Moon Creation Blog last month, and your name is listed above, you are the winner of a BMC Crafting Station Membership! You'll get 6 months of FREE membership! Every effort has been made to contact you. Please respond by the end of this month to claim your prize. Thank you!

Sunday's Sketch

Get your craft on using this sketch for square cards or a scrapbook layout.

Quick Monster Cards

This is a quick and easy monster card that can be created for Halloween, Birthdays, or as a Get Well Soon card. Colored card stock, white card stock, some google eyes, and a small white banner to be used as the teeth! Easy! This one is a 3" square.

Interactive flip or Swing Card

It's Ann here today with my Flip it or Swing it Interactive card to inspire you to enter our present challenge:

Now open, Flip it....

                                                                            Ta dah!

For more magical FREE How To's and other crafty goodness please pop over to my blog at:  http://annmakes.blogspot.com.   More information on how this card was made can also be found here.

To find the same stamps and images used in the making of this card just click here.

Thank you for viewing today.  Now go get inky!

Susan R's Tuesday Inspiration

Hi! Susan R here, with my Tuesday inspiration!

The current Challenge is Interactive Cards  and is at the Crafting Station

 I have used a Bee image and Sentiment from Spiced Sunshine Digis

More details on my blog

Watch out for another inspiration next Tuesday...

Happy Crafting!

How To Spin Card.

Interactive cards challenge: His belly spins!   Fun fun fun.  Here is my inspiration for you today:

For more information please come by my blog: http://annmakes.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Ann

Susan R's Tuesday Inspirations

Hi! Susan R here, with my Tuesday inspiration!

The current Challenge is Interactive Cards  and is at the Crafting Station

 I have used an Owl image and Sentiment from Spiced Sunshine Digis

More details on my blog

Watch out for another inspiration next Tuesday...

Happy Crafting!

Susan R's Tuesday Inspiration

Hi! Susan R here, with my Tuesday inspiration!

The current Challenge is BANNERS and is at the Crafting Station

 I have used an image from Spiced Sunshine Digis
Bear Holding Whimsical Heart

More details on my blog

Watch out for another inspiration next Tuesday...

Happy Crafting!