Little Red Wagon Design Team Member Announcement!!!!

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Just a quick blog post today! :)   I'm very happy and excited to announce that I will be on the Little Red Wagon Design Team starting July 1st, 2015!!!

Every Wednesday I will share a card I create based on the challenge from Little Red Wagon here on my blog as well as the Little Red Wagon blog.  I encourage you all to stop on by the Little Red Wagon Blog and join us in the challenges!!!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'! :)

Mandy

Mama Elephant Graduation Card with Gift Card Holder Inside

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Happy Sunday!!! :)  Today I'm sharing a card/gift card holder I created with Mama Elephant stamp sets and dies.  This design started off with me wanting to use some of these amazing products from Mama Elephant that I had purchased.  I love how everything came together and effortlessly by using a few basic die sets and one stamp set (Three Amigos).  These critters are so cute!!! I coloured them with my Copic markers.  I love all the sentiments you can put together to create a unique sentiment for that special person! :)

I encourage you to use your dies and stamp sets to create projects!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'! :)

Mandy

Thank You Card - Sketch N Scrap 20th Card Sketch

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The card I created is based on today's Sketch N Scrap card sketch.  This is the card sketch was created by Lisa Hidy one of the very talented sketch artists and co-owners at Sketch N Scrap.

I used Lawn Fawn stamps, papers and dies for this card.  I coloured the hummingbird using Copic markers and then adding Glossy Accents.  I completed the card by adding Wink of Stella on my trio of stitched clouds! :)

Remember to play along with us over at Sketch N Scrap.

We would love to see your cards and layouts based on the amazing sketches Lisa and Kelly create!

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'! 

Mandy Reedyk
Design Team Member at Sketch N Scrap

YOU - Summertime Blues Frosted Designs Friday Challenge Layout

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Today's Friday Challenge for Frosted Designs is Summertime Blues (anything to do with summertime or blue things that remind you of summer: skies, beach, flowers...).

When I saw this challenge posted I knew exactly the photos I wanted to use as well as the papers!!  Even the 'journaling' was easy for this layout.  This layout came together very easily!  All the products are used are from Lawn Fawn for this layout.

Hop on over to checkout all the other awesome creations based on this challenge over on the Frosted Designs Blog. Don't forget to play along with us at Frosted Designs and link up your take on this 'Summertime Blues' Challenge!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'! :)

Sketch N Scrap Senior Design Team Member Announcement

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I am very honoured to announce that I will to be part of the Sketch N Scrap Senior Design Team!!! We have an amazing group of talented ladies on the Design Teams. Hop on over to the Sketch N Scrap Blog to meet all our DT members!

 Please join us and play along over at Sketch N Scrap.
We would love to see your cards and layouts based on the amazing sketches Lisa and Kelly create!   

Thank you Lisa and Kelly for allowing me to be part of this amazing group!

I will be posting my projects here, at Sketch N Scrap, the Sketch N Scrap Facebook Page, on my PINTEREST BOARDS and on my INSTAGRAM account.

Mama Elephant Card With Mixed Media Background

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Today I'm sharing a card I created that started off with my wanting to use some of my mixed media stuff that I have.  I started off with a plain piece of white card stock.  I laid down a thin coat of gesso. Once that was completely dried I put my stencil down and used some modeling paste with it.  Then when that was completely dried I took my watercolours and did a wash over the card stock.

I used my Mama Elephant tag die and die cut a section of my mixed media paper.  The layers of the card are also die cut using Mama Elephant dies.  I also used the cloud border die from Mama Elephant.  My cute critter is stamped and die cut using the Up and Away sets.  I used a heart balloon die to die cut my three balloons and attached them with twine.

Hope I have inspired you to use more mixed media on your cards!  It give them a lot of texture without a lot of bulk which makes it easy to mail. :)

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'! :)

Mandy

Lawn Fawn Cupcake Birthday Shaker Card

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Today I created a sweet birthday shaker card using Lawn Fawn products!  It was inspired by a card that Nicole made on Lawn Fawn's Blog.  I used the Large and Small Stitched Circle Stackables Dies for my shaker window. The three cupcakes and the cake stand as well as the sentiment are from the Baked With Love stamp and die sets.  I coloured them with my Copic markers as well as the circle background of my shaker part.  My sentiment was stamped using their Walnut Ink Pad.  I love the fact that Lawn Fawn has coordinating die sets for their stamp sets!  It makes creating cards like this sooooo easy!!! :)   
Hope I have inspired you to create cards with the amazing products from Lawn Fawn!

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'!

Mandy

NYC - Sketch N Scrap Twistback Thursday June 2015

Hello EveryoneI created this layout for the Sketch N Scrap Twistback Thursday!  The layout sketch was created by one of the very talented sketch artists at Sketch N Scrap. This month's Twistback Thursday is "to use washi tape"!

This was a bit difficult for me as I have accumulated a lot of washi tape (as I'm sure a few of you can relate - lol)!  I knew that I wanted to use this photo collage of our recent trip to NYC event though the sketch only shows 1 photo.  I decided to keep my layout soft and neutral to have my photo collage be the focal point.  This is what I came up with!

Remember to play along with us over at Sketch N Scrap.

We would love to see your cards and layouts based on the amazing sketches Lisa and Kelly create!

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'! 

Mandy Reedyk
Design Team Member at Sketch N Scrap

Mama Elephant & Lawn Fawn Birthday Gift Card

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Today I wanted to share a birthday card I created using Mama Elephant stamp set and Lawn Fawn Tag die set!  The patterned paper is from the Taylored Expressions.  I used the embellishing stamp pieces from Lawn Fawn's Birthday Tags stamp set to create the tone on tone background.  I used Copic markers to colour my cupcake and bunny.  I also used the Happy Birthday sentiment from Lawn Fawn's Birthday Tags stamp set and embossed with white embossing powder.  
The inside of the card I used a combination of Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die and Pretty Pink Posh's Pocket Border die to create the pocket to place a gift card in it.  

Hope I have inspired you to create cards with some of these amazing and versatile products!

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'!

Mandy

Thank You Card For PPP Watercolor Blog Hop & Lawnscaping Challenges Calling All Critters

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Happy Sunday!!! It's day 3 of the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop and I have created my final card for this blog hop as well as the  Lawnscaping Challenges Calling All Critters Challenge! :)  I used my Studio Calico Mr. Huey's watercolour palette for the background as well as my adorable cute elephant from WPlus9's Unforgettable stamp and die sets.  The frames are die cut using the Sew Fancy die set.  My sentiment is the watercolour Thank You stamp from Stampin' Up!  I finished the card off with clear Wink of Stella on my sentiment and a sprinkling of sequins.

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'

Mandy Reedyk

Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop & Lawnscaping Challenges Calling All Critters Card Day 2

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Happy Saturday!!! It's day 2 of the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop and I have created another card for this blog hop as well as the  Lawnscaping Challenges Calling All Critters Challenge! :)  I used my Simply Art watercolour palette for the background again as well as the kite.  The cute critter from Mama Elephant's Up and Away was coloured using Copic markers.  The scalloped frame is from Mama Elephant as well.  The stitched watercolour frame is die cut using Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Duo 2 and the sequin stars are also from Pretty Pink Posh. The Kite is from Lawn Fawn's Sunny Skies stamp and die sets.  The sentiment is from the Admit One stamp set.  I finished the card off with clear Wink of Stella on the kite.

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Scrappin'

Mandy Reedyk