Author: amysolovay

The lovely folks over at Pinkfresh Studio are having a new challenge with the theme of stripes and gradients. This is my second project entry for the challenge. It’s a brand new scrapbooking layout featuring a photo of me at Two Harbors Campground on Catalina Island.

Just offshore from the campground in this photo is Little Fisherman’s Cove, which is one of my favorite anchorages on planet earth — love, love, LOVE it there. This pic brings back such happy memories of fun times, long hikes with my husband and sailing adventures. While the honest truth is, I am actually glad to have settled back into the boring life of a landlubber, scrapping these pics sort of gives me wanderlust all over again.

This layout does actually have stripes, but they got a little buried under various other layers. I made the stripes using Pinkfresh Studio’s Horizontal Stripes stencil.

Other Craft Supplies Needed for Creating a Similar Scrapbooking Layout:

• Brighter Days Stamp Set by Pinkfresh Studio
• Take Pride Stamp Set by Pinkfresh Studio
• Remember This Day Patterned Paper by Pinkfresh Studio
• Believe in Yourself Stamp Set by Pinkfresh Studio
• Dark Green Brush Marker
• Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide Ink Pad
• Ink blending tool
• Scalloped Scissors by EK Success
• Plain white cardstock
• A scoring board or scoring tool
• Letter Stickers by Scrapbook.com

Thanks so much for dropping by my blog today! I sincerely appreciate your interest.

Posted By: Amy Solovay

The lovely folks over at Pinkfresh Studio are having a new challenge with the theme of stripes and gradients. I thought that sounded like fun, so I decided to play along. I created multiple projects and love all of them! Plus I made extra ink-blended papers featuring stripes and gradients, so I will be able to use the rest of them in upcoming projects. I am looking forward to it!

In the picture above, you can see one of the cards I made for this challenge.

And here in the picture below, you can see some of the papers I made to use in this challenge.

I used 3 colors of Pinkfresh Studio’s dye ink to make these papers:

• Mermaid Cove
• Blue Jay
• Regal Kiss

In the finished papers, the colors look lighter than they appear when used at full strength, because I diluted them with water. I was aiming for a light, watercolor-y effect. Even with the dilution, they turned out a bit darker than I was hoping, but the colors are so vibrant and pretty that I ended up loving them.

Other Craft Supplies Needed for Creating This Butterfly Slimline Card:

• Celebrate You Patterned Paper by Pinkfresh Studio
• Believe in Yourself Stamp Set by Pinkfresh Studio
• Purple Sakura Gelly Roll Pen
• Aqua Marvy Uchida Highlighter
• Dark Green Brush Marker
• Bundled Sage Distress Oxide Ink Pad
• Ink blending tool
• Scalloped Scissors by EK Success
• Plain white cardstock
• A scoring board or scoring tool

Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate your interest in my project.

Posted By: Amy Solovay

For September 20, 2022

The lovely people over at the Lawnfawnatics blog are hosting a fun rainbow themed challenge! Pictured above, you can see my entry for the challenge; it’s a daily planner layout featuring a cute little bear doing her laundry. I dated it 9-20-2022 and plan to use it in a couple of days.

Craft Supplies You’ll Need to Create a Similar Laundry Themed Daily Planner Layout:

(Or feel free to make substitutions if you like!)

• Citrine Patterned Paper From the Watercolor Wishes Collection by Lawn Fawn
• Plain White Cardstock by Lawn Fawn
• Kraft Cardstock
• “Den Sweet Den” stamp set by Lawn Fawn
• “Loads of Fun” stamp set by Lawn Fawn
• Milo’s ABCs stamp set by Lawn Fawn
• “Plan on It” stamp set by Lawn Fawn
• Magnetic Date Roller Stamp by Heidi Swapp (See a review of this stamp HERE).
• The tree stamp on the “Wellness” section of the planner layout is from the “Let’s Go Camping” stamp set by Echo Park Paper Co.
• Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Ink Pad
• Dusty Concord Distress Ink Pad
• Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide Ink Pad
• Walnut Stain Distress Ink
• Ruby Red Crisp Dye Ink by Altenew
• Gelly Roll Pens
• Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink Pad
• Marvy Uchida PastelLiner in a light peach color (I’m not sure of the official color name on this).
• Ink Blended Paper Scraps
• Rectangular die with rounded corners OR if you don’t have a die cutter handy, you can use a corner rounder punch or a rectangular stencil with rounded corners (which is what I did here). I am so excited to have ordered a die cutter, but until I get it in hand I am still fussy cutting everything.
• Scalloped Scissors by E.K. Success
• And of course, you’ll need a planner; the one you see pictured here is a Happy Planner, but you can use whatever planner you like.

Important Note: There are dies available for most of these stamps.

I love how colorful this is! The rainbow is one of my favorite design motifs, so I LOVED this challenge! Although unfortunately, I took the photo outdoors at sunset, so the colors in my pic don’t look accurate — it is much prettier in person.

My heartfelt thanks to the folks at Lawnfawnatics for hosting this fun challenge, which I really enjoyed!

Over to You:

Did you play along with the Lawnfawnatics challenge this time around? IF so, how did your project turn out?

Hope you have a fantastic week! Thanks so much for your interest in my project.

Want to find more Lawn Fawn projects, daily planner layouts and other paper crafts projects? If so, I invite you to check out some of the other pages here at our Knitting, Crochet and Crafts website:

More Pages Featuring Stamps and Craft Supplies by Lawn Fawn:

• Cute Bear Themed Birthday Card Making Idea Featuring Lawn Fawn Craft Supplies
• How to Make a Birthday Card With Bear Motif and Ink Blending
• Clean and Simple Birthday Card Making Idea With CUTE Lawn Fawn Stamps
• Planner Layout Idea for March 7 Featuring Laundry Stamps and Other Stamps by Lawn Fawn
• Lawn Fawn Planner Stamp Sets: Plan On It Product Review and Project Ideas
• Valentine’s Day Card Making Idea With Lawn Fawn Stamped Heart Balloons
• Cute Lawn Fawn Skunk Valentine Card Making Project Idea
• More Craft Ideas for Using Lawn Fawn Stamps, Papers and Supplies

This page was last updated on 10-22-2022.

Posted By: Amy Solovay

The lovely folks over at Pinkfresh Studio are hosting a challenge with the theme of “beautiful backgrounds”. They don’t care how we create our backgrounds as long as something lovely is in the background. For the card you see pictured here, I chose a background of patterned paper featuring flowers arranged in simple but beautiful vases. On top of that I layered a scalloped heart design — and on top of that I layered a hand-stamped, hand-colored floral image that I stamped using stamps from the “Brighter Days” stamp set by Pinkfresh Studio.

Supplies Needed to Make This DIY Greeting Card With Pink Vases and a Flower Design

• “Brighter Days” Stamp Set by Pinkfresh Studio
• “Take Pride” Stamp Set by Pinkfresh Studio (for the sentiment stamp, which says “You Amaze Me”.)
• Patterned Paper From the Celebrate Collection, Which Was a Collaboration Between Pinkfresh Studio + Altenew
  
• Coral Pink Alcohol Markers: Spectrum Noir Coral Tri-Blend Marker
• To create the green leaves, I used a yellow cardstock that was inked with Gina K Designs Jelly Bean Green ink.
• Scalloped Decorative Scissors by EK Success
• Pink Sakura Gelly Roll Pen

I had a hard time photographing this; the photo I took doesn’t really do a good job of showing off the shimmery metallic scalloped edge of the heart. It’s a lot prettier in person.

Thanks for dropping by and checking out my latest craft project! I appreciate your interest.

This page was last updated on 10-10-2022.