Lavanettan: april 2023

Hello again!

It has been a while since last I was here, but life has come in between. Today I’m writing in english and that feels a bit akward. The reason to that is that I’m going to participate the challenge over at LawnFanatics and I believe that it will be a bit easier for everyone to understand what I’ve done for those who are interested to hop over here to my blog. Since it’s not my native language I geuss there will be some spelling and gramatical issues and I apologize for that in advance. With that said, let’s move on to my reason for todays blog post.

The challenge at Lawn Fanatics is about colors and they are some of my favourite colors. My only problem was to pick out wich die I was going to use. I really don’t own that many Lawn Fawn dies yet, but I’m working on it. At last I picked the Magic Iris Floral Wreath Add-On and also the Magic Iris Scalloped Add-On. I absolutely love that you can use them all together and also without the Magic Iris. It’s still beautiful. This time I chose to color the floral wreath and the flowers with my alcohol markers to try to catch the colors that’s in the challenge. I hope I succeeded with that.
Then I had a big struggle to find the right papers. I don’t have that many dies, but the amount of papers are even poorer. But I ended up with two papers that I’ve had in my stash for a couple of years now. I really love my papers and I almost cry when I have to cut them apart 😉 I believe many of you scrapper’s can relate to that. But I did cut them up and now I have to buy some new ones. Nothing bad that doesn’t have something good in it 😄

Allmost all things I’ve used for this card is from Lawn Fawn, accept the die GRATTIS (congratulations) and the stamp inside the card. I hope I don’t get disqualified for that but I never have had the need for those dies and stamps in english before. And I didn’t have time to buy them either so I ended up using my swedish ones and hope that will be okay. All I used is listed down below. Here is the result of my take on the challenge:

The stamp means "Have a wonderful birthday"

It's a bit hard to see, but I've put the scalloped circle on black foam dots. The middle part is lying flat to the background.

Now I’ll keep my fingers crossed that I “win” the challenge but the competition is hard so I don’t think I will have a chance. And it doesn’t really matter because I had a good time making the card. I call it my therapy and it might not be cheaper than a shrink, but it’s so much more fun and relaxing to be creative than to just sit and talk to someone. And as a bonus I get the chance to sell my cards to friends and colleagues so perhaps it is cheaper than a shrink after all.

Things I’ve used: