Welcome to the first ever Lawanscaping Blog Hop! Yay! So glad you have come to hop along with us today! You should be arriving here from the lovely Laurel‘s blog. If you are off track and need to start at the beginning, you can visit the Lawnscaping Blog for the complete list of designers. As always I’m sure Laurel has dished out a Fabulous dose of inspiration. Big shout out to her and the amazing design team for starting the Lawnscaping Challenge blog, it is my favorite challenge out there! This month’s hop theme is Holiday projects!! I decided to go with the Christmas holiday but wanted to focus on making something a little less traditional.
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I decided to make a card set with some alternative holiday colors using some PTI cardstock and coordinating Jenni Bowlin inks. I added some sparkle and shine with Martha Stewart glitter and DMC silver metallic embroidery floss.
The hop runs from Friday, September 9th –
Sunday, September 11th! Make sure to comment on all of the blogs because
there are LOTS of prizes to be won, including Lawn Fawn stamps! All the details can be found on the
Lawnscaping home page (http://lawnscaping.blogspot.com).
Your next stop on the hop is Ujjwal‘s blog. Thanks for stopping by today. I can’t wait to grab a cup of coffee and hop along with you to see the amazing holiday inspiration from all these talented ladies.
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Adorable card Chari…love your cards so much 🙂
The card set is super.. Love the stitching you have done using Embroidery floss.. Thanks for sharing…!!
Beautiful cards!
Those cards look so peaceful and serene! love the stitching and the glittered sentiments.
Great looking cards you got there 🙂
I love this card set, what a great idea!!
the card set is just fab love how u have used all the three sentiment, so lovely!!!
These cards are sooo lovely ! Nice colours and nice feeling when you see them !
Hey Chari, The cards are very Elegant. Loved the choice of colors!
fabulous cards set! i love making cards set and this set is so inspiring 😀 love the colour
Lovely set of cards! The color combo is so original!
Oh Chari! These are beautiful! I love the elegance! Super pretty!
I love your CAS cards 🙂
xx Tamara
Love these, great cards 🙂
How fantastic are these!
Love how you used the large LF font with the decorated panels 🙂
Jenny x
Gorgeous set of cards Chari. Love the Quinns ABC's and your idea of glitter is brilliant.
Oh wow! I just LOVE your cards! Seriously, they're super fabulous!
Super Cute cards and colors.
oooh, love the glittery letters and the fun stitching! great job!
Brilliant. Brilliant I say. The glittery letters are fabulous!!!! The snowflake trim and the stitching. OUTTA this world! Love it… Love it…. Love it… And love the supply list too! 🙂
Love you approach to these christmascards! They look wonderful =) TFS!
LOVE the silvery thread. Quinn's ABC is my next set I think. Love how you have featured them here!
Stunning simplicity
Great cards, love the CAS style and the sparkle!
Such lovely cards!! The colors you chose to use are great! Again, just lovely 🙂
These are amazing Chari!!! Wonderful card set – the colors combined with the Kraft & stitching – wow!!! I love every single one!
Fabulous cards, Chari! I love the glitter letters and the backgrounds you created!
LOVE these! Great use of non-traditional colors for Christmas cards. That silver floss is the perfect touch.
These are really pretty. The sparkle was a perfect touch.
Stunning set of card,Chari!
So pretty and elegant!
love love love your CAS cards!
Beautiful cards, Chari! So elegant, I love the soft colors you chose for the set 🙂
I love your set of cards! Very elegant CAS cards! TFS! ;o)
What a fabulous set of cards! love the stamped backgrounds.
Love the cards, very cute a little less tradition is good now and again.
Such a brave girl to use all that glitter! I have a ton, but rarely bust it out because then I am seeing it for months to come – ha! I love love the set though. Your stitching is perfect.
WOW.. I just love the simple beauty of these.. the stitching and the glitter rocks..
Off to the next stop on the hop 🙂 HUGS
familybubbles at hotmail dot com
Lovely Cards!..the glittery sentiments and the shining floss are awesome!
What an awesome set!
So simple and sweet and such FABULOUS design! LOVE your cards!
Beautiful set of cards! Love the CAS designs and soft colors 🙂
Chari, these are GORGEOUS! Oh wow, you've really outdone yourself, girlie. They're so beautiful!
what a wonderful idea for gift sets! love the CAS design!
light blue and hot pink are some of my favorite colors to decorate my tree with for the holidays, its cool to see someone else work with those colors! Gorgeous!
-rachel w k
rwkrafts.blogspot.com
What a great idea for holiday cards!
These are great, I love seeing holiday cards in nontraditional colors!
great ideas
Love these cards how they're non traditional, but traditional at the same time. The silver floss adds even more awesomeness to it!
These are beautiful, just beautiful. Love the stitchng and the colors.
i love the simplicit of these, less is more!
Great inspiration for NON traditional christmas cards! Great colors too! 🙂
Very pretty CAS cards!!1
Love the sewing!
So CAS and so cute! Love the non-traditional colors.
I love how simple they are. So pretty.
These are beautiful, love the simplicity and the colors! And I love that you made a coordinating set!
Very cute mini cards! I really like the non-traditional holiday look! I love the glitter too!
So soooooo cute Chari! I love what you did with Quinn's ABC's! The glitter is just FABULOUS! =D
love the simplicity and sentiment of each card….Karen Freiberg
love these cards…great job..
thanks for sharing.
loving the color on these ..they are perfect!
This is really a gorgeous set and your sewing is pretty amazing! I love this non-traditional look!
Simple, but beautiful.
These cards are amazing, simply elegant and prove that sometimes less IS more. Thank you.
Simple and elegant! I like it!
Love your cards. Very simple but elegant. Great idea to mass produce. Thanks for sharing.
adorable set of cards! now I just have to get Quinn's ABCs!
Don't know why I am having difficulty posting that is why I had to go Anonymous. Anyways, thanks for sharing.
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These are very cool! What a great concept. 🙂
This would be such a nice gift to give someone 🙂
This is really pretty! Clean and elegant!
Love the pretty pastel card 🙂
HUGS
Yenni Natalia
http://www.scrapcollector.blogspot.com
Love your choice to go non-traditional…and everything is better with glitter!
Adorable project! I love the colors and the design!
Carol B
ciaoitalia2007(at)gmail(dot)com
Oooo–I like these!
I love the colors you've used!! These are just lovely!
calamityjane
Fabulous cards, Chari! Love your stitching. 🙂
Your beautiful cards prove why less is better sometimes!
just perfect, not to much not to little!
Such a pretty card set, I love it!
Cute cards!!
Your card colors are soft looking and go very well with your words.
these cards are gorgeous xx
Such a pretty elegant set of cards. Simplicity at its best.
Gorgeous CAS cards! I love the touch of glitter for a festive feel 😉
Rx
These are so cute – I love that you used alternative colors and the CAS design.
Love that you made a card set. So pretty!
Love the idea of the card set!
Beautiful! There's something wonderful about the simplicity of these cards. I always overdo it when I design my Christmas cards…. Maybe I'll take a hint from you, that less IS more!
Such cute cards.
Those are just lovely. I like the non-traditional colors.
Your cards are fabulous. I love the colors, stitching and glitter. Thanks for sharing your great ideas.
I love lawn fawn! Although I love traditional cards I love that you managed to make more classic cards with lawnfawn stamps.
Chari, I love the elegance of your card set!
I love the simple things of life, so your cards are great! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the simplicity of your cards. Adorably CUTE! TFS. Tenny.
Gorgeous cards Chari, LOVE them all, the colours, the design, FAB!
cute cards ; )
these are great cards! Love LF!
Cute set of cards!
sigh – I love your design work Chari! You've taken cute, whimsical images and made beautiful, elegant cards with them. The soft colored strips and stitching are SO pretty! Would you mind if I case them for gifts to friends at work?
Thanks for becoming a follower of my blog. I'm always excited to see updates from yours 🙂
Love the cards so simply elegant
Awesome set of cards!!!
what a neat set of cards.. They'd make a great gift. 😀
THESE-ARE-AWESOME! So simple yet SO elegant with those terrific sparkling letters and fabby stitching – just love 'em!
Gorgeous cards ,, simple and very stylish , I love them ! 🙂
luv
Lols x x x
What a lovely cardset it is!
I love this card set. Simple, but still festive. TFS!
great set!
Very pretty!
I absolutely love the cards, I think I will make some for Christmas, I love simple yet elegant.
What a gorgeous set of cards you've created Chari! I love the non-traditional colours and how the words are the focus! Stunning. xxx
love the simplicity…
I *heart* the non-traditional colors and the stitching!
ummmm. hello gorgeous!!! This is so so cute! I'm definitely going to be doing this for my christmas cards this year!
So happy to be in the blog hop with you 🙂