Hoppin' With Lockhart {plus BLOG CANDY!!}

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Happy Thursday! We're blog hoppin' to celebrate the Lockhart! The holidays are coming and nobody does holiday stamps like Lockhart!! Susana has lots of great images at the SCACD store, so cruise over and check them out when you're done with the hop! We have a huge prize too so read on.

WELCOME all you happy hoppers arriving from Dianne's Blog! I'm hope you're having fun so far. If you are just joining us, you can head back to Suzanne's Blog and start from the beginning to catch all the Lockhart goodness!!!

You can see my Lockhart creation, featuring the beautiful Della Robia Tree, in the photo above. Sentiment is from the Elisabeth Bell for SCACD Special Edition Ornament Collection. Quick card deets - the colors are So Saffron, Always Artichoke, and Riding Hood Red. Patterned Paper is Basic Grey Wassil. I colored my image with Copic markers, added pearls, Inspirations Paints, and other glitz, just for fun. I made the bow using the SUPER COOL Bow-Easy tool. Love it -- everyone needs one!

Ok, candy info!! There are two parts to the fabulous blog candy - part 1, leave a comment on the store blog to enter the random drawing to win two handsigned & colored (by Karen) Lockhart stamps, along with a White Sparkly Fluff, Gold Inspiration Paint and Vintage Christmas Flower Soft! WOW!!! Be sure to leave a comment on the SCACD Store Blog (at the end of the hop) for that.

Part 2 of the fabulous blog candy involves the project photos. Do you notice anything special about mine? Maybe some hidden items? Count the hidden pink hearts in each DT member's photo as you go through the blog hop, and leave the total in your comment. There is only ONE WINNER, however, if that winner has the correct number of hidden hearts, they will also win a $15 gift certificate to the SCACD store (on top of the other prizes). WOW!!! Can you say generous?! Susana and Suzanne are amazing!

The contest runs thru Saturday night at 11 pm EST, and the winner will be announced on Sunday on the SCACD Store Blog.

Your next stop on the hop is Lorelie's Blog. Enjoy!

TIOT32 - A Gift for Back to School!

Welcome to this week's Try it out Tuesday from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design! It's gifting time again (TIOT32) and this week we are staring down the barrel at Back To School for all the kids in the neighborhood! Yes, that's with all capital letters, LOL. And my DS #1 is starting a 4K program this year, so it's our first real gear up for school as well {hence the capital letters}.

What better for back to school than an altered lunchbox, decorated notebook and some shiny pencils?? I also made a little gift card to add on when we give it to her. I had wanted to make something girly, so this is for one of the neighbor girls that my kids play with almost every day {her name is Avery, obviously!}.

I do believe I made my position on Scor-Tape excessively clear in my TIOT29 post {haha!!} but I used it to adhere the paper to this lunch tin as well {not as durable as the Mod-Podge route, but WAY less messy and less overall project time too} and I'll say again - everyone needs Scor-Tape. It's the BEST for giftie projects of all types - boxes, bags, tins; as well as adding heavy embellishments, ribbon, etc. I'll leave it at that this week. ;-)

So I measured and cut all my Daisy D's patterned paper and adhered it to the tin with Scor-Tape. Added ribbon in those hard-to-cover areas - if you had started with a WHITE or other neutral-colored tin {I didn't}, you could get away with leaving these white, or if you wanted to paint and then Mod-Podge to keep it on there {I didn't} you could do that too, but ribbon is the "go to" item for me for these types of areas for me. You can see in the photo, the ribbon is the pink "frame" around the sides of the tin lid.

Stamped a whole bunch of coordinating Lockhart images to go on the various pieces, cut to size and colored with Copic markers. I used Itty Bitty Vase of Flowers, Violet Cupcake, Delphinium & Peony, and Polka Dot Butterfly. After coloring and assembling I added some Baubles and various paper flowers to spruce it up and we were all set! I added some pencils to go with the decorated notebook, we'll put it all into the tin with space to spare in case she has anything else she'd like to keep in there; and we've got a great little friend gift just in time for our end of summer party!

Some Susana's Custom Art and Card Design NEWZ today too! I want to say a big WELCOME to our TWO newest DT members - Carolyn Bounds & Dianne Prewitt! Yay!! They are super-talented ladies, stop by their blogs & say "HI". PLUS lots of FUN is coming to Susana's Custom Art and Card Design this week! New Victoria Case for SCACD stamps will be released on Friday!! Blog candy will be up on the store blog tomorrow so stay tuned. If you have an "old" Victoria Case for SCACD Stamp Company blinkie on your blog, please update the code!! Susana has expanded that section of her store so there is a new link for the blinkie!! Thanks!

Last thing, I wanted to say a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to KraftyChic in NC, she's the winner of our IBFS "Thank You Della" blog hop prize, so be sure to contact Susana with your info! Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you play along with us on the Try It Out Tuesday Challenge this week!

Try It Out Tuesday #23 - Get Sketchy

Hello and welcome to another Try it out Tuesday from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design! This week on the SCACD blog we are getting SKETCHY with a fabulous sketch challenge created by our own Suzanne Dean. This week's sketch does double-duty, both as our DT challenge AND as the monthly sketch on the PCP page for SCACD. If you play along with us here using this sketch and upload your creation to PCP with the keyword "scacdjune", you will be entered into the random drawing to win a stamp from the store! So get inspired and get sketchy with us at SCACD!

Here is my creation, featuring this awesome Adirondack Chair from Lockhart Stamp Company. I stamped the chair with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with Copic markers {bet you get sick of hearing me say that part of the card-making recipe, huh?!}. I cut out the finished image using Labels 1 Nestabilities. Added some clouds to the background and used my all-time favorite, Lily-Kate paper from Basic Grey. For the long skinny panel on the left side I hand-drew in some stitching to go along with the more "shabby" or "rustic" look to this card.

Pretty simple today, but I have to say, that chair looks good no matter how you color it!! All it needs is an ocean view and it would be my idea of paradise!! Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to visit the rest of the SCACD DT blogs {links in my left sidebar} and the SCACD store blog for more sketchy inspiration.