Thursday, September 20, 2012

Reading Glasses

 **Please, do scroll down for The Craft's Meow post!**
(I designed one of the sets being debuted today!)


So happy that Carbon Copied is back! (If you are unfamiliar with this fun little adventure, click the badge on my sidebar or click here --->) I thoroughly enjoy working with every designer, the emails going back and forth to choose our favorite sets that we have in common, to pick a grand challenge that we love and then to schedule a post on the same day.

Today I have the extreme pleasure to work with Laurel, from Paper Crafts by Laurel! Gosh, she is just a sweetie, so talented, and I adore watching her videos (I live vicariously through her haul videos!) We both are showcasing Clear to See by Lawn Fawn and participating in the Lawnscaping Challenge, a challenge Laurel founded and nurtured for it to become a success and one of my favorite challenges around! This time around Lawnscaping is asking for participants to use text in their projects.


I chose a few various text themed paper in different shades and styles, cut them in strips and then adhered them to the card base. I grabbed a sentiment from Lawn Fawn's On the Mend Set, because I thought it was a perfect compliment for the handmade embellishment of glasses from Clear to See (I'm calling them reading glasses today! So many ladies at my work utilize these little treasures and half the time I think they'd be lost without them!) A button, some May Arts Burlap String and a punched heart finish the look. The glasses do have a touch of glossy accents for the lenses.

Please be sure to stop by Laurel's Blog to see her take on the Lawnscaping project using Clear to See by Lawn Fawn!

32 comments:

  1. Karen this is awesome, love how you used the set and incorporated the text. So glad to see the Carbon Copied return:)

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  2. wahooooo...so happy to see this feature back in action! Such a fab card...love the strips of texty goodness and the glasses!

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  3. Love those layers! Cute way to use the glasses!

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  4. Oh fabulous...love how you tucked the heart and button behind those sweet little glasses!

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  5. I truly enjoy this feature and can't wait to see the next one! Love the card and the text layers! So clever how the glasses are kind of like a little embellie!

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  6. love how you used the strips of DP...and those glasses are cool...great card.

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  7. Wonderful design with the patterned paper, Karen! Love the fun glasses!

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  8. love your card and those sweet glasses are the perfect touch. I bought that set awhile back and am still trying to find a way to use it and thanks to you, I think I have.

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  9. Wow! loveley card...love the stripes of text.

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  10. Only you could do a cluster of embellies with glasses! So cute. I love all the pattern strips too.

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  11. Beautiful work Karen~I love the strips of paper.

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  12. So awesome! What a fabulous rendition using the LF stamps!

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  13. Great way to use up scraps! Love this for the text challenge!!! Those glasses are adorable!

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  14. i am loving those glasses :)
    *i would be lost without my computer glasses!!! lol

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  15. Super cute card! Heading over to Laurel's blog to check out her card. :-)

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  16. YAY!! Missed Carbon Copied!!
    FAB take on the text challenge!!

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  17. What a beautiful card Karen!
    I'm happy to see Carbon Copied back too ;-))

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  18. Such a sweet card! Love the layers of patterns, the cluster and all the white space at the top. Nicely done Karen! :)

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  19. LOVE the text strips- what a fun creation & love seeing what you've both created! :)

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  20. fab and way too cute Karen... i'm loving it too.... totally hugs...xoxo

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  21. love teh beautiful color combo and design. fabulous card, Karen!

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  22. Super texty card! Love the cluster of embellies - so sweet!
    Hugs!
    x

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  23. Lovin all of the fun patterns and those too cute for words specks!!

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  24. cute! I love how well you did all the layers!

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  25. Karen, it was such an honor to do this with you! Honestly, I was so touched that you asked me, little 'ole me! Your card is fantastic! Love all the text strips and the glasses! And that little texty heart button is fantastic! This is just flat out AWESOME!

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  26. Glad to see Carbon Copied again! Love the glasses layered with the button and heart. :)

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  27. woo-hoo..fabulous card...love everything on it..beautiful patterned paper combo; the layering heart, button and glasses on the side; the twines.. Thank you for playing along with us at Lawnscaping..

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  28. oh, I love this! the different colors and text styles are so great together! love the glasses, heart, and button combo too! thanks for playing along with us at lawnscaping!

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  29. Gorgepus card! Love your vintage choice of colors and the lovely group of elements :) Thanks for playing with us at Lawnscaping!

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