Rustic Thanks | ft. Lawn Fawn "Stitched Leaves" Dies

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Remember when we all first started out and punches were like the coolest thing? Punches and stickers and those scissors with the funky cutting edges. Today I wanted to share a card that doesn't have any image stamps or colouring.

Today's card features the "stitched leaves" dies from Lawn Fawn and two paper punches. One from Martha Stewart and the other from Recollections. Sometimes it's fun to take a step back from everything we do right now and try something that we would have done years ago.

To begin, I die cut all of the leaves using Lawn Fawn's "Stitched Leaves" dies out of Kraft cardstock by Recollections. I also punched out four of the daisies (Recollections) and three of the leafy fronds (Martha Stewart) out of the same cardstock.

I then used Distress inks and CTMH pigment inks to add some colour to the leaves. For the pigment inks I used a finger dobber as I wanted a more stippled look instead of the smooth blend that I get from the sponging tool and the Distress inks.

I set those aside to dry, and used the finger dobber and CTMH pigment inks on the front of the card base to add some additional colour and make the background look a little out of focus.

Once that was dry I arranged my leaf pieces the way I wanted them and adhered them in place using liquid adhesive.

I then stamped the greeting from an old Recollections set using Gathered Twigs Distress ink in my MISTI (just to ensure that I got a good image).

To finish it off, I added a bow with natural twine.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. If you haven't already, please follow me on the right side bar or over on Facebook, so you don't miss out on any future posts. Drop me a line in the comments section below and let me know what you think.

This card is for:

Muse Card Challenge

Challenge #239

Inspiration card by Stephanie Lanzalotto

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Monochrome

 Thank you all so much for your votes and support!

Hello Halloween Series | Wiggly Ghosts ft. Lawn Fawn "Booyah"

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you're having a great day.

A while back I did a review of the Crayola Washable Watercolours, as part of that review I did a super fun galaxy background and I promised that I would create a card with it. Today is that card! The 10th in this year's Hello Halloween Series! We're winding down now, and every time I post one I just want to make more!!

I've made a few galaxy backgrounds now and this is by far the brightest. I just love the way the black muted the insanely vibrant colours but didn't really obscure them.

This is also my first "wiggly" card and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. The ghosts shake just enough and don't smack into each other, so I'll call it a win.

To begin, I stamped the costumes from Lawn Fawn's "Booyah" stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on 110lb Copic-friendly cardstock. I then masked those off and stamped the ghosts and their treat bags. I removed the masks and cut the images using the Brother 2 Scan N Cut.

I don't have the coordinating dies for this set so I was able to use the Brother machine to cut the costumed, bag carrying ghosts as one piece instead of having to cut all the pieces individually and piece them together. This machine is sooooo amazing!

I then coloured the images with Copic markers and attached a length of "Unique Ultra Fine Invisible Thread" to the backs of each ghost. This is a super thin nylon thread that I was able to get at my local fabric store, for about $3.00. It's super strong and nearly invisible. I'm not sure what it would be used for in the sewing world; but in my little corner of the crafting universe it works wonderfully for suspending an image to make spinner cards, or today to make wiggly ghosts.

I trimmed the galaxy background piece down a bit, then used the largest of my Spellbinder Scalloped Rectangles to cut a window from the centre.

To put the card together, I mounted the middle part of the galaxy directly to a piece of 65lb black cardstock. I adhered the ends of the strings to the top and bottom of the frame portion of the galaxy using Skor tape (my go-to when I don't want anything to get away). Because I wanted the ghosts to wiggle when you shake the card, I made sure there was a bit of slack in the string. If this were a spinner card, I would have pulled the string as tight.

I then popped the frame portion up on foam tape and stuck that to the panel. I then mounted the entire piece to the front of a standard A2 sized card base.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. If you haven't already, please follow me on the right side bar or over on Facebook so you don't miss any future posts. Drop me a line in the comments section below and let me know what you think.

This card is for:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

A Walk on the Dark Side

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge

Happy Little Critters

Pumpkin Spiced Love | ft. Lawn Fawn "Pumpkin Spice"

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

As summer winds down and we are all getting excited for back to school, I thought I would start off the week with a fall favourite. Pumpkin spice. It's in the air, it's in the food, it's in the coffee.

Coffee, coffee, coffee! As we say good bye to sleeping in, we can say hello to pumpkin spice lattes!

To begin, I stamped the little shaker, then masked it off, then stamped the latte mug and masked that off from Lawn Fawn's "Pumpkin Spice" set using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on 110lb Copic-friendly cardstock.

I then stamped the two pumpkins (masking them as well) from Lawn Fawn's "So Thankful" set. I then removed all the masks and stamped the little shaker sparkle from Pumpkin spice to make the scene magical, because really pumpkin spice is magical.

I coloured all the images in with Copic markers. I added some Spectrum Noir Clear overlay to the shaker bottle and the whip cream and covered those with Glossy Accents by Ranger.

I stamped the first and last part of the greeting using Lawn Fawn Black Licorice ink and the "Pumpkin Spice" using CTMH Autumn Terracotta ink - which turned out to be the perfect pumpkin spice colour.

I wanted a coordinating border, but didn't have quite the right shade of cardstock, so I used some Rusty Hinge Distress ink to make it close. Then I adhered the whole lot to a standard A2 sized card base.

I didn't want random brown sparkles, so instead of colouring in those little specks, I added a mini diamond from CTMH Bitty Sparkles to each of them.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. If you haven't already, please follow me over on the right side bar, if you are viewing this via mobile device, scroll to the bottom and click "View web version" first. You can also follow me over on Facebook. Toss me a line in the comments section below and let me know what you think.

This card is for:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

STAMPtember - Stamp It

Dream Valley Challenge

#162 - Use a Stamp of Digi Image

Smashin' Birthday | ft. Lawn Fawn "Year Seven"

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

Once again, I cannot say enough good things about Lawn Fawn. Their consistently cute stamps that are pretty interchangeable make unlimited possibilities when it comes to cards and layouts. Now that they have interactive dies, the fun never stops.

Today I have an interactive birthday card. The second I saw this set I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

We are having a fiesta!

To begin, I used Dried Marigold and Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink, to make a fun background, I then used some clean water to create a splatter and then patted it off with some paper towel. As this isn't watercolour paper I didn't want the water to sit too long, so the splatter isn't as defined as I would have liked.

Once the panel was dry, I used the small curved die from Lawn Fawn "Slide on Over" die set to make the groove where he could swing. I also used my Crop-a-Dile to punch a 1/8" hole and a colourful eyelet. I knew he would be swinging from a string and I didn't want that friction to damage the card.

I stamped the pinata and the candy on 110lb Copic-friendly cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them all in with Copic markers. I also used my white gel pen to add some dot detail to all the pieces. I then used the coordinating dies to cut out all the images. (Yep, got the dies for this one. I know, right?)

I used some micro dots to adhere the candies in place. I created a penny slider for the back of my little pinata and sandwiched in some green twine for him to swing from. I don't know why he's a him, but he is. I used the greeting from the set, curving it along the edge of the die so he wouldn't obstruct it as he swung by.

After everything was in place, I doubled up the foam tape (important!!) and adhered it to a standard A2 sized card base.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. If you haven't all ready, please follow me over on the right side bar so you don't miss any future posts, if you are viewing this via mobile device, scroll to the bottom and click "View web version" first. You can also follow me over on Facebook. Toss me a line in the comments section below and let me know what you think.

This card is for:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Happy Birthday

and

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

For A Child

Watercolour Florals | ft. Hero Arts and Zig Clean Color Markers

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

If you're like me, you see these super pretty cards online and then get a million ideas on how to use that stamp; so you rush out and buy it only to forget about it completely.

No? Just me? Huh.

I got this stamp a while back because I saw all these super pretty cards online and I had to just rush out and buy it, only to forget why I wanted it in the first place. So when I saw the inspiration by Anita Bowden in the Muse challenge, along with a Happy Birthday Challenge and an Anything Goes challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I'm not going to lie, the execution of my idea took a wee bit longer than I wanted, but now that I have the hang of this one, I'll probably make a couple more with different colour palettes for my friends.

To begin, I prepped a piece of Strathmore Bristol Smooth 100lb cardstock with my powder tool. I then positioned it in my MISTI and stamped this Hero Arts "Large Blossom" using VersaMark ink. I actually did it twice so that I was certain the black embossing powder would stick where I wanted it when I heat embossed it.

I then used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers in Carmine, Light Carmine and Bright Yellow for the flowers; and May Green and Mid Green for the leaves and stems. To get a nice blend I put only a bit of each colour at opposite ends of each section and used my Prisma watercolour brush to bring the two together.

Because Bristol isn't actually watercolour paper, it is best to use a very light hand when it comes to adding the water. You can always, always add more, but once you have too much the paper will warp and pill -- no one wants that.

Once that was completely dry, I heat embossed the sentiment using the same black embossing powder.

I then added a bit of twine to the left and bottom of the panel, and adhered the whole piece to a standard A2 sized card base.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. If you haven't all ready, please follow me over on the right side bar. If you are viewing this via mobile device, scroll to the bottom and click "View web version" first. You can also follow me over on Facebook. Toss me a line in the comments section below and let me know what you think.

This card is for:

Muse Challenge #228

Inspired by Anita Bowden

and

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Happy Birthday

and 

Stamping Sensations August Challenge

Anything Goes

 

Eat All Cake | ft. Lawn Fawn "Year Three" and "Party Animal"

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

I have been on this incredible birthday card kick. Usually by now, I have Halloween cards well underway and have completed at least a couple Christmas sketches. But not this year. Looks like this year I'm behind the game - again. I know we always feel like we're behind, when really we're always living a season a head of everyone else.

I'm living in Canada in the longest and hottest heat wave (with weather warnings and everything) and here I am trying to justify not starting my fall and even my holiday cards?! No wonder by the time the day actually rolls around that I'm all holidayed out. Anyway, this year I'm still in full on birthday mode. So the holidays are going to have to wait just a touch longer.

I started by stamping the cake from Lawn Fawn's "Year Three" stamp set, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on 110lb Copic-friendly cardstock. I wanted to create the look of my own patterned paper, so I stamped the cake randomly, then I filled in the emptier spaces with the little candle image.

I also stamped the bear from the "Party Animal" set on a scrap piece. I coloured all the images in with Copic markers. And I fussy cut the bear out. I had to do a bit of masking before colouring him because I wanted him to be wearing a hat and holding a fork.

I trimmed the cake piece down to about 2 inches wide, then I covered the icing parts with Glossy Accents by Ranger and dunked it into Ranger's Clear Rock Candy glitter. Once that was completely dry I adhered it to the left portion of the card about 1/2" away from the fold. I then used foam tape to pop up my hungry little bear and placed him down.

I used the "Let's Party" greeting from the "Party Animal" set in the same Memento ink.

The sentiment on the inside says "Eat all the cake!" and it didn't even occur to me until editing that I should maybe take a picture of that. Sorry!!

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. If you haven't all ready, please follow me over on the right side bar. If you are viewing this via mobile device, scroll to the bottom and click "View Web Version" first. You can also follow me over on Facebook. Toss me a line in the comments section below and let me know what you think.

This card is for:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Food and/or Drink