Company: Lawn Fawn

Cute Critter Gift Card Holders

25th April 2018 Leave a Comment

I’ve been waiting to share these with you for a while now and the good news is that these Lawn Fawn dies are back in stock over at Seven Hills Crafts. Teamed together, the Woodland Critter Huggers and the Stitched Gift Card Pocket dies make the perfect gift card holders. When I gave them to my friend I made sure to use a Post-It note to add the greeting so that she could pass on to another recipient!

I love my alcohol markers so of course I had to colour these in instead of cutting them from coloured card. I began by cutting all the pieces from both dies from smooth white blending cardstock, cutting doubles of the background pieces so that I could hide where the alcohol markers bled through the paper. This also gave me a place to sandwich the tail so I got clean edges on the front and back.

Of course, I had to make a fox, sticking to earthy red/brown and skin colours:

And a raccoon, using some warm greys and black:

I then attached the gift card pockets to the back of the critter panels and some googly eyes made the finishing touches to these cute little gift card holders!

I’ve only made two of the possible critters today but I know I will be making some more in the future.

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Handmade Cards, Paper Crafts, Seven Hills Crafts DT

Cake Ninjas!

18th April 2018 Leave a Comment

I have a friend who loves manga and all things ninja, so I knew I had to make her a set of cards featuring these ninjas from the Altenew Ninja Invasion. This set of cards is over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today. It’s been a while since I made a card without bringing out my Copics, but these cards were surprisingly easy to put together.

I started out by stamping out several of the ninjas from the set using a combination of Versafine Black Onyx ink and some Lawn Fawn mini ink cubes. I used a tip from Jennifer McGuire and silver heat embossed the swords and shuriken to make them stand out. The parts are really quite easy to match up and Altenew has helpfully printed guidance directly onto the clear acetate the stamps come on. Once dry, I cut them out with my Scan N’ Cut, but there are coordinating dies available.

For the backgrounds, I used the MFT Radiating Rays Stencil to blend on some Distress Oxide Inks in Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon and Faded Jeans. keeping the darker ink to the centre. I removed the stencil and blended some more ink on to create a subtler pattern for my ninjas to be bursting out from.

I cut several of the smaller picture frames from the Lawn Fawn Say Cheese, Again set from some smooth white cardstock. For the first card, I used the insides of the picture frames, instead creating a sentiment out of a couple of flagged banners, one in white and one in black. The two sentiments come from the Altenew Ninja Invasion and the Lawn Fawn Beam Me Up sets. I used some liquid adhesive and foam tape to arrange the ninjas so it looks like they are bursting out from the centre of the card.

The other two cards were completed in a similar way, using Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide ink for the yellow background. I stamped the ‘DEADLY NINJA’ sentiment on the bottom of the frames and arranged the ninjas one each to a frame.

A fun set of cards that could be masculine or feminine, as long as the recipient loves ninjas!

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Handmade Cards, HeffyDoodle Design Team, Paper Crafts

Congr-hatch-ulations!

1st April 2018 Leave a Comment

Happy Easter to those who celebrate! It’s actually sunny here in the UK at the moment (a strange occurrence for any Bank Holiday weekend!). Perfect time for a little bit of crafting!

Before we get to today’s card, hop on over to the HeffyDoodle shop as they have 15% off all the cuteness going on until 6th April using the coupon code Eggcellent15. It’s a great chance to stock up on all the wonderfulness that is HeffyDoodle!

Today’s card brings with it all the wonderful colours of spring! Featuring the Honey Bunny Boo and Eggcellent News stamp sets, this card makes a perfect new baby congratulations card.

I started out with two A6 panels of smooth white cardstock and got ready to get inky with my Distress Inks. On one panel I blended on the ink horizontally so the ink was darkest at the top, working though Squeezed Lemonade, Abandoned Coral and Seedless Preserves. On the other panel, I blended on some Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn before splattering on some clear water droplets, blotting off with a paper towel and leaving to dry. I then die cut the green panel using a Lawn Fawn Simple Grassy Hillside die.

Whilst the inked panels were drying, I stamped out the chicks and eggs from the HeffyDoodle Honey Bunny Boo and Eggcellent News stamp sets onto some Clarefontaine 210gsm DCP paper with some MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. I chose some bright and springlike Copic markers to colour them in with and then cut them out with the coordinating dies.

I adhered the ink background panel to a top-folding horizontal A6 card base and arranged my springtime chicks in a scene. I wanted it to look as though springtime fever had hit the pile of eggs and all the chicks were hatching. The chicks at the front and flying in the sky were popped up with a little bit of foam tape.

A black panel with the white heat embossed sentiment from the Eggcellent News stamp set and a few clear sequins finished the card of nicely. Such a bright card that I’m sure any expectant mother would love to receive!

Have a safe and wonderful Easter!

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Handmade Cards, Paper Crafts, Seven Hills Crafts DT

Simply Thinking of You

28th March 2018 Leave a Comment

Hello, crafters. I have a simple card to share with you today. Sympathy cards are never the most fun to send but unfortunately they are necessary. I needed a card design that was simple but heartfelt, and the new Lawn Fawn Simply Celebrate has a perfect flower arrangement.

I started off with an A6 white blending card panel and stamped out the flower banner in some MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. I also stamped out the ‘THINKING OF YOU’ sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Simply Sentiments set, making sure there was even spacing. I coloured this in with my Copic markers, sticking to a basic palette of reds, yellows and green.

I used an Avery Elle Wonky Stitches rectangle to cut out the panel before mounting it directly onto a top-folding A6 red card base. A little bit of clear Wink of Stella over the flowers to give some shimmer, followed by some Glossy Accents (alternatively, you can use Nuvo Crystal Glaze) finishes off the card.

In contrast to my card last week, I love how you can create so many different moods with this stamp set. At least this set will be well used!

Thanks for reading, catch you next week.

Tallie

Handmade Cards, Paper Crafts, Seven Hills Crafts DT

Let’s Celebrate!

21st March 2018 Comment : 1

There’s nothing like Lawn Fawn and a few colours in rainbow order to help brighten up your day! Whilst the snow thaws out here I’ve been working on bringing in the spring with the new Simply Celebrate set from Lawn Fawn and the amazing Really Rainbow paper pack (this is definitely one I will be hoarding!). Using only one stamp set, this card came together quickly.

Starting with an A6 piece of white blending cardstock, I stamped out the line of balloons with some Copic-friendly MFT Licorice Black Hybrid Ink. I used my MISTI stamping tool so I could double stamp and get the lines nice and dark. Also, it was easy to move the panel and stamp repeating rows. I repeated this three times, changed out the balloons for the ‘Let’s Celebrate’ sentiment from the set, then finished off with one last line of balloons.

Once dry, I coloured the balloons in rainbow order using my Copic markers. Balloons are a challenge for me – I don’t always leave enough light colour to show the highlights. This was partly a practice project for colouring balloons and as such, I used about four markers for each colour.

Copic markers used:
Red: R89, R29, R24, R14
Orange: YR18, YR07, YR16, YR16
Yellow: Y38, Y17, Y15, Y06
Green: G28, YG17, YG09, YG06
Blue: BG78, BG09, BG49, BG13
Indigo: B39, B29, B26, B24
Violet: V09, RV66, RV34

When finished, I cut down the panel so it was A6 in height and half a centimetre short in width on both sides. I cut down two strips of paper from the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow paper pad and attached them so they would give an even border on either side. This is a good way to preserve that precious paper by not using a whole sheet unnecessarily!

To finish, I mounted the panel on a white top-folding A6 card base. I used a little clear Wink of Stella pen on the balloons before covering in Glossy Accents to make them nice and shiny.

A great card for any occasion. I hope it brightened up your Wednesday!