Company: Lawn Fawn

You’re One Smart Cookie!

16th May 2018 Leave a Comment

It’s my turn for some scholarly inspiration over on the Seven Hills Crafts Blog today. The end of the school year is rapidly approaching and this card was two challenges in one. Firstly, I needed a graduation card. Secondly, I needed a masculine graduation card. Teaming some Lawn Fawn Paper Bag cardstock with the Smart Cookie stamp set and Scripty Congrats die solved my problem!

Starting with an A2 piece of Paper Bag cardstock, I stamped out the cookie repeatedly in Versamark Ink and clear heat embossed. Using some Vintage Photo and Ground Expresso Distress Ink, I watercoloured the heat embossed images, using the darker shade to add some depth. Whilst that was drying I stamped out some scrolls and made a graduation cookie, masking off the hat and adding some glasses. I used more of the same Distress Ink, adding in some Black Soot for the hat. I used my Scan N Cut to cut out the figures but there are coordinating dies available.

I cut out the background using the largest of the Stitched Rectangle Frames. I also cut an additional two frames from white cardstock so I could stack them onto the card base for some dimension.

I used a Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle die to cut out a circle, stamping and heat embossing the sentiment from the set in the centre. I also inked this up around the edges with the Distress Ink, using some foam tape to adhere the cookie and scrolls in the centre.

I cut out the Scripty Congrats die from some more Paper Bag cardstock and twice more from some white cardstock, stacking them to create some dimension. There’s a lot of the same colour cardstock so the dimension will help to distinguish between the elements. I inked up the top layer with some more Distress Ink, adhered to the background under the central element and added a layer of Glossy Accents.

And there you have masculine graduation card!

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Birthday Bus

2nd May 2018 Leave a Comment

Hello, happy Wednesday! I have a bright and fun trio of birthday cards for you today featuring a mix of products from Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn and Neat & Tangled. Two of the cards are very similar, with the third mounted on a slightly different background.

Starting out with an A6 white card panel, I masked off the top half with some Post-It tape. I then blended on some Distress Oxide ink in Twisted Citroen and Mowed Lawn through the Neat & Tangled Tree Duo Stencil, keeping the layering light. I finished off with a light dusting of Broken China to give the slight impression of sky at the very top.

On another two A6 white top folding card bases, I masked off a wide band towards the top of the card. This time I blended on some Fossilised Amber and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide Ink through the MFT Radiating Rays stencil, keeping the layers light and concentrating the darkest colour at the bottom centre.

I set these aside to dry and stamped out three of the buses and six of the clouds from the Avery Elle Birthday Bus set in some MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. I coloured these in bright school colours with my alcohol markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies.

I cut the green panel down and used some craft foam to attach it to a card base. I then popped up the buses on some foam tape and adhered them to the background, adhering the clouds directly to the panels to make it look like exhaust fumes. I know from my experience, these type of buses aren’t exactly environmentally friendly!

The sentiment included in the set wasn’t long enough for what I needed so I pulled out the HAPPY BIRTHDAY from the Lawn Fawn Simply Sentiment set. On the sunrise backgrounds I stamped this above the scenes and below on the forest scene. I finished off with a little heart at the end of the sentiment using some Lawn Fawn Lobster Ink.

A fun set of cards that could be masculine or feminine, or given to an adult or a child. I think I like the forest background best – what’s your favourite?

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Handmade Cards, Paper Crafts, Seven Hills Crafts DT

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!