Happy Easter

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Are you making easter cards? And actually sending them?
Well, I haven't in the last years! But this year I purchased so many easter stamp sets (thanks to Lawn Fawn's super cute latest release). So I HAVE to make (poor me, I know) some this year and send them to my friends and family!

For this card I combined stamps from two sets by Lawn Fawn called Eggstra Amazing Easter and Butterfly Kisses. Most of the images are from the first set but the butterflies, the grass and the clouds I used from the second.

I started by laying out all the stamps on my cardbase. This way it is easier to see which images I want to use and how to arrange them. Then I stamped the images, coloured them with coloured pencils and fussy cutting them because I didn't want a white border around the images. But there are coordintaing dies available for both sets, here and here.

For the background I masked of the negative part of a die cut circle. I also added a stripe of masking paper on the bottom of the circle to create a ground. Over his mask I ink blended inks in shades of turquoise.

Under this ink blended area I stamped the sentiment in white directly onto the panel.
Then I arranged all the images and adhered them flat to the cardstock but also using dimensional adhesive.
That finished up my card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

   

Magical Day

I'm going interactive for today's card and I have to say the new magic picture changing die set from Lawn Fawn is perhaps one of the easiest interactive die sets I've ever used.  Some of the interactive dies take a little figuring out and I have never managed to get it right first time, but this one is so simple it's fool proof!

Whilst Lawn Fawn specifically designed a couple of stamps to work and change picture, you can use any other stamps with the die too and I thought it would be fun to do a magical design to match the magic of the die so I decided to pull a rabbit out of a hat......

To create the pictures, you stamp and colour first and then line the windows in the two die pieces over your two images to create slots and tabs which then slide one picture over the other and it really is that simple!

I used the top hat from Lawn Fawn's Hat's Off stamp set and stamped that onto my two pieces of card before colouring with copics. For the "front" image I just added a few dots with a fine liner to indicate magic dust and then set that aside.

For the second image, I masked off the hat and then stamped one of the bunnies from Eggstra Amazing Easter again from Lawn Fawn but any bunny image that fits the hat would work here.  Then all you do is die cut both and fold along the score lines - this provides a channel up the sides to stop the slider moving from side to side and provides a slot in the first image through which you feed the tab on the second.  You just poke each of the 4 tabs into the corresponding 4 slots and bingo - it slides, well like magic!

To finish I added a frame in sage green along with a matching tab top to the pull tab - this acts as a stopper so the recipient can't poke the slider out of the bottom of the mechanism and both are provided in the die set.   The add on die provides a rectangle frame and different pull tab to mix up the designs you can do.   I stamped sentiments above and below the frame using MFT's Magical Day stamp set which is just perfect for this card.

It's easier for the recipient to pull the tab if the mechanism is raised on foam so I added a layer of spiffy speckles to a top fold sand base card before sticking foam squares to the back of the mechanism to finish.

NEWS FROM THE STORE

It will be a quieter week this week however, we will have:

• The latest monthly kit-add ons from Hero Arts
• Some Echo Park and Cartabella (we have 3 different releases of that to add, its taking a while so bear with us!)
• Chapter 2 from Sizzix also releases early April so we should have that early the following week.

Catch you later

Tara