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Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables.
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Hi everyone, it's Esther here with a card using Altenew Extra Special and Kraft card stock for a warm, neutral look.
I know I've become a bit obsessed with this stamp set (it's something about those vintage lines!) and I promise to move on to something different next week ;-)
For this card, I stamped the main floral image and its layers using water-based dye inks, and die cut it out using the matching dies.
I then stamped a background panel using My Favorite Things Distressed Stripes Background Stamp and Versamark on Kraft and die cut it out using one of the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles.
I mounted this panel onto a wider white card base, and added the word "wonderful" from Concord and 9th Wonderful Words Die using white card stock and white fun foam for dimension. I tucked "you're" underneath stamped from Mama Elephant Labeled Messages. I then added the floral die cut, letting it pop off the side and top of the card slightly for a looser and more informal look.
That's all for this week - thanks for visiting and have a great few days until we reach the weekend!
Hi everyone, it's Esther here to show you a cat card with a surprise using My Favorite Things Cool Cat!
This design works best with a side fold card base rather than top fold, because the surprise is the miniature ball of wool, and you want that to hang straight down.
On my card base, I positioned and stamped a sentiment from My Favorite Things Cool Cat.
I layered a panel die cut with Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles and stamped with the paw print from MFT Cool Cat with a frame made from three layers of fun foam and a layer of grey card stock die cut with Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Frames.
I stamped, coloured with alcohol markers and die cut with the matching dies a cat, cat bed and food bowl from MFT Cool Cat and adhered them to the panel and frames.
Finally, I made a miniature ball of wool, used a needle to thread its tail end through a small gap in the fun foam layers of the frame, and adhered the end securely on the back of the panel. The entire panel was then stuck to the card base.
That's it from me this week - thanks for looking!
Hi everyone, hope you're having a good week! It's Esther here with a card using Mama Elephant Botanic Hello. I fell in love with this stamp the first time I saw it, and I had a feeling it would look great in a whole range of styles.
Today I've gone for pretty floral watercolours using shades from my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens set of 60. I heat embossed the image in off-white, so the outlines wouldn't be too stark. After colouring the image and adding soft pale blue into the background bits I wouldn't be able to easily remove, I fussy cut the image.
I mounted the cut image onto a stitched rectangle of black card stock cut with the largest Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles. I then mounted that panel onto a heavy weight card base. I decided not to add either of the two sentiment strips that come in the set, but it has them if you want them, plus a set of two overlapping wonky stitched lines.
The great think about this stamp is that it will work really well with different colour palettes and mediums (watercolour, alcohol markers, coloured pencils - whatever you like to use) against all sorts of backgrounds. Before I settled on black, I tried the coloured image against lilac, dark blue, dark grey and chocolate brown panels, and they ALL looked fab. It gives a totally different look each time.
Thanks for stopping by!
Hi friends! It's Esther here with a winter birthday card. I don't know about you, but loads of my friends seem to have birthdays in January and February. I'm always busy card making at this time of year.
For this card I used the Concord & 9th Lace Leaf stamp set and matching Grateful Leaf die for the background and focal image. For the background I heat embossed in white, and for the focal leaf I heat embossed in silver. The panel is die cut using the largest of the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables dies. The "hope your day is" sentiment is stamped using the Altenew Halftone Happy stamp set. The "wonderful" sentiment is from the Concord & 9th Wonderful Words die set. I absolutely love this set! The script is gorgeous and the three words (wonderful, lovely, incredible) can be used for so many occasions as well as friendship, gratitude and thank you cards.
Thanks for stopping by!
Hi everyone, and happy New Year! It's Esther here with an interactive birthday card that would be suitable for approximately ages 9-12.
I inked up a panel using Tumbled Glass and Evergreen Bough Distress Inks. I then splattered it with water and mopped it up to give a soft speckled effect. I cut the panel to size using the largest of the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles dies. Using different colours of card stock, I cut a rainbow using My Favorite Things End of the Rainbow Die-namics and the cloud from the same set from white card stock which I edged with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things Magical Unicorns, and it means exactly what it says! See inside...
The front panel is adhered to the card blank, which is cut to size and folded to create an inner. Inside are scenes from My Favorite Things Magical Unicorns, stamped in Antique Linen Distress Ink, coloured with Promarkers, masked and lightly inked over. I used a waterproof permanent marker and ruler to draw lines which the child can use to write their own story. I love being able to help a child grow their imagination, and this is a fun way to develop their creative writing skills at the same time. The smaller sentiment is from the same set, and the curved "Happy Birthday" is from My Favorite Things Make a Wish.
The back of the card is finished with a simple plain white stitched rectangle that matches the front, in order to hide any bleed from the Promarkers.
I used Magical Unicorns for this card because I thought the sentiment was perfect for the front, but you could use almost any character-based stamp set for this. Sticking just with My Favorite Things, you could use Magical Dragons, You're Rawr-some, Soak up the Fun, Chill Wishes and lots more!
I hope this inspires you with a way to make an interactive card that doesn't need any fancy pieces but that kids seem to love.
Thanks for stopping by!
Hi everyone, it's Esther here with an emboss resist watercolour card that I loved making! I needed a birthday card for a lady I recently met who went out of her way to give me brilliant customer service several times when I was having trouble with my car. How great are people like that?
Using the largest of the Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables, I die cut a stitched rectangle panel from watercolour card. I deliberately kept the deckle edge of the card stock so it would give a gentle, slightly shabby chic feel to the bottom of the panel.
I wanted to get a soft, pretty look so I used an old favourite that I've not pulled out for a while, My Favorite Things Funky Flowers stamp set, heat embossed in white embossing powder.
I used a large paintbrush to wet the card stock and then dropped in colour from two Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens: 081 Light Violet and 080 Violet. I softened and blended the colour with a smaller paintbrush. The embossed flowers resisted the colour so the white still pops through. Emboss resist is such a fun technique!
When it was dry, a splattering of water and then white acrylic paint over the top of the panel softened the look even more.
The sentiment is from Mama Elephant Make a Wish stamped in black ink.
Finally I used partial die cutting with the same stitched rectangle die as before to make a panel in coordinating coloured card stock that I attached underneath the top panel with glue tape. Both these panels were then attached to a heavyweight card stock base.
That's it - very simple, but I love the finished effect and might do something similar with snowflakes for my final Christmas cards.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
