Hello Veggies

Hi there, it's Jenny here and apologies for the title... I wasn't being cheeky!! Lol
I have a one layer card to share with you today that involves a lot of lovely stamping.... my favourite ;)

Next Monday sees the start of National Allotment week so I thought I'd go veggie with my card and stamp an 'all over' pattern with Lawn Fawn's Rooting for You set. We have a pretty productive allotment down the bottom of the garden.... hubbies pride and joy, so I can't resist a stamp set like this one. I haven't added the faces and used the rock n roll technique to add extra colours and shading the the solid stamps.

I'm no expert on pattern building but I've tried to use the rule of placing the same images in a rough triangular shape as this seems to help with the pattern repeat and is more pleasing to the eye. When I had finished I thought the gaps looked more spacious in some areas so I used one of the typed words from the set and a few dots to fill in the larger spaces.... rather than using a dot stamp I pressed my embossing stylus into the ink and made a mark with that instead!

I was tempted to leave it as a notelet but then decided a simple Hello would look good, I've layered three die-cuts from the Quote Tag dies set and adhered them to the card front.
When I had finished stamping out this design my inky fingers looked like I'd spent time in the garden.... you can be a green fingered gardener and stamper ;)


                                

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

A Carrot Uprising

Did you know it's International Carrot Day??... Well you do now ;)

I didn't know either until a couple of days ago and I'm not sure what the point is of these annual recognition days, but if nothing else it gave me inspiration to make this card ...

These little veggie characters from Lawn Fawn are just cute enough but giving them arms and legs takes the cuteness level up one more notch in my book.  They're a cheerful bunch and it seems they have the recipients best interests at heart too :)

The whole scene is set on a stitched rounded rectangle and I've tucked the carrots into the soil layer which has been cut using a border die from Paper Smooches. Behind them is a layer of grass and then the blue sky with a few clouds stamped in white pigment ink.

The carrots legs are from the paper Smooches Build a Bug dies and the arms are from Fruit People dies... I cut them in white card and sponged on the same colour ink so they would match the rest of the carrot :) The small speech bubbles from Mama Elephants Small Talk work so well with these veggies too.

                 
                  

We're are hoping for a carrot uprising of our own in the next few weeks having just sown seed this weekend in the allotment.... don't groan but we're going to need a little bit of rain to help them ;)

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great day x
Jenny x

Clever Masking- Creating A 'Planted' Feel

Hello there and happy Thursday! It's Lydia here with you today sharing with you a card I made with my favourite set from the new Lawn Fawn release.... Rooting For You.

I am just loving how cute these little veg people are! And that there is a little cheek stamp soyou can give them rosy cheeks is genius.

 To create the look like they are popping up out of the ground I firstly added a strip of masking tape to my card blank, I did this so I could stamp the veg a little over the tape so this part would not be visible when I removed the tape. To stamp the veg I used lots of awesome inks from the store, the new MFT inks are amazing at this solid stamping.

So once I had stamped all of the solid and detail images that go to make the images up I then removed the piece of masking tape, and moved it up so it was on the same line but this time covering the stamped veg. I then blended some brown ink over the tape to get and impression of dirt. To finish I added a sentiment from the set.

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Hugs Lydia x