Wild for You: Comic Book Style!

Hello, crafty friends! It's Tallie here today.

I love the idea of your cards telling a story - a collection of 'scenes' if you like - and the comic book style is a great way of doing this. Today I chose two jungle/safari sets from Lawn Fawn, Wild for You and Critters on the Savanna, to create an assortment of scenes. I have a friend who absolutely loves animals, so either of these cards would be perfect to wish them a happy birthday!

Step 1: Choose a Layout

With these type of cards, the layout is the most important part. I know I had 4 animals to create scenes with so I chose two simple frame designs. In the first each of the compartments is separate, whereas the sentiment in the second joins two of the compartments. I sketched both of these designs out on paper, leaving a 0.5cm gap around the edges of the A6 card panel, and practice stamped out my scenes. Once I was ready, I used an alcohol marker friendly black pen to draw the frames onto an A6 blending card panel.

Step 2: Stamp and Mask the Scenes

These scenes can sometimes take quite a bit of masking. The key thing to remember is: stamp the elements nearest to you first, the furthest from you last. I used a variety of different elements from the sets and then used my marker to add in horizon lines or draw the sentiment bubbles.

Step 3: Colour it In!

The final and most fun part is to colour it all in! I used my alcohol markers, ensuring I used at least three markers for each colour to add some depth to the scene. To give some added texture to the creatures or the ground, I used the dotting technique - adding dots of colour with each of the markers.


Try it out and see what scenes you can compose. The possibilities are endless! I'd love to see what you create so do share it with the rest of us in the SHC VIPs group, or tag myself (@talliescrafts) and #sevenhillscrafts if you post on instagram!

 

It's a Wild Birthday!

I know it's Valentines day but I don't actually send any Valentines cards and my muse generally doesn't suit the pinks. Instead, I bring you a brightly coloured birthday card! I've had this set for a while and always pull it out for those birthdays where the recipient has a fun personality. These cute little animals can't fail to put a smile on anyone's face!

I started out by stamping all the animals from the Lawn Fawn Wild For You set using Versafine Black Onyx Ink onto some watercolour card stock. I coloured them in using my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers and a water brush. I stuck to light, bright colours so they would stand out from the background. I looked in my stamps and found some good sized leaves in the Lawn Fawn Critters in the Jungle set that would perfectly frame my animals. I stamped and coloured these in the same way as the animals and cut them out with the coordinating dies once dry.

For the background, I blended on some Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilised Amber Distress Ink onto a horizontal A6 card base. On another, I blended on some Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress Ink and cut out two grassy hillside borders so I had something to ground my critters.

Before adhering anything, I stamped out the sentiment from the set in three lines. I wanted to accentuate the 'WILD' so I stamped this on some white card stock and fussy cut this out. I then adhered the leaves and one of the grassy borders directly to the background panel. Using some foam tape I then popped up the animals and remaining grassy border.

A few clear sequins finished the scene off nicely!

Thanks for reading and Happy Valentines Day to those that do celebrate today! :)

Tallie

  

Wishing You a Happy Birthday

Hey stameprs, Anni here!

Today I have a elephant birthday card for you.

I don't know about you but winter is the time of the year when I have the feeling my mojo is on vacation. I ask myself where it could be and imagine it somewhere on a sunny beach - far, far away from my crafting area.
In these times I turn to challenges to give me some inspiration. The inspiration for this card came from the Lawn Fawn challenge blog. For the current challenge there is a inspiration board you have to follow: a lot of reds, pinks, greys, glitter and hearts.
So Istarted by creating a background with ink blending with red and pink ink. I sprinkled some water droplets on it to achieve these bleached posts. While the background dried I stamped elephants and mice from Lawn Fawn's Wild For You and Elphie Selfie. I coloured the images with alcohol markers, added some details with coloured pencils and fussy cut them.
I die cut the polaroid from Lawn Fawn's Selfie Frames twice from white cardstock and glued vellum behind it. I arranged the elephants and a mouse in the frames and added three hearts. These hearts I die cut from red glitter cardstock with Heart dies by Lawn Fawn.

For the sentiment I chose the set Happy Happy Happy by Lawn Fawn again.I heat embossed the sentiment in white on dark grey cardstock and cut it into stripes.
To die cut the background I used Mama Elephant's All Prettied Up. After that all that was left to do was to assemble the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni