Love You Rain or Shine Card

Hi everyone, Taheerah here wishing you a happy Thursday!

I've still been really loving the latest Lawn Fawn release! After playing with one of the sets earlier in the week I definitely wanted to use some of the other goodies too!

I decided to use the Rain or Shine Before 'n' After stamp set - so adorable! Here's what I came up with:

So so cute! I love how this turned out!

I started by stamping the little rainbow, sun and clouds stamp, adding the little sentiment into the cloud using black ink for contrast. I then watercoloured the rainbow and sun in bright cheery colours - adding some shimmer to the rainbow too!

I fussy cut my image and worked out where it would go on my card base, then stamped the accompanying sentiment and some raindrops.

Before adhering my image in place with dimensional glue gel I added one last finishing touch which I think really makes the card. I partially die cut the Lil' Inker Designs Radiating Love Heart die into the base at an angle! I love this detail so much - it frames my image perfectly and really conveys the sentiment too!

I'd love to hear what you think of this card. Is there someone you know who'd love to receive it? Thanks for stopping by!

Just a Wild Note to Say...

Hello, Tallie here and a happy Wednesday! I'm back today with this cute little birthday scene card featuring the Wild Ones stamp set from Neat & Tangled and a couple of Lawn Fawn and MFT products.

I started out by stamping the giraffe, monkey, tortoise and bird from the Neat & Tangled Wild Ones set with some MFT Extreme Black Ink onto some blending cardstock. I then coloured these in with my Copic markers, sticking to bright colours and a couple of accent colours. I cut these out with the coordinating dies.

I inked up two panels, one with Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress Ink and the other with Broken China and Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink. I find for scenes like this the Distress Inks are more vibrant than the Oxides, though you do have to work harder to get a smooth blend. I used a Lawn Fawn Simple Grassy Hillsides Border die to cut the green panel twice for some layered grass pieces. I used the MFT Cloud Stencil to add some detail to the otherwise empty blue background panel.

I used a mixture of foam tape and liquid adhesive to put the scene together, finishing off with sentiments from the Lawn Fawn Critter Concert set so the greeting continued on the inside: 'JUST A LITTLE NOTE TO SAY ... HOPE YOU HAVE AN AWESOME DAY!'

This card is perfect for a kid's birthday with the animals and bright colours!

Thanks for reading, catch you next week.

Tallie

   

At Home with the Monkeys

My card today features some Little Agenda stamps from Mama Elephant. I thought it would be fun to create a wallpaper background for my Little Agenda frames to hang on.

I began by stamping the leaf images from MFT Brushstroke Blooms all over my card base, using Altenew Forest Glades ink cube. 

Next, I cut a piece of green Lawn Fawn Knit Picky Fall paper and adhered that on to one side of my card base. 

To bridge the gap between the two prints, I cut a thin strip of green card and adhered it between them.

Next, I stamped three of the square frame, from the Little Agenda Frames stamp set, onto white card. I masked the edges and stamped some of the Little Monkey Agenda within the frames. You could use any of the fabulous Little Agenda stamp sets - there’s so much choice.

I coloured the images in with my alcohol markers, then die cut them with the coordinating dies.

I added the hanging pieces to the card with liquid glue, then the frames with foam squares. To finish, I added a small sentiment from the Little Agenda Frames stamp set.

I love the 'Wallace and Gromit' look of this card, with the contrasting wallpaper and fun photo frames.

Have a lovely day,

Gemma

ME Little Agenda Frames

ME Little Monkey Agenda

MFT Brushstroke Blooms

LF Knit Picky Fall Paper Pack

Watercolour Desert Llama Tell You Card

Hi everyone, Taheerah here wishing you a happy Monday!

How awesome has the new Lawn Fawn release been? I know I wasn't the only one to rush to place my order on Thursday morning! So many adorable products!

I couldn't wait to break open my new goodies, and settled on the cutie Llama Tell You stamp set. The sentiment made my partner smile so I knew it was a winner!

So so cute! I love how this turned out!

I started by creating a simple watercolour background, complete with abstract desert plants and a stunning pastel sky!

I stamped my Llama in a grey ink so he wouldn't stand out too much against the soft desert background. I watercoloured him with some of the colours used in the background too so everything would coordinate well! I stamped the little speech bubble in grey and the little heart in purple. Trimming Lawn Fawn critters and images is always so easy thanks to them not being too complicated so I broke out the scissors to do some not-so-fussy cutting!

With the sentiments stamped in grey as my penultimate set all that was left to do was adhere my Llama and speech bubble using some dimensional glue gel and I was all done!

I'd love to hear what you think of this card. Is there someone you know who'd love to receive it? Thanks for stopping by!

Felty Park Shadow Box

I've got a fun shadow box card to share today using a few new Lawn Fawn products as well as the original shadow box die to make the basic box to start with.

I really loved the trees and squirrel in the new Park add on die set for the original Shadow Box Die and thought both would look perfect in felt so dug out my scraps of felt and got busy with my big shot.

If you are unsure how to put the shadow box die together - rather than me typing lots of instructions - just watch Lawn Fawn's original video as you'll see its super easy to put together.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcC55zeCXDA  The  Park die also comes with a dome frame you can use to cut out your front panel if you don't want a rectangle or oval - the dome would be fab for Christmas themed "snow globe" box cards too ;-)

I die cut all the elements for the front from white card as well as felt as that gives the felt a little rigidity for the areas where its overhanging open space.  I used a marker to colour the edges to match the felt (ish - doesn't have to per a perfect match but knocking back the white stops it screaming at you) and attached them with wet glue.   For the little acorn - I added it to a scrap of acetate so it could be falling off the tree ready for the squirrel to catch.   He got a little pearl glued into the hole the die cuts for his eye so you can't see through it but you could add black card behind instead to do the same job.

For the inner bits I used card not felt so there wasn't too much thickness on the folds and on the back layer I used one of the super-cute gnomes from the new Oh Gnome! stamp set and fussy cut him out so I didn't get the white border.   I used a sentiment from that too stamped onto speckled paper for the background panel.

I sat my gnome in between a few mushrooms, again cut from felt as it added texture and interest, using the new Mushroom Border die and just snipping off a few mushrooms to use as independent elements rather than a full border.

All you need to do to mail your card is fold it down and it fits in a regular envelop as it folds nice and flat!

NEWS FROM THE STORE

We are a little behind our normal fast shipping turnaround times due to the sale and the Lawn Fawn release and we also had to take an unexpected trip to A&E on Friday afternoon as Rick had a weird allergic reaction to something - all good now and he's on the mend but we lost a few hours of work and need the rest and recuperation time this weekend so will do our best to catch up tomorrow.

We've received 22 large boxes from Hero Arts - pretty much the entire new catalogue.  That will take us at least 2 days to open, check and sort and add to the store, maybe a little longer as we always prioritise order packing over stock additions.   We'll announce on Facebook when we have it ready to sell.

We are also expecting the latest release from Altenew to arrive early this week and likewise will get them in store as soon as we can.

We will be re-ordering from Lawn Fawn later this week so hope to have the sold out items back in stock in March if Lawn Fawn still have them available - as always - our out of stock notification system will let you know as soon as something is back in stock.

That's all the news for now.

Laters

Tara

Birthday Grettings

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Another Saturday, another card from me! This one features the super pretty stamp set Tall Blooms by Reverse Confetti. I think the flowers are so grogeous and I like about this set that it is different from other sets because you have the whole flower with leaves and stalks.

I started by stamping three of the flowers in a very light ink and coloured them with coloured pencils using the No Line technique. Actually one of the plants has no blossoms but I wanted to add a little bit of colour. So I just coloured some of the leaves in pink. After I finished I fussy cut the flowers (there are coordinating dies available, too).

Then I sat there with my flowers and had no idea how to continue. Obviously my mojo was on vacation. So I did what I often do when I am lacking inspiration. I googled cards using the set. And there are always coming up so many beautiful cards. Usually that makes my inspiration spin and I finally got an idea how to arrange the flowers - not from one special card but from seeing all the different ideas using this set.

I stamped the sentiment on a wide strip of cardstock and arrenged the fllowers behind it. Then I chose a cardbase a little bit darker than the cardstock I used for the sentiment. To add a little bit of intrest to the background I stamped the last plant from the set I hadn't used until yet in the same light colour I used for the images. That finished up my card.

Thanks for stopping by and have crafty weekend.
Anni

Gate Friends

I've got a fun friendship card to share today using stamps from Newton's Nook and papers from Lawn Fawn, behind a gate from Mama Elephant.

I started with the gates and the background so I could hide the parts of the gate that stick to the card front.  I cut a panel of pretty blue speckled paper from the new lawn fawn spiffy speckles paper pad.

The gates themselves are just cut using the new Mama Elephant gatefold x fence die twice and turning one upside down so you get a left and right gate.

To create the background scene I used more of the papers to add grass using the new mushroom border die also from Lawn Fawn and then added a sun using an older die from Lil' Inker Designs.

For the puppy pals themselves, I just coloured them with alcohol markers - a mix of Altenew (grey dog) and copics for the spotty one, and cut them with the co-ordinating die.

I added a couple of bits of twine so I could close the gates before posting - and as I used card to hide the gates, the card itself can still be opened as normal too for writing inside.

The closed gates hide the surprise inside so it's a fun way to add an extra dimension to your cards.

Catch you on Sunday - I'm off to pack more Lawn Fawn orders now!

Tara

New Baby Pop Up Box

Hi there, it's Jenny back again ... you get me twice this week as I'm standing in for Taheera today.

Okay, so onto today's card and it's a fun way to celebrate the arrival of a new baby because when 

you open the card, a pop up mini box awaits the recipient and it's bursting with the cutest clothes..

How cute is that.... now lets have a closer look at that box....

I've used the Lawn fawn Mini Pop Up Box die and filled it with MFT's Bundle of Baby clothes dienamics.

I added details to the clothing with die cuts and stamping and the balloons are from Mama Elephants Celebration Balloons but instead of adding string, they are attached using the streamers in the Box die set. Here's a top view..

I used both inserts in the box, just adhering the shorter one behind the first

and allowing it to fold as I closed the card.

The card base has been stamped using the Wood Plank background, I masked a narrow 

border around the edges so I didn't have to worry about lining the planks up 

exactly across the whole piece.

I made the nappies using the onsie die in the clothing set... here how I did it...

I cut the lower half of the onsie on a scrap then cut it again so I could trim the sleeves off.

I adhered the sleeves as shown in the photo above and then trimmed around the 

outside and across the top to follow the shape of the sleeves.... 

I think the box die makes a lovely keepsake card for such a special celebration and it's fun 

choosing and colour coordinating the clothing to put in it :)

   

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x