YOU COLOR MY WORLD (1)

One thing I love about Lawn Fawn is that they also have some smaller, inexpensive stamp sets. Like all sets of this company you can do so much with it. I recently purchased the mini set Color My World and I already had a great idea for this set.

 

 

I wanted to create a border with the crayon. I cut a rectangle and drew a border on with a pencil. I stamped the crayon all around the border. Sometimes I had to mask the images, because it had to look like the crayon was behind another crayon. I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.

I colored the crayons with Copic Markers. Here are the colors I used:

Orange crayon: Y15 – Y17 – YR68

Red crayon: R22 – R35 – R46

Yellow crayon: Y02 – Y06 – Y08

Green crayon: YG03 – G05 – G14

Blue crayon: BG01 – B05 – BV05

Purple Crayon: BV000 – BV13 – BV17

Pink crayon: RV02 – R04

 

 

It was pretty time consuming, but so much fun to color all these crayons. I wanted to cut a window out of it, so I cut around all the crayons on the inside of the panel. I put some acetate on the back of the window, but I didn’t want to make a shaker card.

I got a black card base and stamped the sentiment on it with some Versamark Ink. I heat embossed it with Opaque Bright White Embossing Powder from Wow.

I adhered the front panel to the card base with some foam tape. I used a double layer of foam tape, so it’s extra dimensional. I also added some Wink of Stella to the ovals on the crayons for some glitter. And that’s my card.

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HOPE YOUR BIRTHDAY IS UNFORGETTABLE (2)

It’s time for something other than Christmas cards. I made enough this year to send to my family and friends. So, time for a birthday card. I used the Ella & Friends stamp set from Mama Elephant. I just love this set!

 

 

 

I started on the background. I used Tim Holtz water color cardstock and wetted the entire paper with a paint brush. I then added some Distress Inks to it. I started with Scattered Straw and added Mustard Seed, Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade. I went over them several times so that all the colors would blend. I dried it with my heat tool and then dropped some water droplets on to it with a paint brush. I left the drops on for a few seconds and then dapped them off with a paper towel. I love using this technique and the Distress Inks are perfect for that. You just can’t achieve this with regular water colors.

 

 

I put the background aside and started on the images. I stamped the elephant, hedgehog, mouse, bunny, party hat and little umbrella. I stamped them in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored them with Copic Markers and here are the colors I used:

Elephant: W0 – W2 – W5

Bunny: W2 – W5 – W7

Hedgehog: E71 – E77/ E11 – E21

Mouse: W0 – W2

Party hat: Y02 – Y07 – Y15 – Y17

Umbrella: Y17 – YR68 – R22 - R46

 

 

 

When the background was completely dry, I added all the images to the panel with some foam tape. I covered the party hat and umbrella with some clear glitter with my Wink of Stella. I stamped the greeting with Lawn Fawn Lobster Ink. I decided to make a side folding card for a change and added the panel to an orange card base. I rounded off the bottom right corner with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper.

Fun and easy card, such a great stamp set!

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HOLIDAY SMILE (1)

I saw this card once, where critters where stamped like they were taking a selfie together. It looked like a polaroid picture. I wanted to try that too for a Christmas card and used the Critters in the Arctic set again, from Lawn Fawn. I used all the animals in the set.

 

 

I first cut a rectangle from some white cardstock. I drew a square on it with a pencil, these are guidelines for me where to stamp the images. It’s the photo part of the polaroid. I cut another rectangle where I cut that square out. This I will later place over the other. To make sure the images won’t go over the lines, I masked it off with some post its. I also cut masks for all the critters.

After I stamped all the animals, I put the masks on all of the images so I could blend the background. I started with some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and later I added Evergreen Bough. Then I took all the masks off.

I started to color the critters with Copic Markers. Here are the colors I used:

Owl: W2 – W5 – W7

Beak: Y17

Moose: E71 – E77

Antlers: W0 – W2 – W5

Narwhal: W0 – W2 – W5

Bunny: W5 – W7 – BV29

Scarf: R22 – R46

Walrus: E15 – E35 – E77/ E11 – E21

 

 

I added the polaroid frame over the colored image. I stamped the sentiment with Lobster Ink from Lawn Fawn. The word ‘holiday’ I created with the letters from Violet’s ABC’s, also from Lawn Fawn. The word ‘smile’ is from the Critters in the Arctic set. I added some Wink of Stella to the polaroid frame and some white dots to the background with my White Uni-ball gel pen.

I wanted to use some pattern paper for the background of the card. I used the 6x6 paper pad from Cottage Living by Jen Hadfield (Pebbles). I adhered the polaroid with some foam tape and the entire panel to a light grey card base. I rounded the bottom corners off with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper.

 

 

I really love this card, I will send it to one of my friends.

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WARM HOLIDAY WISHES (3)

I was in the mood for water coloring, so that’s exactly what I did. I used the Winter Owl stamp from Lawn Fawn. Such a cute stamp which you can use in so many different ways.

 

 

I stamped the owl multiple times on some Tim Holtz water color cardstock, with Versamark Ink. I then heat embossed it with Opaque Bright White Embossing Powder from Wow. I used Distress Inks to water color the images. Here are the colors I used:

Owl: Brushed Corduroy and Scattered Straw

Scarfs: Seedless Preserves, Shaded Lilac and Spun Sugar

Beak: Wild Honey

Background: Weathered Wood

 

 

I really like how this turned out. After the panel dried completely, I added it to some vellum and then I adhered it all to some fuchsia cardstock with foam tape. I cut a flag banner from some white cardstock and I stamped the greeting on it. This is from Avery Elle. I stamped the greeting with Juice Box Ink from Lawn Fawn.

As a finishing touch I added some Wink of Stella to the scarfs and the fuchsia border.

 

 

Although the water coloring was pretty time consuming, I will be making more cards like this. It looks very pretty.

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IT MOOSE BE CHRISTMAS (1)

I just love creating cards with the Critters in the Arctic set from Lawn Fawn. The stamps are perfect for Christmas cards! I only used the moose for this one, because I had this cute sentiment in mind.

 

 

I took some white cardstock and stamped the moose on it with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I also stamped the sentiment. The ‘it moose be’ is from the Critters in the Arctic set. I actually says ‘it moose be love’, but I masked the word love. I added Christmas to it, using Violet’s ABC’s, also from Lawn Fawn. I stamped it in Versmark Ink and heat embossed it with Silver Embossing Powder from Ranger. I also drew some hills with a pencil.

 

 

I wanted to color the entire front panel with Copic Markers, even the background. This is something I usually don’t do, because you use so much ink. Here are the colors I used:

Moose: E71 – E77

Antlers + hooves: W2 – W5

Sky: BV000 – BV02 – BV13 – BV17 – BV29

Snowy hills: W0 – W2 – W5

For the sky, I started with coloring the entire sky with the lightest color (BV000) and then I added the darker color and the next darker color and so on. You really have to build it up and keep coming back with all the colors to blend them all together. It takes some time, but it’s worth it because I really like how this background turned out.

 

 

When I did all the coloring, I wanted to add something more to the top and bottom. I added a silver border. I heat embossed some Silver Embossing Powder from Ranger on to some white cardstock. I adhered them together and then added the panel to a purple card base.

As a finishing touch I added some clear glitter with my Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush to the moose. I also put some white dots to the sky, with my Uni-ball white gel pen. This makes it looks like snow is falling down. I also add some bigger and some small dots. The edges I all rounded off with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper.

A card with a lot of Copic coloring, but I think it’s a pretty Christmas card.

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LET IT SNOW (3)

The Ice Skate stamp from Hot off the Press also has two pretty snowflakes images. I used the big one for this card. It’s fairly simple, easy and quick to make.

 

 

I took some light blue cardstock and trimmed it. I cut it diagonally and decided I wanted to use both ends of the cardstock. I stamped the snowflake with Versamark Ink and then heat embossed it with Silver Embossing Powder from Ranger.

 

 

I stamped the sentiment, with the letters from Violet’s ABC’s from Lawn Fawn, with the Lawn Fawn Mermaid Ink on some white cardstock. I adhered the heat embossed panel to the white cardstock with foam tape. The entire panel was adhered to a white card base.

As a finishing touch I added some silver sequins and rounded of the two bottom corners with the We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper.

 

 

This is a fun, easy and quick Christmas card to make.

 

 

WARM HOLIDAY WISHES (2)

I made another Christmas card with the Penguin Greetings stamp set by Avery Elle. This time a little different, the idea just popped into my head!

 

 

I first cut out a circle out some white cardstock. You could use a circle die, but I don’t have one. I drew the circle onto another piece of white cardstock, so I knew where to stamp the penguins. I wanted to stamp them in a circle, so it looks like they are looking through a window. I stamped them in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.

I colored the penguins with Copic Markers. Here are the colors I used:

Penguins: W0 – W2

Scarfs + earmuffs: BG01 – BG13 – BG23/ BV000 – BV02 – BV13

Sweaters: Y02 – Y06 – Y08/ BV02 – B13 – BV17

Hats: Y02 – Y06 – Y08/ BV02 – B13 – B17/ BG01 – B05 – BV05

VestBG01 – B05 – BV05

Beaks: YR15

Background: BV05 – B05 – B18 – B28

 

 

I think the coloring turned out great. I added some clear glitter with my Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush Pen to the blue in the circle and also some white dots with a white Uni-ball gel pen.

I adhered the cardstock with the circle onto the Copic colored panel and the entire panel was adhered with foam tape to some aqua cardstock. I die cut the word ‘warm’ three times and put them together. This gives it a bit more dimension. I used some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to give it some color. I adhered it to the card and also stamped the rest of the seniment with some Mermaid Ink from Lawn Fawn.

 

 

The finish it all off, I added some Ranger Glossy Accents to the word warm. This is one of my favorite holiday cards of 2015. This is going to be send to someone special!

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