Summer Friendship Card

Hi everyone! Roxanne here today with a step by step photo tutorial showing you how I created this fun summer friendship card using unexpected Lawn Fawn stamp sets. I love using my sets in fun ways that you may not think of pairing together. That's the beauty of creativity. So many possibilities.

LET'S GET STARTED!

I'm actually doing something totally different for me - I'm gathering my supplies BEFORE creating my card. I have an idea of what I'd like to create and then I gather the supplies and start crafting. I'm finding it's much easier (and faster) when I do this. I actually love it. I typically am a scrap as I go type person, pulling elements together while I'm in the midst of creating. But this is by far much easier. And it enables me to show you the process!

First, I gathered my supplies. Here is what I used to create this card:

• Lawn Fawn, Deck the Halls
• Lawn Fawn, Making Frosty Friends
• Lawn Fawn, Love You S'More
• Lawn Fawn paper, Into the Woods/Sequoia
• Memento, Rich Cocoa
• Memento Luxe, Rich Cocoa
• Memento Luxe, Love Letter
• Memento Luxe, Pistachio (not pictured; I forgot to grab that one!)
• Spectrum Noir Markers

I had actually trimmed everything out as well prior to starting. I cut my brown cardstock base from a piece I had in my stash (I keep pretty much every scrap!!) and scored/folded it to 4.25x5.5. I trimmed the arrow patterned paper to 4x5.25. I then cut a smaller piece of white cardstock which I was going to be stamping my scene on to. And then I simply trimmed the teal and orange patterned paper to various sizes. Nothing too specific. I hadn't really determined my final layout just yet. I did that as I went!

Next, I grabbed my piece of white cardstock and used the pine needles from the Deck the Halls set with my Pistachio ink and just stamped around the outer edges. I left a white space in the middle. I simply alternated the direction I stamped and I think it came out really cute so far!

I realize my craft mat is quite, um, ugly, but it's well used and well loved! I'm sure you can relate. :) 

I took my small strip of orange/arrow paper and I stamped my sentiment for this card from the Making Frosty Friends set because it went perfectly with it! I inked that up with Memento in Rich Cocoa (I could have used the Luxe, but I grabbed my regular Memento instead because this text is a thin type font and I didn't want it to get "fat" from the juicier ink). I then stamped little red hearts next to it from the Love You S'More set, in Memento Luxe, Love Letter. Just a cute little touch. (You'll see that soon.)

In the white space I had left, I wanted to stamp in the wood from the Love You S'More set. I stamped that with my Rich Cocoa. I used Memento Luxe because it's a nice and juicy ink that really gets great coverage especially when using these solid image stamps! I stamped the wood a bit lower  because I will be adding elements above that area so I needed extra space. You'll see!

Next up, I inked up the marshmallow and fire from the Love You S'More set with my Memento in Rich Cocoa and stamped onto my white cardstock. I colored them in with my Spectrum Noir markers. I only used 5 markers total to color them in. Pretty easy peasy!

I fussy cut the fire and marshmallows out. I used foam adhesive to glue the fire to just on top of the logs I had stamped on the cardstock. It gives it a nice little bit of dimension. 

I knew I wanted to roast my marshmallows I had colored, so I inked up the branch from the Love You  S'More set and stamped that on the left side of the piece leaving enough room to add in my marshmallows to the branches. I used some foam adhesive again to give dimension.

Now after looking at my little campfire here with the toasting marshmallows, I knew I need to add the smiley face to the fire. It just makes it warmer, right? So cute!

Here is where I added in the red hearts stamped next to my sentiment. Brings in some nice color, too!

Now the fun part - ASSEMBLY! I played around with the layout a couple times before I glued anything down, but here is the final card with everything put together. 

I hope you enjoyed my little photo journey into my process of creating this card. I think this will be sweet to send to a friend that I've spent some time this summer with just to say thanks :) 

Cards with alternate dimension!

Hi, everybody! Suzanne here from the Facebook Inspiration Team to share a couple of cards that I made recently. I challenged myself to come up with alternate ideas for adding dimension without using foam tape or a lot of layers.

My first card uses Lawn Fawn's Bugs and Kisses. I made some custom paper by stamping the bugs in brown ink on kraft card stock, then added some shadows to each bug. I like the effect because it looks like the bugs are popping up off of the background, when they really aren't!

To make the worm in a jar, I stamped the jar, worm and branch on a transparency with permanent ink. I stamped another worm and jar lid on white card stock, then colored them both in. Both pieces are attached to the back of the transparency.

My second card features a scene that I created with the Love You S'More set. It took a while to color everything, but I'm so happy with the final result! 

I planned the background by first stamping the flames and the bear. I masked the flames and the bear and drew in light pencil lines where I wanted to stamp the background line of trees and color in the ground where the bear is sitting.

After coloring the moon and sky, I heat embossed some stars and used a blender pen to push the color around the stars so they each have a glow.

What's your favorite way to add dimension to your cards? Don't forget that there's still time to enter the current Lawnscaping challenge. Click HERE to go to the post where you can get all of the details on the challenge and link up your entry! (One lucky winner will receive a $25 store credit to Ellen Hutson's online store!) 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! For more info on the cards I've shared with you today, please visit my blog!

Let's Toast!

Hi everyone! Roxanne here with a cute little card today to show you. My son and I are going on a 2-night "camping" trip (I put that in quotes because hubby says if I'm in a cabin, I'm not camping!) and I really wanted to make a fun card that had a camping feel to it.

I used Radiant Neon Electric Blue ink for the sky. I sponged it on and faded it to white/light blue. I cut out the treelike using the Lawn Fawn Forest Border Lawn Cuts with a sheet of pretty green paper with tiny white dots from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Snow Day Paper Pack. I thought it was perfect for grass with a little snow falling down.

The moon was stamped onto a shimmery yellow cardstock in Memento, Tuxedo Black. I cut it out and used foam adhesive to pop it up off the sky in the upper right corner. I glued the tree/grass area onto my sky and used foam adhesive to pop that up off my kraft card base.

I chose to use the yeti from the Lawn Fawn Yeti, Set, Go! and colored him in with my Spectrum Noir Markers and paper pieced his belly with a piece of grey striped paper from the Lawn Fawn 6x6 Let's Polka Paper Pack. It adds a fun little touch when you add small bits of paper piecing to your stamped and colored images!

I then took the wood stick from the Lawn Fawn Love You S'More set and stamped it onto kraft cardstock with Memento Luxe in Rich Cocoa and cut that out leaving a small border. The marshmallows are also from the Love You S'More set. I used watercolor paper to stamp those on just because of the texture it gives like a slightly charred marshmallow. I colored them in with my Spectrum Noir Markers and added a little pink dot for cheeks. It gives them life even though ultimately, Mr. Yeti will enjoy them! I also stamped the sentiment (let's toast) onto the watercolor paper for texture in Memento Luxe in Rich Cocoa and cut that out around it. Stuck all of the colored pieces and sentiment down with foam adhesive.

There you go! I hope you enjoyed my little winter camping card!