Shake A Leg

Good morning! I have a cute little card today perfect for Thanksgiving and silly to boot.

We all know the saying shake a leg, so I made that literal. I love the little jar and come on, who doesn't enjoy the turkey legs? Isn't that always a fight among your guests at Thanksgiving?? Ha!

 

I kept the layout pretty clean and simple since I wanted the focus on the turkey legs in this card. 

  

I hope you enjoyed this little card I created.  I had a fun time creating this.

Thanks for checking out my project!!

 

SUPPLIES USED:

• Lawn Fawn Bugs & Kisses
• Lawn Fawn Happy Feast
• Memento, Tuxedo Black
• Crafter's Companion Ultra White Premium Cardstock
• Spectrum Noir Pencils

Accio Bookmarks

Good morning, everyone! I can never resist anything related to Harry Potter. So when I tried thinking of a fun project to share with you all this month, I naturally put on my sorting hat and got to getting creative.

My oldest wanted some bookmarks, and I obliged by making a set of Harry Potter inspired ones for him. It's pretty fitting since we are finally on Half Blood Prince. It's great to reread those books with him because I get to relive it. And I'm trying reallllly hard to get my youngest interested so I can eventually read them to him as well.

I used a lot of different sets for these which is the fun part. I mean, just imagine all the uses each of these sets have seen from everyone using them! I've listed all the supplies I've used at the bottom to create these. They are double sided in case you're wondering. Each of the bookmarks are 2"x6" for those wanting to make some of your own. These would also be fab stocking stuffers or sent with a gift of a book for someone using whatever they're interested in as the theme. I already have ideas for more!

 

ACCIO BOOKMARKS!

  

  

Here they all are:

1. Quidditch brooms and a golden snitch

2. Gryffindor scarf and Harry's little face complete with lightning bolt scar

3. Mandrakes and earmuffs

4. Hedwig wearing Gryffindor colors on her scarf and letters

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my project today and you're inspired to take a good look at your stamps and create something for yourself, or a loved one, teacher, daycare provider, or whoever would love a custom set of fun bookmarks themed with something they adore. Thanks for checking them out! 

PRODUCTS USED:

• Lawn Fawn Baaah Humbug
• Lawn Fawn Winter Owl
• Lawn Fawn Sweet Smiles
• Lawn Fawn Making Frosty Friends
• Lawn Fawn Dream
• Lawn Fawn Let's Bokeh Lawn Cuts
• Lawn Fawn Bugs & Kisses
• Lawn Fawn Trim the Tree
• Lawn Fawn Happy Trails
• Lawn Fawn You've Got Mail
• Spectrum Aqua Markers
• Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Cardstock
• Spectrum Sparkle Pens
• Memento Luxe, Rich Cocoa
• Versafine, Onyx Black

One Layer Card - Copic Colouring on Kraft

Hi everyone :) It's Marina! Anyone love making one layer cards? I do! Today, I'm sharing with you a one layer card using kraft cardstock. Hope you'll stick around and read on :)

I started off by stamping the sentiment first and embossed it in white. I used washi tape to keep the sides of the card clean when I do my stamping to make a nice frame. 

I used a brown ink to stamp the frames first before filling the frames with some bugs and leaves.

After that, I used my copics to colour the images. It's pretty easy however, you should be light handed with it. And remember that the copic colours will not come out as vibrant as it would be if you used it on white paper.

Hope you'll give this a try! 

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!

Watercolouring With Gold Embossed Images

Hi everyone! It's Marina! The Lawnscaping Challenge for this week is to add dimension/texture to your cards, so I thought I'd share with you a pretty straight forward way to use watercolour and make it look more "texture-y". I hope it will make sense later.

I wanted to use hearts, so I took two stamp sets, Bugs & Kisses and Science of Love. I took those solid & outlined hearts from these sets.

I've stamped them randomly and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I think I used Ranger Gold Embossing powder. I had painters tape to the sides because I wanted to have a clean white border around it. 

To add some shimmer to my watercolours, I used my Winsor & Newton Iridescent Medium and dabbed it to my stamping block. I'll then add more watercolours to it and mixed them.

This gives a nice shimmering finish. This is my alternative to the Wink of Stella. I find that this is more cost effective because I paid more or less the same about if I were to buy one Wink of Stella. I highly recommend for you to get this.

I started to just add my watercolours to the card base. You can go as light or as dark as you want. I just wanted a mixed of both orange and pink. I dried the piece when I wanted to add more colours and make it look darker.

I added my sentiment and some strings to the back of my die cut piece with some gold sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to match and that's it! You can do this with any images you heart desires :)

Thanks for stopping by! I would love to see your take on this.

Falling (Die cut) Hearts!

Hi everyone! It's Marina :) So sorry, I know that I was supposed to post on Thursday but I had some delays for my flight and I got home late. I'm here now to share with you a card using some heart dies.

I'm taking various copic markers in different shades of pink and red. You can use any colour combinations or other types of medium, watercolour or even ink pads. I took the string of hearts die from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Card Die. I made sure to colour the cardstock first because it's much fasted to colour a big space then tiny hearts but it's your choice :) 

When that's done, I stamped out the jar from Lawn Fawn Bugs & Kisses stamp set from the top of the paper as though it looks like it's pouring out hearts. I decided to use the same concept for my sentiment. I took the letters from Lawn Fawn Milo's ABC and position them in a way that they also looks like they are falling out of the jar.

Tip : Position your letters first then use a large stamp press to pick up all the letters so that you stamp them all at once and with this you can even do multiple cards quickly.

Now I arrange the hearts until I like it and start to glue them down using Tombow liquid glue.

Hope you like it! 

Don't forget to subscribe to the Lawnscaping Challenge blog & join the Lawnscaping facebook group to catch the projects made by the Facebook Inspiration Team.  You can also catch more of me on my blog. 

Till next time!

Peek-A-Boo Bugs and Kisses Goodie Bags!

Hi, Lawnscapers! Suzanne here from the Facebook Inspiration Team to share some treat bags I made with Lawn Fawn's Goodie Bag Lawn Cuts die and the new Bugs and Kisses stamp set!

I modified the front of the bag to include a see-through window. I chose a heart die because it's a Valentine-themed bag, but you can customize the cut out to whatever occasion you're celebrating!

I cut both halves of the goodie bag from card stock, then cut a top layer for the bag front with the goodie bag die and some paper from the Let's Polka petite paper pad. Then, I tacked the die in place with some washi tape and added a small piece near the handle to keep both layers together as I ran them through my machine.

I used a piece of transparent film to make the layer for my bags, but I'm using vellum here so you can get a better look at how the layers come together. You'll adhere the clear piece between the paper and the card stock base, then adhere the patterned paper on top.

After you assemble both halves of the bag, you can add more decorations like I did and fill it with treats!  Here's another look at the finished bags:

Hope you are inspired to create your own peek-a-boo goodie bags for your next celebration! (For a full supply list, click HERE.)

And, there's still time to play along with our winter-themed mood board challenge, sponsored by Ellen Hutson! For all of the details on the challenge, and to link up your entry, just click HERE!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! -- Suzanne