Lawn Fawn – I Love You Rain or Shine Mini Slimline

Hey friends! I’m popping in today with a fun, mini slimline card to enter into the Lawn Fawnatics challenge. I didn’t get a chance to play along with the last one and really loved the vision board so I pulled my color palette from there but created a scene to go with this challenge too.

I chose images from Beary Rainy Day and colored them with my copic markers using the vision board as a reference to my color palette. I had a blast doing this and trying to match the colors with theirs.

Next, I cut a mini slimline panel at 3×6 inches and inked it up with distress oxide inks – rustic wilderness is my ground and faded jeans, chipped sapphire and black soot are my sky colors. I splattered water on the panel and let it dry. Then I taped down my Rainy Sky stencil and spread fairy dust stencil paste through it.

While that was drying I added foam squares to my images and then stamped and heat embossed sentiments to trim into strips. Once the panel was dry I added it to a card base and started adding everything to my scene. Some of the images are added with liquid glue directly to the card front but all the critters and sentiment strips are popped up.

Then I finished the design off with some glossy accents on the water and buttons on the jacket, unicorn stickles on the clouds and black glaze pen on the bears’ noses.

It’s a little out of my typical comfort zone to create a darker sky background but I love how it helps the images pop so much and show that they are really enjoying this rainy day.

Products used today:
Beary Rainy Day stamps and dies
Rainy Sky stencil
Fairy Dust stencil paste
Distress Oxide – rustic wilderness, faded jeans, chipped sapphire, black soot
Foam squares
Bearly Art liquid glue
Stickles – unicorn
Glossy accents
Copic markers

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pink & Main – Bugs and Kisses

Happy Friday my friends! I don’t know about you but it’s been a long week and I’m really looking forward to this weekend to relax and recoup.

Today I’m on the Pink & Main blog with a little inspiration featuring the Stamp of the Month for April – Lady Luck. I adore these sweet images and can’t actually believe just how much I love the color palette that came together on today’s card.

I started today by choosing and image from Lady Luck, stamping it and coloring it with my copic markers. I used the coordinating die to cut it out and went digging in my stash to see if any of my background dies inspired me.

The moment I pulled out the Plaid Cover dies I knew this was it! I cut one layer from teal cardstock matching the colors in the umbrella and the other layer from the white glitter cardstock in the Metallics Glitter paper pack. Next, I took an A2 white cardstock panel and inked it up with scattered straw fading into squeezed lemonade distress oxide inks. I flicked water on the panel and let it air dry before adhering the plaid layers over the top.

Next, I chose a sentiment from the set and used the coordinating die to cut it out as well. I love it when sets do this. It’s such an awesome option to have when creating. Then I added foam squares and strips to the image and sentiment and popped them up on the card front.

For finishing touches I added unicorn Stickles to the dots on the umbrella and glossy accents to the flower centers, ladybug nose and her spots. Then I used a black glaze pen on her eyes to help them shine and pop. Last, I pulled out the Dragonfly Dreams enamel dots and added a scattering of them across the design.

This card just screams spring to me and I’m over the moon with how it turned out. I love these soft colors and the ladybug image is just the sweetest! I hope you enjoyed it too.

Products used today:
Stamp of the Month – Lady Luck stamps and dies
Plaid Cover Plate dies
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Dragonfly Dreams enamel dots
Distress Oxide Ink – scattered straw and squeeze lemonade
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn
Foam squares and strips

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Jane’s Doodles – Cheers

Hello again! I’m over on the Jane’s Doodles blog today with a card featuring the Cheers digital stamp. It’s simple but I love the masculine color palette and how the whole thing came together.

I printed my image and colored it with my copic markers before using the scan-n-cut to cut it out. Instead of using one of the digital sentiments in the set, I just pulled out my Pink & Main alphabet dies and cut the word “cheers” from white cardstock three times and black once. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and set an acrylic block on top while I worked on my background layers.

First, I took a black scrap of cardstock and used the Pink & Main Sun Ray embossing folder on it. I splattered it with gold watercolor and set it aside to dry. Then I cut an A2 size piece of dark teal cardstock and cut a zig zag circle out of the top-center big enough to frame up my beer mugs. Next, I pulled out the Newton’s Nook Bubbly stencil and inked it up with a dark teal ink for a tone-on-tone texture.

I popped the teal panel up on the black panel with foam tape and adhered that to a white card base with liquid glue. Then I popped the image up in the middle of the window with foam squares. I added the “cheers” letters with liquid glue and tied some twine around the top for a little interest and balance.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the glass portion of the beer mugs and that’s all. I intended this to be a masculine card so I didn’t want to add too much sparkle but I like the shine of the glossy accents and watercolor in the light.

Products used:
Jane’s Doodles Cheers digital stamps
Pink & Main Zig Zag Circle dies
Pink & Main Sun Ray embossing folders
Newton’s Nook Bubbly stencil
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn Rainforest ink
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents
Bearly Art liquid glue

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 4

Well, goodness! We’re already to the final day of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook April Release. I hope you have enjoyed this week and are prepared for extra cuteness today! This is my absolute favorite set of the whole week and I’m so excited to share it with you.

Newton Loves Tacos stamps and dies

Are you dying?!? I totally am! This set is SO MUCH FUN!!! And those sentiments to go with it are over the top awesome! So silly and just adorable!

For my card today, I really played on the taco colors a lot. Having a layout in mind, I stamped and colored images from the set with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I cut elements from the Slimline Frames & Portholes dies and Slimline Frames & Windows dies to use together.

I added an acetate window to the middle of the orange frame and added foam strips to the back of the whole thing. Then I added my Thermoweb Rina K Glitz Gel through the Confetti stencil in the areas that would show through the left and right windows. I sprinkled my avocado shaker bits in the center and sealed them up with the orange frame over the top. Next, I added foam to my images and popped them in place on the left and right.

Last, I stamped a sentiment on a small stitched circle from the Frames Squared set and glued it to a slightly larger circle from the Circle Frames set before gluing it down on the acetate window in the middle.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to various parts of the images like tomatoes, noses and toe beans. Finally, the whole panel was added to a white slimline card base with foam tape.

Would you like to win the “Newton Loves Tacos” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday April 21st at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday April 22nd.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Miss Ink Stamps – Stenciled and Glitzed Cheetah

Hello everyone. I have a bit of Miss Ink Stamps inspiration to share with you featuring one of the new animal portrait stencil sets. These layering stencils are gorgeous and so easy to use! Today I stepped them up a bit from just inking to glitz glitter gel for some sparkle and interest.

In this stencil set you get three piecs – the cheetah shape mask, the shading layer and the spots layer. They are super easy to line up and ink how you want.

Today I started with kraft cardstock and used the mask to ink around the cheetah with peeled paint distress oxide ink, then I inked the edges of the panel with rustic wilderness distress oxide for a color gradient.

Next I added the shading layer stencil and inked it up with carved pumpkin distress oxide ink. I chose this bright color for some contrast on the kraft cardstock. If I were using white, I would probably have stuck to another color in the yellow family instead. Just something to keep in mind when you are choosing colors.

Finally, I added the spots layer and inked the whole thing up with VersaFine black ink before selectively adding black glitz glitter gel to the spots. However, I didn’t mask anything off, I was just careful when adding the glitz and didn’t mind if it went outside of the spots to the face lines or something else.

I let that dry and then went in with the frame layer for the Ins & Outs Marquis stencil to add a gold glitz frame to really bling things up. While that was drying, I stamped a sentiment from Jungle Ruins and cut it out with a rectangle die. I inked the top with a little green ink that coordinated with my card front and popped it up with foam squares.

Once it was all dry, I glued the whole panel to a white card base and my card is completely finished. Sometimes it’s not to just get inky and not color anything. I love these stencils for those moods.

Products used today:
Cheetah Portrait stencils
Ins & Outs Marquis stencils
Jungle Ruins stamps
Glitz Glitter Gel – gold and black
Stencil pal
Foam squares
Distress Oxide Ink – rustic wilderness, peeled paint, carved pumpkin
Pink & Main Layered Rectangle dies

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 3

Oh my, we’re already up to day 3 of the Newton’s Nook April Release reveals! Today there is just one, SUPER FUN stamp and coordinating die to share.

Dad’s BBQ stamps and dies

Isn’t is fantastic!!! And it’s going to play so well with the BBQ Roundabout from last year! I didn’t combine them today, but that is definitely on my list of things to try.

Today, I chose a bunch of images from Dad’s BBQ, stamped them and then colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and added foam squares to the back of everything.

I found an oval in the new Oval Frames die set that fit the sentiment perfectly, so I stamped and cut it out. Then I cut the next largest oval from black cardstock and layered them together, adding foam to the back of the black layer.

Next, I inked up a teal panel with the Gingham stencil and trimmed it down to 3 3/4×5 1/2 inches and framed the edges with black strips of cardstock.

I added the panel to a white card base with foam tape, placed the sentiment in the center and then added my images in a diagonal fashion from the upper left down to the lower right.

For finishing touches, I added white gel pen highlights to all of the images. I contemplated glossy accents or some bling but this is meant to be a masculine card for me to give so I kept it to a minimum.

Would you like to win the “Dad’s BBQ” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 2

Hi friends! This is day 2 of the Newton’s Nook April Release reveal week. Today we have two stamp and coordinating die sets to share with you and I just love them both! Must haves for your stash, for sure!

Destination Love stamps and dies

Lilacs stamps and dies

I’m not a floral person most of the time but I love this new lilac image and really enjoyed coloring it.

For this card, I colored the images in the set and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I set them aside to work on my background…aka, making a fabulous crafty mess. I inked up a panel with distress oxide ink in salty ocean and tumbled glass. Then spritzed it with water and flicked watered down salty ocean ink on the panel. Once it was dry, I spread Thermoweb transfer gel blanco through the Cloudy Sky stencil and let it dry.

While that was drying, I die cut a fence from white cardstock and inked up a panel with distress oxide in mowed lawn and twisted citron to cut some grass from.

Once the sky was dry, I ran it through the laminator with white latte deco foil flock for some adorable fuzzy clouds! Then I cut all the layers with the largest Frames & Flags die and adhered the layers together with foam tape.

For the sentiment, I cut a small banner from the A7 Frames die set and popped it up with foam squares too. Then for finishing touches I added glossy accents to the flower centers on the lilac and the body of the butterfly. I adhered the panel to a yellow card base for a little extra splash of color too.

Now, for that adorable Destination Love set, I just had to make a sweet wedding card. Although there are sentiments for lots of love occasions to choose from.

This time I inked up the Cloudy Sky stencil with light teal ink on a white panel and cut it from the largest Framework die. Then I cut the largest scalloped heart from kraft cardstock and inked it up with the Tree Rings stencil.

I stamped and colored images from Destination Love with my copic markers. Then, I cut them out with the coordinating dies and adhered the different elements to the car. I added foam squares to the back and played with final arrangement. until I liked it.

With this placement of things I thought it was perfect to heat emboss the sentiment directly to the heart. So I did that and then blued it down to the sky background. I added the images and then popped the panel up on some melon cardstock with foam tape. I thought this cardstock coordinated well with the color of the car.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to all of the hearts and the hat band, then I added unicorn Stickles to the veil.

Would you like to win the “Destination Love” or the “Lilac” Stamp Set? We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Make a Splash

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s time for Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers again. Today I’ve got a fun little scene card to share featuring the adorable Lawn Fawn squirrels from a couple of sets and the lift the flap tree backdrop die to help set the scene. I’m also playing along with the new Lawn Fawnatics challenge that just started – build a scene.

To start this card, I pulled out the backdrop die and my stamps and laid everything out to make sure I stamped enough images to fill everything. I colored them with my copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I stamped and heat embossed a combination of sentiments from a couple of set and trimmed those into strips.

Next, I cut the lift the flap tree backdrop from kraft cardstock and inked up the edges and flap openings with walnut ink and a blending brush. Then I cut a blue panel for a background and added the new rainy day stencil on that with blue ink.

I added my images behind the flaps on dark brown scraps of cardstock and adhered the trees to the rainy day panel. Then I added the rest of the images with a combination of liquid glue and foam squares, including the sentiment strips.

To finish everything off, I added some white gel pen accents to various parts of the images along with a few red clay hearts from Twiddler’s Nook sweethearts clay embellishment mix.

I had fun mixing and matching different sets to create my own scene. I think next time I would add more raindrops so they showed through the trees more and maybe even add some on top of the trees too.

Products used today:
Let’s Go Nuts stamps and dies
Pick of the Patch stamps and dies
Holiday Party Animal stamps and dies
Beary Rainy Day stamps and dies
Lift the Flap Tree Backdrop die
Rainy Sky stencil
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn ink – forget me not and walnut
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts clay embellishments
Foam squares
Bearly Art liquid glue

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

P.S. I just realized, at the end of typing this up and finalizing the photos that one of my hearts went wonky at the top! Ugh! Fixing that now for sure.

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 1

Welcome everyone! Today is the first day of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook April Release! This is such a varied release and everything is just so much fun! Today we’re sharing a stamp and die set along with a new stencil too! Let’s take a look.

Cycling Friends stamps and dies

Tree Line Stencil

I have a few cards to share with you today. First let’s look at two clean and simple mini slimline cards I made using the new tree line stencil.

I inked up the stencil on teal cardstock with distress oxide inks to make the layering stand out instead of soaking into the cardstock. Then I added Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel for the detail layer on both cards. Isn’t that glitter detail so much fun!?!

I trimmed the panels down to 2.75×5.75 and popped them up on white card bases, cut some grass and adhered it down. Then cut a banner from the Banner Trio set and stamped sentiments from Floral Roundabout on them before popping them up with foam squares.

Won’t this new stencil be gorgeous year round! I can’t wait for all the fall colors!!! Now, I have a card using this stencil again but paired with the new Cycling Friends cuties in a mini scene.

For this card, I inked up the background panel with light peach and pink dye ink for a setting sun type of sky. Then I layered the trees over top with distress oxide inks. I also used distress oxide ink on a scrap of white cardstock to create a ground for my critters. Then I cut the panels out with the largest Frames & Flags die and adhered the layers together.

I stamped and colored the images from Cycling Friends, and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I used liquid glue to adhere the goodies in the bike basket and popped the whole thing up with foam squares.

Next, I die cut the small banners in the new A7 Frames die set and heat embossed my sentiment in two parts on each banner. I trimmed them down and added them to the scene with foam squares.

I popped the whole panel up on a kraft card base with foam tape and added glossy accents to the images for finishing touches. Then I decided to all some white gel pen detail to the scarves on the critters for added fun.

Would you like to win the “Cycling Friends” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Thermoweb – Flocking Gingham Cards with Adhesive Foiling

Hello everyone! Today I’m on the Thermoweb blog with a tutorial on these two fabulous cards. It’s gingham week and I chose my favorite gingham stencil from Newton’s Nook to pair with the beautiful light blue flocking and then threw in some foiling and paper piecing for fun!

I had a blast creating these cards and love how the color palette turned out. Be sure to head to the Thermoweb blog for all the details.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!