Welcome everyone! I’m pining for sunshine and summer vibes lately so I pulled out some older favorites to craft my way into sunshine.

First I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Citrus stamp set and stamped a whole bundle of each image in the set. I colored everything with copic markers in combos of oranges of lemons on my mind. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and started playing around with arrangements. I landed on this line of fruit vibe and used liquid glue to adhere them all together.

With this much direction I knew I wanted a vibrant, fun background so I pulled out this Lawn Fawn Stitched Wavy Backdrop. I spritzed distress oxide sprays on a panel. Let it dry and then spritzed it with water and watered down white paint. When that layer dried, I cut it out with the backdrop die.

Finally, I glued the background to a card base, then popped the strip of citrus up with foam squares. Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment in the Citrus stamp set on black cardstock and die cut it with a Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip die. This is also popped up with foam strips.

For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to the flower centers and glued a scattering of yellow baubles I had in my stash.

Products used today:
Pretty Pink Posh Citrus stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Lawn Fawn Stitched Wavy Backdrop die
Foam squares and strips
Liquid glue
Stickles – stardust
Magic anti-static bag
Embossing powder
Embossing and watermark ink
Distress Oxide Spray – mermaid lagoon

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Over the years I have done many different things to celebrate Valentine’s Day differently at home. One year I made a scavenger hunt for my daughter to find her gift, another year I made a mini tag or card to tape to her door every morning leading up to the day, and others I make a card or tag to give my daughter and husband on the holiday. As I was creating these mini note cards I was thinking they would be perfect lunchbox notes on random days in February to brighten anyone’s day.

I made 5 note cards because I simply couldn’t resist stamping and coloring all of the adorable versions of the Lawn Fawn Critter Conversation Hearts! After coloring, I stamped a senitment in each heart and then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Next, I took notes from Mona Toth and added vellum wings to their backs using the Lawn Fawn Build-a-Critter Valentine Accessories die set.

Then, for each one I die cut the Pretty Pink Posh Mini Scallop Card from teal cardstock and the decorative panel from pink. I used the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Hearts stencils to add a little interest behind the images. Nothing crazy, just Lawn Fawn ballet slippers pink on pink. I glued the panel to the card fronts and popped the critters up with foam squares. The designs are finished off with some white gel pen highlights on the hearts.

Do you have any fun Valentine traditions or ways of celebrating to share?

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Critter Conversation Heart stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Build-a-Critter Valentine Accessories dies
Pretty Pink Posh Mini Scallop Note Card dies
Pretty Pink Posh Layered Hearts stencils
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn ballet slippers ink
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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Welcome everyone! It’s time for Mix it up Monday with Doodlebugs! Still in my Valentine vibe and every time Lawn Fawn comes out with more cute mice, I must play with them! I just adore their little stances and cute faces!

Today’s card started by stamping all the images from the Lawn Fawn Valentine Mice set and coloring with copic markers. This is a mid-size set so it’s great for your pocket book but complete enough to use it on projects on its own too. I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and set it aside to figure out my background.

While I was digging around for a stencil or embossing folder for my background, I remembered these awesome Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Heart dies from last year and thought they would be perfect! So I started cutting them from all my red and pink scraps. Then, because it’s me, I didn’t want a plain background so I spritzed distress sprays on a piece of white cardstock to add color and texture at the same time. Then I glued my hearts directly to that.

Then I added foam squares to the back of my mice and the mini sentiment that amazingly has a coordinating die to it and placed them in different areas of the card. Triangles are appealing to the eye so I keep that in mind when positioning focal points.

Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Valentine Mice stamp set and trimmed it into a couple of sentiment strips. These are popped up with foam strips. Then I finished the design off with a touch of glossy accents on mouse noses and the baby hearts.

Status check, have you created anything Valentine themed yet???

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Valentine Mice stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Hearts dies
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Magic anti-static bag
Foam squares and strips
Liquid glue
Distress Spray Stain – lumberjack plaid, gold
Glossy accents

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Hey friends! I’m back with a Doodlebugs Mix it Up Monday post for you! I haven’t been the greatest at getting these written up but we all have goals right?!? I’ve been having fun creating Valentine themed things for a bit now and I’m so excited to start sharing them!

I couldn’t wait to play with the new Lawn Fawn Valentine accessories for the build-a-critters! And I love this bunny so it was the perfect combo! I did a little ink blending for depth and some white gel pen highlights on the nose and eyes. So cute!

Next, I ink blended a white panel with the Pretty Pink Posh layered hearts stencil set. I used Lawn Fawn inks – ballet slippers and lobster with blending brushes. Then I die cut the Pretty Pink Posh Love Word Shaker from the center of the panel.

I glued the negative of the panel to a red panel and added that to a card base but it wasn’t working for me. So I popped up the actual die cut for a subtle raised look. Then I added the cupid bunny to that with more foam squares.

I was mindful to use a top fold card base when I assembled my card so that I could easily wrap and tie some twine around the top of the card to finish the design off. This twine has a strand of silver sparkle in it too!

Products:
Lawn Fawn Build-a-Critter Bunny dies
Lawn Fawn Build-a-Critter Accessories Valentine dies
Pretty Pink Posh Layered Hearts stencils
Pretty Pink Posh Love Shaker dies
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – lobster and ballet slippers
Liquid glue
Foam squares
Gelly roll pen – white

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Happy Mix it up Monday again! Today I have a card to share that I worked on intermittently for a few days. Spritzing and spraying with distress oxide sprays, water and watercolor to get fun textures before die cutting my pieces. It was really low stress and fun to pop in the craft room play a little and leave to see what it looked like after it had dried.

I did this with red, green and yellow panels to create my poinsettias. Then I added some white paint splatter to my kraft background for texture as well. There are quite a few layers to the Lawn Fawn Stitched Poinsettias so I didn’t used foam on them at all, just liquid glue and reverse tweezers to hold pieces while they dried.

I chose the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallop cover die for my background, so when I went to choose which Banner Greetings die to use, I chose the one with the same piercing detail on it. I stamped and heat embossed sentiments on the banners and did add foam strips to the back so they laid nicely with the poinsettia layers.

After gluing everything down and to a white card base, I did trim off any excess from the foliage so it fits in an envelope nicely.

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Stitched Poinsettias dies
Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallop cover die
Pretty Pink Posh Banner Greetings dies
Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Banner Greetings stamps
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – white
Magic anti-static bag
Foam strips
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers
Distress Oxide Spray and Spritz – squeezed lemonade, wild honey, rustic wilderness, forest moss, lumberjack plaid, tarnished brass

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Hello everyone! For today’s mix it up Monday, I’m sharing a fun holiday card with you using Lawn Fawn stamps, dies and stencil; paired with Pretty Pink Posh sentiment dies. But what I want to focus on in the design is being willing to take the extra time to make a simple stenciled background extra. Crafting is a labor of love and sometimes it’s not about the fastest version but one that makes you happy in the end.

I started this card by wanting to create the fun sweater-style background you see using the Lawn Fawn Cozy Sweater stencil. In order to accomplish this, I taped off one section at a time ink blending each line individually. Sure, it would have been quicker to go at the whole thing with one color but it wouldn’t have had the same look or impact on my card design.

Pulling from the colors of my background, I stamped and colored two of the kitties in the Lawn Fawn Cozy Cats stamp set. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside.

Then I cut the Pretty Pink Posh Merry sentiment from white cardstock 4 times and glued the layers together with liquid glue. Then I cut the shadow from vellum and adhered the two together. I glued this to my stenciled panel and popped the kitties up on either side with foam squares.

Then I stamped and heat embossed “Christmas” from the Lawn Fawn Cozy Cats add on and trimmed it into a rectangle. I popped this up with foam strips so it laid nicely on top of the “Merry” sentiment.

To finish off the design I added glossy accents to both kitty noses and stardust Stickles to the scarf, mittens and earmuffs.

Products used today:
Lawn Fawn Cozy Cats stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Cozy Cats Add On stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Cozy Sweater stencil
Pretty Pink Posh Merry dies
Lawn Fawn inks – ballet slippers, jalapeno, mermaid, lobster
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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