Booyah!

Hello.

With October fast approaching i wanted to go with something  bit spooky.

Don't worry i scare easily so this is a cute kind of spooky.

I used the Lawn fawn Booyah stamp set and coloured the images with copics.

The background was made using distress inks and some splashes of glimmer mist.

So that it looked more like a scene rather than the three ghosts just floating i die cut a stitched circle and the picket fence die both from lawn fawn.

The sentiment is also from the Booyah set.

I finished with some clear sequins.

Lawn fawn restocks have shipped and should be here early next week :)

  

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Thanks a melon Tara

Hello. 

Today we have something a little different for you. 

The design team have all got together to organise a surprise blog hop for Tara and Rick.

We all wanted to say "Ta Tara" for all the work you do  and for the fantastic service you provide.

And to Rick for supporting Tara and the shop.

As I'm a bit useless at all of this i will let the rest of the team and their wonderful cards do the talking.

You will find the full hop list below and we hope you will join us In saying Thankyou.

I started by die cutting my two panels.

The scalloped one i coloured using distress inks to match the colours of the melons and then heat embossed in white the pattern from Sharp backdrops stamp set.

The stitched rectangle panel was cut from water colour card and the melons randomly stamped and heat embossed in white before colouring with water colour pens.

The full hop list in order is .....

Start http://makethedayspecialcards.blogspot.co.uk/
Jenny http://craftinginthecountry.blogspot.com/
Jill http://paperlovebuzz.blogspot.com/
Julia http://just-one-more-card.com/
Kate http://justkatecrafting.blogspot.com/
Keren https://kerenbaker.wordpress.com/
Sarah http://funkyfossildesigns.blogspot.com/

All products can be found by clicking the images below.

  

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Many thanks

 Hello.

Well according to the met office the 1st of September is the start of autumn so that means i can start using The lawn fawn stitched leaves dies.

I have mixed up the old set and the new smaller version.

I coloured some white card with distress inks first then die cut the leaves. 

The largest one is from the original leaves dies.

Once they were die cut i added some more ink to the bottom parts of the leaves and dusted some perfect pearls in gold on them, it gives an amazing shimmer.

I also added some of the perfect pearls to water and splashed onto my panel and dried with a heat tool.

I wanted to add a matt using the new scalloped stackables from Lawn fawn and used some of the  card with colour on it. 

It is a bit random but i like the little extra pop of colour and no card was wasted in the making ;)

To finish i stamped the sentiment from Many thanks and added some dots of gold liquid pearls.

Just so that you can compare the size difference the left is the original set and right the new smaller one.

Everything used is linked up below just click the images.

   

 

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Party animals

Hello.

Today's card came about because i was practising colouring with my inktense pencils.

I love the look you can get from them either very loose watercolour or by taking more time and more layers you can have a lot of control.

I have used Lawn fawn stamps sets Party animal and scripty sayings.

The images were all coloured with inktense pencils and a water brush then fussy cut.

I made the background with distress inks and perfect pearls the tamped the sripty sayings to looking like streamers at a party.

I didn't add any extras as i feel there is plenty going on.

 

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World photo day

Hello.

Its world photography day today and that's inspired today's cards. 

First up is this card using Lawn fawns #Awesome stamp set.

I am ashamed to say it hasn't seen much ink if any since Ive had it.

I started by using the small camera icon  and heat embossed with clear powder.

I then water coloured and left to dry.

I made the sentiment and added to the water coloured panel.

Very simple to do and some clear sequins finish it just  nicely.

This card uses an older lawn fawn set, Say cheese. 

I love the old polaroid style camera ...still have one in real life too.

I simply stamped and coloured with pencils before fussy cutting.

I stamped the background using stamps from Winnie and Walter and hero arts ombre ink.

To add my sentiment i cut the camera where the picture would come from and place the banner with the stamped sentiment in,

  

 

I hope you get to take some pictures today ...maybe of cards ...for our challenge? ;)

Thanks for looking

Just One tiny Stamp..

 Hi! Thanks to Julia for filling in for me last week. This week I'm championing little things.. or more precisely.. the little stamps.
Those ones that aren't always exciting enough to be a focus of themselves.
Take this card, I thought I'd use the spoons from the Lawn Fawn set..Baked With Love

I stamped lots of spoons and coloured them in with alcohol markers. Then I pierced the tops & threaded some cotton through.

 I love creating what I've named 'chandelier' cards- so very easy.

Just a length of sturdy acetate, measured so its longer than the gap you'll fill. Measure two slits where you want to insert the acetate & fold the strip at either end (leaving enough either side to glue down at the back).
Slot in the acetate and secure at the back. Now you just want to suspend the hanging elements from some washi (or double sided tape) and secure onto the acetate curve.
Just decorate and you're done.
Yeah, I know it would be tricky fitting into an envelope. You could always create a square version that would fold flat, but I think this shape is lots of fun and you could always send it in a little box.

It would look amazing on a bigger card with lots of the cooking items dangling down. I wanted to keep it simple- I thought the spoons looked a little like hanging balloons!

Hope you have fun creating a 3D card,
See you next week,

Keren xx

Under the sea

Hello.

Have you seen the new mini set from Lawn fawn? 

I love these sets for a small price you get a stamp set full of possibilities. 

I'm using the so jelly set along with Owens ABC and blissful botanicals die but it would work so well with critters in the sea as well as many other lawn fawn sets.

I started by cutting some of the beachside papers into an offset panel and adhered to my card base.

The i added the die cuts from blissful botanicals as my sea weed.

The jelly fish were coloured with pencils and the die cut and were added with some foam tape.

I wanted have some bubbles so i made them from Owens ABC and some glossy accents.

I feel it doesn't need any more embellishments as there is a lot going on.

Please click the images below to go to that item in store.

 

Thanks for looking.

Foil Fun and Frolics

Hi everybody,

Hope you're all well.

I'm getting in touch with my wild side today...

..by going crazy with leopard print!

So foiling is EVERYWHERE at the moment;  it's the 'trend du jour' for sure, and I'm all for it!  I love the look you get with foiling, and, although it can seem a little scary, and like you need expensive machines etc, that's really need not the case, and with the right tools, the look can be really easy to achieve. (...although blumming hard to photograph!).

I used the genius product 'Stick-it' to help with my foiling.  I added my Stick-It to a piece of card, die-cut my letter's using Lawn Fawn's 'Quinn's abc's, removed the protective sheet and covered in the ridiculously cool and quirky, Thermoweb Gold Leopard Deco foil.  I then ran all my die-cut pieces through my Laminator (a cheap as chips one) so that the foil would adhere to the Stick-it.  I LOVE how my letters turned out - I am a huge fan of leopard print, it just makes me smile, but if you're not, the other colours in the collection are also gorgeous!  

My leopard is actually the cat from Mama Elephant's Three Amigo's set.  Sadly, I can't take credit for the idea to change him into a leopard, I saw someone else do it out there in blog land and just HAD to try it and, well, this was the perfect opportunity! 

To make up my scene, I inked my background, water-colour washed a seperate piece of card to cut Lawn Fawn's Grassy Border from, coloured a few elements from Lawn Fawn's Blissful Botanics and fussy cut.

I put all my elements together using foam adhesive for added dimension and matted onto a piece of card edged with more leopard print foil.  I finished with a tie of twine, and there you have it.  I hope you like my walk on the wild side, it's fun to let your leopard out once in a while :)

As always, everything I used is linked below, so be sure to have a loook. 

See you next week.

Jillx