A Baby Zoo Baby Set

Hello there! It's Lydia here with you today, so your clever Keren fix will be with you Thursday ;) . In the mean time I have a really cute baby set using Altenew 'Baby Zoo' , I know this is for a baby boy but if you just swap out the blue for pink it is quite easily for a baby girl.

Warning-this post is a little picture and text heavy :)

So in this set I have a card, a gift bag, tags and wrapping paper. I just love that by having a stamp set like this you can make everything coordinate.

Firstly the card and gift bag.....

I created the card by taking my card blank and adding a masking tape border around the outside, that way when I removed the tape I would have a clean white border around the edge of my card. I stamped the sentiment from the set first in black and then stamped the animals in blue, green and yellow.

For the gift bag I cut two of the Lawn Fawn 'Goodie Bag' dies and then stamped the animals all over them before sticking them together. The circle tag is from Lawn Lawn 'Stitched Party Banners', I stamped the elephants head and sentiment to it before punching a hole and adding it to the gift bag with some lemon twine.

Onto the tags and wrapping paper....

For the tags I cut some tag shapes from white card (you could use this set ). I stamped the animals and then added their detail layer in grey so as to not take too much attention from the sentiments that I then stamped in black. I love the sentiments in this set , they are so varied and some of them are quite unique! I added some lemon, lime and aquamarine twine to these.

For the wrapping paper I took a big piece of plain white paper and then stamped the animals randomly all over it before wrapping the gift and adding some more twine.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Hugs Lydia xxx





              

Hello Foxy

Hi there Lydia here with you today, I know this isn't my normal day but me and Jill had a little switch-a-roo today so I could celebrate the Newton's Nook Holiday Release with you today! There are lots of super cute stamps in this release and I'm sharing with you a card with a set that might just be my favourite ever NND set.

 

I stamped the sleeping fox from Newton's Nook Designs 'Fox Hollow' in a really light ink and coloured him up in the 'no-line' style using Copic markers, and then cut him out using the Coordinating die. I also cut some trees using the tree die in the set out of some green card, coloured the trunk brown and added some sickles to them.

 

For the focal image layer I cut the circle from Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Banner Dies' and lightly inked the top with blue and added some with glitter the the bottom to act as snow. I added the trees and the fox slightly over-hanging the circle for more interest. Instead of putting this onto a plain card layer, I stamped Lawn Fawn 'Woodgrain Backdrops' onto the layer and covered with vellum to soften the look.

 

I really hope you like my card, thanks for stopping by!  

Hugs Lydia x

    

Happy Halloween!

Hi there stampers and a happy Halloween to you!

Halloween already?!?! How fast is this year going? As it is Halloween today I thought it only fitting to share a Halloween card with you today... although as it doesn't actually say 'Happy Halloween' I'm sure you could use this as a friendship card anytime of the year. 

How cute is that little ghostie?!?! So not scary at all right? He is from Lawn Fawn 'Spookatular'.  To create the see-through look he has, I have stamped him onto vellum. To attach this I stuck this onto double-sided adhesive, as the adhesive is all over it is not very noticeable and adds a great texture. 

The card layer is the smaller stitched frame die from the Mama Elephant 'Basic Set'  and the circle die is from the Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Party Banners Set'.

Have a great Halloween!

Hugs Lydia xxx

 

Spookatular Goodie Bags

Hellllooo and happy Friday!

Today I'm sharing with you two super cute treat bags using a few Lawn Fawn goodies. I have used the Goodie Bag die (it's currently OOS but these little toppers could work on lots of other gift bags or even on cards).

The cute lil critters are from the Critters In Costume set and then I have added the little bags and sentiments from Spookatular. The stitched circle from Stitched Party Banners makes an awesome place to add images and sentiments as it's such a great size.  

I hope I have inspired you today to make your own Halloween treat bags and have a great weekend!

Hugs Lydia xxx


     

Girly Unicorn Birthday Card

Hi there and happy Friday! Lydia with you today and I'm sharing a card using some of the older Lawn Fawn sets.

This is actually the card that I gave my baby girl for her birthday ( she is getting too big ). She is such a girly girl so literally anything pink pleases her.

I created the shaped card blank using Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Party Banners' and the sentiment strip uses Lawn Fawn 'Speech Bubble Border'. I made the personalised sentiment using Clark's ABCS and the paper is from the Lawn Fawn 'Let's Polka' 6x6 pad. The unicorn is from one of my favourite LF sets 'Critters Ever After'. 

All these Lawn Fawn goodies are in stock....... as well as the NEW RELEASE!! That's right only a day after America we have the new stock in and ready to be shipped out to you. 

I'm off to put in my order, so have a great weekend.

Hugs Lydia xxx 


        

Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag

Hi there, Lydia here. I know it's not my usual day but I have some exciting news to share ...... I am now part of the design team over at Newton's Nook Designs ! :-D I have been sitting on the news for weeks and it's been hard not to let it slip but I did it.... just about.

To celebrate this exciting news I have made a card using Newton's Nook Designs ' Newton's Birthday Bash' and if you keep reading to the end there may be a little Blog Candy ;)

*Cut some Neenah Solar card using the small banner from Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Party Banners' onto this stamp Newton coming out of the bag and the sentiment from Newton's Nook 'Newton's Birthday Bash'.
*Colour the image in with Copics adding a little shadow with coloured pencils and add a little Wink Of Stella to the bag for a little sparkle.
*Cut out two of the large banners from the 'Stitched Party Banners' of of white card and another using the yellow heart paper from the 'Let's Polka' 6x6 paper pad. Stick the yellow paper banner onto one of the white banners to create the front of the card. Score a line across the second white banner about an inch down from the top, add glue to the inch flap and stick to the backside of the yellow heart/white banner piece.
*To finish add some gold gel pen accents and some grey striped ribbon to the pre cut banner holes.   

I really love how bright and happy this card is. And the image was just so much fun to colour!

Now time for a bit of blog candy!!!! The fabulous and very generous Tara  has given me a Newton's Nook Designs 'Newton's Birthday Bash' stamp set to give away to one of you lovely people. All you have to do is leave me a comment over on my blog HERE .... maybe even tell me how good you are about keeping secrets and I will choose and random commenter next Wednesday at 12.00pm BST (British Summer Time) to win the set :)

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx

  

Get Well Soon

Hi there and happy Thursday! Hope you are having a great week :) It's Lydia with you today....and again tomorrow ;).

Today I'm sharing with you a super cute and easy card using some of the new release from Lawn Fawn.

* I stamped the cute little plaster and sentiment from 'Get Well Soon' on to the stitched circle from 'Stitched Party Banners' and coloured using Copics.
* I then cut the smaller of the banners from 'Stitched Party Banners' out of 'Let's Polka Papers' .
* To create the card I cut two pieces of card using the same small banner, I stuck the piece of polka dot paper on the one that would be the front of my card. On the one for the back of my card, I scored a line across the card about an inch from the top then glued this flap and stuck to behind the front of my card. 
* Add string to the pre-cut holes and tie in a bow.

I really love how cute this is! I really think it would make someone smile to receive this :)

Thanks for popping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx