Surfing Unicorn, Window Shaker Card

  Today I have a birthday card to show you! I made this card for my daughters friend. They are always in the pool with floaties, just hanging out and having fun. My card was inspired by the little personalities that these girls behold.

  I used Lawn fawn stamps in this card, they are just so fun and adorable. The unicorn is from "Costume Party", the duck is from "Rub-A-Dub-Dub", The narwhal and seahorse are from "Mermaid For You", the otter and hearts are from "Christmas Like No Otter" and the coral is from "Critters in the Sea". The patterned paper I used is from Doodle Bug. I used Canson XL watercolor paper to do some water coloring on. The die cuts that I used are also by Lawn Fawn. You can see here a stitched rectangle for the card front, a stitched wave and a surfboard-like shape. The stitched wave that I used was die cut from poka dotted paper. I used a die cut that pairs with the Lawn Fawn stamp set "Life is Good" and placed it upside down to make it appear like a surfboard. It is so cool what you can do with your dies by just thinking out of the box.

 To color the stamped images I used Copic markers. I love the little duckie that is peeking its head under the water and the little girl in the unicorn costume is just so cool surfing on her board.  The water coloring was done with Gansai Tambi paints. I had used a minty green color, 3 different hues of blue  and a silver color. I carried the color flow throughout the top of the card by flicking the paints with my brush.

  You can see these beautiful sequins by Pretty Pink Posh up close in this image. I had used Lawn Fawn's chunky glitter to add some variety of sparkle. To make this card a shaker I had to die cut a rectangle window through the front of my card. I was then able to seal the shaker elements in between 2 pieces of acetate.

  I thought that the Lawn fawn sentiment "to a friend like no otter" was a perfect fit for this card. The sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn stamp set "Christmas Like No Otter". I had stamped the sentiment on a stitched die cut circle for interest. 

I hope you enjoyed this card, it was so much fun to make! thanks for stopping by!

A Lawn Fawn Water Park / Lawn Fawnatics challenge 32

  Today's card was made for the Lawn Fawnatics challenge no. 32 color inspiration. I had used the mood board up on the Lawn Fawnatics blog to start mapping out my card out. I really like to get into the creativeness of the challenge, I never just take it easy and make a simple card. Here is a sample of the mood board to your right. 

  When I thought of this card it had really started with how can I incorporate a roller coaster into this ocean of a mood board. I did not want to just use a regular roller coaster so I started to think of what critter could I turn into a cart for another critter to ride in. Once I figured out that the narwhal fit in perfectly I just started to stamp all my favorite ocean images to fit into a scene. When I started to put my scene together I had to think of a way for the bear and squirrel like fox critter to go with the flow. After all you do not swim with your arms up in the air, but I could of had them catching some waves. I wanted to portray a lazy river (my personal favorite part of a water park). I looked at some of my stamps and than I remembered that I had a donut stamp and a tire that could have worked. I choose the donut, I just cut a little slit in the middle and stuffed those critters in. This was such a fun scene to put together.

I want to share with you the products I used and the details within my card. For my scene I used various Lawn Fawn stamp sets and the stitched wave dies by Lawn Fawn. The hillside I have is by mama elephant. All my images were colored with a color theme in mind using copic markers.  I very rarely buy the dies to go with my stamps so  all of the stamped images were cut out by hand (can you believe it). At the end I added wink of stella clear glitter over the darkest shade of color on pretty much every stamped image except for the animals. My mermaid was full on glitter from her tail to her top all the way up to her shell barret.  For the cotton candy and the shopping stand I added spinkled sugar stickles. This gives the cotton candy a true to sugar look.  I wanted more glitter in my card so I added a clear stardust stickles to the darkest wave and a peacock stickles to the lightest wave. I added Lawn Fawn's chunky glitter in the front of my card which allowed the scene to flow together.  I just have to say that this chunky glitter is the best I love it! A final touch of  detail was added to the balloons inner tubes and cotton candy using glossy accents.

Here is a close up of my favorite view on the card

Its really just so much fun creating with Lawn Fawn products. It keeps me busy and amused on those days that I am just staring at the t.v. while wondering through my head and wondering why I am bored. I am happy that you stopped by and I hope that I inspired you in some way.

A Neon Claw Machine

  Today I am Showing off a fun card that I made using Lawn Fawn stamps from the sets "Clawsome" and "Screen Time"!  Some of my cards I may make just for fun, but others are for special occasions.  Now today's card has a cute story behind it.

 I had purchased this stamp set after my eight year old daughter pointed out to me that we just had to have it. She just loves claw machines and stuffed animals, plus I think her spirit animal may just be a unicorn.  Every time we go to a claw machine there is never just two quarters put in for one play. You always wind up spending about $5 for that one special toy.  well as you can see this little person critter had a ton of fun pulling out that unicorn.

   The background of my card was made using distress oxides with a star stencil from MFT stamps and I had water colored the floor in. I colored all my stamped images in using copic markers.

  I wanted to color in neon lights around the claw machine to do this i had to draw a border around it. For the lights I  used a darker marker in the center and than my medium and lightest copic surrounding the darker color. Just play around with your copics because there are a lot of neat looks you can attain.

   I used a masking  technique for my big pile of teddy bears. This is quite easy to do and there are lots of videos out there to become a masking professional! I colored the teddy bears in giving them a cute stuffed animal look. After this I colored in the girl giving her a poca dotted shirt and jeans. I wanted the unicorn to stand out so I colored it in with the same colors used in the bears and for the horn a touch of dark pink, orange, and green.

  After my coloring was done  I adhered the claw machine with glue and than added some vellum over the window. This gave it a great look while not letting the bears inside stand out so much.  I adhered the girl over the teddy bears and than popped them up with foam squares to give some dimension. The unicorn was adhered with glue dots for a touch of dimension. I finished the claw machine off using a wink of stella pen and glossy accents over the stars, control stick and buttons. I had also used wink of stella on the unicorn's horn and the nose area. For a final touch I added some sequins and chunky glitter from Lawn Fawn. This was such a fun card to make and I hope you were inspired in some way.

  This card will be given to my daughter who inspired me to make it. It will make a cute decoration on her shelf. I hope you enjoyed reading and please put down any questions or thoughts below.

  Thanks for stopping by!

 

     

Fourth of July: Lawn Fawn Stars in the Galaxy

   I had a relaxing 4th of July. There was a possibility of the fireworks getting rained out so we just stayed at home. We ate some good grub and made some s'mores. I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing 4th of July with the Family!

  I have 2 cards today with a galaxy rainbow feel to it. My first one is pretty simple just make your background and do some die cutting (I used Lawn Fawn Dies). I was in the mood to celebrate 4th of July using stars. This is more of an artsy 4th of July card.

Inlaid Star Die Cutting

  I used Gansai watercolors for my galaxy background, i applied each color with my silverbrush. after the colors are dry apply black in some areas. Once dry I could do the next step (inlay die cutting) . I die cut 2 of the outside in stitched stars at the upper center of my background. Then I die cut the starry skies at each upper corner of my card. I was now able to use distress die inks to add some color to show through the die cuts. To finish the card off I made a gold border using glitter paper and 2 rectangle dies.

Sparkly Die Cuts Using Stickles Glitter

  Using the Galaxy Background I stamped a sentiment & stars from critters ever after by Lawn Fawn and embossed them in white embossing powder. I applied gilded gold stickles over the yelow paint to brighten the card up. I then die cut the Lawn Fawn Stitched Star Frames to add some interest. Next I decorated the stars with stickles. I also added 2 mini stars from the star frames die set and decorated them with stickles. Just a note: the stickles I had used went bad they were bubbly and runny. 

I hope you enjoyed today's cards. Thanks for stopping by.

Lawn Fawn shaker card with Tonic craft kit 11

  Today I,m showing how I incorporated Lawn Fawn products in with the Tonic studios monthly craft kit #11. The dies that I received from this kit are Christmas related. July is the month of the year that crafter's start to play Christmas! You can get all your stamps and dies out that you have not seen for 6 months and get started on your winter holiday cards and tags (without looking crazy) :)

  For this card I really wanted to make a shaker card and I already had the Lawn Fawn critter huggers deer cut out and ready to paste. This was a fun and easy peezy card to make.

I also have my first YouTube video of this card in action. Enjoy!

Supplies used:

Lawn Fawn woodland critter huggers die 

Lawn Fawn spring sprig die

Tonic craft kit 11

Fuse tool and pocket

Pretty pink posh marshmallow sequins

Martha Stewart star sequins

Distress ink: espresso, antique linen and worn lipstick

White gel pen

Mama elephant sentiment