All My Heart

Hello!  Where does the time go???  Valentine's Day is just a little over a month away.  

I love the new little stamp shapes from Lawn Fawn's Little Letter Die along with the new outline dies that have come out for a few of their Scripty sentiments.  For this card, I didn't want it super frilly with the traditional white, red and pink, so I went with just the red and more neutral tones.  

For the base of the card, I used Barn Cardstock and the the Lacy Rectangle Stackables.  I cut a piece of Paper Bag cardstock to 3.75" x 5" to place on top of the layer.  I cut the stamps from Vanilla Malt Cardstock to cut the stamps using the Little Letter Die.  I spritzed the stamps with a little Antique Linen Tim Holtz Distress Mica Spray and touched up the edges with the same color of Distress Oxide Ink.  

The cross stitched heart was cut from Barn Cardstock using the Embroidery Hoop Die.  I used a three strands of a cream colored DMC floss for the stitching.  To add a little more texture, I added a small bow with Lawn Fawn's Red Hemp Twine.

The sentiment is the Scripty XOXO and Scripty XOXO Outline Add On are cut from the Barn and Vanilla Cardstocks.  

The mice are from the Whoosh Kites, Happy Couples and All My Heart stamp and die sets.  The little extra cut out hearts are also from the All My Heart stamp set.  All the images are colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

• R17, R27, R39
• E15, E25, E57
• R20, R21

Once I had all my little items attached to the card base, I decided that I needed just a few more hearts, so I used the Hearts & Stars Skinny Tag Die to the out of scrap Vanilla Malt Cardstock.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have an awesome day!

Sandy

 

Warm & Cozy Hugs.....or Mugs!

 

Hello!  I hope everyone is staying warm.  It is getting pretty cold in Colorado now.

I still had my Coffee Mug Card die from Trinity Stamps on my desk from making my Puppy Party card, so I decided to make one more for now.  I hadn't had a chance to use my Cocoa The Gnome stamp and die set yet, so I thought I would whip up a cup of hot cocoa before I put them away and make a window card.

I cut the base from a medium gray cardstock.  I wanted it to be a little sturdier, so I cut out the right side of the mug die, using a lighter color or gray.  I added just a touch of Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide around the edges to soften them.

Using the Cocoa Mug Add On Die, I cut a mug from a piece of patterned paper by Lawn Fawn called Perfectly Plaid:Winter.  The whipped cream and drip are cut from a piece of Cocoa Swirl Bazille cardstock spritzed with a little Frozen Fog Distress Mica Stain by Tim Holtz.  I like to use the different mica stains to add a little shimmer to my paper without using a glitter cardstock.  I also like that color of  Bazille cardstock because it is a really nice soft white color.

For the sentiment on the front of the card, I used the Mini Winter Sayings die set.  The inside sentiment is from the Freezin Family stamp set.  I also used the snowflakes from that set for the snowflakes on the inside of the card.  

My little friend was colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

• W00, W0, W3, W5, W6, W9
• B00, BG53
• E000, E00, E01
• R20

For the little embellishments, I used a pink and gray shimmer paper for the sprinkles on the whipped cream and the snowflakes on the mug.  The dies that I used for that were from Lawn Fawn's Magic Iris Snow Globe and Pretty Pink Posh's  Big Valentine Cupcake.  

This was a really fun card to make.  I hope this post has inspired you to make a Cocoa Mug for yourself.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Sandy

Hello friends!  It's Sandy from @SandyCogdillDesigns.  I hope everyone had a nice Holiday Season.  I am re-charged and ready for some new projects.  How about you!

Today, I have a card that was created with some new products from Lawn Fawn.  I am using I HEART PANDAS ADD ON CLEAR STAMPS, I HEART PANDAS ADD ON LAWN CUTS and BAMBOO BACKDROP:PORTRAIT.  

I wanted to do a nighttime background, that was coordinate well with the bamboo layer that I was going to put on top.  One of my favorite things to do for backgrounds is do ink blending.  I used PUMICE STONE DISTRESS OXIDE INK, HICKORY SMOKE DISTRESS OXIDE INK and BLACK SOOT DISTRESS OXIDE INK.  I watered down a little SPELLBINDERS SPLATTER WHITE OPAQUE WATERCOLOR and splattered it on the ink blended area.  

To give the BAMBOO BACKDROP a little extra color and interest, I spritzed TWISTED CITRON DISTRESS SPRITZ and MOWED LAWN DISTRESS SPRITZ  a lime colored cardstock.  It is really hard to see in the photo, but it has a really nice shimmer.  These spritzes are one of my favorite new things to play with.  I used the larges of the LAWN FAWNS LARGE STITCHED RECTANGLES to cut out my background for the bamboo layer.

Once I had my bamboo backdrop cut out and adhered to my ink blended layer, I used LAWN FAWN - LAWN CUTS - HENRY'S ABC'S to cut out my lettering.  I used two different colors of cardstock to give the letters dimension.  With the letters layered, I adhered them to the backdrop.  

I colored my stamped images using COPIC markers in the following colors:

• W1, W2, W4, W6
• YG61, YG63, G82
• RV00

Once I have those colored and cut out, I will place them at the bottom of my card.  

I used the sentiment that comes in the stamp set.  I heat embossed the sentiment using the VERSAMARK WATER MARK STAMP PAD and LAWN FAWN BLACK EMBOSSING POWDER on a very light gray cardstock.  For the little speech bubble above the panda's head I used LAWN FAWN - CLEAR STAMP - ALL THE SPEECH BUBBLES and LAWN FAWN - LAWN CUTS - ALL THE SPEECH BUBBLES.

I had some little stars that I had previously cut out of silver glitter paper using LAWN FAWN - LAWN CUTS - HEARTS & STARS SKINNY TAG.  

This stamp set makes the cutest belated birthday card.  

Thank you for stopping by the blog today and I hope that you have a great day!!!

Sandy

I Love You So Mush!!!

 

Hello friends!  Last weekend, I decided to goof around with my Altenew Stampwheel and the Lawn Fawn's - To My Fungi stamp set.  

I was able to stamp eight mushrooms around the opening of the Magic Iris Die.  The mushrooms just barely made it to the edge of the Magic Die Add On.  

Once I had the mushrooms stamped, I masked them off with mushrooms stamped and cut from Post It Note Label tape.  It might seem like it is a lot of masking, but it went pretty quickly because the shapes are fairly simple.  I used my Copic Airbrush System to color the background with the colors; YG63, YG67 and G28.  I speckled it with a watered down gold metallic watercolor.  

The images were all colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

• R17, R27, R29
• YR20, E21, E53
• B0000
• B000
• C1

I cut the mechanism from Tomato Cardstock and stamped the "We're A Perfect Pair" on the closed part of the die.  I had really wanted to used black heat embossing powder on it, but I was worried it would work well with all the cuts, so I used just a regular black ink.  The "Glad You're Mine" and "We're A Perfect Pair" sentiments are a combination of Henry's Build A Sentiment: Love and Henry's Build A Sentiment: Family.  

This would make a fun Anniversary or Valentines Day card.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Sandy