You're My Bunny!

 

Happy Almost March!  Today I have a Give It A Whirl Card using the new Spring Basket Stamp and Die Set from Lawn Fawn.  I thought it would be fun to have the eggs on the front of the "whirl" and then show them hatched on the base along with a bunny.

For the background on the base, and both Give It A Whirl circles, I used Broken China Distress Oxide Ink along with the Cloudy Stencil.  The grassy areas on all the pieces are inked with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink.  

Rather than color and cut the images on the Give It A Whirl Mechanism, I decided that since both of the layers were pretty basic, that I would just stamp and mask off.  I stamped the baskets and the contents, then masked them off using Post It Label Tap. Then I inked the sky and grass. I also prefer to do this technique on the back piece of the mechanism because there aren't edges that get caught up when you move the disks if you have die cut and glued them on.  

I wanted to use the Give It A Whirl Scalloped Add On to give the card a little pop, so I stamped the image with the bunny on the Give It A Whirl Messages: Friends die.  Once I had my image created, I glued it to a piece of patterned paper and then used the Scalloped Add On Piece to cut the whole think out.  

When you cut out the little fillers that go in the basket from the Spring Basket, the die cuts a little bit extra at the bottom to give you something to attach at the bottom.  I decided that I would use the Sandy Beach Accent dies to cut little openings in my grass to insert them it and it worked perfectly. 

All the coloring is done with Copic markers in the following colors: 

• E40, E41, E42, E43 - Bunny
• B000, BG000, B01 - Basket liner
• E31, E34, E35 - Basket
• Y11, Y08, Y38 – Chicks and Yellows
• RV04, RV00 - Tulips
• C1 – Egg shading
• R20, R21
• YG07, G16

The sentiment is from the Spring Basket set and was stamped on Guava Cardstock and cut out with the Everyday Sentiment Banners.  I popped the banner up using foam tape.  

I am really happy with the way this card turned out.  I just love Lawn Fawn's Interactive card, how about you?

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a great one.

Sandy

Adventure Awaits

 

Hello!  I got the new Lawn Fawn release this weekend and have been just itching to get down to my Zen Den to play with some of the goodies.

When I saw the little mice with their maps and binoculars, I had to do a safari themed card.  I love how two of my little friends climbed up on top of the card to get a better look.

For the blue sky background, I used Distress Oxide Inks in Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky and Uncharted Mariner along with the Cloudy Stencil.  For the foreground, I cut brown cardstock using the Stitched Hillside Border and then touched up the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink.  I also did a little bit of splattering on the ground with watered down ink to create a little more dimension.  

For the foliage at the top of the card, I used the Tropical Leaves Backdrop but I cut all of the leaves off at the bottom and about three quaters of the way up from the bottom.  The card would have been too busy if I had left them all on.  I cut them from Algae Cardstock and then blended a little Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide on the edges to soften them up.

The "bushes" that the leopards are hiding in are cut from a dark green cardstock using the Slimline Tropical Leaves Border.  The other little plants on the ground are some left over pieces that I had from the Desert Canyon Backdrop.

The images were colored and die cut from It's A Bird, Car Critters and Toucan Do It.  They were colored in the following Copic colors:

• G21, YG63, G94
• Y11, Y08
• YR31, YR14, YR18
• C2, C5, C9
• RV91, RV93, RV95
• E40, E41, E42, E43, E44
• R20, R21

This was such a fun little card to make - I just love it.  I hope you have been inspired to make a card of your own.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope an adventure is waiting for you!!!

Sandy

Have A Happy Spring

 

Oh my goodness, spring is so close.  I created this card for the current Lawn Fawn Challenge #191 - Spring Fling.  While I usually think pastel colors, eggs and bunnies when I think of spring, I always forget that there are spring showers.  These little guys are taking some shelter under an umbrella to get out of the rain.

The background on this card is ink blended with Distress Oxide Inks in Tea Dye, Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Uncharted Mariner.  Once the inking was dry, I used the Rainy Sky Stencil with some Lawn Fawn Yeti Ink to place some very subtle raindrops.

I cut the cattails using the Cattails Border Die from Algae Cardstock.  I added some shading using Copic markers in the same colors that I used for the frogs and log.  The pond is cut from Mermaid Cardstock using the Bayou Backdrop Die.

The umbrella is cut from Guava Cardstock and Frozen Lemonade patterned paper.  

My little friends, log and lily flowers are cut from the Toadally Awesome stamp and die collection and colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

·       G43, YG67, G94

·       Y04, Y17

·       R21, R22

·       E16, E25, E79

In order to give my card a little dimension, I popped up the raindrops, frogs and lilies using foam dots.

This was a fairly quick card to make and what I liked best about it, is that the coloring is simple and doesn't require a whole lot of markers.

Thanks for stopping by today and I wish you a dry spring.

Sandy 

Sorry You're Feeling Waffle

This cute card is made from a die set by Trinity Stamps call Toaster Card Die Set.  This set has a toast card in it but I wanted to do a waffle popping up instead.  My boys probably ate a million Eggo's growing up so I know I used my toaster more to warm up waffles than I ever did toast.  

To make the waffle card, I used the Clean Cup Layers: Circle Set A to cut out the waffle and to make the actual card.  To make the card, I cut a strip of cardstock 4" x 8" and scored the paper at 4".  I folded the strip in half and then placed the circle die just off the edge of the fold so that when it was sent through the die cut machine, the left side remained intact.  

The waffle is cut from an ivory color cardstock using the same circle die.  I used the Layered Waffle Stencil set to lay in the ink colors.  I used Tea Dye and Rustic Hinge Distress Oxide Ink for the waffle.  The stencil was larger than the die cut circle, so I just centered the stencil over it and then inked it.  For the syrup, I laid that layer on top of the waffle and inked in Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide Ink.   To make the butter pat, I used the stencil with Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Ink on a scrap piece of white cardstock, then I added the highlight using Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink.  I cut the butter pat out and glued it on top of the waffle.  You could stamp anything on the inside of the card or just leave it blank.

Once I had my toaster cut and glued together, I used the Build A Banner for the letters that made the sentiment "Sorry You're Feeling".  The word "Waffle" was cut using the Henry's ABC's die set from Lawn Fawn.  

I placed the toaster on a 5" x 5" piece of patterned paper and then adhered that to a piece of cardstock cut to 5.25" x 5.25".  I added a few sparkle spots and some white gel pen accents to finish the card.

Who doesn't need a get well card this time of year?

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope you have a happy and healthy day!

Sandy