Fairy Garden Fun Fold Card

Hey y'all! Happy Monday! I hope that you all had a great weekend. I'm back today to share a card with you that I created for the Lawn Fawnatics Fun Fold Challenge. (Click here to see the challenge announcement and the other entries for it. They are great!)

I knew as soon as I saw this challenge what I wanted to do. I knew that I wanted a tall card that had panels that opened to reveal a full scene, but also had a scene when it was closed. I played around with a couple of different things and finally settled on this version, which I really love. 

To start the card, I took an 8.5" by 11" piece of white cardstock and trimmed off half an inch from the 11 inch side. The resulting measurements were now 8.5" by 10.5". I scored it at the 3.5 and 7 inch mark on the long side. I folded it to make a kind of "z" fold. Next, I determined how tall I wanted my front and middle portions to be. After some trial and error, I ended up with the front panel measuring 4 3/8" tall and the middle panel was 6 1/4" tall. To get them the right size, I just measured up the side of the panels and used a ruler and an Xacto knife to cut a straight line horizontally to the next panel. Then I just used my scissors to trim down the fold to my cut line. When the card was laid flat open, it kind of looked like stair-steps. 

Next, I started inking my sky and grass panels. I cut 5 pieces of white cardstock to 3.5" by 8.5". I used my card base as a guide when trying to see how much of the green grass I needed on each panel. Using Mowed Lawn Distress Ink, I inked each of them. After they had been inked, I sprayed them with water from a Distress Sprayer and blotted them dry with a paper towel. Next, I ran each panel through my die cut machine using Lawn Fawn's Grassy Border die, making sure that each one was just a little taller than the panel it would be covering; with the exception of the last panel for the inside of the card. I made sure it was taller than the second panel, but short enough to leave space for the sky. I should also mention that I cut 2 for the front portion of the card and 2 for the middle portion of the card, so I made sure that each of those were the same size respectively. After die cutting the grass into the tops, I inked up the back side with the same green ink so that there wouldn't be any white grass showing on the backs of the panels. Then I inked my sky. I used Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on the top of the back panel of my card base. I also sprayed it with a Distress Sprayer.

Next, I stamped all my images. I actually stamped way more than I needed. But I wanted to make sure that I had plenty to use. I really wanted a full card. And these images are so cute, you can never really have too many. I used quite a few stamp sets from Lawn Fawn: Elphie Selfie, Year Two, To A Fungi, Little Fireflies, Gnome Sweet Gnome, and Fairy Friends. These sets are some of my very favorites. I stamped them with the MISTI using Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink. This is my favorite black ink to use. It's a nice, crisp black ink that's Copic Marker friendly. 

After I had stamped all those adorable images, I was ready to get coloring. I used the following Copic Markers:

Flowers: G03, G14, RV10, RV13, V01, V04, BG11, BG13, Y13, Y15, E55, and E57

Mushrooms: V01, V04, BG11, BG13, YG21, YG25, RV55, E53, E55, B34, B37, B39, W7, RV00, RV02, FB2, B63, B66, and YR04

Mushroom Houses: R24, R29, E53, E55, YR30, YR31, E79, B000, 0, B63, B66, YR02, YR04, and E57

Birds: B000, and B00

Bees: Y15, Y17, W4, W7, BG10, and 0

Turtles: G21, G24, and W2

Mouse: E55 and E57

Fireflies: E11, E13, Y17, BG10, and 0

Fairies: RV11, RV13, V01, V04, YG21, YG25, E00, E21, YR31, Y17, E55, E27, BG10, 0, and E57

Fairy House: RV00, RV02, B63, B66, C4, C5, G03, G14, B000, and 0

Gnome: W2, W4, YR15, YR16, W8, B99, E00 and E21

After I had colored all the images, I die cut them if I had the coordinating set or fussy cut them if I didn't. I used the Elphie Selfie dies, Year Two dies, Little Fireflies dies, Gnome Sweet Gnome dies, and Fairy Friends dies. 

Next, I adhered my grassy panels to the corresponding portion on the card base. Once I had them in place, I arranged my die cut images all over my card base until I had the perfect placement for each. Once I had them all arranged, I glued them in place. 

Lastly, I stamped my sentiments on the first and last panels. I used sentiments from the Year Two and Fairy Friends stamp sets using Versafine Onyx Black ink. Now my card was completed. I really enjoyed making this fun card! I really can't ever have too many fairy cards. They make my heart so happy!

I hope that you enjoyed my take on this challenge. If you have any questions or comments, I'd love to hear from you! I do so appreciate you stopping by and visiting with me today. I hope that you have a wonderful week! See you again soon!

Ahoy, Matey!

Hey friends! Happy Wednesday! I can not believe how close it is to August already! This summer has just flown by. I'm trying my best to savor these last weeks of summer. I'm one of those moms who enjoys the kids being out of school, and I'm just not quite ready for it to be over yet. So, today I thought I'd share with y'all a nice summer-y card. 

I created this card for a special young man's 4th birthday. I wanted to make something fun and playful for him and thought this stamp and die set would be perfect. To start my card I made the background panel first. I started by inking some white cardstock with Brushed Corduroy distress ink to use for the sandy beach. Then I inked more white cardstock for the sky and ocean waves. For the ocean, I used Salty Ocean distress ink and the sky was inked using Tumbled Glass distress ink. After all pieces were inked, I sprayed them with a Distress sprayer and blotted them dry with a paper towel. 

I cut two pieces to use as the ocean waves using Lawn Fawn's Ocean Wave Border Dies. After I had die cut them, I added a bit of Blueprint Sketch distress ink to the tops of the waves, Then I cut the sand using Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Border Dies. Once all of my background pieces were cut, I adhered them to a side folding white A2 card base. 

Next, I was ready to stamp. I used the Ahoy, Matey stamps from Lawn Fawn. I stamped the little pirates, a ship, a couple of trees, parrot, and treasure chest using Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink. I made sure to use an ink that was suitable for Copic markers. After all images were stamped, I colored them using the marker combinations that follow. For the boots of the pirates I used W7 and W8. The pirate girl's hat and dress I used R29, R27, C1, B41, and B45. For her hair I used E55 and E57. The skintones I used on both pirates were E00 and E11. For the little boy pirate's clothes I used R27, R29, W4, W7, W0, B41, and B45. For his peg leg I used E79 and E57. I colored his hair using  E55 and E53. For the treasure chest I used E25, E27, R27, R29, Y15, and Y19. The parrot was colored in shades of green using YG21, YG25, and YR16 for it's beak. On the pirate ship I used E25, E27,W7, W8, R37, and R39. Lastly I used E57, E79, E55, G03, and G07 for the trees. After all the images were colored, I die cut them with the coordinating dies and arranged them on the front of my card. To complete the card, I stamped the "Ahoy, Matey" sentiment at the top right of the card. 

I hope you enjoyed today's card creation! This card was super fun to make! If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them below. I'd love to hear from you! I hope that you have a wonderful Wednesday! Come back and see me soon! 

Aloha!

Hey everybody! Happy Friday! I'm back today to share a card with you that I created for the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 32. I absolutely adore ALL things Lawn Fawn. If I could, I would own at least one of everything they have ever created. These colors for this challenge are some of my favorite and were the basis for my card today. 

To start, I cut some white cardstock to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" and inked the whole entire panel with Twisted Citron distress ink. Next, I picked some colors from my paper collection that matched the colors of the inspiration board. I die cut each color using the Scripty Aloha die several times. I also cut one aloha from black cardstock. I arranged the words in different orientations on my panel and adhered them down. Some of the words were hanging off the panel, which was what I wanted. After the glue had dried, I just trimmed the excess off. I wanted this to look kind of like a piece of larger paper that had been trimmed down. 

Next, I stamped the pineapple and sunglasses onto a piece of white cardstock using Copic friendly ink. My go-to favorite is the Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink. I also stamped one of the faces onto the pineapple. These images all came from the Aloha stamp set. I colored the pineapple with my Copics using Y17, Y19, and E35. I colored the crown with G03 and G07. After I colored, I cut the images out with the coordinating dies from the Aloha die set. Then, I glued the glasses on top of the stamped eyes so that only the smile from the stamp was visible. I also cut out a stitched circle from the Large Stitched Circle Stackables set from black cardstock. (I used the second smallest circle in the set.) I adhered one of the lighter blue word dies on top of the black word die cut to give it a little bit of shadow. I adhered the pineapple to the top of the circle and added the die cut blue/black aloha word to the bottom of the circle. I then foam mounted that to the center of my background panel. To finish the card, I attached the panel to a white side-fold A2 card base. 

I really enjoyed using these colors for my card today. I hope that you like my take on this challenge. If you have any questions or comments for me, I'd love to hear them. Thanks so much for coming by for a visit! I hope y'all have a wonderful weekend! See you again soon!

"Sorry I've Been Dragon My Feet"

Hey y'all! Happy Monday! I have another card to share with you today. I am using one of my favorite stamp sets from My Favorite Things. It's the Magical Dragons set. It's an adorable stamp set!

To start the card, I cut a piece of white cardstock to 4" by 5 1/4". I used Stormy Sky Distress Ink to cover the whole panel. I then took the Radiating Rays Stencil (also from My Favorite Things) and centered it on my panel. I inked over the stencil using Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink. I have to tell you, I haven't really used stencils that much before; but I really like the look I got with this one! I'll have to play around with them more in the future.

Next, I stamped one of the dragons from the set onto white cardstock. There are a few dragons included in this set, but I felt this little guy went perfect with the sentiment I planned on using. I used Copics to color it. I used shades of blue. I am no expert at Copic coloring, but I love using them! For this particular image, I used B60, B63, B66, B69, Y13, and Y15. After I had finished coloring it, I used the coordinating die from the Magical Dragons Die-namics Set to cut it out. 

I stamped a coordinating sentiment from the Knight in Armor stamp set onto the background panel. I stamped it in Versafine Onyx Black ink using the MISTI stamping tool. When the ink was dry, I layered the panel onto a side-folding white A2 card base. Then to complete the card, I foam mounted the dragon die cut in the center. That's it! This card was quite simple to put together, but the result is just stunning. 

I'm so glad you stopped in for a visit today! I hope that you have a wonderful week! See you again soon!

MFT"s Summer School Day 5

Happy Friday friends! Hope you are all having a great day! I have so enjoyed this week of summer school over at My Favorite Things. Today I am sharing with you the card that I made for their last day. The topic of this session was symmetry. 

To start my card, I cut piece of bristol cardstock to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2". I used Wilted Violet Distress Ink to ink the whole entire panel. I then used a Distress Sprayer and sprayed a light mist on the panel to give it a nice distressed look. While I waited on this panel to dry, I did my die-cutting. I used the Magical Mandala die and cut two of them from black cardstock. I used my Tim Holtz guillotine trimmer to cut one of the die cuts into four equal pieces. I placed the whole Magical Mandala die cut piece in the center of the panel. Then I added the four smaller pieces to the corners, making sure to keep them turned the same way so that they would stay symmetrical. After they were all adhered, I trimmed off any of the die cut that was hanging over the edge of my panel. Once that was done, I spritzed the whole panel with Tsukineko Sheer Sparkle Shimmer Spritz to give it a nice, shimmery sparkle. 

Next, I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock using Versafine Onyx Black Ink. I embossed it with WOW Neutral Ultra Shimmer Embossing Glitter. I wanted this card to have all the sparkle I could get on it. The sentiment I used was from the You Give Me Butterflies stamp set. I trimmed it using the guillotine trimmer. I adhered the background panel to a white side-folding A2 card base. Lastly, I foam mounted the sentiment in the center of the card. 

I really appreciate you coming by to visit today. I hope that you have enjoyed summer school as much as I have! For more details about Day 5 please click here. I hope that you all enjoy your weekend! I hope you'll come back and see me soon!

MFT's Summer School Day 4

Welcome to Day 4 of MFT's Summer School! I hope that you all had a wonderful day yesterday! Today I wanted to share with you the card I made for the complementary colors session of summer school. For my colors, I chose to use purple and yellow.

To start my card, I cut a white panel to 4" by 5 1/4" to use as the background. I stamped the most solid layer of two different butterflies with yellow ink in a diagonal line pattern. I used the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set. I completely covered the whole panel. When necessary I allowed the images to stamp off of the paper.  I used the MISTI tool to help me stamp these images.

After the base layer of the butterflies had been stamped, it was time to add an additional layer to them. Most of the stamps in this set have three layers that you can use, but today I only used two for each of the butterflies. I stamped this layer with a purple ink. I used the MISTI to help me get the images lined up correctly. 

After all the top layers had been stamped, I stamped an additional butterfly on another piece of white cardstock using the same yellow and purple inks that were on the background. I then used the coordinating die from the Beautiful Butterflies Die-namics set to cut it out. I knew that I was going to foam mount this butterfly on top of the butterfly in the bottom right of the card, but I wanted it to have more definition to it. I decided to stamp the top-most layer onto some vellum using the same purple ink and then cut it with it's coordinating die. I heat set this ink to make sure that it would not smear on the vellum. Once I was sure it was completely dry, I adhered it to the other die cut butterfly. I only added glue on the butterfly's body so that I could roll the wings of the butterfly a bit to create some movement on the card.

Before I foam mount this butterfly, I attached the white background panel to a piece of black cardstock cut to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2". Next, I attached both pieces to a white top folding A2 card base. I then put this panel into the MISTI and stamped a sentiment from the You Give Me Butterflies stamp set using Versa Fine Onyx Black ink.  After the sentiment had completely set, I added the vellum covered butterfly die cut using some double sided foam adhesive. Now my card was completely finished. 

I hope that you enjoyed my card contribution today. If you have any questions or comments please leave them below. If you would like to participate in MFT's Summer School, you can find more information on today's lesson by clicking here. Thanks so much for visiting with me today! I am grateful that you've stopped by! 

MFT's Summer School Day 3

Happy 4th of July friends! I hope that everyone is having a wonderful day celebrating this special day for our country. Thank you to everyone who has served our great nation and has played a part in making it what it is today. I will forever be thankful to you all.

Today I wanted to share with you the card that I created as my homework for day 3 of MFT's summer school. Day 3 was all about repetition. So for my card I decided that I wanted to repeat an image on my background. After looking through my MFT collection, I saw the arrow die in the Blueprints 13 die set. I don't know about you, but I have always liked arrows. So I thought that this would be the perfect element to repeat on my card. 

To start my card, I looked through my cardstock and picked the colors that I felt like were bright and cheerful. I started with the lime green cardstock and cut it to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2". I layered it on the front of a side folding A2 white card base. Next I used both the large and small arrows from Blueprints 13 and die cut them several times from two shades of pink cardstock. I adhered the largest arrows right next to each other, alternating their directions, to a piece of white cardstock that had been trimmed to 4" by 5 1/4".  I made sure to keep them to the left side of the piece so I could add my sentiment.

I cut out the bold YOU sentiment from black cardstock using the You Trio Dies. I put the white cardstock piece with the large arrows into my MISTI. I used the die cut letters as a guide to line up the coordinating sentiment stamp. I used a sentiment from the All About You stamp set.  I removed the die cut letters and stamped the sentiment using a green ink that matched the green cardstock base panel. Once that had been stamped, I adhered it to the green base panel. I then added a few of the small arrows beside the larger arrows at the top and bottom. Lastly, I foam mounted the die cut letters right above the stamped sentiment. With that, my card was completed. 

I really appreciate you taking time to stop by today. Click here to check out the Summer School Day 3 blog post from MFT. I hope that you all have a safe and blessed Independence Day!

MFT's Summer School Day 2

Hey everybody! Today I have another card to share with you that I created for the MFT's day 2 of Summer School. I have to tell you, I am really loving summer school! It's so nice to me to be given specifics to follow. (I love having rules, nerdy I know!) Today's lesson was using primary colors.

This card was a bit challenging for me as far as just using these colors. Normally I tend to gravitate more toward bright and bold colors; but, in the end, I think that this is one of my most favorite card creations of all time. I absolutely love it! It just screams summer to me. 

To make this card I die cut the Snow Drifts Cover Up from some plain white card stock. I also cut it three more times from some red, yellow, and blue cardstock that I had in my collection. I picked out my favorite shades of these colors that I had. After I had it die cut, I adhered the white outside frame of the die onto the front of a top folding A2 card base. Next I just placed the pieces from the three different colors into the openings made by the die. I made sure to keep my colors in order and keep that order repeating from top to bottom. After I had in-laid all the pieces my background was complete.

For the sentiment of the card I cut the letters Y and U from the same red and blue cardstock using the bold YOU die from the You Trio Dies set. For the letter O, I used the Sunny Skies Die and cut it from the same yellow cardstock as before. I adhered them with foam tape onto the center of my card. Next, I stamped my sentiment from the All About You stamp set onto a white cardstock strip with some red ink to match the red paper. I then put that under my sunny you letters and my card was completed. 

I hope that you enjoyed today's session in summer school.If you haven't yet had the chance to check out the MFT blog, I really encourage you to go take a look. You will not be disappointed! Day 2's lesson can be found here. They are offering some great prizes if you do your homework. 😉 Thanks so much for visiting with me today. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. See y'all tomorrow for Day 3!

MFT's Summer School Day 1

Hey y'all! I'm back to share with you the card that I created for My Favorite Things Summer School Day 1. The topic for day 1 of school was white space. I really enjoyed creating this card. It was quite simple to put together, but I absolutely love the end result. It is perfect to give to someone who will be celebrating a birthday, young or young at heart.

 I simply started with a white cardstock panel that was cut slightly smaller than my card base. It measured 4" x 5 1/4". I stamped the candles from the Make a Wish stamp set with a deep purple ink. I used my Misti tool just incase I needed to stamp the image twice. Next, I stamped the candle flames with a rich yellow ink. Lastly, I stamped the celebrate sentiment from the set with black ink. I kept my image in the top center of the card.

After everything had been stamped, I went over the candles and flames with a Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to add some sparkle. Who doesn't love a little sparkle? To finish my card off I added some craft foam to the back of my panel and added it to a white side fold A2 card base.

If you are interested in participating in summer school I encourage you to visit the MFT blog here at Summer School Day 1. I am so thankful that you stopped by to  see me today! If you have any questions or comments leave them for me below. See you at school!