My Favorite Place

Hey everyone! Happy Sunday! I hope that everyone has had a great weekend. We are all still enjoying every minute of these last few lazy summer days. Summer is one of God's sweetest blessings! Today I have a card to share with you that I created for the latest Lawnfawnatics Challenge. It's all about your favorite places. So...I created a pizza place on my card. 😊 Anyone who knows me would agree that the pizza place is one of my favorite places. I'm a huge pizza lover! I'd eat it everyday if I could. For me, it's another sweet blessing! If you would like to see the other favorite places of some really talented creators, just click here. 

The first thing I wanted to do for this card was to get all of the pieces inked and together. I started with a piece of white cardstock cut to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2". I inked it with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink to make it look like the walls of a pizza place. For the window, I die cut a frame from white cardstock using the second smallest frame from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Frames dies. For the window frame, I inked it using Walnut Stain Distress Ink. The window pane was inked up using Tumbled Glass Distress ink. 

Next I worked on the tablecloth. I wanted that "classic" pizza place look, so I used the Gingham Backdrops Stamps from Lawn Fawn. I stamped it twice onto a piece of white cardstock that was sized to fit across the front of the card.  I used the MISTI tool to help me get it lined up and get that nice crisp stamped image. It was inked using Lawn Fawn's Lobster ink. After I had stamped it, I cut it out and used a corner rounder to round the top of the table. I attached the tablecloth to the bottom of the inked panel. 

Now it was time to work on the pizza parts of the card. I used Lawn Fawn's Quinn's Capital ABC's dies to cut out the word "PIZZA" for the window. I die cut them from some white cardstock. Once they were all cut, I flipped them over and colored the back side of them with an R27 Copic marker. I glued them onto the window pane, making sure to keep them backwards so that it would look like they were on the outside of the window. Next, I cut a piece of acetate to fit the frame to give the window that "glassy" look. Then, I adhered the whole window to the card in the upper right corner. 

Next, I worked on the pizza boxes. I stamped them using Lawn Fawn's Pizza My Heart stamp set. I really LOVE this set! I stamped 3 pizza boxes and the pizza cutter onto white cardstock using Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink. I colored them using the following Copic markers:

Box: E53, E55, R24, and R27

Pizza Cutter: R24, R27, C2, and C4

Once they were colored, I fussy cut them and adhered them onto the table. 

To finish up the front of the card, I stamped a sentiment from the same set using the same black ink. I used the MISTI tool to help me get precise placement and stamped it multiple times to get the nice dark, crisp stamped image. I also added a small heart from the set underneath the sentiment. I colored it using the R27 Copic marker. Once that was all finished, I adhered the panel to a white side-folding A2 card base.

I also stamped a sentiment on the inside of the card. I used the same black ink for this. I also wanted to add a slice of pizza, so I stamped it onto a separate piece of white cardstock using the Jet Black ink and colored it with Copic markers. I used E53, E57, YR30, and YR31. Then I stamped the pepperoni and olive multiple times onto the slice. I stamped the pepperoni with the Lobster ink and the olive with the Jet Black ink. I fussy cut it and adhered it next to my sentiment. And that completely finished my card. 

I hope that you like this card that represents one of my favorite places. If you have any questions or comments, just leave them down below. I'd be so happy to hear from you! I hope that you all have a wonderful Sunday! See you again real soon!

Die Cut Thank You Card

Hey y'all! Happy Tuesday! I'm back today to share a card that I made that is almost a completely die cut card. I love the Lawn Fawn summer release! It is all so completely adorable! I used one of their awesome die cut sets for the focal point of this card. 

To make the background of this yummy card, I cut a panel of white cardstock to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2". I used the Simon Says Stamp Reverse Polka Background and stamped it with Lawn Fawn Ballet Slippers ink. I used a MISTI tool so that I could stamp it multiple times if I needed too. This background stamp is one of my favorite stamps of all time! It is gorgeous!! I set that panel aside and started working on the rest of the card.

I die cut all of my pieces from white cardstock and inked them all up using various colors of Distress Inks. For my sentiment, I die cut it with the Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks Die and inked it with Mermaid Lagoon. The ice cream cone was cut using Lawn Fawn's I Scream, You Scream Dies. These dies are soooo cute! I inked both pieces of the cone using Brushed Corduroy; I just inked the bottom piece a little more to make it look more shaded. I cut the ice cream scoop twice. One of the scoops I sent through my die cut machine again using the wavy line die that makes the topping or the syrup on the scoop. I inked the whole scoop very lightly with Tattered Rose Distress Ink. The topping was inked with Picked Raspberry. The cherry on top was inked with Candied Apple and Lucky Clover. After I let my pieces dry for a few minutes, I then glued them together. I foam mounted them onto a scallop rectangle that I had die cut using Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Stackables Dies. 

After that, I began to assemble my card. I used a white top-folding A2 card base. I adhered my background panel directly onto my card base. Then I adhered the die cut, foam mounted ice cream cone rectangle piece onto the upper center of the card. Lastly, I adhered my scripty thanks die cut to the bottom center of the card. And that was it, my card was complete. I love this simple, sweet, adorable card. It was quick and easy to make. The die cut sentiment could also be substituted for a number of other die cut greetings, depending upon what occasion you are celebrating. 

I hope that you enjoyed today's card. I hope that y'all have an awesome Tuesday! If you have any questions or comments, just leave them for me below! See you again real soon!

Thank You Circles Stamped Background

Good Monday morning friends! I hope that you all had the best weekend possible! I have a new card to share with y'all today. I created this one for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. To find out more information about the challenge and see all the other lovely creations, click here. This week's challenge was all about making your own background. This is one thing that I've been trying to do more and more lately. As I was looking through my stamp sets, the Simon Says Stamp Circle Sayings just jumped out at me. I love this set, but I had honestly never used it before. I thought to myself, "There's no time like the present." I got it out and set to work. 😊

The first thing that I did was cut some white cardstock to fit an A2 card base (4 1/4" by 5 1/2").  I chose a few of the stamps from the set to use and mounted them each onto an acrylic block. I also chose some of my favorite inks to use. The colors I picked were Lawn Fawn's Merman and Plastic Flamingo and Simon Says Stamp's Deep Purple and Jellybean. I alternated the colors, making a pattern as I stamped. I kept the Deep Purple and Jellybean circles with each other and the Merman and Plastic Flamingo circles with each other. I tried to keep the spacing as uniform as possible when stamping. Each set of circles has the thank you sentiment outer circle, then the dotted circle next, and in the middle is the solid heart image. After I had filled the panel with the circles, I stamped a small thanks sentiment from the same stamp set in the white spaces of the card using Lawn Fawn's Jet Black ink. As the finishing touch for the background panel, I ran it through my die cutting machine with the largest rectangle from Lawn Fawn's Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables Dies. I think that stitching detail makes it look complete. I also cut the word "Thanks" out of black cardstock using Quinn's Capital ABC's dies (also from Lawn Fawn). I adhered them to the bottom of the card panel using some foam tape to give them a bit of dimension. I then adhered the whole panel onto a white side folding A2 card base, and that completed my card. 

I hope you enjoyed my take on this week's Wednesday challenge from Simon Says Stamp. I love these bright and cheerful colors! If you have any questions or comments, just leave them below. It would make my day to hear from you! Thanks for visiting with me today! Until next time!

"Wild" Birthday Card

Hey y'all! I've got a new card to share with you today that I created for the current Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge. This week's challenge is "Wild Things". For more information on the challenge and to see all the other entries, click here.

As soon as I saw the guidelines for this challenge, the first thing that came to mind was of course something jungle or animal related. So, I decided to use this completely adorable stamp set from Waffle Flower. It is their Jungle B-Day set. It's so sweet! 

I started this card by working on the background first. I cut a piece of white cardstock to fit an A2 sized card. I used two of the leaf images and one of the vine images from the set and just stamped them multiple times to fill the entire panel. I alternated the vines and the leaves until I had the background covered. I stamped the images with Simon Says Stamp Jellybean ink.

Next, I stamped the images that I thought I might use onto some white cardstock making sure to use Copic friendly ink. In this case, I used Lawn Fawn's Jet Black. It's my favorite Copic marker friendly ink. I stamped and colored many more images than I actually used on this card, but I wasn't quite sure what I had in mind for the scene for this card at the time, so I just wanted to make sure that I had enough. I colored the images with my Copics using the following combinations:

Vines and Leaves: G03 and G07

Gifts: BG11, V01, V04, B91, B93, and R29

Cake: R20, R24, R27, R29, Y11, Y13, E51, E53, YR02, YR04, C1, and 0

Elephant: C2, C4, C6, BG11, BG13, and Y19

Toucan: Y15, Y17, FB2, W7, W8, and C1

Tiger: YR04, YR07, R20, R29, B91, and B93

Bananas: Y11 and Y13

Monkeys: E25, E27, E21, and R20

After I had them all colored, I cut them out with their coordinating dies. These stamps/dies are just so adorable! I cut out a circle from black cardstock using the Small Stitched Circle Stackables Dies from Lawn Fawn. I adhered it to my stamped background panel in the upper center of the card. I played around with the arrangement of the die cut images until I found a great placement for them. Then I adhered them to the card panel. 

To finish the card front, I die cut the word "celebrate" using the Celebrate Border Die from Lawn Fawn. I trimmed off some of the edges to get it to fit nicely on the card. Then, I ran it through the Xyron sticker maker. This made it so much easier to attach it to the front of my card. I attached the whole panel to a white top folding A2 card base. 

On the inside of the card, I stamped a sentiment from the Reveal Wheel Sentiments Stamp set by Lawn Fawn using the same Jet Black ink as before. I put one of the other monkeys that I had already die cut above it just to make the inside of the card as cute as the outside. 

Lastly, I wanted a bit of sparkle on the card somewhere. So, I put some Nuvo drops in White Blizzard over the celebrate die cut. That finishes up my card for today. I hope that you like it!

If you have any questions or comments, I would love to hear from you! Have a wonderful Sunday! See you again soon!

Flamingo Birthday Card

Happy Saturday friends! I've got a fun new card to share with you that I created. My aunt's birthday is coming up and I wanted to make her a fun summery card. And Lawn Fawn's flamingos were the perfect thing for that! 

I started this card by first making the main scene. I stamped the flamingos from Flamingo Together stamp set. I used Lawn Fawn's Jet Black ink (since it's Copic marker friendly). Then I colored them using the following colors: RV13, RV14, YR04, and YR09. They were super fast and easy images to color.  Next I stamped the palm trees from the same set. I used Lawn Fawn Walnut ink and Simon Says Stamp Jelly Bean ink. Then I cut all the images out with the coordinating dies. 

I knew that I wanted to have a beach scene, so I cut out a circle from white cardstock using the next to largest stitched circle die in the Large Stitched Circle Stackables die set. I then die cut this white cardstock circle several times. First, I wanted to make the sand; so I used a die from the Stitched Hillside Border dies to cut the bottom portion of the circle. Next, was going to be the waves. I cut a little more of the circle from the bottom portion using the Ocean Waves Border dies. Next, I needed to cut a sun in the sky. To do this, I arranged the smallest circle from the Large Stitched Circle Stackables die set on the bottom of the portion of the circle that was left. I didn't want it to cut a complete circle, but rather just half to look as though it was the sun setting on the horizon; so I left the die hanging off the paper some when I ran it through my die cutting machine. 

Now that I had all of my background pieces for my scene, I went ahead and inked them up using Distress Inks. For the sky I used Tumbled Glass. The sun was inked with Spiced Marmalade. Salty Ocean was the perfect color for the waves. And lastly I used a combination of Tea Dye and Brushed Corduroy for the sandy beach. To assemble the beach scene, I cut out a circle from black cardstock using the largest circle in the Small Stitched Circle Stackables set. I adhered all of the inked pieces back together onto that black circle. Then I layered the flamingos and palm trees onto it as well. 

For the background panel I wanted something kind of whimsical to match the fun scene. I love polka dots and thought that would be the perfect thing for the background. I looked through the stamps that I have, and saw the corner image in the Let's Bokeh stamp set. I love that stamp set so much! I stamped it all over a piece of white cardstock cut to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2", rotating the block as I stamped. I used the perfect shade of pink ink too--Plastic Flamingo from Lawn Fawn (was there any other choice? 😉). After I had the background stamped, I ran it through my die cut machine again using the largest rectangle from the Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables set to get that great stitching detail around the card. I attached the circle scene to the top center of the panel. Next, I found a birthday sentiment that worked well with my scene to stamp on the bottom of the panel. I used the Happy Birthday from Happy, Happy, Happy stamp set. I stamped the sentiment using the MISTI so I could stamp it multiple times. I really wanted a dark, crisp stamped sentiment. I used Versafine Onyx Black ink for this. To finish up my card, I adhered the completed panel to a white side-folding A2 card base.

I hope that you like this card and that it makes you think of the all the fun that summer brings. I really appreciate you stopping by to see me today! I hope that you have an amazing weekend with all the ones you love! See you next week!

Fairy Friends Christmas Card

Hey guys! Happy Wednesday! I've got another card creation to share with you today. I'm trying to get an early start on my Christmas cards this year. Hopefully I will actually get more than 2 given out this year. I've decided this will be the year that my procrastination doesn't get the best of me. 😉

I really just can't get enough of these adorable gnomes and fairies from Lawn Fawn! I absolutely love them! For my box, I used Lawn Fawn's Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up die. I used Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock for this card. I decided to use this heavy cardstock because I knew that I was going to be inking both sides of it heavily and also heat embossing. To start, I cut the cardstock in half just to make it easier for me to work with. I used the Frosty Fairy Friends stamp set to create the outside of the box. I used the 4 snowflakes included in that set to get my snowy "background". I just arranged them onto an acrylic block so I could stamp it many times, this method was quicker than using the MISTI. I made sure that I used my anti-static powder bag on the surface of the cardstock. Next, I stamped the snowflakes using Versamark ink. It is a clear ink that's very sticky, perfect for heat embossing with. After I had stamped the image, I covered it with white embossing powder from Ranger. I didn't immediately heat-set it, as I wanted to stamp the image several times before I did that. I repeated the process several times until I got my card stock almost covered with snowflakes. It wasn't necessary for me to cover the whole entire panel since I was going to die cut the pop-up card base from it. After all the snowflakes had been heat set, it was time to ink it up. I used Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink. I inked both sides of  the cardstock. I let it sit for a few minutes, then I used a paper towel to clean off any of the ink that was on the embossing. This just made the embossing "pop" against the blue background. I sprayed the other side with water from a Distress Sprayer and blotted it dry. I did this for both pieces of the Neenah cardstock. I am absolutely in love with this vibrant color!

After everything was dry, I die cut the base panel of the box from both of my ink blended backgrounds. I folded the box along the score lines and made sure to crease them well with my bone folder. I then cut 6 of the inside tab pieces from some white cardstock. I folded and creased along the score lines of 3 of those pieces for the inside of the box. I adhered the two box pieces together, leaving one side open. Then I adhered the 3 tab pieces to the inside of the box and completely closed it at this point. The remaining 3 tabs are what I cut the snowy ground from. To do this, I used Lawn Fawn's Puffy Cloud Border dies. Then I cut off the folding part from them and adhered them onto the white panels inside the box card. 

Now I was ready to work on my scene. I have been enjoying coloring so much lately. I am by no means an expert. Not even close. But I do so enjoy it. There's just something about coloring with a marker that has always made my heart happy. I started by stamping my images. I used the gnome from Lawn Fawn's Gnome Sweet Gnome. I used the toboggan and earmuffs from the Making Frosty Friends set. The rest of the images (fairies, snow-covered mushrooms, gift, and fairy house) all came from the Frosty Fairy Friends set. I stamped them with Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink since I would be using Copic markers to color them. The only image that I didn't stamp with the Jet Black was the mirror gnome. I couldn't get a solid stamped image with it. I feel like it was because I was stamping it onto a mirror block and then stamping that onto the paper. I ended up using the Versafine Onyx Black ink for that one single image. It is not Copic friendly so I had to be super careful when coloring that image. 

I colored the images in colors that made me think of my family. The gnomes in colors that my husband and son like and fairies in colors that me and my girls like. Below you will find a list of the Copic colors that I used.

Gnomes: R39, R29, R24, W7, W4, W0, B39, B37, B34, E21, E51, E55, and E57

Fairies: E21, E51, Y19, Y15, RV14, RV13, RV10, E27, E25, V15, V12, V01, W8, W7, W4, E79, G000, and 0

Toboggan: R39, R29 and R24

Earmuffs: B39, B37, and B34

Fairy House: E55, E57, E79, R39, R29, BG32, and 0

Gifts: G07 and R29

Snow-Covered Mushrooms: R39, R29, E53, E55, C1, B91, and 0

After I had colored the images, I cut them out using the coordinating dies. I also used the stitched rectangle die from the pop-up card die set to stamp the sentiment on. It also came from the Frosty Fairy Friends set. I stamped it with the same ink that I blended on the box. Now I just arranged everything to get it in just the right place. I adhered the house with foam tape to the back of the box itself. Every other image was put onto the snowy tabs inside the box. I put the earmuffs onto one of the gnomes. For the other gnome, I cut a tiny bit off his hat and adhered the toboggan on top of it. I wanted them to be ready for the snow. I put them onto the back tab, one on each side. On the middle tab, I attached two snow-covered mushrooms one on each side, and what I called the "mom" fairy. I put her onto a small strip of acetate that I had left over from making some shaker cards. I wanted her to look like she was flying. Onto the front tab, I attached the other two fairies and 3 more mushrooms. I also put a gift in each of the fairies' hands. I placed the stitched box with the sentiment onto the front flap of the box. Now, the card was complete. 

I really loved making this card. It just seems like the perfect fit for our family Christmas card. I hope that you like it too! I'm so glad that you came to visit me today! I hope that you will come back soon! Have a wonderful Wednesday!