Fall Leaves Spinner Card

Good morning friends! Hope you are all doing great! I have a new fall themed card to share with you all today. This year, I'm quite excited about fall. I haven't gotten out the decorations yet, but I am very happy it's finally gotten here. To me, there's nothing quite like this time of year. The deep, rich, warm, cozy colors of fall are some of God's most beautiful masterpieces. And His gentle reminder that sometimes change is quite beautiful is just what my heart needs. I have many great fall card ideas to share with you in the days to come. =)

For this great fall card, I used some Lawn Fawn things that I have in my collection. To start this card, I looked through my Distress inks and picked out some that I thought were classic fall colors. I wanted to ink the whole entire background panel for the card using all the colors of fall and have them transition from one color to the next. So I inked a 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" panel of white cardstock using Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Fossilized Amber, and Carved Pumpkin Distress inks. Some of these colors I had, but had never used. I found several new favorites! 

After I had inked my background, I worked on the spinner portion of the card. I started by die cutting 2 of the large panels from the Reveal Wheel die set from kraft cardstock. The oval shaped window that I used for the top panel comes from the new Reveal Wheel Square Add-On. I also cut out the tiny arrow in the Reveal Wheel set from kraft cardstock as well. The two circles for the inside of the spinner I just cut from white cardstock. Also, from white cardstock I cut out the scalloped frame for the oval window from the Reveal Wheel Square Add-On die set. 

I embossed a sentiment at the top center of the panel using Versamark ink and Ranger white embossing powder. Before I stamped, I used an anti-static powder bag over the area of the paper that I was going to be embossing. The sentiment that I used came from the Reveal Wheel Holiday Sentiments. There are many choices of great adjectives to use to fill in the window for the rest of the sentiment. For my card, I used a combination of words from Reveal Wheel Sentiments and Reveal Wheel Holiday Sentiments. The adjectives I used were: magical, cozy, fun, and sweet. I stamped them using Lawn Fawn's Lobster ink.

After I had the sentiments stamped on the spinner portion, I was ready to put it all together. These spinner cards are super easy to assemble. I just used the video tutorial over on the Lawn Fawn YouTube channel as a guide. If you're interested in that video, just click here. There are lots of great tips and tricks in it!

Once my spinner was assembled, all that was left was to add the leaves to it. I die cut many leaves from white cardstock using the Reveal Wheel Fall Leaf Add-On die set. I inked them using the same colors of Distress Ink that I used for my background panel. For each leaf I wanted a little bit of shading, so I inked the edges of the leaves with a Distress Ink that was just a bit darker than the color I used. For the Carved Pumpkin leaves I shaded with Ripe Persimmon. For Fossilized Amber I used Rusty Hinge. Aged Mahogany was used on the Fired Brick leaves. Lastly, I used Forest Moss for the Peeled Paint leaves. I am completely in love with the way these leaves turned out! I think they are gorgeous! I just scattered them on the panel making sure to turn them all different ways so they looked as though they were falling. 

Lastly, I just put all my elements together. I adhered the background panel to a top folding white A2 card. Then, using foam adhesive, I attached the spinner panel to the center of the card. And the very last step was to add the small kraft die cut arrow beside the spinner. Now the card is finished! 

This card came together pretty quickly. I really love the gorgeous, rich fall colors! I really hope that you like it too! I am so thankful that you stopped by today to visit. If you have any questions or comments, please just leave them down below for me. Have a great day friends! See y'all again soon!

Double Slider Mermaid Card

Hey y'all! It's been a while, and I am so sorry for that! Things have been super busy here in our house. My oldest daughter started school this year. And let me tell you.....I am one tired mama! I forgot what the beginning of the school year feels like. We have been running around like crazy. I haven't really had the opportunity to get in the craft room like I've wanted. But I reckon there will be times like that, right? 

I've had so many ideas swirling around in my head, and I'm finally glad to get to share one! My niece's birthday party is today, so I created this mermaid double slider surprise card for her. She loves mermaids, so I knew that the Mermaid For You stamp set from Lawn Fawn was the perfect choice to pair with the Double Slider Surprise dies. I've been dying to use this die set since I got it. 

I knew that I wanted an underwater ocean scene on the front of the slider pocket as well as the inserts that pulled out; but I wasn't sure what I wanted the actual card base to look like. So, I just started with the slider portion. I die cut all of those pieces from white cardstock, cutting one extra of the pocket piece and the insert. This slider pocket was actually really easy to put together after I watched the video on the Lawn Fawn YouTube channel. If you're interested, you can find that video here. There are many wonderful tips, tricks, and ideas in it! I inked up one of the front pocket pieces and 2 of the insert pieces using Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink. Then I inked up the other pocket piece and extra insert piece using Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink. I sprayed all the pieces with a distress sprayer and blotted them dry with a paper towel, then set them aside to dry. 

Next, I stamped, colored, and die cut the images to make my scene. I used a few of the ocean/water themed stamp sets from Lawn Fawn: Fintastic Friends, You Are Sublime, and Mermaid For You. I also used the coordinating dies for each of those sets. I wanted to have a pretty full scene, so I stamped LOTS of things from those stamp sets; sometimes stamping multiples of images I thought I might use more than one of. I stamped them with my favorite Copic friendly ink-Lawn Fawn Jet Black. Then I colored them using the following Copic markers:

Mermaids: E21, E53, B37, B39, E25, E27, RV02, RV04, BG10, BG13, V15, V17, R20, R24, B000, B00, Y11, Y17

Mermaid Crown: YR12, YR15

Eel: BG02, BG05, BG07, YG21, YG25

Fishes: V15, V17, Y19, YR16, YR18, V01, V04, YG21, YG25, RV52, RV55, YR12, YR15

Lobster and Hermit Crab: R24, R29, W0, W2

Underwater Plants/Seaweeds: Y13, Y15, YG21, YG25, RV13, RV14, BG02, BG05, G03, G14

Rocks and Seashells: YR02, YR04, R00, R20, BG02, BG05

Next, I cut the ocean floor from the brown inked pieces that I had using the Stitched Hillside Borders dies. I adhered them to the bottom of the ocean pieces I had inked. I stamped the sentiment in the top corner of the front of the pocket panel. I used sentiments from the Happy, Happy, Happy set and the Happy, Happy, Happy Add-On: Family set. I stamped this in Versafine Onyx Black ink. Then I adhered all of my underwater elements onto the pieces. Then it was time to assemble the slider. I used the video as a guide and put it together according to those directions. After it was assembled, I die cut 2 pull tabs with one of the dies that came in the Double Slider Surprise set. I stamped the "Pull Here" from the Push Here stamp set (also from Lawn Fawn) using Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink. Once they were dry, I attached them my inserts. 

Now, it was time to work on the card base. If I'm being completely honest, I had a very hard time figuring this part of the card out. I just wasn't sure what type of background I wanted. But once I saw the bubbles from the You Are Sublime stamp set, I knew they would be perfect. I cut a panel to 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" and prepped it with an anti-static powder bag. I stamped the bubbles all over it using Versamark ink. Then I added some white embossing powder to the bubbles and heat set it. Then I inked over the whole panel using Blueprint Sketch and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks. Then I used a paper towel to get the inks off of the embossing. 

Once I had done that, I adhered that panel to a white side folding A2 card base. Then I attached my slider to the card using some foam tape. And, that was it. My card was finished. I am absolutely in love with the Double Slider Surprise dies! There are tons of ways to decorate them. They could be used for just about any occasion you could think of.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. I'd love to hear from you! I hope that y'all have a great weekend! I'm so thankful that you stopped by today. I hope that you'll come back and visit me again soon!