Discover magic

Hi everyone,

It seems that I can’t get enough of Tim Holtz / Sizzix dies for Halloween.  I used. Few different die sets for this card but I especially love the witch from the Toil & Trouble set. 

I started by creating my background by ink blending 3 different colours of Distress inks over my panel. I then added my stencil and added clear embossing paste over top of the stencil. When that was dry When I lightly blended Gathered Twigs Distress ink over top to darken the lines left behind from the stencil.

The gate was die cut from black and purple card stock to which I added Distress glitter here and there on the gates to add a little metallic looking sparkle.

The spider web was die cut from silver metallic paper. To the bones I added a little Distress Rock candy glitter. I added a little alcohol ink to a piece of acetate which was glued behind the cauldron.

The sentiment is from Idea-ology and mounted to black card stock and distressed with Distress ink and a few ink splatters.

I added a couple of shiny black bats and that completes my card.

Thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Tim Holtz / Sizzix dies - Toil & Trouble, Frightful Things, Gate Keeper

Stamper’s Anonymous Decayed stencil

Stamper’s Anonymous Bubbles stamp

Idea-ology Chitchat stickers 

Distress Oxide inks - Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron, Villainous Potion 

Distress ink - Gathered Twigs 

Stickles Silver 

Merry & Bright

 Hi everyone,

Well today I have my first Christmas card for this year to share with you.

I started by layering each stencil at a time and blending the colour with my lightest shade of ink working to the darkest shade.

Before adding my finished piece to my card base I decided to heat embossed the edges with red glitter embossing powder.

I stamped my sentiment with Versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

I added the panel directly to my card base and foam mounted the sentiment.

To finish the card off I added some red Stickles to some of the red berries.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Botanical Background stencil set

Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments: Holiday stamp and die

Pinkfresh Studio ink cubes - Fresh Pear, Grassy Knoll, Key Lime

Lawn Fawn Lobster ink

Stickles Xmas Red

Red embossing glitter

International Women’s Day card

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share celebrating International Women’s Day. Happy Day!

I used the Crocus Flower stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh to stamp the flowers. I then coloured them with Copics and seeing as I didn’t have the matching die set I fussy cut them out.

I used a new Altenew embossing folder on my card base. I blended blue ink to the bottom of a white panel to which I adhered my flowers. The sentiment is also from Altenew and stamped with black ink.

The whole panel was added to my card base with foam tape and Stickles was added to the middle of the flowers.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Pretty Pink Posh Crocus Flower stamp set

Altenew Angled Mosaic embossing folder

Altenew Beautiful Day stamp set

Simon Says Stamp Bluejay ink cube

Copics - B28, B24, B21, YG09, YG07, YR15,Y35

Stickles - Yellow

Christmas ornaments

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share that I created using mostly Sunny Studio Stamps products.

I started by stamping the 3 ornaments in 2 different shades of blue ink from Altenew. I didn’t have the matching die so I had to fussy cut them out.

The branch was stamped and die cut with the matching die. The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Also I didn’t have the matching die so I fussy cut this too.

I used a large rectangle die to cut a piece of Lawn Fawn patterned paper for my background. The panel was adhered directly to my card with glue. All the other pieces were added with foam tape.

Before I added the ornaments to my card I poked a little hole in the branches and added gold thread to hang them from. I also added some Stickles glitter to the branches.

Well that’s it for this card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Sunny Studio Retro Ornament stamp set

Sunny Studio Holiday Style stamp and die sets

Sunny Studio Season’s Greetings stamp set

MFT Die-namics In & Out Diagonal Stitched Rectangle die set

Altenew mini ink cubes - Persian Blue & Sapphire

Lawn Fawn Spiffy Speckles 6 x 6 paper pad

Gold embossing powder

Stickles

Ghostly haunting

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using the Little Boo Agenda stamp set from Mama Elephant.

I stamped all the cute little ghost images and coloured them using Copics. I set those aside and went on to blending my background with Distress inks. Once I was finished I stamped the Lawn Fawn sentiment and embossed with clear embossing powder.

I adhered my blended background panel onto my card base which I had added a striped panel to from Honey Bee.

I die cut a cover up window panel from black card stock and adhered that to my card.

All the the ghosts were added with foam tape and I also added some Stickles and Nuvo Aqua shimmer pen for a little accent.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Mama Elephant Little Boo Agenda stamp set

MFT Die-namics Collage Cover Up die

Lawn Fawn Spooky Village stamp set

Honey Bee Back to Basics 6x6 pad

Distress Oxide inks- Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch 

Distress ink - Chipped Sapphire 

Nuvo Aqua Shimmer

Glossy Accents

Stickles

Have a magical day

 Hi everyone, 

Today I have my second card to share created using Lawn Fawn’s Build a Castle die set. I call this one the masculine version of my first one which was in shades of pink.

I started by creating my castle first. I used a brick stencil to create the main castle pieces and some dark blue card stock to die cut all the other pieces. The small accent pieces were die cut from silver glitter card stock except for the flag poles which were cut from dark brown card stock.

I stamped all the little images and coloured them with my Copics and added some Stickles glitter accents.

I set all the components to my castle aside and went on to creating my background using a cloud stencil and Distress Oxide inks. I added a few flicks of water to my background and adhered it to my card base.

I die cut the tree hillside with some green card stock and added that to my base. The sentiment was stamped with glitter embossing powder and heat set.

I adhered foam tape to the castle and figures and also added a small strip of washi tape along the bottom front edge of my card.

Well that’s it for this card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Build a Castle die set

Lawn Fawn Tiny Fairy Tale stamp set

Lawn Fawn Forest Border die

Lawn Fawn Cloud dies

Distress oxide inks - Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch

Sprinkled with happiness

Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using some recently new Lawn Fawn products.

 I started by creating my background using the cloud stamps from the set and stamped them with Hero Arts Pool shadow ink directly onto my card base and then added some Stickles around the top edges of the clouds.

 I stamped the cute little unicorns with Gina K Amalgam black ink and coloured them with Copics.

The unicorns were adhered with foam tape. The sentiment is from Paper Roses.

I added some sequins and that completes my cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Unicorn Picnic stamp set

Paper Roses Black & white sentiment sheets pack

Hero Arts Soft Pool shadow ink

Stickles - Star Dust

happy holidays

Hi everyone,

I have another card today using a stencil. This one is from Tim Holtz which I absolutely love.
Also entering this in the current Simon Says Flickr challenge #109 where the theme is to 'Let Your Stencils Shine'.

I started by applying 4 different colours of ink to sections of the card being careful not to overlap any colours by using some masking paper.

Once I had finished applying all the colours to the stencil I ran the piece through my die cutting machine using a stitched border die to add a little interest to the sides of my card.

Stamped the sentiment on a piece of black cardstock and embossed with white embossing powder.

I popped the panel onto a red card using foam tape and added the sentiment also with foam tape.

I added some Stickles to the berries and that completes my card.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Festive stencil

Lawn Fawn Stitched Borders die

Simon Says Stamp Happy and Be 3 x 4" stamp sets

Simon Says Stamp White embossing powder

Distress Inks - Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Vintage Photo

Lawn Fawn Lobster Dye ink

Ranger Stickles Xmas Red

Easter pop up cards

Hi everyone,

I have had the Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up die set from Lawn Fawn probably since last summer but just decided lately to pull it out and make a couple of Easter card boxes for my Yoga/Pilates instructors' 2 grandchildren.

I must admit that I didn't break any speed records making these as it took me quite some time to do both. It was definitely worth the time though as I am over the moon happy with how both of them turned out.

Thought these would be perfect also to enter in the current Lawn Fawnatics 'Color Inspiration' challenge found here.



Here are my card boxes.

I started by diecutting and assembling the box first and then added patterned paper panels to the four top pieces of the box that show when the box is open and panels to three sides of the box when folded close.

I stamped and coloured all the images on Copic friendly paper and used the matching dies to cut them out.  Die cut the grassy borders and added them to the inside of each box.

I used thin strips of clear plastic to mount some of the images so that they wobble when you shake the box and directly adhered the other images to the box and grass.

Added some glossy accents to the eggs on the front panel and Wink of Stella to all the other eggs. Added Stickles glitter to each of the bows on the rabbits, some liquid applique to the bunny tails and ears and googly eyes to the bunnies.

And voila. As I was so pleased with the results that I can see myself making a few more of these in the near future. Stay tuned!

Well that's it for these boxes and thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Scallped Box Card Pop-Up die set
Lawn Fawn Eggstra Sprcial Easter stamp and die set
Lawn Fawn Snow Day stamp and die set
Lawn Fawn Grassy Hillside Borders die set
Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid 6 x 6 paper pack
Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Rainbow 6 x 6 paper pack
Stickles Xmas red glitter
Wink of Stella clear
Liquid Applique white