I {heart} Autumn Series 2016 | ft. Lawn Fawn

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

Today I have a super sweet card featuring Lawn Fawn. When I first started stamping and card making a few years ago, Lawn Fawn was the reason. These little critters and just so sweet and they really work well together so mixing and matching sets is always easy.

To begin I die cut my focus piece using a Spellbinders set, then I positioned the two little mice and the greeting on my MISTI and stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Next I masked off the mice and stamped the two pumpkins, also from a Lawn Fawn set.

I coloured the images with Copic Markers and then sponged Antique Linen Distress ink around the piece to make it look old.

I used the Lawn Fawn wood-grain background stamp with Chocolate ink from CTMH, on brown cardstock to create the background panel. I adhered that down using my regular tape runner. I then adhered the focus piece.

To finish it off, I added just a touch of Wink of Stella clear glitter to the buckle on the hat.

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Thanks/Thanksgiving

I {heart} Autumn Series 2016 | with Technique Tip: Negative Space Die Cutting

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

Here in Canada we are long past Thanksgiving. Ours is in October, however I think any time and especially now it is important to look at and be thankful for the things that we have in our lives. To really appreciate the good that we have. It's an unknown territory we are stepping into and a bit of reflection won't hurt anyone.

For today's card, I began by using the Stitched Leaves die cuts from Lawn Fawn on a piece of 110lb cardstock. I wanted to create the appearance of falling leaves. I set the leaves aside for another project (spoiler!).

I then masked off 1/4" all the way around my card base. I didn't want too many layers for the card, so I decided to do my sponging directly on the front of the card base as opposed to creating a second panel. I sponged together Dried Moss, Gathered Twigs and Rusty Hinge Distress inks; which happens to be my favourite combination for leaves and fall.

I then prepped the top panel with my powder tool and stamped the greeting, also from Lawn Fawn, in VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with gold. Normally I'm more of a silver girl, but gold is an autumn colour.

Next I took two lengths of bakers twine in heavy green and yellow and tied them around the panel in a casual bow. I really wanted the leaves to be the focus of the piece and felt that if I added anything else it would take away from that. So I kept it simple.

Finally I popped the panel up on foam tape and mounted it on my card base. 

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Thanks/Thanksgiving

Hello Halloween 2016 | card 5 ft. My Favorite Things

Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

I know Halloween is over, but I have more cards and it's still fall and I love Halloween and if it were up to me it would be this spooky season every season forever, hahahahaha!!!

Also, my blog and I don't have Christmas stuff ready yet. But I'm please with the direction the yuletide season is taking my work this year.

Anyway, today's card is one of my favourite of the year, and while it is late I'm hoping you'll think it was worth it.

To begin, I cut a piece of 110lb Copic-friendly paper down to 4 1/8 x 5 3/8" and stamped the bat from #MFTstamps "Witch Way is the Candy?" three times in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and again on Post-It tape to create masks. I masked them off and then sponged Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans and Seedless Preserves Distress Ink to create a night sky look. I would normally have used Dusty Concord, but I wanted something a bit brighter because the bats would be dark, and I didn't have it with me at the crop, so there was that.

I then used a #8 round watercolour brush to splatter on clean water and pressed it dry with some clean paper towel to create the splatter star look. If you have never done that technique on regular paper, I highly recommend you practice a couple times before doing it on your project. Otherwise you may be disappointed with the results of too much water on paper that isn't actually meant to handle it.

Once that was completely dry (and don't forget Distress ink takes a bit longer than other inks to dry), I prepped the piece with my powder tool and heat embossed the greeting from a Recollections (Michael's store brand) set in silver.

I then coloured the bats using the warm grey family. I never actually use my black Copic marker to make black, I typically use W5, 7, 9 to make it look as though it is black. I use a tiny bit of C1 or C0 to give a touch of shading to the eyes. I then used my black gel pen to brighten up the eye dot and my white gel pen for his little teeth.

To finish it off, I used glossy accents over the eyes and mounted the panel on a standard A2 sized card base.

I hope you like today's card and are inspired to create something of your own. Don't forget to follow me over on the right sidebar and leave me a comment in the comments section below, I love to hear from you.