Happy Holidays

Hi There! Today, I’m sharing a cute holiday scene card using the 'off-the-edge die cutting' technique. I came across this cool technique on Jennifer McGuire's YouTube channel recently and thought of give it a go. I was totally inspired by her technique! It was so easy to make this card with the help of her step by step, crisp and clear instruction.

For this card, I used the little car stamp from Lawn Fawn - Home for the Holidays set and ‘happy’ sentiment die from Happy Lawn Cuts die set. First, I drew a pencil line on a Neenah Solar white cardstock and arranged the dies of the stamp and sentiment. I positioned the car wheels and edge of happy sentiment die right below the pencil line. Then, I placed my cutting plate lined up with the pencil line and run it through my Cuttle Bug machine. Next, I used my MISTI tool to stamp the coordinating car image and colored it with Copic marker. For the happy sentiment, I die cut the sentiment and inked the top with Candid Apple distress ink and Hickory Smoke. I adhered it on the partially die cut sentiment.

Next, I moved on to create the road. I masked off the car image and inked up the bottom part of it with Hickory Smoke and Black Soot distress ink. Then, I die cut the grass border using Lawn Fawn - Grassy Border die and inked it up with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn distress ink. I pulled the holiday sentiment from Lawn Fawn - Winter Penguin set and stamped it below the happy sentiment. To give a little dimension to the overall card, I adhered the partially die cut card along with the grass border card on to the base card using foam tape. I finished off the card by adding some stitched line on the road using white gel pen. I absolutely enjoyed making this card with this great technique.

I’m playing along the following challenge…
Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #23 - Try A New Technique
Just Add Ink #397- Just Add ‘H’

Thanks for stopping by! Have a good day!

Hugs! :)
Valliam

You Color My World!

Hi friends! Hope all is well. Today, I'm sharing a card featuring Lawn Fawn products. I always love to make colorful cards and fall colors are my all time favorite. It's so beautiful to see the nature shifts in color every day during fall. Let's move on to the card.

First, I thought of making a fall card but somehow, I end up making a different card :P I used the Lawn Fawn - Color my World stamps set for this card. I made a background by stamping the crayons and colored using distress inks.

Then, I cut it out using Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangle die. Next, I cut out a smaller size stitched border frame using the same die set. I inked up the the edges with distress ink, Antique Linen. Finally, stamped the sentiment and added dimensional dots from EK Success - Rainbow Dots on the four corners of the small frame.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 13 - Fall Inspiration Mood Board.
AAA Cards CAS Game #99 - Autumn Colors
Make My Monday Challenge #55 - Autumn Colors
Always Fun Challenges #25 - Anything Goes
HLS September Challenge - Anything Goes with Dies

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog! :)

Season's Greeting - Christmas

Hi there! Today I'm playing along with a fun challenge at Lawn Fawnatics blog, to create a scene. I enjoyed making this cute and fun Christmas card using Lawn Fawn products. Here is my take! 

I stamped the penguin from Lawn Fawn - Winter Penguin stamps set and colored using distress inks. The gifts and trees are from Lawn Fawn - Home for the Holiday stamps set. I used the Memento Dual markers along with the MISTI tool to create the shades on trees. Love how it turned out! :) Next, I cut out the images with their coordinating dies.

Next, I die cut the base card with Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle border and few layers of snow base using Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside border dies and inked with distress ink. Finished off by stamping the sentiment from Home for Holiday stamps set.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 12 - Create a Scene
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Clean and Simple
Addicted to Stamps and More #259 - Clean and Simple
AAA Cards #98 Creatures - Great or Small
Always Fun Challenge #23 - Create a Scene

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog! :)

We'll Always Be Friends!

Hello friends! Hope you all are doing good. I'm so in love with this Happy Hippo stamps set from My Favorite Things. So here is another card featuring adorable happy hippos. I'm playing along this week's My Favorite Things Sketch and Color challenges. Here is my take on this week's challenges.

First, I die cut the beautiful arched window using the Memory Box - Grand Madison Arched Metal Die. Next, I masked the window and stamped two hippo images on each side of the window and colored them using distress inks. Then, I used the Grassy Border from Lawn Fawn to make the bushes in front of the window. I stamped on the sentiment from the Happy Hippo stamps set. I die cut the word 'friends' using the My Favorite Things - Little Lowercase Letters Die Cut. I added some dimensional dots from EK Success - Rainbow Dots and finished off the card.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #348
MFT Color Challenge #76
Addicted to CAS Challenge #118 - Friends
AAA Cards CAS Game #97 - Masking
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes

Oh ya! Hope you all are ready for The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge by Kathy Rac :) :) :) Yay! I'm super excited! Do check out her blog for more details and have fun coloring! 

Thank you so much for stopping by and happy crafting! :)

I'm Stuck On You

Hello friends! It’s a great challenge to make a CAS + one layer card. But that’s the fun! So many ideas popped up while making this card. Well, it really didn’t take much time either. Here’s my card.

I used the colors from Color Throwdown challenge and cute cactus plants from Lawn Fawn - Stuck on You stamp set on this card. The pots and plants are stamped with the MISTI stamping tool using dye inks. It turned out so vibrant after several times stamped using MISTI. Love MISTI! :) It’s my new favorite toy!

The sentiment is from the Lawn Fawn - Stuck on You stamp set and I add the block letters from Ms.Sparkle & Co alphabet stamp set. I tied on some twine on the top of the card. Finished off by adding some dimensional dots from EK Success - Rainbow Dots.

Linking the card in the following challenges:

Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 10 - Custom Sentiments
Color Throwdown #456
CASology #262 - Prickly
Addicted to CAS #117 - One Layer Card
Tuesday Throwdown #356 - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping by and happy crafting! :)

Miss you!

Hello! Today, I have made a card inspired by the color palette from Lawn Fawnatics challenge. Love the bright summery colors and here is my take.

I created a cute scene using Lawn Fawn - Home for the Holidays stamps set. I colored the car with distress ink and did layer stamping on the trees using Memento inks. The sentiment is from Papertrey Inks - Phrase Play #3 stamps set. Hope you like this cute miss you card. Happy crafting!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Lawn Fawnatics #9 - Color Inspiration Board
Addicted to CAS #116 - Wheels
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Happy Summer!

Hello! Coming back after a short break :P Today, I'm sharing a card that is full of yummylicious watermelon pieces! I can't resist to play with this adorable images from Lawn Fawn - Happy Summer stamps set.

I created a stamped background using the watermelon image on to the distress watercolor cardstock. Then, die cut the card with large stitched rectangular border from Lawn Fawn. I colored the watermelon pieces and base with distress inks. Next, I die cut the Happy sentiment from Lawn Fawn and stacked few of the words to give a little dimension. The word summer from the Happy Summer stamps set and I stamped the ants image on the inside of the card. Added a piece of watermelon too!

I'm entering this card in the following card challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes
Color Throwdown #453

That's all for today and thanks for stopping by! :)

You're Cute!

Hello friends! Today I have a card inspired by Lawn Fawnatics challenge. This challenge is to add watercolor to your project. Head over to their blog to check out the amazing cards by the DT. For my card, I watercolored this little cutie from Lawn Fawn Stinkin' Cute mini set using distress ink. I used the sentiment "You're Cute!" from the same set. The coordinating patterned paper from My Minds Eye 6 x 6 paper pad. A simple and easy card to make someone smile :)

Entering this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Patterned Paper
Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 7 - Watercolor

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Lawn Fawn Smile Card

Hi There! Being a busy mom and wife, it’s pretty hard for me to set a time and jump into my craft world. At the same time, I couldn’t mute my head voice which keeps telling me to go for it!

So, with some time on hand, I created this cute smile card inspired by Lawn Fawn - Love You a Latte stamps set. I’m not a coffee person but I love to have one in the morning to give extra boost. Now, I can’t go a day without having coffee because it’s been a part of my morning routine!

These coffee mugs are adorable and makes me smile. I used distress inks : Fossilized Amber and Scattered Straw to create a base for the mugs. Then colored the coffee mugs using Copic markers and adhered them using small foam adhesive. I stamped the little smiley faces on each mug and make them looks like a family. To finish off, I stamped the smile sentiment from the same stamp set.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges : 

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Tic Tac Toe (Stamps)
Lawnscaping Challenge - Distress Maniacs #132
Casology #204  - Row

Thanks for stopping by!