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! :)