My "One Layer" Book Worm Card :)

 Here is my card for this week's "Always Fun Challenges". The challenge this week is "One Layer". I kind of cheated a tiny bit. I wanted a one layer background, but when it came to the sentiment, I decided I wanted a tiny bit of depth, so I added the banner and sentiment, and I had these extra critters from a previous card, so I added them as well. I just can't get enough of this Book Worm stamp set from Mama Elephant.

Have you ever tried making your own custom background using your stamps? It's one of my favorite methods because: 1- I love coloring, 2- I love that it can change every single time, 3- it's such a fun and different way to use your stamps!

I created my pieces of this card using the Trinity Stamps slimline dies and Lawn Fawn's Fancy Wavy Banner dies and sentiments. 

You Make Me Fly

I'm still having lots of fun playing with my Mama Elephant "Me and My Dragon" Stamp set. These dragons are so unbelievably cute! I could seriously color a million of them and never get bored! I wanted to use them along with my Altenew Caps Bold Alphabet Dies, and I thought it would be fun to use the dragon as a letter L. Unfortunately, about 1/3 of the people who see it, don't realize he's supposed to be an L - hahaha. I might try to add a little L to his hands, to help it along, but in the meantime, I still think it turned out super cute and I really like it. 

Congratulations on Your Wedding!

Hi cute friends! I’m soooo excited for the chance to be blogging with Butterfly Reflections, Ink. I’m a huge fan of the talent they share and of course, the amazing products in the shop! I'm starting off with a card I made for a wedding, because I never have enough wedding cards at this stage of my life. This Bicycle set from Lawn Fawn is my favorite wedding set to use! It's just so fun and you can do so much with it!

Here are the super cute products used from the Butterfly Reflections, Ink store:

• Lawn Fawn Bicycle Built for You Stamp and Die set
• Lawn Fawn Fancy Banners Dies
• Lawn Fawn Wavy Sayings Stamp Set
• Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts - Outside In Heart Stackables
• Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts - Lacy Hearts Stackables
• Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts - Large Stitched Rectangles
• Distress Oxide ink in Cracked Pistachio
• Distress Oxide ink in Seedless Preserves
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
• 3D Foam Squares
• Ranger Multi Medium Matte Adhesive
• Copic Sketch Markers

I started by stamping my images from Bicycle Built for You and Wavy Sayings using my Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I used the bicycle, boy, girl, flowers, cans, veil, tophat, tie and the small heart, which I stamped multiple times in a group. I colored the images using my Copic Sketch markers and die cut them with the coordinating dies. I fussy cut the hearts because I knew I wanted them to be in the basket on the front of the bike. 

Next, I die cut nesting hearts with the Lacy Hearts Stackables and Outside In Heart Stackables. I used white paper, so I inked the inside heart with my Distress Oxide ink in Seedless Preserves. I also cut two Fancy Wavy Banners with the sentiment "Congratulations" on one of them and inked the other with Seedless Preserves. 

I used my Large Stitched Rectangle dies to cut a 5 ½ x 4 ¼ background. I inked it using a cloudy border stencil and my Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink. I used some patterned paper to create a border behind my background and then added it all to my card base. 

Finally, I mounted my stamped and die cut images to my background using 3D Foam Squares and Ranger Multi Medium Matte adhesive.

I'd love to see anything you make with these products! Happy cardmaking my friends!

Saedi

You're Stinkin Cute

Hi! Howdy! Hello!

Today I'm sharing a card with you that works for three challenges. The #BRImoodboard challenge from Butterfly Reflections, Ink, the latest Lawnfawnatics challenge, which is "Something Old, Something New" and the AAA Birthday Challenge. I used lots of Lawn Fawn products for this card. The new stuff is the lacy heart, and the outstide in stitched heart dies (they're brand new to me) and the old is the "Stinkin Cute" skunk. If you decide to play along with the BRI Mood Board, my cute friend, Davina, is doing a link party and you could win $20 to Butterfly Reflections, Ink if you link your project to her blog!

I love shaker cards, but I'm always scared to make them. It seems like something always goes wrong and I never feel like my "shaker items' are what they should be. But, I decided that I'll never get better at making them if I don't try, so I'm going to try to do 2 shaker cards a month for practice.

Sweet Snowman

Hi friends! Here's a fairly simple little card I made using this super cute Winter Woods Overlay Die. I love when I can have everything I need for a card right in one set. The only additions I made to this were the sentiment and banner, which are both from Lawn Fawn. Plus, the sentiment was the only stamping I did for this card. 

The background for this card is from the Lawn Fawn Snow Day Remix Petite Paper pack. I love this paper pack so much because it has so many fun and different sets that work for different types of backgrounds. This one is so fun because it creates a little scene for you!

After I die cut the snowman and tree background, I used my copic markers to do some simple coloring on my die cut pieces. Isn't that snowman the cutest??

Mama Elephant - I Dream of Books

A while back, my cute friend, Davina, shared this adorable card on IG and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. Partly because I adore Harry Potter, and partly because it's just the cutest combo of two stamp sets I've ever seen! Both of these stamp sets come from Mama Elephant and I love them so much! My kids and I love to read fantasy novels, so these sets were a must have for me.

I started off by using my slimline dies from Trinity Stamps to create a large, plain background. I then used my stack of books stamp from the Mama Elephant "Book Worm" set to create a row of books all across the entire card base. I colored the books in the background using pastel rainbow colored copic markers. Then, I used my cloudy sky stencil to lightly ink one large cloud across the top of my card. After my clouds were inked the way I wanted, I used my Mama Elephant "Me and My Dragon" stamp set to create the little images up in the clouds.

 I finished by coloring some cute little critters and books from the Book Worm stamp set and then die cutting them with their coordinating dies. I also added the little thought clouds above some of the little critters heads so you could tell they were imagining the scenes in their books.

I hope you like the way it turned out! I decided to leave it without a sentiment on the front and save words for the inside. That way it could work for any occasion I want. I hope you have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

Saedi

a little text to say...i love you

Hi cute friends! I wanted to share this card I made using this super cute set from Lawn Fawn. I've been wanting this set for a long time because you can use these cute kids in so many situations, plus my own kids are all "gamers" and I knew I'd use it for cards for them. 

Here are the super cute products used from the Butterfly Reflections, Ink store:

• Lawn Fawn Screen Time Stamp and Die set
• Lawn Fawn Love Letters Stamp Set
• 3D Foam Squares
• Ranger Multi Medium Matte Adhesive
• Copic Sketch Markers

I started by stamping my images using my Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored the images using my Copic Sketch markers and die cut them with the coordinating dies. 

I used the slimline dies from Trinity Stamps for my card base and my squares. 

Finally, I mounted my stamped and die cut images to my background using 3D Foam Squares and Ranger Multi Medium Matte adhesive.

I'd love to see anything you make with these products! Happy cardmaking my friends!

Saedi