Celebrating the new Lawn Fawn release (with Simon Says Stamp)

Hi there!



The new Lawn Fawn collection has hit your favorite stores, the wait is over! To celebrate, I made this fun card:

You can read more about it on the Simon Says Stamp blog this morning - CLICK!

Starry night (Lawn Fawn inspiration and release week)

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We're almost to the end of Lawn Fawn's inspiration and release week, which means in 2 more sleeps you'll be able to purchase everything you've been eyeing! Today, we're showing off the Starry Sky Stencil:

My original plan was to use a white embossing paste with the stencil, but it went bad? It was all gloopy and unspreadable. I didn't even know that would happen... after like 8 years. haha. So, I used clear embossing paste instead and then went over the entire card-front with a dry-brush of white paint. I dragged my paintbrush in a circular motion around the top part of the card, trying not to get too many streak marks on the card itself. I was a bit heavy-handed in some spots, but I like how it turned out!



I added my images, from Smooth Sailing, and the school of fish below from Mermaid For You. I placed the sentiment into a Fancy Wavy Banner, and placed clouds to note the separation between water and sky.

I hope you like it!

Ocean Shell-fie (Lawn Fawn inspiration and release week)

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Welcome to another day of Lawn Fawn's inspiration and new release week! Today, we're showing off Ocean Shell-fie, a super cute underwater set.

I set the camera onto a rock and had all of the sea creatures pose in front of it, including the school of fish from Mermaid For You! The sentiment also borrowed "waving hello" from that set, and it mixed in perfectly with the new Ocean Shell-fie!



I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

Bekah's mermaid party

Last month, my niece Rebekah turned 5. Her little sister, 1 years old, her twin sisters, 3 months old, and my sister, tired. So I offered to bring the party to their house.

I baked cupcakes, decorated toppers and water bottles, and made a banner.

The birthday girl requested purple and blue for her color scheme, and mermaids.



Purple-iced cupcakes were dressed up with fancy sprinkles from Sweetapolita (I splurged! they are so pretty!)



The something blue was brought in with the cupcake toppers. I colored soooo many mermaids. If you are hand-making party decorations like I did, how do you work? I like to do everything in stages. First, batch stamp and die-cut all of the images (I used Mermaid For You images for the entire party.) Another day, I set to coloring. And Netflix binging. I watched a few seasons of Suits while making all of these decorations. Assembly is for another day.



The waterbottles are my favorites. I used strips of the purple paper from the Watercolor Wishes pack, and made labels with each girl's name on the front (hand-stamped, of course.)



To attach the straw, I wrapped a little strip of the same purple paper around the straw and then used a glue dot to secure it to the bottle. Easy peasy, but it looks super cute!



The last thing I made was this banner with Bekah's name going across the panels.



A special shout-out to my hubby for holding one end of the banner, while I juggled holding the other side and snapping a quick picture. I'm surprised it's at all in focus. ha.

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

♥.

Sea you! (new Lawn Fawn)

Hi there, and welcome back to another day of Lawn Fawn's December release!

Today is our showcase of Octopi my Heart. I couldn't help but bring in the starfish and jellyfish from So Jelly, as well as the school of fish from Mermaid For You to play supporting roles:

I stamped, colored and cut out all of the elements and put them onto a circle die-cut. I used light blue copic markers to color the outside of the circle and then dragged the color inward a bit with the blender (copic marker 0.)



I borrowed a sentiment from Mermaid For You and popped it into a Bannerific frame.

I hope you like it! There's more to see on the LF blog this morning - click!

♥

mermaid graduates!

Hi there,

I'm here and on the Lawn Fawn blog this morning, to show off a quirky set of teacher thank you cards... mermaid graduates!



I combined Mermaid For You, A Good Apple, and Smart Cookie to create these end of year cards.



To create the chalkboards, I first stamped the graduation hat, from Smart Cookie, and masked it before stamping the top half of the mermaid. After that I stamped the apple, masked all of the elements and stamped the big chalkboard image. The edges of the chalkboard were then masked to be able to rub black ink onto the chalkboard.



I heat embossed the sentiment after everything was done. With bated breath. Because it would have been just my luck to mess it all up at the end with a simple embossing. ha. Thank goodness it all worked out!



For a final touch, I added glossy accents to the apples, but I don't think you can tell by the photos.

I hope the teachers will like them!

♥.

we mermaid for each other {new Lawn Fawn}

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It's Lawn Fawn's summer release week, and I am so excited to show off my favorite set of the entire collection, Mermaid For You. Because, mermaids! Is anyone else so excited that Lawn Fawn is starting to come out with more people-y images? Fairies, and now mermaids!



I am sad to say that I don't have any dies for the new sets yet! My package got lost in the mail and I'm waiting on the new one. But, you can make yourself a pretty sweet card using only the stamps! I created some depth by stamping the mermaids, masking them, and then stamping the school of fish so that it looks like it's in the background.



These mermaids are so stinking cute! The little belly belt is actually supposed to be a tiara, but she already had a shell in her hair. hee. And I added little lines to their tales. Wavy lines for her, crosshatch for him.

I hope you like it!  There's much more to see on the Lawn Fawn blog this morning - click!