Christmas 2014 – Christmas Card Making – Lawn Fawn Snow Day Christmas Card Idea

This is a quick Christmas card I put together for my Japanese tutor. I used scraps left over from other Christmas cards from the Lawn Fawn Snow Day 6 x 6 Paper Pack.

I layered the large brown rectangle at the bottom with the peacoat pattern paper rectangle on top bordering to the right-hand side and then on top of those I adhered the red coloured snowflake pattern paper at an angle.

From there I adhered the cute Christmas bunny pattern paper at an opposite angle. Then, I sliced the ‘for you’ tag, also a part of the Lawn Fawn Snow Day 6 x 6 paper pack. I punched a hole at the top using the Crop-a-dile Big Bite II and tied a bow using the Lawn Fawn Peppermint twine.

To finish, I stamped ‘Merry’ and ‘Christmas’ using the Simon Says Stamp Happy Holidays stamp pack onto the red snowflake pattern paper and cut out triangles from the end to make a banner.

This card was quick and easy and I really liked the results. I would have liked to use white embossing powder to emboss the ‘Merry Christmas’ sentiment but I didn’t have a heat gun at this time so I had to work with what I had.

Birthday Card Making – Simon Says Stamp & Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine

This card I made for a good friend’s birthday, but unfortunately I did not have much time to work on it and I believe that shows in the final result. I cut out one large piece of card stock from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine 6×6 pattern paper pad and one medium piece of card stock from the same pad using the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles die cuts. I couldn’t find the specific names of the papers.

 

Once I had one on top of the other, I was pretty stuck with a creative blank. I had the Simon Says Stamp Only Have Eyes For You and Thinking Of You clear stamp sets near by so I made use of them. I stamped the alien onto white card stock and coloured him in green using a Derwent Studio pencil. I think it was the grass green colour. I stamped three balloons but found the ink was splotchy so I had to colour them in with pencils also. I arranged the alien and the balloons and adhered them with foam squares. I used hemp cord as the balloon strings and glued them in place with a glue pen.

For the birthday sentiment I used the ‘birthday’ word from the Simon Says Stamp Thinking Of You stamp set and used the ‘happy’ from the Simon Says Stamp Color And Sunshine stamp set. I stamped the sentiments with magenta and brown ink on some blue scrap pattern paper from the same Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine paper pad. Using the left over hemp cord I tied a small bow and adhered it with super glue.

And that was it. Very simple and quick. But as it is often quoted, ‘it’s the thought that counts’.

Christmas 2014 – Christmas Card Making – Lawn Fawn, Simon Says Stamp & Penny Black

I wanted to try and show a bit of the process when I am making cards. I think a lot of it just comes down to feelings and by this I mean, how I feel about certain colours, patterns and thus also the combination of colours & patterns. I’ll flip through the papers until something ‘jumps’ out at me. If I have some scrap pieces loose, I’ll shuffle them around on top of each other to see how different combinations will look as below:

For this card, I decided to use the white-spotted, teal pattern paper with the white-polkadot, brown pattern paper and the multi-coloured diagonal striped pattern paper. All these papers are from the Lawn Fawn Snow Day 6 x 6 Paper Pack.

I decided to stack the papers using the brown paper as a border between the vibrant snow-speckled teal paper and the multi-coloured diagonal striped paper. After umming and ahhing about whether or not to have the papers aligned vertically or horizontally, I finally decided with a horizontal card. I don’t really pre-plan cards before making. I start with the arrangement of papers and just go with the flow, I’ll look at it and wait for the inspiration to try new things. I am not a very adventurous person by nature and rarely try new things. I think I’m most adventurous in my artistry and that is my outlet for adventure. Sometimes I’ll try something I’ve done before, in a slightly different way. But at a restaurant I’ll always order the same thing.

On a previously made card I used the Big Bite II to create small holes that I could thread some cord through. In this card, I used the same technique but did it with a slight alteration. I also threaded the cord through some white cardstock cut into a ribbon banner with a sentiment stamped on it. I used the ‘be joyful’ sentiment stamp from the Simon Says Stamp Be Joyful Clear Stamp Set which I received in the Simon Says Stamp Card Kit for November 2014.

It took me quite a lot of thinking to finally clasp onto the idea of using the happy snowman stamp from the Penny Black Whoooo’s Wishing Stamp Set. Basically, I brought a few different stamp sets and elements to the bottom right-hand side corner, as I knew I wanted to fill that space, and tried things. When I brought the Whoooo’s Wishing Stamp Set up next to the the ‘be joyful’ sentiment I thought the snowman looked exactly like he was filled with joy and wishing everyone to ‘be joyful’. So I stamped him on white card stock with black ink and cut him out; his arms were so skinny!

I traced his nose, mittens and scarf onto red card stock and then cut them out and adhered them with glue-pen and foam squares. I added some red rhinestones over his black buttons to add a bit more flare and sparkle.

I was really happy with the way this card turned out. I made it for my best friend and I can imagine her in the same pose when filled with joy and wishing joy unto others. I wished her a happy Christmas filled with everything she desired and hoped her new year prosperous and her goals fulfilled.

I hope this card inspires you!