Oh my goodness, I am In love with this card! It isn't very often that a card that I have been thinking about turns out they way I have hoped it would. I think this one is a keeper.

For this card you will need a 12" x 12" piece of patterned paper, You need to keep in mind when selecting your cardstock that both side of the paper will be seen. I chose a piece of Pesto Spiffy Speckles. Start by scoring the paper at 4 and 8 inches. This will give you 3 equal columns. Rotate the paper 90 degrees and cut it in half. Make a tick mark with a pencil 1 inch down from the upper right corner and a tick mark up from the lower left corner. Cut straight from one tick mark to the other. So you are cutting the 6 x 12 in paper diagonally from one side to the other. Now you are able to fold you card back and forth to create an accordion fold.

I wanted to have a dirt road going across my paper to put my little carrot car and tractor on. I used some low tack tape to give me a guide line so my road would stay straight and pretty much the same width across the paper. I used Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink to blend in my dirt road. The I went back with Rustic Wilderness along the sides of the "dirt" to give the illusion of grass growing along the road. I also used the Rustic Wilderness to touch up the edges on the green side of the paper. On the white side of the paper, Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide matched better so I used that to touch up my edges. I wound up using that ink to blend over all of the white paper because I didn't like the way it stood out when the card was folded up. 

I cut 4 pieces of the new Little Farm Fence Border and glued it up the diagonal cut of the card on both side. Try to make sure that the bend of the card falls on a fence rail as opposed to a picket to it will fold better. Once I had that glued, I went back with the Mowed Lawn ink and added more around the base of the fence being careful to not get ink on the actual fence.

I cut a piece of Robin's Egg Spiffy Speckles to 4.25" x 5.5". Then I stamped the sentiment the Simply Fall Sentiments on the top of the piece. I used the "Hope You Have A" from that set fairly often. Then I used the Simply Celebrate Spring stamp set to stamp the sentiment on the bottom of the accordion part of the card.  

I stamped a lot of images for this card because I had a lot of area to cover. The stamp sets that I used are, Veggie Happy, Carrot 'Bout You, Hay There Hayrides, Hay There Hayrides Mice Add On and Hay There Hayrides Bunny Add On.

The Copic Markers that I used are:

Dark Browns:  E23, E27, E37

Oranges:  YR01, WR07, YR09

Greens:  G82, YG63, YG67

Yellows:  Y00, Y02, Y08

Blues:  B000, B21, B23

Reds:  R20, R22, R24, R29

Pinks:  RV66, RV69

Tans:  E30, E51

Gray:  W00, W1, W3 (Mice)  

Black: T0, T2, T5, T7

This isn't the quickest card to make but I think it is worth every minute. I hope that you have enjoyed this post and this fun little card. I have a video on You Tube that shows how I cut the paper to create the accordion fold part of the card. It is a little better than I can explain here.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a fantastic day!!!

Sandy

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Happy Anniversary

Hello! This card brings back all kinds of memories for me. When I was a young girl, maybe around 4 or 5 years old, my Grandpa used to let me help him water his garden. He had a metal watering can and he would fill it up just enough that I could carry it but then he had to help me tip it so that water could come out. Both he and my Grandma loved to be outside. He tended the garden and she took care of the flowers. This card reminds me of them. They were such a sweet couple.

I wanted to turn the new Watering Can from Lawn Fawn into a little house for my mice friends. I cut it out from a piece of gray paper from the Spring Fling patterned paper collection from the past. I touched up the edges with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink. I used the door from the Build A House Gingerbread Add On to cut out the door. I had a scrap of Strawberry Frosting Spiffy Speckles for the door and a piece of Ripe Banana Spiffy Speckles for the inside of the door. Since the watering the can has an opening in the top, I decided that it would be cute to put the top of a carrot coming out of it. I used the carrot from the new Stitched Root Veggies die set. For the carrot, I used a scrap of Griffin Spiffier Speckles. I took a little Spiced Marigold Distress Oxide Ink to the edges to add some dimension and interest to it. The carrot green is a scrap of Pesto Spiffy Speckles touched up with Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink. 

For the background, I used the Grassy Stencil with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink. I speckled the grass with some watered down Mowed Lawn to add a little dimension to the grass. The sky was inked using the Cloudy Stencil along with Broken China Distress Oxide Ink. I spritzed it with a little bit of water and then speckled it with watered down Broken China to add a little more interest to the sky. I glued a Little Farm Fence Border right at the grass line to add a "farm" look to the card.

My little gardening friends are from the new Veggie Happy set. I love this set because there are some many little pieces that you can really create a super cute scene.

I used Copic markers in the following colors:

• E35, E37, E59
• RV66, RV69
• B21, B23
• R02, R24, R29
• Y06, Y18
• G09, G14

The sentiment is from the Henry's Build a Sentiment: Spring. I can't tell you how exiting this stamp set is to me. It is just perfect to build just the right sentiment. No more going through all my stamp sets looking for just the right sentiment and then having to cut them apart to make them work. I hope Lawn Fawn does more of these in the future.

Welp...there it is! Such a fun and cute card. It was quick to make and makes me think of my sweet Grandma and Grandpa.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Sandy

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Have A Toadally Happy Spring

Hello! I have just a little bit of spring fever right now. The weather has been unseasonably warm off and on. I guess the good thing is that when it does decide to snow, the ground is warm enough that it doesn't really accumulate.

I created this card for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #167 - Spring Fling. The stamp sets that I used are Toadlly Awesome and Simply Celebrate Spring. The dies that I used are Bayou Backdrop and the Grassy Hillside Borders.

For the background on this card, I wanted to create either a beautiful sunrise or sunset. I the sky area, Distress Oxide Ink in Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, and Picked Raspberry. I started by placing the Mustard Seed in the middle and then I blended my way out with Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry. I spritzed it with water to give a little texture and interest.

The grassy area was cut out of white cardstock with the Grassy Hillside Border. I inked the paper with Twisted Citron and the touched up the edges with Mowed Lawn. The little pond was also cut from white cardstock and blended with Mermaid Lagoon, Broken China and just a wee bit of Cracked Pistachio.  

I cut the Bayou Border Backdrop from Cilantro cardstock and then touched it up with Rustic Wilderness to soften the color a little.

When the Toadally Awesome stamp set was released, I had colored a whole bunch of the frogs, lily pads and cattails. Unfortunately, I didn't make a note of the colors that I used, I do that quite often when I am working on a card that way I have extras for future cards. It is kind of nice when that happens because it sure makes making a card very quick.

I wanted to glue the cattails and the log down before I adhered the backdrop because I felt like the hanging vines need to be in the foreground. I used foam dots to pop up the frogs, water lily and the mosquitos.

For the sentiment, I used some of the inked paper that I had left over after I cut out the inked background. I heat embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder. I am really glad that I had that little bit left.

These little frogs are just so dang cute!

Thank you for stopping by and as always, I hope you have a terrific day!

Sandy

A Little Bundle Is On The Way!

Hello! I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine's Day. I always feel like Valentine's Day is the last winter holiday. From here on out, the days start getting longer all though March is usually our snowiest month. I just look forward to things greening up.

This card is for a Lawn Fawn Challenge. It is for interactive cards. I have had the Ta! Da! Diorama! since it was released last fall and hadn't had a chance to play around with it. I was thinking about using a theme that I hadn't done in awhile and I thought about a baby card.

I cut the main piece for the diorama from older patterned papers called Spring Fling and Perfectly Plaid Remix. I also used the Ta! Da! Diorama! Grassy Hillside Inserts.

I used the dies that came with the Little Bundle set to cut the clothesline poles and clothes pins out of woodgrain cardstock. I stamped the clothes line using Staz On ink on piece of acetate. The clothesline was way too long for the inside of the diorama, so I had to cut it down to fit between the poles. It does take a little bit of patience to place the poles on the grass so that the diorama will close. I found that the inside was much smaller than I was planning, so I was only able to insert the clothes line and wheelbarrow with out it being too busy.

The stamp sets used are Little Bundle for the baby items, Oh Gnome for the wheel barrow and Eggstraordinary Easter for the chicks, grass and flowers. I wanted to put some of the chicks laundry in the wheelbarrow, so I did a little stamping and masking to fill it up.

All the coloring was done with Copic Markers in the following colors

• Yellows: Y11, Y15, Y19
• Blue Greens: BG70, BG72, BG75
• Pinks: RV10, RV11, RV32, RV34
• Greens: YG11, YG17
• Gray: C0, C1, C2, C3, C5

Once I had my diorama put together, I wanted to attach it to a standard card base. I adhered it to the bottom of the base so that the card could stand up when the diorama was open. That actually worked out well because it left me room to place the sentiment. I did need to pop up the sentiment with foam tape.  

This is such a darling little card and I can only imagine how excited the recipient would be at such exciting news.

I hope that you find this card as delightful as I do. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy these final days of winter. Spring is just around the corner.

Sandy

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Popping Into Spring!

Hello again!

Just one more for the current Lawn Fawn Challenge - Interactive Cards. The Pull and Pop Tab is one of my favorite cards to make. It is super easy and packs a lot of punch.

Luckily for this card, I didn't have to start from scratch with coloring. All these little guys had already been colored, which doesn't happen too often. The stamp sets are: Butterfly Kisses and Really High Five.

I used the second largest rectangle from the Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables for the panel that moves and the one with the scene. To create the scene, I used Distress Oxide Ink in Worn Lipstick and the Cloudy Stencil for the sky. For the grass, I used Distress Oxide Ink in Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn with the Grassy Stencil.  

For the sentiment, I used the Giant Happy Spring die. I used paper from an older Lawn Fawn collection called Spring Fling. I was looking for some paper for another project when I came across this paper. I had forgotten that I had it. Yikes!

This was a super quick card to make especially since I didn't have to stamp and color and even the ink blending was just a small amount.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful Spring when it finally gets here.

Sandy

Happy Spring Break

Hello! We had another snowy weekend here so it made me start thinking of Spring. I made this card for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #166 - Interactive Cards. This is the first time that I have used this die and I can definitely see it being used in the future with a number of different scenes for the picture. So cute!!!

I started with the little picture that pops up from the camera. I used Claire's ABC's for the lettering, Life Is Good for the sand, waves, palm tree and birds. The sunglasses and flip flops are from Pool Party.

The Copic markers that I used are:

Blues: BG000, BG01, BG02

Yellows: Y00, Y02, YR12

Greens: G09, YG05

Browns: E23, E27, E53, E55

For the base of the card, I used Distress Oxide Inks. So little of the base shows that I didn't spend a bunch of time blending. The bottom of the base is Tea Dye, and Vintage Photo. At the top, I lightly inked Peacock Feathers and then came back with the Cloudy Stencil to create the clouds.

The camera is the Magic Iris Camera Add On. I used paper from two older patterned paper packs called Hello Sunshine Remix and Really Rainbow. I cut the base of the camera out of the yellow paper, then I cut the top and bottom portion of the camera from the other paper. For the picture that pops up, I used the Magic Iris Camera Pull Tab Add On. You will also need the Let's Toast Pull Tab Add On to make the mechanism work. There is a Lawn Fawn YouTube video, ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIEZauef7Xg&t=4s) that explains the construction of the mechanism that I use to help me assemble the card. I use the video that they put out all the time because it is almost impossible to remember all the steps, plus there are always some helpful hints.

For the little decorations on the bottom of the card, I used Woodland Critter Huggers Summer Add On. The little greenery pieces are from the Happy Mushrooms die set.  

The sentiment was hot foiled using the Big Scripty Words Hot Foil Plates and cut out with the Big Scripty Words - Lawn Cuts.

This card makes me think of the warmer days ahead. It have been many years since I have participated in Spring Break, but they were some memorable times with my boys.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have some fun plans for this spring.

Sandy

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Mammoth Hugs!

Hello friends! These are the last of my Valentine cards for this year. I may have saved the best for last.

I came across Gerda Steiner Designs on my FaceBook feed a little over a month ago and absolutely fell in love with her images. I think if someone asked me if I had to choose a stamp company that matched my personality, it would definitely be Gerda's designs. They are fun, goofy sweet and snarky and I just love them. Her pigeons are over the top cute and I will be making cards with those very soon! Anyway, my future Grandson, saw these designs and was crazy about the Mammoth so I made the green card just for him and mailed it off this morning.

For this card, I stamped both images the Big Guy Mammoth on Express It Cardstock. I find this the best blending paper for me. It is a little spendy, so I save every little blank piece to use at a later date.

The Copic colors used are:

• Tusks: E51, E50
• Body: E21, E34, E35, E37
• Eye Shade: C0

I cut the big hearts out using a cream cardstock along with Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Heart Stackable. I blended the edges with Tea Dye and Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide respectively. For the pink card, I did hot foil that heart using Pink Fresh Studio's Heart Grid Hot Foil Plate along with Bright Pink Glimmer foil. I also cut the scalloped heart from a hot pink cardstock using Lawn Fawn's Lacy Heart Stackables. To give the card a little dimension, I popped up the center heart with foam tape.

For the sentiments, I heat embossed them using black embossing powder.

I just love the way these cards came out and I hope that you do also. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great Valentine's Day!!!!

Sandy

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Valentine Cupcake

Hello! Valentine's day is just a week away, so I am definitely wrapping up my cards. I have a friend who is an amazing baker, so this one will be going to her for sure! For some reason, I have been on a shaker card kick.

The only die that I used for this card is Pretty Pink Posh's Big Valentine Cupcake Die. This particular die isn't a shaker, but I turned it into one by some strategic paper cutting.

I cut two of the frosting cupcake tops. One will be for the shaker back and the other one will be put on top of the acetate part of the shaker card. Using an Xacto knife, I trimmed in about an eighth of an inch in from the outside edge and definition lines.  

I used the frosting part of the die to cut an opening in the cardstock that will be the front of my card, then I glued a piece of acetate to the back of that piece to create the shaker window.

On that same piece of cardstock, I used foam tape to start creating the depth I would need for the confetti to move freely. I did use a piece of Pop Up Die Cutting Foam from Spellbinders, to cut out the frosting shape so I would have a nice clean finish to the window.

Then I added my confetti. I placed the second frosting cutout on top of that opening so I have a matching finish on the inside of the window. Once the protective paper was peeled off the foam tape, I adhered a piece of white cardstock on top to seal everything together.

I have a link to my YouTube video that shows the actually process which is so much better than I can explain it.  

 On the front of the card, I glued the XOXO Heart Border Die at the bottom of the card and then placed a sentiment cut from the Sentiment Strips: Valentine Stamp on top.

I used different colors of shimmer and glitter paper to cut out the pieces for the rest of the cupcake.

This was actually a really quick and fun card to make. I will probably make more for the different seasons.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have a sweet Valentines Day.

Sandy

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I Choo Chose You!

 

Hello friends! We had a snowy weekend in Colorado, so it was a perfect time to play with paper. I love those snowy days when I don't have to go anywhere or do anything.

Today, I am using the Valentine Train stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh along with a couple of their stencils to make this fun little shaker card.

The heart background was stenciled with Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide Ink along with the Half Heart Stencils. This is a two part stencil, for the first layer, I lightly inked the first half of the hearts, then went heavy on the second layer. I speckled the whole thing with watered down ink.

For the second background layer, I used Mustard Seed Distressed Oxide along with the Valentine Words Stencil. I had originally inked it on white paper, but it was too harsh, so when the letters had dried completely, I went back in using the ink left in my blending brush to add color to the area that was going to be seen through the heart window. I also inked some paper to use as the background for the sentiments.

To cut out the window for the shaker element, I used the one of the large hearts from the Stitched Hearts Die. I used foam tape to make a well for the Valentine Hearts Clay Confetti. You can watch my YouTube video for a better description.

The coloring is down with Copic markers in the following colors:

• Blues: B00, B12, B24
• Reds: R14, R27, R39
• Pinks: R81, R83, R85
• Yellows: Y11, Y15, Y26
• Grays: C1, C2, C3, C5, C7

Once my little train and other piece were colored, I cut them out and then glued them to the card.

I am really pleased with this card. I love the heart background, I think is just packs a huge punch.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are well and staying warm!

Sandy

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