Category Archives: Card Making

A collection of blog posts & pictures to showcase hand made cards & paper crafting ideas and techniques

Lawn Fawn Blue Skies Hot Air Ballons with Scripty Sayings Thinking of You Card

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One of the owner’s & face of Lawn Fawn, Kelly Marie Alvarez recently revealed to us Lawn Fawn fans that she was battling long term Lyme disease.  As a person who suffers from chronic pain I can understand the rollercoaster chronic health issues can be; so I thought I would send her a card to hopefully brighten her day.

When creating the design for this card, I had recently seen the LawnScaping design team challenge for anything ‘pink’.  Anyone who knows me knows that pink has been my favorite color since forever, so I thought I would play along – here is what I came up with:

 

Lawn Fawn Blue Skies Thinking Of You Scripty Sayings card by Wendie Bee of Stamp Right Up

Lawn Fawn Blue Skies Thinking Of You Scripty Sayings card by Wendie Bee of Stamp Right Up

Here are some tips & tricks that you can use if you would like to make this card as well:

  • I cut an extra cloud to use as a mask to blend on the color for the sky
  • Sponge blend some pink ink on the brown polka dot paper to change the white spots to the coordinating pink
  • A glue pen worked great to apply the glitter to the outside edge of the clouds
  • Adding a sponged border of pink to the vanilla cardstock strip for the sentiment really brought the embossing sentiment out

 

 

Lawn Fawn Baked With Love Lawnscaping Challenge

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I have been a fan of Lawn Fawn for many, many years but I have never had the confidence to enter a challenge with my work.
So I figured now was as good as time as any to get started! After all, practice makes perfect right?

The Lawnscaping challenge is “dimension”:  I chose Baked With Love as my primary set for my card. It took me quite a few tries to get it just as I envisioned in my head.

The scripty hugs was die cut from glitter fun foam, which I have been using a lot of lately 😛  See end of post for full list of supplies used.

I appreciate and welcome comments – thanks for stopping by!

Lawn Fawn Baked With Love Lawnscaping Challenge by Wendie Bee of Stamp Right Up

Lawn Fawn Baked With Love Lawnscaping Challenge by Wendie Bee of Stamp Right Up

Lawn Fawn Baked With Love Lawnscaping Challenge by Wendie Bee of Stamp Right Up - dimensional view

Lawn Fawn Baked With Love Lawnscaping Challenge by Wendie Bee of Stamp Right Up – dimensional view

Supplies used for this project:
For all Canadian friends, use coupon code wendie10 to save 10% off your order until April 30 2015

Lawn Fawn:

Misc:

  • Spectrum Noir Markers (Canada)
  • Black embossing powder
  • Versa Mark Ink (Canada)
  • Tombow Mono Multi Glue (Canada)

Scrapbooks By Design Team Card With Newton’s Nook & Lawn Fawn Sequin Shaker Card

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Hi Everyone!

I am happy to announce that I am the newest member of the Scrapbooks By Design team!  For my first design team post, I created a sequin shaker card using Newton’s Nook stamp set with some Lawn Fawn patterned paper and dies.

I love the look of shaker cards, and I found the perfect way to get the sequins to sit correctly and not get stuck was to use ‘fun foam’ to pop up the window instead of pop dots or foam tape.  I used to have trouble with the sequins getting stuck in the corners when I used pop dots or tape – I find those work best for square or rectangle sequin window shakers.

The background I created using a watercolor brush and Lawn Fawn’s Wild Rose ink to match the patterned paper I chose from the 6×6 Let’s Polka Mon Amie paper pad.

Newtons Nook Lawn Fawn Shaker Sequin Card Scrapbooks By Design Wendie Bee

Newtons Nook Lawn Fawn Shaker Sequin Card Scrapbooks By Design Wendie Bee

I hope you like the card – I am always happy to share techniques or measurements, just leave a comment.  Each and every comment is welcome and appreciated!

Here are the supplies used to make this adorable card:

  • Spectrum Noir Markers:
    • BT1, BT2, BT4, PP1, Blender
    • Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers Warm Grey’s:  BG1, BG2, BG4
  • Newton’s Nook
    • Newton Dreams of Paris
  • Lawn Fawn
    • Let’s Polka Mon Amie 6×6 Petite Paper Pack
    • Scripty Love word die
    • Small Stitched Rectangles Dies
  • Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Lawn Fawn Gleeful Gardens with Spectrum Noir Markers

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The latest from the Lawn Fawn release, Gleeful Gardens goes so well with the new Gingham Backdrops stamp set.  It took me a few tries to get the gingham to stamp in alignment all the way across, so I just fudged it and cut a strip of the best stamped part 😛  That worked out well in the long run as it inspired me to come up with this card.  The snail is super cute and I love how the daisy flower just automatically inspires sunshiny feelings!

All colored with Spectrum Noir markers this card took less than 20 minutes from start to finish to make – so I suspect I will be making a few more to keep on hand.

 

Lawn Fawn Gleeful Gardens Wendie Bee Stamp Right Up

Lawn Fawn Gleeful Gardens Wendie Bee Stamp Right Up

Spectrum Noir Colors Used:
Daisy: CT1, CT2, GB4, IG2, Blender
Stem: LG2, LG3
Tall Grass: LG2, LG3, CG4, JG2
Snail: EB2, GB8, GB10
Shell: FS9, OR1, OR2
Flirty Frame: TB1, Blender

Lawn Fawn Beep Boop & Spectrum Noir Markers

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I have been really getting the hang of my new Spectrum Noir markers and I have wanted to make a card for a male friend who lives across the country. He loves robots so I knew that Lawn Fawn’s Beep Boop set for a thank you card.

Here is the finished card:

Lawn Fawn Beep Boop Stamp Right Up Wendie Bee

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Stampin Up Blendabilities: Blended Bloom with Calypso Coral

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Once I got started coloring with my new markers I had to try every color I had!  This card is made I made with the Blended Bloom image I colored using the Blendabilities markers in the Calypso Coral.  I have said it before, but I love how these markers come in sets of 3, taking the guess work out of finding the right colors to make a proper gradient blend.  One of hte other really cool benefits of these alcohol markers is that you can color on jsut about anything and the color does not come off!  For this project, I used regular clear rhinestones and colored them with the lightest pumpkin pie blendability marker giving them that nice gold tint.

The top background is stamped in Gold metallic ink using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set – this is one of my go to stamp sets because it is so flexible and makes great backgrounds.

Stampin Up Blended Bloom Calypso Coral Blendabilities by Stamp Right Up

Stampin Up Blended Bloom Calypso Coral Blendabilities by Stamp Right Up

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Stampin Up Celebrate Today Balloons Card and Video Tutorial

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Hiya Stampers! This new Stampin Up Occasions catalog is seriously amazing.  Every single stamp set I ordered I have been able to make so many great projects with.

Here is one of my most recent project 7 accompanying video tutorial:  a large Celebrate balloons card.  It’s long and tall, but fits perfectly into a standard business size #10 envelope and can be sent in the mail for a regular postage stamp (no additional cost)!

 

 

Stampin Up Celebrate Today XL Balloon card with video tutorial by Wendie Bee of Stamp Right Up

Stampin Up Celebrate Today XL Balloon card with video tutorial by Wendie Bee of Stamp Right Up

 

 

 

 

  •  Card stock measurements:
    • Base (pear pizzaz):  8 x 9.25
    • Whisper white layer:  3.75 x 9
    • Gold glimmer sentiment base:  3 3/8 x 1
    • Pool Party sentiment layer:  3.25 x 0.75
  • Cut 3 x 7″ of whisper white bakers twine

 

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Karma Cards: Send A Smile 4 Kids

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Send A Smile 4 Kids needs your help crafters! As some of you know, I create cards for charity, that will be sent to children in participating hospitals in cities throughout Canada & America.  Here is their post with all the details.  Canadian readers click here
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Send A Smile 4 Kids
Operation Write Home recently announced that due to the draw down of troops overseas, they do not need any where near the cards they have been receiving. That is a good thing, of course, and they will continue to collect cards for troops overseas, just not as many.

As a result, SAS4Kids has been contacted by many of those wonderful card makers who have been donating to OWH and are now looking for another cause they can donate to. We are thrilled, of course,  and will happily accept more cards for our kids. But what we really need now is more children’s hospitals to donate our cards to.

We would love to help more kids, but what is needed to do that is some more volunteers who are willing to accept sent packages of cards for kids, sort and label them, and bring or send them to a children’s hospital or two close by where you live. We have the Midwest covered, but would love a site in the East, West and/or Southern U.S. and even some sites overseas. If you are from Canada, please contact our Canadian sister blog via the side blog badge to see if they have any need for additional sites or volunteers.

If you think you might like to volunteer to help, your first step would be to contact SAS4Kids via the Contact Feature on the side of the blog. If no one else has volunteered in your part of the country (or world), I would approve you to approach children’s hospitals close to you to see if they would like to receive cards for their patients. Please read all the pages on the top of the blog and refer the hospital contacts to our blog as well. Feel free to copy and paste any info you want to share. I work with the Child Life or Volunteer Coordinators in the hospitals we currently serve, so that is maybe a place to start when contacting the hospitals.

We truly appreciate all the cards we receive for our kids inpatient in children’s hospitals, and will continue to distribute all the cards we receive. Our current needs are mostly fall and winter holiday cards and birthday and thank you cards. Keep in mind the older kids when designing cards too- both boys and girls.

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You can help in many way:
  • Collecting cards in your area
  • Creating & donating cards for the kids
  • Work with SS4K to find more hospitals to participate in this great cause

 

Go to their website to find out more details on how you can help:
US
Canada

2015 Stampin Up Occasions Catalog

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It’s that time again stampers! The newest release of Stampin Up’s latest catalog is here.  But, the even BETTER part? You can get FREE stuff from now until March 31.  No, you’re not dreaming – it’s that awesome!! How do you get FREE stuff?

It’s Sale-A-Bration Time! With so many ways to participate in Sale-A-Bration and get FREE products, you can’t miss out!
Shop: Earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product for every $60 you spend between January 6 and March 31.
Host: Hostess Benefits are great during Sale-A-Bration. Your customers can host Sale-A-Bration parties for a chance to earn discounts and extra host dollars!
Join: It’s a great time to join Stampin’ Up! as a new demonstrator! New demonstrators can choose one of the following limited-time Sale-A-Bration offers when joining between January 6 and March 31.
• Option #1: Receive a FREE Simply Created Project Kit from the occasions catalogue with your Starter Kit.
• Option #2: Receive 2 FREE Sale-A-Bration items of your choice with your Starter Kit.

Without further ado – here is a listing of ALL the new products in the Stampin Up 2015 Occasions catalog – click to view product details, or click here to view the catalog online.

I am happy to mail you a copy of the catalog anywhere in Canada, please email or call me to request your copy.

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