Rainbow Floral Birthday Card

Well it looks like it's been exactly 2 months since my last post; yikes! If anyone is still out there following me I have a pretty birthday card to share today. It's featured on the Lawn Fawn blog today as part of our Hop Week with Xyron!

I'm pretty sure I got the idea for this card design on Pinterest, where else, right?

I'll list all the Lawn Fawn ink colors below with links to find them. I stamped all the flower images from Penelope's Blossoms and die cut them with the coordinating dies. After die cutting 2 Meadow Borders, one from Noble Fir cardstock, one from white cardstock; I inked the white one with Distress ink in Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn. I also inked the white card base with some Squeezed Lemonade. I die cut the Happy Birthday Border from Black Licorice cardstock then ran it and all the floral pieces through the Xyron 1.5" Sticker Maker. This adds adhesive to the back making it so easy to attach to my card. I used a black gel pen to dot the flower centers.

Lawn Fawn ink colors:

Juice Box

Fresh Lavender

Fish Tank

Mermaid

Celery Stick

Jalapeno

Freshly Cut Grass

Sunflower

Fake Tan

Plastic Flamingo

Lobster

Thanks so much for visiting!

Garden Gate: Thinking About You

I have a card featured on the Lawn Fawn blog today for June Inspiration Week! Today it's all about the Thinking About You Border and Scripty Congrats dies.

I had so much fun creating this card to look like a wildflower garden. I just love the look of kraft with bright white!

I used Penelope's Blossoms to create my wildflower garden on a Stitched Oval that I had water-colored with Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and Mowed Lawn. Blissful Botanicals and Peace Joy Love add the perfect frame. The garden gate is from Picket Fence Borders and of course the sentiment is the Thinking About You Border die cut. I used a variety of ink from Lawn Fawn, Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks so much for visiting, please visit the Lawn Fawn blog for lots more inspiration and to enter for a chance to win this week's featured sets!

blessings,

nancy

A Bun in the Oven Mother's Day Card

My daughter-in-love, Mary is adding another grandchild to the Krueger clan in November and there's a rumor it may be a girl! Finally, a girl! I made her a sweet and punny card for Mother's Day.

I used Lawn Fawn Plus One, Gingham Backdrops and Penelope's Blossoms stamp sets with Stitched Circle and Rectangle Stackables sets.




The inside sentiment is an older Hero Arts wood mount stamp. I just love the font! I added some more Penelope's Blossoms on the inside as well.

Happy Mother's Day to all who have ever nurtured and loved a child!

Thanks so much for your sweet comments, they make me smile!

blessings,

nancy

Another Mother's Day card

For this card I used the sentiment from Lawn Fawn's Happy Mother's Day with flowers from Penelope's Blossoms. This time I used a variety of inks from Simon Says Stamp and Hero Arts.

I kept it very clean and simple with just some sweet Lemon Lawn Trimmings tied in a bow.

Thank you so much for your sweet comments!

blessings, 

nancy

A Tiny Bit of Watercolor

So I saw a post this morning with lovely water colored flowers by Dawn of WPlus9 and was inspired to play a bit. Here's a link to the post at Stamp Away With Me. Dawn has some excellent watercolor video tutorials, she is very talented!

My sister has a tiny framed piece of art done by a friend in France and I've always wanted to replicate it somehow. The original is a landscape but what really caught my imagination was the diminutive size. I worked on a piece of watercolor paper that I trimmed to a 2" square.

I used Lawn Fawn Penelope's Blossoms and the little teacup is from My Cup of Tea. I stamped with Distress Inks and softened the images with water and a detail brush.

I'm off to finish making mom's day cards for my daughters-in-love. You can be sure this is a technique that I will return to and hopefully refine.

blessings,
nancy