Basteltraum's Challenge #77: LAWNFAWN

Hello fellow crafters!

I am back with an other post for the latest challenge hosted by Bastel-Traum. This time, we dedicated the theme to one of my absolute favorite card making brand ever: Lawnfawn!!! Wohoooo!! The design team decided to use the "Happy Village" stamp set, but you can use whatever you have in your stash from Lawnfawn :-)

First, I sponged a little cloudy background by using a circle stencil and a cloud stencil. Then I diecut a circle out of green cardstock and cut off a small part for my ground. On top of that, I arranged my images from the Happy Village set which I all colored with my copic markers. A teeny tiny heart and a sentiment strip below finished off my design for this pretty much CAS style card (which are the hardest to create for me forever,  hahaha :-))  )

I really hope you will jump on the wagon in this round - Lawnfawn is always a pleasure to play with!

See you over there!

Crafty hugs,

Your Next Stamp Guest Designing - So mush fun!!!

Wow!!! This is already my last card for my guest designing with Your Next Stamp! I had so much fun playing around with these products! I want to say again a big thank you to YNS for having me!

So here it comes, my last card. I created it with an other, absolutely ADORABLE stamp set called "So Mush Fun"

I diecut the „wave panel die“ out of some mixed media paper by Canson - it is pretty thick (200g/120lbs) and has a super smooth surface, perfect for blending techniques. I let the frame plain white and just sponged different distress oxide ink onto every piece of the inlays (colors I used from the bottom up are lucky clover, mowed lawn, twisted citron, tumbled glass, broken china and faded jeans). Some spritzes of water gave the pieces a lot more texture. I glued first the frame onto a panel and glued back every inlay piece. It’s such a easy way to create stunning backgrounds, do you agree with me? :-) The sentiment is stamped with onyx black ink and for the extra touch I added a little diecut heart.

Then I stamped the images onto some Copic friendly paper (the one I use is the Mondi Color copy paper, 200g) and colored the images with my copics. I mostly add some shading details with colored pencils. If combined with Copics, I always use my Polychromos by Faber Castell. They are oil based and that means permanent and very lightfast. This way you can „seal“ your images and they barely won’t fade out anymore (I noticed that with images that I colored with Copic markers). Then I fussy cut everything by hand and adhered it with some double sided foam tape onto my panel. The distance on the panel make the images even more pop off the background. I love how this one turned out!

And now we need a drumroll and just one click - let's find out who won the Sea Friends stamp set over on YNS' blog, wohoooo!

Have a great day and see you soon, bye!!

Your Next Stamp Guest Designing - DAY 4

Phew!! Already day 4 and the last card from my guest designing series for Your Next Stamp that I dedicated to the "Sea Friends" stamp set!

Let's see what I created for today:

I used again the wave panel die and sponged the three pieces on the bottom part with distress oxide (only one color, salty ocean) and spritzed it with some water to achieve some splashes. Then I grabbed an extra piece of a card panel and sponged a cloudy background with distress oxide (spiced marmalade). Then I glued the wave grid onto that panel and glued in the three blue pieces - voilà my background has a sea and some lovely sunset clouds :-))

Then I decided where my sentiment (from the stamp set „sea friends“) has to go (I loooove this one so much!!) and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I stamped and colored two lovely seals from the same stamp sets onto a piece of mixed media paper (mine is by Canson, very smooth surface and pretty thick, about 200g/120lbs) and colored those guys with my aqua marker pens. I adhered them onto my panel with some foam tape to get more depth for this little scene. A few Jewel Nuvo drops in blue finished off my design.

Just leave a comment on any of the Sea Friends posts (May 4th until May 7th) on the YNS blog or my blog by May 9th 2019 at midnight (EST) for the chance to win the Sea Friends stamp set. The winner will be announced on May 11th on the YNS blog.

Thank you so much for hanging around with me!

Hugs,

Your Next Stamp Guest Designing - DAY 3

Oh hello again, a new day and a new card for my guest designing row at Your Next Stamp! Today I made a "see-through" card with a porthole. I wanted to create an effect like you would peek out of a boat and then spot some dolphins (from the "Sea Friends" set)  swimming in the ocean... let's take a look!

For this card I diecut the porthole die (it's a part of the wave panel die)out of a piece of brown cardstock. Then I  embossed the whole panel with and inked up my embossing folder with brown distress ink (ground espresso) before running through my diecut machine to achieve an even more realistic look on the wood. then I glued a piece of acetate over that hole on the backside of my panel and glued in the porthole diecut piece that I diecut out of shiny silver cardstock. For hiding the acetate on the inside, I glued in an extra piece of paper as the same size as the panel itself - I think no one will notice the little cheat :-) So do you agree with me, this looks like the inside of a boat, right? My idea was like you would look out of the porthole and will discover the dolphins playing in the sea… and that part is inside the card :-)

I created a water background again with distress oxides; this time with salty ocean, blueprint sketch and cracked pistacio. Then I added some water spritzes to create some texture. But here it wasn’t enough texture for me and I drew in some bubbles with my Nuvo sparkle glitter brush pen. This lifted up the ink, too and the bubbles got so shiny and glittery this way! On this card I totally forgot to heat emboss the sentiment first, so I did it after my ink blending. This works as well; just make sure your panel is completely dry and that you used some antistatic powder. Otherwise, the embossing powder might stick everywhere ;-)

The dolphins are stamped onto mixed media paper (I used Canson mixed media paper again) and colored with aqua marker pens. The dot details are made with my edding pastel white chalk pen. Then I fussy cut the dolphins and glued them directly onto the panel. As this scene fills the whole panel, you still have enough space to write your birthday greetings on the left inside of the card. 

Here you can see how it looks while opening the card:

Just leave a comment on any of the Sea Friends posts (May 4th until May 7th) on the YNS blog or my blog by May 9th 2019 at midnight (EST) for the chance to win the Sea Friends stamp set. The winner will be announced on May 11th on the YNS blog.

Have a great day!!

Hugs,

Your Next Stamp Guest Designing - DAY 2

Hey there, I am back with my second card of my guest designing for Your Next Stamp! I created a "Get well" card with the "Sea Friends" set again. How adorable is that word pun??

I stamped the whale from the „sea friends“ set and colored it with aqua marker pens. The tiny dot details are made with an edding pen called „Pastel Pen-Soft white“ it is not that bright like for example a posca pen - it stays a bit transluscent, I really like that effect . I cut out some water fountains by hand from a piece of vellum and adhered it to the blowhole… I love adding details like that :-)

So my ocean on the background panel is made with distress oxides - this time I used blueprint sketch, cracked pistachio and wilted violet. But first I heat embossed the fun sentiment „get whale soon“ with white embossing powder. Maybe you are interested how I created those waves; so I made a step by step photos of the process. Beside the oxides you need a wave stencil, a water sprayer, white pigment ink, a permanent white pencil and that edding pastel pen I already used before for the whale. 

First I spritzed some water on the whole panel to create some splashes for more texture. Let this dry completely before you continue with the next step. Your heatgun might be helpful getting your panel completely dry very quickly. So here comes the waves. First, I stenciled some white pigment ink onto my panel. Then I used the white pencil to brighten up the area even more and make it kind of „sealed“. Because now I used the pastel pen marker to draw little dots along the wave shape and this one is wet again. if you use it without the white pencil in between, the white dots would absorb completely the color of the distress oxides; this can be pretty, but I wanted to stay them soft white. I hope this helps you to recreate that look.

So here comes the photo guide for this procedure:

Just leave a comment on any of the Sea Friends posts (May 4th until May 7th) on the YNS blog or my blog by May 9th 2019 at midnight (EST) for the chance to win the Sea Friends stamp set. The winner will be announced on May 11th on the YNS blog.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Your next Stamp Guest Designing - DAY 1

I am tickled pink that I got asked being a guest designer for Your next Stamp! What an honor! So fasten your seat belts, there will be four posts in a row in the next couple of days and you can even win the adorable "Sea Friends" stamp set!

So how I did this card:

For this card I used the stamp set „Sea Friends“ and colored them with aqua marker pens. I grabed a piece of mixed media paper and heat embossed the sentiment (from an other stamp set called „so mush fun“) right in the middle of the panel.  Then I  sponged it with distress oxides (salty ocean and blueprint sketch for the sea and ripe persimmon and candied apple for the sky). A strip of painters tape helped me to separate the ocean from the sky . A few spritzes of water for some texture created more interest on my panel. Then I diecut a fun foam and a paper piece with the „so many squares panel“ die and cut off one stripe in the middle to create a little space for my sentiment. I glued a piece of acetate in between of those two diecuts since I wanted to create different little shaker windows. I filled every compartment with micro beads (blue ones on the sea part and orange ones on the sky part) and adhered the background panel onto it. After that, I just had to place my critters on top and pop the panel onto a card base and voilà, it was finished :-)

Just leave a comment on any of the Sea Friends posts (today's and the ones that will follow) on the YNS blog or my blog by May 9th 2019 at midnight (EST) for the chance to win the Sea Friends stamp set. The winner will be announced on May 11th on the YNS blog.

Thanks for hanging around with me today and happy crafting!