Birthday Bouquet

Hi there!

This past weekend was my great aunt's birthday and I thought a bouquet of flowers was just right for the occasion.

I recently picked up My Favorite Thing's More Rustic Wildflowers on sale for about $7 at Hallmark Scrapbook. I had been in the market for a flower layering stamp set for awhile; but I had been holding off because they are usually quite expensive, not to mention the amount of inks you'd need as well. However, when I seen this pretty simple flower set at the right price, I had to have it.

I used my Lawn Fawn inks to stamp out the images in a few different combinations. Before cutting them out, I used some Ranger Bridal Tinsel embossing powder on half of the flower images.

Once heat embossed, I laid out the images onto a white 65 lb. die cut panel. I had originally thought about adding a Lawn Fawn Fancy Banner, but it didn't look right. Then I thought about adding a ribbon bow, but when I laid that down, the card still seemed unbalanced.

That's when I decided the bouquet needed some stems. In this particular set there were no stems, but there was a branch stamp. I stamped out the branch image using two different colors of green and they looked enough like stems to me. :)

Reverse Confetti Diagonal Stitches Cover Panel Die

I used my Scan 'N Cut to cut out my images and I began to rearrange them on the card front. I started gluing them in place and added foam tape to the flowers in front. I slipped the branches/stems under the popped up flowers and added a pink bow.

I attached the panel to an A2 card based and stamped the inside with the "Happy Birthday" from Lawn Fawn's Wavy Sayings stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Jenni

Out of this World Birthday

This card was inspired by images from last year’s Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge. I had kept the colored images in an envelope and recently rediscovered them while going through some drawers.

Perfect timing too! My second cousin just turned 1 and I thought the aliens from Lawn Fawn’s Beam Me Up would make a cute shadowbox card; one that her parents could get a kick out of too.

I used the Lawn Fawn Shadow box die, the inserts from the Spring add-on, and the banner dies from the Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up.

I cut the main box component and inserts out of 110 lb. black Recollections cardstock. I made galaxy panels for the inside using distress ink, foam blending tools, shimmer spray, and opaque white paint.

I added glow in the dark stars to the galaxy with embossing powder, as well as additional colored stars, planets, and aliens. Once the box was assembled, I added the rest of the alien guys onto the inserts.

I stamped my cousin’s name onto the banner flags with an alphabet stamp set from Sweet Stamp Shop, and heat embossed the letters in white. I used Zig cleancolor real brush markers to color them in and then went over them with a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.

Lastly, I added an embossed “Happy Birthday” sentiment onto a blue cardstock banner and adhered it to the front of the shadow box.

Have an out of this world day!

Thanks for stopping by!

-Jenni

Creepy Cafe

I came across Oddball Stamps on Instagram and was immediately drawn to the unique creepy/cute style of her illustrations. As I was browsing the digi store, this café image caught my attention.

I printed it out on Canson watercolor paper and colored it with Prisma watercolor pencils.

I added a monster and a piece of candy from a pack of Dress It Up Halloween buttons to the front of the café and glossy accents to all the windows and doors. I turned the main window on the image into a shaker by cutting it out, gluing in a piece of acetate, and adding pink, blue, and purple seed beads to the inside.

Instead of a card, I turned this image into a wall hanging. I ruffled a black satin ribbon around the edges of the image. Then I popped up the main image onto a piece of patterned Halloween cardstock, with some fun foam. I made the whole thing sturdier by adding 110 lb. cardstock to the back of the entire piece.

Finally, to create the hanger, I added a loop of the same black ribbon to the back.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Jenni