Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Lawn Fawn July Guest Designer ~ Summer Themed Cards

I am so giddy I can hardly stand it!  I had the pleasure of creating some happy cards using Lawn Fawn's newest stamp sets which were featured on their blog today.  I have been a huge fan of theirs since their very first release so I am so thankful to Kelly Marie for this wonderful opportunity.

My first card features their adorable "Fintastic Friends" set & the little irresistible fish bowl.  To start I cut a panel 4.25" x 4" from white cardstock and then used a circle die to cut out the semi-circle from the top.  I then set to work sponging on distress inks.  When I was done, I took that same color of distress ink and used the various bubble stamps in the set to stamp on a random background pattern.

When I was done, I felt like the top of my card was a bit empty so I sponged on some more distress inks in the corners to give my little fish bowl a bit of a frame.  To tie in the sentiment strip I inked it up using those same colors of ink before stamping "best fishes".  The rest of my images were colored using Copics.


For my next card, I wanted to created the look of an aquarium so I die-cut my cardstock and vellum using the negative space created from the Stitched Scalloped Borders.  To give my card a bit of dimension, I stamped the reef images as a border on the cardstock layer so that it could peek through the vellum.  I wanted to use the stitched labels for my sentiment, but they wouldn't quite fit so I decided to put part of the phrase on the label and spell out the remainder using Finley's ABCs dies.


Up next is a card featuring the darling "Let's BBQ" set.  All the images are just so cute, I wanted to try and fit as many of them as possible on my card.  I decided a grid design was the perfect solution.  These images are so much fun coloring with Copics!  I think the sentiment is perfect for a summer birthday or holding onto until next Father's Day.


My last card features more of the same adorable images.  I decided to reserve the cute little faces for the the mustard and ketchup bottles to reinforce my sentiment.  To stamp them on two separate lines and different colors I ended up cutting the stamp apart.  There are ways to get around this, but doing it just makes it so nice and easy.  ;)


I hope I've inspired you to pull out your stamps and have fun coloring.  I took a bunch of these stamped images with me on a summer road trip so that I could color and cut them out while on the go.  It was so nice to have them ready to create with as soon as I got home.  :)



Interested in the products I used to create my projects today?  To make supplies easier for you to find, I have listed them below (affiliate links included). 

Before I go I wanted to pass on a cool promo code.  Scrapbook.com is offering free shipping for orders over $60 through July 10th at 11:59 pm PST using the code JULYSHIP.  :)

Supplies Used (available at Scrapbook.com)

Supplies Used (available at Simon Says Stamp)

9 comments:

  1. Your cards are awesome-I especially like the ones using the let's BBQ set! Your scrapbook pages are AMAZING! So glad I saw your cards on the LF blog :) TFS

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  2. Awesome cards and coloring!!!

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  3. Mendi these cards all turned out so adorable!! Lawn Fawn has the best stamps to color in and their adorable faces help make them more personable! I love all of your cards, so colorful and happy!
    Hugs,
    Jo
    xox

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  4. What adorable cards! Congratulations on your guest spot! I love Lawn Fawn products and you have done such cute things with them!!

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  5. I am SPEECHLESS - Flabbergasted, really!! Not sure what I can say to match the complete and total AWESOME-SAUCE that is THESE cards!! You have outdone yourself and set a wonderful example of how these fun stamp sets can be used - I am just so in love with the way you do things - so crisp, so precise!! There is never ANYTHING ho- hum about what you create!! Please don't visit my blog today because my latest card is so ho-hum!! You amaze me and inspire me so much!!!

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  6. These are so so cute Mendi! I love the fishies! I may have to get into stamping - you make it look so easy!! Great job cute friend!

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  7. Beautiful cards, So adorable! I can't choose which one I like best, they're are all awesome! Have a lovely weekend Mendi!

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