Lawnscaping Challenge: Lawn Fawn Cards & New Techniques

Hello there!  It took me a bit longer than planned, but I'm back with three more cards that I created over the long weekend for a couple different fun online challenges including the Simon Says Stamp Wedesday Challenge Blog where this week anything goes and the Lawnscaping Challenge No. 106 which challenges followers to create Lawn Fawn Cards using techniques you've never tried before.  This was just the push I needed to get out of my comfort zone and finally try some cool things that I've been pinning in recent weeks.

Card No. 1:  For this card I decided to try a debossing technique using some Lawn Fawn cloud dies and an embossing mat.  I am ashamed to admit that I bought some Spellbinder embossing mats years ago that I had never even opened until now.  I think I forgot what I was supposed to do with them, but then this weekend Jennifer McGuire shared a video HERE that reinvigorated me to try them.  After I debossed the surface repeatedly with the three cloud dies, I cut them again from masking material, laid them over the other clouds and airbrushed my background.  It's hard to tell in my photo, but I love the way it looks like the clouds have been embossed in person without all the extra bulk.  :)

Card No. 2:  For this card I tried another technique that was new to me which is mirror stamping (learned from Chari Moss HERE).  The adorable flamingo only faces to the left so I stamped an extra using the back of my woodgrain backdrops stamp and then traced over it with a Copic Multiliner pen after I was done coloring him (and he was completely dry).

For the heart I die-cut a heart from masking material and then blended three colors of distress ink (linked below) using my mini ink blending tool.  I used those same inks to dye the scalloped die-cuts to match.  As a final finishing touch I created a custom sentiment (another first for me) using Lawn Fawn's Harold's ABC stamps.  :)

Card No. 3:  My last card was created with two challenges in mind.  I made a thank you card for the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog as well as trying yet another new technique for the Lawnscaping Challenge No. 106.

For my "new" technique I colored my images using a stippling technique inspired once again by the amazing Jennifer McGuire seen HERE (if you don't follow her, you really must--She's seriously inspiring).  I found the stippling to be especially awesome for coloring in the cow's spots because I kept making them bleed past the outlines when I colored them in the standard way with the same colors.

I cut my speech bubble using a Lawn Fawn border die and then inked it up with some Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge distress ink.  I then stamped over it using the Woodgrain Backdrops stamp and cut the Scripty Thanks sentiment from it using the negative space.  I finished it off with another custom stamped sentiment using the same Harold's ABC's alphabet set.

Make sure to head over to the Lawnscaping Challenge Blog, the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog to see all the inspiration from this week's challenges.  There are so many adorable and cool ideas!  I would encourage you to play along too--They have some pretty cool prizes up for grabs!  ;)


Supplies Used (available at Simon Says Stamp)

• Lawn Fawn FLYING BY Clear Stamps
• Lawn Fawn CRITTERS IN THE JUNGLE Clear Stamps
• Lawn Fawn ADMIT ONE Clear Stamps
• Lawn Fawn GNOME SWEET GNOME Clear Stamps
• Lawn Fawn CRITTERS ON THE FARM Clear Stamps
• Lawn Fawn WOODGRAIN BACKDROPS Clear Stamps
• Lawn Fawn HAROLD'S ABC'S Clear Stamps
• Lawn Fawn HEARTS Lawn Cuts Dies
• Lawn Fawn SCRIPTY THANKS Lawn Cuts Die
• Lawn Fawn SPRING SHOWERS Lawn Cuts Dies
• Lawn Fawn SPEECH BUBBLE BORDER Lawn Cuts Dies
• Lawn Fawn STITCHED SCALLOPED BORDERS Lawn Cuts Dies
• Lawn Fawn STITCHED HILLSIDE BORDERS Lawn Cuts Dies
• Little B Designer Cutting Die HEARTS
• Inkadinkado STAMPING MASK PAPER
• Spellbinders WIZARD TAN EMBOSSING MATS 5 x 7 twin pack
• Neenah Classic Crest 80lb SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets
• Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad
• Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full Size
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad SPICED MARMALADE
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MUSTARD SEED
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad PEACOCK FEATHERS
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad WILD HONEY
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad RUSTY HINGE
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad TUMBLED GLASS
• Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS
• Ranger REFILLS for Mini Round Ink Blending Tools
• Copic Multiliner SP 0.3 BLACK Ink Marker
• Copic Sketch Markers for Card #1:  B41, B23, B21, Y17, Y13, R22, R24, R29, YG01, YG03, YG09, Y38, YR04, YR07, E21, E23, E25, E27
• Copic Sketch Markers for Card #2:  RV00, RV21, RV13
• Copic Sketch Markers for Card #3:  R22, R24, Y32, Y35, Y38, YR31, YR24, YR27, YR31, YR24, YR27, E41, R000, R11, R02, C3, C5, C7, 100 Black, 0 Colorless Blender

Supplies Used (available at Scrapbook.com)

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