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.  :)

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