Lawn Fawn Mother's Day & Thank You Cards

Hello there!  Sorry to be such a stranger.  Crafty days outside of projects for Sunny Studio have become few and far between.  I recently created a couple cards for a local store challenge though so I thought I would pop in and share them since Mother's Day is right around the corner.  ;)

I was given the gorgeous floral paper from Pebbles Patio Party 6x6 Paper pad so I thought it would be fun to finally ink up the Fab Flowers stamps by Lawn Fawn which I thought were a great match.  I create the look of water in my jar by stamping a second jar on a post-it note, cutting it out and adhering the negative portion so that I could ink up the water using Tumbled Glass distress ink.

When I was done I still had some leftover flowers and paper so I created a second card with my scraps.  I used the Scripty Thanks die for my sentiment and heat embossed the Jillibean Wood Veneer butterfly with some Buttercup Embossing Powder.   

Part of the challenge for the store was to incorporate alcohol inks so for both cards I sponged on some Turquoise & Patina colored inks onto Yupo Paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I'm hoping to be back soon to share some layouts I've created over National Scrapbook Day.  Every year I attend a 3-day crop so I'm really looking forward to catching up with old friends, eating lots of junk food and scrappin' long hours.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend and get some scrapbooking of your own done.  ;)

Big hugs!

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). 

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Doodlebug Thankful For You Party Favor Treat Bags

Hi there!  This week the Doodlebug team is sharing ideas with a thankful theme so today, I'm popping in with a quick and easy project using the darling Flea Market collection from last fall.  I designed these sweet treat bags so that I could have one at each place setting to dress up our Thanksgiving table and let my family know how much they mean to me.

To keep thing from being too busy, I chose prints that had a good solid tone-on-tone print on one of the sides.  I alternated which type of print I put on the outside and which faced inward and then set to work cutting them out using Lawn Fawn's Tote Bag die.  For the bags that were more solid outside, I dressed them up with some icon stickers from the collection.

To reinforce my thankful theme, I stamped the 'thankful for you' phrase using Lawn Fawn's retired Happy Feast stamps onto tags from Doodlebug's labels and tags pack.  I then tied a bow through the top of the tags with baker's twine and adhered them to my treat bags with some mini clothespins to match.

I truly love that this project is simple enough to mass produce for everyone on your Thanksgiving guest list.  I hope I've inspired you to pull out some of your favorite Doodlebug papers to create some party favors of your own.  :)

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). 

Supplies Used (available at Scrapbook.com)

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A Summer Card using New Nuvo Aqua Flow Watercolor Pens

Hello there!  I thought I would pop in with a non-design team project for once and share a card I made for fun using a challenge kit from my local scrapbook store.  

For the challenge we were each given a 4x3 piece of double sided patterned paper, an 8" piece of pineapple washi tape, the happy die-cut word and a piece of 6x6 navy cardstock.  The rules are we must use a little bit of everything they provide so here's what I came up with...

I have been dying to play with my new Nuvo Aqua Flow watercolor pens and Aqua Shimmer pens by Tonic all summer long and I was so happy I finally found a little downtime to enjoy them.  

I started by stamping the images from my Sunny Studio Tropical Paradise stamps with VersaMark ink onto Bristol paper and then heat embossed them with white embossing powder (On a side note, I tried them on standard cardstock, but they didn't move with water well that way and they are really designed to work best with watercolor paper or the smooth Bristol paper that is heavy enough to take the extra water).

I then added a small line of color using the pens and softened the colors with a paintbrush and water.  Sometimes, I reversed the order and added water and then brushed in some color and allowed the color to move with the water.  I'm not the best at watercoloring so I love that the raised embossing lines gave the color a boundary making it so much easier to stay in the lines.  

Even though I currently only have three of the four sets, I was able to achieve a lot of different colors by mixing my colors.  Here's a little chart to see how the colors look straight out of the pen and then blended with water.

When they were dry, I then went back with the clear Aqua Shimmer pens to add some sparkle to my flowers, leaves and pineapple.  I really like how the shimmer pens are completely clear and didn't alter the colors of my flowers.  I found they also didn't really move around the color of my previous layers by much so I think they aqua flow pens color is set once it dries.  

Here's a comparison on how they look on white vs. black cardstock:

For the inside of my card I used the piece of washi tape mounted on a piece of white cardstock and used an extra flower to carry my theme throughout.

I would really recommend taking a closer look at these.  They are a very affordable option to coloring in stamped images, blended beautifully and were super fun to play with!

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). 

Supplies Used (available at Scrapbook.com)

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