Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 34 – My Favorite Place

This is my entry for this round of the Lawn Fawnatics challenge 34 which is all about "My favorite place". I love sunsets. Really. I have a very hard time tearing my eyes away from one. I also love kitty cats so that kind of decided the theme for this card.

I used the Lawn Fawn stamp set "Meow you doin'" for the cats and the sentiment. I used a Versamark pen to only get ink on the outside lines of the kitty so that it could look like they were staring away in the sunset. The hearts and clouds are from "Plane and simple" and are heat embossed on vellum. The sun is from "Out of this world", heat embossed in white on the background.

Distress inks for the background in the following colors;
Mustard seed
Wild honey
Picked raspberry
Festive berries
Salty ocean
Wilted violet

I tried to hide the adhesive behind the heat embossed lines on the vellum but that's easier said then done...!

Half the leaves are embossed in gold and the other half are cut from black cardstock.

The rest of the dies used here are all from Lawn Fawn;
Leafy tree backdrop
Stitched hillside borders
Cloud borders

Challenge
Lawn Fawnatics #34 - My favorite place

Wedding mermaid popup box

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for a couple that likes partying and sun and swimming. She really liked the scalloped box popup card so I decided to go with the Lawn Fawn set "Mermaid for you" with a couple of drinks and sentiments from Newton's Nook Cocktail mixer stamp set.

Butterfly birthday card

Tried stamping with distress inks on a large butterfly stamp from Kaiser Kraft. Loving the result.

The gold specs are from a chunky gold heat embossing powder. Sentiment from Mama Elephant.

Shoot for the stars pull tab slider

I've been wanting to use the Lawn Fawn Out of this world stamp set for a while and all of a sudden two great challenges comes along that gets you moving. Lawn Fawnatics is running a "rainbow" theme and The Male Room craft challege is having a space theme so this is what I came up with;

The background is done with distress inks in various colors. The images are colored with Zig clean color real brush markers. The sentiments and stars are heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I also used some Stickles for a little extra bling. When you pull that tab...

...up comes our little astronaut. The string is just taped on the back of the images and follows along as you pull the tab. All dies are Lawn Fawn; Slide on over to create the slider, Puffy cloud borders for the clouds and the Stitched rectangle for the panels.

Here's the card in action;

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Challenges
Lawn Fawnatics challenge #25 - Color inspiration (rainbow)

The Male Room challenge #81 - Space/science

It's a beautiful day

For these two floral cards I used Altenew's Beautiful day stamp set. The images are stamped with Altenew inks (yellow) and My Favorite things (green). I heat embossed some images in the background and colored them with Zig clean color real brush markers.

The red ink is Lawn Fawn's Lobster ink (very red). The images are fuzzy cut and mounted with foam tape.

The gold mat is from a craft fabric.

The pink in the large flower is Altenew ink. Finished off the card with some clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh.

The gold speckles is chunky gold embossing powder from Stampendous.

Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Floral frenzy

Persian motifs with perfect pearls

I wanted to try heat embossing on craft and the paint with Perfect pearls following the inspiration from a video by Jennifer McGuire. I used the Altenew Persian motifs stamp set.

Here is used the Perfect pearls colour Copper mixed with water and then painted on. The diecut sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and the stamped one from Mama Elephant.

Same idea, only different sentiment and matted with a dark brown panel. The diecut sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and the stamped one from Mama Elephant.

I of course also did a couple with Distress Oxide inks and then painted the flowers with water and lifted the ink. After they were dry I went back in with Perfect pearls mixed with water.

The diecut sentiments is from Lawn Fawn and the stamped one from Mama Elephant.

Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Floral frenzy

Distress Oxide lifting with Perfect Pearls

Trying out the distress oxide ink lifting technique demonstrated by Jennifer McGuire in video not long ago. Instead of just ink lifting with water, I also painted in some water mixed with Perfect pearls.

Flowers are from Altenew stamp set Persian motifs. The butterflies are from a set from Slöjd-Detaljer and from Marianne Design. The dies are from Gummiapan.

The stamps are from Altenew dahlia stamp set. The die is Lawn Fawn and the label sentiment is Mama Elephant.

Butterflies are from Slöjd-Detaljer and Marianne Design. Diecut is Lawn Fawn and the label sentiment is Mama Elephant.

Ink lifting an ink blended background, adding Perfect pearls

I saw this video with Jennifer McGuire where she demonstrated how to ink lift from a background that had been sponged with Distress Oxide ink. When you paint the heat embossed area and dab off the color, you get a white chalky area. Really cool effect. I wanted to try and add something cool to this so after I've done the first step of just painting with water and then lifting the ink and drying my panel, I went back in with water mixed with perfect pearls. You got such a cool effect;

Here I used Perfect pearls with copper.

Die cut sentiment is Lawn Fawn. Stamped sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

Another version where I used ordinary Perfect pearls.

Die cut sentiment is Lawn Fawn. Stamped sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

Here is another version where I used craft cardstock instead and simply painted the flowers with Copper Perfect pearls. Love the effect!

Heat embossing and watercoloring Wplus9 Ranunculus stamp set

I saw Dawn from Wplus9 watercolor this particular stamp set about a year ago and just HAD to have it. Last time I ordered from SSS it was available again and I finally got it. I immediately wanted to watercolor it with distress inks just as I had seen her do. With the video on repeat to pick up all the good tips, I tried out two panels. I was quite pleased with this first result. I loved coloring like that. Need to try it again (...and again... and again *smile*)

The image is stamped twice at different angles and then I heat embossed it. I used a ton of Distress Ink colors. The card is finished off with a stacked sentiment from Lawn Fawn. The bottom layer is done in black and placed a little off so that you get a drop shadow. I also added some sequins and clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh.

Second version with slightly different color variation on the flowers.

Lawn Fawn congrats
Distress inks
PPP clear droplets

Christmas wreath with distress ink watercoloring

A cute wreath from Slöjddetaljer. I heat embossed it onto Canson XL watercolor paper in gold and white and then painted with Distress inks in various colors.

I used warmer colors for the gold heat embossing. The frame is diecut with the Wonky Stitched Rectangle from My Favorite Things.

I used cooler colors for the white heat embossing. The frame is diecut with the Wonky Stitched Rectangle from My Favorite Things. The sentiment is stamped in silver ink from Versa Color.

Santa with reindeers in the sunset

I did a similar card a couple of weeks ago but just had to recreate it since I loved the design and effect.

The background is done with distress ink. The Santa and snowflakes are heat embossed in white. I have also heat embossed some snowflakes in glitter embossing powder.

The sentiment is heat embossed in silver.

Fall leaves birthday wishes with raised die cut sentiment

Fall birthday card. I stamped with a Hero Arts stamp set and then heat embossed the details in gold embossing powder. The Lawn Fawn sentiment is die cut in both white and gold and then mounted stacked together. The panel is cut with My Favorite Things Wonky Stitched Rectangle and then mounted on a Lawn Fawn patterned paper.

Christmas color Inky Paws challenge #59

Time for a new Inky Paws challenge, number 59 this time. This challenge is all about color using red, tan/brown, green and black;

 I found the perfect patterned paper in my stash (actually from our local food store Ica believe it or not...) and this is how my first entry turned out.


I used Distress ink in colors Shabby shutters and Peeled paint for the Christmas tree as well as Nuvo Glitter drops in red. The kitty is colored in Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. The rectangle stitched die and the sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

Challenge
Inky Paws challenge #59 - Color challenge

Purple and gold winter scene

I saw a gorgeous design on Instagram where Seedless Preserves and Antique linen distress inks together with gold where used to create a winter scene. I had to try it out.

Panels are first stamped with different tree stamps that I had in my stash. The one on the left is done with small trees from Majestix. They are all heat embossed in gold. One side is done with second generation stamping so that it would give the effect of "trees mirrored in water/ice".

I then used distress inks to sponge the panels. I really had to work it to get the color as deep as possible.

The penquin is heat embossed in gold and then colored with distress inks.

I also used some chunky gold embossing powder to create the splatter effect.