Hope your weekend will be beary cozy with this cute set of bears! Today, Nancy, here to share a Christmas card with a fun interactive snow globe! I am so excited to share with you available at The Rubber Buggy of the new arrivals of the Lawn Fawn Sweet Den bear stamp set with the coordinating cozy den from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Dens die set. Combined the cute bears from Lawn Fawn Den Sweet and Lawn Fawn Snow Much Fun to create adorable Christmas and winter theme cards.
The Lawn Fawn Magic Iris die set creates an iris that opens and closes when you turn the tab! It’s perfect for making impressive cards that reveal a surprise image or sentiment when it opens moving the tab with the arrow.
Tip #1: To assemble a Lawn Fawn Magic Iris wheel for the first time, I would recommend to view the Lawn Fawn Magic Iris at Lawn Fawn.com, click
HERE and view my printable tutorial of how I do my Lawn Fawn Magic Iris, click
HERE. I am always reviewing my print out tutorial since there are little details that go with each of the layers of this reveal wheel which is easy to miss. In the beginning, I had the Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel assembled and glued on the card and then it didn't move due to missing one step of the assembling of the wheel. Therefore, I had to tear it apart and start over again.
Here is some additional helpful tips that I am using this year.
Tip #2: I stamp the Lawn Fawn stamps on a 4 1/2" x 11 cardstock and color. I print this on both sides of 80 lbs cardstock and store the original colored stamped cardstock in my Lawn Fawn folder with the stamp set in a sheet protection sleeve. Then cut the print out copy using the coordinating die set or fussy cut but I have to use my Brothers Scan and Cut machine since I am struggling with cutting these small stamp images. This tip of copying, printing and cutting these out immediately continues of flow of thinking rather getting off track to color, cut, etc. Additionally to having your grand kiddos of children to do their cards, my 4 year old grandson open us these folders of stamped and cut critters to make his own cards each day.
Tip #3: You will want to use the Micro Mini dots to assemble one part of the magic iris. In my first card, I discovered that my old mini glue dots lost most of its adhesiveness after assembling the card and in a short time, the opening broke.
The stamped images from Lawn Fawn Den, Lawn Fawn Ho Ho Holiday, and Lawn Fawn Snow Globe Scene stamp sets were colored with Copic Markers. I used NUVO Gloss White drops for the snow fall for the center of the snow globe.
Tip #4: I like to apply the NUVO drops at night or last thing on the card in order to harden the most about 24 hours. It dries sooner than 24 hours, but over the years of working with NUVO drops, I found that these drops don't harden enough and will flatten or change shapes fter applying the drops and thinking these drops are dry.
I cut out the Lawn Fawn Magic Iris Snow Globe with white cardstock and silver metallic cardstock. The gorgeous Distress Oxide ink blending on the snow globe and the background adds wonderful color to this festive Christmas card! I sponged on Ranger Distress Wilted Violet ink on the globe and used a paint brush dabbed with white acrylic paint to sprinkle on the falling snow on the globe. I cut out the top part of the snow globe adhered it to the silver metallic snow globe die cut.
Tip #5: Just add a tip of white acrylic paint to a fine paint brush and tap on the tip of the brush to add the snow falling from the sky.
I cut out the Lawn Fawn Fall Fling paper using the Lawn Fawn Scalloped Stitched Rectangle Frame largest die in this set and adhered the reveal wheel to the card with Beacon 3-n-1 Advanced glue.
Lawn Fawn Scalloped Stitched Rectangle Frame
Thanks for your visit today! The Rubber Buggy has the crafting supplies for your next project. So have fun crafting this weekend with these products. My cards and projects are always posted on Saturday. Keep watching and thank you so much for those wonderful comments as well as suggestions. Enjoy and Happy Crafting!
