Lawn Fawn Pivot Popup Birthday card

Welcome back and Nancy, here, to share with you some exciting Lawn Fawn dies that I know you will want in your crafting supplies for your next cards.  I will be showcasing in this site the Lawn Fawn Pivot Popup Die Set and Lawn Fawn Just Stitching Hearts besides other wonderful supplies that are available at The Rubber Buggy on-line and retail store.  

I cut out a the Lawn Fawn Outside Inside Stitched Scalloped Rectangle die for the frame and die cut the hearts using Lawn Fawn Just Stitching Hearts die set.  These double stitched hearts are only stitched and does not cut out a heart die, making these stitching hearts great for adding a decorative touch to your background!  I used my die cutting machine to add different size hearts to the background and sponged on pastel colored inks in the center of the hearts.  

The Stamping Bella UpTown Girls- Bianca Loves Her Big Cake was stamped and colored with Copic Markers.  I used the NUVO Simply White Gloss for the cake and polka dots on her dress.  I let the drops dry for a few hours.  I cut out the stamp and used Beacon 3-n-1 Advanced glue to adhere Bianca and the cake to the card.  The gorgeous pink patterned paper is from the Lemon Craft Sweet Secret collection.  The banner was made using the Lawn Fawn Wavy Banner Set with the Lawn Fawn Wavy Saying Stamp Set.  You will want to cut out the banner first and then stamp the sentiment on the banner.

I added a handmade bow with a Wild Orchid Craft flower in the center.  

Lawn Fawn Just Stitching Hearts

Lawn Fawn Pivot Popup Die Set

I added the Lawn Fawn Pivot Popup Die Set for the inside of the card.  This set includes everything you need to create a four-panel pop-up scene that twists open inside your card! Use the included hills, trees, and clouds to decorate your scene, or use the panels as a starting point to create your own pop-up masterpiece!  This panel can be used on a portrait or landscape side of the card.  You will need to watch the video on assembling the pivot before you begin.  Lawn Fawn made a video that goes through the steps.  Click on Here to take you to this video.  

The adorable elephant and other stamps for the inside of the card was stamped with the Wild Rose Studio stamp sets.  I used the Lemon Craft Sweet Secret collection for Lawn Fawn Pivot PopUp and cut out the roses.  Below you will see how the pivot die cut will twist when closing the card.  My recommendation is to use your bone folder tool or side of a ruler to fold down the score lines on the pivot die as well as again on back of the card when the card is closed after the popup was glued to the inside to made the popup twist better when the inside of the card is folded shut. (See photo below)

I had so much fun making this card and hope you will too.  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!

Birthday card with Graphic 45

Welcome back and Nancy, here, to share a birthday card made with the new arrival of the January paper in this gorgeous Graphic 45 Fashion Forward 12 x 12 Paper Pad and Fashion Forward collection.

 What amazing vintage ladies in this paper pad with the beautiful sentiments and vivid colors.  I can't wait for you to try out this collection. 

 I cut out different sentiments in the Graphic 45 Fashion Forward paper pad to add for this card to personalize it for daughter.  I added the Wild Orchid mulberry flowers with the pearls and always ribbons on most of my cards.  I added a feather behind the bow with a rhinestone heart and pink mulberry flower in the center of the heart for that shabby chic/vintage look.  I used rose seam binding ribbon across the card and cut out a strip of white glittery cardstock to coordinate with the colors in this paper as well as a touch of glimmer.  I added the butterfly from the Graphic 45 Die Cut Assortment and adhered pink pearls in the center and glissen it with NUVO glitter pen.

I added a border around the image using the Graphic 45 Fashion Forward Stickers and  Graphic 45 Pattern and Solid Paper

I always personalize my cards by typing and printing on cardstock for the inside of the card.  This time, I added the Graphic 45 Fashion Forward paper from this same page for the inside besides adding the sentiment.

I had so much fun making these cards and hope you will too.  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!

Laserowe Sympathy Cards

Welcome back and Nancy, here.  Sympathy cards are some of the toughest occasions to create cards for but no doubt these cards are meaningful to the recipient with personalized messages in the card of sympathy, support, and wonderful memories of the person who passed away.

Today, I'm sharing a  handmade sympathy card that is actually versatile enough to use for many other occasions with the Laserowe Love Chipboard - Crosses With Flowers. Laserowe Love Chipboard - Crosses With Flowers set has beautiful crosses and gorgeous lilies that are commonly used to make Easter cards, Sympathy cards, Confirmation or Baptism cards. 

Laserowe Love Chipboard - Crosses With Flowers

I tried to not to go overboard with embellishments and let the main focus of the card be the message on the front and inside of the card.  These gorgeous lillies on the card is like sending a bouquet of flowers to them as well.

The computer-generated message on the front of one card was printed and transfer gold foil sheet was used to color the message.  I used the NUVO Classic Gold embossing powder on the other card.   I already had an embossing folder with a sunrise but you can use just about any embossing background folder that you have.  I used gold foil for the top layer of the cross and painted the cross behind it with Prima Marketing Metallique Rich Copper wax and adhered the entire layers with the Beacon 3-in-1 Advance glue.  I used white paint for the lillies and used my light green Copic Marker for the center of the lillies. I added a butterfly that was embossed with gold glitter.  

It was so much meaningful for me to make these sympathy cards for them.  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!

Valentine Gift Bag

Welcome back and Valentine's Day is only a few weeks away.  I made these Valentine's gift bags that will be filled with candy for some of my grandchildren.  The cardstock gift bags measure 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" with ribbon glued to the inside for handles.  All of these wonderful products and supplies are now available at The Rubber Buggy on-line and retail stores.  

The tiny hearts are found in the Lawn Fawn Heart Shaker Gift Tag set.  I cut out each heart tag with pink cardstock and the one on top has the Xs and Os in it and the one above with the sentiment has the medium sized hearts glued to the acetate.  I cut an addition heart out with cheap foam and it is glued between the acetate and top heart.  I added the Xs and Os to the top photo to the inside of the heart before stamping the "Have A Mice Day" and adhering it to the bottom heart.  The same adorable tiny hearts were glued to all three boxes.  

Suggestion:  Please review my tutorial, click HERE on cutting out intricate detailed dies such as the Lawn Fawn XOXO Background Portrait die.  For these kinds of dies with so many intricate cuts, I always use a Fabric Softener sheet when cutting out these kinds of dies.  These tiny pieces will stick to a new Fabric Softener sheet rather than in the die cut or die.  Poking out these tiny pieces is very time-consuming as well as frustrating if you don't get that perfect die cut.  The Fabric Softener sheet also add additional thickness for a deeper die cut along with these tiny pieces sticking to the Fabric Softener sheet.  Note that this technique can't be used on a Fabric Softener sheet that has been already used in a dryer.

The fabric softener sheet is on the left and noticed how these tiny discarded pieces are on the fabric softener sheet rather than stuck to the die cut or in the die.  You can reused these fabric softener sheet a few more times before throwing them away.

Supplies:
 Lawn Fawn You’re Just My Type 
 Lawn Fawn Love Poems 
Lawn Fawn I Love You(calyptus)

 Lawn Fawn Happy Heart Day Line Border

Lawn Fawn Heart Shaker Gift Tag 

Copic Markers

Lawn Fawn XOXO Background Portrait die
Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Square die
Tim Holtz Gum Drops (Colored with Pink Copic Marker)

Beacon 3 n 1 Advanced Glue
Lemon Craft My Sweet Provence Paper Pad
Lawn Fawn Fairy Stamp Set and Lawn Fawn Fairy Die Set

So have fun crafting this weekend with these products.  Order now while these gorgeous dies, papers and stamps are still available.  I hope I have inspired you try out these products available at The Rubber Buggy on-line store.  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!

Cards 4 Kids

I am so thrilled to be a guest designer for Send A Smile for Kids Challenge for Spring or Easter.   This challenge blog is dedicated for an opportunity for you crafters to donate some of your handmade cards to children who are inpatient at Children's Hospitals around the USA.  For information and where to send your cards you wish to donate, click on HERE. Also on the challenge blog is valuable information that the hospitals would want to follow.   

Every card and gift is so precious and appreciated by these little ones and their family.  Hopefully, my card will tickles and excites a little child at one of these hospitals. 

My card is made with the following supplies:
Wee Stamp Topper:  Friends
Cheery Lynn Design Doily Die:  Tea Party
Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
Lemon Craft My Sweet Provence Paper Pad
Seam Binding Ribbon - Rose
Tim Holtz Gum Drops (Colored with Pink Copic Marker)
Wild Rose Studio Stamp:  Birthday Greeting
Beacon 3 in 1 Advanced Glue
Misti Stamp Tool
Stampin Up Circle and Scallop Punches
Butterfly Crochet String

I had so much fun making these cards and hope you will too.  So have fun crafting this weekend.
My cards and projects are always posted on Saturdays at: https://hillfarmcards.blogspot.com/.  Keep watching and thank you so much for those wonderful comments as well as suggestions. 

Enjoy and Happy Crafting!

Nancy Hill

Little Birdie Nurse

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Get Well Before & After

Lawn Fawn Fall Fling collection 6" x 6" or 12" x 12"

Lawn Fawn Picture Changer

Lawn Fawn Simple Puffy Cloud Die

Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Die set
Prima Marketing Melange Diamond Art Pebbles 

Copic Markers

Beacon 3 n 1 Advanced Glue

Blue and sage green cardstock

NUVO Clear Gloss:  Morning Dew

Lawn Fawn Dad and Me stamp set (Fishes on bottom of whale)

Tim Holtz Distress Ink:  Tumbled Glass (Ocean and around scalloped frame)

Lawn Fawn Get Well Before & After

                                                                    Lawn Fawn Fall Fling

I was challenged with my first card and threw it away when I realized that I can't add any embellishment to the stamp on the picture changer when the tab wouldn't go up and down.  Therefore, I reviewed the Lawn Fawn tutorial, click HERE,  again and as well highly recommended on the tutorial was to add the baby powder or cornstarch to the stamped and colored image on the picture changer after being colored.  The baby powder or cornstarch will make the tab work smoothly when pulling  the tab.  I fussy cut the stamped images and then adhered the extras on the the outside frame of the picture changer.

I sponged on Ranger Tumbled Glass ink to the ocean on the whale picture as well as the scalloped frame.  I dabbed some NUVO Morning Dew gloss as well as the Prima Marketing Art Pebbles around the frame of the whale card for bubbles of the water.

 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!

Get Well Soon Mice

Welcome back and Nancy, here, excited to share another mice card with you today.  The new arrival of the Lawn Fawn dies and stamps have these adorable mice, sentiments and hearts available for Valentines besides other occasions and holidays.  All of these wonderful products are available at The Rubber Buggy on-line and retail store.  Get your order in while supplies last since this collection is way too cute.   

I made another Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel card using the Lawn Fawn You’re Just My Type and Lawn Fawn Love Poems! Lawn Fawn designed these stamp sets to work perfectly with lots of Lawn Fawn interactive die sets such as the Lawn Fawn Square or Rectangle Reveal Wheel die sets.

Lawn Fawn You’re Just My Type and Lawn Fawn Love Poems

Lawn Fawn Reveal Add On Wheel Square and Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel 

 This Lawn Fawn Reveal Add On Wheel Square die set that is purchased separately to add to the Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel die set includes window and square frame for a beautiful heart that is perfect for Valentine’s Day and “I love you” cards! Plus, Lawn Fawn stamps have sentiments to fit in the windows of the reveal wheel and there are a variety of different shapes of reveal wheel window add-on dies to add to your collection.  Many of the window frames have templates available for easy stamping on the cut out wheel circle.  

If you haven' made a reveal wheel card, the Lawn Fawn has wonderful videos to guide you for the first time. Just click Here to view their video instructions.    I would highly recommend viewing the tutorial first for helpful guidance.  Spin the wheel to reveal different sentiments of  photos of my card showing the four sentiments stamped on the circle wheel.  

Lawn Fawn Fancy Wavy Banner set has three dies that cut four different style banners. I used the coordinating wavy stamp in the Lawn Fawn Love Poems stamp set.    

I added the tiny hearts.  You will find all possibilities and occasions for the Lawn Fawn Heart Shaker Gift tag die for other projects and cards.  Helpful hint:  Most of these very tiny hearts will remain in the cardstock after the die cut.  On the back of the cardstock, adhere the glue or spray adhesive on all of the hearts.  Turn over and then use a pointy tool to poke out each heart directly where you want these hearts to lay on your card.  Otherwise, these tiny hearts are very difficult to individually glue and set on the card with your fingers.  

I sponged on  the Ranger Archival Magenta ink around the card before adding the mice and hearts.

To finish my card, I added a Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Square Frame  and the Lawn Fawn Fall Fling paper to cover the card front!

So have fun crafting this weekend with these products.  Order now while these gorgeous dies, papers and stamps are still available.  I hope I have inspired you try out these products available at The Rubber Buggy on-line store.  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!

Lawn Fawn Thank You Mice Card

Welcome back and Nancy, here, to share with you a thank you card with the exciting Lawn Fawn new arrivals of stamps and dies all available at The Rubber Buggy on-line store.  With so many thank you cards to make after Christmas, I decided to make my thank you cards out of these dies and stamps that are so suitable for Valentines as well as other occasions.  

There is so many fun dies and stamps that just arrived from The Rubber Buggy that it will be hard to choose which ones that I wanted to use first.  With Valentine's Day around the corner, you will want to get your order in right away while supplies are still available.  

Inside of card

Lawn Fawn You're Just My Type and Lawn Fawn Love Poems

Lawn Fawn XOXO Background die

I stamped out the Lawn Fawn You're Just My Type and Lawn Fawn Love Poems using the 

Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink.  Each stamp set comes with a Lawn Fawn die set.  I colored the images with Copic Markers and used the Uni-Ball White Ink pen in some of the areas on the images.  I cut out the Lawn Fawn XOXO Background Portrait die with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Rectangle die set on yellow cardstock.  I cut out the Lawn Fawn XOXO Backdrop Portrait die with light green and also pink cardstock. I adhered the green backdrop to the yellow cardstock.  I poked out the Xs and Os of the pink cardstock and glued these to the light green cardstock.  

Additionally, I added the cat and rug using the Lawn Fawn Christmas Dream stamp set.  

The inside card was covered with the beautiful Lawn Fawn Fall Fling paper before adding the mice and sentiment found in these new Lawn Fawn stamp sets.   

I had so much fun making these cards and hope you will too.  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!

Lawn Fawn Koala

Welcome and Nancy, here.  Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades with large swathes of the country devastated since the fire season began affecting so many people causing thousands to flee their homes, farms and ranches including one dear Rubber Buggy design team member.  Millions of Australian animals have died as well.  One of the dear animals in Australia is the adorable koala bear and I wanted to create a card to send the message  to her as well as our Aussie friends and families that you are in our thoughts and prayers.  

If you are interested in creating a card similar to this one, The Rubber Buggy on-line store has all of these wonderful Lawn Fawn products along with a huge wide variety of name-brand supplies and products to create your project and cards.   The Rubber Buggy customer service and fast delivery is exactly what you want from a company that goes the extra mile for their customers and even has fun doing it.  

Supplies:
Lawn Fawn I Love You(calyptus)

 Lawn Fawn Happy Heart Day Line Border

Lawn Fawn Heart Shaker Gift Tag 

Lawn Fawn Fall Fling Paper Pad

Lawn Fawn Leafy Tree Background Portrait die 

Lawn Fawn Grassy Border

Copic Markers

Beacon 3 n 1 Advanced Glue

Technique:  

After die cutting the Lawn Fawn Heart Shaker Gift Tax that has so many tiny hearts on the pink cardstock still in place on the cardstock, I sprayed the back of the cardstock with the hearts in place with adhesive spray glue and then poked these hearts out where I want to adhere on my card.  

Also, I reversed the two-sided patterned paper to the die cutting machine and  cut out Lawn Leafy Tree Background Portrait die to get the tree on the right side rather than the left.  

So keep our Australian friends and family in your thoughts and prayers.  

Entering this card in 
Scrapyland Challenge #129:  Anything Goes+

Send A Smile 4 Kids Challenge:  Valentines+