All Occasion Card | Freshly Made Sketches #400 Milestone Celebration | Lawn Fawn - You Are Sublime

Hello!

Thanks so much for joining me today as I celebrate with the wonderful team over on the Freshly Made Sketches Blog! They are celebrating a HUGE Milestone - their #400th Sketch - and to commemorate this accomplishment, a long list of great manufacturers have been very generous and donated lots of prizes for this challenge. Please head over and check out the wonderful ideas that the design team created for this very special sketch!

I have wanted to do a pastel color way for Lawn Fawn's "You Are Sublime" for a long time and this was the perfect opportunity to combine the Lawn Fawnatics current challenge (Something See-Through) with #FMS400! I began by lightly ink blending a background using Distress Oxide Inks (Wilted Violet, Salty Ocean and Cracked Pistachio) and a bubble/wave template. I sprayed the panel with shimmer mist, spattered it with diluted inks and set it aside to dry. I also blended these same three colors on a thin strip of scrap paper and cut it in half (this gave me 2 smaller strips measuring 1/2" x 5.5"). I trimmed the stenciled panel down to 3.25" x 5.5" and die cut the frame in the middle with Lawn Fawn's Shadow Box Theater Add-On. I added more ink blending to the small positive die cut since I was going to pop it back in the middle of my underwater scene. I determined the stencil panel's placement on the front of an A-2 horizontal top-folding card base and glued the small center die cut in the correct spot. I adhered my two ink blended strips on the outside edge of the stencil panel (in reverse color order) in order to frame it with a border and backed the entire panel with craft foam.

I stamped, colored and die cut all of my Lawn Fawn images. I decided that I didn't like the white die cut edge popping off of the darker ocean background so I colored the edges to match the background tones and the images were glued into place. I really like the way this turned out - it looks more like you are peering into an aquarium with the softened image edges. I lightly ink blended Wilted Violet onto the back of heavy vellum, prepped the opposite side with my anti-static powder tool, stamped the sentiment with VersaMark Ink and heat embossed it with white powder. I die cut the sentiment and adhered it into place with a very small piece of vellum adhesive at either end. I wanted a semi-transparent effect for this sentiment strip and this technique worked very well.

I glued my little lobster into place holding onto my sentiment strip and adhered the entire front panel into place with the submarine scene lining up in the middle. The card was finished off with an assortment of iridescent bubbles from Lucy's Little Things - I love how they play off the other colors used in the card!

Thanks a million for stopping by and make sure you enter in the #FMS400 celebration!

Challenges:

Lawn Fawn - See Through Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Rachelle ♥

Birthday Card | MFT Stamps - BB Penguins in Paradise | Color Throwdown CTD547 | Freshly Made Sketches FMS392

Happy Monday!

I was able to finish up this card, which combined the Color Throwdown Palette ctd547 (yellow, orange, hot pink, and green) and the Freshly Made Sketch FMS392 for this week! Yippee!

I stamped, colored and die cut the images from 110 lb. Neenah Solar White. I water colored and stippled the sand texture on the same card stock and set it aside to dry. I stenciled the sun rays with Distress Inks (Mustard Seed & Carved Pumpkin), spritzed the paper with water and flecked it with gold metallic watercolors. I cut both the stenciled background and sandy beach with the same stitched rectangle die and then die cut the beach again with a hillside die. 

I determined the placement of my palm tree, glued it to the sun ray panel and adhered the beach on top. I popped the beach ball into place with foam tape and glued the penguin to the panel. I watercolored several large swatches of the hot pink color onto white card stock and after it was dry, I stamped the sentiment components on each one using the MISTI and VersaFine Onyx Black Ink. After the ink dried for a couple of minutes, I die cut each one individually with the same sentiment strip die. I glued the beach scene onto the front of an A-2 top-folding card front and attached the three sentiments strips into place to finish the card.

I just love this little chubby penguin enjoying the summer sun with his inflatable!

I have also entered this little guy into the following challenges:

Cut It Up: #176 Welcome Summer!

Aud Sentiments - #229 AG

Craft Rocket Challenges - #60 Summer is Coming

Thanks for stopping by!

Rachelle ♥

Birthday Card | MTF's - More Monsters

 

HAPPY FRIYAY!

Sending out some monster-sized greetings today courtesy of MFT's wonderful stamp/die set - More Monsters! This Birthday Card will be entered into both the FMS346 Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge featuring die cuts or punches.

  

I die cut the circular shapes out of a piece of Neenah Solar White card stock, which measured 4.25 x 7". The monsters were stamped/die cut and given a coat of Wink of Stella. The blue and red monsters were taped into place on the backside of the die cut panel and then glued onto a piece of 5 x 7" black card stock. A strip of 1/4" silver glitter paper was adhered to the edge of the white card stock and a scalloped circle outline was glued down in the negative space of the die cut. All of the monsters were popped off with foam tape for added dimension.

I stamped the sentiment in VersaFine Onyx Black Ink using my MISTI and added a sprinkle of clear sequins to finish the card. This entire panel was adhered onto a white card base.

I just ♥ love ♥ the goofy expressions of this motley crew!

Thanks for joining me and have a great day! ♥

Rachelle