You are Spooktacular!!

Good morning!  Jess here with an interactive Halloween card featuring stamps from Frosty Fairy Friends in an unexpected setting! ;)

I was looking at that Frosty Fairy Friends house and realized it could be a really creepy haunted house for my ghosts!  I started my card by stamping the ghosts and gravestones from Spooktacular and the house from Frosty Fairy Friends onto white cardstock with copic-friendly ink.  I also stamped a few ghosts on vellum.  I colored all of them with copic markers and die-cut them with the coordinating dies.

Next I blended Seedless Preserves, Chipped Sapphire, and Black Soot distress ink onto a piece of watercolor paper to create my spooky night sky.  I also blended the same inks onto a scrap piece of watercolor paper to go behind my interactive slider.  I die cut the slider element from the background and several of the stitched hills with dark grey and black cardstock.  I stamped my sentiment onto one of the hills and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder.

Then it was time to assemble my card!  I attached one of the ghosts to the sliding element and then mounted the background onto my card base with a layer of foam mounting tape so the ghost could slide easily.  I adhered my hills to the background and then added the house with foam mounting tape.  I adhered the gravestones and ghosts using a mixture of foam mounting tape and regular adhesive for a change in dimension.  I also flipped one of my vellum ghosts over so that he would be going in the opposite direction.

And that's my not too spooky Halloween card!  :) Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful week!

-Jessica

Getting in the holiday spirit!

Good morning, Jess here!  I'm telling you...I am SO over hot, humid weather...I made several cards this weekend and realized they all featured snow!  On the plus side it's building my stockpile of Christmas cards! :)

To start I stamped the trees from Joy to the Woods with versamark onto watercolor paper and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder.  Then I covered it with frisket and let it dry before I worked on the rest of the background.  I smooshed Seedless Preserves, Chipped Sapphire, and Victorian Velvet distress ink onto a craft mat and then spritzed it with water.  I used my finger to blend the colors around a little and then picked up the ink with a piece of acetate.  I brought the ink to my watercolor paper and smooshed it on.  I repeated the process a few times until I was happy with the coverage and then let it dry.  Once it was totally dry I flicked white paint across the background and let it dry.

Next I rubbed the frisket off of the trees and used Hickory Smoke distress ink and a dry paint brush to add some shading to the trees.  I die-cut two hills from white cardstock using the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders and the Stitched Hillside Borders dies.  I stamped the sentiment from Joy to the Woods with versamark on one hill and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. 

Finally I stamped the two cardinals from Joy to the Woods, colored them with copic markers, fussy cut them, and adhered them to the card with foam mounting tape.  And now I'll go back to dreaming about the first snow we'll get this winter!!  Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day!

-Jess

"Wave"ing Hello

Good morning, Jess here!  If you haven't noticed yet, I'm just a tiny bit obsessed with my Lawn Fawn mermaids!  I was looking at the sentiments in the set and it reminded me of one of my favorite scenes from The Little Mermaid.  As a kid I spent many summers trying to recreate the iconic image of Ariel surrounded by the waves as she hoists herself up on the rock and I thought it would be fun to recreate it on a card! :)

And it's me...so of course I had to make it interactive, too!  

This was a really fun card to create though I was quite nervous about the outcome until it was totally done.  To start off I stamped the rock onto a piece of watercolor paper with antique linen distress ink as a guide for my eventual second layer.  Then I smooshed chipped sapphire, salty ocean, and mermaid lagoon distress ink onto my craft mat for my waves.  First I loosely watercolored a second sheet of watercolor paper with streaks of each color and set that aside to dry while I worked on the background.  I wet the paper around the rock and dropped distress ink into the water with a wet paintbrush allowing it to blend naturally.  I also made sure to leave parts of the paper dry so that it would stay white and resemble the crest and foam of the waves.  Once it was dry I flicked water droplets over the waves and blotted them off after a few seconds.  And I also flicked chipped sapphire and salty ocean distress ink droplets over the paper and let them dry.

Next I smooshed abandoned coral, picked raspberry, and spun sugar distress ink onto a craft mat and repeated the process for the sky.  I added additional water droplets and more flicks of chipped sapphire and salty ocean distress ink.

Then I stamped the mermaid and the rock with copic-friendly ink and then colored them with copics.  I added a little shimmer to Ariel's bikini and tail with a spectrum noir sparkle brush.  Next I took two long, thin strips of navy blue cardstock and adhered them over the bottom of Ariel's tail to create a handle.  I stamped the sentiment onto the first piece of watercolor paper I painted and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder.  Then I used the ocean waves border die to die-cut the top of the paper and adhered the rock behind it.  I turned that over and added strips of foam mounting tape to it, leaving a channel where my handle could slide to move Ariel.  I adhered it to the background panel and then slid Ariel into the channel.  Finally I adhered the background panel to a white card base and the card was done! :)

I really like the contrast between the soft, dreamy quality of the distress inks and the sharper, bright copic markers.  It kind of reminds me of an old cartoon cel.  Anyway, that's my card and the story behind it! ;)  Thanks so much for visiting today and don't forget to enter the current Lawnscaping Challenge!  Have a wonderful day!

-Jess

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Mermaid for You	Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER Inkssentials Surfaces ISW39532	Winsor and Newton Sceptre Gold II Brush Round-Short Handle 5	Winsor and Newton Sceptre Gold II Brush Round-Short Handle 12
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad ANTIQUE LINEN Ranger TIM19497	Ranger DIS-27164 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Spun Sugar	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Picked Raspberry	Ranger Tim Holtz February Distress Ink Pad, Abandoned Coral
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Salty Ocean	Ranger Tim Holtz March Distress Ink Pad, Mermaid Lagoon	Ranger DIS-27119 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Chipped Sapphire	Tsukineko Full-Size Memento Fade Resistant Inkpad, Tuxedo Black
Copic Sketch Markers	Powder Tool Adhesive Deactivator	VersaMark Ink Pad	Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, White
WAGNER HT 400 650-Degree Heat Gun	Scotch Acid Free Advanced Tape Glider, Pink Applicator with 2 Rolls of 1/4-Inch Tape (085)	3M Scotch 1/2-Inch by 36-Yard Double-Sided Foam Tape

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Underwater Birthday Bendi Shaker Card!

Good morning!  Jess here with a bendi card featuring a shaker panel and a horde of adorable underwater creatures!  I recently discovered bendi cards and I am in love!!  If you've never seen or created a bendi card before you can see a video tutorial of a bendi card I created last week here.  After getting comfortable with the process I decided to push it a little further and create a shaker panel for one of the sides!  And this is how it turned out!

To start, I stamped a bunch of the critters on Neenah Solar White cardstock with copic-friendly ink and colored them with copics before using my ScanNCut to cut them out.  I also stamped the solid corals using Lawn Fawn inks.  I knew I wanted a few images to be visible from both sides of the shaker so I used a faux lightbox to trace the reverse image on scrap cardstock, colored them with copics, and cut them with the ScanNCut.  I took a little artistic license to create the backside view of the brunette mermaid which you can see below.  I created the shaker using the ocean waves dies as a guide for my Fuse tool and filled it with iridescent sequins.

I also die cut the sand and waves using the stitched hillside border dies from Lawn Fawn.  I blended distress inks onto both sides of the left panel and the background before spritzing it with water and shimmer spray.

Then I cut slits in the background panel and left panel to allow the card panels to bend and attached the shaker and side panel to the background panel.  I adhered the happy birthday word die and all of the critters to the card with glossy accents and then fit the notches into the slits which created the curved shape.

I am so excited by all of the creative possibilities for this type of card and I LOVE that you can take the notches out of the slits and then the card folds completely flat for mailing!

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my card!  Have a wonderful day!

-Jess

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Mermaid for You	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Fintastic Friends	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Life is Good	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, So Jelly
Lawn Cuts Dies, Stitched Hillside Border	Lawn Cuts Dies, Simple Stitched Hillside Borders	Lawn Cuts Dies, Ocean Wave Borders	Lawn Cuts Dies, Happy Birthday Border
Mini Ink Blending Tool-1	Ranger DIS-27119 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Chipped Sapphire	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Peacock Feathers	Ranger Tim Holtz March Distress Ink Pad, Mermaid Lagoon
Mister Bottle-2 Ounces Empty	Tsukineko 2-Pack Pssst Sheer Shimmer Spritz, Ultra Fine Mist, Frost and Sparkle	Tsukineko 2-Ounce Refill Bottle, Pssst Sheer Shimmer, Sparkle	Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Lobster
Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Pumpkin Spice	Copic Sketch Markers	Couture Color - Caviar Hybrid	Gilding
Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar White 80# Cover 8.5	Environment Desert Storm 80 Lb Card Stock - 25 Pk	Avery Elle Stamp and Die Storage Pockets, Clear, 25-Pack	We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool
We R Memory Keepers FUSE, Fuse Tips	We R Memory Keepers FUSE, Mat & Holster

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