The Scrappy Jedi: October 2015

Hello, and welcome to this month's Lawn Fawn Inspiration Week festivities! There's a lot going on over at the Lawn Fawn blog (including some pretty big giveaways), and I'll be sharing my own projects here on my little corner of the web.

Today Lawn Fawn is featuring the Winter Scripty Sayings stamp set, and I decided to use it in a simple, easily reproducible card design that would be perfect for quickly making lots of handmade Christmas cards.

Once I had the initial design down, it was really easy to crank out duplicates of this card! I started with a white card base and then used the largest Stitched Rectangles die to cut pieces of glitter paper (I used the DCWV Glitzy Glitter Stack) and sheets from the Let's Bokeh in the Snow 6x6 paper pad. I curved the bottoms of both pieces of paper using the Stitched Hillside dies (turns out they're just as good at shaping card edges as they are at making hills!) and adhered them to the card base with the glitter offset just a bit from the patterned paper.

One of the cool things about clear stamps is their flexibility (literally!), and I curved each of the stamps on the lid of my MISTI (you could also use a big acrylic block), using the cut-off portion of the glitter paper as a guide. I used Lawn Fawn inks in colors that matched my patterned paper choices, but it would be fun to experiment with different combinations of metallic inks or heat embossing, too.

The rest of the Lawn Fawn team has cooked up some fabulous projects using both these stamps and the new Scalloped Rectangles Stackables dies, so be sure to hop on over to the Lawn Fawn blog to check it all out!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I'll be back tomorrow with other card that may or may not have you singing a little Let It Go.

If you are interested in the products that I used in this post, you'll find them linked up below. I do participate in affiliate programs and use those links where possible. If you make a purchase after clicking on one of these links I do earn a small commission, but it doesn't cost you anything extra. The Lawn Fawn products used in this post were provided to me in exchange for design work. The remaining products were my own purchases.

Lawn Fawn LET'S BOKEH IN THE SNOW Petite 6 x 6 Paper Pack

Lawn Fawn STITCHED HILLSIDE BORDERS Lawn Cuts Dies

Lawn Fawn LARGE STITCHED RECTANGLE STACKABLES Lawn Cuts Dies

Lawn Fawn SMALL STITCHED RECTANGLE STACKABLES Lawn Cuts Dies

Lawn Fawn Dye Ink - Lobster

Lawn Fawn Dye Ink - Mermaid

Lawn Fawn Dye Ink - Freshly Cut Grass

Neenah Solar White - 80 lb

DCWV Cardstock 6 x 6 GLITZY GLITTER Paper Stack Matstack

DCWV Cardstock 12 x 12 GLITZY GLITTER Paper Stack

MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool Whole Kit and Kaboodle

InLinkz.com

So, obviously I'm posting just a bit more sporadically than I intended! Star and Bee had its biggest month ever in September, and October is already looking like it's going to be even bigger!

I completely missed posting my September Inspiration Week projects here, though I did get them finished in time to post on the Lawn Fawn blog. You may have seen them over there already, but I thought I'd post them all here with a little background information before the next Inspiration Week starts...tomorrow. There are two layouts and four cards to show, all in one post, so let's get started!

Lawn Fawn's Let's Bokeh in the Snow is part of their Christmas release, but when I was scrapping this page in early September, all I could think of was the beach! I was at our house in Mobile (where Darren is in school), and Dauphin Island is less than an hour away. We've driven there a few times just to wander around, and I had some photos from our most recent trip printed up. They paired nicely with the aqua blue and off white patterns in the collection, and I added in some embossed vellum circles (made with the Let's Bokeh stamp set) and sequins to create a sort of watery, bubbly look.

The next layout proves that I was in no way ready to scrap anything remotely winter or Christmas related...instead I pulled out some state fair photos from a couple of years ago and used some blues and greens on my page. This layout was actually inspired by the Baah Humbug stamp set, and I heat embossed one of the cute little sheep in gold (again on vellum...can you tell that vellum is one of my favorite things?) to use as an embellishment.

This card using the Scripty For You die and Let's Bokeh stamp set is probably one of my favorite things that I made for September's release. I used the solid circle stamps from the set and lots of different colors of Lawn Fawn's ink (I just love the coverage they give!) to make a rainbow of bubbles, then layered up four die cuts from white cardstock to make a dimensional die cut to adhere in the middle.

All the cards in my last set of projects to share today were made with the Merry Christmouse stamp set (exclusive to Simon Says Stamp for their Stamptember promotion), which sold out in an insanely short amount of time (the dies were gone in under 24 hours!)- so short that they didn't even get posted to the Lawn Fawn blog because the stamps were gone before the post was scheduled to go up!

I had a lot of fun coloring these images with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers (try saying that 5 times fast!), and I actually started out just coloring and die cutting a bunch of images without any real idea of how I would eventually use them on cards. Sometimes when I scrapbook I like to make elements in batches- embellishment clusters, backgrounds, etc.- and then figure out how to use them later. The same thing can work really well for cards, and is a great way to take advantage of the days you feel like just coloring vs. the days you feel like designing things and gluing stuff together.

I have another pair of layouts, a card, and a card set ready to go for this month's Lawn Fawn Inspiration Week, and my plan is to get those posted in a more timely manner- starting tomorrow!