The Scrappy Jedi: August 2018

Friday, August 17, 2018

Hello, and welcome back to another day of Lawn Fawn's Release and Inspiration week for this month! This week the design team is working with a batch of the new products (which will release on August 23rd), and today we're all playing with the Double Slider Surprise die!

I decided to see how well this would work to add extra photos in my latest scrapbooking love- traveler's notebooks. I know I jumped on this bandwagon late in the game, and I'm not really sure why I resisted for so long! I love this smaller format and how quickly pages come together. Sometimes, though, I still have an extra photo or two I'd like to include while still keeping lots of white (or, in this case, green) space on a page.

The slider mechanism is surprisingly easy to put together since the die set cuts everything out for you. Kelly has a great video up on the Lawn Fawn YouTube channel explaining how to put everything together and also showing some great card examples.

I will say that while I really like this idea for adding photos to one or two layouts in a TN, it can add a bit of bulk to the page since you need to use a heavier weight (I used 80lb) cardstock for the pullout tabs. It's definitely not something I would use on every page in a notebook, but it's definitely a fun way to mix things up here and there!

The little apple image is from the new Caramel Apple stamp set, and I colored it (and actually all of my images for this week) with either Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens or Arteza Real Brush Pens

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to hop over to the Lawn Fawn blog where the rest of the design team has some amazing card examples using the Double Slider Surprise waiting for you!

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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Hi, everyone, and welcome to another fun week of inspiration using the new Lawn Fawn products that will be releasing on August 23rd! Today the design team is featuring several fall and Halloween themed stamps and dies, and you can see lots more inspiration from the other Fawny girls over on the Lawn Fawn blog!

My card today features a couple of images from the adorable new Pick of the Patch stamp set, and I paired it with some new dies (Reverse Stitched Scalloped Circle Windows) and old dies (Small Stitched Leaves and the foliage from Pretty Poppies) to create a window for my sentiment and a small cluster to finish off the frame. The leaves were cut from the new Knit Picky Fall paper collection, and I just love the autumn colors and patterns in this set!

All stamping, including the sentiment, is done in Versafine Onyx Black ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. This gives the sentiment a little bit of "pop" while at the same time helping me keep my coloring in the lines on the images, something that makes coloring with watercolor brush markers (I used both Zig Clean Color and Arteza markers here) a bit easier as it tends to keep the color inside the lines.

I used a bit of Glossy Accents to add some shine and dimension to the pumpkin, and also used a Wink of Stella pen in clear glitter to add a little shimmer to the die cut leaves.

Thanks so much for stopping by- I hope you have a great day!

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