Month: April 2020

Jessica’s Beautiful Balloon Sketch Card

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The Card Sketch Challenge will be open until this Sunday, April 19th at 11:59PM ET. There is still time to enter your projects! We can’t wait to see where your creativity takes you!

Good morning! Jess here with a card for our current Card Sketch challenge! For my first card this month I followed the sketch pretty closely so this time I wanted to take a slightly looser approach! 🙂

To start I die-cut balloons from Party Balloons with Lawn Fawn cardstock in Guava, Raspberry, and Mermaid. I also die-cut two clouds from Spring Showers with Pixie Dust Sparkle cardstock. I added a few accents with a white paint pen and then set those aside while I worked on the rest of the card.

Next I blended distress oxide inks in Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, and Blueprint Sketch over the Cloudy Stencil to create a cloudy sky! I let that dry for a few minutes while I tied Silver Sparkle twine around my balloons. I also die-cut the sentiment from Scripty Hello three times from Black Licorice cardstock and adhered them together. Then I adhered my balloons and clouds to the stenciled panel with foam mounting tape. I tucked the balloon tails around my sentiment and then adhered it with foam tape as well. Finally I knotted the twine and trimmed off the ends to finish the card!

And that’s it! You have one more weekend to get crafty and I can’t wait to see what you’ll create! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic weekend!
–Jess

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Wishing our Fawnatics friends a wonderful, craft-filled weekend!

Caly’s Happy Dandy Day Card

- Nancy Krueger 1 Comment

Hello Fawnatics Friends! This is Caly with you today sharing a card made using the Dandy Day set! The current sketch challenge ends on April 19th at 11:59pm PST so there’s a few days left if you’d like to play along!

For the challenge reveal, I was pretty literal with the sketch, but I wanted to create a scene today, so I used Simple Puffy Clouds to replace the circle elements on the sketch.

I stamped and colored my images using Copic markers before adding some glitter glue on the dandelions for some sparkle.
Copic colors used: R20, E41, E42, E43, Y02, Y38, YG06, YG09, E37, E31, C1, C2

For my background, I used a blue panel from the Dandy Day Petite Paper Pack. To give it more interest, I ink-blended the top with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide Ink and the grass section with Lucky Clover Distress Oxide Ink using the Grassy Stencil.

Once my background was created, I adhered my clouds and began attaching my dandelions and adorable field mice to complete my scene. The final step was to attach my embossed sentiment at the bottom of my clouds.

I hope you enjoyed this project! Thanks so much for stopping by today! ~Caly

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Karin’s Gorgeous Butterflies!

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Karin shares a lovely Spring design based on our Card Sketch! I hope it will inspire you to join the challenge!

Karin started by using the Just Stitching Hearts dies to create the pretty pattern on the Storm Cloud panel! It’s such a simple step but it adds so much detail!

Using a stamping tool like a MISTI, Karin first stamped the Flutter By butterflies in Jellyfish Copic-friendly ink on white cardstock. She left the stamp in the MISTI while she colored the butterflies in beautiful Spring color combinations. Then she returned the butterflies to the MISTI to stamp them once again with Clear Embossing Ink and emboss them with gold embossing powder!

Thanks for sharing this fun technique with us today, Karin! Your card is so gorgeous!

Check out the Card Sketch challenge and join the fun! This challenge is open until Sunday, April 19th at 11:59PM ET.

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Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!