Winter Birthday Card

 Hello crafty friends!

It has been a few weeks since I wrote a new post but I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable Christmas period.  Things are very hectic at Pink Peppermint HQ but I'm so grateful for my crafty outlet and this lovely, supportive community.

For today's card I have created a fun, wintery birthday card using some Pretty Pink Posh goodies (*).  The sets I have used today are Penguin Pals, Holiday Pals, Holiday Signs and Stitched Essentials 1 Dies.

I stamped out my images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on copic friendly card stock and coloured them in with copic markers:

Penguin - W4, W3, W1, W0, RV11, Y38

Presents - B97, B95, B93, B91

Trees - RV69, RV66, RV52, B21, B23, E47, E44, E43

For the card panel I cut a piece of white cardstock to 5.25" x 4" and blended on some Distress Ink in Chipped Sapphire, concentrating the colour in the centre of the card and fading the colour away towards the outer edges.

I white heat embossed the words happy, winter and birthday on to some navy card.  Each word was trimmed down to a small strip with a guillotine trimmer.

All of the images were adhered to the card panel.  Some trees were directly adhered with liquid adhesive and some of the trees, penguin and presents were adhered with dimensional foam tape.  Before securing the sentiments I watered down some white gauche and and flicked the whole card front with paint for a snowy scene.  The sentiments were adhered with liquid adhesive with the help of a T-square ruler to line them up straight.

Finally the whole panel was mounted on a navy panel measuring 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" and secured on to an A2 side folding white card base.

With some of the left over images I created a cute tag to co-ordinate with my card.

Thank you for stopping by today!  Hope you have a great day x

(*)  The products I used in this project have all been purchased by me however affiliate links are contained in this post.  I appreciate any purchases made through my links and thank you for your support xx

3 Lawn Fawn cards using Mojo Monday 2 Sheet Wonder

Hello Crafters!  Welcome back to a new blog post where today I share some cute Lawn Fawn Christmas cards made with the help of the Mojo Monday 2 sheet wonder challenge (original challenge is here Mojo Monday 533 - 535 - Poetic Artistry)

For my cards I used 2 sheets of paper from the Milk & Cookies Doodlebug Design paper pad (this one is old but you can use any papers you like) and I pulled out lots of scrap papers to help mat the layers which gives more depth and dimension.  I amended the measurements on the challenge sheet as Doodlebug papers are 6"x6" (and not 6" x 6.5").  See below for my amended measurements.

Here are the measurements for the matting layers A-D (they are all 1/8" larger)

A = 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" 

B/C = 3 1/8" x 2 1/8"

B/B (together for card #534) = 4 1/8" x 3 1/8"

D = 4 1/8" x 7/8"

Image panel dimensions:

Sketch 533

3 1/4" x 2 1/4" (matting panel 3 3/8" x 2 3/8"

Sketch 534

2" x 2" (matting panel 2 1/8" x 2 1/8")

Sketch 535

Circle 2 1/4" (matting circle 2 1/2")

Before making your first cut (please see the challenge sheet) have a look at the orientation of your pattern.  You want to make sure that you cut your paper so that you can use your papers in the orientation you want.

Once I cut both sheets in to pieces I played around with the papers according to the sketches and figured out how I wanted to arrange them.  I secured all the pieces to a matted layer using various scraps from my scrap box - this project is a great way to work through left over coloured paper scraps!

For the images on the front of the card I used Lawn Fawn Ho Ho Holidays and Holiday Helpers.  I coloured them with Copic Markers in the following colours:

Reds: R39, R37, R35

Pink: R85, R83, R81

Hair/Beard: W6, W4, W3, W1

Belt/Boots/Shoes: C10, C7, C5

Buckle: Y26

Trim/Apron: C3, C1, C00

Duck: Y15, Y13, Y11

Box: E77, E74, E71

To give some dimension to the image panels on the cards I lightly used a blending brush to lightly apply some Distress Ink in Festive Berries.  I really like the pink/red tone of this ink and it paired well with the colours on the patterned paper and copic coloured images.  I secured my images with liquid adhesive and also added some red star confetti to add to the sparkle!  I covered the images in a light layer of Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen which gives a subtle shimmer as the cards move.

The sentiments were stamped in my mini Misti with Versafine Onyx Black Ink.  I used 'Merry Christmas' from Bitty Holiday Wishes by MFT.  For sketch #534 I adhered a 'Seasons Greetings' cut apart.

All of the card panels were secured to A2 sized heavy weight white card bases.

Check out the video below for a 'how-to' guide

I hope these cards inspire you to use pull out some of your patterned papers and create some fun and fairly quick and simple (Christmas) cards.  Once you have the measurements all sorted out you could easily create a lot of cards in a production line like style.

Hope to see you back here again soon! 

Elaine xx

Lawn Fawn Slimline Christmas Scene Card - Happy Holiday Critters

 Hey friends!  Today I'm sharing details of this super cute mouse filled slimline card for the which I created for Lawnfawnatics Challenge #89 'Happy Holiday Critters'.

I stamped and coloured lots of images from various sets of Lawn Fawn stamps (see below for a full list of supplies).  I coloured all the mice the same colours and many of the images are coloured with same pinks and reds (all listed in the graphic) to keep the colouring quick and keep the card looking cohesive throughout.  

For the background I used Distress Oxide inks in Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry, focusing the intensity of the colour at the top of the card stock.  To deepen the shade further I brought in Distress Ink in Festive Berries.  I added some white dots with a gel pen to create more interest and give the look of wallpaper to the scene.

The idea of the card was to create a production line so I know my oven would go in the middle of the card.  I spent some time arranging the left side of the card to feature all the baking and mixing elements and on the right of the oven, I pulled together lots of images to create a feast for Santa!

I kept the sentiment simple, not least because I didn't have a great deal of room, but also wanted to keep the focus on the images.  The sentiment uses two stamps from 'A Creature Was Stirring' stamp set which were white heat embossed with my favourite white embossing powder (Ranger Fine Detail) on to black card stock and cut into thin strips.

My card panel measures 8 3/8" by 3 3/8" and was secured down to a white card base measuring 8 1/2" by 3 1/2".  

To embellish the card I added some sparkle with my Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen and some shine with Nuvo Crystal Glaze.

For a full video tutorial please view my YouTube video!

If you liked this card you might also be interested in this one too!

Here is the list of supplies I used to create this card (pssst....affiliate links are included.  I appreciate any purchase made through my links - it's at no extra cost to you but helps me out so much and enables me to keep bringing you the crafty goodness 💗)

Sprinkled with Joy – Lawn Fawn 

A Creature Was Stirring – Lawn Fawn 

Baked with Love – Lawn Fawn 

Ho Ho Holidays – Lawn Fawn 

Holiday Helpers – Lawn Fawn 

Dandy Day – Lawn Fawn 

Jet Black Ink – Lawn Fawn 

Distress Oxide Spun Sugar - https://amzn.to/3pJ8BrQ 

Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry - https://amzn.to/3pLxbbC 

Distress Ink Festive Berries - https://amzn.to/3kKifac 

White Gel Pen - https://amzn.to/2K1oIkd 

Black Glaze Pen – Gelly Roll - https://amzn.to/3lO2oZl 

Versafine Onyx Black Ink - https://amzn.to/38F7EL6 

Versamark Ink - https://amzn.to/3nDbo47 

Embossing Buddy - https://amzn.to/2UEX7Ya 

8” Guillotine – Tonic/ Tim Holtz - https://bit.ly/34VYLJD 

Mini Misti Stamping Tool – My Sweet Petunia - https://bit.ly/2ISjnv0 

Super Fine White Embossing Powder – Ranger - https://amzn.to/38YsYeX 

Aqua Shimmer Pen - https://amzn.to/3lQFzV5

Copic Markers

Red - R59, R39, R29 Pink - R85, R83, R81 

Mice – E44, E43, E42, E41, E40, R20, R00 

Greys – C7, C5, C3, C1, C00 

Dark Green – G99, G94, G21 

Gingerbread House - E35, E33, E31, E29, E27, E25 Y13, Y11, C1, C00

Gingerbread Mice - E27, E35, E33 

Pudding – E79, E77, E74, C3, C1, C00

If you are inspired by my card and create something be sure to tag me and show me!

I'll be back next week with a new project.  Elaine xx

Gnomey Winter Wonderland Slimline Card

 Hello and welcome back to my YouTube channel and blog!  Today I am sharing a slimline card featuring a winter wonderland full of cute gnomes using stamps and dies from Mama Elephant.

To start with I ink blended a piece of light blue coloured card and starting at the top ink blended on some Distress Ink in Peacock Feathers.  I focused the majority of the colour at the top.  To darken the sky a little more I used Distress Ink in Blueprint Sketch and finally used a dye ink in Navy from Hero Arts.  

To add the falling snow I dotted on white dots using a white paint pen by Jane Davenport (link down in the supplies section).  Sometimes I just can't be dealing with the splatter clear up :) and this method is so super quick!

I used the Slim Woodland die by Mama Elephant to help build the scene.  I cut two from heavyweight white.  I trimmed the bottom section to just leave the snow banks and ink blended on some Peacock Feathers.  For the trees I used Distress Inks in Antique Linen and Vintage Photo.  

For the gnomes I used Little Gnome Agenda stamps and used the candy house from Cookie Christmas and coloured these with my copic markers as follows:

To add more interest to the card I coloured some holly sprigs from Snow Friends stamp set and some gift packages taken from Page Huggers stamp set.  To ensure they co-ordinated I used the same colours of copic markers.

On the trees I added some chunky glitter, I can't make a card without adding sparkle at this time of year! 

I trimmed down my blue ink blended panel so that it fit behind the woodland die cut and then adhered the snow banks on top.  I made a card base from heavy weight white card (I have a stash of these pre made....the card base measures 8.5" x 3.5") and secured the scene panel to the card base.

For the sentiment I used Mama Elephant's Jingle Greetings stamp set and used Versafine Onyx Black Ink to stamp this on to the card front.

To finish up the card I applied some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen on to various parts of images and also accented certain elements with Glossy Accents....I love the dimension this gives.  I added a small clay heart to the gnomes sign.

For a full 'how-to' tutorial check out the video below!  I'd love to know what you think :)

Supplies used:

Slim Woodland Creative Cuts - Mama Elephant
Little Gnome Agenda stamps - Mama Elephant
Cookie Christmas - Mama Elephant
Jingle Greetings stamps - Mama Elephant
Page Huggers stamps & dies - Mama Elephant
Snow Friends stamps & dies - Mama Elephant

Distress Ink:

Peacock Feathers - https://bit.ly/36zomca

Blueprint Sketch - https://bit.ly/2UqcymQ

Antique Linen - https://bit.ly/2Um8ZxZ

Vintage Photo - https://bit.ly/35sreIt

Pool - Navy Ombre Ink Pad - Hero Arts

White Paint Pen - Jane Davenport https://bit.ly/2Iyf7RB

White Gel Pen - https://amzn.to/2K1oIkd

Versafine Onyx Black Ink - https://amzn.to/38F7EL6

Copic Markers (see colour map)

Aqua Shimmer Pen - Nuvo - https://bit.ly/2UocEvp

Glossy Accents - Ranger - https://bit.ly/3py1qD5 & https://amzn.to/3lv1DnN

300gsm Premium White Card Stock - Hobby Craft

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Thank you for joining me here on my blog!  I look forward to seeing you back here again soon for some more wintery themed cards!

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Affiliate links are contained in the post.  This means should you purchase something through one of my links I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.  I appreciate every purchase made and am truly grateful for your support xx

Fox Costumes Before 'n Afters - Halloween Card #6

I'm back with another card for Halloween!  Couldn't wait to used my new Lawn Fawn Fox Costumes stamps and make a fun fall themed card.

I started by finding an inspiration photo on Pinterest then picked out some Distress Ink and Oxide colours that I thought matched quite well.

I cut a scalloped slim panel from Strathmore Bristol Smooth card stock using Scalloped Slimline Die from Time for Tea Designs.  Using an assortment of Distress Inks I ink blended the panel.  The colours I used were Distress Ink in Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans & Black Soot.  I also used a little Weathered Wood Distress Oxide to blend from orange to blue.  To add some distressing to the panel I splattered on some rose gold metallic paint and some black paint.  I set the aside to dry.

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I stamped and cut the foxes and coloured them in with alcohol markers.  A list of the main colours used can be found in the colour map pictures below

The grass banks the foxes are each standing on were made from black Sparkle card from the Autumn sparkle card pack.  I cut a long strip, 1/2" wide and then ran the strip through the die cutting machine with a grass border die from the Landscape Borders die set by Time for Tea designs.  I cut the strips in to 2" lengths.  The strips were adhered with liquid adhesive at alternate intervals down the card.

To give the strips the scalloped edges I ran the whole panel back through the die cutting machine with the same scallop slimline die.  

The scallop panel was adhered to a white heavy weight card panel measuring 8 3/16" x 3 3/16" then the white panel adhered to a black slimline card base.  The card base measured 8 1/4" by 7" scored at 3 1/2" to create a card front measuring 8 1/4" 3 1/2".

Scotch 3M foam tape was secured to the back of all the foxes and adhered to the card on the sparkly grass banks.  The accessory images (some from Fox Costumes and some from Spooky Village stamp set) were applied using liquid adhesive.

For the sentiment I stamped 'Trick or Treat' on to treated black card stock with Versamark Ink, coated the inked piece with Ranger Super Fine White Embossing Powder and heat set with my heat tool.  I cut the words out using my Tim Holtz Guillotine Trimmer, popped double sided adhesive on the back of each piece and secured them to the card.  A T-square ruler helped to get the strips straight.

To finish off the card I added some 'BOO' and 'EEEK' all over the background with Versafind Onyx Black Ink and a few bats from Spooky Village stamp set.  I applied some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer pen on various elements of the copic coloured images for some subtle sparkle.  Lastly I added a few small dots of glue and adhered some small gold star confetti.

I really hope you enjoyed this card, I really had fun making it!  Check a out the YouTube video below for a full how-to tutorial.

Supplies used:

Fox Costumes Before 'n Afters – Lawn Fawn
Spooky Village – Lawn Fawn
Scalloped Slimline Die – Time For Tea Designs **
Landscape Border Dies – Time for Tea Designs **

Strathmore Bristol Smooth Card
Distress Inks
- Dried Marigold
- Spiced Pumpkin
-  Stormy Sky
-  Faded Jeans
- Black Soot
Distress Oxide
- Weathered Wood
Classic Metallic Paints – Komorebi Watercolor Paints

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Black Paint – Gansai Tambi Watercolor 36 pan
Black Sparkle card stock (Autumn) – Lawn Fawn
Copic Markers/Script markers
- Foxes - E99, YR24, E97, E33/E33, E31, E30
- Stripes/accessories - BG9, BG7, BG3, BG1 (Script)
- Yellow stripe/chicks - Y17, Y15, Y13, C3
-  Cake Frosting - RV66, RV66/B66,  B63
- Pumpkins - E09, YR27, YR24
-  Candy corns. Y07, Y04, Y02/Y17, Y13
Iridescent White Glitter – Glamour Dust
2 Way Glue Pen – Kuratake
Versamark Ink
Versafine Ink (Onyx Black)
Superfine White Embossing Powder – Ranger
Embossing Buddy – EK Success
Heat Tool
8” Guillotine – Tonic/ Tim Holtz

Liquid Adhesive - Tombo

Gold Star Confetti

Look forward to seeing you back here again soon for card #7 in the Halloween series!

Elaine xx

* some of the products used on this card were gifted (as part of work on other design team work).  I am not obliged to use these products on non-design team work, I do so because I love them :)

some links in the description list are affiliate links.  I appreciate and am grateful for any purchases made through my blog and supplies list!#

xxx

Spooky Wishes Halloween Slimline Card

Hello everyone!  Today I'm back with card number 5 in my Halloween card series for 2020!  I hope you like it, I've really loved seeing other crafters' green Halloween cards so I'm having a go at creating my own!  In this card I used Distress Inks in Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint and Black Soot.  I concentrated the darkest colours around the edge of the card and on top of the grassy borders

I used the Slim Window Dressing Creative Cuts from Mama Elephant for the base of the card.  I cut the panel 3 times.  I kept 1 panel whole and then used the grassy border dies in the set to cut the two more grassy banks.  This will help give the card some dimension and more spaces to add in my mummies!

For the Mummies I used the Little Mummy Agenda stamps set and stamped them on to Strathmore Bristol Smooth card stock.  The mummies were stamped with Versafine Onyx Black Ink. 

I coloured the mummies in with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.  I used the darkest shades in the areas I wanted to create shadow and then pulled the colour out with lighter colors.  Here are the colours I used:

To created the large letter sentiment on the card I used the Whimsy Alphas.  I cut them out on the largest panel and again from some black cardstock.  I attached the largest panel to a 3.5"x8.5" black cardbase and then adhered the other grassy panels on top.  The black letter die cuts were glued in to the negative letter spaces and the green letters were adhered on the corresponding letter but was offset a little to help make them pop.  To add more dimension I covered all the letters in Glossy Accents.

To add to the sentiment I heat embossed in white embossing powder the word 'wishes' from the Sincerely Yours stamp set on to black card.  I trimmed this down and adhered it to the middle of the die cut letters.

Once the mummies were stuck to the front of the card I popped on some pretty Peacock Feather jewels and stamped the spider few times around the card using Versafine Onyx Black Ink.

If you would like a start to finish tutorial of this card then please see the YouTube video I created below:

Here is a list of all the supplies used in this card:

Little Mummy Agenda - Mama Elephant

Slim Window Dressing Creative Cuts - Mama Elephant

Whimsy Alphas Creative Cuts - Mama Elephant

Sincerely Yours - Mama Elephant

Distress Ink - Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Black Soot

Black Paint - Gansai Tambi Watercolor 36 pan

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Versamark Ink

Strathmore Bristol Smooth Card

Black Card - Creative Expressions 220gsm

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Super Fine White Embossing Powder - Ranger

Misti Stamping Tool

Embossing Buddy

Heat Tool

Thank you so much for joining me!  Come back soon for card number 6!

 

Mama Elephant 8th Anniversary Release! Toasty Friends

 Hello wonderful crafty friends!  I'm so excited to share these projects for Mama Elephants 8th Anniversary release!!  Mama Elephant kindly sent me some goodies to play with and create some projects for you to get you all excited and inspired for all the newness coming on 15th September (release is available at 12am EST)!

My first project(s) are a card and tag using Toasty Friends(*) stamp set.  

How cute are these little critters huddled up around the fire with hot chocolate and marshmallows?!  I can't cope with the cuteness and those heart thought bubbles?  I just had to put as many as I could on the card!  

The soft ink blending on the background was achieved by using Strathmore Bristol Smooth card stock (so easy and soft to blend on) along with Distress Oxides in Victorian Velvet and Weathered Wood with some soft blending brushes.  To add extra interest I splattered on some gold paint from my 36 pan Gansai Tambi watercolour pallet.

The images were stamped on copic friendly card with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.  The images were colored in Copic Markers.  I used a lot of colours and I have listed them all on this colour map:

The A2 card base is made from Simon Says Stamp 'Fog' card stock.  I trimmed the scene card panel to 5" by 3 3/4"" so that I had a nice 1/4" border around the edge,  This helped to frame my scene.

For the tag I used Mama Elephant Framed Tags Madison Avenue Creative Cuts with a left over piece of Bristol Smooth card stock.  I used the bunny and heart thought bubbles again from the Toasty Friends(*) stamp set.  I also used a sentiment from the new Mixed Holiday Greetings(*)  stamp set.  To finish the tag off I added a small piece of silver thread and a crisp white satin bow.  

If you would like to see a more in-depth video of the making of these projects be sure to check out the video below:

Here is a list of the rest of all the products used:

- Toasty Friends stamps & dies - Mama Elephant (*) 

- Mixed Holiday Greetings - Mama Elephant (*) 

- Framed Tags Madison Avenue CC - Mama Elephant 

- Strathmore Bristol Smooth Cardstock 

- Fog cardstock - Simon Says Stamp 

- Distress Oxide - Victorian Velvet 

- Distress Oxide - Weathered Wood 

- Gold Paint - Gansai Tambi 36 pan watercolour set 

- Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black 

- Versafine Onyx Black Ink 

- Copic Cardstock - Make it Blend (Marker Geek) 

- Copic Markers 

* Fireplace - E79, E77, E74, E71, E70, E19, YR27, YR24, Y15 Y11, E13, W8, W6, W4, W3, E29, E27, E23 

* Dog - E27, E25, E23, R20, C3, C1, C00 

* Bunny - E44, E43. E42, E41, RV52, R89, R85, R83 

* Lamb - W4, W1, W0, E44, E43, E42, R20 

* Thought Bubbles - C3, C1, C00, R89, R83, R83 

* Stockings & Rug - C3, C1, C00, R89, R85, R83, YG67 YG63, YG61 

- Foam Tape - Scotch 3M 

- Liquid Adhesive - Scotch Quick Dry

The Mama Elephant release will be available to purchase on 15th September at 12am EST.

Elaine xxx

Disclaimer:  Some items in  this blog post have been gifted for design team purposes.  Items which have been gifted are identified with an (*).  All other items in the creation of these projects was purchased by me.