I have been wanting to ink up this set! It's so much fun picking the color palette.
Hi friends! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. Today's card came about in a funny way. I had a scrap of copic paper left over months ago. Randomly I stamped 2 Mama Elephant critters on it because they fit perfectly. That piece of paper has moved all around my craft desk and the clipboard I use to color on since then. Randomly, I came across them again while looking for fresh copic paper to stamp on and today's idea just hit me! So I switched gears and went to work...
After coloring and die cutting the first two critters, I realized that I needed a third. So I remedied that and set them aside to work on my fun background idea...faux notebook paper with the Lawn Fawn Simple Stripes Portrait die! I cut the backdrop from white cardstock and glued it to a card base. Then I used a ruler to keep my lines straight and BG11 and R20 copic markers to add the notebook lines.
Next, I added foam squares to the back of my critters and set them in place while I stamped some of the fun designs from the Mama Elephant Write With Me stamp set. I used colored ink for some a black ink for the text. After those were stamped I felt good about the critter placement and actually removed the release paper from the foam squares and stuck them down.
Next I pulled sentiments from the Mama Elephant Way To Go stamp set and added them around the critters. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to critter noses, glasses and parts of the pens.
It's end of school year/graduation time so I thought this card would be perfect to share now! It could go to a kiddo or a teacher celebrating the end of the year.
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I love mixing and matching products. I find it a great challenge to combine new and previously released. Here's how I was inspired today:
Today's card combines:
Happy Mix it up Monday again everyone! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook and I'm excited to be playing with the new interactive dies from Lawn Fawn! I love this style of interactive card. They are honestly easy to create and really fun to decorate with any theme of products!
I highly recommend watching Lawn Fawn intro videos for any and all interactive dies. Kelly Marie does a fantastic job explaining the parts and how to assemble it all. Here is the link to this one specifically - Intro to Pull 'n Slide Surprise.
To create my card, I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Fresh Berries stamps and dies. I stamped a ton of berries, the basket and extra leaves. I colored everything with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut it all out. Next, I followed the video to create my interactive mechanism using patterned papers for fun visual interest.
With the interactive portion done, I adhered my berries and basket with liquid glue to the bottom half of the sliding part so my box of berries pops up instead of folding in half. Remember to be mindful of where you're gluing things on this style of card.
I carefully used an acrylic block to stamp the smaller portion of my sentiment on the berry basket and then stamped and die cut the other portion to pop up at the bottom of the scene. Finally, I added white gel pen highlights all over the images.
Do you like making interactive cards? It's been a while but I really do enjoy it and hope this was my intro to getting back into the swing of things.
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I was so happy when I paired these products together!
My card features the following products:
Welcome everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook for Mix-it-up Monday. There have been a number of companies coming out with fun, book themed goodies and I'm here for it! Today I created a bookmark tag mixing Mama Elephant and Lawn Fawn goodies together.
Using the Lawn Fawn Stitched Bookmark dies as a guide, I placed my adorable Mama Elephant Book Worm stamps in each opening to decide what would fit and which ones to stamp. Then I stamped and colored everything with copic markers, using the coordinating dies to cut them all out.
Then I cut a solid stitched bookmark from teal cardstock and inked the bottom of each window section with peacock ink. I splattered it with water and blotted it dry. Then I cut the stitched bookmark again from Lawn Fawn patterned paper, also cutting the windows from this panel. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and also all of my critters in their spaces.
Finally, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Lawn Fawn Little Woodland Library and cut it out with a banner die. I glued this in place before adding ribbon and twine through the hole in the top. For finishing touches I added white gel pen highlights and glossy accents to critter glasses.
This is an adorable bookmark but I think it would be even more fun as a gift tag that can be a bookmark for the recipient after they open the gift!
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We're almost to the end of April. The weeks seem to be flying by for me lately. My mom says that is because I'm getting older...sigh. In case you didn't know, Mother's Day is around the corner, May 11th. I'm grateful that I get to celebrate the day with my Mom.
Today we are creating a fun card using nothing but ink blending and die cutting techniques. It was really fun to pull this card together and when I was finished I realized that I didn't stamp or color a single thing. It was a woah moment.
First off, I recently ordered a couple of die and stencil sets from Waffle Flower which is what started this whole journey...just playing with new goodies, having no plan in mind. That's how I ended up with my sentiment and those beautiful little butterflies - Waffle Flower's Multiple Butterflies Combo and Overlapping Birthday Combo.
This is kind of funny but in that same order was the Mama Elephant Classic Card Quads. I immediately thought it would be a perfect background for the fun stenciling I had just done. So I chose 1 style and cut it 4 times from white cardstock. Then I layered the Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil over the top of 2 at a time. I inked one blue and one green to go with my sentiment since the butterflies were already pink.
After removing the stencil, I didn't like how white the panels still were so I added a light layer of the same color over top and thought it flowed much better. Then I added foam tape and squares to the back of everything.
After adding everything to a white card base, I came in with some Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the butterfly wings for just a little sparkle.
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Do you like vintage goods, thrifting, treasure hunts? I do! Here's how I was inspired this week:
Who doesn't love pretty vintage pyrex? My card today features:
Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. This week I have a couple of sweet little strawberry shaped cards using Lawn Fawn and Mama Elephant goodies together. This is a fun way to use your larger shape dies in a different way so be sure to dig through your stash and see what you've got!
The base of my cards are created with the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Strawberry and a couple of accents from the Stitched Strawberry Frame die set too. Although you absolutely could create this without the frame die set. The only thing I borrowed from it was another layer on my topper leaves and the extra leaf attached to the stem.
I cut the layers from yellow, pink and green cardstocks and then did some ink blending on all of them to add deeper color before using liquid glue to adhere them together. Then I cut another full strawberry from pink cardstock, scored it about 3/8" from the top and glued that flap to the back of my strawberry to create my card.
Next, I went digging for a fun critter to add and a sentiment of some sort. At first I was going the punny route but didn't find anything that spoke to me, so I landed on sweet Mama Elephant Little Agenda bunnies and Spring Banner Greetings. I also had commitment issues on my sentiment banner color so I did one of each for fun. I still don't know which I like better.
After the bunny and sentiment banner were added with foam squares and strips, I finished things off with black glaze pen on the bunnies' eyes and glossy accents on their strawberry and the center of the flower on the big strawberry too.
I have no plans for these at the moment but I think pulling out my envelope punch board to make a custom sized envelope would be super cute or tying them to the handle of a gift bag would be adorable as well. Maybe even lunchbox notes!
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I don't know about you but I've been enjoying the Waffle Flower Postage Collage collections. Here's how I was inspired this week:
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Welcome friends! This is Amanda with Mix it up Monday. Today I'm playing with the Concord & 9th Sweet Stems stencil set I picked up a while ago. It's laid out perfectly that you don't need to mask anything to get the perfect color layering and is really fun to create with in any color palette. To prove that, I sat and created 3 cards with what felt like no effort at all.
With a stencil set like this my first attempt is always just to play with it and see how the layers fit together. Sometimes I'm done after that but with this set I kept coming up with color combos I wanted to try out and see how they looked together.
I used distress oxide inks for this first card - salvaged patina, twisted citron, dried marigold, spiced marmalade. Then I used dried marigold for my sentiment color as well. I splattered the panels with water and then with pearl watercolor for sparkle.
For this card I switched to Lawn Fawn dye inks - no. 2 pencil, jalapeno, ballet slippers and guava. I splattered it the same and used guava for my sentiment.
This final combo is also Lawn Fawn dye inks - jalapeno with artichoke on some darker spots, ballet slippers, fresh lavender and juice box. I used fresh lavender for the sentiment.
After inking all of the panels I trimmed them down to fit just behind the Mama Elephant postage frame and used liquid glue to adhere the layers together. The sentiments all came from the Mama Elephant Way to Go stamp and die set.
I popped the sentiments up with foam strips and then popped the postage frames up on gray card bases with foam tape as well. I oriented them all differently so you could see the variations. Then trimmed any excess off the edges with a paper trimmer.
I hope this gives you some inspiration to take a moment and get inky. It's fun and well worth the time!
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