Oh Shoot

 New Year, New Resolutions? Personally I've given up on those a long time ago.  I try to work harder on goals that I give myself, like designing birthday cards.  Here's how I was inspired today:

Today's project features:

• Lawn Fawn - Heart Pandas | stamps, dies and stencil
• Lawn Fawn - Oh Gnome | stamps and dies
• Lawn Fawn - Stripes and Sprinkles | 6x6
• Lawn Fawn - Stitched Ripple | Backdrop
• Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Circles | dies

Are you team stencils? I am!  I love that Lawn has been releasing them to coordinate with their stamp sets.  Why? This makes it easier for me to color.  I used a blending brush and some ink.  For today's card I used Concord & 9th - Nectar on the Panda and Concord & 9th - Sprout and Parsley for the bamboo.

I combined the Heart Panda's Oh Shoot sentiment with the belated birthday sentiment from the Oh Gnome set.

I love pink and green but also love purple and green too, so that's the color combo I went with.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Hop Hop Hooray, A Froggy Scene Card

Hello again everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. This is our first Mix it up Monday of the new year on the Doodlebugs blog. I hope your holidays were wonderful and you're ready to take on new adventures in 2025! Today I've got a little scene card to share featuring a combo of Waffle Flower and Mama Elephant goodies.

I started by die cutting various elements from the Waffle Flower die sets - Inquisitive Frogs and Pond with Lily Pads. I used liquid glue to adhere the elements together and a little ink blending on the frog tummy and cattail stems.

Next, I ink blended teal and blue on a white piece of cardstock and splattered it with water. Once that was dry I cut the panel out using the second largest die in the Mama Elephant Mod Heart die set. I love the uneven, imperfect look it has. Using the froggie as a guide, I stamped the water ring image from Waffle Flower's Pond of You stamp set. Then I started assembling my images with liquid glue. The frog and front lily pad are popped up with foam tape.

I love the sentiments in the Pond of You stamp set but I ran out of room because they are quite large so I went digging for my favorite Mama Elephant frog stamp set - Hello Froggy. I stamped the sentiment with teal ink to blend in a bit with the sky. I popped the panel up on a white card base with foam tape but something just wasn't quite right yet.

So I pulled the Waffle Flower Pond of You stamps back out and stamped the awesome dragonflies in gray ink across the blank sky. Much better! I love how this turned out!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

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