Loved you for ages | MFT stamps

Hey everyone! Valentine's day is just around the corner. I share a new card inspiration on the Stempelwunderwelt-Blog today. The card is all about lovely dinos, shimmer and watercolor! You can find the post here.

Thank you for stopping by and have a lovely day!

xo

Lisa

Sending Hedgehugs | Lawnscaping Challenge #123

Hello! Here I am - with another Valentine's Day card for the Lawnscaping challenge #123 Sending Love. I really like the 'hedgehugs' mini stamp set from Lawn Fawn from the Valentine's Day release last year,  I think. 

I startet by creating a watercolor background with the distress inks spun sugar, picked raspberry and candied apple. I masked off a stripe of the watercolor paper to color it in with hickory smoke distress ink after die cutting the smaller one of the 'stitched party banners' from the watercolord background. After that I prepared another background with spun sugar ink. I sprinkled some water droplets on both of the pieces to create more interest.

While letting them dry I stamped the cute hedgehogs with Archival jet black ink and colored them in with distress inks which I put on my acrylic block in order to pick it up with a water brush. For the hedgehogs I used the colors antique linen, tattered rose, ground espresso and gathered twigs.

From the banner shape I die cut a nice heart using the new 'dotted details' die from Mama Elephant.

For assembling the card I adhered the background paper to a 3"x4" sized card and added a small piece of the grey Let's Polka paper where the die cut heart will be.

Then I used some white and grey twine to make a cute little bow at the top of the banner shape and adhered the whole piece to the background with foam tape. Last but not least I added the hedgehogs, some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and the sentiment which is included in the mini stamp set.

Thank you for stopping by,
xo
Lisa

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You make me jump for joy | Clearly Besotted

Hello dear crafters! Although I used pink colors a lot lately I am not a huge fan of that color palette. That's the reason why I decided to use a green color combination for this Valentine's Day card. Again I am using a new stamp set from Clearly Besotted: Jump for Joy. Isn't that cute??

Due to the small size and fineness of the outlines of Clearly Besotted stamps I created a side-fold card which is smaller than a standized card. It measures 10 cm x 12.5 cm (3.9" x 4.7")

I started out by stamping the sitting frog a couple of times onto a panel of distress cardstock. Then I created two masks for them and masked them off in order to blend the distress inks scattered straw, twisted citron and mowed lawn together to create a nice background. Before I removed the masks I sprinkled some water droplets to get this awesome distress look.

I stamped the hopping frog onto some distress cardstock and colored in all the frogs with Zig clean color real brush markers. After that I fuzzy cut the extra frog, adhered him with foam squares between the two sitting ones and stamped the matching sentiment.

For the card background I wanted to use some foil with my Mini Minc machine. I found a perfect  paper for this card in the 5th Avenue paper pad and foiled it with gold Minc foil. I just love these papers because it makes it so easy to add interest to a card.

So I clued the Minc paper to my card base and added the distress cardstock panel with foam tape. To finish up the card I coated the frog eyes with glossy accents.

Thank you for stopping by and I'll see you next week!

xo
Lisa

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Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers: 022,024, 040, 043, 046, 047, 091

You make my heart beep | Clearly Besotted

Hello dear crafters!!! Today I am super excited because I tried out a (for me) new stamp company which already is well known to many card makers: Clearly Besotted.

First of all, I really like that they offer cheap international shipping options and that the price is fair too. So, from my little experience I can say that the stamps offer a high quality and very dainty outlines. You get many images in one set because they a are a little bit smaller than stamp images from other companies which looks very nice but, on the other hand, makes it more difficult to create masks or coloring them in.

So, let's go on with my card. I created another Valentine's card using the "Mini Bots" stamp set (unfortunately currently out of stock). Again, you get so many cute images with this set, it's awesome! I decided to use the robots with the hearts because I wanted to use the super cute sentiment "You make my heart beep".

I stamped the bots with Memento tuxedo black onto a piece of precut paper and masking paper. I fuzzy cut the masking paper and after masking off the stamped images I applied a little bit of spun sugar distress ink around the robots with an ink blending tool. Then I used an old heart stencil from Heidi Swapp and created this cute heart background with Ranger texture paste.

After letting the background try, I removed the masking paper and colored in the images with Copic markers. I used warm greys for the female rob (for me the smaller one is female ;) ) and cold greys for the male rob to create more interest.

I thought about using distress inks for the ground/floor too but instead I decided to use a very subtle pattern paper from Avery Elle and stamped the greeting with Lawn Fawn Wild Rose ink on top of it

Last but not least I rounded the corners with my We're memory keepers corner chompers and adhered the whole piece to a white card base with foam tape. Before that I clued holographic glitter paper to the base.

To finish up my card I used wink of stella glitter and glossy accents for the hearts of the robots.

Thank you for stopping by and I'll see you soon

xo

Lisa

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Copic Markers: BG0000, 0, C1, C3, C5, C7, E04, R20, W1, W3, W5, W7
In addition I used: AE The neutral collection paper pad; holographic glitter cardstock, Heidi Swapp stencil