LF Inspiration Week: Toucan Do It, Tropical Leaves Backdrop, Slimline Tropical Leaves

 Hi friends! Are you having a good summer so far? We're keeping busy with trips to the local amusement park, lakes, visiting with friends, and spending lots and lots of time outside. 

I hope you're excited because it's time again for the next Lawn Fawn inspiration week. The design team will be sharing projects leading up to the release on Thursday, June 24th. There is a lot of new products that are perfect for summer!

My first card today using the new stamp set, Toucan Do It. The leopards and toucans are so adorable, and I really like the leaves and little flowers that are included in the set. 

I started by creating a white card base and adding a piece of yellow patterned paper to the card. The paper is from a new paper collection that will be showcased later this week. 

This card also uses another new product - the Slimline Tropical Leaves die. I used the die to cut two layers from Cilantro cardstock for the bottom and two layers of Noble Fir cardstock for the top of the card. I attached the first layer onto the background with double sided tape, and the second layer is attached with foam tape to give it some dimension.

I stamped, colored, and die cut the images and arranged them around the card. Since I used foam tape on the leaves border, I was able to tuck some of the images between the leaves layers. I white heat embossed the sentiment, cut it out with my paper cutter, and attached it with foam tape. I finished the card by adding a white border from the Stitched Rectangle Frames die and stamping a few hearts with Wild Rose ink.

My second card uses the new Tropical Leaves Backdrop die. There are so many details on this die and there are so many fun ways to use this die.

I started by die cutting two backdrop layers from light and dark green cardstock. I rotated the layers and glued them together so that the leaves are offset from each other. It gives so much detail to the card!

I attached the backdrop leaves to a piece of green patterned paper and attached it all to a white card base. Then, I added images from the Critters in the Jungle stamp set and attached them with glue and foam tape. The custom sentiment is from Riley's ABCs and Really High Five stamp sets, and was cut with the Everyday Sentiment Banner. I also attached the sentiment with foam tape to make it stand out on the card.

These new products are so cute and perfect for summer. Go check out more inspiration on the Lawn Fawn blog and enter to win the giveaways on the blog. There are so many cute products that we'll be sharing with you all this week!

Thanks so much for visiting and for your sweet comments. Have a great day, friends!

Supplies: Below is a list of supplies used for my project. Affiliate links are provided at no extra cost to you. Your support allows me to provide you with more inspiration. Thank you!

Really High Five Shop at: LF	Really High Five Dies Shop at: LF	80lb White Shop at: LF	Black Licorice Cardstock Shop at: LF
Cilantro Cardstock Shop at: LF	Noble Fir Cardstock Shop at: LF	White Embossing Powder Shop at: LF	Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: LF
Wild Rose Ink Pad Shop at: LF	Everyday Sentiment Banners Shop at: LF	Extra Sentiment Banners Shop at: LF	Stitched Rectangle Frames Shop at: LF
Critters in the Jungle Shop at: LF	Critters in the Jungle Dies Shop at: LF	Riley's ABCs Shop at: LF	Scotch Double-Sided Foam Tape Shop at: LF
White Gelly Roll Pen Shop at: LF	Toucan Do It Shop at: LF	Toucan Do It Lawn Cuts Shop at: LF	Slimline Tropical Leaves Border Shop at: LF
Tropical Leaves Backdrop Shop at: LF

SCT Summer Issue Challenge

Hello friends! I'm so excited to be guest designing for the SCT summer issue challenge week! Doesn't this inspiration board just scream summer? There's so much inspiration in this image and for my cards today, I was inspired by the flamingos and leaves in the bottom left picture.

I really liked that black background in the image on the left, but I was also drawn to the bright colors in the upper right, so I decided to create a card design that could have different backgrounds inspired by those two images. 

I started by stamping the birds, leaves, and flowers from the More Jungle Littles and Silly Birds stamp sets from Hello Bluebird. The birds went perfectly with the inspiration board! The images are all stamped onto white cardstock with Lawn Fawn's Jet Black ink since it is Copic friendly. I colored the images with Copic markers, and then die cut them with their coordinating dies. I made sure to stamp, color, and die cut two of each image that was used on the card since I planned to make two cards. Creating two or more cards with the same design is also a great way to build up your card stash.

Once I created all of the images, I set them aside to start working on the backgrounds. To mimic the black and white design in the inspiration board, I used the Plaid Stencil from Lawn Fawn and distress oxide inks. I used Black Soot along the upper left and right edges and ink blended that with Hickory Smoke to give the background some more depth. After I ink blended the background, I used the Outside In Stitched Rectangle die to add stitching around the edge of the cardstock panel before adhering it to the card base.

I used the Plaid Stencil to ink blend the background for the second card, but I used brighter colors. For this card, I used Worn Lipstick, Spun Sugar, Mustard Seed, Scattered Straw, Twisted Citron, Shabby Shutters, Broken China, and Tumbled Glass distress oxide inks. I also die cut the stitching around the edge and attached the background to a white card base.

I always like to layout my images on the card to help me decide how to arrange them, but once I settled on a layout, I attached all of the images with foam tape. After attaching the images, I heat embossed a sentiment from the Hello Bluebird's Cheery Greetings stamp set with white embossing powder onto black cardstock, trimmed around the sentiment, and attached it with foam tape. The grass, leaves, and sentiment along the bottom help to ground the birds so that they don't look like they're floating on the background.

Have you ever created two card with the same design but different background colors? Give it a try and see how it changes the feel of your card. I can't wait to see what you create and I can't wait to see how the inspiration board inspires you!

Supplies: Below is a list of supplies used for my project. Affiliate links are provided at no extra cost to you. Your support allows me to provide you with more inspiration. Thank you!

80lb White Shop at: LF	Black Licorice Cardstock Shop at: LF	White Embossing Powder Shop at: LF	Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: LF
Jet Black Premium Ink Pad Shop at: LF	Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables Shop at: LF	Distress Oxide - Black Soot Shop at: LF | EH	Distress Oxide - Broken China Shop at: LF | EH
Distress Oxide - Mustard Seed Shop at: LF | EH	Distress Oxide - Scattered Straw Shop at: LF	Distress Oxide - Spun Sugar Shop at: LF | EH	Distress Oxide - Twisted Citron Shop at: LF | EH
Distress Oxide - Tumbled Glass Shop at: LF | EH	Distress Oxide - Worn Lipstick Shop at: LF | EH	Distress Oxide - Hickory Smoke Shop at: EH	Plaid Stencils Shop at: LF

Hello Kites!

Hello friends! I've been taking a little break from blogging and social media, but I'm back again! I have a card to share today and I'll have a lot more cards to share starting next week. 

I tried a technique that was new to me to color the kites for this card. I started by white heat embossing the kites from the Yay, Kites! stamp set onto Bristol smooth cardstock. I die cut the kites with the coordinating dies, and then ink blended on the kites with distress oxide inks to color them. I ink blended the bottoms darker than the top to give the kites some more depth. It's a quick and fun way to color images!

Once the kites were colored, I stamped and die cut the strings for each kite. I attached the kites with foam tape to a piece of dolphin colored cardstock that was cut with the Outside In Stitched Rectangle die. I glued the kite strings in place with liquid glue.

To create the sentiment, I white heat embossed the "hello" from the Yay, Kites set and the "sending smiles" from the Butterfly Kisses Flip-Flop set. I used white embossing powder on black cardstock. To finish the card, I glued clear jewels along the kite strings to give it some extra detail.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you have a great weekend! :)

Supplies: Below is a list of supplies used for my project. Affiliate links are provided at no extra cost to you. Your support allows me to provide you with more inspiration. Thank you!

Black Licorice Cardstock Shop at: LF	Dolphin Cardstock Shop at: LF	White Embossing Powder Shop at: LF	Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: LF
Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables Shop at: LF	Yay, Kites! Shop at: LF	Yay, Kites! Dies Shop at: LF	Mini Ink Blending Tool Shop at: LF
Mini Ink Blending Foam Shop at: LF	Scotch Double-Sided Foam Tape Shop at: LF	Butterfly Kisses Flip-Flop Shop at: LF