Cozy Critters Shaker Cards with Lawn Fawn

Abigail and I made some shaker cards this weekend for the latest Craft Roulette parameters! The wheel was very kind this week - A2 sized card; 3 bright + cheery colors; cozy; and sequins or gems. When I saw sequins, I immediately thought shaker card while cozy reminded me of the Winter Skies stamp set from Lawn Fawn.

Abigail and I picked out our own sequins from our growing collection of Sparkle Blends. Our cards are pretty similar, but I like that we also have differences - we used different tree borders, Sparkle Blends and critters. 

You can watch the latest Craft Roulette episode here and make sure you go leave some love for Abigail on her Instagram here!

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Very Cool Penguin Birthday Card with Lawn Fawn

I know it's not even Christmas yet (and I still have some Christmas cards to make), but I wanted to get a head start on some January birthday cards! My goal for this upcoming year is to not only have enough birthday cards on hand, but to be better at sending cards to my fellow Lawn Fawn Addicts and to even maybe sell some cards this year.

My layout is inspired by this month's Show Us Your Sheet Load cards from Call Me Crafty Al on YouTube. I altered it a bit to make it more my own style, but I just love how my card are turning out!

I used some VERY old patterned paper I found while cleaning and sorting through my craft supplies and I thought it would be perfect with the Bubblegum Blizzard Sparkle Blends! So I picked some fun colors to play with as well as snowflake stencils and dies and the adorable Penguin Party stamp set. I ended up making 16 cards in total (!!!) and I'm ready to get some in the mail soon.

Check out the video below to see how the card above comes together and for more details on how to get the template to make your own cards form Crafty Al.

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Coloring a Christmas Tree & Decorating Mice from Lawn Fawn

I'm finally back with a new Coloring Guide to share! This month I'm going with the theme Christmas Mice and have used light brown tones to color these mice. I was going to go grey, but with the warm background I was going to use for my card, I thought using some muted brown colors would be nice and I think I was right!

The coloring guides below (click the image to make them larger) share the Spectrum Noir colors I used; just save the photos or write down the colors to use them yourself. 

You can also head down in this post to my Instagram so you can save the guides for future use, too.

If you'd like to see how I color each of these images, check out today's video down below where I share my coloring - no card tutorial today, but I share how I use my cute mice to make a light up card using copper tape, a Chibitronics light and a Pear Blossom Press Power Pack.

Make sure to leave a comment on this post with what colors and/or stamps you'd like me to color next!

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Showtime Stage Bridge Card with Kindred Stamps

Were you lucky enough to grab a Showtime Box from Kindred Stamps? I just LOVE the cute stamps in this set and the amazing curtain die set! I used Craft Roulette Challenge #90 to inspire my layout. This week, the parameters were [1] a bridge card, [2] colors of pink, mint +2, [3] a large word and [4] to use a stencil.

I created a stage to meet the bridge card requirement used pink to color my pig character on the left and mint to color my frog character on the right. I also used those colors for my big love die cut that I added to the inside of my card - the Showtime Box came with awesome embossing powders so I inkedup some paper and embossed them, then used the die cut to cut out the sentiment.

The other colors were red for the stage curtains and blue which I used a starry stencil to add some stencil paste to make the background really stand out. I really wanted it to look like a stage performance, so I also embossed the bottom part of the bridge card with a woodgrain embossing folder.

Abigail made a card with me an dyou can see how she assembled her card down below, but also go leave her some love on her Instagram!

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Warm Winter Birds Slimline Christmas Card with Whimsy Stamps

I've been making a lot of slimline Christmas cards this year! I guess it's easy when you have the amazing Whimsy Stamps slimline dies - they really make creating a cute winter scene so easy. I love the Slimline Waves die because it broke up each section of my card to help me add in the cute Warm Winter Birds with ease.

Add in the pretty new Champagne Slimline Paper Pack for an easy background (the Warm Winter Birds Stamp Set is new, too) and this card came together so quickly! Check out my video today for the quick tutorial, then check out the latest Whimsy Stamps products using my links down below.

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Cubed Christmas Light Up Christmas Tree Slimline Card with Whimsy Stamps

It's the last Whimsy Stamps video hop of the year - I can't believe it! We're using the Cubed Die Set with a Christmas twist so I thought the dies would make great packages under a Christmas tree. I used the Decorate a Tree Die Set to create my tree and the cute bows on top of the boxes. 

Make sure you head to my video down below on YouTube for all of the details of the hop and how you could win a $25 gift card to the Whimsy Stamps shop!

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Love Never Fails Wreath Card with Spellbinders

My final stamp set from Spellbinders is the Love Never Fails set and I just love the solid flower stamps in this set. I've been starting to collect Mini Distress Ink Cubes so I picked out 7 bright colors to use and stamped out a rainbow of flowers and leaves. I have a wreath die also from Spellbinders so I thought it would make a pretty card design and put them together.

At first I wasn't sure about this card because I used the larger wreath and I thought there was too much open space left in the wreath. I thought maybe going back and adding more flowers might make it "prettier." But now that I'm typing this up after taking photos, I actually really like the open space. I think this would be a good sympathy card or for someone who needs encouragement.

I'd love to know what you think in the comments. Would you make this card yourself and add more flowers? Or do you like the simplicity with the open space?

If you'd like to see how the card came together, check out my "Swipetorial" below on Instagram.

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