I Like Ewe

I am a big fan of cute stamp images, as you may have noticed if you regularly follow me here on my blog or over on Instagram. Lawn Fawn is a great source of cute stamps and one of the very first stamp companies I started buying from. I combined Lawn Fawn stamps and dies to create this cute summery card, which features one of my favourite animals!

I started by using some square dies to create my frames from some kraft card stock. The square dies I have are from Memory Box and are now retired, but any square dies could work. And frame dies would be even better, but I don’t have any at the moment.

Next I used Lawn Fawn’s Flower Border die and cut it several times from white card stock. Some of the pieces I cut the flowers off to leave me with just a hill border. I then coloured them all in with my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers. I used a yellow-green colour for the hills, leaves and stems. I then coloured the flowers using blue for the daisy-style flowers and yellow for the tulips.

With all the borders coloured up I started layering them up behind my frame. I trimmed the borders down and reused the trimmed off pieces to create more layers to my scene. I worked through until both of the frames were filled with rows of flowers and hills.

Next I stamped the sheep from Lawn Fawn’s Critters On The Farm onto a snippet of alcohol marker friendly paper using MFT Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. I used light grey markers to add some shading and texture to the sheep, and also used a very light pink on the cheeks. I then fussy cut the image and added it into my scene in the top frame. I finished off the other frame by adding my sentiment, which is also from Critters On The Farm and stamped with Black Licorice ink.

I used some liquid glue to adhere each of the frames to the card base, lining them up with my T-square ruler to ensure I had them straight. I decided against using foam tape because they were already quite thick from all the layers of the flowers and hills.

When I had put my borders together I had placed the centre circles of the daisy-style flowers back in place and adhered them with washi tape on the back to keep them there. I finished off my card by filling in the centres of the flowers using Nuvo Drops in Simply White.

I wasn’t entirely sure how this card would come together when I started it, but I’m very happy with the end result. The sheep looks very happy frolicking through the endless meadow of flowers. I had originally planned on just using the flower border, without any plain hill lines in between, but I had a hard time getting the flowers arranged in a way that made sense without that divider between them. As a result the final card has a lot more green than I’d originally planned. It does give a nice bright, fresh look though, so I don’t mind too much!

Love,

Lady Joyful

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Challenges included:

Addicted to Stamps and More – Make Your Mark

Dies R Us – Summertime Fun

HLS Anything Goes With Dies – Use Dies

Lawn Fawnatics – Flowers, Floral and Foliage

MFT Color Challenge – Colour Palette (I think I may well have ended up with too much green here… My original idea would have just had touches of the green. Even so, these colours inspired my card.)

MFT Sketch Challenge – Sketch

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Bright and Cheerful

TCP Tuesday Challenge – Outdoors

The Paper Shelter – Summer Vibes

The Sisterhood of Crafters – Animals