Lawn Fawn Year Four card idea

Hi all,

Welcome to my first official card post. I have a feeling this post will be riddled with technical errors as I attempt to figure out this blogging thing...if you know of any tips or tricks, please let me know in the comments!

My card today is a cute birthday card made with mainly Lawn Fawn products.

 I love that Lawn Fawn makes a birthday-themed mini stamp every year for its own birthday as a company. So cute! And this Year Four stamp is one of my favorites. I even splurged on the stamp set AND matching dies this time (usually I tell myself fussy cutting isn't so bad and cheap out on the dies...hey, more money saved to buy more stamp sets, right?).

 To make the card, I stamped the cute hippo and birdie along with the party hat and balloon all with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto some Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock. I colored in the images using Copic markers and die cut them using the matching dies (yay!). I prepped the background by cutting a series of rectangles and squares, all using dies from both Lawn Fawn's small stitched rectangles and small stitched squares sets, in various colours from Lawn Fawn's Pint-sized Patterns 6x6 paper collections (in Beachside and Let's Polka, Mon Amie).

I also used Lawn Fawn's grassy border die on the green paper to make it look like grass under the hippo's feet. I then glued the background papers together using some Tombo liquid adhesive, and mounted the die cuts onto some foam squares to give the card some fun dimension. Finally, I stamped the cute sentiment in Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black ink, which is an absolutely wonderful and crisp black ink, onto some Neenah cardstock that I had added colour onto using some Tim Holtz distress ink (squeezed lemonade) on a blending tool.  I added some stitched lines to the edges and cut some banner edges before mounting it onto the card with more foam squares.  Add in some Pretty Pink Posh sequins in a variety of colors and voila!  I used Neenah Desert Storm cardstock as the base for this card.  I find myself reaching for kraft cardstock as the card base a lot lately - I like the neutral but interesting look it gives.

I love Lawn Fawn products because they are so cute and whimsical - and the finished products always make me smile!

Thank you so much for stopping by, and I'll be back here soon with another card.

Xoxo,
Ashley