HS Handmakes: November 2019

Fall Swap 2019 | Lawn Fawn Addicts Anything But a Card Swap

by Hanaa - Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Hello!

I want to share with you the goodies I've made and sent to a swap partner in the States. The theme was Anything-But-a-Card, it had to be Fall related and to use Lawn Fawn products.

My inspiration was the holidays that happen in this season:

1) Fall (of course)

2) Halloween

3) Thanksgiving

So I made gift boxes for those particular holidays and filled them with some treats.

Here is an overview of everything I made but keep on reading if you want to see in-depth what I sent :)

Let's begin with the boxes. For all 3 boxes, I used the Lawn Fawn Gift Box dies.

Fall box

I cut the base from kraft and the lid from vellum. To decorate the lid, I used a cover plate from Impression Obsession. It is slightly bigger than the lid but it worked.

I filled it with lip balms that were wrapped with papers from Lawn Fawn Fall Knit Picky. Red is strawberry, Green is aloe and the blue is original.

Halloween box

This box was so fun to make! To decorate the lid, I used the Build a House dies and the Halloween add ons. The house was cut from grey cardstock and coloured in with warm grey copics to add some depth. The roofs were cut from Lawn Fawn Watercolor Wishes.
I used the tree from Scalloped Treat Box Haunted House add on to bring in more spooky.
The moon was coloured in with warm grey copic markers and I stamped on some bats from Spooky Village.
I stamped the greeting with Versmark ink and covered it with LF Glow in the Dark embossing powder. I thought you can't see ghosts so it will be cool to make it appear only in the dark.
Lastly, I went in with some shimmer pen over the moon, the spider web, chimney, bats, lights and roof.

I filled this box with treat bag toppers decorated with Spooky Village houses. I matched the cardstock with the colour of the roof. Treat topper is by Mama Elephant.

Thanksgiving box

To decorate the lid, I recreated the design I did on a fall card.
I used the largest rectangle from the Fancy Scalloped Rectangle dies as a base. I then layered it with a panel cut with Quilted backdrop for a tone on tone look. In the centre, I placed a lovely pumpkin pie surrounded by branches (these are actually from the Impression Obsession Fall Leaf background die I used on the first box; I used the inner pieces of the leaves) and leaves from Thanks a Latte.

I filled the box with wax tarts because they look like pies and the scents would be perfect for Thanksgiving.

These are the 3 main things I made but I wanted to make a few extra things.

Extra Things

Treat holder:

I used the Avery Elle treat bag die to cut out paper from the Lawn Fawn Let's Polka in the Dark 6 x 6 paper pad. I decorated with the houses from LF Spooky Village and a grass border.

Tags:

I used Tag, You're It and the pumpkin from Fall Tiny Tags to seal this cone bag.
Ghost is from Build a House Halloween add on, as is the spider.

Even the twine is from Lawn Fawn :)

Pillow box:

I couldn't resist to send some coffee and it was perfect I had caramel because it is a popular flavour in the Fall season.

To make the box, I diecutted a pillow box from Fall Fling paper. I cut alphabets from Canned Pumpkin cardstock and staggered it for this fun look.

I decorated the back with the mug from Pumpkin Spice stamp set. Isn't he adorable!?

and that is all! I hope I didn't miss out much on how I made these; I can always go back and elaborate if I did. Please let me know :)

Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies used

LF Gift Box

Impression Obsession Fall Leaf Background

LF Knit Picky Fall

LF Build a House

LF Build a House Halloween add on

LF Scalloped Treat Box Haunted House add on

LF Watercolour Wishes

Mama Elephant Treat Topper

LF Fancy Scalloped Rectangle Stackable

LF Quilted Backdrop

Waffle Flower A2 layers

LF Cutie Pie

LF Thanks a Latte

Taylored Expressions Simple Strips background die

Avery Elle Treat Tag and Bag Elle-ments

DIY Party Invitations | The Little Mermaid with Lawn Fawn

by Hanaa - Sunday, November 03, 2019

Hello!

It has been a long time since I have last posted; looking at my last post, I can't believe it has been a year! I am going to do my best from today and keep up with my blog.

My first post back is about these invitations cards I made for my cousin's daughter's friends.

Join me under the sea and I will show you how I made these cute invites!

The stamp set I used to make the invites are Mama Elephant DIY Invitations and Lawn Fawn Mermaid for you.

To begin with, I die cut the base from Lawn Fawn Sugar Plum cardstock using the largest die from Lawn Fawn fancy scalloped circles.

Using a circle die that matches the embossed circle that the scalloped die left on the base, I also die cut white circles from Neenah solar white, light teal paper from Lawn Fawn watercolor wishes and also kraft circles.

With the kraft circles, I cut two wavy sea beds using Heffy Doodle stitched slopey joes border dies (any hill dies will work); one taller than the other.

Next, I added sparkle to the edges of the purple base; take your versamark embossing pad or pen and wipe it over the scallop edges. Don't worry if it gets on the middle of the card, it will be covered up. Pour sparkle embossing powder over it, heat set it and watch the sparkle appear.

Place the white card into the MISTI (or whatever stamping platform you have) this is really needed to help line the text and lines.

I stamped the information sentiments as straight as I could with the help of the MISTI acetate grid.

Once stamped, I took the seaweeds and corals to do 2nd generation stamping.

Second generation stamping is when you use the remaining ink after you stamp one time to get a lighter look.

I carefully lined the seaweed so that it was partially off the circle, inked it up, grabbed some scrap card stamped onto it and then removed the scrap card and now stamped it onto my circle. Repeated this for the rest using different colours. After this, I adhered it to the back of the base.

Next the scene at the front of the invite:

I took the teal paper and a scallop embossing folder and ran it through my big shot plus following the embossing setting. Taking the seabeds, I added a bit of distress ink on the edges for a little bit of colour. I adhered the taller sea bed with liquid glue onto the bottom of the teal paper.
Before adding foam tape to the shorter seabed, I white embossed the sentiment. I glued this to the bottom of the previous seabed.

I stamped the images and coloured them in with Copics then cut them on my Scan and Cut. The seaweed and corals were stamped in the same ink as the 2nd generation seaweed. All the images were glued on flat as I didn't want any more dimensions. I added clear sparkle onto the top of Ariel's hair, her bra (?), tail, bubbles, top of the seabed and the shells.

Using Clark's ABCs stamps and MISTI tool, I stamped the names with Versafine onyx black. I did this a couple of times because of the texture from the embossing.

I made coordinating envelopes using Lawn Fawn Mermaid cardstock (I mean it was meant to be!) and the WRMK envelope punch board. Embossed it with the same embossing folder to continue the theme.

On the Scan and Cut machine, there is a template for a seashell. I resized it to 1" and cut it out from gold glitter cardstock to make seals for the back of the invites.

Lastly, gold alpha thickers to address the envelopes and those are my invites and envelopes complete!