Hello Stamping Friends! Happy Monday. Today I am here with a super fun collaboration with my new crafty friend, Candice of Candoodle Creations. Making crafty friends who love to do the same things I do it one of my favorite things about having a YouTube channel. Since Candice and I both love Lawn Fawn we thought it would be fun to team up and bring you a couple of fun videos. The challenge was to use our favorite Lawn Fawn stamp sets to make Christmas cards. I chose one of my faves, Car Critters and the new Christmas Card Critters Add on. Candice chose the Mermaid for You stamp set. For my video I chose to make a card for each of these sets. You can check out my video and the making of these cards below.
If you can not see the video on this screen, you can also view it right here.
Now let's take a look at each of these cards.
You might already know that I love the Car Critters stamp set from the Car Critters Stamp Set of the Month series. So when Lawn Fawn came out with the Christmas add on I was very happy to add that set to my collection. And even more happy to be using to make a fun Christmas card for this challenge.
In this scene the little deer are out looking at Christmas lights. This is a tradition that we do in my family. We pile in our truck with my parents and drive all over the city checking out Christmas lights. We wear our jammies and have hot cocoa and popcorn. And of course listen to Christmas music. It is a ton of fun! Until you have to run in Walmart to use the bathroom. But if you have to run in somewhere to use the bathroom in your jammies, Walmart is a judgement free zone to do so.
To create this scene I used another favorite of mine from Lawn Fawn, the Build-a-House die set and the Christmas add on die set. The Santa on the roof is from the Tiny Christmas stamp set. What do you think, it is actually Santa or is part of the Christmas decorations?
I add glaze to the Christmas lights and the window to give them some shine.
I adde the glaze to the headlights and Rudolph nose on the car. As well as the ornaments on this tree.
What do you think of the red and white stripped paper in the background? I really wanted to add that in the background as I felt the card needed another pop of Christmas. I did not have the right sized paper or color that I wanted to use for a slimline card. So I went to Etsy and found some digital paper. I was then able to print out and die cut this panel for my background. Here is a link to the paper that I purchased from the Periwinkle Pixel Shop.
Now let's take a look at the Christmas card I made using the Mermaid for you stamp set.
Santa has found his way to everyone on the Nice List, including this darling mermaid and her friends.
I used a few other stamp sets to create this scene, Lawn Fawn has so many under the sea sets and they all work together. I used the Ocean Shellfie set because it has a couple rocks in it that coordinate with the big rock from the Mermazing set. And I love the octopus, Dory or Flounder looking fish and the little jelly fish!!!
I pulled out an oldie but a goodie for my island, Life is Good. The crab, island and tree are from that set. Santa and the present are from the Ho-Ho Holidays set, This Santa and the Santa from Tiny Christmas are almost identical, except in size of course. The nice list image is from the Holiday Helpers set, it is a cute set featuring elves! I love how the crab is helping Santa and holding up the list.
Did you notice that this card has stripped background paper too? This is also a digital paper, from The Digi Rainbow shop on Etsy. Again, I printed it out and die cut it wit the large rectangle die from the Large Slimline with sliders die set. This paper matches the Chipped Sapphire ink I used for my night sky perfectly.
Now it is time to click over and watch Candice's video and see what she made for this challenge. It was so much fun for me. I love a good challenge and making a Christmas card with a Mermaid stamp set was a challenge for me. I love how it made me think differently and stretched my creativity. In the end I love how it turned out! Thank you Candice for the fun and for collaborating with me!
See Candice's video right here.
Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make today's cards.
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