Carrie Stamps

Lawn Fawn Fans Valentines Hop

What a great hop I have for you today. It is the Lawn Fawn Fans Valentines YouTube Hop, we usually do a winter hop but this go around decided to focus that on Valentines. Each creations in this hop is so very cute, I know you are going to love this one. 

For my Valentine card I used the new So Dam Much set along with images from the Wood You Be Mine stamp set. I had been wanting to pair that with the Wood Slice Die set from Sizzix and finally got to do that for this card. 

Do you catch the Tiny Gift Box in this picture? I altered the Skunk Add-On die set to create a BEAVER!  You can see both of these projects come together in the video below. If you can not see the video up on your screen, click to watch it HERE.

I love all things woodland, so I have created a few other scene like this one for these beavers, you can see that video HERE.

I find there are a lot of die sets from Lawn Fawn that I pull out repeatedly for creating scene. On this card I used the Ocean Borders, Mushroom Hill, and Stitched Mountain borders. And with the Shadow Box Mountain Add-On die set I was able to create this mountain pond scene. It's where two beavers decided to build their houses, met and fell in love. 

Can we talk about the Wood Slice die set, it is AMAZING!!!! Easy to use and comes with the entire alphabet so you can create whatever saying you want on your wood slice. Plus there is also a circle slice in the set. I just had to pair it with the beavers as soon as I saw it!!! 

Speaking of EASY. Turning the Skunk into a Beaver is as easy as 1,2, 3.  One, use brown cardstock. Two, add teeth. Three, turn the tail upside down and drawn crisscrossing lines. What do you think?  

If you like these projects I have another video featuring the Wood You Be Mine set, making gift box with matching note cards. Watch that HERE.

As I mentioned, this is all part of the Lawn Fawn Fans YouTube hop. The Lawn Fawn Fans are crafty friends of mine who also love Lawn Fawn. We come together seasonally to share some of our favorite products with you. AND, we like to do a GIVEAWAY TOO. To enter the drawing jump over to YouTube, watch and comment on each video in the hop. It's that easy. For this hop we are giving away a $25 gift card to the Lawn Fawn shop!  I will announce the winner on 2/19 on the community tab of my YouTube channel.  Happy Hopping and Good Luck! 

 

To make sure you do not miss a stop on the hop I have them all listed and linked for you below. 

Carrie Rhoades - that's me!

Candice Richardson

Peter van Elburg Boddendijk

Lauren Taylor

Ashley Young

Steph Williams

Marla Harris

Jarle Franceus

I know you are going to LOVE each and every creation you see on this hop, what a talented group of makers! 

Below you will find all the supplies I used to make my projects today. 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you for stopping by and sharing a bit of your day with me. 

 

 

Shamrock Shakers

It's NEW RELEASE DAY at Trinity Stamps and I am thrilled to celebrating with them in both the Instagram Hop and YouTube Hop. 

You can check out the entire NEW RELEASE right HERE.

There is one new product that I just had to play with first and that is the Clover Stencil. It is an add on to the Checkered Stencil from the January release. That means you can use the two together. But what I love so much is that you can use the Clover stencil on it's own too. So I used these stencils in both of my cards for the hop. Both cards are also shakers, I used the Stitched Shamrock die to make my shakers and am showing two different ways to do that too in my video. 

I loved using the traditional green for St. Patrick's Day along with pink for these cards. And did you notice the sentiments on these cards? If you are familiar with Trinity Stamps you probably know about their line of Simply Sentimental sets. These sentiments are from the NEW Simply Sentimental Lucky stamp and die sets. You can see these cards come together in the video below. If for some reason you are not able to see the video up on your screen, you can check it out right here. 

Here are few close up pictures of each card. 

For this card I layered the clover stencil over the checkered stencil pattern. I love the layered look in shades of green. 

This shaker sits on top of the background. I filled it with Clover Cluster Confetti, a great embellishment from this release! The sentiment is stamped and embossed with gold, a great way to tie in the feel of St. Patrick's day, add something gold! 

I took this one up a notch on the background for sure. First I stenciled on the Checkered Background. Then in the open spaces I added the clovers with the new Clover Add-On Stencil. Lastly, I had to incorporate the hearts add-on stencil too, using a darker ink so they stood out over the checkers. 

This shaker is inlaid, it's right in the card front. I also use the Clover Cluster Confetti plus some pink seed beads. This time I used the dies from the Simply Sentimental Lucky for the main part of the sentiment and stamped the sub sentiment right on the card front. 

If you are curious about the inks I used to stencil my backgrounds onto colored card stock here they are. 

Background One:

Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink

Lucky Clover Distress Oxide Ink

on light green card stock

Background Two: 

Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide Ink

Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Ink

Lucky Clover Distress Oxide Ink 

on light pink cardstock

If you like these cards you might like to see more of this release and hop along with us over on YouTube and Instagram too. 

Start the YouTube hop with my video. AND, visit my Instagram page to hop along with us there.  You'll want to make sure and like, comment and follow along the way at both hops to be entered to win one of two $25 shopping spree at Trinity Stamps. 

Below you will find all the NEWLY Release Products from Trinity Stamps for February 2023. And I will be sharing more creations with these items in the coming weeks so stayed tuned here and to my YouTube channel. 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.