Hello! It’s Friday and my first official blog post as a design team member for Lone Wolf Designs. If you haven’t heard of Lone Wolf, be sure to hop over to the Facebook page and check out all of the great brands Kris carries – and you ALWAYS get 25% off MSRP. That’s the kind of deal I like. 🙂
Today I’m showcasing Echo Park and a little Lawn Fawn as well. I snatched up this great EP ‘beautiful life’ 6×6 pad recently, my stacks of other 6×6’s not withstanding. Pretty paper.. I cannot live without my pretty paper!!Â
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So pretty. And no, I’m not a manicure sort of girl. |
So. My first step after flipping through several times was to tear out the papers I most liked and see what combinations jumped out at me. For layering, I used kraft and navy. Hello, Mama was right – basics never go out of style…
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So many choices!! |
This is so crazy to type, but school starts the day after Labor Day. Each year I give some cards to the teachers as little gift sets – 2 or 3 cards with a tag or two, but I’m perpetually creating them at the 11th hour. No more. I figured a 3 card set and a couple of tags – with an extra to wrap up and tie on the gift – would be a great crafting night project.Â
I started with the cards. This one had me wildly thinking for a bit; I didn’t know what to do with those doilies… and then Lawn Fawn’s Jessie’s ABCs to the rescue! Oh my gosh, can I tell you how much I used to HATE alphabet sets? I sold every single set I had because I never used them. And then I went to Scrapfest last year (Mall of America, Bloomington MN, every September. Can you say “girls weekend?”) and saw Kelly Marie of Lawn Fawn in action (if she lived closer we’d have to be stamping buddies. she is the sweetest!), and how EASY these are to use. You just line up the bottom of the individual letters on your acrylic block, and they are perfectly aligned. Genius. It’s pure genius. So I dug ’em out and stamped the “love u”.Â
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Echo Park beautiful life Nestabilities – labels 8 Lawn Fawn Jessie’s ABCs Tim Holtz Fired brick ink |
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I don’t normally use ivory as a layer (or white), but I like it here! |
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A little tape kept the layers from sliding while I figured out where all the pieces were going. |
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I broke out my dies from my new ArtBin magnetic organizer for this card! Did you see my review? I LOVE THIS THING. Seriously. But not as much as I love my pretty paper, so to keep going… |
Then I decided to go for a simpler card. Everyone always needs a card that could work for multiple occasions .. I love these tiny butterflies and they are the perfect backdrop for this Lawn Fawn sentiment. 🙂
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Echo Park beautiful life Lawn Fawn Flying By Sizzix buttons 5 die Twinery twine Tim Holtz ink in crushed olive |
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What, you don’t stamp your sentiment in multiple colors to decide which you like the best? I couldn’t decide!!! Tim Holtz fired brick, victorian velvet, and crushed olive |
This sweet floral print was the perfect backdrop to use a doily die – and some more Jessie’s ABCs. I had the ‘o’ upside down originally. One stamp and that was clear – and so I flipped it back around!
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Echo Park beautiful life lawn Fawn Jessie’s ABCs Tim Holtz weathered wood ink Nestabilities small circles dies Quickutz doily die ribbon from stash |
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Yeah, that o is upside down!! |
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Fixed!! |
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So pretty! LOVE this color scheme! |
And I am my father’s daughter, right? I needed to create some coordinating tags to use up all of the scraps I while making cards. 🙂 For me, taking the smaller pieces and finding a fun design is such fun. This was the first one I made:
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Echo Park Beautiful Life Lawn Fawn Clear to See We R corner chomper Tim Holtz fired brick ink |
And then I made this one! I took two different sentiments from the Lawn Fawn Stay Tuned set to create the sentiment. I LOVE how easy it is to do that with Lawn Fawn stamps.
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Echo Park beautiful life Lawn Fawn Stay Tuned Jillibean Soup faux button, Twinery twine Tim Holtz walnut stain ink |
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Walnut Stain…aside from Antique Linen, it’s my go-to ink color. Please pardon the mess. It’s controlled chaos. |
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Trying to figure out where it all goes. |
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I love this tiny set. I love most of LF’s tiny sets. 🙂 I used the “tuning in to say” and the “you rock” together to create my custom sentiment. |
This one was a total cleaning-up-putting-away-inspiration-strikes-get-it-all-back-out tag. Do you ever have moments like that?
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Lawn Fawn Clear to see Echo Park beautiful life Marvy Uchida GB684 Tim Holtz walnut stain Twinery twine |
I can’t wait to use up the rest of this 6×6 pad! I hope I’ve inspired you today!
Jen