Hello friends and happy Cyber Monday! I’m very excited to join Simon Says Stamp for their blog hop celebrating the release of brand-new Lawn Fawn Cyber Week Exclusive Friends Forever Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies!
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARD DETAILS
I used one of my previous cards (from last year) as inspiration for this project – funny giraffe card. I started working on this card by stamping images I wanted to color in Simon’s Intense Black ink onto white cardstock. I colored these using Copic markers as this is what I’m most used to (while I love to color with pencils I have very little experience coloring critters with the colored pencils and feel more comfortable coloring these with markers).
I always tend to use same Copic colors and color combos when I color. I shared my favorite and most used combos in this post here. If you are just starting to collect Copic markers you might find that post useful.
I cut my images out using coordinating dies in my Platinum die cutting machine. There’s no die for the heart, so I stamped it in Lipstick Red and cut out using scissors.
To create a background I used one of the coolest background stamps for the Holiday Season – Falling Snow and heat embossed it in Puff embossing powder onto Simon’s Sea Glass cardstock. I think these two products (the background stamp and puff embossing powder) are just made for each other! Love how I’m able to easily add snow to any project using these supplies.
I adhered my background onto an A2 side folding card base and foam mounted my colored images on top. My sentiment, Here Comes Santa Paws, was heat embossed in white embossing powder onto red cardstock, trimmed into skinny strips with v-shape ends also foam mounted onto my card.
Lastly, I added a generous amount of shimmer to the background using Tonic Aqua Shimmer pen – you can’t see any of it in the protos, but it does show up in the video at the very end.
HOP ALONG WITH US!
Simon Says Stamp Blog
Lawn Fawn Blog
Jennifer McGuire
Kristina Werner
Yana Smakula
Laura Bassen
Nichol Spohr
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Lawn Fawn Cyber Week Exclusive Set Friends Forever Stamp & Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Lawn Fawn Cyber Week Exclusive Friends Forever Limited Edition Stamps Shop at: SSS |
 Lawn Fawn Cyber Week Exclusive Friends Forever Limited Edition Lawn Cuts Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp Falling Snow Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Lipstick Red Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Small Teflon Bone Folder Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# Lipstick Red Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS |
 Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS |
 WOW Embossing Powder WHITE PUFF Regular WP01 Shop at: SSS |
 Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R20 Blush Pink Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R22 Light Prawn Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R27 Cadmium Red Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R39 Garnet Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker C3 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker C5 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker E33 Sand Beige Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker E37 Sepia Brown Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker E79 Cashew Dark Brown Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo 2 Pack 888n Shop at: SSS |
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OMG – how cute! I literally had a dream about a mouse last night (I know, a little odd) but definitely wasn’t this cute!!!
this card is perfect in every way!
What a lovely card!!
Love love love. I have a little Doxie!! Tfs
Awww this is such an adorable card!! Love the cuties 🙂 <3 <3 <3
The hearts, the snow… I learned so much! Just a wonderful card for the holidays! Thank you.
This is such a sweet card – I love the background idea!
Adorable card. Think lt. blue and red are my new favorite Christmas combination
Great holiday card. I got some newe ideas from your video.
Great card !
I love this color combo!! Awesome card and video!!
Adorable. I like the hearts and the snowy background.
Great card idea. I love that you usually have a video. I love seeing and hearing you show how you created the card. Often you add comments that ‘common’ but I hadnt known.
Super cute!! I love the embossed snow.
Beautiful card.
Sweet little card with those darling little critters!
I love the white embossing on bright red yardstick you have been using lately. Great card and stamp set!
Yana, such a beautiful card as always. it is so adorable with that little mouse. I love it.
Love the color combo (light blue and red). The card is super cute!
So cute! I love this card very sweet
Love this cute set and your cards is si pretty. Thanks for the vidéo.
WOW YANA!!!! It takes A LOT of time to cut those little hearts & add all of the Shimmer to the back panel! It IS those LITTLE TOUCHES that add SO MUCH to your creations though! I too LOOOOVE the colors you’ve chosen to use with this ADORABLE CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉 LOOOOVE that Lawn Fawn has chosen to do this for those that weren’t able to get their exclusive from SSS! 😉
Great color chpices in designing this card! So pretty ♡
Just so adorable!
Super cute!!! Love the background. TFS
That is just adorable!
Adorable cards! Great way to showcase the Lawn Fawn set.
Love your adorable card. I really like the way your stamped your sentiment on the paper strip, then added more dimension by folding your banner at the ends.
I love the puppy dog and the mouse. Yana, you made an adorable card. I love lawn fawn stamps.
Way to cute Yana! Love the snow effects. TFS!
Your snow effects look amazing and you make it look so easy to do. Just beautiful.
Your card is just darling! Love the cute critters and fun snow scene!
This is adorable with the falling snow in the background.
Very cute card I love the snow and your colors are perfect! Thanks for sharing!
So stinking cute!
Adorable! I love your snow and the little critters! Fabulous!
Really nice card as always!
Love your card! It is so cute! Thanks for sharing your idea of the stamp set. Have a wonderful day.
I like how your simple images came together to make a cute card. Thank you for sharing your video.
Such a sweet card!
This is totally adorable. Love the design and the beautiful colors.
Oh I love this set and your card is precious. Well done as always Yana!
Beautiful card ! The contrast of the red with the pale blue is truly a great idea. Thank you for sharing.
Yana, I love this card. Love Wow powders too mainly because they have antistatic properties already in them so no antistatic bag needed. Thank you for sharing.
I love the snow with the puffy embossing powder! Adorable card.
Sweet and adorable!
I love this card! That WOW e. p. looks like a must have too.
This card is adorable and I love the falling snow stamp. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Adorable cute little card with such a great pun, Santa paws ! Thank you for talking us through the making of it & I will look out for your other inspiring cards x
Nice color combo and I like the Tonic Aqua Shimmer on the background.