Hi everyone! Usually I post on my blog on Sunday but when I had time to make a lot of cards, it can be sooner as well, like today 🙂

I wanted to play along in the Lawn Fawn challenge – happy little critters and made a card for it.

For the Simon Says stamp wednesdaychallenge, you had to make a card with a matching envelope. So I did and this card was ready to enter two challenges with!

I started with making a cardbase out of Neenah 80 lbs cardstock. Because I don’t have patterned paper with a wooden look, I decided to make it myself. I used Vintage photo distress ink to color the front of the card brown. With a E35 copic marker I drew the lines to give it a wooden look. Then I used the Lawn Fawn Lift the flap cirkels to die cut the flap of the card.

With a pencil I carefully drew a light line along the inside of the flap to see on the back of the cardbase where it exactely was. I used 4 colors of distress ink to color the water: tumbled glass, mermaid lagoon, salty ocean and peacock feathers. For the sand I used tea dye.

I stamped my critters and plants with Memento Tuxedo black ink on Neenah 80 lbs paper and colored them with copic markers. After fussycutting them, I placed them in the opening of the flap. When everything was on the right place I adhered them on the card.

To finish the card I stamped the sentiment on the inside of the flap with Versafine Clair Nocturne. I putted doublesided tape on the inside borders of the card so the cardbase was closed. I made another cardbase with Neenah 80 lbs and adhered the card on to it.

The envelope I used is a regular envelope. I stamped the submarine and hearts on to it with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored it with copic markers. To prevent bleeding, I’ve put a piece of scarp cardstock in the envelope that could pick up the excess of ink.

It was a fun card to make and it turned out just the way I wanted 🙂 I hope you like my creation as much as I do and see you soon!