Designer Series with Davina

Hello crafty friends! Davina here with a fun winter scene using new products from the Big Mama Elephant Anniversary release.  I combined elements from several stamp sets to bring the card to life, and i also converted some dies from an older release to make a mini slimline card.  

I love making mini-slimline cards. Not those teeny “personal check” sized things, but a good 3.5 X 6.5 card (basically the size of your iPhone). Technically these cards are a slimline card with 2 inches trimmed off the length. I’ve been making them for many years and was tickled pink last month, when I realized that the large base die for the Slim Scenescape Builder Box Card set, was the size I make my slimline cards. So don’t be surprised when you see me making these all the time for my Mama Elephant projects. 

I wanted to make a slider card using that adorable reindeer card from the new Santas Friends stamp set, and wanted that longer length of the slimline for my card to drive across. I cut the background layer and the tabbed boxcard strip intended for the front of the boxcard, from red heavy colored cardstock. Then I cut the stitched panel from white Bristol Smooth card since I intended to ink blend. I wanted to make a small pop out layer for the slinging channel so I modified the tab by making two little folding brackets. From each tabbed score mark, I scored again at 1/2 inch, then trimmed at the next 1/2. 

After carefully snipping the corners off of my new tabs I used the stitched layer a second time, to cut a glittery snowdrift, then removed a sliding channel from the center. I added a PearBlossom Press sliding disc into the channel, then adhered the tabs to the back of the stitched layer, before glueing that to the red background. Next, I adhered my glittery snowdrift to make my pop out hillside.  

I stamped the cute mushroom house from Candy Cane Lane and several of the tall trees from Busy Elves. I also stamped several of the characters from Santas Friends and gave everything a bright copic coloring, before using the coordinating dies to cut everything out. I adhered all of my images to the card and snowy hillside, then finished it off by using a glue dot to adhere my reindeer car to the sliding disc. 

I cut a card base from heavy 110 lb cardstock and used an old corner rounding punch to match the card shape up top. I really love how cute this turned out and how wonderfully the car slides since there’s nothing behind it haha. I hope you have already shopped the new release and try to combine it with great products from your stash. Thank you for stopping by, Davina 

Special Delivery with Bri Moodboard

 Hello crafty friends! This is my first blog post of the year with Butterfly Reflections Ink, and of course I am using the gorgeous January BRI Moodboard. If you haven’t already drooled all over these elegant and glam colors, they are Icy Mint, Powder Pink, Rose Gold , and Deep Space Blue. 

I have so many different card ideas I want to create, but I still hadn’t used some of my Winter Lawn Fawn haul, as well as most of the brand new Lawn Fawn too. So I thought I’d better get to it! I used the new Special Delivery stamps and dies, along with the Add On set with the boxes and labels. I love that owl and his little mail man hat so much. I combined these images, with some bears from the winter release Den Sweet Den, set to create a lovely snowy book delivery. 

I stamped all of my images using the brown Crunchy Leaf in from Lawn Fawn, and copic colored my images using colors that fit the Moodboard. After die cutting the images using the coordinating dies, I added white dot highlights. I cut some paper panels using Lawn Fawn cross stitched layers, then inkblended a powder pink sky onto some Bristol smooth cardstock using Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Ink. I splattered it with white ink and metallic Rose Gold Shimmer Spray. I layered some glittery cardstock to create a snowy hillside 

Before attaching my images I cut a wavy sliding channel for my owl to fly across the scene. I used the Slide on Over Waves  channel dies, but I shortened the channel by partially die cutting the length to fit the smaller area. Then I adhered my remaining images across the snowy bottom. I decided to add some glittery snowflakes and discovered that the small assortment of snowflakes in the Magic Iris Snow Globe Add On has the most perfect assortment of snowflakes using only one die and pass through the machine. 

I mounted my image panel onto some mint and navy cardstock layers using adhesive foam tape, making sure to dust the areas around the slider with my powder tool, for easy movement. Once my card was all assembled I felt like my owl was spinning all over the place, so I weighted the bottom of the image with a small metal washer and now my mail man stays upright, and slides easily across the scene. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and reading how I made this card. Make sure to play along using the beautiful January Moodboard by sharing your cards on Instagram with the hashtag #brimoodboard and don’t forget to tag the Butterfly Reflections Ink challenge account @brimoodboardchallenge so we can share your projects. One winner will be randomly selected to win $20 to the shop. 

Thank you, Davina