Gleeful Garden

 

Use Lawn Fawns Gleeful Garden stamp and die set to create this really fun birthday card

Lawn Fawn's stamps are just so cute and it makes making your cards so easy. I've made this gardening based card to remind me of sunnier days.

There are lots of stamps within this set so you can alter the picture on the card quite easily by stamping more snails or flowers if you would prefer. Why not make a smaller card and use less stamps? A little snail climbing up the side of the large mushroom would make a fab small card or gift tag.

My card has a frame in the centre but i've placed some of the stamped images so they overflow this frame which I think makes the card look less plain.

Follow the below link to find out how the card was made

You will need

• Gleeful Gardens stamp and die set by Lawn Fawn
• 'Happy Birthday' greeting (I used one from Stampin Up's Birthday Banners stamp set)
• Stitched Hillside dies by Lawn Fawn
• 2 nesting square dies, one 11 cm and the other about 8 cm
• Light blue, dark blue, green and white card
• Colouring medium of your choice (I've used promarker pens - wheat, soft peach, pumpkin, tulip yellow, cardinal red, herb green, verdigris and cocoa)
• Black and green ink pads
• Guillotine with cutting and scoring blades
• Die cutting machine
• Glue and double sided tape

1. Cut a piece of light blue card to 14 . 5 cm by 29 cm. Score at 14 . 5 cm and fold to form a square base card
   
   
   


2. Use the 2 nesting square dies to cut a frame from white card. Put the smaller die slightly more towards the top of the larger square die but equal spacing to the left and right side
   
   
   


3. Cut a piece of dark blue card to 12 . 5 cm square


4. Cut a strip of green card to 10 cm wide and then use the stitched hillside dies to cut two hill pieces (the first hill piece needs to be about 4 cm high and the second one needs to be about 6 cm high)
   
   
   


5. Cut a piece of light blue card to 10 cm wide by about 6 cm high


6. Use double sided tape down the left and right hand sides of the grassy hills. stick them behind the white frame so the hills are just above half way up the window
   
   
   


7. Put some double sided tape down the left and right hand side of the blue card cut out in step 5 and stick it behind the white frame so it covers the gap where the grassy hills finish to the top of the frame
   
   
   


8. Stick the white frame centrally to the dark blue square cut out in step 3
   
   
   


9. Stick the dark blue square centrally to the base card
   
   
   


10. Using the black ink pad and onto white card, stamp 3 flowers, one set of large leaves, one set of small leaves, large and small snails, a bird, the large mushrooms and two small mushrooms. (You can see from the photo that I stamped more items but turned out I didn't need them !) Colour in the items and then die cut out
    
    
    
    
    
    


11. Glue the pieces in as follows:

    

    Glue big grass to lower left of frame so lower edge is under frame edge, yet left hand part of grass is sticking over left hand edge

    
    

    

    Glue one flower so stem is just under lower hill

    
    

    

    Glue second flower to left of first flower

    
    

    

    Glue third flower inbetween the first two and the bottom of the stem is just above the frame edge

    
    

    

    Glue a small leaf under back hill a couple of centimeters from left edge and the snail crawling up left edge of frame

    
    

    

    Glue bird to sky and the larger snail walking on lower edge of frame

    
    

    

    Glue all 3 mushrooms to the lower right of frame

    
    


12. Stamp the greeting using green ink onto the bottom of the white frame