Holiday Card Series w/ Lawn Fawn - Winter Wonderland Shutter Card

 Hello there,

I'm excited to be back with a shutter card, showcasing some lovely squirrels celebrating Christmas. Those cuties are from Let's go nuts, a brand new stamp set. Originally they're supposed to go with a fall theme but I thought it would be fun to take them to a winter wonderland.

I started by stamping the images using Jet black ink, and I colored everything using alcohol markers.

When the coloring was done, I created a house for my little characters using another new product: the Acorn House die set. I die cut all the pieces and added distress inks to make them less flat.

Before assembling the house, I glued small pieces of vellum at the back of the door and window and then I finally attached everything to build a acorn house.

Next I moved on to the shutter card. I started by cutting a card base, two shutters and one center piece out of strathmore bristol cardstock. And to create a winter landscape on the card base, I used a hill stencil. I placed it right below the marks that the die creates, and used spun sugar to create a cute pink base for my sky. Next I added worn lipstick distress ink from the top towards the bottom and blended the colors together.

For the bottom of my card, I wanted to create snow so I placed the same stencil over the pink sky and used hickory smoke to create some snowy hills. And I applied the ink with a light hand to keep the whole background very light.

Next I put the center piece in the middle of my shutter panel and placed the stencil on top, trying to match with the other hills. And I used spun sugar and worn lipstick distress inks again to create a coordinated sky on that center piece. And I did the snowy hills as well using the same stencil along with hickory smoke distress ink.

I also needed the shutters to match with the other pieces, so I used the same inks again on those elements.

Next I added lots of texture, starting with some water drops all over the panel. I dried the water using a paper towel, and next I smooshed my worn lipstick ink pad onto my glass surface, I added water to the ink and splattered drops on my paper on the sky section.

For the snowy hills, I mixed some hickory smoke distress ink with water and splattered drops as well on the bottom of my shutter panel.

And the last step: I made my panel super sparkly using liquid stardust.

Next I assembled the shutter card and I started by folding the sides and tabs in. I took the shutters, folded the tabs as well, and attached those two elements inside the card base. And next I attached the center piece as well.

I also created another panel for the front of my card. This panel was cut using the largest die from the Large Stitched 4 Bar Rectangle die set, and I used the same inks and created the same textures as before on that panel.

Next I finally attached the images using a combination of liquid glue, glue dots and foam squares. I added some shine to the lights using glossy accents, and stamped my sentiment "Merry Xmas".

I applied super sticky tape on the outside left flap of the shutter panel and stuck my front panel to that flap. And I still had two white sections that I needed to cover to make the card prettier, and to close the card easily I starting by attaching a piece of twine on the right flap using a small piece of tape.

I applied the same tape on that white section, and used a paper from the new Let it shine paper pack to cover that section. I trimmed off the paper and next I did the same thing on the other white section using the same twine and paper. Finally I got messy and added chunky glitter on some parts of the scene.

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LAWN FAWN SUPPLIES

Stamp sets

- Let’s go nuts

- Car critters christmas add-on

- Christmas dreams

- Holiday party animal

- Joy to the woods

- Cheery christmas

- Yeti or not

- Winter skies

- Offset sayings christmas

- Simply celebrate winter

Die sets

- Shutter card

- Shutter card add-on

- Acorn house

- Build a house christmas add-on

Misc.

- Let it shine 6x6 paper pack

- Paper bag cardstock

- Chocolate bar cardstock

- Narwhal cardstock

- Vellum

- Hill stencils

- Liquid stardust

- Jet black ink

- Chunky glitter

- Glue tube

- Double sided tape

- Peppermint single cord

OTHER SUPPLIES

- Spectrum Noir markers

- Distress inks: spun sugar, worn lipstick, hickory smoke

- Sakura white gel pen

- 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock

- Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock