Hi crafty friends! Today I am sharing a card featuring Lawn Fawn’s Build-A-Drink Pitcher and Lemon Vine Border die sets. From the moment I saw this collection, a summer picnic came to mind, and I had to find a way to portray that onto a greeting card. I hope you enjoy this super fun creation that not only gives you that lemonade “ahhh” response but adds a bit of whimsy along the bottom edge with the adorable Lawn Fawn Crazy Antics ants – I just couldn’t help myself!
Creating the Background
For the background, I cut a piece of light blue cardstock to measure 4.5” x 6.25” since this will be an A6 size card. Next, I grabbed a piece of red and white, buffalo check, patterned cardstock from my stash and trimmed it to be a triangular shape that was about 5” wide and approximately 3.25” from the long edge to the top point of the triangle – this piece will be trimmed more later, it’s purpose will be to serve as a picnic tablecloth for the 4.5” wide card front. I used my paper trimmer and cut a piece of fern colored cardstock to measure 4.5” x 2.5” and glued it to the bottom of the light blue cardstock panel. For the clouds, I cut a white piece of cardstock to measure about 4.25” x 3.5” and used the Spellbinders Landscape Edges cloud die to die cut an angled strip off the piece of cardstock along the long edge then used Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue to adhere the cloud die cut against the top edge of the fern green cardstock already adhered to the card front and lastly glued the buffalo check triangle on top of the fern green cardstock to complete the picnic table look. I trimmed off any cardstock that extended beyond the card panel.
Creating the Shaker Element
For the fun shaker element, I die cut the large pitcher with handle die in Lawn Fawn’s Build-A-Drink Pitcher die set seven times from heavyweight cardstock to create a well for the shaker bits. I glued six of these on top of one another using Bearly Arts Precision Craft Glue and the seventh die cut piece was set aside for Copic coloring and ink blending that I’ll work on later in the tutorial. Using the inside pitcher die without the handle from the same die set, I die cut a piece of clear acetate and cut it a second time from white cardstock. I glued the acetate die cut to the top of the stack of white die cuts for the shaker well. Next, I die cut the two fruit slice dies from the die set twice out of white cardstock and used a variety of yellow alcohol markers to turn the fruit slice into a lemon slice. The Copic Sketch alcohol marker combinations I used for coloring these were:
Membrane wall: Copic Sketch marker Y11, Y000
Internal segments and outer peel: Copic Sketch marker Y08, Y13
Once the lemon slices were colored, I adhered the two die cuts together with liquid glue and added Ranger Ink Glossy Accents to the internal lemon segments. The next cute elements were the ice cubes, and I die cut those from vellum that I coated with Ranger Ink Glossy Accents to give them a wet look. For the final/seventh pitcher die cut (the one with the handle attached), I wanted to add a light teal layer of color to it to attempt to give it a glass appearance so I used Copic Sketch alcohol markers BG01, BG000, and BG0000 to ink the die cut until I didn’t have any white areas present and used liquid glue to adhere the alcohol marker colored pitcher die cut to the stack of pitcher die cuts with the acetate and set aside to dry. Next, I used Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz Distress Ink pads in the colors Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed and the Ranger Ink/Simon Hurley Small Blending Brush to add color to the inside of the pitcher’s contents white die cut. Once the ink blending was completed, I mixed a few drops of water with a dab of Altenew’s Pearl Shimmer Relief Paste and used a small paint brush to spatter the mixture across the pitcher’s inside die cut/back wall of the shaker element that I just ink blended. Once the spatter dried, I glued the die cut to the final remaining white die cut of the pitcher without the handle (this will be the back of the shaker well when the time comes). I used liquid glue to adhere three of the little, glossy ice cubes along the top of the “lemonade line” to look like they are floating and then glued the lemon slices to the bottom of the pitcher.
I added some Lawn Fawn Lemon Clay Pieces, a few yellow/white clay bits, and yellow sequins from my stash to the pitcher shaker well and carefully glued the backer piece onto the shaker element. I wanted to add some lemons and associated greenery around the base of the pitcher, so I used Lawn Fawn’s Lemon Vine Border die set and die cut all the dies in the set from white cardstock multiple times so that I would have plenty to choose from when I began arranging them. I colored the lemons, greenery, and flowers with these Copic marker color combinations:
Lemons: Copic Sketch marker Y08, Y13, Y11
Flower Centers: Copic Sketch marker Y08, Y11
Greenery: Copic Sketch marker G85, YG63, YG61
Shading on White Flowers: Copic Sketch marker BG000
I will add the greenery, lemons, and flowers once I begin assembling the card.
Creating the Sentiment
For the sentiment, I decided to use the Lawn Fawn Make Lemonade! stamp set and selected the “When life give you lemons make lemonade!” sentiment stamps. I placed my card front panel into the MISTI Stamping Tool, positioned the two sentiment stamps onto the card front where I want them stamped, inked the stamp with VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink and stamped the sentiments onto the card front.
Assembling the Card
I started the assembly process by placing the shaker element near the center of the card front so that it looked as if it were sitting on a picnic table and then began trimming and arranging the greenery, flowers, and lemons around the base of the pitcher. Once happy with my placement, I glued them onto the card front. Normally this would be where I considered the card completed, but I remembered Lawn Fawn also has a delightful stamp set called Crazy Antics that has some adorable little ant stamps in it. I selected three of the ant stamps from this set and stamped them first on the green grass area at the bottom of the card and a second time onto white cardstock. I colored the ants that were stamped onto the white cardstock with the R59, R56, and R43 Copic Sketch alcohol markers and fussy cut the bodies (leaving off the legs and antennae) and glued the colored bodies onto the stamped version on the card front. For a little whimsy and visual interest, I added a thin layer of Ranger Ink Glossy Accents to the ant bodies, yellow sequins and gems around the picnic table surface, and White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops to the flower centers.
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