THE GREETING FARM: Small Surprises with Guest Designer Heather Conklin

 

Hello, Greeting Farm fans! Heather here again with my final Guest Designer post. For today’s project, I wanted to create a celebration card, specifically a birthday card. My own birthday is this week, and I thought it would be fun to create something that would be just as fun to receive. 

I started by stamping the cute cake image from the Small Surprises clear stamp set onto a tag cut from the Elle’s Studio Perforated Tags metal die. I colored the image with alcohol markers, layering colors to add a bit of depth, and finished with a touch of white gel pen on the bunny cheeks. 

 

Once the tag was complete, I added the sentiment from the same stamp set, threaded a coordinating ribbon through the hole, and secured it with my tiny attacher. I then pulled a few papers from my stash and used a set of scalloped rectangle dies to create the card base. 

To finish this cute project, I stamped and colored a few more of the bunny images from the Small Surprises clear stamp set and added them to the card using some foam tape for extra dimension.  

Thank you to The Greeting Farm for one of the most fun months of crafting I’ve had in a while!

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THE GREETING FARM: Mermaid Fun with Guest Designer Heather Conklin

 

Hello Greeting Farm fans! Heather back again with my second Guest Designer project for January. I had SO much fun with The Greeting Farm stamps on this fun card featuring the Mermaid Fun – Clear Stamps set.

I wanted to create a fun scene and had in my mind a tunnel card. Tunnel cards are fun as you can use any layered shape dies (circles, rectangles, etc.) and cut out the same shape in a repeated pattern, creating a smaller tunnel as you go. To achieve this look, I used a set of standard circle dies and skipped every other die in the set.

Pop each layer up with foam tape, and you can tuck in those fun mermaids, whales and sharks, in between layers of paper.

I finished this cute card off by adding a fun sentiment on a handcut banner, and little pearls that act like bubbles throughout the card. Isn’t the Mermaid Fun set just so cute?!

 Thanks for stopping in and looking at my guest designer work with The Greeting Farm. I’ll see you soon with my last January project!

Heather

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I LIKE COFFEE + YOU - I'm Guest Designing over at The Greeting Farm!

Hello Greeting Farm fans! My name is Heather Conklin, and I am so excited to be the Guest Designer for January. I have admired The Greeting Farm for a long time, and I can’t wait to share the cute projects I have been working on, starting with this fun card that uses the Caffeine Critters – Clear Stamps.

 

I started this card by using a variety of alcohol markers to color each of the caffeinated critters. Arranging them all together, I loved placing the fox looking towards the racoon. It made for such a silly scene.

 

Once everyone was colored and cut out, I started on the background. This card features an older coffee ring stencil from Diamond Press, but you could use any stencil or simply an actual coffee cup and coffee (or brown inks & paints) to achieve the same look. Paint the bottom of the cup and place onto the paper in various spots to create rings.

 

I added the blue strip to place everyone on, and added the cute sentiment with some white embossing ink. 

 

Once the background of the card was created, I just popped each Caffeine Critter up with some dimensional tape.

 

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my guest designer work with The Greeting Farm. I’ll see you soon!

Heather

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