Forest Floor Guest Artist - Toadily awesome cards!

The Forest Floor Guest Artist is Nancy Young. Enjoy this tour of her cards, made with supplies from the Forest Floor card kit, stamps, stencil and other goodies.

FOREST FLOOR GUEST ARTIST CARDS

I was so happy to be chosen to make cards from this month’s kit, it is right up my alley - or should I say trail? We go on frequent hikes, so I’ll get a lot of use out of this collection.

The little critters and other images are fantastic. The Forest Floor card kit was a pleasure to work with. I did a lot of fussy cutting on the cards, but it was really my ScanNCut that did most of the heavy lifting.

Emboss dark green mat with an embossing folder. Use detail scissors to trim around cutapart artwork, mount with fun foam.

Trim sentiment from cutapart and add a double-layer of fun foam underneath. Embellish with a corrugated tag, ribbon, wood veneer shapes and sequins (from my stash).

Add texture to dark green panel with a wood grain embossing folder. Stamp sentiment and emboss with copper EP. Trim and mat with copper metallic paper.

Stamp mushrooms and decorate with watercolors. Fussy cut with scissors or use ScanNCut machine. Adhere using foam tape, adding die cut greenery.

Attach tags to dark green panel with brads. (I was lucky to find red polka dot brads to match the mushroom!) Add toad cutapart. Embellish with a silk leaf, wood veneer shape and silver dots (from my stash).

Use a wood grain embossing folder on dark green panel. Highlight raised areas with Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide ink. Add die cut acorns and silk leaves from kit.

Use embossing folder on dark brown panels to add texture. Create a pocket panel using an embossed resist technique and the fern stamp image.

Stamp and watercolor the squirrel and acorn images. Fussy cut and adhere to pocket panel using foam adhesive. Add die cut leaves to side panels for interest.

Apply Distress Oxide ink to fern stencil to create background on three brown panels. Attach snail mail pocket panel to front.

Stamp and color snail and mushroom images, adhere to the bottom of right side panel.

Using brown, green and rust ink, stamp brown panels with the fern image.

Stamp and watercolor mushrooms. Fussy cut and adhere to cutapart with foam tape.

Score card base at 4-1/2 x 9-1/8 to create a trifold card. Use embossing folder on dark brown panels. Add cutapart. Embellish with die cut sprigs and a silk leaf.

Add a light green mat and sentiment inside.

Assemble card base per instructions. Stamp words from stamp set onto light green mats using Club Scrap Parchment ink. Add wood veneer shapes from stash.

Assemble card base per instructions. Add ribbon and leaf behind sentiment. Stamp and watercolor snail, add sentiment and adhere die cut grass.

Assemble card base per instructions and embellish with die cuts and wood veneer shapes from stash.

I did something different with this final card. Keep the 5 x 7" card base intact. Add 4.75 x 6.75" brown mat. Trim light green and medium green into triangle shapes. Stamp the light green triangle with acorns using brown ink. Stamp ferns onto medium green triangle using shades of green and rust ink.

Adhere outer edges of triangles onto brown panel to create a pocket. Trim an ivory panel to 4 x 6.25" to fit inside pocket, stamp sentiment. Staple velvet ribbon to create a pull tab.

Stamp pinecone and snail image, color with Copic markers. Fussy cut and attach to panel with ribbon, silk leaves and green die cut branches.

Aren't Nancy's cards "toadily" fantastic? You can find more creations on her personal blog, Squirrely Art.