Some Pinterest inspired cards

Some older cards I made with ideas I found on Pinterest. I like to try and copy cards I like using things I have. It's a fun challenge! My cards will the ones first pictured followed by the inspiration card.

It's been quite some time since I made this so it's hard to remember but I think I had made my own stencil for the waves. 

 

 

catluvr2 on splitcoast stampers

 I did end up buying the raindrop stamp but at the time I didn't have it.

Sunny Studio

 

This one I had the same die. I don't recall if it's the reason I bought it. LOL 

 

 

Debbie4000

 

A mix of dies. The little animals are Cottage Cutz.

 

Lawn Fawn

Made this for a friend using a raccoon for a joke.

 ann on splitcoast stampers 

Ink blended cards

 I got the ideas/inspiration from Pinterest. The inspiration for the first card is below but I don't have any for the other 2 cards. 

 

 

Halloween cards 2025

 A couple of cards I made inspired from ones I saw on the internet. The first one was inspired by a card I saw made with Spellbinders dies by Sarah Leese. The haunted house is a counterfeit from an SCT one day event. I had to come up with ways to make parts of the house as I didn't even have tiny window dies. I wish I had the actual house die set because I had another idea!

 

 

Lantern Christmas Card

 From a cut file I made myself. Inspired by the lantern dies and cards I saw from Pinkfresh Studio and Divinity Designs.

 

 

Vintage candy cane card

 This card was inspired by an image of a vintage Christmas card. It's a 'counterfeit' version. Of course the original is prettier. I think it might have helped if the branch dies were fuller looking. I was going to try it with stamps for the branches but I had more difficulty figuring that out with a branch that went in one direction and trying to reverse it and still having it look right. So in the end I went with dies.

copycat Christmas card

Sometimes I like to see how I can 'copycat' a card using what I have so I thought I'd have a go at a card from Sunny Studio Stamps that was shared online by a friend who saw the card and loved it. I actually did have one of the stamp sets the designer used but decided to just try it using dies. Here's my version and the original. It probably would have been a little better if I had also stamped/embossed some branches in the background.

Gnome for the Holidays

Here's a card inspired by one in PaperCrafts Holiday Cards & More vol 7.  I chose not to do the snowglobe in part because my gnome was bigger and using a snowglobe would take up almost the whole card front. My gnome was holding a flower pot so I kept ink off of where the flower was and stamped in a tree with an evergreen stamp. The sentiment I carefully avoided inking 'home' leaving a space in it and then inked just the gnome word from another stamp set.

I'm on a roll...

The last few days or so I've really been enjoying making knock-offs or 'counterfeit' cards from ones I've seen online. The idea being to recreate the cards using what I have on hand which may be similar to the products in the cards.

Here are 2 more cards from the Lawn Fawn design team that caught my eye. I knew I had a bee and a polaroid camera. (I still keep eyeing that adorable LF bee though!) 

Here's my versions followed by the originals.  On the bee card, I used a cutterbee perforating tool rolled in ink to give me some stitch lines. The lines are pretty light so I went over them with a pen. (The white stitching is freehand though.)  On the camera card I used an embossing folder to imitate the ray paper used on the original. I chalked the rays with a darker color to mimic the patterned paper.

http://lawnfawn.blogspot.com/

more counterfeit cards....

Here are more cards using pinterest for inspiration. Fun seeing how I can make something similar with what I have. When I saw this card I thought it could be done with dies/punches or stamps so I did both versions. My embossing folder didn't really have branches off the birch trees so I concentrated the leaves near the top as if they were hanging or falling down from up higher. (I later found I have a 12" birch tree folder that would've worked better and had branches like the original. Figures. LOL)  I think the punches would've worked better if 1. they were hanging from branches and 2. were smaller.

Here's my versions and then the original.

using Kaleidoscope Creations stamp Autum Season and In the Fall

Counterfeit Cards

With Lawn Fawn's new releases coming up I saw a couple of cute cards on their blog I thought, hey, I have a sheep stamp! I have a scarecrow stamp! And I wanted to try and make a copy with what I had. Only I did NOT have a cornstalk stamp. But I did have some leftover stamp rubber material (from trimming around a rubber stamp) and I was able to cut my own. Unfortunately, it ended up in much larger proportion to my scarecrow. LOL

Here's my cards compared with the original LF.
the LF blog: http://lawnfawn.blogspot.com/

I did not have the LF grass die, but I did have a different one from Impression Obsession. So I worked with it, layering it with some strips of paper cut with a deckle edged scissor. And while my scarecrow stamp had a couple of crows on it, I decided to use some bird dies from IO and covered them up. I think I'll be getting the LF grass die because I like that it's different from what I have, not so open, and I think it will also layer well with the IO one.  The sheep card is varied a bit more from the original. I drew the scarf/needles and the ball of yarn myself.