From the Whole Herd

The theme for the current Lawn Fawnatics challenge is inspiration from movies, songs or books. Being a kindergarten teacher, I took my inspiration from a classic kindergarten tune--Old MacDonald Had a Farm.  Lawn Fawn's Hay There stamps were perfect for bringing my vision to life!

I stamped a bunch of the set's animals and the barn, too, then colored the images with Copic markers before cutting them out with the matching dies.  For the background, I adhered a piece of curvy edged green gingham paper to the bottom of a light blue card base.  I played around with a few arrangements of the animals before settling on what you see here. The individual animals were adhered to the cardfront with foam tape for dimension.  I added the barn at the top of my gingham hillside, tucking a cheery yellow pinking circle "sun" and some clouds beneath it to fill in the sky.  The set's "happy birthday from the whole herd" sentiment was stamped on two green cardstock strips and adhered to the left side of the cardfront to finish the design.

Materials Used:
Hay There stamp set, Hay There and Plane and Simple dies (Lawn Fawn); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); markers (Copic); Simply Chartreuse and Harvest Gold cardstock, Simply Chartreuse patterned paper (Papertrey Ink); Ocean cardstock (Recollections); Crystal Stardream cardstock (The Paper Cut); pinking circle dies (Spellbinders); Landscape Trio dies (Mama Elephant); foam tape