Weekender with Wanda – Lawn Fawn Spotlight!
Hey friends! Happy Saturday! Welcome back to this edition of Weekender with Wanda on the Simon Says Stamp blog! SO happy to have you here with me for a bit of your weekend. I always love to see you! We’ve been having some fun here, haven’t we? Today’s project is all about cheery Spring colors! I’m featuring some of my favorite products from Lawn Fawn. Their stamps always make me smile and they are so much fun to create with. (Tip: You can now pre-order all the new Lawn Fawn items we saw at CHA!) The best thing about Lawn Fawn is that you can mix and match all the stamp sets together. They are all the same style and scale, and I like to pull sentiments and other elements from different sets to create my scenes. For this post I used the adorable Milk Carton Die and decorated it with flowers and bees.
Here is my finished treat container! I filled it with candies….but you could easily fit a gift card inside, or a small present.
To make the Milk Carton, you need to cut out two of the die pieces and glue them together. It comes together very easily and quickly. I like that the die itself fits onto a 6×6 piece of paper. that makes it very easy to use with your die cutting machine, and most of us have lots of 6×6 paper! I used the Lawn Fawn Let’s Polka Papers for this project.
To add my sentiment, I hand cut out a strip of white cardstock and stamped the words from Gnome Sweet Gnome. The little bee is from that set also! The Stitched Circle die is an exclusive from Simon Says Stamp.
Here are my Copic Marker color choices for today!
So I want to talk a little bit about how I made these buzzy bees on the top! I stamped and cut out the bees and added some Diamond Stickles to their wings. I knew I wanted them up above the box….so I brainstormed a bit. Then it came to me! I used pearl head stick pins to make little coils. I wrapped the pins around the top part of a small paintbrush with my fingers, and this is what happened! I used glossy accents to glue the bees to the pin heads. Since they are pins, the ends are sharp, which made it easy to poke them into the top fold of the milk carton. EEK! So fun!
Here is the back of the box, and you can see the pearl pins too! I added one little bee on the back and tied pretty yellow cord around the top.
The little grassy hill was die cut from the smallest die in the Wavy Scallop Borders die set from Simon Says Stamp. I stamped and die cut out three daisies from the Gleeful Gardens stamp set and colored them with my Copic Markers. I also added Diamond Stickles to the flower petals. I adhered them to the box with foam squares. By now you know I own stock in foam squares! LOL.
That’s it for this weekend! Thank you for spending part of your Saturday with me here! Hope you have a wonderful day – nice to see you! BEEEEE Happy!
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Such a cute and fun idea.
Love those adorable flying bees!!
This is so adorable! I love the idea of using the pearl pins for the bees. It makes the back look as good as the front!
Awesome milk carton! Love the coiled stick pins, I never would have thought of that!
Sweet!
this is totally adorable! ♥
Is there anything more cheerful than Lawn Fawn?! Love the happy flying bees.
Wanda!!! What an awesome project! I love your milk carton, your coloring, and the adorable bees! What a great idea to use stick pins in this way! I am so using that trick! Lawn Fawn is one of my favorite companies! Thanks for the inspiration Wanda! You rock!
Your treat box is so cute. The flying bees really adds character to your project.
What an adorable idea! Thanks for the tutorial!
Love the color combo, paper, your brilliant attachment of the bees–adorable project, Wanda!
What a sweet little milk carton! I’m definitely ready for spring!
Soooo cute, love your buzzing bees!
An adorable milk carton with my favorite colors…great job!
Love that little Bee….beautiful colors
Bee-uitful and so much fun….love the little bees!
What an adorable project♥ I love the flowers and the cute bees!!
this is so, so very cute!!
An absolutely adorable project!!! Love ~~~ love the little bees on top also! What a great idea!
This is super cute. Love it!
Oh my, this is JUST TOO CUTE. Love the little bees on the curly stalks:)
This is beyond cute! I love everything about it.
Always enjoy your weekend posts.
So, so adorable!!
What a DARLING project!! Love it:)
Aww this is enough to brighten anyone’s day! So pretty and happy!
Lucy x
So very cute–just love the colors!
Cute way to finish the back of the bees. Really cute carton.
Wanda, I have to agree with you that Lawn Fawn is a fun, fun company. I have recently received my first LF stamp and die combo, and I am sure there will be more. Today’s post is so clever and unique. And, as usual, great photos and such easy to follow instructions. Thanks so much for all your hard work.
Fun project! And candy inside, too! I have several sets of Lawn Fawn stamps and think their quality is superb.
Super cute project, thanks for sharing!
Everything about this project feels “happy”. The flying bees are fantastic and the milk carton die is a perfect size.
What a cute project
So adorable! Love it.
Cute as can bee!
Super Cute! Love the bright sunshiny colors!
Adorable!
Oh, I love how you put the bees in flight! Very clever!
Cute project! I love the bees floating around the top of the carton!
Oh My Goodness -This is the cutest – love those BEES popping up TFS
I love this milk carton. It’s so stinkin’ cute!
Very cute!
this is totally adorable!
OK Wanda that’s the cutest thing I ever did see and now I need to buy the Lawn Fawn things I don’t already have. Love it and love Lawn Fawn!
Love the bright colors and little bee!
Such an adorable project! Love the milk carton idea with those cute bees! Your pin idea is amazing too! Love it! :)
Adorable! Love the stick pin idea.
So cute love it
Such a great idea, and I love your colour choice and the little bee!
Adorable, love it !