Freshly Made Sketches #397

Hello friends. I am back with a quick card using the cute and adorable images "Portrait Pals" from Hello Bluebird Stamps. I am entering this into Freshly Made Sketches #397. To start off, I coloured these images with my Arteza Real Brush Markers. Cut the images using my scan n cut machine. For the background, I used distress oxide in shades of broken china and twisted citron. Then I die cut three circles in the middle from the Simon Says Stamp die bundle of stitched shapes. Afterwards, I adhered my left strips at the top and bottom, to follow the current sketch, and cut around the parts where it hid the circle. I mounted my card base on another white card using foam tape to make the middle circles look recessed. Then I foam mounted my images on each of the circles. To finish off, I stamped the sentiment onto white cardstock, this sentiment is from 'Story friends." Here is my finished card. (sorry, I forgot to take photos while making this card).

Here is the current sketch

Thanks for stopping by. Love and hugs,

Clarissa

AAA birthday challenge - Game #3 For the Girls

Hello everyone. I'm back with a card to share with you for the current challenge at AAA birthday card challenge.  For this challenge, I chose a very sweet and happy image from Sherri Baldy's shop(sorry, I couldn't remember the name of this stamp). First, I coloured my images with copic markers. Then, I decided to leave most of the background, white, except for dotted shapes around the image. To finish off my card, I stamped a "Happy birthday" sentiment from SimonSays Stamp Beautiful flowers.  I adhered this to a white panel and finished off, die cutting some decorative borders die from  Uniquely creative.  Here is my finished card.

Here is the sketch for the current challenge. There is still time to add your lovely work.

Thanks for stopping by. Love and hugs, and happy crafting.

Clarissa

AAA Cards Game #144

Hello friends. I have been so busy lately but glad I managed to make this simple card to fit the new challenge at AAA Cards (Clean and simple challenges). For the challenge, I coloured this free image called 'Christmas Owls' from Di's Digital Stamps (aren't these the cutest?) with my copic markers. Of course, I couldn't resist the optional twist Christmas in July, a great way to start making my Christmas cards. To finish off my card, I scored a line around the edge of my card and stamped my sentiment from an MFT stamp before adhering it to a white card base.

There is still time to join the challenge. Here is the image challenge.

Thanks for stopping by. Hugs and happy crafting.

Clarissa

Kit and Clowder - Peacock Bonus Class

Hello friends, I am stopping by to share this image I have coloured using my copic markers. It was a real challenge making fine lines as I accidentally printed the image way smaller than a 5 x 7," (but I got good practice in the end, as I persevered.

Once coloured, I fussy cut the image and adhered it to a white panel dry embossed with Altenew's sunburst stencil, which I think blended well with the image. Heat embossed the word "beautiful" using Hero arts copper embossing powder. Card size is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.

Clarissa

Divine Diving Spot! - Lawnfawnatics challenge

Hello friends, when I thought about how best to capture the current challenge - 56 Beautiful beaches, I thought of underwater scenes. Though I live here now in New Zealand, I come from the Philippines where it is also famous for diving and snorkelling spots. For my card, I decided to follow Jennifer Mcguire's Youtube video featuring Inside tunnel cards. I was so inspired by her examples and how you could do layers like a 3D effect. (Thank you Jennifer!)

I decided to use the Lawn fawn Lift the flap circles for the front of the card as I am viewing it from a window of a large submarine., so I heat embossed clear bubbles all around my card, with waves and a little fish saying hello to the diver. When you open the flap, you see the 3D layers.

You can also open the front of the card to reveal the fun action inside. 

I also used the colour combos from the challenge for my card. 

Stamp sets: You are sublime, 

Dies: Stitched wave borders, Lift the flap circles

Images coloured with copics

Thanks for stopping by. Love and hugs and happy crafting.

Clarissa

Birds and Blooms - Sweet n Sassy Stamps

Hello friends. Just wanted to share a quick post with this card I made for the July CAS Card Lottery.
To color my image, I used my copics. I found it challenging to color the cherry blossoms, so I googled an image, and this helped me choose colours from my copic colour selection. I did the same thing with the bird. Such a handy tip if you are out of ideas what to colour your images, go to google. To finish off, I used a stripey card panel from my paper stash. Here is my card. Hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by. Happy crafting,

Clarissa

An Easel card

The male room Challenge 114. For this challenge, I am sharing an easel card using an old Stamping Up stamp set called Seaworthy. When I was looking for stamp sets, I realised I hardly had any masculine stamp.

To create this easel card, cut 8 1/2 x 51/2" card base scored in half, like a standard card. To make the sides, cut 1 1/2" from the edge to the score line. For the middle part, score in the middle to make a folded flap. Then, choose your images to either stamp and colour.

Add designer paper to all the panels in the colours you like. I chose paper that I had on hand that was masculine. Then, distress inked a bit on the sides. Make sure that the centre image fits the panel, only adhering foam tape to the lower flap. To make the easel stand, I mounted the sentiment with foam tape. Then, at the back of the easel, I taped a 10c piece for my paper weight to give the easel more stability. I decorated my easel with twine and silver brads.

The Male Room Challenge 114- Multiple Layers

 This is also for Day 18 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge. Thanks for stopping by.

                                                        Love and crafty hugs, Clarissa