Ski-sons Greetings

Hello friends. I haven't played at the AAA CAS card challenges for a while, so I thought I would give the current challenge a go. It's also a win for me as this is an excuse to make a Christmas card for 2020. This is the card I came up with.

I realised when I was planning my card, it was hard for me to keep it to one layer, so I inlayed the little town border from Lawn fawn. I added a post it paper behind the doors and windows to give the light effect. Then, I stamped my polar bear which was coloured with copic markers. To create the snow scene, I tore a piece of paper and used the edge to ink blend it with tumbled glass distress ink. Then, to make the splashing snow effect, I used the smear and swooshing technique by smearing tumbled glass distress ink, add a bit of water. Using a clear scrap acetate, I pick up the ink from my glass mat and swoosh it to my paper by lightly dabbing it. I repeated the same process using mermaid lagoon this time to deepen the snow effect. Here are some photos.

To finish my card, I added white acrylic and Distress oxide splatters  and stamped the sentiment "ski-sons greetings" below my card. 

Materials used: MFT Ski-sons stamp set

Lawn fawn- little town border die

tumbled glass distress ink, mermaid lagoon distress oxide, white acrylic paint

Copic markers for polar bear: E57, E55, E53 Clothes: B05, B02, B00 Scarf and shoes: G17, YG06,YG13 Ski: W5, W3, W1
This card is for the challenge below.

AAA cards - CAS Game #157

Thank you for stopping by and appreciating my work.

Till next project or card,

xo Clarissa

You're Adorbs...

Hello friends, I am back with another card, this time using the adorable, though retired, Petite Plushies from Clearly Besotted stamps. I decided to make this card for my adorable step grandson turning three in a few months. I started my card by cutting my front panel from designer paper and the circle diecut using Mama Elephant's All Prettied Up Die cuts.  Next, I inked my base circle using tumbled glass, salty ocean and peacock feathers. I also inked the outer circle with broken china distress oxide after stacking the diecuts together three times. For my images, I coloured these with copic markers and added foam tape to give it some dimension before adhering it to my circle panel as shown below:

For the sentiment, I used the word "happy" from the Lawn Fawn Happy Happy Happy and the birthday from Lawn Fawn Big Scripty Words stamp and die.

Here is my finished card.

I am linking my project to this challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Besotted with our pets

Copic Colors used: three animals - YR27, YR24, YR21, Y21, Y00, W5, W3, W1, R20, R00

balloons - R37, R24, R22, B99, B97, B95, YR24, YR21, Y11

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day. 

xo Clarissa

Summer Time - Clarissa, DT

Hello friends, summer has finally arrived here in New Zealand, though we still have cool temperatures in the mornings. I thought of making a card with flowers, as I have been thinking of inking this Simon Says Stamp - Summer Flowers.

I planned around this challenge when I chose my colours as I picked my favourite summer dress below, see floral pattern on the right.

I stamped my images on watercolour paper with tea dye distress ink for no line colouring. I used my Arteza real brush markers and used the tip to tip technique as inspired by the amazing Mona Tóth video tutorial to add a color beside another color to get better transition. Then, I also did dip the brush tip of my marker in very little water to blend the colour in areas where I want the color to show from light to dark tones. Once finished, I accented the corners and shadows with prismacolor pencils. Here is my first panel done.

Here goes my story about a few mistakes while making this card. Stuck this to light grey cardstock and made the mistake of embossing after it which resulted in unfinished lines, so I ended up tracing over the embossing with a fine liner. Next, I decided to make this into a shaker card as well, as my previous entry link doesn't work anymore because I had changed my blog name.

When I added the shaker part, it covered my coloured flowers, so I decided to remove the shaker part very slowly (ahhhh) glad that the foam tame has not stuck well yet, and changed my card into a trifold shaker card, with the shaker part separate, with ample space for writing a note inside. A win win in the end (sigh of relief). For the shaker part, I embossed the words "let's celebrate" and stacked the "you" word twice and ink blended it using walnut stain, wild honey, and carved pumpkin.

Here is my finished card:

Other materials used: you die  - MFT YOU trio die-namics

Uniquely Creative Delicate borders die

Let's Celebrate sentiment - MFT More essential sentiments

Card entered into the following challenges:

Timeout Challenges #153 - Items in your wardrobe

AAA Birthday Card Challenges #9 - A shaker card

Simon Says Stamp Instagram Challenge - Something new and shiny

Here is my card in action

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

The Male Room Challenge #128 - It's Snowing

Hello crafty friends. I have some exciting news to share. I have been invited to join the talented team of The Male Room Challenge Blog, and I said yes. This is my first time to be a DT ever, so there are lots of things to learn, but I am grateful to this awesome crafting community for its support and love shared freely. Now onto the newest challenge.

We have a new challenge at TMR # 128 - It's snowing. For my card, I decided to use the Penny Black Santa's visit stamp set.  Here is my finished card:

I breakdown the steps to make my card below:

To colour my stamp, I used a new technique for me which was inspired by Jill Foster's youtube video, water colour stamping using a stamp positioner. I used Arteza real brush markers to add colour to different parts of my images.

Next, I heat embossed my image with clear embossing powder so that the image can resist any ink blending I add to the top. Here is how it looks like.

I also blended in DI salty ocean and SU night of navy to get the dark sky look. Here is my finished card with the sentiment from a retired SU set.

Thank you for stopping by. Feel free to check out our guest designer Pat's creation for this challenge. It is beautiful. In addition, please check out the wonderful creations of our DT members as well and spread the love.

I am entering this card into Jenn Shurkus' Challenge as this is my first Christmas card for 2020.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy crafting.

xo Clarissa

MFT Bithday Yay!

Hello friends. I'm back with another card, my first time to ink up this adorable MFT birth-yay set as my nephew is having a birthday next month. I was inspired by the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #472. First, I lightly ink blended my panel with tumbled glass distress ink using hero arts graphic pattern stencil. Then, I coloured my images with copic markers (colours are listed below). Fussy cut the images and used foam tape to adhere it onto my panel. For the sentiment, I diecut the word CHEERS (requirement of the current MFT Birthday Project) using MFT Pop-up alphabet and ink blended it using mermaid lagoon and mowed lawn. Used the sentiment "sending endless birthday wishes"  to finish off my sentiment. Here is my finished card.

I also added nuvo crystal glaze to give the balloons and "cheers" word some shine. 

Supplies used: paper - Neenah solar white 110lb

frame die - Simon says stamp

Alphabet pop up die - MFT

Birth-Yay MFT stamps

Nuvo crystal glaze

Hero arts graphic pattern stencil

Copic colours used:

Balloon, gift, cupcake and turtle shell - B05, B02, B00

Monkey - C7, c5, c3, c1

Bird body - C5, C3, C1

Balloon2, cupcake base - YR27, YR14, YR21

faces - E93, E000, E00

Ist balloon, turtle, and beak - YG99, YG17, YG13

Hat, cherry - R39, R17, R05

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

MFT Birthday Project - Cheers

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #472

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge -use a stencil

Simon Says Stamp Instagram Challenge - shiny and new

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

xo Clarissa

A shaker card (Clarissa, DT)

Hello crafty friends. I was inspired by the various shaker cards on the blog and so I thought of making another one, this time with a masculine theme as my FIL will be celebrating his 90th birthday next month. As one of his grandsons is a chef, I pulled out this retired SU Viola stamp set. I coloured my images with copic markers, and used a spotted black and white patterned paper from my stash for the chef's trousers.

To make the shaker element, I stacked six diecut circle frames (cut from stitched nesting dies, using the biggest size, and the next one down) from white cardstock. I ink blended the top most one in peacock feathers and broken china distress oxides. I realised that I could have ink blended the sides as well once I've stacked the diecuts. I used sequins in shades of teal, green, light blue, and light brown. To finish off my sentiment, I used retired Basic Grey diecut stickers (as I didn't have a number and birthday die on hand) and adhered it to cardstock stacked together using the same colours as my sequins. For the black panel, I heat embossed ultra fine clear hero arts embossing powder over the hero arts sunburst bold prints background stamp. Hope you (and my FIL) will like my card. 

Colours used: chef's vest: C3, C1, C0

tie: B02, B41

Cake: B02, B41, B00, YR04, Y00

candle: B02, YR04, YR00, Y00

face and hands: E00, E000, E04

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Game #9 - a shaker card

The male room challenge #127 - anything masculine goes

Crafty Creations - January Challenge #405 (Anything Goes)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

xo Clarissa

Clarissa, DT

Hello crafty friends. What happens when fairies decide invite gnomes and mice to a baking party in preparation for Valentine's Day? Im excited to share my new project today using lots of Lawn Fawn products. Here is my finished card.

First I decided to make a scalloped box card pop up. For my images, I chose some old stamps (frosty fairy friends and oh gnome). And the newest release from Lawn fawn You're just my type and Love poems to follow the current Lawn fawn challenge, "Something old, something new."

I coloured my images with copic markers following the January Colour Challenge with Butterfly Reflections Ink, to enter this challenge, as when I saw it on Davina's Instagram post, I fell in love with the colours as shown below.

Since I wanted to enter my card into the current Game #9 AAA birthday card challenge: a shaker card, I decided to add a shaker feature to enter this challenge.

And since Valentine's day is fast approaching, I made a valentine's theme's card featuring a pull tab slider element using the Love poems and You're just my type sets from Lawn fawn.

Here is the card I came up with.

Roses are red, violets are blue...

sugar is sweet, and so are you.

the pull tab says: Happy Valentine's Day... 

Have a nice day!

Here is a video showing the card in action.

Thanks for stopping by and crafty hugs to you.!!!

An extended magic color slider scene!

Hello crafty friends, happy New Year, and this is my first post for the year 2020. Today, I decided to use the Lawn Fawn magic color slider die  and teamed it up with the Critters from the Past stamp set. I used this to make a fun interactive card that I hope my nephew will enjoy when he begins sliding the pull tab. First, I assembled the magic color slider, stamped and coloured my images with copic markers. Then, I challenged myself to draw the background scene using copic markers once again.

When I finished this, I thought to myself that I wanted to make the scene bigger as I loved it so much. So I ended up masking my color slider and some images, and using my stamp perfect, I stamped the images again in another card panel to extent my scene. Used the same colors I have used for the images in the magic color slider as shown below.

I followed the current lawn fanatics inspiration board as I love these colours.

Here is my finished card. Hope you like it.

I am entering into the Lawn Fawnatics current challenge 67 - Inspiration Board

Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting. I enjoyed making this so much and I hope you try it too.

xo Clarissa