Sunday, February 23, 2020

Pop-up Butterflies

Hello friends, I am excited to be sharing with you my card featuring bring it back Lawn Fawn dies, mini pop-up butterflies and spring sprig. My bring it back item is flower confetti attached to the spring sprig. Other bring it back items also used Gotta have gingham paper pack lavender as my background panel. Here is my finished card.
I started off by ink swooshing my white panel using ripe persimmon, tattered rose, picked raspberry distress inks as well as Catherine Pooler sweet sixteen, blueprint sketch and shaded lilac distress oxides. I worked by layer until I achieved the shade that I wanted for the background. Next, I arranged the pop-up butterflies onto my panel and diecut them. Next, as I had previously been playing with alcohol inks (intrigue alcohol pearl, pinata rich gold, copic BV02 and B32), I used this alcol inked panel to diecut the other butterflies to layer them on top. Then, I added the sprig diecuts which were coloured with shaded lilac oxide ink. Lastly, I heat embossed in white the sentiment "wishing you a beautiful day" from Lawn fawn bicycle built for you stamp set.
I enjoyed this challenge as it made me use lots of items from my craft stash.
Hope this card puts a smile on your face. Have a great day.
xo Clarissa

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Using alcohol ink die-cuts

Hello friends, I have been playing and experimenting with my alcohol inks that I thought it might be fun to make them into cards. This is my first card:
To make this card, I started off by lightly inking up and adding splashes on a 110 pd Neenah Solar white cardstock using Lawn Fawn butter ink and Stamping Up Certainly Celery
Next, I diecut my vellum using MFT stitched dome die-namics. Then I used from my old supplies, Tim Holtz Fall Foliage dies to cut out my images from the alcohol inked panel I made using splendor, sublime and alchemy alcohol inks. Using Sunny Studios Elegant leaves sentiments, I heat embossed the words "Grateful for your Kindness" in Hero Arts Copper EP. Then, I arranged my diecuts, and added some kaisercraft gems and twine.
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting.
xo Clarissa





Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Happy Trails

The Male Room Challenge #130 - Use Embossing
Hello crafty friends. Welcome to another challenge at The Male Room. Before we get excited, we are also very happy to welcome Angie as our guest designer for this challenge. Pls check out her amazing card as well as the rest of TMR design team's inspiring creations.

This fortnight, we are focusing on embossing of any kind: dry embossing, heat embossing,  use of embossing paste, wet paper embossing. For my card today, I used dry embossing technique with an embossing folder from Cuttlebug (spots and dots). I must admit that this is a card making technique that I seldom do and yet it is quite basic. I decided to emboss three colours of cardstock from my stash. Then using the MFT collage cover up die-namics, I cut out a white card base. Then using the same die, cut out the squares from the colours of embossed cardstock and adhered each colour onto a square.

For my image, I used the Lawn fawn happy trails. Coloured these with copic markers and fussy cut. The colours I used were close to my coloured squares so that the colours all matched. Adhered my images onto the panel with foam squares. To finish off, I stamped "happy trails" for my outside sentiment and added a birthday greeting inside my card. 

I am also entering my card into Allsorts challenge - dies and or punches
A place to start - masculine card

Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting.
xo, Clarissa



Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Heart You with Birds and Blossoms

The Male Room #129-  Heart You.
Hello friends. It's time for another challenge at The Male Room Challenge Blog with the theme Heart You -  since it will be Valentine's Day soon.
For this card, I stacked three of my birds and blossom die-cuts and ink blended it using vintage photo and tea dye distress inks. For the little diecut birds, I ink blended these as well with mowed lawn and festive berries. Added glossy accents to give it some shine.

For my sentiment, I used the "my favourite part of us is" from the MFT all about you stamp set combined with the  MFT You trio die-namics. I heat embossed the sentiment in Stamping Up silver EP to stand out. I stacked the word YOU four times to add dimension, and used a polka dotted black and white designer paper from my stash to give it some pop.
Hope this card and the other beautiful cards of the team inspire you to create your valentine project for your loved one. We would love you to join in our current challenge. We also welcome Cornelia as our Guest Designer, please check out her beautiful card and share some love.

Materials: Memory Box Birds and Blossoms die
MFT YOU trio dynamics
MFT all about you stamp set
Inks on background panel: Distress oxides (victorian velvet, tattered rose, shaded lilac, seedless preserves, faded jeans), black soot DI, and night of navy Stamping Up dye ink
Cardstock: mondi Color Copy 300gsm white A4

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.
xx Clarissa

Sunday, February 2, 2020

Dropping by a line

Hello friends. I participated in the AAA CAS January Weekend Workout over the weekend and this is the card I came up with.
I adore this Fishin' Hole stamp and Pond Builder die from Hello Bluebird. The image is so sweet and you can do lots of layouts and cards with the images and dies. The challenge at AAA Cards was to make a CAS card with the elements OFF THE EDGE. I tried my best to capture just as bit of the pond builder die set while showing the boy still fishing. 
I started my card by planning my layout first.
Then, I used the dies to make my own stencil from surplus packaging so that my card remains as flat as possible by making a pond and grass stencil inked with tumbled glass, mowed lawn, cracked pistachio distress inks. This is the background I came up with. I use a pet feeding mat made of silicone from kmart as it is really smooth so when I ink blend away from the page first into the page, I get smoother ink blending. I learned this from the talented Ali (alilovescarmaking)
Next, I coloured my images with copic markers and adhered most of my images using liquid blue. The images I want to pop up were pointed with foam tape. For the sentiment, I stamped it using memento black and heat embossed with super fine clear embossing powder. I have always admired cards with images that show reflection on water. This is my first try to do it. Did second generation stamping and coloured the shadow with light coloured copic markers.
I am also entering this card for the following challenges:
Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.
xx Clarissa