Road Trip to South Island

                                          The Male Room Challenge #142 - Travel

Hello crafty friends, welcome to another challenge. This time we are looking at travel ideas for masculine cards. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, overseas travel is unlikely to happen in the near future. But a great opportunity to visit what is local. I thought of creating a card drawing of a road trip to the south island, as we have not done this. I thought of summer time road trip travel in our camper van. Here is what I came up with. I dream of having another summer holiday, without Covid-19 of course.

Here is the image for this new challenge.

To create my card, I started by using the Lawn Fawn Large slimline with sliders die. I also incorporated the Lawn Fawn stitched hillside pop up into my card design to stretch the use of my dies. Next, I inked my  panels using twisted citron and evergreen bough distress oxide.

For the sky, I used wilted violet, mermaid lagoon and tumbled glass distress oxides. To create my scene, I also die cut Lawn fawn birch trees, Sunny Studios woodland borders die, and Lawn Fawn Little town hillside add-on.  I also coloured images with my copic markers from different Lawn fawn stamps (car critters, happy trails, crazy antics, and village shops. Then I adhered all my images according to the way I dreamed the road trip/holiday would look like. I also got this sentiment "Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music" from google. 

For the front of the card, I printed a south island map of NZ and die cut an arrow, circle and the words ROAD TRIP using Lawn Fawn Oliver's stitched ABCs and a sticker (almost there). 

For this challenge, we are welcoming Sona as our guest designer. Please give her a warm welcome by leaving some love Likewise, visit the other designers in the team and spread some love. Until next challenge.

I am entering this card to 

World Wide Open design Team Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 649 - Inky

Creative Knockouts 365

Timeout Challenges - 169 Seasons (Summer)

Happy crafting and have a great day. 

xx Clarissa

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