Showing posts with label SSSIG Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSSIG Challenge. Show all posts

Monday, January 27, 2020

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:

Here is my card in action



Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.





Sunday, June 30, 2019

AAA Cards Weekend Workout

AAA Cards Weekend workout

Hello, I didn't mean working out at the gym, but a creative workout as I managed to do two CAS cards. For the first card, I used the Altenew leaf burst stencil for my rainbow background. I coloured these with a range of distress ink. Once dried, I heat embossed an outline flower from Altenew Peony bouquet with Hero Arts copper embossing powder, then adhered this to a card. Thought to leave it uncoloured as the background is quite colourful already. A happy birthday sentiment from Simon Says Stamp  (Beautiful flowers)  finished off my card.
I'm entering this card also in the daily marker 30 day challenge and SSS IG challenge. Thanks for stopping by. 
Love and hugs,
Clarissa

Friday, June 28, 2019

A Gnome Summer

A Gnome Summer
Hello peeps. My entry to #lawnfawnatics challenge #55, all about summer. I was inspired by  (kristina’s) distress oxide blends so I had a go, and the waves kind off flowed (lots of masking, though). 

I love gnomes so I thought of a summer gnome theme and all the things they could do at the beach. Used several @lawnfawn stamps. As I wanted to use a lot of the stamps, @insideoutjeans(Jeannie)’s floating floor came to mind. I had fun dressing up the gnomes in their togs and bathing suits and shades, aren’t these stinking cute? 
Hope you like it. This is also Day 14 of @kathyrac the daily marker 30 day challenge.
Color recipe: sand (SU grey die ink, distress ink vintage photo, splatters of Yasumoto pearlised color)
Sky: Distress oxide faded jeans, wilted violet, carved pumpkin, picked raspberry
Waves: distress oxide faded jeans, salty ocean, mermaid lagoon, peacock feathers and/or broken china
Tip: leave little space between colours to make the foam effect.
Images coloured with copic markers and cut with Brother scan n cut and some fussy cut.
Supplies used: Lawn fawn sets :Village Shops, Bicycle built for you, Oh Gnome, On the Beach, Life is Good, Plus one, Rub-A-Dub-dub), Ocean shadow box add on die



Thanks for stopping by. Have a blessed day.
Love and hugs and happy crafting,
Clarissa