Fantastic New Adventure!

 Challenge #146 - Animals

Another challenge has arrived here at The Male Room Challenge Blog. The theme this month is to feature animals in your masculine cards and projects. Here is the card I came up with.

For this card, I used several Lawn Fawn stamps to feature as many critters giving a celebratory send off to a person I know who is going on a new art adventure. She received a 10 month art scholarship this year and this card is a reminder to show the critters doing a happy dance and throwing a celebration to help wish her all the best for her new art adventure. Actually, this person is ME (haha), and I'm really excited about it. It is for this reason that I'm stepping down as DT from this card challenge to make room for new things. I want to thank everyone in the DT for all their support and love and all you crafty friends who have appreciated my cards. Thank you so much. Here is the card badge for this challenge, please remember to add it to your post when you enter.

I started my card using a slimline size of 9.5 cm x 20.5 cm. bristol card front. I ink blended distress oxide stormy sky and shabby shutters the card panel and vintage photo for the ground. I arranged the stamps according to the scene I wanted, and did a lot of masking. I learned here that the trick with masking is to stamp your image in the front first, and work towards the back by masking one image at a time as shown here.

Once stamping is done, I coloured my images with copic markers. Then fussy cut around the images to resemble a single panel card. For my sentiment, I got these from the following sets: "Sending wishes... for a very (Dandy Day), flantastic new adventure (Toadally awesome and Bicycle Built for you). 

The following Lawn Fawn sets used for this card are:

Car critters, crazy antics, butterfly kisses, Toadally awesome, Wild for You, Critters in the Burbs

Hope you join us for this fun challenge and please welcome our guest designer, Andreja, for this month.  She makes the most amazing cards. Send her lots of warm welcome and appreciation as well as the DT team.

I am also entering this card in the current Lawnfawnatics Challenge #92 Outstanding Occasions

Till next time, stay safe, be well and happy crafting.

xx Clarissa

Night Concert at the Park

Hello friends, I would like to share my first magic changer card by Lawn Fawn. I had do much fun creating it, and followed the talented Marine's video, to work out the mechanism. To start with, I ink blended my card base, all the mechanism parts in carved pumpkin, candied apple, seedless preserves and faded jeans distress oxide.  I chose this colour as I wanted a night sky for the critter concert at the park scene. Splattered walnut stain, fired brick distress ink and white acrylic paint to add texture. Then, I coloured my images from Lawn fawn sets (critter concert, really high five, and say what christmas) using my copic markers. I cut my images with my scan n cut, then adhered them to my card. Here is my finished card:

This is my entry for the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #75 - Spectacular skies

Thanks for stopping by and hope you are all keeping safe and well.

xx Clarissa

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Clarissa

There's a new exciting challenge at Lawnfawnatics #72 - Inspired by a book, movie or song.  I am glad that they are bringing it back as I wasn't able to participate before. Here is what I came up with.

For my card, I decided to use a longline card to fit in a few LF stamps to create my scene. First I inked up stamps from Happy Village and Village Shops.  and coloured my images with copic markers. Then, I used the girl from Bicycle built for you and edited her hair, added some accessories to make her look like Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's. I love this movie. I added the shades from On the Beach, and drew a pearl necklace around Holly's neck. During the opening trailer, Holly is seen walking towards the shops, looking through the glass window at Tiffanys while munching bread and drinking from a cup. So I decided to add the bread and cup on her basket as she bikes herself to New York shops.

For my street scene, I was inspired by Amy Young, as she makes the most amazing scenic cards. To finish off, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment "enjoy the little things" from Village shops.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a blessed day

xo Clarissa

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.

This card is for Lawnfawnatics Challenge #71 - Bring it Back

Creative fingers challenge Blog -  #180 anything goes

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

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

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

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