Cool Birthday ft. Lawn Fawn

I have a quick and short post for you today: It's about the shaker card I made for the new Lawn Fawn challenge! I used the Here's a Scoop set from Lawn Fawn and colored the images with Copic markers. Next I used the square frame image from Winnie & Walter's Framed set to create my shaker window. I decided to write the punny sentiment with a white gel pen. Then I cut the sentiment strip into three segments for a more appealing visual effect, and that completes the card!

Challenges Entered: 

  

Lawn Fawnatics: Interactive Cards / Paru's Challenges: ATG

Pink & Main: Moveable Parts

There's Always Room for Dessert ft. Lawn Fawn

I'm guest designing over at CASology this week. CASology is one of my favorite challenge blogs of all time because it often has interesting and unique challenge themes. This time the theme is: SPACE. 


You could interpret it as outer space and incorporate galaxy, stars, or moon into your card. I, however, don't have these sort of stamps on hand so I thought about other ways of describing space. I almost went with the idea of stamping a heart and pairing it with a sentiment like: There's no space in my heart except those for you. I don't know... does that even make sense? I thought the card would look too simple and I wasn't too thrilled with the idea. Then suddenly I saw this stamp set and thought about our dessert stomachs. And voila! Here's my card. :)


The three ice cream images are from Lawn Fawn's Here's a Scoop set, and the cake is from a mini set called Year Three. I colored all of the images with Copic Markers. The colors all look pretty realistic, don't they? Maybe not my matcha cake...But at least I tried :P

To make the glass and cup even more realistic, I've coated them with glossy accents. Then I decided to add some wink of stella shimmer to my desserts. I finished off the card by handwriting my sentiment. I really like how this card turned out and I hope you've enjoyed looking at my creation. Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!

Challenges Entered:

MFT Color Challenge #58

Christmas Alpaca Card ft. Lawn Fawn

EDIT: Winner at CASology / Honorable Mention at ATSM

It's almost December! I can't wait for Christmas to come.  :) Today I'm sharing a card I guest designed for Marker Pop's color challenge. I don't usually make cards with colored card bases, but I decided to use all the colors in the color scheme and I happen to have this mossy green cardstock on hand. 




I originally wanted to use the snow marker I bought recently to create the fur texture, but it didn't puff up the way it should. I'm guessing it's because I have an older heat gun and its temperature setting is too high. So instead of getting a puffy texture I got an overcooked mess. (I've tried heat setting the liquid before and after it dried, and even applying heat from the back of the paper. None of the methods work unfortunately.) 

At this point I've given up using the snow marker. I still wanted to add some fur to my alpaca, and I thought about adding cotton. I don't have cotton balls in my house and I'm kinda reluctant to buy a big pack just for this small project, so I begin to search for substitutes. And yes, my solution is Q-tips!


I pulled off cotton from 1 Q-tip and dabbed some color on with my Copic marker (E33 Sand). I then mixed/transferred the color to other white areas by tearing the cotton ball repetitively. I love how it turned out; the color variation definitely makes the fur look more realistic and natural. Even though this method took a lot longer than just using the snow marker, you could add colors to the critter's fur and you don't have to worry about it being squashed in the mail. 


The Copic colors I've used are:

Scarf: R27, R37

Body: E33

Face: Y21

Blush: R02

I created a mask and applied Vintage Photo distress ink over it to create the ground. Then I drew some white dots as snow and applied 3 snowflake sequins to finish off the card.


I've also created a CAS version as I want the focus to be solely on the alpaca. I hope you have enjoyed looking at my creation, and thanks so much for stopping by!

Challenges Entered:

CASology: Soft / Penny Black: ATG Christmas

ATSM: ATG / MFT Color Challenge #58