You are the bessst | Lawn Fawn

Hello there! So it took me some time but I finally made my first double slider surprise card ♥ I had this idea to make a jungle book themed card a while ago and the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge "happy little critters" was perfect for it. It was so much fun finding all the different characters in the Lawn Fawn sets!

First I stamped all the sweet images from 'critters in the jungle', 'Ahoy, matey', 'mermaid for you', 'love you tons' and 'critters in the snow' with Memento tuxedo black ink.

To create a jungle book card I needed a Mogli so I went through my stash and chose the set 'bicycle built for you'. I half stamped the boy/man, masking off the arms and feet. I didn't want to have the end of the t-shirt and jeans so I could make it look that he only wears a short.

Then I diecut the image and completed the hands and feet with a Copic friendly pen. I also draw a very simple short (well, I cannot draw, unfortunately).

After coloring it with Copic markers it didn't look soooo bad ;-)

It was time for the 'double slider surprise' dies. I diecut the middle/slider piece and used a stamp packaging to wrap it around. Then I diecut the pocket and insert pieces twice. For the outside I used distress oxide inks. I chose mowed lawn, peeled paint and antique linen.

After assembling the slider mechanism I could decorate the card. I used nearly all the images and was happy how it turned out.

For the sentiment I diecut the banner die from the double slider surprise set and diecut it from craft cardstock. I heat embossed the sentiment from critters in the jungle with white embossing powder.

For the cardbase I chose the same craft cardstock as for the banner. I decorated the front with a piece of the beautiful craft woodgrain cardstock from Lawn Fawn.

I decided to add a bit of gathered twigs distress ink to the cardbase and the banner for more interest. Last but not least I adhered the slider mechanism onto the cardbase using two layers of brown fun foam.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

I hope you like the double slider surprise card and I am sure I will be faster the 2nd time ;-)

xo

Lisa

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Card Design Superstar 2018 #2 | My favorite things

Hello again! So for my second entry for the MFT Card Design Superstar challenge 2018 I chose the Coloring Virtuoso category. I am by far not as good as so many talented card makers out there when it comes to coloring and even more - water coloring. However, I had this card idea and I thought I will give it a try :)

I watched the new movie Christopher Robin from Walt Disney because Winnie the Pooh was my absolutely favorite cartoon during my childhood (I blame him for my sweet tooth ;-) ). After that I had this idea in my mind and had to try it.

So I started by diecutting the 'stitched collage frame' die from watercolor paper and adhered the pieces non-permanently to a woodboard. Then I created little scenes for my Pooh with different MFT products. The main character is from 'bitty bears' - it was really hard to decide on which image will make it onto the card.

The clouds, raindrops and the street light is from 'london mouse' (unfortunately a retired set) and last but not least I used the tree from 'modern trees'.

I stamped everything with antique linen distress ink and started by coloring the backgrounds. I mixed differents shades of my brown mijello mission gold watercolors to achieve a sepia kind of look. For the bear(s) I added more yellow and I also made him a red t-shirt. I wanted everything in brownish colors except for the red on the shirt or balloon.

I added the sentiment and heart also included in the bitty bears set and covered the heart with Nuvo jewel drop in strawberry coulis. Last but not least I used a white gel pen for some details.

Thank you for stopping by and have a fun day!

xo

Lisa

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Howdy, Friend | My favorite things

Hello everyone! I am back with a new Disney Squad :-) I used several MFT products to create this Western scenery and I am really happy with the result.

I started with the background using Distress inks and MFT stencils. The 'grassy edges', 'cloud' and 'drifts and hills' stencils helped me to create a nice landscape. I also diecut some pieces from the 'jungle friends' (unfortunately not available any more) and 'icebergs' die sets to add more interest to the background.

Then I stamped several images from 'saddle up and celebrate', 'best in the west' and 'delightful dinsaurs' with Memento tuxedo black and colored them in with Copic markers. I tried to color them like the real movie figures from the Toy Story film series (Woody, Rex and Bullseye).

I stamped, colored and diecut the images twice so that I can make another Toy Story squad card soon  (spoiler alert ;-)).

After diecutting them I adhered everything to the background and added the sentiment from the saddled up and celebrate set.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have an awesome day!

xo

Lisa

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