Featured Fawnatics - Challenge 72

I did a thing! Competition was pretty stiff and I'm so excited my card was featured on the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 72! (Bottom right corner) 

This is my favorite Lawn Fawnatics challenge "Inspired by a Book, Movie or Song! You could also include TV, plays and musicals..." 

I made two cards for this challenge. My first card was inspired by Stranger Things. There is a scene when the character Eleven and her friends are playing chicken with a van and she flips it over their heads with her telekinesis. I thought it was so cool! I thought of this for a card last time Lawn Fawnatics did this challenge, but didn't get it done. This time around, I had a new design idea in my head and brought it to life!

I made a 4" x 8" card so I can could create forced perspective. The challenge was getting the stitched hillside boarders lined up perfectly since they are only 5.5" long. I modified the Bicycle Built for You characters and bikes by masking and drawing in details to make them look like the cast from Stranger Things. You can't really tell, but two of the bikes have banana seats! I added the sentiment from their Yeti or Not set to finish off the card.

My second card was inspired by my favorite Harry Potter book "Goblet of Fire". Again I made a long 4" x 8" card so I could go for forced perspective again. I tried to include items from each task. We have the dragon, golden egg, and Firebolt. I have a merman I modified to have ropey hair. Finally, the goblet (I didn't want to create a hedge maze). I included a small portion of the forbidden forest with a whomping willow and the castle at the top.

I used the tree from the Lawn Fawn set Critters on the Savanna and masked off the leaves. Instead I drew in knobs at the end of the branches and vines standing straight up. My husband tried to tell me I was wrong and they should be hanging. Don't worry, I proved I was right with a quick google image search! I don't know why he still questions me... 

The whole idea a I had with this was to show Harry saying thanks to Hermione for helping him out and sticking by him. Spoiler Alert! Ron was a little b***h for the first half of the tournament. :-) 

I ended up altering their uniforms since I don't have a ton of black markers and you don't have been able to tell what was what. I tried to make it look like they were sitting with their robes on. I'm not super happy with the ground. I ended up gluing the paper down before I had a chance to do some ink blending on it. Oh, well!

I used so many different stamp sets on these cards and if you want to see the list here it is. 

Lawn Fawn: Stitched Hillside Borders, Mermaid For You, Bicycle Built for You, Village Shops, Happy Village, Yeti or Not, Critters on the Savanna, Jessie's ABCs, Toadally Awesome, Life is Good, You Are Sublime, and Sandy Beach Accents

(Blogger was yelling at me I had too many characters in the "labels" so I took them out.)

This challenge was so much fun to participate in! I still have another idea for a Harry Potter card and may just have to finish it on my own... 

Farm Birthday Card

For a farm girl niece, I created this fun twist panel pop-up card using Karen Burniston's Twist Panel Pop Up kit.

You can make a card like this too! I started with a red card stock for the base of the card. I used my background gingham stamp to make the three black and white checked strips. You can find tutorials online for creating the twist pop up card, if you don't have it. 

On the front of the card I used some Distressed Ink to create the sky and grass look. By placing a stickie not you can create a sharp line dividing the colors. I used Lawn Fawn's Scripty Happy die (I wish they had a matching birthday die) with a little wreath die.

Inside, I used the Twist Panel Pop Up die kit and cut negative and positive portions of Stitched Hillside  dies to make a sky and ground for my farm friends. I stacked the two colors on top of each other to get a perfect match. I used Critters on the Farm stamps and colored with copic markers.  to create the back and white checker paper I used Gingham Backdrops stamp. 

This scene can be modified for to anything you already have. I hope you enjoyed!

Irwin Birthday Card

I had been toying with the idea of creating a birthday card since I saw the Kindred Stamps set G'Day. I finally had to make this happen since it was Steve Irwin's actually birthday! (I may have finished it technically at 3am the next day) I tried very hard to crop off the hat on the G'day character but, I just couldn't get it to look right so I switched to Lawn Fawn. I used the Bicycle Built for You set to make the people look like they are wrestling a croc. I think it turned out pretty cute! 

I struggled with where to put Terri as I couldn't put her too close since it would look like her head was on Steve's butt. It worked out well to use the Critters Down Under stamp set for the croc. It is a little longer to give me more space to work with for the croc wrestlers. I borrow the log and cattails from Totally Awesome and a grass tuft is from Critters in the Jungle.

For the front message, CRICKEY!, I used the Jessie's ABCs. I grabbed the Wild for You set and used it to make the inside sentiment. 

I'll give the G'Day set another try now that I have multiliner markers to complete character modifications!