June 2022 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

 

I signed up again for the Card Chain Challenge! Essentially you sign up and make a card that you send to the person before you in the sign up and the person that signed up after you, sends you a card!

For June, I made a card to send to Robyn in Queensland, Australia - this is what I sent her:

Here are the options that we had to make the card:

Theme Options: Fluffy / Funny / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Pipe Cleaners / Pop-Up

I originally chose the Friendship theme and then Pop-Up! I was going to finally use my twist pop-up die from La-La Land Crafts - but I seem to have misplaced it somewhere in my house...... so annoying!! I have looked everywhere! Hopefully now that I am posting about it, it will pop up! Pardon the pun, but you just have to laugh!

Anyway, it took me a few ideas to reorganise my card - I had already coloured Marci and the squirrels, so then I looked at the sketch and realised I had some scraps of paper that I could cut to use as detailed in the sketch. I had already coloured Marci with teal and I have a fluffy squirrel!

Here is a photo from a different angle so you can see the dimension:

Here are some photos of the inside of the card:

Here are some photos of the outside of the card before putting it all together:

Here is a photo of the paper strips and Marci laid out before gluing everything down:

I have stamped Warm Thoughts Marci and the squirrels from the November 2021 Club La-La Land Crafts kit and then coloured them with the following Copics:

• skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20, white gel pen
• lips - RV55, RV66, clear Wink of Stella
• hair - E13, E15, E17, E19
• pink - RV10, RV63, RV55, RV66
• teal - BG10, BG11, BG13, BG15, BG18
• top of hat - Twinkle Stickles
• tights - C00, C0, C1, white gel pen
• boots - C3, C5, C7
• cup - C00, C0, C1, C3, BG11, BG13, BG15
• red squirrel - I can't remember - I am thinking E90s though? R20, white gel pen
• brown squirrel - E70, E71, E74, E77, E79, R20

Here is a close up of the colouring of Warm Thoughts Marci before I fussy cut her:

and the squirrels:

I didn't end up needing the brown squirrel - so I'll save him for another project.

To finish the front of the card, I have die cut white card stock from the second biggest postage stamp die from La-La Land Crafts. Then stamped a sentiment from July 2019 Club La-La Land Crafts kit in Nautical Blue Memento ink and then I edged the postage stamp in BG18.

I had some scraps of Celebrate Paper Pack from La-La Land Crafts that I have cut and then edged with my BG18 Copic marker. I adhered them to the white card from Envelope Solutions using double-sided tape. Then I adhered Marci and the sentiment with foam tape to give a bit of dimension.

I had already coloured the squirrel and I wanted to use him, so I added him to the inside of the card. Then from white card stock, I die cut the coffee pot from July 2019 Club La-La Land Crafts kit in white card stock, then coloured with the teal and pink based Copics markers as above. Then I die cut the second smallest of the long flags die set from La-La Land Crafts in white card stock and stamped the sentiment from Warm Thoughts Marci in Nautical Blue Memento ink. I outlined the flag in RV66. I adhered the coffee pot, squirrel and sentiment flag to the inside of the card with double-sided tape.

As usual I found inspiration from La-La Land Crafts DT, who showcased some awesome projects on the La-La Land Crafts blog and as usual, from the wonderful Alyce at Kit and Clowder and her fantastic monthly classes.

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

A Perfect Time to Craft July Challenge #7-2022 - July Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge July 2022 #7 - Anything Goes

Crafting Happiness Challenge #125 - June Anything Goes

Creative Crafters Challenge #53 - Anything Goes

I hope that Robyn likes the card, I was a little late posting it as I was totally thrown by not finding my pop-up twist die! :)

Thanks for looking!