Sunday 28 October 2018

The Library Challenge - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe


At The Library , Lynda is the Visiting Librarian (Guest Designer) and she's chosen the challenge - The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis . 

I read this book as a child. I was really fascinated by the idea of going to another world through a wardrobe. 

And I actually had a little taste of what that would be like at an interactive Abba exhibition at the Southbank Centre in London, earlier this year. We looked around a recreation of the hotel room in Brighton were Abba stayed when they won the Eurovision Song Contest. In the corner was a big old wooden wardrobe, not dissimilar to the one on my card. Suddenly, the guide opened the wardrobe door and led us through the wardrobe to a recreation of the Swedish countryside! It was amazing! 

Back to my card, I used a wardrobe cutting file from the Silhouette store. The sentiment 'believe in the Magic of Christmas' is by Little Claire'. I stamped and coloured the deer and trees, and stencilled the snowdrift - there's a lot of glitter on the inside panel of the card but it doesn't show in the photo.  

We'd love you to join in with the challenge...
The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe, and the entire Narnia series, C.S. Lewis

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash  shaped card
Jingle Belles  animals 
52 CCT  masked the deer before doing trees and background 



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16 comments:

Maria Rodriguez. said...

WOW!! Marina, this is a wonderful, beautiful card and a great way to relive your experience as a little girl reading this book.
Love the sweet image of this deer and the beautiful landscape you created for it.
And what an awesome cutting file.
Thank you for sharing this fabulous card with us at SHOPPING OUR STASH, hope you come and play again next time.
Hugs.

SmilynStef said...

That little deer is oh-so-sweet ... so very glad you joined us for our Creature Feature at Jingle Belles.

Marlena M. said...

This book gave me so many dreams as a child, of going through a wardrobe to another world~ha! ;) This is lovely Marina~

Deanne Saunders said...

Beautiful card!! Thanks so much for participating in our WINTER WONDERLAND challenge. Hope you participate in our next challenge!! Have a happy crafty day!!!
Deanne at A Little Bit O’ Paper

Cards By MI said...

Lovely looking card. Love the image. Thanks for joining our challenge over at Winter Wonderland this time.
Love n hugs
Marie

Pia S said...

I love the concept of this card! Open the doors to reveal what’s on the inside, like an advent calendar. This card design could be used for any scene and purpose. The reindeer scene is wonderful.

Fabiola said...

Quelle charmante scene Marina, paisible et tout en poésie, merci de jouer face nous chez 52cct, biz

Tristan said...

Wow Marina this is a fabulous card. Love how you've interpreted the book and that deer is the sweetest litle guy/gal. Thanks for joining in the fun at the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge this week. Tristan DT

Mimi said...

So cool! I knew exactly what you were recreating as soon as I saw this! Well done! Your story about the girl with the walk-through wardrobe sounds amazing, too!!! Love Abba. Thank god for Mamma Mia-- my kids love Abba, too now! Thank you for joining SOS, Marina.

Donna said...

Fantastic!!!
Thanks so much for playing along with the "not your average card" challenge this week with the crew from SHOPPING OUR STASH!!

Chris Dring said...

One of my favorite series of books and you've captured this perfectly with this fabulous card! Thanks for joining us at Shopping Our Stash!

Gail said...

Oh, wow! Wonderful take on the challenge theme. Love the interactive feature. Thanks for joining us at Watercooler Wednesday.

AlisonC said...

A wonderful card and a brilliant story. I'm sure I wasn't alone in scrabbling around and being disappointed that my wardrobe didn't lead anywhere! Your card is a delight. Thanks for joining in at 52CCT

Ros Crawford said...

What a terrific take on the title!! I adore this, such a wonderful scene behind that door.

lauren bergold said...

holy WOW, what an amazing card! i love every single thing about this! so pleased to have this beauty in the CRITTER gallery at JINGLE BELLES! ♥

Shauna said...

Wow! What a sweet card and that wardrobe is Awesome! So perfect for the book challenge.
- Shauna