A Retreat!

                                       The Male Room Challenge #137 - Landscape

Hello friends, it's time for another challenge here at The Male Room. I hope this challenge inspires you to dream or revisit any landscape that you like.

Hope you will join us in creating your masculine projects with any landscape you come up with.  For my card, I was inspired by one of the photo cards sent to me when I purchased some Stampscapes. 

rubber stamps. It reminded me of a place of retreat. These are my go to for nature scenes as I can mix and match depending on what I want to create. I decided to create a lakeside cabin scene. I stamped my cabin image using versatile onyx black ink on Stamping Up Glossy white cardstock.

Then, I stamped my foreground image (ledge), reeds. Used Potting Soil Archival ink for the background and foreground trees. Garden Patina Archival ink for the water ripple. To add color to the scene, I used a color box blending brush to add color to the sky (CP sweet sixteen dye ink, SU Baja breeze, SU bordering Blue, and SU night of Navy).  For the water (LF merman dye ink, CP Mint to Be). For the ledge (CP Sweet sixteen, SU night of Navy, CP mint to be). I dried the ink on paper with a heat tool in between inking to prevent smearing as Im using glossy paper. For the sentiment, "Wishing you a beautiful day" is from Altenew Birch Land stamp set.

Please welcome the talented Cornelia, who is guest designing with us for this challenge. And hope you check out what the rest of the DT has come up with. Thank you for stopping by and hope you join us for this challenge.
I am entering this into the Colour Crazy Challenge - Week 20

Happy crafting and have a great day. Be safe, stay home and stay positive.

xx Clarissa

Lawn Mowing Time!

                                     The Male Room Challenge #136 - In The Garden

Hello friends, it's time for another challenge here at The Male Room. I hope this challenge is very apt as we have somehow found lots of free time in our hands during this lockdown, that some form of gardening must be one of those activities you have found yourself engaging in.

Hope you will join us in creating your masculine projects with a garden feel. For my card, I started off by stamping the image from Art Impressions the Lawn Ranger set into x-press it blending card with memento tuxedo black ink. I coloured my image with copic markers. Then I started sketching a scene of a garden with some inspiration from google images to help me. I remember some tips from Amy Young about having foreground and background images, varying these in size and colour (foreground images are bigger and darker as these are closer to the viewer).

 I love how it has turned out.  Hope you like it too. Copic colours I have used for the card are listed below.

Please welcome the talented Martina, who is guest designing with us for this challenge. And hope you check out what the rest of the DT has come up with. Thank you for stopping by and hope you join us for this challenge.

Copic Colours: Skin - E000, E00, E04, E11
hat, mower, seat - R39, R35, R27, R24
singlet - E87, E84, E81
shorts - B99, B95, B93
bumper, steering wheel, foot rest - C7, C5, C3, C1
tyre - BV29, BV25, BV23
grass, bushes - YG21, YG03, YG11, YG63, G94
trees - G21, YG17, G07, YG63
tree trunk - E49, E47, YR27, YR24, E33, E31
dirt path - E31, E33, E41, E43, E93, E95
sky - B41, B000. B0000. C1, C0
fence - W1, W3, E50, E51, E53
flowers - YR04, Y11, YR21(yellow), V06, RV02 (purple), R24 (red)
brick - YR27, E49, E44, E57

I am entering this card into the following challenge:
Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - Week 18 Anything Goes Colouring Challenge

Happy crafting and have a great day. Be safe, stay home and stay positive.

xx Clarissa

Hello from Home

Hello friends. I'm back with a card using digital stamps (Hello from Home and Build a Living Room) from The Greeting Farm. I love that these digital sets are separate files that help you customise your own living room, just like what I did. I printed off my image on x-press it card stock and coloured the images with copic markers. The finished card is an A2 landscape size panel. Here it is:

For the walls, I scored vertical lines to add texture. Added white dots on the chair upholstery using Signo white gel pen. For the flooring, I drew this and coloured with copics as well. 

Copic colours used:

Flooring: E47, E44, E43, E41

Chair: BG18, BG15, BG13, BG11

Bookcase and center table: E41, E43, E21

Wall frame: E25, E23, E21

Potted plant, boy's top and slippers: G07, YG23, YG11

Pot: YR27, Y15

Boy's pants: B99, B97, B95

Candles and decorative vase: Y11, YG23

Vase and cellphone: BV04, BV02, BV00

Flower and girl's clothes: RV17, RV14, RV13

Boy's hair: C7, C5, C3, C1, BV00

Boy's skin: E30, E21, E04, RV00

Girl's hair: E49, E44, E43

Girl's skin: E30, E32, E33, E000

Laptop: CC3, C1, BV000

Rug: BG32, B000, BG11

Puppy: E81, E84, E41, R20

Baseboard: C5, C3, C1

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes Colouring Challenge - Week 17

The Daily Marker 30 day challenge - at Instagram