A shaker card (Clarissa, DT)

Hello crafty friends. I was inspired by the various shaker cards on the blog and so I thought of making another one, this time with a masculine theme as my FIL will be celebrating his 90th birthday next month. As one of his grandsons is a chef, I pulled out this retired SU Viola stamp set. I coloured my images with copic markers, and used a spotted black and white patterned paper from my stash for the chef's trousers.

To make the shaker element, I stacked six diecut circle frames (cut from stitched nesting dies, using the biggest size, and the next one down) from white cardstock. I ink blended the top most one in peacock feathers and broken china distress oxides. I realised that I could have ink blended the sides as well once I've stacked the diecuts. I used sequins in shades of teal, green, light blue, and light brown. To finish off my sentiment, I used retired Basic Grey diecut stickers (as I didn't have a number and birthday die on hand) and adhered it to cardstock stacked together using the same colours as my sequins. For the black panel, I heat embossed ultra fine clear hero arts embossing powder over the hero arts sunburst bold prints background stamp. Hope you (and my FIL) will like my card. 

Colours used: chef's vest: C3, C1, C0

tie: B02, B41

Cake: B02, B41, B00, YR04, Y00

candle: B02, YR04, YR00, Y00

face and hands: E00, E000, E04

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Game #9 - a shaker card

The male room challenge #127 - anything masculine goes

Crafty Creations - January Challenge #405 (Anything Goes)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

xo Clarissa

An Easel card

The male room Challenge 114. For this challenge, I am sharing an easel card using an old Stamping Up stamp set called Seaworthy. When I was looking for stamp sets, I realised I hardly had any masculine stamp.

To create this easel card, cut 8 1/2 x 51/2" card base scored in half, like a standard card. To make the sides, cut 1 1/2" from the edge to the score line. For the middle part, score in the middle to make a folded flap. Then, choose your images to either stamp and colour.

Add designer paper to all the panels in the colours you like. I chose paper that I had on hand that was masculine. Then, distress inked a bit on the sides. Make sure that the centre image fits the panel, only adhering foam tape to the lower flap. To make the easel stand, I mounted the sentiment with foam tape. Then, at the back of the easel, I taped a 10c piece for my paper weight to give the easel more stability. I decorated my easel with twine and silver brads.

The Male Room Challenge 114- Multiple Layers

 This is also for Day 18 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge. Thanks for stopping by.

                                                        Love and crafty hugs, Clarissa