Making Music

                                               The Male Room Challenge #134 - Music

Hello friends, and welcome to another challenge at The Male Room. 

For this fortnight, we are focusing on anything that inspires music in your masculine cards. Music is therapeutic during these stressful times. Hope you join us.

For the front of my card, I used the musical notes background stamp from MFT. Next, I used the Lawn Fawn stamp concert critters as I love these. I planned to make a peek-a-boo card following Jennifer McGuire's video. I added a spin to it, instead of one window, I made two. In this case though, the opening must be smaller than 4cm to fit in two windows. The window circles were die cut using Lawn Fawn reverse stitched scallop dies. If I were to make another one, I would have put the windows closer to each other, so that the image didn't get caught in the fold as shown here.

To solve this problem, I cut the part of the image caught in the fold and glued it close to the fold. Glad I managed to save the card, as I originally thought that I had to throw it. Here is the finished card when it opens. A different image pops into the window when it is opened. Such a fun interactive card, don't you think?

Measurements for this card are as follows:

Front: 10.5 x 21.5 cm, scored at 14cm

Inside 10.5 x 22 cm, scored at 11cm

Back 10.5 x 14.75, scored at 14cm

Please welcome the talented Andreja, 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.

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

x Clarissa

A Happy Trails Birthday

Hello friends. Today, I am honoured to be guest designing for  challenge #176 for CAS on FRIDAY. This week's theme is birthday, so I decided to ink up this adorable "Bus Cubbies" from Art Impressions. These are so cute, the main door of the bus opens up, and I had so much fun making this card, as I changed the position of the animals on my bus. I coloured my images with copic markers.

I prepared my card base sized 3.75" x 7 1/2" and masked off the ground and inked this up with distress inks (vintage photo, tea dye, and walnut stain). the clouds and part of the background is inked with tumbled glass distress ink. After inking, I adhered my die-cut images and stamped my sentiment in black and heat embossed in clear EP.

Thank you for stopping by, stay safe and have a great day.

x Clarissa

Basketball Star

The Male Room Challenge #131 - Team Colours

Hello friends and welcome to another challenge at The Male Room. We are so excited to welcome Betty as guest designer for this challenge. I am a personal fan of her work so pls check out her amazing card as well as the other gorgeous cards by the team. 

This fortnight, we are focusing on team colours. This could mean your favourite sport team's, country's or old school's colours, and I chose my favourite team. As I come from the Philippines originally, basketball is a national sport, and when I was growing up, my favourite team, San Miguel, named after a famous beer brand. It's colours were red, yellow and black. That's where I based my colours. It was hard finding a basketball stamp, so I looked for a basketball svg file, and I found my basketball player silhouette and 'PLAY' font here. The basketball hoop and ball svg can be found here.  It's a good thing that I have a scan n cut, so I learned to cut svg files for the first time. Yaay!

Do you like the sentiment "Practice hard, train hard, work hard and ---- harder" that I used? It was just perfect. It is the same svg file that I formatted to jpeg, printed on cardstock, as I didn't have stamp phrases as these.

Distress inks for the background: fired brick, spiced marmalade, and wild honey.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you join us for this challenge.

xo Clarissa

Happy Trails

The Male Room Challenge #130 - Use Embossing

Hello crafty friends. Welcome to another challenge at The Male Room. Before we get excited, we are also very happy to welcome Angie as our guest designer for this challenge. Pls check out her amazing card as well as the rest of TMR design team's inspiring creations.

This fortnight, we are focusing on embossing of any kind: dry embossing, heat embossing,  use of embossing paste, wet paper embossing. For my card today, I used dry embossing technique with an embossing folder from Cuttlebug (spots and dots). I must admit that this is a card making technique that I seldom do and yet it is quite basic. I decided to emboss three colours of cardstock from my stash. Then using the MFT collage cover up die-namics, I cut out a white card base. Then using the same die, cut out the squares from the colours of embossed cardstock and adhered each colour onto a square.

For my image, I used the Lawn fawn happy trails. Coloured these with copic markers and fussy cut. The colours I used were close to my coloured squares so that the colours all matched. Adhered my images onto the panel with foam squares. To finish off, I stamped "happy trails" for my outside sentiment and added a birthday greeting inside my card. 

I am also entering my card into Allsorts challenge - dies and or punches

A place to start - masculine card

Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting.

xo, Clarissa

MFT Bithday Yay!

Hello friends. I'm back with another card, my first time to ink up this adorable MFT birth-yay set as my nephew is having a birthday next month. I was inspired by the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #472. First, I lightly ink blended my panel with tumbled glass distress ink using hero arts graphic pattern stencil. Then, I coloured my images with copic markers (colours are listed below). Fussy cut the images and used foam tape to adhere it onto my panel. For the sentiment, I diecut the word CHEERS (requirement of the current MFT Birthday Project) using MFT Pop-up alphabet and ink blended it using mermaid lagoon and mowed lawn. Used the sentiment "sending endless birthday wishes"  to finish off my sentiment. Here is my finished card.

I also added nuvo crystal glaze to give the balloons and "cheers" word some shine. 

Supplies used: paper - Neenah solar white 110lb

frame die - Simon says stamp

Alphabet pop up die - MFT

Birth-Yay MFT stamps

Nuvo crystal glaze

Hero arts graphic pattern stencil

Copic colours used:

Balloon, gift, cupcake and turtle shell - B05, B02, B00

Monkey - C7, c5, c3, c1

Bird body - C5, C3, C1

Balloon2, cupcake base - YR27, YR14, YR21

faces - E93, E000, E00

Ist balloon, turtle, and beak - YG99, YG17, YG13

Hat, cherry - R39, R17, R05

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

MFT Birthday Project - Cheers

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #472

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge -use a stencil

Simon Says Stamp Instagram Challenge - shiny and new

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

xo Clarissa

Celebrating a Milestone

Celebrating a milestone.

Hello crafty friends. I am a PaperShelter fan as I love their digital images. I am also excited to take part in their 9th Anniversary blog hop by making a card for their current "Birthdays/Celebrations" theme. For my card, I used the sweet digi stamp "She's Charming" from the Paper Shelter. It shows a woman pampering herself, getting ready for a party. I decided to have the occasions as a celebration for a 50th birthday, as this calls for a big celebration. Used x-press it blending card coloured with copic markers. I have stacked the word "fabulous" twice and clear embossed it so that it is shiny. Finished off my card with papers and accessories from the Bohemian Sarapapers and accessories kit

Copic colours used:
Skin: E000, E00, E04, R00
Hair: E29, E27, 25, 23
Dress: BG32, 11, 10, R27,14, 11, 00
Puff: R14, 11, 00
Shoes: BG32,11

Mama Elephant Oval Scallop Frames
Papers, buttons, flowers, and split pin: Bohemian Sarapapers and Accessories kit
Word and number dies: EllenHutson (fabulous), MFT (50)

Here is my card:

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Polkadoodles Anything Goes Card Challenge

Crafty Creations Challenge Blog

A Perfect Time to Craft Challenge Blog

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs and blessings, Clarissa

Just a number

Hello crafty friends. I wanted to share this card,  a shaker card I made for a friend who is turning 50. To start off, I made the card base using novo shimmer powder , spritz water and heated with my heat gun. Coloured my image in copic markers. The sentiments, "fabulous and 50, I diecut from glitter cardstock. The remaining sentiment, "its your time to shine" I heat embossed using catherine pooler embossing powder. For the shaker element, I stacked 5 die cuts from mft nested rectangle dies, and sandwiched a clear packaging for me window.

Here is the finished card, hope you like it:

Supplies used: Uptown girl Stampingbella stamp

                        Fabulous die and 50 Ellenhutson

                        Nested rectangle frame die MFT

                        Nuvo shimmer powder -fallingleaves

                      (thank you inkyandstampy.com for sharing some supplies and introducing me to shimmer powders. Loved it.)

Entering this card for the current challenge at #7:

        

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Clarissa

AAA Cards Weekend Workout

AAA Cards Weekend workout

Hello, I didn't mean working out at the gym, but a creative workout as I managed to do two CAS cards. For the first card, I used the Altenew leaf burst stencil for my rainbow background. I coloured these with a range of distress ink. Once dried, I heat embossed an outline flower from Altenew Peony bouquet with Hero Arts copper embossing powder, then adhered this to a card. Thought to leave it uncoloured as the background is quite colourful already. A happy birthday sentiment from Simon Says Stamp  (Beautiful flowers)  finished off my card.

I'm entering this card also in the daily marker 30 day challenge and SSS IG challenge. Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs,

Clarissa

An extended Shadow box card!

Isn’t this card so cute and summery? Day 10 of @kathyrac #thedailymarker30day, finished the background and assembled this extended shadow box card, idea I got from @nicholspohr and @karens_kardzz. Used the summer piggies from @isabelcristinanl stamps. Hope you enjoy this fun card.

I used the wave stencil from Simon Says Stamp as it's so easy to make quick waves.

Then I used the Lawn fawn shadow box ocean add on for my window.

I continued decorating the panel to add more summer piggies. Hope you like this fun, interactive card.

Love and hugs,

Clarissa