Happy 8th Birthday!

 What an honour to guest design again for the Male Room Challenge, especially on your 8th birthday. As I love interactive cards, I decided to make a round tilt and pivot card for this special ocassion. Here is my card.

Here is the sketch for this challenge.

For my card, I started by diecutting three pieces of 4 1/2 " diameter round circles in my chosen colour of cardstock. For the other layers, like the cloud layer and sentiment layer, I used  two more 4 1/2" diameter diecut circles and die cut the top portion to die cut the clouds and the house border die. 

And I assembled the MFT Amazing airplane here too.

For a tutorial of this round tily and pivot card, I followed Laura Dovalo's YouTube video here. 

The tip I learned is to make sure use this dimensional foam tape for this to work. I doubled up a Heffy Doodle 3mm deep foam tape to create the space I need for the movement to work. 

Hope you have fun having a go at doing this project for your son, male friend, or grandson. 

Feel free to leave a comment of support to the other designers on this challenge. Thanks for stopping by and hope you are well and safe. 

xx Clarissa

Love for Reading

                                   The Male Room Challenge #132 - At my Grandfather's House

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

For this fortnight, we are focusing that could inspire you by something you could do or see at your grandfather's house. The story behind my card is this. I have always been inspired by the huge selection of books as well as my grandfather's love for reading. He was also a huge fan of reading newspaper, Time magazines, political features and current affairs. He was an eloquent speaker who loved sharing what he read to others.

For my card, I used most of my images using Mama Elephant Book Worm. I love the images in this set, so adorable. I decided to hand draw a few things like the comfy chair, side table, rug, and floor. The lamp is from Ellen Hutson Leading Ladies Book worm.  I decided to add lift the flap feature on my card as I loved these kinds of books when I was a child till now. I also hid the sentiment "When you read you never stop learning" from Mama Elephant Good Reads.  Then, I used my bone folder to  score vertical lines to add texture to the wall. I have coloured my images with Arteza real brush markers and Prismacolor pencils. Here is my card with the flaps open.

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

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

x Clarissa

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 extended magic color slider scene!

Hello crafty friends, happy New Year, and this is my first post for the year 2020. Today, I decided to use the Lawn Fawn magic color slider die  and teamed it up with the Critters from the Past stamp set. I used this to make a fun interactive card that I hope my nephew will enjoy when he begins sliding the pull tab. First, I assembled the magic color slider, stamped and coloured my images with copic markers. Then, I challenged myself to draw the background scene using copic markers once again.

When I finished this, I thought to myself that I wanted to make the scene bigger as I loved it so much. So I ended up masking my color slider and some images, and using my stamp perfect, I stamped the images again in another card panel to extent my scene. Used the same colors I have used for the images in the magic color slider as shown below.

I followed the current lawn fanatics inspiration board as I love these colours.

Here is my finished card. Hope you like it.

I am entering into the Lawn Fawnatics current challenge 67 - Inspiration Board

Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting. I enjoyed making this so much and I hope you try it too.

xo Clarissa