createwithclarissa: themaleroomchallenge

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Clarissa, DT

Hello crafty friends! This is my first time to join in this challenge. I decided to use this Lawn Fawn Woodland Critters Hugger Die and Winter add on for the decoration for the front of my box. I find this die very versatile as you can add different accessories, and I think you can use it all year round, and not just for Christmas. Used various coloured cardstock, a retired Stamping Up designer paper and the LF Perfectly plaid 6x6 .Here is what I came out with at first.

For the box, I made it using my scorpal guide to measure 7 x 10 x 3cm rectangular box. Cut out the tabs a little shorter and rounded the corners as shown here.

Afterwards, I adhered a white cardstock panel behind the critter to make room for a sentment.

Then I adhered this card onto the front of my box. Here is my finished card box. Hope you like it. I will be making more of these boxes for treats to friends and family.