The Male Room Challenge #116 - Surf's Up

Hello everyone! It's Lisa here and I am very excited to be doing my first post as a Guest Designer for "The Male Room" challenge blog. 

This new challenge is "Surf's Up!" and it runs from July 24 to August 6. I encourage you to give this theme a try. All you have to do is create a masculine card for any age with the "Surf's Up" theme. It's a lot of fun! 

For today's post, I created a birthday card with a beach scene and of course a surfboard. 

Doesn't it make you want to go surfing? 🏄

I started by cutting a panel of 110 lb. Kraft card stock. Then I made some splatters with some "Vintage Photo" Distress Oxide ink, "Tarnished Brass" Distress Paint, and some "White" acrylic paint. I used an acrylic block and a paintbrush to create the splatters. 

After the paint had dried, I cut some sand dunes with Lawn Fawn "Stitched Hillside Borders" die. 

On a piece of Strathmore Bristol Smooth 110 lb. card stock, I used a "Drifts and Hills" stencil from My Favorite Things to create waves. I used my Ranger rounded ink blending tool to ink up the stencil with "Salty Ocean" and "Peacock Feathers" Distress Oxide inks. 

Then I used a brush from Momenta to lightly ink the sky with "Salty Ocean" Distress Oxide ink. 

After I finished inking up my waves, I adhered the kraft sand dunes and trimmed my card to approximately 5.5 x 4.25 inches. 

To add my sentiment, I used the "Loopy Letters Lower Case" die from Sunny Studio. These are awesome and it's super easy to create your own sentiments with these loopy letters. 

I didn't have a surfboard stamp or die, so I created my own surfboard by tracing and cutting out the shape out of some white card stock. I added the word "Aloha" with the Concord & 9th "Perfectly Penned" stamp set and some Lawn Fawn "Mermaid" ink. Then I inked up the edges of the surfboard with some "Antique Linen" Distress ink and a mini ink dauber to make it look aged and rugged. I also cut out some strips of blue and turquoise card stock and adhered them to my surfboard. 

I added the surfboard to my card behind a sand dune. Then I adhered a sun to the top right corner and added a little starfish from Hero Arts "Mermaid Kisses" stamp set. To finish the card, I adhered the card panel unto a 5.5 x 4.25 light blue note card. 

I hope you guys enjoyed my card! I encourage you to try this challenge and link up your masculine cards here at The Male Room Challenge blog. 

Thanks for joining me today! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to write below! 😏

Here's a video on the process of making this card. 

Crayon Box card

Hello everyone! It's Lisa here with another card to share with you. For today's project I was inspired by a card made by the awesome Chari Moss. She created a beautiful crayon box using Lawn Fawn's "Shadow Box Card" die. You can see her project here. 

Since I don't have the specific die she used, I used Lawn Fawn's "Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up" die and modified it. 

I started by die cutting the Lawn Fawn "Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up" twice from yellow card stock. I trimmed the top flaps from the box and left only the bottom part to assemble the box. 

Out of one of the panels I traced a line using Lawn Fawn's "Stitched Hillside Borders" and cut it out with my scissors. 

Since I was die cutting, I also die cut 2 inserts for the inside of my box. 

The crayons I stamped from Lawn Fawn's "Color My World" stamp set with black archival ink from Ranger. I colored them with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. 

I adhered the crayons to the box inserts using Lawn Fawn liquid glue. 

Then I used Lawn Fawn's "1/4 inch Double-sided tape" to adhere the inserts to the box card. This double sided tape is very strong and holds very well. It's also acid-free and heat-resistant. 

I assembled the box card by scoring along the score lines that the die creates and added a green panel to the back of the card. 

To create the lines on the front of the card, I cut out some strips out of 2 tones of green card stock and traced some lines on the yellow panel to know more or less where to place my pieces of green card stock. 

Once I adhered the strips, this is how it looks:

I needed something for the focal point of the card, so I decided to add the age of the recipient of the card. She's turning 34, so I used Lawn Fawn's "Finley's 123s" 

To the back panel, I added a Happy Birthday sentiment from Lawn Fawn and I heat embossed it with Ranger white embossing powder. 

I added some green panels to the sides of the box card using the stitched rectangles included in the Lawn Fawn's "Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up". I heat embossed the sentiments from Lawn Fawn's "Tiny Tag Sayings Birthday" with Ranger white embossing powder. 

I hope you enjoyed today's project. Thank you for joining me today and if you have any questions or comments, please write them below!