Krafty Chicks challenge #765 - Masculine

Good morning lovely friends. I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 4.  As always the theme is 'masculine' and Lori is our hostess. I know masculine makes are our least favourite things to make but it's always handy to have some ready in your stash. We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I needed to make a card for hubby's birthday so this week's theme was perfect for me.  He loves music and has a great knowledge of all types and genres so I made him a musical themed card.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A close look at the die cuts:

Plus I decorated the inside:

As I had a couple of die cuts left I also decorated my envelope:

As it was a family card I made my card base 5" x 7" as we like larger cards in the UK in general.  I took a white panel 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and using a music themed background stamp created my background using a light grey ink (I did have to stamp it twice as the stamp was only 6" square but as it was a straight-ish design it was easy enough to mask and re-stamp).  I found some glossy card in my stash so used that to cut all the black parts of my die cuts and then used some scrap red, blue and silver mirri card from my scraps bin for everything else.  I adhered all the die cuts together with liquid glue.  I laid out the basic design and before adhering anything I stamped my sentiments in black ink just to make sure I had enough space.  The larger die cuts were added with foam squares and the smaller stars and musical notes with liquid glue.  I added a black panel with double sided tape and instead of using foam tape I adhered about 3 layers of scrap card behind for dimension.  This was then adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel the same as the front, stamped the musical background stamp in light grey ink (leaving a masked area in the centre so that I could write my message) and stamped the sentiment in the upper centre with black ink.  I had some extra die cuts left over so arranged them in the upper left and lower right corners with liquid glue.  Again the panel was adhered onto a black mat layer and then added to the card base with double sided tape.  I'm really happy with this card and it could even be used for the ladies and girls in our lives with a slight change in the colour combo.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Alphabet challenge - A is for alphabet - I went for M is for music

A Place to Start challenge - ATG optional twist black, white and red

Daisy Chain challenge - not square

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - birthday

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist things that begin with B - birthday, blue, black

Unicorn challenge - use dies

Word Art Wednesday challenge - ATG

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'masculine' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Made to Surprise - make some noise die set (sold out)

Gina K Designs - music medley background stamp

Gina K Designs - grand gentlemen stamp 

MFT - keep on rockin' stamp (for inside sentiment) (sold out)

Imagination Crafts - glossy black card (got mine from eBay)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - not currently available - they do have 300gsm bright white card available here

Hobbycraft - A4 black card

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

red, blue and silver mirri card from scraps bin