Northwest Stamper

Category: Masculine

  • Maritime Thank You Card For the Guys

    Ok, so this card doesn’t have to be just for the guys, but I was inspired by a version of this card from my Stamping Twin Julie Davison and had to recreate it for my Stamping Bingo the other week as a card they could make for guys or girls. 

    My biggest problem is that every time I pull out this Maritime paper, I fall in love with it all over again!  From the awesome colors to the fun patterns.  Seriously, great paper!

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    So this card gives a nod to the nautical and is quick and easy and another great way to use that pattern paper!

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    Tips for making this card:

    • Use up scraps of your paper or just make a stack of cards using your patterned papers when you cut a few squares and adhere them in a pattern on your card.
    • Add your sentiment instead of another piece of paper!  This works with any pattern of shapes.  Try it with circles, hexagons, etc… just make a pattern with paper, then lift one up and stamp a sentiment instead.

    • Love your twine!  I love this gold twine and I used 3 pieces that were wrapped and adhered around the back of the white cardstock to make the crossing pattern.  Then add one more piece to tie in a knot at the cross point to hold them together.  A little bit o glitz goes a long way!
    • Don’t be afraid to cut out specific patterns and pieces from your designer paper too for accent pieces.  I cut the light blue “rope” design out as an accent for my Thank You.

    Don’t forget to RSVP for the Class by Mail!

    If you missed my announcement, I have a limited time All About Guys Class by Mail available through next week, but order your kit or instruction set now so I can be sure to get yours out asap!

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  • All About Guys – Card Class by Mail featuring Guy Greetings and Adventure Bound

    I’ve been planning on this class for a while and I’m finally running it here locally on Friday (if you are in the Seattle area and want to join me, today is the last day to RSVP for Friday’s class!) But I’m also offering this as a class by mail and just love how the cards turned out!  Check them out:

    All the cards feature the Guy Greetings Stamp Set & Adventure Bound designer paper stack from the Occasions Catalog and you can fill in the inside to make them work for Father’s Day, Birthday, Congrats and more for those guys in your life!

    Details for joining me for this class in person or as a class by mail (including Instructions Only option) are below. I’d love to have you play along!

    I thought I’d share one of my favorite cards from the set… this red classic car card.  Lots of fun layers without being too fussy or overdone don’t you think?

    Tips for making this card:

    • I love mixing and matching from the Adventure Bound designer paper stack.  Each paper gives you photo realistic prints on one side and guy friendly prints on the other.  Here I mixed a red plaid and a red pin stripe pattern, giving you cool subtle striping on the card front.
      Note – this paper stack is only available until June 2nd, so if you love it, make sure you grab it soon!

    • tip – When adhering your burlap ribbon to your paper, I find it is often easier to run my tape runner onto the back of the *paper* instead of directly onto the ribbon.  The burlap texture sometimes has a hard time holding the adhesive right off the runner.
    • Layer your sentiment over the bottom edge of your paper with the car image to get a bit of dimension but also keep everything focused in one place.
    • Oh and sponging, seriously, I can’t live without sponging my edges it seems! Smile  For all my cards in this set, we sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink using a sponge dauber for just the right touch of vintage.

    • And this card would work great for a birthday card, thank you card, father’s day card, anything you need.  Just add your custom sentiment to the inside and you are done!

    Want to make all of these cards?

    You can join me in person if you are in the Seattle area

    All About Guys Masculine Card Class
    Friday 5/22 at Panera in Redmond starting at 7pm
    RSVP here or email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com – RSVP’s are due TODAY!

    Or sign up for my class by mail!  Included in the class kits are:

    • 20 notecards & envelopes (so you have spares as you are working & can come up with your own creations!)
    • a pack of the Adventure Bound designer paper pack(the needed pieces for these cards will be precut for you)
    • all extra papers and embellishments precut
    • pdf instructions for all 7 cards
    • shipping anywhere in the US
    • Optional Add on – SAVE 15% when you order with the class! – Guy Greetings Stamp set

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    Have the supplies but just want the instructions?  I’ll be emailing those out starting Thursday so get your name on the list today!

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  • Dear Heart for those Great Boy Cards

    Dear Heart for those Great Boy Cards

    I don’t know if you remember the Sweetie Pie photopolymer stamp set that came out a few months ago.  It was filled with these cute sketch art girl faces and a couple frames and accessory stamp images.  Turns out it was popular and sold out pretty fast.  Well, today, Stampin’ Up put out another stamp set like that only this time its all about the boys!  It’s called Dear Heart and look at some of the cute stuff they are making with it:

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    Both of these cards were designed by the concept artists as Stampin’ Up, and I think they are so fun!

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    You can see all the options and different images in the set – can I just say that alligator/dinosaur guy just makes me smile. Smile 

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    And as a reminder, today is Tuesday which means new weekly deals!  I especially love that Washi Tape!  If you would like any, let me know and I can try to organize a group order.

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  • Fun n’ Crafty Blog Hop–Let’s Use That Designer Paper!

    Fun n’ Crafty Blog Hop–Let’s Use That Designer Paper!

    Are blog hop imageyou ready for some inspiration for your designer paper?  Yes, all that beautiful patterned paper that you either have at home or have been eyeing up in the catalog.  Then hang on to your hats because today is the monthly Fun n’ Crafty blog hop and we are featuring projects that use designer paper! Many of the papers featured are included in the July Buy 3 get 1 free promotion, so if you find some favorites along the way, you don’t have to feel so bad because they are on sale! Winking smile

    Idea #1 – Let Your Designer Paper be Your Focal Point

    I’m going to be sharing two cards today, but this first one is the type that would have had me cringing a year ago… because I use “big” pieces of 2 sheets of paper!  Gasp! I know, right?  But the thing is, I realized that when I actually let myself use my papers, they make great borders and backgrounds. These patterns are from my new favorite paper collections from the Stampin’ Up catalog – Maritime Designer Paper. image I’m not normally a nautical person, but I love how many of the prints can be used for any type of card… but especially masculine cards!! I added some Silver Foil paper, some baker’s twine, a Cherry Cobbler button, and the sentiment from the Hip Notes stamp set. And if you noticed from the first picture, I had the Silver Foil paper curved so that it gave some dimension to the banner.  To help hold that curve in place, I stacked 2 Stampin’ Dimensionals on top of each other and then placed the stack under the raised curve part of the banner to keep it held up.  The other end is glued straight down to the card front.

    Idea #2 – Try Some Paper Piecing

    I’ve been meaning to try paper piecing with this stamp set (Vivid Vases) for ages, so now seemed like the perfect time to actually get it done! If you aren’t familiar with paper piecing, it is the idea of taking a stamp set with outline images that you would normally want to color in and instead of coloring in with markers, you stamp your image again on a piece of patterned paper and cut it out to glue on top of your stamped image. paper piecing example So, in this case, I used the new Flower Pot designer paper to give me a fun and funky floral background as well as for patterns for each of my pots.  Each paper used in this card are all from this one paper set. image Then when I was done, I was grateful for Stampin’ Up’s color cordination between products because I needed something and really wanted some ribbon to match without competing with all the colors and images I already had used.  Thankfully I was able to grab some Calypso Coral seam binding ribbon and Mossy Meadow stitched satin ribbon to complete the card. So hopefully you enjoyed these ideas for using up some of the paper in your stash! Lets keep the fun going and hop on over to Kathy’s blog for more ideas to try! Blog Hop Participants:

     

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  • Father’s Day Card using Look Up to Father

    Father’s Day Card using Look Up to Father

    Look up to Father is one of those stamps that when I saw it in the Occasions Catalog, I knew I just HAD-TO-HAVE it!  I loved the sentiment (“A Father is someone to look up to no matter how tall you’ve grown”) and knew I wanted to make a card for my Dad with it.  So, I got it in one of my very first orders, and promptly mounted it and put it on my shelf…

    where it sat for a long time.  So, now is my first time inking it up and I LOVE it!

    I created this card for my Stamp Club to (1) give them a masculine card and (2) remind us all to use our designer papers!  Because I KNOW I’m not the only one who loves their paper and then tries to only use the teensiest tiniest piece on your projects to conserve.  Smile

    I colored the Look Up To Father stamp using my markers before stamping… I used Gumball Green for the leaves and grass, Soft Suede for the trunk, and Early Espresso for the sentiment.

    It was also another chance to use the Hardwood stamp set… so glad it will be sticking around for a while.   Sadly that is about the only part of this card (aside from the cardstock) that will be sticking around after the 1st of June!

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    So, check out your stamp stash and see what images you loved and had to have; but haven’t seemed to get inky yet!  Now is the perfect time to pull them out and have a fun weekend playing!

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  • A Masculine Card with Six Sided Sampler

    A Masculine Card with Six Sided Sampler

    Quick, name a stamp set that you just had to have but have since used once – or not at all!  For me, that has been the Six Sided Sampler stamp set.  I saw lots of cool things done with this set and I loved the hexagon punch that coordinated, so I picked it up last fall.  and I think I’ve used it about twice!  Thankfully, my friend Sarah Naber came to my rescue with this awesome inspiration that is great for guys or gals!

    You know me, I love clean and simple cards – especially if they have lots of great details that are subtle but really add to the card.  And boy does she deliver!

    It is a little hard to see in the first picture, but I like how she stamped the Cherry Cobbler cardstock with the Woodgrain stamp  and then she embossed the Island Indigo cardstock with the Alphabet Press embossing folder

    Add a touch of Linin Thread for one last bit of texture.  Such a great color combination (Crushed Curry, Cherry Cobbler, Island Indigo, Crumb Cake) and use of those hexagons.  I think I have some inspiration to play with again!

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    Stampin’ Up! Supplies Used
    Stamps – Six Sided Sampler, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Woodgrain
    Ink – Cherry Cobbler, Island Indigo, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake
    Paper –Cherry Cobbler, Island Indigo, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
    Accessories – Big Shot, Alphabet Press embossing folder, Hexagon Punch, Linen Thread


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  • Masculine Monday with Burlap, Woodgrain, and Word Bubbles!

    Masculine Monday with Burlap, Woodgrain, and Word Bubbles!

    I know many of us struggle with masculine cards.  I often find it so easy to reach for my flowers and rhinestones and pinks and whatnot; but when I need to make a card for a guy, those go-to items suddenly don’t seem to be quite the right fit.  Well, as luck would have it, today over on the Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration blog, they are sharing some cards for Masculine Monday (and WOW are there some stunners!)  So, I wanted to participate with the design team and I wanted a guy card for my upcoming card class at the Scrapyard Chicks Spring Workshop, so I grabbed some burlap ribbon, some scraps of paper, and got to work!

    Can I just say… I LOVE how this turned out.  It has a lot of fun touches to it without being super over the top or fussy.

    The class I’m teaching in April focuses on 6 different techniques and for this card, I was showing off a neat different way to use your embossing folders…. as a stamp!  That is right, that grainy background on the card base – it is actually stamping using the Woodgrain embossing folder.

    So how does that work?

    1. You take your ink pad and slide it along the raised side of your embossing folder.
    2. Close the embossing folder over your card front so the ink is where you want it (basically, make it look like you are about to run it through the Big Shot)
    3. Do NOT actually run it through the Big Shot, instead use your bone folder to burnish the embossing folder and impress the ink onto your card base
    4. Open up the folder and admire your stamping work. Smile

     

    The other think I really liked about this card was the mixing and matching of the word bubbles.  I stamped the “Hey There” with the Just Sayin’ stamp set and then cut it out with the Word Bubbles framelits (and yes, get the bundle!  They are both cute Winking smile).

    But then I needed something more, so I grabbed some of the Gold Foil paper and cut out a different word bubble shape from the framelits.  Now, when you look at the paper that now has a word bubble sized hole in it, you will see that the framelit die embossed a faint line from the outer edge of the die (as opposed to the inner edge of the die where the cutting occurred).  So in this case, you can use that faint line as a cutting guideline and cut along that share to give you this cool metallic word bubble outline!

    Oh, and I actually did emboss the Chocolate Chip paper with my embossing folder… I like the contrast of the stamped woodgrain and the embossed woodgrain.

    So, what do you think?  I really liked how it turned out and can’t wait to share it at the workshop in a month!

     

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    Stampin’ Up! Supplies Used
    Stamps – Just Sayin’
    Ink – Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip
    Paper – Sahara Sand, Old Olive, Island Indigo, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Gold Foil
    Accessories – Big Shot, Word Bubble framelits, Vintage Brads, Woodgrain embossing folder, Burlap ribbon

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  • Dress Shirt Card for Dad

    You would think that for all the stamping classes I run and projects I make for swapping and my blog, I would always be prepared for holidays.  Ha!  They sneak up on me like my 3 yr old when I think he is taking a nap and jump out at me at the last minute.  Thankfully, I got a head start this year and have a card all ready for Dad when I see him on Sunday. 

    I’ve been dying to try out those cool dress shirt cards and thought this would be a perfect excuse to try one out.  My first attempt left me with a shirt that covered the entire front of the card, but I wasn’t feeling it.  So, I adjusted my measurements until I came up with this:

    The shirt was super simple to make… you just take a rectangle out of cardstock and cut two slits in from each side and fold down the flaps to make the collar.  Here are the dimensions I used for this card:

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    I wanted a little bit of texture and so I grabbed some of my Pool Party Core’dintations cardstock for the shirt.  Normally I sand down this paper but I liked it for that subtle texture it provided.  

    For the rest of the shirt, I hand drew and cut the tie.  I didn’t realize that most people when they create these cards, have a template they have created for themselves for the tie!  So, I made myself a template and hoped it didn’t look too lopsided. Smile 

    Add a few silver mini brads and ta-da!  The shirt is done!

    Card supplies used:
    Stamps – Delightful Dozen
    Ink – Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango marker
    Paper – Whisper White cardstock, Island Indigo cardstock, Pool Party Core’dinations cardstock, Quatrefancy specialty designer series paper
    Accessories – Big Shot, Stripes embossing folder, Piercing tool, Silver mini brads, Paper snips

    So if you need a quick Father’s Day card idea, try this one out.  It is fast and easy, and quickly customizable to any colors or patterns you want!

    Give it a try and then stop by my facebook page and let me know how yours turned out!  And let me know if you come up with a better way to do the tie other than freestyle!

     

  • Just Wanted to Say You’re Amazing!

    No seriously, you are! As I think back to how my life has evolved and changed over the last few years – between major moves and babies and family adventures; I love that I’ve always had my friends and stamping community there for support and to keep me sane!  From friends in facebook groups to my fellow Stampin’ Up! demos, I always feel like I have somewhere to turn when I need support or a pick-me-up.

    And you are part of that stamping family & community and for every layout you make, project you share, card you send; you are making the day that much brighter.  And so I think you are amazing!

    You're Amazing Masculine card with bleaching

    And just a little close up for those of you curious about the paper… this card is from my Misting & Masking technique class and we used bleach in a spritz bottle to spray some Marina Mist cardstock to get this cool look.  Then layouer our sentiment over the top in vellum so you can see it peeking through for a fun effect.

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    So think about who has been amazing to you in your life and take a minute to tell them!  Send them a card or just give them an extra hug.  You’ll brighten their day like they brighten yours. Smile