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  • A Birthday Card for the Men in your Life

    It can be a struggle sometimes to make masculine cards… there are just too many pretty ribbons, flowery stamps, and sparkles!  But as part of my Fabulous Fall card class, I tried to throw in some cards for the guys; and this was one that we made:

    See, no ribbon!  No flowers!  🙂

    Yes, I went the other way and got into the distressed look, but I think it works.  We started with punching 1” squares from Ridinghood Red, Not Quite Navy, and Basic Gray cardstock, and adhering them down in a grid pattern.  We attached that to a piece of Early Espresso Core’dinations cardstock that we sanded with the Sanding Block to give it the distressed look.  Then we pulled out the Be Amazing stamp set for the sentiment and hot air balloon… cause every guy likes hot air balloons, right?

    Finally, we grabbed the sanding blocks and used them to rough up the edges and curl them in on the sentiment.

     

    It works for masculine, don’t you think?  And if you didn’t see, this Happy Birthday sentiment is one of the NEW single stamps  that were just released.  Just an FYI. 🙂

    Do you have your wishlist ready for Monday?

    Just a reminder that Monday is the big 24 hr stamp sale with pretty much every stamp set (including the Be Amazing stamp set or just the Happy Birthday single stamp that I used on this card) on sale for 15% off!

    So get your wishlist ready and be ready to shop, or send it to me early and I’ll be sure to get it in during the sale hours.

     

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    Be Amazing Masculine Birthday Recipe
    Stamps:     Be Amazing
    Ink: Early Espresso, Basic Gray
    Paper: River Rock, Very Vanilla, Riding Hood Red, Not Quite Navy, Basic Gray, Early Espresso core’dinations cardstock
    Accessories: 1” square punch, sanding block, Stampin’ Dimensionals

  • Manly Monday Card–Happy Hour

    So, I’m coming off a fun weekend where my Fabulous Fall class focused on fall colors and cards that could be used for guys.  So, while I go take pictures of those cards, I thought I would share another card that I love that follows in that theme of fall and/or manly cards.

    (I would say this is a masculine card – makes me think of an old style man’s home library with old books, the leather back chairs and brandy on the shelf…. but then I think if you squint it could be fall colors too… or is that too much of a stretch?) 🙂

    designed by Lori Staley

    I actually received this card as a swap and loved all the textures and patterns.  It was also what make me fall in love with the Naturals Designer Buttons.  I thought these buttons were actually wood but really they are a resin that is made to look like wood… just so you know what to expect if you see them in person.  But I think they are still great looking anyway!

    Another thing I loved about this card is the scoring around the stamped image in the middle.  You can just take your Simply Scored tool or a bone folder and your trimmer and score lines about 1/4” from the edge of your mat (in this case the Early Espresso cardstock) on all sides to create that frame.

    Here is another picture to help show the scoring:

    And finally, isn’t it cool how the Argyle embossing folder, International Bazaar dsp, and Happy Hour stamp set all have similar patterns so they look perfect all stuck together?  Got to love when you can coordinate like this.

    So that is what I like about this card, but I’d love to hear what you think.  What is your favorite part of the card?

     

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    Happy Hour Masculine Card Recipe
    Stamps:     Happy Hour
    Ink: Lucky Limeade, More Mustard, Early Espresso
    Paper: Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso, Whisper White, International Bazaar designer series paper
    Accessories: Big Shot, Argyle embossing folder, Simply Scored, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Naturals designer buttons, glue dots, White baker’s twine

  • Two Styles of Card, One Stamp Set–Lacy and Lovely

    I love when you get a chance to see how versatile a stamp set can be, not only in the different types of occasions that you can use the set for, but also when you can see it being used for a “girly” card as well as a “guy” card.  Well, thanks to convention this year, I was able to get some cool ideas for a set I had totally overlooked – Lacy and Lovely!

    See, I’m not normally a doily and lace stamp set kind of girl, so I skimmed past that section of the catalog, but after continually seeing swaps that made me go, “what stamp set is that??” and them all being from Lacy and Lovely, I have to reconsider my stance. 🙂

    Exhibit A:  the vintage card

    card designed by Sue McQuiston

    Sadly, my photo doesn’t properly show off the sponging and ivory/brown distressing the card, but you get the idea!

    Exhibit B: the guy card

    card designed by Daleen Pinder

    I love the clean and crisp style of this card and the colors are bold too.  I think this totally works for a guy even though I initially thought that stamp set was all lacy.

    Plus, I love that this stamp set comes with sentiments as well as the element images.  I so love having a variety of sentiments to choose from.

    Anyway, I thought this was a fun example of how colors and techniques can really make a big difference in how the same images come across.

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    Lacy & Lovely Wood-Mount Stamp SetVintage Card Recipe
    Stamps:     Lacy and Lovely, Elements of Style
    Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Crumb Cake
    Paper: Very Vanilla, Rich Razzleberry
    Accessories: Basic Pearls, Big Shot, Delicate Designs embossing folder, Stitched Grosgrain Rich Razzleberry ribbon, sponge, Stampin’ Dimensionals

    Guy Card Recipe
    Stamps:     Lacy and Lovely
    Ink: Basic Black, Lucky Limeade
    Paper: Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Basic Black
    Accessories: Basic Rhinestones

  • Great Masculine Birthday Card

    Earlier this month was my husband’s birthday and my mom, being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator also, sent him a handmade card that I loved.  In fact, I think I liked it even more than he did! 🙂

    Anyway, I loved how striking it was and thought it was a great masculine card and so I wanted to share it with you.

    happy birthday embossed card

    card created by Kathy Thisted

    The stamp and the paper are retired from last years catalog – Engraved Greetings stamp set and Love Letter designer paper.  But the cardstock, embossing folder, and punch are all current.

    And the embossing, she heat embossed the stamp image with black embossing powder which made it look even cooler!  (I tried getting a close up to show you but its still hard to see).

    HB birthday card close up

     

    This just goes to show that a card doesn’t have to be fancy or complicated to be a striking and fabulous card, huh?

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    Engraved Greetings Birthday Card Recipe:

    Stamps: Engraved Greetings
    Ink: Versamark
    Paper: Love Letter designer paper, Cherry Cobbler cs, Basic Black cs, Whisper White cs
    Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice embossing folder, Basic Black embossing powder, Heat gun, Decorative label punch

  • Plane and Simple Father’s Day Card

    I’m on a yahoo group called Late Night Stampers and each week they post a challenge for you to complete that week.  This week the challenge was to create a masculine card.  Well, I often fall back on Lovely as a Tree as a “masculine” set since I don’t have many stamps that are explicitly for the guys.  But then I thought of the Plane and Simple stamp set that just came out in the Occasions Mini. 

    Plane & Simple Stamp Set - by Stampin' Up!

    The style of this set is this cool mix of aged and masculine without the need for overt testosterone (like many of the grilling or motercycle stamps – which are not bad images, just less of my style).  Plus add in that my hubby and I are both pilots and I come from a family of pilots going back to my grandparents – and so you know I’m going to be a sucker for stamp sets that have airplanes in them. 🙂

    Anyway, enough about me…. how about a card? 

    I think my favorite thing about this card is the popped up airplane on the Whisper White cardstock that has been sponged with Baja Breeze ink so that it looks like it is in the clouds.  It was totally worth the cutting it in my opinion. :)  And the cutting wasn’t really as bad as you might think either.  You just want to make sure you have a pair of scissors with smaller blades so it is easy to manuever (some kind of paper snips like this).

     

    Check out this stamp set and the rest of the great sets from the Occasion Mini online here.

     

    Plane and Simple Father’s Day Card Recipe:
    Stamps:      Plane and Simple
    Ink:  Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Baja Breeze, Soft Suede
    Paper:  Baja Breeze CS, Whisper White CS, Soft Suede CS, Night of Navy CS
    Accessories:  Sponge, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Paper Snips

  • A Masculine Birthday

    Here is a quick share for the day; it is my attempt at a masculine birthday card.  My brother-in-law had his 30th birthday and I needed to get some card off to him.  I didn’t want to use a tree set and many of my stamp sets used cutesy animals or had lots of flowers, neither of which scream manly man. 🙂  So, I relied heavily on colors to man-up this card.

    I had some fun with my Party Hearty stamp set by paper piecing the party hats.  I stamped with my Dusty Durango ink and then stamped again on a piece of dsp so I could cut out two more of the party hats to glue over the stamped image.  I also used one of the Texture Plates for the BigShot to create the diamond background in Soft Suede.  The one other piece you might not be able to see, I punched out the Celebrate You stamped image and then behind that punchout, I adhered a scallop circle punch in Dusty Durango.