Masculine Birthday Card

 

I don't know about you but I always find creating masculine cards a bit of a challenge. I had to make a birthday card last week for my step dad so I thought I would share with you all.

To create my card I started with some heavy weight white card stock that was cut, scored, and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base.

Next I took some tan colored cardstock cut to 4" X 5 1/4" and stamped it using the Honeybee Stamps 6" X 6" Barn Wood Background stamp using some Walnut Stain Distress Oxide ink. After I stamped it I took a blending brush and using the Walnut Stain Distress Oxide ink lightly went over the entire panel. I then lightly misted the panel to create some texture and distressing. I then used some liquid glue to adhere this panel to my card base.

My image is from Cricut Access. I resized my image so it was about 2 1/2" tall then flattened it so I could do a print then cut with the image. Once it was cut out I added some foam tape to the back of the image and adhered it to the lower right hand corner of my card front.

To finish the card I used a Memory Box Happy Birthday die from my stash. I cut the Happy Birthday out of some dark brown cardstock. I used liquid adhesive to adhere it to the top center of my card. I then stamped two secondary sentiments onto more of the dark brown cardstock using Versamark ink. I heat embossed these two sentiments using some Simon Says Stamp Cream embossing powder. I used a sentiment strip die to cut them out. These little sentiments are from the My Favorite Things Itty Bitty Birthday sentiment stamp set.

I am so glad you stopped by for a visit today. Please feel free to leave me a comment so I know you stopped by. I hope everyone has a great week.

Born to Ride

My son's 25th birthday is on Monday. He loves riding his quad so I used and image from the Dude! Lite Cartridge to make him this card.


































Working with my Cricut Explore and Cricut Design Space I started with the image from the cartridge and first recolored it so the quad was red like his.  I then added the 25 to both sides of the back bumper.. I sized the quad to 3 1/2" and then flattened it to make it a print and cut image.

For my card I started with a Kraft card stock base cut and folded to make an A2 card.  I then added a black mat, red mat, and the patterned paper.  I attached the ATV to my card with foam tape.  I stamped my sentiments on more Kraft card stock and cut them out.  The Enjoy is attached to the card with a paper fastener from 7 Gypsy.

Thanks for stopping by.

Masculine Birthday Card

Today I have for you a masculine birthday card I made for a co-worker. Masculine cards seem really hard for me to make. Awhile back I came across a 6 X 6 paper pad by Authentique called Original and it was all blues and browns and it seemed perfect for masculine cards. I finally had a chance to try it out this weekend. Let me know what you think.

I started with a piece of 8 1/2" X 11" card stock that I cut at  4 1/4", giving me a 4 1/4" X 11" piece of card stock. I scored that a 5 1/2" but rather than making it a portrait style card I mad this one landscape so my width is 5 1/2" . Next I added a piece of blue patterned paper from that paper pad cut at 4" X 5 1/4".. The other thing I loved about this paper pad is it was two sided. So cut a strip of the patterned paper at 1" X 4". The lid blue strip on my card is the reverse side of the blue patterned paper. Then I took another piece of paper from the pad, this one looks like it had metal buttons on it and cut it at 4" X 3/4". I inked the edges of all my papers with some of the Gathered Twigs distress ink. Next I cut a 2 1/2" square from the buttoned patterned paper an used the back side which is a rich chocolate brown fro the mat behind my sentiment. I then cut a 2 1/4" square out of white card stocked that I inked the edges heavily with the Gathered Twigs distress ink. I stamped my sentiment with Chipped Sapphire Distress ink and adhered it to my brown mat. I added some bronze nail heads at the top and bottom of the sentiment mat and adhered all of that to my card from with some foam tape. Because it was a masculine card I did no more.

I hope you liked the card and feel a bit inspired to try your hand at making a masculine card.

Masculine Birthday Card

My boss's birthday is on Thursday so decided I should make him a card and get it in the mail since I have not yet been released to go back to work. Masculine cards are always hard for me but this is what I came up with.

My card base is white card stock cut and folded to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" and is a portrait card. I used my Imagine and the Best Friends cartridge to print out the cloud paper and cut it to 4" X 3 1/2". The green patterned paper is from my stash and is cut 4" X 2 1/2". The hot air balloon is from the Summer in Paris Cricut Mini Cartridge and is cut at 4". I used my Imagine to color the balloon's layers. Once cut and removed from the mat I sprayed the brown layer lightly with some Coffee Shop glimmer mist and the blue layer with some Dragonfly Glimmer Mist. This just helped enhanced my colors on each layer and covered a few white edges that showed on the blue layer. I adhered the two layers together and pop dotted it to the front of my card and stamped happy birthday in some brown chalk ink. Pretty quick and simple card but seems to work for a man's card. What do you think? Thanks for visiting.