Masculine Card

Hello and welcome! Today I have the utmost privilege of joining a brilliantly creative group of talented demonstrators from all over the world in a monthly video hop. How cool is that?! Our theme for this month is masculine.

Now to tell you honestly, I have a hard time creating masculine cards...mostly because I rarely make them! I'm mostly into florals and glitter...not very manly as you can imagine. So this was quite a challenge for me. I struggled on what I wanted to make, but eventually decided that simple is the way to go. So here is what I came up with...

And here are two other versions of my original card...

Watch the short video on how I made this simple card, and don't forget to follow along the hop by clicking on the next video link in the comments. The video hop will take you around the world and provide you with tons of inspiration for your next masculine creations!

Thank you for stopping by crafters, and hope to see you next time. Stay safe, and happy crafting!

MATERIALS USED:

Nature's Beauty stamp set

Animal Outing stamp set

Positive Thoughts stamp set

Balmy Blue cardstock

Crumb Cake cardstock

Early Espresso cardstock

Whisper White cardstock

Embossing Buddy

Versamark pad

White embossing powder

Sponge daubers

Pretty Peacock ink pad

Night of Navy ink pad

Crumb Cake baker's twine (Nature's Twine Pack)

Dimensionals and Mini dimensionals

Frost White Shimmer Paint

https://youtu.be/OhcRD7NpsfI

the Animal card

I was asked to make a card for my co-worker's kid sister. She's five and she'll be undergoing heart surgery, and to help cheer her up we're giving her a card with some words of encouragement. So of course I wanted to create something special for her! This is what I came up with...

I decided to make her a card full of cute animals..something fun! Luckily, we have a whole bunch of stamp sets of these cute critters...Bella and Friends, Hedgehugs, Animal Outing, Party Pandas, Bird Banter, This Little Piggy, A Little Wild, and We Must Celebrate. I used both current and retired sets, stamped all my images, colored them in, then cut them out. Then I created a collage with these cute animals. My background was sponged in four different colors, and my sentiment is from the Healing Hugs stamp set.

And that is today's card. I really hope she'll like it and help her through her recovery! Thanks for stopping by and see ya next time!

Animal Outing

I simply do not know why it's taken me so long to finally play with this adorable stamp set, Animal Outing! I had gotten this at OnStage in April and only got to play with it now! (gasp!) I have no excuse...but thankfully I finally got around to play with it and make a project with it! Here's what I came up with.

I made these two very similar simple cards. I wanted a 'jungle' look, and the only leaves that I had that would work were the ones from Rooted in Nature (love this set!). I stamped my leaves randomly on a piece of Pool Party cardstock using Old Olive and Lemon Lime Twist. I also lightly sponged along the edges in Old Olive. 

On a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock, I stamped my animals and coloured them in with my markers. These were then cut out and then glued down onto my Soft Sky background piece. I also stamped some spare leaves, cut them out, then stuck these onto my Soft sky piece using mini-dimensionals. 

My sentiment is from Dragonfly Dreams, and I silver heat-embossed this on a strip of Night of Navy cardstock. For embellishment I just wrapped some silver baker's twine around my layering piece before adding my sentiment on top using more dimensionals. Then I just adhered this on top of my Very Vanilla card base. Of course I needed some sparkle, so I covered my dimensional leaves with some Wink of Stella.

And those are my cards for today, I hope you liked it. I had fun playing with this adorable set! I think it'd be so cute for some kid's birthday cards or baby shower cards. Anyway, I wish you all a lovely day. Thanks for stopping by and see you next time!