Cards for men

A couple of the men in my life had birthdays last month, my son and one of my son in laws, so had to make those hard to come up with ideas type of cards, cards for men.

Our son is a guitarist so I paper pieced him a guitar, I downloaded a guitar image from the internet and got my shapes from that a couple of die cuts and my card was done.

For our son in law I inked up the background cut it apart and stuck it to the cork coloured paper, I also cut the ute and trees from the same paper after sticking it to some card stock, inked the edges and added them with some dimensional tape.

21st Bookatrix Card

He's having a party theme of Black and white with bling, so my bookatrix card for him is meant to represent a black jacket, white shirt and bow tie.

Here it is in it's box.

Creating Backgrounds

 Hello Everyone

I've been having some fun creating my card backgrounds using templates, stamps, and stencils and really loving the effect.

For this one I used the Crafters Workshop Cherry Blossom 6 x 6 Template and some gold ink.

The dies are Marianne Creatables Birdcage LR0147

The birds are Marianne Collectibles three birds COL1211

For the next one I used two different stamps to create the background  the dress form is from the Ginak Design Springtime Silhouettes stamp set and the  xoxo is from Whimsy Stamps Mini Love Tickets.

All the dies I used are available at FATCATS Card Corner

Marianne Creatables Vintage Frame LR0272

Marianne Creatables Vintage Swirls LR0271

The flowers were made with the Die-namics Royal Rose Die no longer available at FATCATS

And the stamp I used is also from Marianne Design and is the Sweethearts set of 2 Nostalgic cling stamp set.

Best Wishes is a Elizabeth Craft Wording Die

This one that I made for one of my Brothers in law was also a Crafters Workshop 6 x 6 Template.

The tree is Memory Box Grand Oak Tree 

The Classic car is Marianne Design LR0198 and Best Wishes is Elizabeth Craft Design

The frog was a colouring page I downloaded from the Internet and coloured with copics.

My background is a Fiskars Texture Plate that I simply inked up with a Distress ink pad and pressed to the card stock, (just like stamping).

A few crookedly placed eyelets on a bit of hessian with ribbon threaded through.

This last one is an EZ Cut embossing plate which I used as a stencil with Seedless  preserves Distress ink and a sponge dauber.

The center is a button with the shank cut of.

 Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog

FIL's Card

Hello Readers,

It's FiL's turn for a birthday and this is my card for him.

Background paper is from the Kaisercraft pad Le Chateau, the birds, which are the Stampin Up two step bird punch are also from a paper in that collection, I have inked around the edges of them with Memento London Fog ink.

The words are a wooden stamp which I've had for so long I cant read the makers name anymore (sorry).

Some flat backed black diamantes to finish off with.

And the inside done to match

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit today.

Hugs

Happy Birthday Callam

Hi Everyone,   This is the card I made for my godson Callam this year.

I made the background with the Crafters Workshop Harlequin template.

I first sponged over the template with Memento Tuxedo black, then moved the template down a little and sponged again with Memento Peanut Brittle.

The script behind the cards is a KaiserCraft stamp which was stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink.

The cars are the Marianne Design Classic Cars Die set ( out of stock )and the  Happy Birthday sentiment is also a Marianne Design Die.

Thank you for taking the time to visit today

Hugs

60th Birthday

I'm off to a 60th birthday party today and this is the card I've made for the birthday boy.

The products I used were:

Number templates downloaded from internet

Spellbinders Fancy Tags two.

Cuttlebug Corners.

Cheery Lynn's Fanciful flourish.

Papers from my stash and my sewing machine.

Here's a peek at the inside.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today.

Cards For Men

Hello Everyone

I hope you all had a very enjoyable Easter and were able to spend it with family and friends.

Ours was quiet but did get to spend some quality time with daughter Kathy and granddaughters Chloe and Aimee.

Onto my cards...............

I was asked to make twenty cards as a prize for a raffle and to please include some cards for men.

Below are two that I have come up with.

I have used pre-coloured digital images from FredSheSaid and added dimensional magic to them (which unfortunately doesn't show up in the photo's) but it does make the images pop.

The plaid backgrounds where from a Paper Pizazz Jewel Plaids Booklet given to me by my friend Angie which are perfect for those cards for men, thank you Angie.

The striped background is a digital paper from SheryK Designs.

I'm afraid I don't know which die the branches are they were another gift from Angie.

The background on the card below is the Mesh Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Many thanks for stopping by today.