Necktie birthday card - Elizabeth Crafts Outline Stickers and Warm Diamond Glitter

Have you heard about Elizabeth Crafts outline stickers????!! When combined with glitter paper and Copic Markers the results are stunning! Today I have a manly, MANLY birthday card boasting a shirt and tie. Perfect!!

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I often struggle with manly cards because I LOVE me some bling! I got the best of both worlds with this card and the bling didn't hurt a thing! 

I used some items from my stash and a portion of a Krazy Kreations card kit. Warm diamond glitter and an outline sticker from (Elizabeth Crafts), Sookwang tape, Copics, stamps, chalk ink and Recollections 110 lb cardstock are the star players of this card.

On the inside I stamped a fun birthday sentiment from Jillibean Soup in black onyx versafine ink.

La-Vie

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• Crazy4Challenges - C4C271 masculine birthday
• Crafting from the heart - challenge 46
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Birthday Boy - Hats off Bib Card

In my last post I shared a feminine version of a Children's birthday card. Here's the masculine version also for an older child. Once again I used a bib card and layers from The Paper Cut and I pulled together more birthday stamps from my arsenal.

The element on the top of the bib card can be seen while the card is closed or open so I chose a small collage stamp form Inkadinkado for that extra pop.

The inside phrase was built using a few stamps to create the perfect sentiment. I think I like these even better than the feminine version. Do you????

Supplies:

• The Paper Cut - bib card, layer
• Inkadinkado - birthday inchie
• Jillibean Soup - birthday
• Memento ink - dandelion, Bahama blue, summer sky, Danube blue, Paris dusk, cantaloupe
• Martha Stewart - scalloped layering punch
• stash - epoxy dots and star buttons

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La-Vie

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Masculine Get Well Card

When I heard one of my online crafty friends DH was hospitalized and in need of some cheering up, I offered to send a handmade card. Get Well cards for men (or any card for men) is not my strong point. So I decided to take the pressure off and create something my style and just to have fun with it.  Here's what I came up with.

The A2 woodgrain base is from The Olde Town Market box of cards by The Paper Studio. I then layered scraps of cardstock from my stash. The script one is by Prima Marketing and the other... I don't remember!

My almost 10-year-old daughter helped me choose the gear stamps. I kept chanting... "I need something....MANLY!" In my best, deep, loud superhero voice and she kept me on track.

I tried to use Pinterest for inspiration but I have not pinned many masculine crafts yet and they all seem to have unrelated images with sayings. Why is that? I kept thinking I need something manly but not cutesy and it SO hard to do both with the right sentiment.

Normally I would use an umbrella image with this sentiment but I didn't feel it was manly enough. I'll be working on getting the manly cards right this year.

Supplies:

• The Olde Town Market box of cards - The Paper Studio
• Script cardstock - Prima Marketing
• Yellow cardstock - stash (DCWV?)
• We R Memory Keepers - Sweetheart inkers - black
• Inside sentiment - "On the mend" The Stamps of Life
• Gear, clock and screw stamps - "Get it in Gear" Technique Tuesday
• External sentiment - "Umbrella4You" The Stamps of Life
• Tim Holtz Distress ink - frayed burlap
• Tsukineko - Versafine: Onxy Black
• Scotch ATG
• Ranger Multi-matte medium
• Woodgrain sequins - studio calico

Inquiring minds want to know! How easy/hard it is for you to make manly cards. I'm also looking for tips/advice on how to keep my cards MANLY!! Hit me with your best tip/trick please? Inquiring minds want to know!

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La-Vie