Mondays are male card days on my blog and today I wanted to show how designer paper can be a good starting point for a masculine card. I've chosen one of the Everyday Enchantment papers which are free with a £45 order as part of the Sale-a-bration promotion (click here to find out more).I used this week's sketch at Clean and Simple Stamping to create the first card. This is what the sketch looks like (left) and this is what I came up with (below):
I kept the card neutral with just a flash of colour provided by the strip of designer paper and the sentiment. The stamping above the paper strip is from another free Sale-a-bration set, Fresh Vintage, and I chose it for the tyre mark effect!
One of the things Stampin' Up does brilliantly is coordinate colours, so I could easily have chosen to mat my image in the Pumpkin Pie of the designer paper. Instead I chose to go a shade deeper with Cajun Craze to add a bit of depth - it's a good trick!
I love this motorcycle image, particularly when it's stamped off the edge of a panel like this. I opted to leave it uncoloured to give the designer paper and sentiment more impact.
The sentiment is a combination of various elements from three different stamps. I love doing this and it's so easy with my stamp-a-majig. It also means I have an endless supply of unique sentiments!
Here's another clean and simple masculine card I made using the same designer paper - using it as the focal part of the design this time.
The edges of my Cajun Craze strip are pierced using my mat pack and piercing tool and I like the way it coordinates with the little holes created by placing my Postage Stamp punched squares side by side. I decorated the centres of the pattern on the designer paper with Pumpkin Pie brads...
... adding in a sentiment tag to the one on the left. So there we are - and who'd have thought that a paper pack named Everyday Enchantment would have been so useful for male cards?!
I notice that The Paper Players are asking for CAS masculine cards, so I shall enter these cards into that challenge.
Supplies needed for these cards:
MOTORCYCLE CARD
Stamps: Motorcycle, Fresh Vintage (free Sale-a-bration), Petite Pairs, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Happiest Birthday Wishes (hostess)
Ink: Early Espresso
Card stock: Very Vanilla, Naturals Ivory, Cajun Craze
Other: Markers, Everyday Enchantment designer paper (free Sale-a-bration), stamp-a-majig
THANKS TAG CARD
Stamps: Thank You Kindly
Ink: Whisper White craft ink