Golf Themed Birthday Card

I have a friend who's birthday is in June and he loves  to golf.  I have this wonderful impression from Art Impressions which I had actually colored quite awhile ago.  I had gessoed some dictionary pages and then heat embossed the image on the paper.  It was colored with distress inks.

Finishing up the card this morning, I found two masculine card challenges I am going to enter the card in.

Wednesday - Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog

Sunday - The Paper Players

I am so looking forward to my retirement in July.  I will be able to play with my toys so much more and be able to create to my heart's content.

Here is today's card.

This is a 5.25 inch square card.  The patterned paper is actually a winter collection from Simple Stories but I loved the colors for a masculine card.

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your Sunday.

Oldie Moldie Monday - Masculine Card

I have a friend retiring who is a big golfer so I have been making some cards for him to celebrate this important time in his life.

I have a folder of golf paper and stuff.  Everything for this card is from the folder except for the sentiment.  The golfer is a sticker.  I put the sticker on some watercolor paper and then used distress paints to paint around the sticker.  I added some gray dots through a stencil.  I really do like how it turned out.  The sentiment and image are pop dotted.

Remember to show some love to your old supplies.

Oldie Moldie Monday

Who would have thunk that from the Basic Grey paper Collection "Little Black Dress" you could make a masculine card.

I wanted to make a masculine card and I saw this neglected paper pad so grabbed it and wondered was there something I could use because I wanted to stamp my trusty rusty truck stamp in black and use some kraft paper.  I started looking through the pad and found a great plaid and some wonderful stripes.  Plus there was some solid paper to do the stamping on.  Thus the masculine card was born.

This card is going to a fellow cardmaker's son.  His mom makes fantastic cards so hopefully he likes this one.

Thanks for stopping by.  Remember to show some love for some old supplies.

Operation Write Home Virtual Card Party

I wanted to participate in a couple of the challenges for the VCMP event on Operation Write Home.

Andrea's challenge is to make a masculine card with a vintage image.  I had taken this paper grouping out for next week's Oldie Moldie Monday - I guess I got an early start on cards using the paper.

Addicted to CAS

The current challenge on Addicted to CAS is transport.  I almost reached for my favorite truck stamp but - no wait - you used that on their last challenge Texture.  Guess what this card could have been posted for Texture also.  I guess I always reach for the embossing folders when I am doing a CAS card.  Simple way to add a little more dimension to your design.

I believe I bought this card stock in a package at Tuesday Morning.  It has enough color in it to also add a nice element to a CAS card.  I stamped the car with a chalk ink from Clearbox.  I don't know who the company is for the stamp unfortunately.  The packaging is no longer on the stamp set.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  The patterned paper I used is from Bo Bunny - just enough to add a little color to the card.  It is actually a winter collection but I love the colors.  I cut some small circles to scatter around and of course, a masculine transport card has to have some chrome on it - so I added the two silver whatch a majiggies. (new words)

I am also entering the card in the current challenge at Inkspirational Challenges which is to make a CAS card.  I love it when things some together so nicely and you can get double bang out of a card.

Everyone enjoy your Wednesday.

CAS and Grunge

The challenge on Addicted to CAS is Grunge.  I think that is a hard one to carry off but I am going to give it a try.

When I think of GRUNGE I think masculine.  Some of the sample cards on the Addicted to CAS site aredefinately not masculine.  Maybe I will have to try a feminine version.  I could not go single layer.  Single layer cards scare me - really scare me.

Since I think masculine, I dug out my favorite truck stamp.  It is an old stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms.  I do not believe the new owners have brought back this image.  They really should.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I distressed the edges of the image, mat and sentiment with my Tim Holtz distresser.  I did some embossing on the upper corner of my card and then I got out a mask and used some distress paint to add the green and blue color to the card front.

I hope I achieved CAS and also GRUNGE.  I am going to go make another card like this since I cut a 12 x 12 sheet of card stock and can make one more card.  Both these cards will go in my next Operation Write Home box.

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Oldie Moldie Monday

I think this would be a masculine card.  It is for my next Operation Write Home box.  Very old grouping of paper.  I fussy cut the big star.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I added a couple die cut hearts.  I did some stamping on the blue background to give it a little more texture and depth.

Remember you can make some good cards out of your old supplies.

Have a wonderful Monday.

Virtual Card Making Party with Operation Write Home

This week end Operation Write Home is having a Virtual Card Making party.  I was gone most of yesterday but did start a few cards last night for the challenges from yesterday.  This card is for the challenge - All Creatures Great and Small - I have a box almost ready to be mailed but I did not have any masculine cards in the box so thought I would make a few to include.  This fish paper (a fish is a creature) is from Hobby Lobby - and I like to use it for masculine cards.  The burlap paper is from Hobby Lobby also.  The sentiment is a favorite Hero Arts stamp - works well for a masculine card.

Luckily these cards were laying on my design table and I just had to finish adhering them together.  These cards will go into two challenges.  One challenge is for partial embossing - I did not have the time to do what the video showed but will try it soon so I decided just to emboss part of the card front and stamp below the embossing or I guess it was stamp and then emboss above the stamping.

The second challenge for these cards is things with wheels.  This stamp is a favorite - no longer available from Cornish Heritage Farms - maybe the new company under this name will bring it back - it makes such a great masculine card with just plain stamping - no coloring needed.  The square card is a 4.25 square - someone standing at my cutting table was not thinking as they trimmed that piece of kraft paper.

Well I need to get some healthy groceries - six of us in the office joined a weight loss team - so I guess I need to buy some more fruits and vegetables and lean meat.  Working on plans for a trip to Florida and oh yes - must do some housework and probably laundry.  YUCK on all that stuff - I would much rather play with my paper.