Week of the Man!

My second post today! Woo hoo, go me! :)

Well it seems that everyone is onto Masculine cards this week! I have started playing along at a blog called Cards for Men, so this works out perfectly for the rest! :) The challenge this week was to make a card primarily green. Here is mine!

The layout was from the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge. The main image panel I stamped on glossy paper using the large Meadow from Stampscapes and adding the bear from the Stampin' UP set Yukon. I colored it with dye based inks with a blender pen and sponges. I sealed it with Pearlcote Pearl Glaze, then backed it with black. I made a 5" square card base out of old olive cardstock and punched out four 2" squares from certainly celery cardstock. I used a black pen to create the "stitching." Used Versamark ink to stamp some leave on the certainly celery. It was lacking something so I decided to stamp the oak leaf from Stampin' Up set Lovely As A Tree. I cut it out and put it in the upper left hand corner with a pop dot.

Challenges this fits with:

Cards for Men - Green challenge

Sweet Sunday Sketch - #56

Charisma Cardz - Male

My Time to Craft Challenge - Green

Rosie - D's Challenge - Just for Men

Stampin' Royalty Challenge #7 - Masculine Cards

Crafty Creations - Stitching

Wow, that sure is a lot! Guess that goes to show you I have been browsing way too many blogs! I hope everyone has a great day!

Beautiful for Men!

I put this card together for the challenge over at Cards for Men blog. It was a sketch challenge with the option of love/Valentine. The requirement for all cards posted on the challenges for this site is that they have to be cards for men or boys. I thought this was an ingenious idea, as there are lots of men out there who don't like the "frilly" cards! Head on over to their site and check it out!

On this card I used paper scraps, so I'm not really sure what the companies or color names are. The images are all Stampscapes, and so is the sentiment.

Thanks for looking at my creations!