Masculine Thank You Card

This is the "thank you" card that I made for the gentleman who cooked our meat for our Fall Festival at Church.

At first glance you might think I made this card with the Stampin' Up wood sheets, but I didn't. The wood is actually balsa wood. When I first got my big shot I was cutting all sorts of items just to see how well it would perform. I was going through my reject box - the plastic container full of rejected embellishments that I didn't want to throw away - and I found this top note diecut. Since this person loves to deer hunt, I thought this would make a great card for him.

Thanks for looking,

Kim

Masculine Cards - Don't have to be hard

This card would make a great masculine card. And if you left off the stitching, you would still have a very nice and a very simple card.

When I first saw the stamp set "Forest Friends" I thought it would make a cute kids set, but it really is very versatile.

Check out This Post to see another card made with this set.

I used Chocolate Chip and Always Artichoke markers and paper, the new modern label punch, word window punch. and Designer Series Paper. I also added some Always artichoke brads in the corner.

Thanks for looking,

Kim

No Copics, No Problem

Here is one more card for tonight, then I'm off to bed. I stamped the tree image on watercolor paper and used the Stampin Up Markers to color it. I just scribbled several different greens on the image and used my aquapainter to blend it all together. I tried to follow the tutorial that I found on a blog called No Copics, No problem. Copics are expensive artist grade markers that lots of people like to use to color in their images. You can get the same affect using your Stampin' Up markers and watercolor paper.

I also used the Outside the Box technigue again. I will try and post the links to these tutorials here soon.

RECIPE

Paper: Watercolor paper, Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke
Ink: Stampin Up markers - Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, Close to Cocoa, Garden Green, Old Olive
Accessories: Chocolate Chip Twill Ribbon

Masculine Card

I think masculine cards are the hardest to make. This card was made from the stamp set Touched by Nature by Stampin' Up. This is a really good set and I love the bird. This same card could have been a very feminine card by just changing the colors a little bit.

I used a technique called "Out of the Box". If you look close you can see that the bird's feathers and part of the leaves are sticking out of the square piece of paper. I stamped the bird image in black stazon ink on watercolor paper, then colored with my SU markers. If you use watercolor paper with your SU markers, you don't have the lines like you do on other types of paper. Your image has a very smooth look to it. I used the leaf image and acorn image from the same set as background stamps. Throw in a little paper piercing, tie some twill ribbon on it and your done.

RECIPE

Paper: Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Watercolor paper

Markers: Barely Banana, Summer Sun, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Close to Cocoa, Only Orange

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss

Stamp Sets: Touched By Nature, Strength and Refuge

Accessories: Twill ribbon, paper piercing pack

Brads or Bows?

I needed to make some "Welcome" cards to send out to visitors for church.

I used Touched By Nature for the first time and my WWC again to color the image. The colors I used are Always Artichoke, Close to Cocoa, and Not Quite Navy. These colors would make nice masculine cards.