Another Birthday Card

I can now share my second male card creation for the week as I have just given this one to my father for his birthday.  I am so loving the Bermuda Bay and Smoky Slate colour combination at the moment. Made good use again of my Clockworks and Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Sets.


Supplies  used:  Cardstock - Whisper White, Basic Black, Inkpads - Smoky Slate, Bermuda Bay, Black, Stamp Sets - Gorgeous Grunge, Clockworks and sentiment from a retired set, 

Male Birthday Card

This month in Stamp Club one of the cards we created was a male birthday card.  I have always found male cards difficult to come up with, but having received the Clockworks Stamp Set at the Heartfelt Event recently and deciding to base my card on the samples that Stampin'Up! had created I was very happy with the way this card turned out.  For something a little different I stamped around the outside edge of the More Mustard layer (rather than inking) just to give a little bit more colour and I think the illusion of more texture.  I also crumpled my main piece once it had been stamped and distressed the edges to give more texture.  The clock I have popped up to make it stand out a little more.  I also started off with a couple of the colours that Stampin'Up! had chosen of More Mustard and Pool Party and then complimented these colours with Early Espresso.

So that's one male card created, lots more to go.

Supplies used:  Cardstock - Naturals White, More Mustard, Inkpads - More Mustard, Pool Party, Early Espresso, Natural Trim Ribbon, Pool Party Baker's Twine

Finishing Some Unfinished Projects

I had a very productive day today just spending time finishing off some of the projects which we started at the Brisbane Heartfelt Event in November.

It was just nice to be able to create something non Christmas and to have all the instructions to follow so that there was not a lot of thinking involved.

However, I must have relaxed a bit too much as one of the projects needed a vellum envelope to be created for the cards - but as I don't own the Scoring Tool (yet) - still on my wish list - I didn't quite get my dimensions correct - so no envelope for me.  They still look cute tied up with the Baker's Twine though.

 So here are the finished projects.  I am loving the Clockworks Stamp Set and the gorgeous colour combination chosen by Stampin'Up! of Basic Grey, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, More Mustard, Gumball Green, Very Vanilla.

There were four projects included.  These being:

6" x 6" Scrapbook Layout
"One in a Million" Notebook
Clockworks Note Cards (Should have had a vellum envelope)
Two Tags Box with Notecards