Maculine guitar birthday card

Joe's birthday was Monday and this is a quick card I made for him.

I used the cuttlebug stars embossing folder for the background
I used the Sizzix guitar for and die cut a scrap piece of cardboard
Used Sizzix happy birthday die for sentiment from a paint chip
Quick n easy and used left over scraps of material

Diamond plate masculine birthday card

 It is Don's birthday today and this is the card I made and mailed (it will be late)

 Using silver metallic cardstock I ran it through the diamond plate embossing folder.

 Using Creative Memories very old punches I made "nuts" . I inked with silver ink and raised them on foam pieces to give dimension.

 Inside sentiment

Finished card.

Half panel masculine birthday card

Using up my scraps, I made this 1/2 front panel card to accommodate a scrap piece of music theme scrapbook paper. Sentiment and brads are from Stampin Up.

Embossed inside white layer is also a piece from my scrap pile.

Quick masculine birthday card.

Squares and Scores

A great masculine card, squares, score lines and yes, I added a little bling on the base card.

The squares are old music sheets cut at 1.5 inches, mounted on a 2"strip.

One card I spelled out DAD with a die set
The other card says HI!

Lego birthday card

This was something I wanted to try and make, I didn't have the right punches but I think I made it work for a special birthday card.

I punch three layers of dots and glued them together and then inked each dot.

Glued each grouping of dots on a raised and inked square.

Baseball sports theme birthday card

Here is another sports theme card.
I cut out the baseball using a bowl in my kitchen. The sentiment is die cut from a couple Sizzix die.

 To make the stitching I used a pin to poke holes and manually cut the stitches from red card stock.

The inside I added a couple stars and my personal sentiment to John stated "Happy Home Run of a Birthday to you! "

Thinking of you

I made this masculine type card for someone out of state.

I used the Tim Holtz die to cut into the base card and the sentiment from Sizzix set "celebrate" 

For the inside, what I did was make a tri-fold insert and just lightly glued diwn one side to tge inner side of card. The tri-fold then unfolds to the right in which I wrote my message. This allowed white to be shown through the diamond cuts and allow me to journal.

Baseball birthday cards

With opening day and two birthdays, I used the Baseball Cricut cartridge to make these quick cards.

 Card for John, cut image at 3", layered a Tim Holtz die underneath to represent baseball diamonds.

 Card for Larry, the images are raised up on foam however it was hard to get a good angel early in the morning.

Sentiment inside both cards from Beyond Birthday cut at 1 1/2".

Looking back I should have embossed the base green cardstock...

Sympathy card

This card was made for an old high school friend who passed away suddenly. The card was made using Stampin Up Love and Sympathy stamp set.

Leaves and twine

This card is not my traditional one as it's not often I stamp directly on the base, however I really enjoyed the outcome.

This is a set from Stampin Up. The sentiment as well.

Wrapped twine around a torn piece of solid cardstock. Cut out one of the stamped leaves and added random rhinestones here and there. This layout would also make a great masculine card.

Masculine birthday card

I mailed this last month to a friend's youngest brother's birthday that was on November 30th.

All Stampin Up products, loved the brown sponging and the blue.
Ink used was suede so not the traditional black for me.  The ribbon was easy to work with as it was very lightweight.

Masculine Good Luck card

Made this card using Tim Holtz embossing folder, the words are a thin long Sizzix die and made corresponding banners raised on foam squares.

Masculine birthday card

I made this for my nephew who is turning 17.
The base card I used the numbers embossing folder

 Using the Stampin Up star punch, I punched through the embossed layer.
 I added a couple wraps of twine to the side.

 

Inside I took the star that I punched from the front and foam squared it to the inside!

The inside sentiment as well as the front glitter sentiment were left over from a SU holiday card kit.

 

Masculine Birthday Card

I made this for a dear friend's father. I heard he enjoyed the homemade aspects of the card.

I embossed the base card using the Tim Holtz French folder
Distressed a 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 piece of patterned paper
Stamped the image and sentiment from Stampin Up
Most layers raised on foam squares.

Masculine Birthday Card

I wanted to keep with the beach theme for this birthday card due to a summertime birthday and keep it masculine. This is my current fav stamp set by Stampin up.

Cut a 3 1/2 inch piece of white cardstock and masked off the bottom 2/3rds and sponged the top with a light blue ink, then switch the mask so I could sponge in the water.
Adding a little brown and green to the final lower 3rd allowed me to stamp the birds in the water and the sea grass as well.
Sentiment is raised on foam squares.

Star Birthday Cards

 I started out with black card stock and punched the star to make an aperture card. Added gems to each point and stamped the sentiment in white ink (that took forever to dry!)

I lined the inside of the card with yellow striped pattern paper. Taking the punched star from the front I glued that star to inside:

 This is a fun card for a young person I think... Embossed base yellow card, layered a couple scraps of card stock (White then Red), added a star which I embossed with the same folder as I did on the base yellow card, added a sentiment from SU "Tiny wishes" cut into a shape of a banner.

This one just came together quickly! I love the striking color contrast of the brown and blue.
Star border punched the third layer, sentiment stamped and the textured blue star raised on foam squares.

Swap card made

We had a shoe-box swap at Elaine's last night.
This is the card I made with the Wetland Stampin' Up set. I just got in on Monday and immediately had to make a masculine (universal) card!

I can't wait to try other techniques as seen in Pinterest and Google with this stamp set.

Masculine Birthday Cards

My twin boys will be 20 and I made these last night to give to them when we take them out to eat.
I used ColorBox base card stock and trimmed it with my new On the Edge Die from Sizzix (Tim Holtz) Iron Works.

Then layered the paper on the cover and down at the bottom using DCWV Old World Stack that I picked up on clearance at JoAnns.
Next I die cut the plaques also from Sizzix and added the Sentiment from SU "Perfectly Penned" and inked the edges.
Using some left over cording from my last project I used it to hang the plaques. I did not glue them down as they are free flowing just to add a different element. Under the plaque I put their age "20".

Masculine Birthday Card

I made this card for my brother in law whose birthday is June 2nd.

I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder and ran my brown ink pad over it and adhered it to black card stock base card. Added a strip of polka dots (My Minds Eye) of 1 1/2" long.

Next layers of brown card stock and an embossed dog holding a balloon!
The sentiment was cut from a Cricut Cartridge, not sure which one as it was in my stash.

80th birthday tri-panel card

My MIL's friend turn 80 also on Mother's day this year.
I made this card and pulled down some facts in history for May 12, 1933.

Here is the tri panel card, stamp set is from Stampin' Up.

 Here is the full card in view.

 Here are the last two panels.