Muirfield Birthday

This card is almost a complete CASE of Jen's card.  I love hers so much that it seemed a shame to change anything! ;-)  I've created this card for my nephew-in-law.  As you can see it is a masculine card with stars.  He received a tree card last year so I guess I'll alternate between trees and stars each year!

A few years ago I did a designer series paper share.  We each got a 6x6 sheet of all the different DSP that was available that year.  I love having such a great assortment of paper available to me, even if they are all retired now.  As a card maker and not a scrapbooker, the 6x6 size is perfect for me.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

Card Stock - PTI Stamper's Select White, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss Textured
SU Designer Paper - Muirfield
SU Ink - Pacific Point
Stamp - PTI - Signature Greetings
Accessories - gold brad, foam tape, Cricut and SCAL software to cut star (1.75" width)

Gord

Party Hearty Times Two

Thanks to Ilina's card for inspiration for these two cards. One is for my nephew and one for my nephew-in-law. I even managed to stamp in the inside!

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Pacific Point Textured, Old Olive
SU Designer Paper - Celebrations
SU Ink - Pacific Point, Real Red, Old Olive, Bashful Blue
Stamps - SU - Party Hearty, Birthdays Count, Inkadinkado - Floral Wishes
Accessories - Cricut, svg file for scalloped square, SCAL software

Derek and Tim

Taaa - Daaa!

I have made a masculine card that doesn't use stars and doesn't use trees!  Yahoo!  Plus, I stamped on the inside of the card!  I'm on a roll now!  Ha!

I created this card for my nephew's 11th birthday using Darleen's card as inspiration.  I just changed the designer paper and the colours.  It was quite an easy, quick card to create... once I figured out what I was going to make!

Thanks for looking,

Kim

SU Card Stock - Real Red, Pacific Point, Bashful Blue and Whisper White

SU Designer Paper - Celebrations

SU Ink -  Real Red, Pacific Point and Bashful Blue

SU Stamps - Birthday Whimsy

Accessories - Foam Tape

Christian

Through the Trees Birthday

As simple as this card looks, it took me FOREVER to create.  First, my Stampin' Up white craft ink did not do a very nice job of covering the trees.  After about 5 tries, I decided that I would emboss them.  After accidentally pouring clear embossing powder on the trees, I finally got it right with the white embossing powder.

Next came sentiment problems.  I had it crooked on the acrylic block and then when I finally got it right, I smudged it while it was drying... that's the problem with using VersaFine ink.  I love how crisp the black is, but it does take time to dry.  Then I decided it needed brads so I need a longer piece of paper so off I went to stamp it again... of course it was after I had already cleaned the stamp!  It is still slightly crooked, but I've decided that is what is going to give it that homemade look!  ;-)

The black trees on the card base also took two tries.  It was hard to see the black tree trunks on the black card stock.  When I went to stamp the leaves, I messed it up... the second time I stamped the leaves and then the trunks.  It was a little easier, but still difficult to see.

Anyone who has stamped with me in person can well imagine how the cutting of the bird went for me.  I hate cutting out small things and the bird is TINY!  I needed my Ott Lite and my cheater glasses!

My inspiration for this card for my brother-in-law came from Lisa's card.

Thanks for looking,

SU Card Stock - Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White
Ink - SU - Whisper White Craft, VersaFine Onyx Black
PTI Stamps - Through the Trees
Accessories - Mini Scallop scissors to round the corners of the sentiment, black brads, foam tape

Quick and Easy Masculine Valentine

The idea for my husband's Valentine's Day card this year came from the Clever Someday blog.  I used the on-line program ImageChef to create the image for the card.  I then imported the image into PhotoShop Elements and "poured" what I thought was going to be Real Red into some of the words.  You can change the colours of individual words on the site, but I wanted to colour match.  Unfortunately, the RGB numbers I used for Real Red, did not match my card stock.  Luckily, they did match Riding Hood Red.  Next time I'll try another set of specifications I have for Real Red.  After that, I just cut out the image, mounted it on Riding Hood Red card stock and put it on a black base and was good to go! 

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories - Image from ImageChef

17th Birthday Celebration

Well, I almost royally goofed up this card.  I had it in my head that it was my nephew's 16th birthday coming up so I was very set on using the number 16 on the card.  After I had cut out 16 using my Cricut and Sure Cuts A Lot software, but thank goodness BEFORE I had glued it down, I did a little math and realized that no, he is already 16 and is turning 17!  Another quick cut to swap the 6 to a 7 and I was set to go.  I used the Arial Black font for the numbers.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Real Red, Pacific Point, Whisper White
SU Designer Paper - Celebrations
Accessories - Clebrations Quick Accents

Autumn Masculine Birthday

When I stopped by Splitcoast Stampers yesterday morning to post a card, Ravengirl's card jumped out at me!  I just LOVE the simplicity of it.  Of course, I only own two leaf stamps and I don't have a "Happy Birthday" stamp as large as the one she used so I had to get a little creative.  I printed the Happy Birthday sentiment in Microsoft Word using text boxes so I could get the "Happy" right on top of "Birthday".  I used one of my favourite fonts - Century Gothic.  The rest of the design of the card was also inspired by Ravengirl's card.  On first my look at her card, I thought the white was mounted on coloured card stock.  I later realized that it is actually a coloured background for the picture!  Which is great for me because that means I didn't CASE the card as much as I used it for a starting point for creating my own ;) !  You know what they say, "Imitation is the sincerest flattery!"... hopefully others feel the same way!

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
SU Ink - Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Old Olive
SU Stamps - Lovely as a Tree
Accessories - Corner Rounder, Jute

Masculine Birthday - Around & About

My inspiration for my husband's birthday card came from Debbie's card.  I liked that I was able to use up a bit my stash of retired paper - I have more paper that is retired than stuff that is current!!!!  It is also AMAZING that I created a masculine card without using either stars or trees!  WOW!

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Cool Caribbean (Retired)
SU Designer Paper - Au Chocolate (Retired)
SU Ink - Chocolate Chip
Stamps - PTI - Around & About
Accessories - Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon, Wooden Button and Embroidery Thread from stash, Cricut for 1 1/4" circle

Trendy Trees Masculine Birthday

Well, I needed another masculine birthday card and since the last one was stars, this one is, you guessed it, trees!  It is fitting as it is for my nephew-in-law who is an arborist!

I made great use of my Stamp-a-ma-jig for this card!  I used it for every bit of stamping, even the sentiment so I could get it placed just right!

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Confetti White
SU Ink - Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive
SU Stamps - Trendy Trees, Birthdays Count
Accessories - Stampin' Dimensionals, Old Olive Ribbon from Elementary Ribbon Set

Dragon and Knight

My nephew turned 7 today and this is the card I made for him.  He had his party last weekend and it was a knight and princess party.  I used the Once Upon a Time set from myscrapchick.com to make the dragon and the knight using my Cricut and SCAL software.  I really found the spikes on the dragon too tiny to cut and to glue so I made them larger than what they were supposed to be for that size of a dragon. 

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Really Rust,  Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Old Olive, Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Brushed Silver, Going Gray, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa
SU Ink - Basic Black
SU Stamps - Birthdays Count
Accessories - Cricut, SCAL software, SVG file - Once Upon a Time from myscrapchick.com, glue pen, Basic Black Marker

Masculine Thank You

I had another masculine card to make so out comes the stars!!!!  I wish I could think of something else to do besides stars and trees!  Andrea's card was my inspiration for this card.  After making this card, I decided I am really going to focus on getting some bright DSP that will work for masculine cards. 
Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Kiwi Kiss Textured CS, Baja Breeze Textured CS
SU Designer Paper - Hand Drawn
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Stamps - PTI Mega Mixed Messages
Accessories - Real Red Poka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals, Cricut and SCAL software

Star Shaped Card

I created this card for my brother using my Cricut and SCAL software. Donelda's card gave me the inspiration. I used Kristina Werner's pattern to create a svg file to use with SCAL. I'm wishing now that I had popped the turquoise star up using dimensionals... oh well! I did straighten out the circle after I took the picture so the star points line up.

Thanks for looking,

Kim

SU Card Stock - Crushed Curry, Tempting Turquoise, PTI Stamper's Select White

SU Designer Paper - Pink Flamingo

Ink - VesaFine Onyx Black, Tempting Turquoise, VesaMark

Stamps - PTI Around & About Sentiments

Accessories - Cricut, SCAL, star eyelet from ????, Stampin' Dimensionals

Trendy Trees

Okay, this is another one of those cards that I am more proud of than I really should be! I'm thrilled because this is my own design - a rare thing for me. I did get the idea of matting the stamped image from Susan (LOVE her cards!). I see now that I missed the idea of popping the mat up on dimensionals - oh well, next time! I'm also pleased because the card took me less than 15 minutes to come up with and put together - another rare thing for me! Plus it is a masculine card (no easy feat) AND both my Chocolate Chip and Sahara Sand card stock were scraps - the Sahara Sand piece already had the circle cut out! I'm a little disappointed that I don't have a bigger "Happy Birthday" stamp for a masculine card and that I smudged the "H" slightly. Oh well, at least my brother-in-law will know that it is hand made!

Thanks for looking,
Kim

Card Stock - PTI Stamper's Select, SU Sahara Sand, Chocolate Chip
SU Ink - Chocolate Chip, Garden Green

SU Stamps - Trendy Trees, Birthdays Count
Accessories - Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Cricut

Easel Card

I used Darlene's card for inspiration for this card. I had never seen an easel card before and was quite intrigued by it. It was quite easy to make and I think it makes a great masculine card, even though it has ribbon on it!

I didn't take a picture of it closed up, but here is a side view of the card so you can see how the top folds down and makes the card look like a little present. Darlene has a tutorial on her blog if you wish to know how to make one.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Whisper White
SU Designer Paper - Maine Blueberry
Ink - VesaFine - Onyx Black
SU Stamps - Birthday Counts
Accessories - Nestabilities, Big Shot, Stampin' Dimensionals, Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon

Enjoy the Moment

I find masculine cards to be quite the challenge. I didn't know what to do for my nephew-in-law's birthday, but I knew I didn't want to do trees or stars as it seems that is all I have done lately for the males in my life. I was blogsurfing this morning and came across this card by Vicki, which I used as my starting point.

My original plan was to use three hats using Real Red and Brilliant Blue. The only problem was that for the life of me, I can't see to get a crisp image with my clear stamps and SU ink. If anybody has any helpful suggestions, please pass them on. I've tried everything - conditioning the stamps, stamping with VersaMark first, but they always turn out like this:
I decided to go back to my FAVOURITE ink for clear stamps - VersaFine. Since I only have it in Black Onyx, there was no choice to be made. When I got out my stamps, I liked the three candles so I decided to change from three hats to two hats and the candles. Of course, the candles didn't fit on the same size circle as the hats, so that changed the card even more.
I also decided to change my colour scheme just because I had Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point cardstock nearby and I might as well use it up as it is now retired. When I glued the candle circle on, I really liked the look of the card so I took a picture in case I need a quick card one day. Which one do you like better?

Thanks for looking,
Kim

P.S. - I used my Cricut and Sure Cuts A Lot software to make the circles. I LOVE that program!

Party Hats - 1", 1.25" and 1.5"
Candles - 1.25", 1.5" and 1.75"

Card Stock - PTI - Stamper's Select White, SU Kiwi Kiss Textured, SU Pacific Point Textured
Ink - VersaFine Black Onyx
Stamps - PTI - Mixed Messages, Studio G $1.50 stamps from Michael's (I'm from Canada so no $1 stamps for me!)
Accessories - Stampin Dimensionals

Another Masculine Card

I've sure been challenged lately as I've needed quite a few masculine cards. This one is for my nephew-in-law's birthday. I love the colours of this one! I used my Cricut and the Sure Cuts A Lot software to create the Little Leaves just like the Sizzlits Dies. I sure love that program. If you have any questions about how to use it, just drop me a line!

My inspiration for this card came from Mary Fish's card. I just love her blog and her cards... plus she has the cutest haircut in her profile picture :) !

It is not the best picture as it looks a little out of focus to me. Since the card must be in the mail today, this picture will have to do as my husband has our good camera on a trip and he won't be back until late tonight. Can you see the texture of the Kiwi Kiss paper and that the Not Quite Navy piece is raised?

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Not Quite Navy, Kiwi Kiss Textured C/S, Whisper White
SU Designer Paper - Urban Garden
Ink - VersaFine Black Onyx
Stamps - Papertrey Ink - Faux Ribbon
Accessories - Stampin' Dimensionals, Hodgepodge Hardware - Pewter, Corner Rounder Punch

Two Sympathy Cards

I needed two sympathy cards last week. Both were for grandfathers that passed away, so I wanted to make the cards masculine looking.

The first one didn't thrill me at first, but it has grown on me a bit more. I used Silke's card as an inspiration. I wanted to use some of my designer paper, but once I made my pick, I realized that the colours wouldn't look good for colouring the trees. I think I could have "upped" the quality of this card by embossing the trees, but I didn't want to use black. I'm also a little frustrated with my paper piercing. I used the Mat Pack so the holes are evenly spaced, but I find that they are not as straight as I would like them. I guess I need to focus on this the next time I use it.


For the second one, I used Kim Scotti's card for inspiration. I really like how this one turned out. I stamped off some of the leaves so that there is a variation in the colour of them.


Thanks for looking,
Kim

First Card
SU Card Stock - Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke, Sage Shadow, Whisper White
SU Designer Paper - To the Nines Specialty Textured C/S
SU Ink - Chocolate Chip
SU Stamps - Lovely as a Tree, Warmest Regards
Accessories - Chocolate Chip brads from Pink Hedgehog Paper Crafts, Mat Pack, Crafters' Tool Kit

Second Card
SU Card Stock - Basic Black, Whisper White, Ruby Red
SU Designer Paper - Old Olive
Ink - SU Old Olive, SU Ruby Red, Versa Fine Black Onyx
Stamps - SU Branch Out, Papertry Ink - Mixed Messages
Accessories - SU Black Brads, Oval and Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls Embossing Folder, Corner Rounder Punch

Branch Out Masculine Birthday

I created this card for my nephew's birthday that is later this month. I used my Cricut and Sure Cuts A Lot software to create an oval that was 0.7" high and 1.35" wide to fit in the Hodgepodge Hardware. I put the oval on dimensionals and then placed the frame over top so the paper sits nicely in the hardware.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Two the Nines Specialty Textured C/S, Sahara Sand, Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke
Ink - SU Chocolate Chip, SU Always Artichoke, SU Basic Black, Versa Fine Black Onyx (sentiment)
Stamps - SU Branch Out, PTI Faux Ribbon
Accessories - Hodgepodge Hardware in Pewter (Retired), Stampin Dimensionals

Anniversary Card

My 17th wedding anniversary is tomorrow. I can't believe it has been 17 years. My husband, Tim is a very special man and I am so thankful for our relationship. I am truly married to my best friend.

I used Cindy's valentine card for inspiration for my anniversary card for Tim. I would have copied it exactly because it is so adorable, but because I don't have the punches that Cindy used, my hearts and squares ended up being a little bigger so this is what I came up with:
I'm pleased with the way that it turned out and I think Tim will like it too. He really liked the card I made him for Valentine's Day.

I'm a little disappointed with my scalloped square. I used my Cricut to create it using the Mini-Monograms cartridge. One of the corners is more in than the others. I actually cut two because I thought the paper had shifted on the first one. How noticeable is it? I thought about embossing with silver, but decided to go less elegant and use white. I used the white craft ink because my demo said that it worked better with the white embossing powder. It's not perfect, but I can let it go.

I wanted to say how much I appreciate the few comments that I have received. I started this blog as a journal for myself to help me remember the cards I have made, but input from others does make my day! It has also encouraged me to leave comments on the blogs that I visit.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red
SU Ink - Whisper White Craft Ink
SU Stamps - Wonderful Words
Accessories - White Embossing Powder, Cricut Mini-Monograms and George cartridges, Stampin' Dimensionals

Measurements
Hearts - 1"
White Square - 1 1/2"
Scalloped Square - 2" RD
Black Square 2 1/4"
White Square 2 3/8"

Quick Valentine's Day Card

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for my husband for a Valentine's Day card. I bookmarked a few, but wasn't feeling really inspired. Guy cards are such a challenge. This is what I ended up making:

On the inside I am going to write "I love ewe" or the words from that old song that is stuck in my head - "I love youuuuuuuuu...." I can't remember all the words or who sings it so I'm having a little trouble with my Google search! Too bad I couldn't sing to Google!

For the image, I found this great Doodlebat font called DB Animal Valentine's at Scrap N Font . I couldn't decide between that font and DB Animal Occasion and decided to go with the Valentine one because of the hearts and the sayings. Lots of the animals are the same in the two fonts. Since I ended up covering up the ewe's heart with a Cricut cut out heart, I could of gone with the DB Animal Occasions font and got the CUTE penguin image that is in that set... I guess I'll have to spend another $3 US for that one too! What an awesome way to add to my images without breaking the bank. Besides lots of images for a cheap price, I also can print this images any size I want.

Thanks for looking,
Kim

SU Card Stock - Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red
Accessories - Rectangular and Scalloped Rectangular Nestabilities, Stampin' Dimensionals, Cricket George cartridge