Whether you’re crafting for a father, grandfather, nephew, or brother, we’ve got all your bases covered with the Batter Up! Paper Pumpkin Kit! This month’s kit is the perfect pick for making masculine masterpieces. Then again, we know that grass-stained pants and sliding into home aren’t just for the boys—this month’s kit is a triple threat! Designed with men, sport-lovin’ ladies, and baseball fanatics in mind, anyone would bounce from… Read More »
The Rooted in Nature Stamp Set and Nature’s Roots dies are just one of Stampin’ Up!’s many amazing sets that can be used for masculine cards and in this case, a masculine sympathy card. Today’s card is for the son of my girlfriend from high school. He lost a close co-worker recently and I wanted to let him know I was thinking of him. The background panel is Basic White Cardstock which was… Read More »
It’s Monday and time for a masculine card. For today’s project, I’m using the soon to be retired Snow Front Stamp Set. This card is for a dear friend who lost his wife to COVID-19 a couple of months ago. He and my husband, David, belong to a group of older hikers who get together once a month to hike the Ozark Highlands Trail and overnight camping. The group gave… Read More »
It’s Monday and time for a masculine card. I’m beginning to realize that I do not have a lot of masculine stamp sets in my stash. So I’m using the same set that I used for my other grandson, Troy. Here’s the one I made for Troy The one below is for my grandson, David. I stamped the image with Tuxedo Black, colored the body with the Ivory Stampin’ Blends… Read More »
It’s Masculine Monday and today’s post features a birthday card for my grandson, Troy. For my grandson’s card, I’m using the A Good Man Stamp Set, the retired Glad Tidings Designer Series and the soon to be retired Pretty Peacock Cardstock. I’m sure I’ve told you that I absolutely love plaid and will use every one of the sheets in the 6 x 6 package. And as I mentioned yesterday,… Read More »
March’s Paper Pumpkin There’s a bonus gift in this month’s Paper Pumpkin kit. What makes March’s kit one-of-a-kind? The spectacular set of four free stencils—and a stamping sponge—that you’ll find inside! Here are some details about this fun kit: The kit contains enough supplies to create 8 cards—4 each of 2 designs—and coordinating envelopes. The kit’s contents include printed card bases, die-cut paper pieces, embellishments, adhesive, and more! Each card… Read More »
Yesterday was Masculine Monday but that was preempted by the cards I created for my daughters in celebration of International Women’s Day. So…., for today’s card I’m creating a birthday card for my nephew, Bobby John, using his license plate as inspiration. I used the retired Perfect Print Alphabet Bigz Dies for the letters. Since I didn’t have the coordinating numbers I used the letter B and cut off the… Read More »
It’s Masculine Monday and today’s card features the Rooted in Nature Bundle. It’s a birthday card for my brother Bobby. Well, he goes by Bob, but he will always be Bobby to me. The images were stamped with Mossy Meadow Ink for the leaves and Soft Suede Ink for the trunk. They were then die cut using the coordinating dies called Nature’s Roots Framelits Dies. The background cardstock (Basic Gray)… Read More »
NEW ON TODAY’S BLOG I made two cards with the Sailing Home Bundle. Because I forgot I had the dies, I fussy cut 3 items for my card. A couple of days later I decided to make another card using the same stamp set but changing a couple of things. Again I fussy cut 3 items for that card. Next day I’m looking for a set of dies and come… Read More »
Today’s card features a fun-fold card. I saw a card like this on Pinterest but could not find any instructions on how to make it. So it was a lot of hit & miss for me in finally coming up with a template that worked! I’m also bringing back Masculine Mondays. I have a lot of masculine birthdays in the next several months so having Masculine Mondays will help me… Read More »
