Cards for Men at Moving Along with the Times

Stampin' Up! like many stamp companies does have a selection of male orientated stamps, but we all seem to struggle with this type of card.  Today though I'm sharing a card I made a little while ago and saved for my theme at Moving Along with the Times.  We would love you to join in and share your masculine cards. The Design Team have a fabulous selection to inspire you so do pop over to MAWTT and have a look as well as joining in our challenge. Share your card and some of the DT will come take a look at it and leave you a comment.

For my card I've used sponges and ink and the eclectic Stampin' Up! stamp set Enjoy Life. It's a real mix bag of images but it includes a cyclist, the butterflies, foliage and grass and I've added a sun by using a circle punch to create my own thin paper stencil and sponged the sun through it.

I created a mask for the hill by just ripping a piece of paper and using one half to mask the sky and the other to mask the hill.  Once I had sponged the hill I added just the tops of the grass stamp using the mask to limit the amount of image stamped on the cards and where it went.  I've also added the flowers using Stampin' markers to colour the stamp prior to stamping.

You can create a faux watercolour look doing this techniques and add in whatever images you wish.  The cyclist I stamped on a piece of scratch card prior to fussy cutting and adding with just glue dots to raise it only very slightly.

I like this stamp set and enjoyed the smudging and texturing with just ink.  Why not have a go too!

Hugs Zoe x

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Cycle Crazy for Moving Along with The times

Our challenge at Moving Along with the Times is themed as 'One for the Boys' . I've made this cycling card which covers the boys and the men in our lives.  The cyclist is from Enjoy Life an eclectic mix of stamps, but one that gives you plenty of scope to create an array of family cards.

I started with my base card of thick whisper white and stamped the cyclist in Tuxedo Black Memento ink.  I then cut a piece of smokey slate card to the shape I wanted and then placed it over a piece or real red and used my trimmer to give a border.  I stamped tone on tone again with the cyclist stamp and then added a die cut 'celebrate' from the Celebrate You thinlets which I got as a free gift during Saleabration but you can now buy them from the annual catalogue too.  I used the double sided adhesive paper on black card and die cut before removing the second backing paper.

Simple and quick, but looks like you did more just by cutting a pennant type shape with your trimmer.

Do come and join us with the challenge and add your card on the MAWTT page.

You can also buy any of these products in my stampin up uk online shop.

Thanks for popping by.

Zoe x