Guy Greetings from Stampin' Up! for simple male birthday cards

Stampin' Up! Guy Greetings Stamp Set

Busy week last week for me with Stamp a stack of birthday cards.  We made 24 cards 6 designs and 4 of each card.  Here's one using a popular stamp set called Guy Greetings along with the new Stampin Up Spring catalogue Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.  This is similar to the Cable Knit one we had at Christmas as it creates a 3D effect on your card with deeper texture than ordinary embossing folders.  This particular design is super for nature cards too especially with Bee stamp sets like the one in Dragonfly Dreams.

It teamed up well with the Urban Underground designer series paper to give a luxurious feel using small strips of the specialty paper in the pack.  Can you see that you can get 2 sentiments out of one punched Decorative Label too by stamping once then turning the shape through 180 degrees before stamping again.

The car itself is stamped in black Staz On ink onto a Stitched Shape Framelit square.  Simple but effective.  This was a popular card.  You could change the colours easily too to suit the favourite colour of the recipient.

More soon Zx

 

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Stampin' Up! Mediterranean Cruise Achievers Blog Hop - Male Cards

 Hi there and welcome. This is my first time of joining the blog hop and I'm excited to be involved and to share  my offering for the Stampin' Up! Mediterranean Cruise Blog Hop with it's theme of 'One for the Guys'.  I'm also a little bit shy as there are some extremely talented Stampin' Up! demonstrators in this group and so I hope I'm up to the standard.

Last weekend I spent time with my dutch downline in Amsterdam and they showed me some great tricks with ink so I put a few into action for this card and was also inspired by a tutorial I found some time ago in Craft Stamper magazine.

I've used brights ( daffodil delight, real read and pacific point) ink and stamp sets Gorgeous Grunge and Timeless Textures to develop my back drop and then added the car from Beautiful Ride which I embossed in black and then added colour to with sponges and a couple of marker pens.  Final touch, was to add some candy dots and a sentiment from Guy Greetings.

Enjoy the hop! You can check the list below to see where you go next.  I'm Zoe Tant so carry on down the list for lots of inspiration for those male cards with which we all seem to struggle.

 See you again soon and thanks for stopping by.
Zx

Stampin' Up! Cards for Men

Stampin' Up! cards for men are much easier to make with fabulous stamp sets like The Wilderness Awaits.  Recently I shared that I had made a handful of cards for the boys and this is one with that set.    It is very simple and teamed with a sentiment from Stampin' Up's Guy Greetings it really is one for the boys.

• Make a base card with crumb cake card stock and 'smudge' the edges with  a sponge dauber using crumb cake ink.
• Cut a piece of kraft card stock just a little smaller than the base and 'smudge' this too!
• On the reverse of the kraft card score lines using the Stampin' Up! or other score board to add texture, but not bulk
• Stamp a design using a border stamp in black ink,  I used Staz On and the border is Chalk Lines, across the top of this layer
• Stamp the fox from The Wilderness Awaits in black ink onto the kraft layer
• Stamp another fox on a scrap piece of card and carefully cut out the head, colour the eyes with cajun craze marker and adhere to the fox on the kraft layer with a stampin' dimensional
• Smudge around the fox with a dauber or sponge using crumb cake ink
• Add some linen thread wrapped several times neatly around the kraft piece and secure with a knot
• Adhere this layer onto the base card with stampin' dimensionals
• Stamp a sentiment from Stampin' Up! Guy Greetings onto a strip of kraft card and use the banner punch to pennant one end then adhere to the card as seen above
• Punch 3-5 3/4"circles out of kraft card and stick one on top of the other using Tombow multipurpose glue to make a button. Once the glue is dried use a tool like the crocodile (sadly now retired from SU) to put two holes in the button.  Cover the top with some crystal effects and allow to dry
• Thread early espresso cotton ribbon through the button and secure with a knot
• Add a folded piece of the same ribbon onto the card and then adhere the button on the top

This stamp set is perfect for the men and boys who like the great outdoors!

Have a good bank holiday as if it is raining with you like it is with me then it's a perfect excuse for crafting and chocolate. 

Zx