Monday, April 25, 2011

Boys and Men - Red Baron

Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a great Easter weekend! Today I'm participating in the Boys and Men blog hop over at Capture the moment for Papertrey ink.

Here's the card I came up with.

I used the Fly Away mini stamp set from PTI and colored everything using Copic Markers. I did some fussy cutting and cut the plane and the sentiment banner out so that I could pop it up on the sky back ground. The clouds are done using the Picasso brass stencil, a dauber and Memento summer sky ink.

The scallops are cut from the Quickutz cookie cutter die using pure poppy cardstock. The argyle embossing folder was used on the Blueberry sky cardstock. I did end up using some ribbon (sorry boys) on this to separate the layers, which I just got from Ribbons and Bows Oh My.

Masculine cards are so typically hard to make. I struggle with little boy cards so this challenge was a lot of fun! What do you think?

19 comments:

Kara said...

very cute!! love these colors too!!

Daniela F. said...

Cute card! The cloud background looks fabulous!!

Crafty Math Chick said...

Very pretty Laurie! I like the patriotic color palette.

Jeni said...

Fantastic card Laurie! Love the embossing folder you used and your sky is gorgeous. Very tedious cuttink, looks great. ~jeni :)

Harriet Skelly said...

I love this great card for a boy! Love the colors!

Stacy's Paper Crafts said...

Great card Laurie, LOVE those clouds!

i'm with the band said...

Love the clouds!

Posh Paper said...

I like the texture and depth you created from cutting out the plane and using the embossing.

Unknown said...

What a fun and cheery "boy" card! And the sky is wonderful!

Vannessa said...

What a great card! Straight into my faves folder!

Suzanne said...

What an amazing card! I love the plane and the clouds!

Marlene said...

Adorable! I know someone who is celebrating a birthday this summer who would love a card like this!

Tammy said...

Great card, colors are perfect and so is the coloring!

Jen Carter said...

Very cute Laurie! Love how you made the background clouds!

Terri said...

Great job! Love the colors and the clouds too.

Tracey McNeely said...

Really fun, great colours.

Marybeth said...

Perfect boy card, it's so cute. And you used great colors.

Chris Simon said...

What a wonderful boy card! I love argyle impression plate and your cloud background.

Kristii said...

Absolutely wonderful!!! Love the airplane and I totally love the clouds!!!