Masculine birthday

Hi everyone! Here's my take on the masculine challenge over at Less is More. I really liked the card made by Chrissie and was inspired by it to make this.

I was originally searching and destroying my stamp collection looking for a different stamp when I stumbled upon this Sunday International cattail stamp. I used Memento markers to color on the stamp and then huffed on it to get a decent image the first time (which NEVER happens for me).

I got out the air compressor and airbrushed a piece of vellum to make the "water" for the pond. To create the ripples I used the cloud border die from Paper Smooches and just turned it up side down.

Dragonfly is a Memory Box die. Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.

Off to do chores. Thanks for stopping by!

Card Sketch #82 - cattails

Here's sketch #82 - normal A2 measurements. This one came out very masculine. Which is a bonus because it seems I'm always short on those types of cards in my stash.




The back ground is done with creamy brown chalk ink (stamped off once) with the sanded back ground stamp from SU.



The cattails are done with Marvy LePlume II markers and a few huffs! That layer of burlap is really ribbon. I bought it a Wal-Mart in their half off Christmas section in January. It had red string stuff and wire on both sides. So, I bought it for like 50 cents and decided I could cut off the ugly red stuff and use the middle section for a lot of different things. Great investment, huh? I pulled a few of the fibers out to give it a distressed look. Overall, love the texture it added to the card!

I hope everyone has an awesome weekend!


Supplies:
Stamps - Sanded back ground by SU, Cattails by Sunday International, Sentiment and dragonfly from Penny Black clear stamp set called Salutations (this is an awesome set!!!)
Paper - Bazzill
Antique Brads
Palette Noir ink
Colorbox chalk ink in creamy brown
Marvy LePlume II markers

New Rubbah creations

Hi everyone! Thought I would post some of the creations I've made with some of my new rubbah from last weekends stamp show. This first one measures 4 1/2 x 5 1/2! The flower stamp is from Yvonne Albritton Designs and colored with chalk and chalk blending solution. I added a bit of stardust gel pen to the flower for some bling in the center and on the edges. The grosgrain ribbon goes really well with the light burgundy and green Bazzill card stock in real life. This picture darkened them up a bit. The sentiment is from Alota stamps.

This one measures 4 x 8 and would make a wonderful wedding card - in a classy black and white sorta way! Stamp is from Sunday International and stamped in versamark and embossed with Glacier white embossing powder from CHF. I then stamped it in Memories black, then embossed with clear EP and cut it out. I then popped it up with foam tape. The white card stock is ran through the cuttlebug embossing folder twice - one end at a time. 5/8 grosgrain black ribbon was used to tie a knot and I had to slip in some skinny white satin ribbon for added dimension. This cards reminds me that opposites attract!


Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!