Masculine birthday card

I sat and I sat and thought and thought.. I have such a hard time coming up with masculine cards for some reason. I worked on the background for an hour, adding colors, stamps, not liking it and trying to tone everything down. I arranged and rearranged everything over and over.  I finally had to walk away. I came back to the next day and almost without even thinking about it, I knew what I needed to do to complete this card. Almost like magic it came together and I have to say I am completely pleased with the outcome. I liked it so much, I ended up duplicating it for another birthday.

Bird Crazy Birthday

Here is a special birthday card for my mom. I used pretty pink and purple distress inks to create a very pretty little card. I used my water brush and painted our little friend using the distress inks like water colors.

Materials used:

- heavy weight card stock

- Tim Holtz distress ink, stain, stamps, stencils, water brush and blending tool

- BigShot

- StazOn black ink

- VersaMark watermark ink

- clear embossing powder

- crystal embellishments 

- natural twine

- small metal brads

- Scotch's Advanced Tape Glider

- Stampin Up! Dimentionals

- Stampin Up! Pansy Punch
- Stampin Up! Flower Shop stamps
- Stampin Up! Itty Bitty Punches

Get Well Soon Card

I used the Tim Holtz Bird Crazy stamp set to add a little something extra to this card.

Bird Crazy Birthday

Still ramping up for our August birthdays, I had fun creating this card. Using greens, teals and browns to make a very pretty pallet for a bird crazy birthday card.

For the embellishments on this card, I chose to use simple buttons and loops of metallic DMC floss.

Materials used:

- heavy weight card stock

- Tim Holtz distress ink, stain, stamps, stencils, water brush, edge distressing tool and blending tool

- BigShot

- clear embossing powder

- StazOn black ink

- VersaMark watermark ink

- clear embossing powder

- small metal brads

- Scotch's Advanced Tape Glider
- mini glue dots

- Stampin Up! Dimentionals

- buttons

- DMC floss