Masculine Shirt Card

 

Hello, crafting friends! As many of you know, masculine card ideas are sometimes a challenge, hard to come by. If you're making a card for the men in your life (be it your husband, son, brother, etc) all year, sometimes it's difficult to come up with a different theme each time. There are several masculine shirt card ideas out there. Here is one shirt card I made for my nephew who has a birthday this month.

Instead of providing instructions on how this card was created, if you're interested, I am providing a link to the video tutorial: Shirt Cards Video.

This was a fun card to create and I was pleased with how it turned out. I hope you will apply your creative talents to make one or more for the men in your life. 

Until next time, have a wonderful day doing the things you love!

Lovely Sunflower Birthday

 Welcome, fellow crafters!  Today's card is one I made for my daughter whose birthday falls this month. My daughter has many sunflowers in her back yard. It's like a big ray of sunshine covering a section of her yard. Hence the sunflower theme I used to create her card.

I began by creating the base card first using white card stock. It was then layered with chocolate brown card stock. The focal layer was embossed using white card stock and adhered to the prepared base. This was put aside while I created the sunflower and sentiment.

The sunflower was die cut and assembled in yellow card stock for the petals and in 2 different shades of brown for the center. I added markings to the bottom of the petals with Copic markers and used a gold gel pen for the"seedlings". The leaves were die cut in green card stock and then shading added using  darker green ink. The sentiment was computer generated along with the butterfly and then die cut in both white and brown card stock. 

The above being done, the sunflower was adhered to the prepared base card with dimensionals as were the leaves. I overlapped the white and brown sentiment labels to give interest and dimension. This completed my project.

Here are the materials used:

Card Stock:  GKD Pure Luxury White, Sweet Corn, Warm Cocoa; SU Wild Wasabi; PTI Dark Chocolate

Ink:  Memento Bamboo Leaves (for shading on leaves)

Dies:  Honey Bee Lovely Layers - Sunflowers, Spellbinders Elliptical Ovals

Other: Lisa Horton Padded Quilt embossing folder, Copic Marker, gold gel pen, adhesive, dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by. 

Until next time, get those creative juices flowing and create something beautiful!

Stitched Daisy Border Birthday

 Hello, fellow crafters! Here is another stitched card I made, this one for a cousin's birthday. Stitching on cards is a challenge but it is worth the time and effort put into it. I feel the results are beautiful.

I began my project by die cutting the floral  pattern on  white card stock with Marianne Design Stitching Daisies die set Using embroidery thread the flowers and leaves were stitched. Then the outline die of the same set was used to create the border.

The base card was created in white card stock and a bottom border was created using a Spelllbinders Borderabilities die. The stitched floral panel was then adhered to the front of the base card. The sentiment was  computer generated and then die cut with a Spellbinders Eliptical Oval die and mounted on the base card.

This completed my project. Here are the tools used in creating this card:

Card Stock:  GKD Pure Luxury White

Dies:  Mariane Design Stitching Daisies, Spellbinders Borderabilities, Spellbinders Eliptical Oval 

Other:  embroidery needle and thread, adhesive, dimensionals 

 

Thank you for visiting my blog. Hope this project got your creative juices flowing. 

Until next time, happy crafting!