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Sunday 17 November 2013

Autumnal card for a man

Recently I went to a class run by Michelle at In2Crafting, and one of the cards we made was perfect for a man's card.

This card is my take on that design - it is pretty much (well exactly) the same layout, but I used a 7 x 5 card base, chose different papers from my stash, and coloured the trees accordingly.

The background papers come from a pad from Trimcraft called Noel, and while there were some very christmassy papers in there, I think you will agree that the sheets I used really don't look like it.

The joy of having the middle strip is that you can actually use leftover bits of paper! I used some of the leftover parts of my backing paper to make some home made card candi - just punch out some circles using a regular hole punch and emboss them from the back using a largish embossing tool (not the glitter girls big one - a bit smaller).  I attached them to my card using pinflair gel.

The stamps are from Woodware (Kim's Coppice) and included the lovely sentiment.  I stamped the more solid set of trees with a combination of adirondack inkpads (sorry - didn't note which ones) on a plain piece of card and left them to dry.  Then, I stamped the more open set of trees slightly offset with versamark, and heat embossed with bronze embossing powder.  Before layering my image onto the layer card, I cut out the edges with a reverse circle corner punch.

I stamped the sentiment with versamark and embossed that too - layering it with  the same backing paper as the image.

I am entering this card into the following challenge(s)

My Sheri Crafts - Fall/Thanksgiving
So Artful - Trees
Ladybug Crafts - autumn colours

4 comments:

  1. This is a perfect masculine card and also a very lovely LO and great sentiment!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us @ My Sheri Crafts!!!

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  2. I think how you have done the trees in this image is lovely. That never would have occurred to me to do! It's perfect for a man, you're right! Thanks for being Soartful with us, I love seeing your work!

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  3. What an attractive tree picture, and I do like the way you have framed it, sometimes a difficult thing to do successfully. Thanks for sharing it with everyone at Soartful.

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  4. Wonderful card... love the image. The card is so clean and crisp! Awesome job

    Thanks for sharing with My Sheri Crafts

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