Check out this absolutely adorable Snail Mail Collage Valentine's Day Card! I wanted to step away from traditional pinks and reds, so I used a masculine color palette with blue, green, gray, and a pop of yellow.
I struggle with masculine cards - how about you? I have many guys in my life, and this card is definitely one that I can recreate and make a bunch of Valentines in no time at all. I used the Snail Mail Collage 4x6 Stamps and stamped a freeform collage layout with just a couple of icons and a handful of sentiments. I distressed the panel with a stamp from the Texturize It Collage 4x6 Stamps.
We're one day closer to the release of the Summer Collection from LDRS Creative! Creating a masculine adventure-themed card is quick and easy. Just grab some inks and new Stack & Collage stamps and start stamping!
*Links to products included in the Summer Collection will be live on Thursday, May 30th at 12:01am ET*
I trimmed a piece of white cardstock to 4" x 5.25" and created an "L grid" using stamps from the Tracks & Treads II 4x4 Stamps. Stamping the grid first gives me a base for stamping and helps to shape my collage card. I used a mix of sentiments and icons from the Adventure Awaits Collage 4x6 Stamps and filled in my card. I kept the color scheme more masculine, but you could switch it up and do pinks and teals, too!
I cut a gray A2 card base and used foam tape to pop up my collage panel in the center of the card. That's all! I'll see you tomorrow with one more Summer Colleciton sneak peek! See you then!
It's hard to believe that Valentine's Day is right around the corner! I used just a few products from LDRS Creative to create this design that is great for guys or girls!
I trimmed a white piece of cardstock to 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" and used Alloy Hybrid Ink to stamp images from the Floral Silhouette 4x6 Stamps all over the panel. I made sure that I stamped off the edge of the cardstock for a more natural pattern.
I cut the words "you" and "always" with the Big Words Dies - Love from black cardstock and added them on top of the large sentiment. I added everything onto a black card base and that's it!
Isn't it fun how a bit of heat embossing can really step up a project? I used a bunch of Pink & Main embossing powders to make this happy little fishing card!
It's no secret that I love to make my own backgrounds. It's one of my favorite parts of cardmaking! I looked at the soon to be released Gone Fishing Stamp Set and immediately thought that all the lures would make the perfect background. But why stamp in plain ink when you can add color AND dimension with embossing powders?!
I wanted to add a simple focal point to the card, so I stamped the fishing pole and sentiment from the Gone Fishing Stamp Set and embossed it with Blueberry Fizz Embossing Powder and used the coordinating dies to cut out the fishing pole. I used a tried and true trick to make sure that the images would stand out from the background - I used a Zig Zag Circle Die and cut a piece of vellum. I popped up the images and the circle with foam for dimension.
I hope you enjoyed this card! I love the way the heat embossing quickly and easily adds color and dimension! Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon!
Ready for the cutest masculine Valentine's Day card ever?! I used the Punny Farm Goats from Miss Ink Stamps and a fun overlapping stencil technique!
The Punny Farm Goats was one of my first (and FAVORITE) stamp sets from Miss Ink Stamps. I just love these little guys! They're great for all kinds of cards, but I think they're fabulous for cards for guys.
I used the Stripes Stencil from the Basics Stencil Bundle and created an overlapping striped pattern. I love how the two inks overlap to create a third color! This design is easy to recreate and mass produce and you can do it with a bunch of different stencil designs!
I finished off the card with a simple stamped sentiment from the Decaf Background Stamp Set. Easy and simple! Thanks for joining me!
Hello everyone! There's a new release from Erin Lee Creative that just hit the shop and we are celebrating with a blog hop! You'll find lots of inspiration along the way and have a chance to with a prize, too! Leave a comment at each stop in the hop and TWO lucky winners will be drawn to win a $50 gift card to the Erin Lee Creative shop! Winners will be announced on the Erin Lee Creative Blog on Monday October 26th!
Masculine cards are something that I truly struggle with, and a bunch of other crafters must as well because it's one of my most requested designs! I grabbed a few new Erin Lee Creative release items and gave it a shot!
I masked off the center of the new Quilted Stencil with some masking paper and blended on some dark and light brown inks. I love how easy it is to change the look of this stencil! I stamped the mountain range from the Stay Wild Stamp Set and gave it just a bit of Copic coloring - not too much! I wanted to keep the card simple!
Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Remember to leave a comment here and on the rest of the blogs in the hop for your chance to win a gift card to the Erin Lee Creative Shop! Good luck to everyone!
Hi, everyone! I'm excited to guest design for Sum More Fun once again this month! Their pack this month is the Handyman Pack and it's great for any special man in your life! Remember - this is a limited pack - only 30 - and it will not be restocked. While you can buy the Handyman Stamp Set and the Nailed It Stamp Set separately, the value in the pack is incredible and bound to sell out quickly!
I created three quick and easy cards that I think are perfect for those handyman type of guys! I used some patterned papers from the Handyman Pack, some watercolors, and a quick and easy Copic colored background!
I hope you enjoyed this quick video tutorial using the Handyman Pack from Sum More Fun! Remember that there are only 30 of these packs available and they will not be restocked! So head on over and snag yours! See you soon!
Hi, everyone! I struggle making masculine cards, but I LOVE how some green and blue inks and amazing products from Erin Lee Creative make it easy to make cards for the guys in my life!
I started by masking off an inch and a quarter from the bottom of a standard card and blended on some Hickory Smoke Distress Ink over the Hex Stencil from Erin Lee Creative. I was careful to use a light hand. I just wanted a bit of color, but not too much. Without removing the masking tape from the bottom of my card I lined up the Mountain Scene stencil and blended on a heavy layer of Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink.
I wanted to keep in the masculine theme, so I moved the masking tape from the bottom to the top of my card and blended on Pine Needles and Evergreen Bough Distress Ink. I used the Can't Sentiment stamp set and stamped the large "can't" and embossed with black powder. I stamped the coordinating sentiment with black ink onto white cardstock and trimmed it to a skinny strip and glued it flat onto the card. That makes this card not only masculine, but "almost" one layer! Haha!
I have a video showing just how I made this card! You can watch it below!
Hello everyone! You would not believe the day I had yesterday! It was a classic example of Murphy's Law. Murphy follows me everywhere! Anyway, here is the last installment of my Valentine's Day card series! I think you'll really like this one! I used blues and a nautical theme so that I could send this card to a man in my life!
I'm also entering this card in the SSS Wednesday Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small. I hope you'll join in, too!
Here's the card! Isn't it cute! I started by stamping both whales from the Lawn Fawn "Whale You Be Mine" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I used IG1, IG2, IG4, and IG6 Spectrum Noir alcohol markers to color in the whales. Instead of doing a classic shading technique, I did added dots to where I wanted the image to appear shaded. I really love this particular technique on these whales! When I was done coloring I used the matching dies to cut out these little whales.
Next I used painter's tape to mask off lines on my card. Each white area is 1 inch and each colored area is 1/2 inch. I used 3 colors of Distress Ink- Broken China, Salty Ocean, and Peacock Feathers. I blended these colors onto my Neenah card base using a mini ink blending tool.
After I removed the painters tape, I stamped my sentiment in Versafine ink and covered it with some Simon Says Stamp clear embossing powder.
I added my whales to the card with some foam squares. I have these hearts that I picked up at Target. They are from K&Company and the hearts are various sizes and colors, so I thought it would be cute to add some to the card.
I added a coat of Wink of Stella to make the whales shimmer. I wanted to use Glossy Accents, but, *gasp*! I'm all out! So I used some Mod Podge Dimensional Magic instead. It's essentially the same thing, but I did notice that there's a lot more bubbles with this product.
Here's the video:
I know this card is still a little cutesy, but it is a Valentine after all! I definitely sent it off to a wonderful family member - who just happens to be a man!
Thanks for joining me! I hope you've loved this series as much as I have!
Hi! I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving! Mine was incredible. There's nothing better than spending time with family! We got about 8 inches of snow the day before Thanksgiving, so this card may seem a bit out of place, but I made it with my dad in mind. He loves the woods and the outdoors and the changing leaves. When I saw this card kit I immediately thought of this card!
This birch tree paper is gorgeous! I love it so much! I thought it would be great to use as a background and add a pop of color....so I did! I cut a card base from Neenah cardstock and then cut the paper to fit the whole front of the card.
I used a bunch of inks for this project. I didn't want any one leaf to be the same. I used Well Red, Orange County, Sunny Day, and Doc Brown inks from Studio Calico. From Heidi Swapp I used Mustard and Coral inks. And I used some new Memento inks in Rhubarb Stalk, Potters Clay, Tangelo, and Dandelion inks.
I used the rock and roll technique to give color and dimension to my stamped leaves. I first inked up my stamp in a lighter color and then (without stamping) inked up just the edges of the stamp by rolling it in a darker ink color. I stamped all of my leaves on Neenah cardstock and also stamped the outlines (Doc Brown ink) and then cut them out with my Cutter Bee scissors.
I adhered one of the kraft colored banners from the kit in the middle of the card and then began gluing my leaves around it. I tucked some behind the banner and put some on top. I used my Tombow Mono Multi glue to stick them down. Once they were all glued down I added some foam tape to the back of the acrylic sentiment and stuck it down.
Here's the video:
That's it! It's so simple...but I really love it! It's probably one of my favorite cards that I've made! I hope everyone has a great start to their work week! I'll see you next time!
Oh, hello! I'm finally breaking into my Simon Says Stamp card kit for this month! It's so cute! The papers, the sequins, the die...Oh my! The papers are perfect for making masculine cards, and I know a bunch of manly men who love their coffee!
I also wanted to mention that I'll be submitting the first card to the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge. This time the challenge is all about fall. What do I love about fall? It's finally acceptable to use dark orange-y colors (like I've used here), it always smells like apples, and it's time for a nice cup of hot chocolate at night! Join in the challenge by following the link below:
Let's see the card!
Here's the card I'm making in today's video. I started with an A2 card base and covered the card front with orange cardstock from the kit. Next, I layered an orange and white paper and a solid orange paper on top.
I used Versafine Onyx Black ink to stamp my coffee cup image onto more of the orange and white patterned paper. I used the same ink to stamp the "hello" sentiment and some Studio Calico Color Theory Clean Slate ink to stamp the shading onto the bottom of the cup. I used my EK Success Cutter Bee scissors to cut out the cup and a craft knife to cut out the handle.
I also stamped a portion of the coffee cup onto some scrap brown paper and cut out just the little piece that serves as the coffee inside the cup. I used my Martha Stewart Fine Tip Glue Pen to glue this little guy onto my larger image.
The sentiment is also from the stamp set and stamped in Versafine ink. I used some foam squares to pop up my coffee cup onto the orange panel just above the sentiment. The steam is a stamp from the kit (stamped in SC Clean Slate ink). I stamped the full image once and then inked up just the larger steam image again, rotated it, and stamped again.
While I was stamping...I thought it would be fun to use some other papers from the kit to make a more feminine version of the same card. All of the steps are the same...just with prettier colors! :)
That's it for today! I'll have a few more videos with this kit coming soon! Thanks for stopping by!
I made a card using the newest Studio Calico kit, Poet Society for my youngest brother's birthday. He just turned 20. Yes. Twenty. Two and Zero. I can't believe it. I really can't. I'm not old...but nothing makes me feel "old" like my youngest brother turning 20. I remember waking him up in the morning to get ready for school. Helping with homework and packing lunches. Now he's in college. And he calls me up for questions about life. Real life. Not spelling or how to write a capital L in cursive. Oh man. Enough of this not-so-tragic-tragedy. On to the card!
As I mentioned above, I used the newest card kit from Studio Calico called Poet Society. The stamp set this month is just so terrific! Words can't describe it! There's this big bold "hooray" sentiment in the perfect font. It's great for focal points on cards! I've always wanted big sentiment stamps like this, but they're usually so expensive. It's awesome that SC put one in the stamp set!
Anyways, I stamped "hooray" in one of the new ink colors from Studio Calico called Inky Black. It's a great black ink! After stamping it on some Neenah cardstock from the kit, I used my paper trimmer to partially trim out the sentiment and then used my Cutterbee scissors to trim around the top of the "H" and the bottom of the "Y". I also cut a banner end at the left end of the sentiment. The whole piece is popped up on foam tape. I used the same Inky Black ink to stamp "it's your birthday". This stamp comes from a previous SC card kit called "Bluegrass Farm."
I also stamped the two banner shaped stamps in one of the older SC colors, Sunny Day, and one of their colors from their newest release, Going Green. I used the cluster of stars and the individual star stamps to add some interest to the rest of the card (they're both stamped in SC ink Clean Slate).
I added the stamped piece to a gray striped paper from the kit and adhered both of those onto a navy blue piece of cardstock (also from the kit). The finished card measures 5.5" x 4.25" (a standard A2 size).
Here's a quick look at everything included in the kit:
Pretty fantastic, right! Once again I want to say that I do not get any money from Studio Calico to use their products. I've just been subscribing to their kits for a bit and I really love them! If you're interested in more information about one or all of their monthly kits, you can go to their website here. If you want to join up, let me know! I can send you a referral code for 500 Calico Points good for a future add on kit! That's $5 off!
Okay, I'm off to do more creating! Thanks for dropping in!
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