Category: Stamping Ideas

Hello! 

I hope you enjoyed our blog hop yesterday and got some great ideas for masculine cards! Since it's Mother's Day this weekend though, I thought I would share some ideas for Mother's Day cards, just in case you still need to make one or two 

Pictured above is a simple monochramatic look. 

• Change the sentiment on this one or this one, and I think it could be a great Mother's Day card. 
• Get a little creative with your dies and make something like this
• A few fun techniques: Nobody Loves Like Mom or Bokeh Hearts 🙂
• A great collection of cards here using Mother's Love
• Another great card here and here, to show how thankful you are to mom 🙂
• This is a great idea if you have a small gift for Mom or a gift card.

Well, I hope you are inspired to get Stampin'! Have a wonderful weekend! If you are a mom, I hope you get spoiled 🙂 and if you have your mom to celebrate with, hug her tight!  Enjoy!

And hey! if you a crafty mom, you could treat her to a girls' weekend! Check out the Crafty Girls Retreat! Or why not add it to your wish list 

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Good Morning!

Welcome to this month's 'Manly May' Blog Hop! With Father's Day coming up next month, you are going to get lots of ideas for masculine cards which will be great for not only Father's Day cards, but also ideas that will inspire birthday cards too! 

I don't know about you, but doing masculine cards doesn't come easy. I love flowers, pretty embellishments and bright colours- which obviously don't work for the guys in our lives. At least, they probably wouldn't appreciate the card so much 🙂

So, here is what I came up with: 

I started with an Old Olive card base, and stamped the Gorgeous Grunge splatters in Whisper White, and left that to dry. Then I cut a mat layer of Chocolate Chip about 3 1/2"x 4 3/4"" and a Whisper White layer about 3 1/8" x 4 1/2".  

For the stamping on the Whisper White layer, I used the Tuxedo Black to stamp the lumberjack so that I could colour him in with markers using my alcohol and marker watercolour technique (I use alcohol instead of water with the Aqua Painters- I just find the cardstock doesn't 'pill') so that the colours wouldn't be too dark.  For the trees and the sentiment, I used markers to ink the stamps. For the trees I used a combination of Old Olive and Always Artichoke to get a variation of green in the trees. For the sentiment, the stamp is actually ' It's Your Birthday', so I used the markers to ink up only the words I wanted and made the words different colours too.   

The finishing touch was added by stamping the sentiment on the 7/8" Cotton Ribbon and adding the hearts to the sentiments in Real Red. I stapled the ribbon to the layer using the Handheld Stapler and adhered the layers to the card base. 

I think this card can be used for Father's Day or a Birthday! I hope you like it!

Here is a list of the supplies I used to create this project:

Good Morning!

Before I show you today's card and this week's Weeky Deals, I thought you might want to know who won our Freebie Friday! 

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway! The winner is……

Congratulations! Contact me with your mailing address so I can send you your stamp set!!

Now, onto today's card. It is a simple, but cute card 🙂

This card uses the Starburst Framelits which are now on the retired list! Get them while you can!

Here are this week's Weekly Deals: