Masculine Monday

Ok so I am confessing before I get into my blog today that the card I am showing you was made a while back.  The past week has been filled with family issues and I just have not had time to stamp so please forgive me.

This is an Aperture card I made for my Hubby last year.  I never get tired of using Sense of Time and the combination of this stamp set and the Cog punch just automatically go together.

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Nancy

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Masculine Monday 28/5/12

Masculine Monday once again.  Today I have a card for you that could be used as a masculine card or a general card.  This was created for a friend of my Daughters who was gracious enough to pick her up at the airport.

Can you tell I really love the "Lovely As a Tree" stamp set.  This is four weeks in a row that I have shown you cards made with this set.

Hope you enjoy.

Nancy

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TST #63 Hootie the Owl

Where oh where does the time go.  Another week has gone and we are back into challenge #63 at Try Stampin on Tuesday.

I thought this week I would try something a little different. This could be more of a children's card or a masculine card.




I know my interpretation of the card is stretching the sketch a little but that is what these challenges are for.  Get you imagination thinking outside the box, or in this case outside the tree trunk!

I knew I wanted to use my Owl Punch from SU and thought the best way to show it off would be to build a tree.

I started by cutting my base using craft cardstock to form a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card. Using my woodgrain embossing folder I inked up the inside of the folder. I tore a strip of the darker brown CS which gave the illusion of the outside of the tree trunk. Ran it through the Cuttlebug and the ink transferred to the CS.  I then "lightly" ran the Chocolate Chip ink pad over the raised portion of the embossed image  This gave it a more mottled look.  My second piece of torn CS formed the branch and I repeated the same process.

After the branches were adhered to the card base I punched a hold using the 2" scallop circle punch. Then the Two Step Bird Punch was used to punch out several of the leaves to be placed both on the outside and the inside of the card. My owl was punched and assembled and adhered to the inside of the card using dimensionals. A simple greeting was stamped on the inside and the top corner was rounded.

I hope you like my interpretation of the sketch this week.

Nancy

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Masculine Monday 20/2/2012

The title for this Mondays card is not my idea, but one that I saw from Francis Martin or "Frenchie".  So thanks Frenchie for challenging me to come up with Masculine cards on a weekly basis.

So often it is difficult to come up with masculine cards and when I saw her Masculine Monday card last week I thought, great idea and so now every Monday I will post a card with a Masculine Flare to it.

Today's card actually started out without an idea in mind.  Then after I had made the card I saw a challenge and thought OMG my card is almost like the sketch, but when I went to post it to the site I noticed that there was a card there already with the same principle to it so thought good idea just too late.

Lovely as a Tree is one of my favourite stamp sets and I use it a lot for masculine cards. 

Hope you stop back each Monday for a new Masculine Card to add to your collection.

Hope you enjoy!

Nancy