Men and Their Love of Cars - Masculine Birthday Cards

 Freshly Made Sketches #707 

Here Are My Cards: 

Recently we had lunch with some old friends who just happen to be car buffs. They're into the speedway and going to the show and shines during the summer months.  I'd forgotten just how much these guys are into cars of all vintages and how enthusiastic they get when the conversation turns to cars, which it inevitably does.  So with that in mind, I made three birthday cards featuring some of my old car stamps and this wonderful sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  

  

Supplies and Instructions: 

Stamps and Dies:

• Geared Up Garage Stamps #148590
• Garage Gears Dies
• The Route 66 Stamp Set by Carta Bella 52830

Cardstock and DSP: 

Whisper White

• Cut three card
• Card base in Whisper White cardstock measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and is scored at 4 1/4".Scrap pieces for sentiment layers 
• Whisper White matte for inside card 5" x 3 3/4"
• Real Red for card mattes inside and out 5 1/4" x 4".  Scraps for circles or rectangle mats for focal point 

Inks and Blends:

• Memento Tuxedo Black 
• Real Red 
• Daffodil Delight Light and Dark, Smokey Slate, for car details. 

Accessories:  

• Dimensionals 

Thanks so much for dropping by and looking at my interpretation of this weeks FMS challenge.  What fun!  See you again soon! 

HAPPY STAMPING!
PENNY TOKENS STAMPIN' SPOT 

Penny Hanuszak, CDN Stampin' Up! Demo since 2006

Dodge Charger Masculine Birthday - FMS#678

This sketch at Freshly Made Sketches is open to interpretation as you can see from the Design Team's samples.  

The moment I looked at this sketch I visualized using the splatters for a masculine birthday card and having the splatter mark as a backdrop for a vehicle. 

Click here for details and to see the Design Team Submissions 

Here's My Card: 

Our nephew Tom's birthday falls on April 1st so it was time to get busy and make him a special card. Like me he's always been a big fan of hot American cars like the Dodge Charger series so I decided to use this sketch and Stampin' Ups! "Geared Up Garage" for the focal for his card.  

My dream car back in the 70's was a yellow Dodge Charger Hellcat like this one in the photo. 

 

Later models had more black on the roof and hood details but for my card I chose to keep the colouring fairly simple.  

Supplies:

Stamp & Die Set:

• Geared Up Garage (R) #148590 stamp set "car and sentiments"
• Garage Gear Dies (R) #148521
• Perennial Birthday (R)  "Happy Birthday" inside sentiment 

Cardstock:

• Card base 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Whisper White scored at 4 1/4", matte 3 3/4" x 5", inside matte 3 7/8" x 5" 
• Pebbled Path matte 5 1/4" x 4"
• Crushed Curry matte 5 1/8" x 3 7/8", inside matte 4" x 5 1/4" 

Ink:

• Momento Black ink for car and sentiment
• Mango Melody light and dark for car
• Crushed Curry for splotches 
• Pebbled Path for splotches and car details 
• Color Lifter 

Accessories:

• Crushed Curry and Pebbled Path Flat Gems 
• Cut and Emboss Machine 
• Dimensionals 

Thanks for dropping by for a visit and checking out this card and I hope you liked my interpretation of the sketch.  Come again! 

HAPPY STAMPING!

PENNY TOKENS STAMPIN' SPOT 

Penny Hanuszak, CDN Stampin' Up! Demo since 2006 

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