Soccer Anyone?

Here's this week's sketch hosted by Jen M.  at Freshly Made Sketches #721.  I wasn't able to post my card for the actual challenge because of time constraints however I decided to go ahead and post it, because we can never have too many masculine card ideas.  

Here's My Card: 

I really liked the clean and simple lines of this sketch and decided it would be a perfect layout for a masculine card. The designer paper and stamps are from a suite that will be released in Stampin' Ups! Online Exclusives in March called "A Wonderful Match".  

While soccer has been around for a long time, in the past ten years it has become one of the top sports in Canada for youth and adults and is even outpacing hockey as our national sport.  It's so popular that its anticipated that tickets for the FIFA World Cup 26 soccer games in Vancouver this summer will be sold out immediately upon release.  

The sentiments for this card could be altered for any male occasion such as soccer celebrations, birthdays, congratulations and so forth so I've left the inside blank for now. 

Supplies and Instructions:

Stamps and Dies:

• A Wonderful Match Photopolymer Stamp Set #167517 (not available until March 2026) 
• Stitched circles dies (R)

Cardstock and Designer Papers:

• Basic White 5" x 10" scored at 5" for the card base
• Basic White 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" for inside matte scrap for sentiment
• "A Wonderful Match" 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 circle cut from ephemera pictures
• "A Wonderful Match" DSP black and white design cut 2 pieces 4 3/4"x 4 3/4" for  front and inside mattes.
• "A Wonderful Match" green and white DSP 1 3/4" x 4 3/4"  and 1 1/4" x 4 3/4" for inside strip 

Ink:  

• Momento Black 

Accessories:  

• Dimensionals
• Wonderful Stars Puffy Stickers (not available until March) 

I hope you like this masculine card and are as excited as I am about this stamp set and coordinating products.  It will be available the first of March when the Online Exclusives are released.    

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 Top Three for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #650.

Thanks to the designers at Atlantic Hearts for choosing my card to be among the top three winners for sketch challenge #650 for my masculine birthday card.  There were so many awesome cards from designers, participants and Birgit and Elisa A. the other two Top Three Winners this week.  Nicely done ladies! 

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Take Me Out To the Ball Game - FMS #682 by Judy Rozema

If you follow my blog you know that I make a lot of masculine cards.  The Freshly Made Sketch #682 is hosted by Judy Rozema, who pointed out that it's baseball season and the sketch has a baseball diamond feel about it.  That was all I needed to get my creative juices flowing and create a masculine card.  How about you, were you inspired by this sketch? The sketch challenge is open until 3:00pm EST, so why not come up with a card of your own.  Here is the sketch:

The triple cut design is wonderful for creating multiple cards and it's such a great way to use up your paper stash.  I love it!  Unfortunately when I was making these cards I made my second cut from the corner instead of about 1 1/2" down the right side of the card, which changes up the look a bit.  Next time I'll look at the sketch a bit longer, lol!  Oh well my "miscut" still worked out okay for me.  

Here is my card: 

Whenever I make a triple cut card, I'm always amazed at how fast the three cards come together. Probably the hardest choice for me is mixing and matching the DSP and cardstock. The retired "Hey Sports Fan" dsp made it super easy to choose my mattes and card base colours.

Here is the inside of the card.  I copied the stamping on three pieces of Very Vanilla cardstock and mounted each one on a piece of coordinating cardstock. 

Supplies:

Stamps and Dies:

• A Goodman #149270 - "It's Your Day" sentiment
• Good Old Sport - Graphic 45 - "baseball player, and baseball"
• Sporting Goods 2004 circ. Stampin' Up! "bat and glove" for inside
• Perennial Birthday - "Happy Birthday" sentiment 

Cardstock and DSP:

• Real Red
• Night of Navy
• Very Vanilla
• Crushed Curry 
• Hey Sports Fan 12 x 12 DSP

Cutting Instructions: 

• Very Vanilla 8 1/2 x 5 12" scored at 4 1/4" for card base.  Cut three
• Very Vanilla 3 3/4" x 2 1/2" matte for focal matte
• Very Vanilla scraps for sentiment - baseball
• Real Red 4 x 5 1/4" x 2 for Mattes on front and inside of one card and one piece 2 3/8" x 3 5/8" for focal matte
• Night of Navy 4" x 5 1/4" for Mattes on front and inside of one card and one piece 2 3/8" x 3 5/8" for focal matte
• Crushed Curry 4" x 5 1/4" for Mattes on front and inside of one card and one piece 2 3/8" x 3 5/8" for focal matte
• Three coordinating pieces of Designer Series Paper (DSP) measuring            3 3/4" x 5" - stack the three pieces making sure all edges are in alignment and then cut on angles to match the sketch lines. 
• Small scraps of Very Vanilla, Real Red, Night of Navy and Crushed Curry for the 1 1/4 circle matte for baseball. 

Ink and Blends: 

• Momento Black Ink
• Night of Navy
• Real Red
• Pecan Pie - baseball bat 

Accessories:  

• 1" and 1 1/4" circle punches 
• Dimensionals
• Enamel Dots - Brights - Real Red and Crushed Curry

I hope you liked my interpretation of Judy's  Freshly Made Sketch.  Let me know if you struggle with making masculine cards? What's your stash like, do you have sports stamps or paper on hand for masculine themes?  I'd love to hear from you, as I find your comments are motivating and inspiring.  Thanks for dropping by! 

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Masculine Birthday Card

What a busy two weeks I've had decluttering and getting ready for our painter to freshen up our living space.  It's amazing how many collectibles and household goods get stashed away in cupboards, never to see the light of day.  I'm proud of myself as I've managed to box up all my copperware for a Spring garage sale and send off at least four boxes of dishes and Tupperware to some local charities.

Oh and I have to shout out about one of my biggest organizing accomplishments in February.  My husband and I have been procrastinating for quite a while about getting rid of our old Sony TV and cloth recliner.  So, when he brought it up last week again, instead of doing nothing I called 1-800-Got Junk and set up an appointment.  They came the next day and hauled these two items plus our old blinds.  What a relief that was!  

Here's this week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #618

HERE'S MY CARD: 

Time for another masculine birthday card. I need several in the month of March, so this sketch challenge is perfect for using up scraps.  I decided to use some of the paper from the March Hello Spring Paper Pumpkin kit.  The background paper has a small design that has copper in it so that inspired me to make one of the stripes copper foil.  

This card got off to a funny start, as I was planning to do a standard top fold A2 card, and then somehow grabbed a 4 1/4 x 11 piece of basic beige by mistake. add to the confusion, thought I had laid my stripes on the bottom of the card and they were actually stuck on the side.  Oh well this is my version of the sketch and I'm sticking with it.  

SUPPLIES: 

Stamps and Dies: 

• February Paper Pumpkin Kit - Hello Spring paper 
• Stitched circles and Sizzix Nested dies for circle layers 
• "To A Wonderful Friend" and "for you" sentiments from Hello Spring PP stamp set
• "Happy Birthday" Picture Perfect Birthday #145519 (r)

Cardstock and DSP:

• Card Base 4 1/4" x 11"  Basic Beige scored at 5 1/2"
• Scrap Basic Beige for 1/2" circle  for sentiment
• 2" x 2" scrap Old Olive for circle die cut 
• 3/4" x 5 1/4" strip Copper Foil and 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" scrap for circle 

Ink:

• Copper Clay(r)

Accessories:  

• Dimensionals

I hope you like this card, and will leave me a comment.  I'm interested to know how many masculine cards visitors make during the month.  I always tend to need about four but try to have some extras on hand.  Come back again next week to see the other cards I have made with the March Paper Pumpkin kit.  Cheers!  

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Three Cheers Masculine Birthday Card - #AHSC612

Happy Monday and thanks for checking out my post today. I thought I'd start the week off with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge created by Michelle and digitized by Brandi. This sketch ends on January 19th, so there's plenty of time to get crafting on it. Hope you'll join in the fun!

Here is My Card: 

I'm in dire need of some masculine cards for upcoming birthdays, and this sketch inspired me to pull out my very "manly" retired stamps and dies called Brewed For You.  I'm calling this card "Three Cheers" because of the three beers that are proudly mounted across the front of the card.  

Supplies: 

Cardstock:

• 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4" Crumb Cake for Card Base
• 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" Early Espresso for mat on card front small scrap for sentiment strip mount 
• 5 1/4" x 4" Whisper White for inside mat
• Scraps Whisper White for three beer jugs and foam 

Designer Paper: 

• 5 1/4 x 4" Piece Early Espresso/Crumb Cake dsp from Neutral Pack 2024/25 for mat on card front 
• 1 1/4" x 5" strip Early Espresso design for across center of card front 

Ink: 

• Momento Black for stamping sentiments and images 

Accessories:  

• Mini Cut and Emboss machine for die cutting beer mugs and foam 
• Dimensionals 
• Nuvo Clear Drops for beer mugs 

Well that's it for my post today.  I hope you liked this card.  If you have any questions regarding how it was assembled or about the product used please drop me a line, I'd love to hear your comments and questions.  

Cheers and have a great week! 

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Bi-Plane Fun Masculine Birthday Card - Freshly Made Sketches #648

Happy Saturday and welcome to my blog.  Summer is whizzing by and we continue to have hot dry weather.  Some days, I just don't feel like leaving the house or doing anything outside. Today is one of those days, so I'm happily heading to my craft room to get some crafting time in.  Join me......

The Abbotsford Airshow is happening this weekend and all day long I can hear the planes roaring overhead.  Since planes are on my brain, I thought it would be a great opportunity to use Narelle's sketch #648 from Freshly Made Sketches for today's card.   Here's the sketch:

Click here to see the FMS #648 Design Team and Participant's Cards

HERE'S MY CARD: 

Supplies: 

My card features papers from the Take to the Sky Designer series paper featured in the annual Stampin' Up! Catalogue and the coordinating stamps and dies from Adventurous Sky.  

Click here to see the details on the Take to The Sky suite

Stamp Set and Dies:

• Adventurous Sky 

Paper:

• Take to the Sky DSP for the mats on the outside and inside of the card. 

Accessories: 

• Layering Squares Dies
• 1" square die punch 
• Dimensionals 

Thanks for dropping by and checking out my card.  Hope you liked  it.  This was a very quick and easy card to make and I hope it inspires you to try different styles of cards and perhaps join in the challenge, there's still time.  

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