Birthday Truck Card

 We've got a new card sketch challenge up today at Atlantic Hearts Sketches. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous weeks top three winners along with the Design Team members examples. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us.

Here's the sketch

This was a fun sketch to work with. I needed a birthday card for my brother so I went the masculine route. My brother's favorite colors are red, gray and blue and he just bought a new blue truck. Perfect! I found the truck on Cricut and then just hit my solid color scraps and die cut all the banners using a large fishtail die from MFT. It came together so fast!

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Masculine Birthday Card

 There's a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today and we are also partnering with The Double Trouble Challenge Blog this week.

 We are using our sketch  #478 along with their challenge #114 which is to make your own YouNique Technique meaning you need to create your own background. I hope you'll come play along with us!

Here's our sketch

Here's my card which is for my brother's birthday. The 55 is really for his age but it could be the speed limit too.

For my YouNique background I started by stenciling the brick wall. I then took an arrow embossing folder and loaded it up with white ink and embossed  a strip of black paper. The motorcycle is from an old stamp and die set from Sizzix. The 55 was cut with my Cricut. After I got it all assembled, I thought it needed something so I splattered some black mist on the bricks only.

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Battleship

We've got a DT layout and card sketch reveal up today over at Creative Inspiration. I chose to do the layout and thought it was perfect for this photo of my husband and granddaughters playing Battleship. I love how the youngest one is showing Papa how to play!

This was a fun sketch to play with. I recently bought some iridescent pastel watercolor paints and tried the gray out here in the corners. Then added some texture with a stencil and modeling paste. All the papers I used came from my scrap stash and the title came from a very old page of letter stickers.

I hope you'll stop by Creative Inspiration and check out the rest of the reveal and maybe even play along with us!

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Dies R Us Design Team

I am so excited to be trying out for the Dies R Us Design Team! I love working with dies and they have a huge amount of dies, from many different companies, on their website. You should check it out and see for yourself!

Here are my 3 cards I submitted for consideration. 

 My first one is a clean and simple card. I started by inking up a piece of cardstock with 3 different colors of Distress Oxides and then sprinkled some water on it to get a mottled effect. I then cut the leaves out of a white piece of cardstock using an MFT die and I also used a stitched die from Gina Marie for the edges. I then backed that with the inked piece and popped it up on a white card. I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then added a few flower sequins.

For the second card I got a little messy.  I again inked up a piece of cardstock with some Distress Oxide inks and then die cut the heart using the Sizzix Sizzlets Scribbles and Splat die. The sentiment was also cut from a set of dies. I used some watercolor paint on the background and then flicked some Tattered Angels and Dylusions mists around. Then I glued everything down using the Best Glue Ever from ScraPerfect and added some shiny sequins to give it a little sparkle. 

For my last card I decided to go masculine.  I started with a muted blue and green piece I found in my scraps and then stamped and die cut the motorcycle and flames using a Sizzix stamp and die set. The sentiment banner was cut using the Lawn Fawn Bannertastic stamp and die set.

So please keep you fingers crossed for me! I really hope I make this team. It'll give me a good excuse to buy more dies cause you can never have too many, as far as I'm concerned. lol

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Masculine Birthday Card

Here's a card I made for my husband's birthday. I have such a hard time coming up with masculine cards so I usually browse through Pinterest and Facebook and then by the time I'm through I'm all confused.  Anyway, I saw a card like this somewhere but I can't find it again so I can't give the maker any credit and for that I am sorry.

I can't believe how easy this was and I am thrilled with the way it came out. I just took some watercolor paper and used some brown, gray and black watercolor paint to come up with the base and then stamped the tress on top. I then stamped and embossed the birthday wishes sentiment and it was done.

This is also for the challenge going on at Cards in Envy where your card had to be only 1 layer. 

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How To Make A Grungy Masculine Card With ScraPerfect

I've got a post up on the ScraPerfect Blog today on how to make a messy, grungy, masculine card. I had so much fun getting messy with this one. This card is for my baby brother who is turning the big 50 this year.

ScraPerfect Products Used

Best Glue Ever

Perfect Cleaning Cloth

Perfect Crafting Pouch

Transfer Foils

No Clog Writing Tip

To start I used a stencil and some modeling paste to prepare the background of the card and let that dry.

Once dry I applied a very thin layer of the Best Glue Ever using a sponge brush. I let some of the glue seep between the raised surfaces as I wanted to make this look really grungy.

I waited until the glue was tacky and then laid one of the Transfer Foils on top and burnished it with my finger. I didn't want to cover everything with the foil so I just did it randomly. This is how it came out.

Since it was still a little tacky where I hadn't used any of the Transfer Foils, I took the Perfect Crafting Pouch and tapped it all over the top. 

Then  I used the Perfect Cleaning Cloth to clean up all the powder left from the pouch. Here's a photo that shows one side before using the Perfect Cleaning Cloth  and the other side after.

I then used a stencil and some red ink to add the circles in the right top corner and lines along the bottom edge. I die cut everything else using my Cricut and Cuttlebug and then assembled it all on a black base. 

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How To Make A Retro Masculine Birthday Card

Today I have a retro style masculine birthday card up on the ScraPerfect blog.  I always have a hard time with masculine cards and needed one quickly so I went to Cricut Design Space to see what I could come up with. This was a perfect image for the birthday boy as he is an entertainer and does mostly impersonations of older performers!

This was a quick and easy card but using the Best Glue Ever really makes it come together nicely. I always use it to layer paper on top of a base card. Since the glue doesn't dry right away you have time to get it lined up perfectly. I also used the  Best Glue Ever to add the fussy cut image and little music notes and if any seeps out you can always use the Perfect Crafting Pouch to get rid of the glue and and then use the Perfect Cleaning Cloth to get rid of the leftover residue from the pouch.

For the inside of the card I added a little pocket to hold a gift card for the birthday boy. Again I used the Best Glue Ever along with the Perfect Crafting Pouch and the Perfect Cleaning Cloth.  These three products make crafting so much easier. I can't imagine not using them every time I scrap.

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