Mashrooms birthday card

A birthday card, in natural colors, for some challenges.

I die cut the cute little mashrooms from a dp, and backed them with vanilla cs. I added some die cut small branches.

I felt that the mashrooms were somehow 'floating', so I grounded them with brown inking. A sentiment and my card is done.

This card can be ferfect for a man.

Challenges:

Addicted to CAS - mashrooms:

Hand Stamped Sentiments - photo inspiration:

I was inspired by the natural colors and theme.

The Male Room - leaves:

Allsorts challenge - masculine.

SimonSays Stamps Wednesday challenge - make it cute.

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It's time to celebrate you, with brush strokes

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CAS Colours & Sketches

Today's card is a very CAS one, just stamping on one layer. 

I stamped a few 'brush strokes' and some 'splatters', stamped the sentiment, and that's it!

This card can be used for a man, the colors, the design and let's face it - the lack of flowers and blings... LOL.

Challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Allsorts challenge - masculine:

Less Is More - C is for celebrate:

Addicted to stamp and more - any occasion:

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Good Luck on your new way - a card for a new recruit

I needed a card for a young person, who is dear to me, that is a new recruit.

As it's a card for a male, I wanted it to be as simple as possible, without flowers or any embellishments.

I used nesting dies and stamped the image in black and the sentiment in blue. The sentiment says, in Hebrew: 'Good Luck on your new way'.

I adhered the stacked dies on a pp with a very gentle pattern, also in blue hues.

Challenges:

Paper Craft Crue - sketch:

The Male Room challenge - use stencils and/or dies. I used only dies:

Inkspirational challenges - CAS:

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Happy Birthday - You still got it! playing with shapes and solid cardstock scraps

 

Here's another card in my 'using solid cardstock' and 'using scraps' sereis.

I chose this colors combo to make a card that can be given both to male and female, hence no blings or flowers on it.

I was left with some small scrap of the stripes design, and used it for another card, but that's for another post.

All the elements were adhered using foam tapes, and so was the sentiment (Waffle Flower Happy Birthday).

Challenges:

SimonSays Stamp Monday - Party Time!

SimonSays Stamp Wednesday - Party!

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Happy Birthday in blue

A winner at Seize the Birthday

This is a card combining two stamps - one is from Stampin' Up, 'BIRTHDAY', which I have a little more than a year, and the other, 'happy', is from SimonSays Stamps, which I have for ages, many many years.

I like the way the liitle' happy' stamping is overlapping the big' BIRTHDAY' one, and I like the ombre in the blues. 

I used Lindy's embossing powder in silver to create the two lines, framing the sentiment, and matted the panel on a black cardstock.

The card is for some challenges:

The Paper People #617- color challenge: blue, silver and blak & white:

This color combination is so perfect for a masculine card, and everyone need more of these.

Seize the Birthday #251 - many of something + a birthday card:

I have many 'happy' here :).

Retro Rubber Challenge #195 - ombre:

AAA Birthday Cards #43 - monochrome:

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Stacked rectangles - a get well card

 A masculine 'Get Well' card I made, using stacked triangels dies set.

I die cut 3 different sizes of triangels, from 6 solid cardstocks - 3 in blue tones and 3 in brown/earthly tones.

I then stacked the triangles one on the other, to one of the angles, mixing the colors.

I adhered the stacked triangles in a hexagon shape on a very pale blue cardstock, and added two layers of cardstock behind, so it will be raised a little.

The sentiment says in Hebrew: 'Feel better and a quick recovery'.

I made a simple knot from a twine and adhered it between the sentiment and the hexagon. It looks to me as it it's kind of mustache :).

The whole panel was adhered to a kraft basis.

It goes for these challenges:

As You See It #287 - a recipe for the earthy blues, using die cut and twine, to make a masculine card:

AAA Cards #227 - Anything CAS goes:

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Only solid cardstock masculine birthday card

Playing again with only solid card, I came up with this graphic masculine card.

I took inspiration from Lisa A with her beautiful cards (you can see them HERE)

I don't have the die Lisa used, so I just cut squares in multipule sized, using my trimmer. 

Lisa's card was my jump start, but I made it my own, as I added some layered squares on top of the other squares. I think the added squatres give more interest to this card, but still keep the CAS design.

I used solid cs in blue colors (though the darker one looks black on the photo, but trust me - it's dark blue).

Challenges:

Just Us Girls - CAS:

The Male Room - CAS:

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A steampunk birthday card

 

The minute I saw the new challenge at Just Us Girls, I loved the colors:

I used simmilar colors a few times lately - HERE and HERE.

I thought these colors can be perfect for a masculine card. After all, masculine cards are always in need.

I also took inspiration from the sketch at Just Add Ink:

My take is a little loose one, but I think you can still see it in my card.

I die cut the gears frame and colored it with TH's distress inks (vintage photo, peacock feathers and spiced marmalade).

I also die cut the sentiment and colored it with TH's distress ink vintage photo, to match the frame.

It also goes for Little Red Wagon, which asked for Masculine.

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Happy Birthday, with a clock and gears

A winner at CAS on Friday

Hello dear crafty friends!

While I was making my 'To a Dear Friend' card (HERE), I thought this beautiful color palette can also go with a masculine card, so here it is.

I die cut some gears (Memory Box) from dark green cs and sage cs. I stamped the clock (kaisercraft)  with clemenine ink (Pink Fresh Studio) on a kraft cs and punched it out.  The look of the inked image on the kraft is much subtle than on a white cs, and it goes well with the distressed look of my card.

With the same orange ink, I splattered on the kraft cs basis, stamped the sentiment in dark green ink and adhered the gears and clock.

It goes for the following challenges:

As You See It - photo inspiration/ colors:

Cas On Friday - Male

The Male Room - Clocks:

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Happy Birthday, with a glass of martini, please

Happy New Year to all! may 2022 be a year of health and returning to normal life, without Covid-19 around...

Somehow, I never have enough masculine birthday cards, and I usually find out about it the last minute I really need one!

So to avoid shortage, I decided to make a nice supply of masculine birthday cards.

I went on a cool palette of colors, wintery one, and to cool it even further more - I added a glass of martini... :), isn't that cool?

This martini stamp is from a very old stamp set I have, I even don't remember since when, but I never used the martini one, so it's kind of a new one.

I would like to enter this card to the following challenges:

Just Us Girls - beverage:

Global Design Project - celebration:

Time Out challenges - new.

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A monochromatic Happy Birthday card, in green

 

A good way to keep your card CAS, is making it monochromatic, and one layerd.

For this card I used only one stamp and one ink pad, and yet I was able to create a scene, with depth and an angle.

To do so, I stamped the tree stamp in diagonal, once with the stamp full of ink, and right again without loading more ink. This way not only I have trees 'far away in the back', but also in an angle, as if there's a small hill.

The whole stmamping was on one layer white panel, and then I adhered it to a green cs basis.

It can make a great masculine birthday card, don't you think?

I would like to enter it for the 'Anything Goes' challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches;

'Celebration' challenge at Global Design Project:

And the 'New' challenge at TimeOut challenge, as this tree stamp is a new one for me.

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A super CAS card

Happy Saturday crafty friends!

This card is probably THE MOST cas card I've ever made! and I must say - it was very challenging!

I followed the challenge at AAA Challenges: 1 inchie with the optional twist - masculine.

I also used the colors from the current challenge at Color Throwdown, which are navy blue, gold and white:

I find this color combo very elegant, even regal, and these colors are perfect for a masculine card.

Being so so CAS, it also can go for the current challenge at Time Out - simplicity:

I stamped the coffee cup and the 'Hello' with Ranger's archvial ink in cobalt on a white cs, and cut it just a little bit less than an inch.

I then matted it with a shimmer gold cs, sized 1" square. I adhered it to the white cs basis with foam tape, and had to take a deep breathe to say: 'That's it!', and not adding anything else.

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