Hello blog friends!
This is a card I created for a recent masculine swap. I always have such a difficult time coming up with male cards- Why is that? I should be ok with it, ya know? I have a house full of testosterone, so this stuff should come easy to me but...?
My husband is a HUGE critic, maybe this is why I have such a stampers block when it comes to masculine cards-I fear his comments! LOL
Anyway! on to my card...
The card base is (my usual 5-1/2x 4-1/4) soft suede. Cherry cobbler,so saffron, and baja breeze are its accompaniments...wow such a fancy word,and I guess I spelled it right(no little squiggly red line appeared!). I stamped my robot image from our stamp set called Best Bots Forever(shown below) on whisper white CS with staz-on black ink.
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| Best Bots Forever Stamp Set |
It is a 2 step stamp so you can build him anyway you like-so fun!!
I watercolored him with our blender pens and the ink from my baja ink pad. I added a little shadow with our basic gray ink and a bit of cobbler on the meter in his belly with the thin end of our awesome markers!
I watercolored him with our blender pens and the ink from my baja ink pad. I added a little shadow with our basic gray ink and a bit of cobbler on the meter in his belly with the thin end of our awesome markers!
I punched cogs from our cog punch on both saffron and baja. I added the small saffron one directly over the robots body. I layered a baja and a large saffron cog,my robot image(with a baja mat) on a piece of cobbler cs. I then ran the entire piece through my SU! Big Shot with our square lattice embossing folder. This effect is called inlaid embossing. I stamped a piece of cobbler with cobbler ink with our A to Z stamp set(not too visible in pic-oops) then punched out with our decorative label punch. I cut this and added the bigger portion under my large cobbler piece. I added an edge of our baja glass glitter with tombo adhesive and adhered that piece under my lil wheelie robot.
Lastly, I stamped my ruler from our Sew Suite set (available in our occasions mini cat until April 30th!)in black ink on saffron cs. I cut this image out and sponged it with suede ink. I then cut my ruler in half. I added a silver eyelet to hinge the two pieces together. I wanted it to look like the wooden rulers that hinge and expand. I don't know why but I always loved to play with my daddys ;)!! He could probably have built a robot with these tools?
And I almost forgot the finishing touch of course is the cute little saying "Happy Botday!" stamped in cobbler on my daddys ruler! I adhered my ruler on top and the cobbler image to my card and he's all done!!
Hope you enjoy!
Until Next Thought,
Kris
