I made this masculine birthday card for my cousin, Ben. I used the patterned kraft cardstock from a paper pack from Recollections that I got at Micheal's. I just layered on and 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" piece of Georgia Pacific white card stock. The tag was a digital image that I got off the internet. The flower is from Prima, and the sentiment stamp is from Hot off the Press stamped with versa mark ink in black and cut out using a label die from Sizzix. The blue coloring on the sentiment is done with broken china distress stain. That's all for this card. Simple yet nice for a young man. I still find myself struggling with masculine cards and then I just remind myself that simpler is better for men. I think women are mainly the ones that like cards with a whole bunch of layers and elements all over the card. That is with the exception of a few men.;) I really like the way the distress stain looks on this card. All I had to do to get that look is just swipe it randomly across the die cut. I didn't want the whole thing to be blue, I wanted some of the background paper to show thru. Distress stains are translucent so you don't have to worry about covering up your stamping when you use them. cool eh? I hope you enjoyed my card today. Its the last one of 2012. I will be starting to post the cards from 2013 tomorrow and I will have some Valentines cards and some videos to go with them coming soon so stay tuned! tfsb, hugs, amyk
