Masculine Cards

Hello and welcome back, crafting friends.

I have three cards to share with you today, all of them were made for hubby's birthday.

This first card is the one I made to give him. As you know I love stitching on cards and often mix and match embroidery kits to get exactly the card I want.  You can't really tell from this pic, but the image is made up of 4 different layers all stacked upon each other. The dimension is beautiful!

For the inside I used a stamp set from Fiskars called Aged to Perfection to create my sentiment focal point.

This card was the one I made for my son to give Dad. 

Papers are from my scrap drawers. The image is from a cutting sheet by Amy Designs called Daily Transport.

For the inside, I used a design from the Silhouette store. Isn't it cool? This is design #49617.

All the card stocks are from Recollections. Thinking about it now, I think I should have used a piece of red card stock behind the scrip.  Live and learn :-) Next time I'll know better!

The birthday stamp is from the Good Times stamp set by Cardz TV.

And lastly, my mom asked me to make a card for her "favourite" son-in-law!
  Hehehe, he's her only son-in-law :-)

Again I took the opportunity to stitch a card.

Don't you just love the nautical feel of this card? I used 3 different shades of blue for the stitched "waves" that frame the image, which is also made up of 4 different layers for dimension.  This image was from the Maritime 3D push-out sheet by Amy Designs.

In order to keep the inside with the same nautical theme, I added a rope and life preserver die from Cottage Cutz.  The stamped sentiment is from a very old stamp by Hampton Art.  All the card stocks on this card are from GinaK. except the linen card stock which is from a company in Holland.

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and that I was able to provide a little inspiration on making masculine cards. If you haven't trying card stitching, I highly recommend that you give it a try.  It's very relaxing and gives you a great feeling of accomplishment when you're done :-)

Till next time,

Happy Crafting!