Blues and greens – a more masculine card?

Ok so I make cards for my parents to send as well as some for my aunties and then I build up a stash that I can use too … I usually end up donating some to charity shops to sell too because I make far too many cards! But I love it. Although here is the catch … I love floral and girly looking cards more than anything … and I really don’t enjoy masculine cards very much at all. But as there are men that we all need to send cards to I have to push myself and try a more masculine card every now and then.

Now I don’t mean blue and green equals masculine… my favourite colour is blue, my daughters is green … but when the card is quite graphic like this one it becomes suitable for use for both male and female recipients. So that’s the best I can do! 😂

I grabbed the Happy Celebrations stamp set … which I love and have used often. I decided to create the background with stamping and overlapping one of the happy stamps in different blues and greens. I then splattered it with some black gesso.

I mounted it onto the Tahitian Tide cardstock and set it aside.

I then heat embossed the boxy happy stamp with black embossing powder and water coloured using the same colours of ink as the background stamping again overlapping the colours.

I waited till it was dry before fussy cutting the letters out.

I heat embossed in white the rest of the sentiment onto black and mounted it on white before adhering it to a panel of the blue to stretch across the background.

I added the letters individually to hang off the top and then added some foam behind the panel to give it dimension.

And that was that … added to the 5×7 card blank and called it done. No bling, no ribbon. So suitable for a male or a female. And a departure from my usual girly flowery cards!

Happy crafting!

Catherine