Make it Masculine – landscape

Well I managed to meet my challenge for this month – albeit I left it until quite late as only made these on Sunday late afternoon! But I got there!

I challenged myself at the beginning of the year to make at least one card suitable for a male recipient each month and to film the process for my YouTube channel. So check out the process over there!

I gave myself the theme of landscape and because I follow the fabulous Deb Wheeler and her amazing makes with Claritystamps it gave me the idea to dig out the masks and create a landscape and then add some silhouette images to finish off.

I had also found these die cut window shapes in my stash when tidying a few days earlier and thought – oooh I could turn a landscape into the view from the window – so that’s what happened.

I made one landscape on a sheet of cardstock and then two different sky scenes for the two different cards.

This one I added a small amount of foliage to on the left and a flying bird. It was more of a summer daytime scene and the other was more of a sunset with a birdhouse in the scene.

For both cards I chose navy as the card base and did a layered panel (as always inspired by Martin Mayhem designs!). I embossed both with the Timeworn Type 3d embossing folder but this second one I went a bit further and added the foiling too!

I added dimension with some scrap card layers under the window and then some fun foam as a layer between the base and the topper panel.

Both sentiments were foiled too – the first one is a shiny sentiment but the second one I used the satin foil like I had for the sentiment.

I added Night of Navy inking too which helped differentiate the layers from each other and distressed the edge of the topper panel.

I also added three brads to that second card – isn’t it fun to use things like brads when you’ve not even thought of using them for years! I always think they are a good alternative to gems when doing a masculine make!

This was my first use of that Dina Wakely scribble press plate and I love it – albeit I didn’t place it quite right – I imagine this will be something I will grab quite often for backgrounds both as a press plate image and foiled!

So there we go – two more cards for males done and dusted! I love these and it was fun to use really old stash and techniques I’ve not done for a while – I suspect I might keep those masks out for using more often now I’ve refound them!

Happy crafting!

Catherine