Friday, February 17, 2012

Manly Birthday Card

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It's my brother's birthday, and I thought I'd share the card that I made for him.  I tried to keep it manly with the colors and elements I used.  Hopefully I pulled it off!  The card is made from a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of kraft cardstock, scored at 4 1/4".  Down the center, I stamped the Chicken Wire Background from My Creative Time's Spring Chicken Backgrounds stamp set.  On top of that I layered a 4 1/4" x 1 1/2" strip of woodgrain patterned paper.


All of the elements on this card are cut from the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  The star is cut at 4", and I added a kraft button and twine to the center.


This arrow is cut at 1 1/2", although I did trim a bit off the bottom.  To dress it up, I stamped some circles from Papertrey Ink's Grunge Me stamp set.


The tag is cut at 2 1/2", making it just the right size to stamp the background from the coordinating stamp from the Close to My Heart Vintage Stamp set.  "HB2U" is from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Bash Sentiments.  We'll see how good my brother's texting language skills are!

Here are the products that I used for this card:




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  1. JannieFebruary 17, 2012 at 4:02 AM

    What a great manly card, aren't they difficult! Pff it always costs me a lot of effort, but you have done wonders! The chickenwire is very effective!

    TFS
    JannieX

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  2. CathyinMNFebruary 17, 2012 at 5:33 AM

    I think you have yourself a manly winner here. TFS!
    tcsobotka at charter dot net

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  3. twinkles11February 17, 2012 at 5:53 AM

    great job with the background stamp and love your colors. eva (twinkles311@hotmail.com)

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 6:54 AM

    I love your card. It is so refreshing.
    marilyn2222 @ hotmail.com

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  5. Linda KaiserFebruary 17, 2012 at 7:37 AM

    I love this card. Emma's new stamps are amazing. Hope you are having lots of crafting fun over the long weekend.

    Linda

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  6. chillin with QuillinFebruary 17, 2012 at 8:14 AM

    what a nice manly card, it's so hard to come up with them !!!
    Paula

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  7. Jen NFebruary 17, 2012 at 8:36 AM

    Cute! You definitely hit the manly button, great job!
    jenny dot naus at yahoo dot com

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  8. UnknownFebruary 17, 2012 at 2:03 PM

    too cute
    Tracy-JGsPumpkin@peoplepc.com

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  9. Maureen ReissFebruary 17, 2012 at 5:06 PM

    Super cute card!!! Love the colors!!

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  10. Kim's KreationsFebruary 17, 2012 at 5:53 PM

    Good job. I'd so hard to make a card for a guy. I always struggle with it, but you pulled it off. Love the chicken wire and the wood grain.

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  11. Cindy LovellFebruary 18, 2012 at 5:07 AM

    Awesome masculine card,Katie!! Great insperation!! The background stamp looks so awesome here!! :)
    Have a great weekend!

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  12. KristiFebruary 18, 2012 at 10:29 AM

    I love ideas for guy cards, it looks awesome.
    kidshomelove at yahoo dot com

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  13. Sandy from UkiahFebruary 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM

    I love that blue and green together.. as always you are amazing Katie...

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  14. KathyFebruary 18, 2012 at 4:52 PM

    What a fun and different card. I lov the star!

    Kathy
    http://notjustkrafts.blogspot.com/

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  15. Kim HFebruary 18, 2012 at 5:07 PM

    Katie ~ I think you pulled the manly card off PERFECTLY! I am love with what you did with the background stamps! The woodgrain paper is just AWESOME! Actually all the elements to your brother's card are just PERFECT! Happy B-day to your brother!

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