Sunday Afternoon Cardmaking

 I used one of my favorite Stampin' Up stamp sets on this one.  The citrus images are so versatile and can be used on many types of cards.

 These large flowers have been in my stash for quite a while.  I typically do not use them on my cards if the card is to be mailed because the flower gets crushed by the post office machinery.

This card was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest.  The playing cards were cut in half.  I printed the sentiment using card making software.  The inside sentiment is "Hoping yous is a winner!" 

This will make a good card for a man's birthday.

Masculine Birthday Card

This masculine birthday card was inspired by one see online.

I used a free clip art image for the cattails and added the sentiment using Hallmark Card Studio software.

DH's Birthday Card

This is the card I made for DH's birthday.  He enjoys guns and hunting so it's appropriate!

The Elmer Fudd image is clip art.  I did two print and cut images using my Cameo then fussy cut out his hat and clothing and layered them onto the base image using pop dots.  Then I pop dotted the entire assembly for dimension.

The edges of the elements were inked and I added some pen work.

The sentiments were printed using Hallmark Card Making software.

It's Your Day Card

This card was done for a challenge on the Old Cricut Community page.  Shirley (Okieladybug) Thompson has been posting a sketch for the challenge and providing the cut file for the elements.

I used the retired motorcycle stamp from Stampin' Up and added the gear cut outs to the front.  The papers are from a Halloween pack from Stampin' Up.

Masculine Birthday Card

Inspired by a card seen on Pinterest.

Cowboy Cards

Last year at GASC, I bought several sheets of chipboard stickers with a western theme.  I thought they'd make good images to use on cards geared toward children.

After working with twine on some other cards today, I decided it could also work as "rope" and here's what I made this afternoon.  The background paper was bought at Hobby Lobby a while back.

Masculine Card

Here I go again, trying to come up with some sort of masculine themed card.  This one could be used for an adult or a child, I believe.  I'm leaving them blank inside so the sender can write whatever they want.

It would work for Father's Day, birthday, or congratulations since an upright horseshoe is for luck!

The rope frame and horseshoe are on Old West.  I resized them with Design Studio to fit onto the A2 sized card.

Kraft Paper Birthday Card

Tammy Mayberry graciously shared her concept for this card.  She used kraft paper in layers for hers.  The striped paper I used is lightweight.  I used my Expression to cut the stars and the red squares for the mat.
Heat set some small gold circles on the corner.

Masculine Birthday Card

In the Tim Holtz Lost and Found stack that I picked up at HL on Saturday there was a sheet of grungy looking calendar pages.  After studying them for some time trying to decide how I could use something that big on an A2 card I decided they'd make great masculine birthday cards.

I just cut off the names of the months, matted them with black and put them onto the center of the card above the computer generated sentiment.

There are score lines above and below the calendar page done with my Scor-Pal.  They don't show up too well in the photo.

Added a ribbon and textured button and I think this makes a pretty masculine looking card!