Masculine Cards!

How can August be hals way over? Lordy Days time flies! here is another class submission for the Atenew Educator Certification Program. This topic for the class is masculine cards.

I get on the struggle bus a lot racking my head to come up with cards for men. I make a card and then feel like it needs a bow or some sparkle. Although my 2 men in my life, my husband and son, would love any card I make them. When you've been asked to make a card for someone else's guy I admit it can be challenging. I came up with this card using Altnew's Arched Foliage. I used greens, yellows and copper!

The basic card base A2, 5.5 and 4.25. I stamped the main image with momento toffee crunch and used the coordinating stencils and shaded the leaves with mountain pine, tranquil teal (gina k), grass field, fresh lemon

I used vera mark and stamped the image so blessed and sprinkled copper embossing powder and heat set it. I then die cut the so blessed image out withe the coordinating dies. i wanted it to be simple so I trimmed the so off and ended up with "Blessed".

I used toffee crunch and shaded the 3rd stencil for the background. I then splattered Distressed stain all over the focal image and adhered to my card base. The inside was stamped with "to have you in ky life" from a set from my stash. I love this card and it looks very masculine!