Masculine Christmas Cards

I used up just about all the Christmas designer paper I've had in my stash this year, so I recently treated myself to a few new sheets that I found at my local scrapbook store. This Sasparilla/Gold Rush plaid by October Afternoon caught my eye right away and I thought it would make some great masculine  cards. I  had quite a few snippets of sparkly gold and black card stock on my table, so I used a Frantic Stamper Deer Bust die to cut a piece of black and sparkly gold  and placed the black negative into the gold panel and vice/versa. I cut both the image and mat with stitched ovals and added a piece of that gorgeous plaid paper for the background, placing it all on a Soft Stone card base. The sentiment was done with a very old retired SU! stamp, heat-embossed with white ep on a basic gray panel, then die cut with a stitched circle die and a matted with a black punched circle. I wanted the sentiment to be small to let the deer bust take center stage.

I decided to make that 2nd card right away since I already had the deer bust cut and inlaid into the black panel. I wanted a slightly different look, so instead of stitched ovals, I used stitched rectangle dies to cut the image panel, plaid panel, and Hello Honey card base. The sentiment was done with a very old wooden stamp (no name) that I've had since I began stamping years ago. I heat-embossed it with white ep on basic grey card stock, and fishtailed the ends with a hexagon punch. The sparkly gold paper sheds pieces of glitter every now and then, so just ignore those random sparkly dots on both cards! They're like magnets to the card stock :)

I'm going to enter these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp It's Christmas Card Day

Snippets Playground #341 - must use snippets

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper December 2018 Challenge - use patterned paper

Just For Fun December 2018 Challenge - card for any holiday

Tuesday Throwdown #420 - anything goes

The Male Room Challenge #100 - celebrate

Inkspirational Challenge #175 - designer's choice anything Christmas

Happy Little Stampers December 2018 anything goes with dies

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a great week ahead!

Carol

His and Hers Neon Birthday Cards

I recently became aware of how much stash I've accumulated when I stumbled upon 2 boxes of stamped images I've saved for years. I made a goal to color them and use them to make cards, regardless of how old they are! There are hundreds to sort through I'm sure! Today's 2 cards are using some of those stamped images. I'm think these are Penny Black images, but  I never wrote the stamp manufacturer's name on the back, so it's guesswork as to who made them. Anyhoo, I colored the image with Copics, cut it with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle and mounted it on black. The blue panels were white cardstock snippets, colored with a blue fluorescent Copic marker, and embossed with a Darice tiny stars embossing folder. The sentiment is by LOTV, and the tiny stars are negatives from a SSS star border die.

Here's the pink version for "her." For this one, I did a little doodling around the stitched rectangle, and embossed the vertical panels with a SU! arrow folder after coloring them with a Copic pink fluorescent marker. I added 3 black Candi dots and the same LOTV sentiment to finish this card.

                                      

I based both cards on the OWH Stars and Stamps sketch challenge #251 and I'm also entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday

Inkspirational Challenge #79 - neon colors

Snippets Playground #170 - must use snippets

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful day!

Carol