Archive for June 12th, 2008

Jun 12 2008

Stamp Simply - For the Guys!

Published by notimetostamp under Flourishes Projects, Masculine Cards

Today my youngest son asked for a birthday card for his good friend who is turning 19. My boys often ask me for cards, and the request is always followed by a statement something like this — “and please, Mom, don’t make it anything like your normal cards.” So, what would you make of that — LOL!!! Basically, they prefer a plain white card with a simple black sentiment on it — nothing more — LOL!!! And I have done plenty of those, believe me — but I went out on a limb today — and here’s what I made:

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I thought this would do well for a 19 year old fellow??? Andthis is certainly aStamp Simplytype of card. This layout is basically the same as yesterday, only this card is oriented horizontally rather than vertically. Here’s the measurements:

  • Card: Standard 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
  • Scarlet’s Letter DP:
    • Top Grey - cut 3″ high;
    • Bottom Dots - cut 1 1/4″ high;
    • Center red strip cut 3/4″ and attached to the top of the dotted piece

As with yesterday’s card — I attached the top DP piece first, then I attached the bottom piece (which has the thin strip already adhered to it), and these are cut so the bottom overlaps the top just a bit, but rather than attaching the DP directly to the card front as I did yesterday, this time I attached it to a light gray sheet, so it appeared to be matted.

To make my sentiment, I stamped Celebrate from Many Sentiments onto white and cut and embossed with a ribbon slide die by Spellbinders. I would have preferred the double ended tags for this masculine card, but I don’t have them. So, I used the ribbon slide, which has wider slots on the ends to run ribbon through. Since I didn’t want ribbon on this card (under the circumstances — LOL!), I inserted 2 brads into each slot — I thought that looked nice and masculine - LOL!!! I then adhered this all to my black card and was done!

I do like this for a guyish card — and my son’s comment — “why the polka dots?”!!! I told him these are metalish guy type dots, not girly polka dots - LOL!!! He’s OK with it — he’ll use it — but it may be back to the plain white paper and black ink for the next one — LOL!!!

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