Good morning! Emily here with you today to share a far more masculine card than I normally share… As I was searching through the {massive} box of cards for a birthday card for my father in law, I realized that I had exactly 3 cards that didn’t have flowers on them and/or weren’t pink. So, he got a card with a dinosaur on it, chosen by my children. (When all else fails, let the kids pick haha!) I feel like this is an area that needs to be expanded in my card stash, so I took the opportunity for my solo post for A Blog Named Hero to start filling in that gap. Because our partner this month is the fabulous WOW! Embossing Powder, I thought it only fitting to use some of their fantastic array of colored embossing powders to create a festive birthday card in a masculine color scheme, though you’ll have to forgive me the glitter. Teehee!
I started with the fantastic Tassels set by Hero Arts. With a little creative masking from a helpful Post It Note, I created two lines of tassels in sparkly charcoal and pale blue embossing powder from WOW! on some medium gray card stock. Next, I heat embossed my sentiment (also from Hero Arts’s Tassels set) towards the bottom third of my A2 card panel, using the same baby blue embossing powder.
Next, I smooshed my Versamark pad onto the bottom of my top folding A2 card base, then covered it in the same glittery charcoal embossing powder and heated it up. I added a thin strip of shimmery pale blue paper to the bottom of my sentiment panel, then popped the whole thing up with some dimensional adhesive.
Fairly simple, but simpler is better for men, yes? Another card to add to the “masculine” stash!
That’s all for me today! Just as a reminder, you still have some time to enter your projects in our current challenge: Embossing! Just be sure to follow all of the rules so that your project is eligible for a fabulous prize from our fabulous sponsor, WOW!
