These have both physical texture - the cardstock - and visual texture - in these crazy reflective hearts! Got them on a great deal at Joanns when I went scrounging for something to use for quick Valentines for the sale.
I'm in need of making a whollllle bunch of Valentines. I know, I know! Valentine's day is over, right? Uh, not in the non-OWH world! My church's care package ministry needs to do some fundraising, so I need to jam on a bunch of cards for a sale next weekend. I can't bring myself to do hearts just yet, so this one is simple....says Happy Valentines Day on the inside. I'm not sure if all the yummy texture is enough (can you see the embossing on the bottom section?) or if it needs a heart charm. I think I can get away with calling this masculine, right?
I know, it's a little early. And I'm not really a baseball fan. But....baseball season would mean we're done with winter! Winter here means rain, rain, rain, and grey grey skies. I'm done with it!
The stamp and sentiment both were purchased years ago from a store that closed, so I don't think they're available any more. They were wayyyy on sale at the time, so I think they were really old when I even bought them.
This sweet lil fishing gnome stamp is one that was in the stamp collection at Impress that we got to use at stamp night on Saturday; they get out all the stamps they use for classes and let us go to town :) They also donated a lot of nice Memory Box cardstock....I stamped the image on the cardstock along with the little sentiment, then on my white paper, colored and cut out the gnome and fishie. Added ribbon when I got home, it was way too plain-o :) But I think it's a cute CAS card for a lil boy!
I'm not sure what it is in me that I can't seem to say no to a dare! I was at stamp night at Impress last night, and several of us won the same set of Cosmo Cricket chipboard - this stuff is soooo not my style! But....we agreed to all give it a go, and with the same bits of chipboard.
This is a great fish stamp that my friend Barb sent me....since I'm doing these masculine cards, a fish was really helpful! I added some glossy accents, pierced the border around him, added some stickers....
I bought this little truck and sentiment at Impress Rubberstamps last valentines day I think.....and have hardly ever used it! I'm not so good with small stamps, so I've been hunting around for designs that show off teeny things, and realised that Mojo Monday actually has a great single page collection of all their sketches! This one is from the 2010 collection....
I hope you guys don't get tired of all these adorable stamps from MJD...I just love them! Though I have to admit, masculine cards with them scares me! I wrestled like mad with this one, since it's a pink and red challenge - not a guy combo! So I did two, one for the challenge, one for the guys :) Go play along, I know you ladies love the pink and red!
This is an image that was RAKd to me...or, should I say, a pair of images. The golfer is popped, so is clearly in the foreground :) I was having some color issues here; the brownish jacked called for a little more of that color on the card, and the large square was too much, thus the circles of other papers joined the fray. I think I still like it though.
Not the age. The sketch! lol. Been busy enough lately that when I need to make a card, I'm going straight to the S&S Sketch collection, grabbing an already-colored image, and going to town.
I'm still not positive it was actually missing - but I liked the new sketch 34 anyway! :)
I'm kneedeep in computer stuff....but had to take time to make a quick masculine card, of course, using sketch #52 over on Stars and Stamps - we're trying to see if we can't get 52 participants this week! Go play and help us reach the goal! (And I said quick - I had this image colored yesterday :)
Yes, I know, that's a weird title for a blog post :) But my monthly stamp group is the STDivas...Stamping Together Divas. (Long story about the origin of that!)
I didn't have the most productive day in terms of cards....I only finished these two - but the one on the left is my masculine one for the day :) The cricut fishie and pond (? we couldn't decide what it was!) were made by my friend Sheila...so stinkin cute! The floral on the right is an attempt with the stamps/nesties set that is turning out to be a big PITA to work with....gonna have to look for some tutorials or a gallery of ideas to see what else can be done to make it faster - that took me hours :(
I am soooooo deeply indebted to a dear lady in Australia....she helped me get the OWH database up and running, and though I'm still busier than a one-armed paperhanger, I've had way more time since Jan 1st than I ever did before. No more daily copying and fixing of data......no more detailed spreadsheet tasks to swallow my evenings! It's still taking a while to knock out the kinks, but I am so happy to have this working after wanting it done for over a year. So....I'm sending her a packet of cards as a thankyou gift.
She works for Red Kite, and since their color is red, each card has some red in it to tie the card set together. I'll be making a card FOR her, and I don't want to rush it while I'm sleepy, so will be working on that this weekend. But these are the blank ones I'll wrap up for her to use. These each use the sketches on the OWH sketch page - this is #1 through #8....and #6 is my masculine card of the day.
I'm getting ready to mail out 14 boxes in the next day or two and decided to make some special cards for our contacts...a bunch of these for the men...which covers my masculine card for today:
A supersimple card....not much time on my hands right now, I'm packing cards like mad! I made the deadline for Valentines way too late....so things are just a tad frantic :)
Last week's sketch got under my skin....I made a number of cards using it this week. Today's? Hmm not sure! This card took a lot to come together; both of the patterened papers have a design on the other side, and the other side's what I started with. But it was lookin' all girly....til I turned them over. The 2 sets of stripes are a little disconcerting, but I think having them contained by heavy black lines helps define them so they don't vibrate against each other too badly! lol.
After the tragedy in Arizona, I was inspired to make these.....the Congressional Rep, Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in the shooting is married to a Navy Captain. (He is also an astronaut, double cool.) These awful and senseless attacks on people who are serving our nation - whether in our armed services, first responders, or in political office - just really get me down. OWH makes me feel a lot better - our OWH family is incredibly wonderful and kind. But news like today's reminds me there are people who don't make cards and aren't nice. That just bursts my little bubble. A small child and a judge have died - it just makes no sense that people would do such crazy things.
I wanted to do something to make me feel better. So I decided, since at least one of the injured is a Navy family member, I'd make some AnyHero cards for my masculine cards today. It always seems easy to do masculine ones when they're AnyHero cards! I got out two packs of Navy stickers from EK Success to make these; one was a large flat pack, the other a small 3dimensional pack.
That's this week's challenge on MelJens.....so go make a card with some motion! This one has a heart that spins with love.....using the new release "Sweet Lace Heart"....so cute! I hope this is masculine; MJ images are so darling I rarely seem to use hers for guy cards....guess that'll have to change, huh!
I decided to get out some different paper today....usually I try to pull from my already-cut-stash of card front size pieces, but that wasn't doing it for me tonight. I applied them to this week's sketch and I think they came out pretty good, if I do say so myself :)
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