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If you do a search in the gallery for certain sets, you will find lots of great ideas. For masculine cards, my favorite sets are: Noble Deer, Lovely as a Tree, The Back Nine, Set Sail, Angler, Nature Prints, Coast to Coast.
Here's one of my favorite masculine cards from my gallery that I made for my brother's birthday using Noble Deer: Gallery at Splitcoaststampers
Hope that helps.
Linda
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Unfortunately for me my DH likes bold bright colors and my Noble Deer just looks silly in yo you yellow, KWIM??? So I tend to make him polka dots or other simple designs but with big bright colors. He likes flowers too!
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Unfortunately for me my DH likes bold bright colors and my Noble Deer just looks silly in yo you yellow, KWIM??? So I tend to make him polka dots or other simple designs but with big bright colors. He likes flowers too!
Oh yes, geometric shapes and designs! Great suggestion!
Linda
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I also use Little Pieces a lot for masculine cards. There is a great one on the Little Pieces inspiration sheet (sorry I don't have a picture of one in my gallery).
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Here's one with the vintage truck...you'd want to change the saying though. I did give THIS one to a guy but he'd just helped me fix my car and he's a brash kind of guy so I thought he'd get a laugh out of it.
There may be more in my gallery but I HAVE to go to work. I should be dressed and ready in 8 minutes and I'm still sitting here in my underclothes using SCS. Yikes! ;-)
I think the best thing to do is search the gallery for "Masculine." Nature, sports, and any sort of transportation set work especially well. Some of my favorite sets to use for guys are: Lovely as a Tree, Close to Nature, Fantastic Foliage, Set Sail, Yukon, Fly Fishing and Calm Seas.
Wow, blueheron, I gotta say, you do some beautiful work! Thanks for sharing. By the way, what happened with the job interview as per your first card sample (curious minds ...:rolleyes: )
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Thanks for the compliment! You made my day--make that MONTH!
As for the job--I didn't get it. He called to tell me that he thought I was "overqualified" and would be bored with the job, so he offered it to someone else. Can't argue once something is already decided. Got that same response at several other job interviews, too--but the good news is I START A NEW JOB ON MONDAY!!! And the interviewer called to tell me how beautiful my thank you card was. Even though I mailed it on the same day as the interview, she didn't get it until four days later. By then I had already been offered the job, so the card had nothing to do with it. But it was nice of her to call! (And maybe it makes her feel better about her choice).
I have a really hard time with masculine cards. If I could sneak away and visit a Hallmark store (or the card section of Wally Mart) I could get some ideas!LOL But if my husband caught me I would be worse than dead. I couldn't buy any more stamp stuff!!!!!
I love Balmy Breezes, Lovely As A Tree and the retired Coast to Coast for masculine cards. I don't have much in my own gallery, but here are some cards that I saved to my favorites to use as inspiration. I think these are great and I hope these wonderful stampers don't mind that I share their cards on this thread.
Your favorite masculine card
