I really love making masculine cards. I have more nephews and with the number of guys in our family I go through masculine cards nearly every week. This card I used the Heartfelt Creations Everyday Heroes collection and stamped 3 of the images one in grey, one in blue and one in red. Two of the images the ship and the globe I needed to mask off the large BG stamps so that I could chose the portion of the stamp I wanted to use. It is a great way to use your stamps for more than just a background stamp and get many more uses from the stamp. Then I distressed the edges to give an aged look. Then created the Faux Tiles technique found here: Faux Tile Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers. Then mounted on a few layers of colors. Finally I heat embossed in copper the Happy Birthday and the anchor and cut out the anchor and added the twine.
I look forward to seeing what you create.
Thanks for looking!
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 GMT Views: 2386
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Registered: January 20, 2010 Location: Brampton, Ontario Posts: 26123
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 @ 4:29 AM
Beautiful guy card Lisa! I love the red, white, and blue theme aged a little as you have done here. The copper accents are very nautical and look terrific! TFS the technique link too.
Registered: July 12, 2005 Location: Hugging a golden and stamping' in PA Posts: 21216
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 @ 5:36 AM
Fabulous nautical themed card, Lisa, and perfect for a masculine one as well. Love the vintage look and the patriotic colors! Great job with the tile technique!
Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105055
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 @ 9:59 AM
Fabulous guy card, Lisa. I love the addition of the copper!
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Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50476
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 @ 3:42 PM
You did a terrific job of combining,cropping, and masking images for this card and then I love how you cut the pieces for the grid..very creative Lisa!