Today’s card is a simple masculine birthday card. I see posts regularly asking about masculine cards with comments that they are difficult. I agree somewhat in that quite a lot of the stamps seem to be geared towards females. And we like to add embellishments to those cards. I think of masculine cards as more “simple”. I mean that to be just “less”. I would love to know your thoughts.
This card is for a dear friend and I tried to adhere to the thoughts I expressed above. I knew when I first saw the Soar Confidently stamp set that it would be great for masculine cards of any age. Most guys I know love flight. And when I saw this piece of the Well Suited Designer Series Paper, I immediately thought to stamp on it. I love the grid look.
The strip of DSP is the opposite side of the grid paper. I hesitated just a second because it is Poppy Parade. But I knew it needed some color. So the base of Pacific Point and the layer of Poppy Parade are both from that strip of DSP.
With the simple Memento Tuxedo Black stamped airplane, I needed a touch more of texture and brightness. I went with the “Awesome At Any Age” sentiment from the Itty Bitty Birthdays stamp set. (I love all of the Itty Bitty sets!) I tried all of the punches and came to the Label Me Fancy for the sentiment layer. It made me think of military dog tags, which made it perfect since the friend is retired military. For a backing layer I went back through all of the punches I have. When I tried the Tailored Tag punch I was happy. It frames the first tag almost perfectly.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you have a great day and will come back tomorrow.
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