May 15, 2010

OCC: His Birthday










This week's challenge at Our Creative Corner is a fun one, and a useful one. If you're anything like me, you have a distinct lack of masculine cards in your stash - most of my cards end up being more on the girly side. So this week, we want you to create a masculine birthday card!

Keeping a layout simple with bold focal elements is one way to make a great 'guy card'. It's also a great excuse to pull out those stamps with a more streamlined font.

The inside of this one is simple as well - the patterned paper does all the work. Head on over to OCC to see the always amazing design team samples and to link your masculine birthday creation - we can't wait to see what you come up with!




Paper & Card: Basic Gray, Very Vanilla & Riding Hood Red Card
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Basic Black & Tangerine Tango
Punches:
Large Star punch
Other:
Piercing tool, Ruby Red Button, Hemp Twine, Dimensionals
E-mail me to purchase.

Stamps: Seeing Stars & Happy Thoughts - Verve
Paper & Card:
Ambrosia - Basic Grey
Other: Circle Nestabilities
 
Challenges: OCC, BG Challenge

11 comments:

  1. Ooh this is fantastic so C&S, perfect male card, love this BG paper collection, thanks for joining BG challenges,
    HuGs Kim & and the BG Team :)

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  2. Ooohhh!!! I almost picked Ambrosia too! Then I saw periphery and decided that the blue/brown mojo funk thing wasn't done with yet, so I went with it instead. I really love your card, Sarah!!!

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  3. This is just fabulous, Sarah. I love the dark background and the color combination and the star. They're all my favs for a guy card! Love it!

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  4. Smashing card, Sarah! I love the eclectic mix of papers/patterns, but it still has a CAS feel to it. Love it!

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  5. Sarah this is PERFECT! What a great guy card! Hope your having a great weekend!

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  6. Awesome work - I just love these colors and papers for a masculine card. Your images are so bold and clean - fabulous!

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  7. Love that layout ... such a great combination of patterns ... awesome masculine card.

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  8. Fantastic masculine card! Love the star theme! :)

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  9. I am just like you ... I was struggling to find a male card in my stash yesterday when my youngest son was off to a birthday party! So ... thanks for this inspirational idea! Have decided to start a new folder in my bookmarks "male cards" so I can bookmark posts just like this one ... for future reference! I so don't get the same satisfaction from male cards ... and definitely need some male ideas! Thanks Sarah! Hugs xxAxx

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  10. Love this card! The simplicity of the design combined with these papers make this card perfect for a male. Thanks for joining us at BG Challenges,
    Anthea & the BG Challenges Team.

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  11. I LOVE this card! Love your style. great job on the challenge!!!

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