MORE CARDS FOR THE MEN IN OUR LIVES!

Hello Everyone,

Once again, here we are with the next post in the series of men's cards I have to share! Hope you enjoy what you see and I hope you come back to see me soon!

Here is a list of expectations I had for all of these cards when I started this project!


A quick reminder of my goals for these cards:

• Easily mailed / no extra postage - Postal Service gets enough as it is in my opinion! 
• Wide range of styles that reach out to the young men in our lives, the old or older, the tots, the ones who love jewelry, cuff links, rings, earrings (as so many of them wear now) etc. Basically those who love bling and those who don't!
• To use items from my stash that have been long forgotten about! A Must!
• To go back to what we did before the giant flowers, the fancy and not so fancy brads, the rhinestones, the glitter glues, the bulky embellishments etc.

To get you all motivated enough to set time aside for making men's cards BEFORE you need them!

Thanks for stopping to see me!
Bethann aka PawwPadd

 Done with all stickers and a stamped sentiment. I used a white gel pen to highlight the words "Touchdown" and the football player, just to make them stand out on such a dark paper.

 Old tag from "The Tag Book" mentioned so many times throughout these posts, matted it, stuck a gemstone brad through it, stamped a round sentiment and backed it with dark paper, mounted it on tag.

 This is also a tag from that old tag book of cut-outs. I highlighted some parts of it to give some more dimension so it would pop a bit. Stamped sentiment in upper corner.

 This and the remainding cards of this post were done with the same background paper and same layout. I used several different stickers and simply layered them off to one side.This one doesn't have a stamped sentiment on the outside but the rest do. There just wasn't room for one. The sticker strips I used (in different colors) are all Creative Memories border strips.

The images used on this card are not stickers, they're actually punch-outs or cut-outs that I colored with pencil to add some interest. They were all just black and white images.

BOYS TO MEN!

JUST FOR THE MEN IN OUR LIVES!

Hello Everyone, I'm back with the men's cards I promised. Don't really have a lot to say about them cause this is  probably the 10th or more post for them all and I still have quite a few more to go! I will continue to post the reminder with the expectations of these cards just in case you're visiting for the first time or just happened to miss it.


A quick reminder of my goals for these cards:

• Easily mailed / no extra postage - Postal Service gets enough as it is in my opinion! 
• Wide range of styles that reach out to the young men in our lives, the old or older, the tots, the ones who love jewelry, cuff links, rings, earrings (as so many of them wear now) etc. Basically those who love bling and those who don't!
• To use items from my stash that have been long forgotten about! A Must!
• To go back to what we did before the giant flowers, the fancy and not so fancy brads, the rhinestones, the glitter glues, the bulky embellishments etc.
• To get you all motivated enough to set time aside for making men's cards BEFORE you need them!

So, here we go! I do hope you enjoy them all and I hope you'll come back to visit! Take Care and as always, Thanks for stopping by!

Bethann aka PawwPadd

 Layered stickers

I actually did several of this style card. I have them all represented here with the few I've chosen. I drew out a jar  and lid the size I wanted for my cards, transferred the drawings to cardboard as patterns, cut them out, transferred the jar body onto vellum paper and transferred the lid pattern onto a very shiny silver paper I have, cut out as many as needed. I really don't remember what I used to engrave the grooves in the lids, but any tool you have with a pointed tip will do. I positioned the bug that I wanted inside the jar and glued the jar over top then added the lids. Once they were all glued down and secure, I just doodled around the jars with a fine tip marker (either my Creative Memories or my sharpie) and that was that. Oh, I also doodled around some of the bugs to give them movement. I thought it would be funny to put the ladybugs on the outside of the jars as a "Ha-Ha" to the caught bug.

This card is made up of rub-ons and a stamped sentiment. There are 4 more below.

On this card, I used all stickers except the horse image. That horse image was cut from a book my friend purchased from a clearance sale at our local Library! She purchased the book with the intentions of using the images for her cards.

Stamped sentiment on an old Paper Pizazz tag and put a gold brad through it. That's it for now! Thanks again for coming to see me! Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. :-)