This is a great birthday card for the men in your life. Masculine cards for some reason are much harder to create over floral or femine cards, but I am going to make myself do more of them. This card uses Timeless Plaid paper and the The Wilderness Awaits stamp set from Stampin’ Up.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- Basic Beige card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- Cajan Craze card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- Timeless Plaid 6” x 6” designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
- The Wilderness Awaits stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
- By the Dock stamp set (retired Stampin’ Up)
- Border die
- Two label dies (small and medium)
- Cajan Craze ink (Stampin’ Up)
- Blender Pens (Stampin’ Up)
- Cajan Craze (light)
- Wild Wheat (light)
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
- Pop dots
To start take a piece of Basic Beige card stock and cut to 4 ¼” x 11” and fold in half to form a 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. Cut a second piece to 3 7/8” x 5 1/8”” for the inside. From your Cajan Craze cut a piece to 4 1/8” x 5 ¼” and a second for the inside to 4” x 5 ¼”. From the Timeless Plaid designer series paper pack find the piece that goes with the Cajan Craze and cut a piece to 4” x 5” and cut a second piece to 1” x 3 7/8”.
Take the Cajan Craze piece cut to 4 1/8” x 5 ¼” and the Basic Beige piece that is 4” x 5” and stack them together and alight evenly at the bottom edge. Take your border die of choice and angle across both pieces toward the bottom to your liking and cut, forming the angled front pieces.
Take a spare piece of Basic Beige and the Jet Black Momento ink and stamp the fox from The Wilderness Awaits stamp set. Use your Cajan Craze Light Blender Pen to color the fox leaving a bit uncolored around the eyes and nose. With the Wild Wheat Light Blender Pen color the grass. Then use your medium size die to cut out the fox. Take a small whole punch and cut two holes on each side about ½” apart. Cut two pieces of the twine and string through the wholes on each side. Adhere the plaid paper to the center of the Cajan Craze piece. Add pop dots to the back of the fox piece and adhere toward the top and centered and wrap the twine around the edges. Then adhere to the front top portion of your Basic Beige card base.
On a spare piece of Basic Beige take the “Happy Birthday” greeting from the By The Dock stamp sent and stamp with Cajan Craze ink. Then use the small die to cut out and use pop dots to adhere to the lower Basic Beige portion of your card.
For the inside of your card take the Basic Beige piece and adhere to the piece of Cajan Craze and then adhere the plaid strip across the bottom. Use your Cajan Craze ink and a birthday greeting and stamp, I use a “Wishing you the very best of birthdays” stamp. Adhere to the inside of the card.
This is a great card for any males in your life with a birthday coming up.
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