STAMPIN' UP! MASCULINE BIRTHDAY CARDS

To provide a slight respite from all the flowery cards I've been bombarding you with lately, today's post contains a couple of simple masculine birthday cards.  Whilst I've been loving creating with floral stamps and papers, I realised I don't have on hand many cards suitable for males.

My jumping-off point for these cards was this awesome colour combination:

I used cardstock in the three dark colours, and used the same colours of ink (as each piece of card) to randomly stamp images from a few stamp sets that are good for masculine cards.  I used Crackle Paint, Geared Up Garage, Artisan Textures, Gallery Grunge and Rooted in Nature.  After adhering the panels of card to a piece of Whisper White card, I ran them through my Big Shot with embossing folders.

This first card was embossed with the Brick & Mortar 3D embossing folder:

My second design, using the same colours, but mixing up the order, was embossed with the Basket Weave 3D embossing folder:

I white-embossed my favourite birthday sentiment stamp (from Perennial Birthday) on Night of Navy card, and cut it using the perfectly-sized stitched rectangle die from Ornate Layers.  Leaves Trinkets (attached with Tombow Liquid Glue), and some denim ribbon, are simple finishing touches.

Listed below are all the Stampin' Up! products I used to make these cards.  If male cards are not your thing, I hope this simple design concept helps to make them seem a little less intimidating!

Product List

Perennial Birthday Clear-Mount Stamp Set [145760] $38.00	Crackle Paint Cling Stamp Set [148752] $28.00	Geared Up Garage Cling Stamp Set [148590] $37.00	Artisan Textures Cling-Mount Stamp Set [151278] $30.00	Gallery Grunge Cling-Mount Stamp Set [151275] $35.00
Rooted In Nature Cling-Mount Stamp Set [148217] $73.00	Stamparatus [148187] $85.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.50	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $10.50	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00
Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $13.00	Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad [149165] $13.00	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [147087] $13.00	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] $14.25	Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577] $15.25
Basic Gray A4 Card Stock [121689] $15.25	Card Stock A4 Crushed Curry [131288] $15.25	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $17.00	Brick & Mortar 3D Embossing Folder [149643] $17.00	Basket Weave 3D Embossing Folder [151797] $16.00
Ornate Layers Dies [152726] $64.00	3/8" (1 Cm) Denim Ribbon [149590] $12.25	Leaves Trinkets [146343] $14.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $8.00