Explosion, Card in a box - Out of space and Castle

Paper tole Male birthday card

Card in a box - Male birthday card

Kaisercraft Male birthday card - Paper tole - Vintage Car

Stampin Up Owl Punch - Male Birthday card

Stampin Up Owl Punch - Boy / Male Birthday Card

Male card - masking leaves

If you want an extremely easy and quick male card which uses very little craft supplies, this card is perfect. I saw it on Leonie Schroder's blog http://www.stamp-a-latte.com/?s=masking, loved it so copied it almost exactly as I didn't have the same stamps. It looks much better in real life. I'm going to do a few more in blue and brown tones.

I just used three scrap pieces of paper and held in place with a very small amount of double sided tape on the plain white card stock. Then using daubers I sponged SU Always Artikoke and SU Mellow Moss to a desired colour strength. I then removed the scrap paper and stamped the leaf images as desired and finished off with the birthday saying.

Products used: leaf stamps are non Stampin Up; birthday saying is from the SU Upsy Daisy stamp set; SU Always Artikoke & Mellow Moss stamp pads; white card stock.

Male card - BBQ Happy Birthday

Stamp sets used: Stampin Up Voila (dinner plate and food); Stampin Up Sale-a-bration Happy Moments (Happy Birthday); Stampin Up Baroque Motifs (heat/steam from BBQ).

This card was cased from http://flowerbug.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/08/bbq-punch-art.html who does some amazing punch art.

Punch Art Icecream sundae

Males card - Birds

This card was made out of Kaisercraft papers and was CASED from Sharon Johnson.

Males card - Present Box

These cards were made from Kaisercraft papers and the idea was CASED from www.mariestamps.com

Stampin up - Upsy Daisy #6

Males card - Egyptian

This card was created by sticking the egyption stickers onto acetate and colouring the desired sections with gel pens.

Males cards - Stampin up Sense of Time

Stampin up - Sale-a-bration Happy Moments

Iris Folding - Frog amongst the flowers

If you look at past posts you will see I really love the technique 'Iris Folding'. From time to time I give it a break but when I do come back to it (and I always do) I remember why I enjoy it. You can make your main image as busy or simple as you like, and each one turns out so unique.

Below is a close up of the iris folding frog.

Below is a small glance at the inside of the card to finish it off.

Josephs Coat Technique - Male birthday card

These pictures don't show how lovely this technique is. I came across an online demo of this technique and decided to give it a go. I challenged myself at the beginning of January that I was going to focus on male cards. Truth is I'm not good a male cards, it's hard to be inspired using the same colours etc.

This technique is basically an emboss resist type technique. I started with white card stock and sponged the background in various colours (must be light shades, 3-5 different colours max). Then I stamped the 'leaf' image using clear Versamark ink and used clear embossing powder and heat set the image. Then using the darker ink (navy) I sponged the navy over the entire card (including the leaf images). I then wiped off the ink over the leaves to reveal the multi-coloured sponging underneathe. The navy resisted the card due to the embossing. Simple but very effective.

Males card - Sea shells

Stampin up - Sale-a-bration Happy Moments 2 & Butterfly Prints

Graduation Owl - Punch art card

It's that time of year and a work friends daughter has just finished her exams and will be graduating soon. She's not a really girly girl so I made her this card in light blue & brown tones. Think she'll like it?