Thursday, May 30, 2013

For the Guys in Your Life!

Hello Flourishes Friday Friends! Today we're going to continue on our theme of masculine cards that we began last week, giving you some more great inspiration for that guy in your life!

On to my creation! I decided for the guy in my life to keep it simple and bold at the same time so... I started with a pad of fun decorative paper and this is what I came up with!

I grabbed my Memento Nautical Blue Ink Pad and found that it was pretty much a perfect match to the Teresa Collins Designs Now and Then Paper pack. I stamped the father and son playing football from the Father's Day stamp set using this ink on one of the paper pack's wood grain designs. Love that! Then, I used  Spellbinders Classic Circles LG, cut, embossed and sanded. After that, I matted it onto the Blossom die cut shape. From there, I used Spellbinders Lacey Nested Pennants to create the little flags at the bottom of my main image. Add some twine and a sentiment from the set and.... ta da! I matted it all on a piece of Flourishes Classic Ivory card stock for my card base and... all done - an easy, peasy card just in time for Father's Day! 

Here's a close up!


Hope that served as a wee bit of inspiration for those man cards you might have to make in the coming weeks! The Senior Design Team is picking any set in our Flourishes Stamp Collection and showing off their masculine designs to you today. I know you'll be inspired and come away with some great manly ideas! So stop by and see:

Thanks for stopping by everyone! Hope you have wonderful weekend plans in store! Today was my kids' last day of school so, I am sure some celebrating is in order! See y'all back here soon!

~Julie


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16 comments:

Leslie Miller said...

Love this card! Great design! Julie, I'm a little behind, but I saw your focus on the Flourishes blog and just had to come and say how much I enjoyed it. I've always thought you were the most awesome designer and kind of a wonder woman. I had a great time with you at CHA which seems so long ago now. Miss all of you at Flourishes!

TLady said...

LOOKS GREAT JULIE!!!!!!!!!! I was thinking of this set last night!!!!!!!!!!! :) (Thinking of my Father's Day card to make!) LOOOOOOOOVE ALL the patterned papers you've use with this!!!!!!!! :)

Mary Ann said...

Beautiful card!Love your paper!!!

Anonymous said...

GOAL! Oh, yah! That's soccer. Card scores like 'em points all around the net of readers / receivers. Nautical blue highlighted so many aspects of this work. You go, girl!
Keep Looking UP! mt23stamperatyaho

Allison Cope said...

Wonderful masculine card Julie! Love this image you chose! Totally lovin' all the masculine prints you chose to use - they work perfectly together! Awesome card!

Sparkly Engineer said...

I'm totally fascinated by this card. The image is striking but the layout is deceptive and looks first like a card and then like a flag.

Stacy Morgan said...

Great papers and I like the sketch! Wonderful masculine card all around.

Dianne said...

Well Its great to know you are a wonder woman,:O).Awesome card love all the layer, the flags look very kool,great stamped image and I too love the woodgrain,then with the twine, it's perfect, your funny tada:):):).. Hope your having a wonderful weekend and thanks for sharing..

Mary Ann said...

Beautiful card!Love the colors!!!

ChristineCreations said...

Oh I love all the layering and patterns on this card girl! The banners are a great touch too!

Hope you all have fun on your first day of summer vacation with the kids! I'm sure they're thrilled :) Mine are still counting the days!

Heather Rogers said...

That TC paper looks fabulous combined with this stamp set. I like your twine bow. :)

Amanda said...

Wow! I love the colors and the masculine look! I love the papers and jute you added, it really adds that textural element!

Anonymous said...

Awesome Father's Day card Julie! The silhouette image rocks :) !!!

Unknown said...

Fantastic masculine card! All patterned papers are wonderful and I love the image you used for Father's Day card!

Katie Sims said...

What an awesome Father's Day card! Love those patterned papers and your image is framed out perfectly...and even managed to slide in a "blossom" too! I'll bet he won't even notice! ;)

Petti said...

Lovely card!