Tuesday 16 June 2009

From One Tough Card to Another.....

Well my last post was about difficult to make cards - and here's another difficult subject - MEN!!! This is actually an Anniversary Card, but as it's for my hubby that makes it one of the dreaded "man cards" so I couldn't fall back on easy options like pretty flowers, butterflies etc. that give easy solutions for Anniversary cards being sent to other couples! Anyhow I wanted something that is romantic but in a masculine kind of way - hmmm did I just put "romantic" and "masculine" in the same sentence? Not that my hubby doesn't love me, but he just is not a fluffy hearts and kisses kind of person if you see what I mean. Anyhow this is what I came up with - manly colours with a beautiful, but not in the least bit soppy, heart stamp and text stamp, both of which are from Elusive Images.

The background for the heart was made using Distress Inks and the "Wrinkle Free" technique - one of the techniques we played with at the recent workshop I went to. The colours used were Faded Denim, Broken China and Peeled Paint spritzed very liberally with loads of water. Once this was dry I stamped and embossed a lovely leafy flourish heart which can be found on the Harlequin Rose themplate using Gold Embossing powder then spritzed it with Glimmer Mist - the colour was Sea Glass.

Finally I cut out the heart and mounted it with foam pads onto some dark blue Moondust card from Southfields - it's a gorgeous deep blue pearlescent card but the photo does not do it full justice. Before mounting the heart I had stamped and embossed in gold the word "Love" which comes from the Words of Love themeplate onto the Moondust card. This was layerd onto some gold foil card and then attached to a card blank which I had printed with a background paper design from the Artylicious Filigree Fusion CD which co-ordinates nicely with the leafy flourish design on the heart stamp.

14 comments:

  1. This is lovely Phree, my favourite word stamp from WIGL, and I love this heart, espec with the bits cut out. Very classy, hope your hubby likes it. Happy Anniversary, Judith x

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  2. Beautiful card and your put a lot of work into it. Sure your husband will love it. Anesha

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  3. This is beautiful! I am looking for inspiration for a card for my hubby. They are not easy are they!

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  4. I love your card and its perfect for a man Hope your hubbie appreciates it.

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  5. This is a very beautiful card - obviously made with love. I do hope you have a wonderful anninversary.
    Beryl xx

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  6. What a great anniversary card for your hubby Phree. I love the colours so thanks for listing the 'how to'. I'll have to remember this combination when our anniversary comes up (not till November).

    I remember the wrinkle free technique from the workshop. Great one wasn't it!

    Lesley Xx

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  7. Gorgeous. Love the colours.

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  8. This is absolutely gorgeous Phree. Thanks for sharing it with us. Happy Anniversary.

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  9. This is lovely, perfect for a man who doesn't do romance, I know exactly what you mean, I've got one of those too!!!! I think anybody would be delighted to receive this, your colours are perfect and I love that word stamp too.
    Have a great Anniversary.

    Lisax

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  10. What a perfect card. Happy Anniversary

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  11. Happy Anniversary! Your card is beautiful! I bet your husband will love it!

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  12. Congrats on your Wedding Anniversary!

    Stunning card love the sea glass glimmer with gold gorgeous

    TC

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  13. It's beautiful Phree. I am sure he loved it and all of the wonderful things you create.

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  14. Lovely card, the colours as usual are perfect. I think there's two rules when making mens cards (I have 5 brothers so I talk from experience)
    No Lace, No Flowers and No bows... EVER ! Tee hee

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