Masculine Thankful for You

Greetings!  

I thought I'd put together a masculine card today. I ordered the stamp & die set originally for my husband, but it actually suits many friends and family members. 

Thanks for stopping by. Blessings and inky hugs. 

-§hawnie 

Holiday Deer

Masculine attributes of this card will hopefuly be appreciated by a male recipient. 

The trees and deer are from Life is Good from Gina K. Designs.   The snowflakes and sentiment are from Stampin' Up!s Short and Sweet stamp set. 

 

 Thanks for stopping by!

~Shawnie B.

Lariat Birthday–Seize the Birthday Challenge

Greetings!
This particular card is from Seize the Birthday.  This particular challenge is for a Masculine card.  I dusted off my old copy of Bareback stamp set from Stampin’ Up!.  Items used to create the card are below under “Labels”. 


Here’s the sketch challenge:


Blessings & Inky Hugs!
~Shawnie B.

Masculine Congratulations

Good evening everyone!  I went through and did an inventory of cards I have accumulated and have come to the realization that I am in need of masculine cards and congratulations cards.  So, why not combine them?  I set out with the daunting task of coming up with one.

I’m pretty pleased with how the bear turned out.  I stamped the image with Versa Mark and dusted Perfect Pearls from Ranger of it.  The result, a holographic image that changes color / density, depending on what angle you look at it.  I included several shots at different angles to show the shimmer.

This card was created using the following supplies:

• Wildlife Reserve stamp set
• Well Scripted stamp set
• Square Lattice embossing folder
• Circle Scissor
• Twill Tape from my stash
• Perfect Pearls from Ranger

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Happy Bird Day!

Here is a masculine Birthday card I created for a man.  There is nothing frilly about this card.  lol

Stamp set’s used:  In Wilderness & Messages for Mom for the sentiment. 

Colors used:  Basic Black, Basic Grey, & Real Red.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

Shawnie B.

Wish Big Birthday Card

This Birthday card is for my adopted brother.  He’s hitting the BIG Five – OH this year and doesn’t seem none too pleased about it.  Happy Birthday Dave!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Shawnie B.

Masculine Birthday

Good evening!  Here’s a simple card with a little bit of detail.  I tried to keep it as simple as I could without looking like no effort was made. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Wolf Birthday in Shimmer

I found a really cool medium by Ranger called Perfect Pearls.  I brushes over a stamped image and leaves a metallic-type shimmer where the inked image is.

The stamp set used on this card is:  In Wilderness and Happy Moments (for the sentiment)

To get the distressed look on the designer cardstock, I embossed it with my chosen embossing folders and sanded the embossed area’s down to reveal the white inner core of the cardstock beneath the colored designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Deer Dad

Here I am, making more Fathers Day cards.  I just can't keep enough of them around.  Most of the cards I make for Dad's, however, can be given to them any time of year.  It doesn't have to be just Fathers Day that these cards are given.

Dad's need to know they are appreciated all year long, don't they?!

This card was created with the following Stampin' Up! Supplies:

• Stamps:
• Noble Deer
• Just so Sayings
• Punchs:
• Square Punches
• Word Window
• Modern Label
• Big Shot:
• Fiscars Wood Impression Plates
• Misc:
• Brads
• Dimensionals
• Hemp Twine
• Colors Used:
• Whisper White
• Chocolate Chip
• Dusty Durango
• Early Espresso ink

Don't forget, Fathers Day is the 17th of this month!  This is a great day to also recognize those whose family lives far from them and they won't be able to spend time with their families.  Even if he's not your Dad, more than likely he's somebody's Dad.

Take care & God Bless!

Blessings and Inky Hugs
~Shawnie B.

Clean and Simple Birthday

Good evening all!  This card is quick and clean.  I resisted the urge to run anything through my Big Shot in an embossing folder.  Thinking about it now, the Houndstooth or Striped Embossing wouldn't have looked too bad. Sigh... What's done is done. Enjoy!

This card was created with the following Stampin' Up! Supplies:

• Stamp Set:
• Elementary Elegance
• Punch:
• Curly Label Punch
• Misc:
• Dimensionals
• Basic Jewel Rhinestones
• Colors Used:
• Chocolate Chip
• Crumb Cake
• Sahara Sand

Thank you so much for stoping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Pheasant Birthday

Good afternoon everyone!  Today is such a beautiful day!  The sun is shining, it's warm outside, yet there is a cool breeze lazily drifting through my craft room.  This puts me in a perfect mood to create.  I just wish I felt more up to it.  Luckily I have been blessed by a caring Dr. who, like me, is bound & determined to help add some value to my life by easing some of my pain.  I understand it's going to take patience until we find the right combination but days like today can be quite frustrating.

So, it's times like this I spend updating my website.  Sometimes I get to creating so much and the Mojo hits me that I don't want to stop creating.

This card I made for my BFF's Nephew who is a little red neck and she asked for something "country".

 This card was made with the following Stampin' Up! supplies:

• Stamps
• Autumn Days
• Best Dad Ever
• Punches
• Square Punch (Sentiment ends)
• Big Shot
• Framelits Labels Collection Dies
• Square Lattice Embossing Folder
• Misc
• Brads
• Stampin' Write Markers
• Dimensionals
• Sponge Dauber
• Colors
• Pool Party
• Basic Grey
• Crumb Cake
• Whisper White

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you enjoy your fun in the sun!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Thank You - Masculine Style

Good afternoon everyone!  It's been a bit overcast and now it started lightening and thundering.  I just got home from visiting my daughter and grand babies so it looks like I made it just in time.  Just yesterday I was looking through my cards as I was wanting to give a Get Well Soon card to a teenaged boy who was in the hospital recovering from surgery.  I had a huge variety of cards to choose from for a woman or a girl, but very few for men or young men.  So, you know what this means?

It means I'm going to have to step outside of my comfort zone, put the frills, lace, and pastel colors away so I can focus on more manly cards.  sheesh!  I hate it when this happens.

If you have any good leads for inspiration making masculine cards, please feel free to share!

 This card was made with the following Stampin' Up! supplies:

• Stamps:
• Totally Tool
• Big Shot:
•  Hounds-tooth Embossing Folder
• Nestabilities Labels 3 Die
• Misc:

• Star Brads (SU! Clearance)
• Ribbon
• Dimensionals
• Colors Used:
• Chocolate Chip cardstock
• Very Vanilla cardstock
• Non SU! designer paper
• Soft Suede ink

So, stay tuned whilst I make more Masculine cards!  And please share ANY ideas with me that might be useful.

Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings & Inky Hugs

~Shawnie B

Birthday Sails

Greetings Stampers!

I hope your weekend went well!  It's too bad it had to draw to a close, but all good things must end, right?!

To get an aged / vintage feel, I took the top stamped layer, wadded it up in a ball several times, straightened it out flat with a bone folder, and lightly ran my Crumb Cake ink pad across so only the raised part of the paper would pick up the ink.  (this can be easy to over-do so be careful when doing this).  

The anchors on the base layer was stamped with Craft Whisper White.  If you don't have Whisper White to stand out from the dark background, you can always emboss with white embossing powder.

This card was made with the following Supplies:

• Stamp Set/s-
• The Open Sea
• Messages for Mom
• Punch/s-
• Scallop Trim Border Punch
• Spiral Notebook Punch
• Misc-
• Crop-A-Dial
• Large Eyelets
• Dauber
• Dimensionals
• Hemp Twine

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Blessings & Inky Hugs!
~Shawnie B.

Brayered Sunset

These cards were done using my brayer.  I've not yet perfected this technique and I know it's going to take practice, but I like the end result (of other peoples projects)  I'm sure mine will be satisfactory after a while.

 Goodies used for this card:

• King of the Grill (sentiment)
• Brayer
• Inspired by Nature stamp set
• Circle punch for moon
• Oval Punches for sentiment

 Goodies used for this Card:

• Happy Moments - (Sentiment)
• Inspired by Nature
• Oval Punches to hold sentiment
• Circle punch - Moon
• Brayer

Goodies used for this card:

• Winds of Grace
• Short & Sweet
• Brayer
• Brads
• Sizzlits Lots of Tags Label 2
• Black Embossing Powder
• Heat gun

Technique/s:

• Brayering & Heat Embossing

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs!
~Shawnie B.

Brayer Fun

Yup, I was feeling restless and that I was doing the same projects the same way... so I decided to do some things with my brayer to shake things up a bit.  This card is defintely vivid with a lot of color!  I like the way the different hills & valley' turned out with the different depth. 

Colors used:  Summer Sun (retired), Ruby Red (retired), Close to Cocoa (retired), Bravo Burgundy, & Basic Black. 

It didn't really take a whole lot of work to make this card, but I like the way it's unique and eye catching!  I wander if I should get a lot more of these made up in case there are more requests like what happened with the deer card I made a while back.   The Buck card below, though was done with sponging instead of brayering.

Well, anyway, after working with this card, I realized I need to start adding the brayered technique a lot more to my bag of tricks.  ;)

I wish many blessings and Inky hugs for you & your family!
~Shawnie B

Masculine Birthday Card

This card was created using Autumn Days, Inspired by Nature, and Happy Moments.  The grass was stamped with So Saffron ink, and the wheat was stamped with Pumpkin Pie.  The leaves were stamp off so they wouldn't be so dark.  After inking the stamp, stamp a scratch piece of paper to use most of the excess on the stamp and then stamp the image.  Creates the same image, just isn't so dark & over bearing. 

The background is in Real Red to bring out the grass & the wheat. 

Masculine Birthday Card

This card is inspired by Julie Gearinger.  I saw her card on Stampin' Connection, a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator website and was motivated to create my own version. 

I colored the pheasant with markers at the direction of Bill, my husband.  I am really glad he helped!

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the King of the Grill stamp set.

To get all the colors to blend & jive I used an inkssentials blending block with velcro blending sponges.  I tried my wedge foam sponges, but it didn't get the desired effect I wanted.  for the sun I blended So Saffron around the whole left-side area where I knew the sun would be.  I then punched a circle out and adhered it with temporary adhesive.  I then started blending the following colors:  More Mustard, Peach Parfait, Pumpkin Pie, & Calypso Coral. On the bottom for the ground I blended River Rock, Crumb Cake, & Soft Suede. 

Instead of throwing the circle away when I was done masking for the sun, I turned it over and stamped the sentiment and a few leaves on it.  (I hate to waste anything if I can help it!)

Anyway, here it is.  hope you like it!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B

Getting Ready for Farmers Market

Good morning Stampers!

I am continuing to work on cards that will be up for sale at the Farmers Market in Nyssa on the 3rd Friday of August, the 19th!  Hopefully I'll do well as I got reports from people who attended the Thunder Egg Festival who said there were a lot of crafters selling their wares, but there were no greeting cards for sale in the whole place, so hopefully I'll have the market cornered!  Doubt it.  There were probably no greeting card stands at the Thunder Egg Festival for the same reason that I didn't have a table there.  75$!  Too rich for my blood!  What I really like about the Farmers Market is the charge is 10% of whatever I sell.  That is at least safe.  I won't be paying a fortune that I can't afford for people to come look through my cards with dirty fingers (I shudder to think of the idea)

Anyway, here are some more cards I have worked on:

Blog Find of the Day! - My Bear Card

Yay!  I am very excited to announce that this post has been featured on Kelly Mayou's Blog Finds of the Day!  This is a wonderful thing that Kelly does and I am so humbled that she felt my card was worthy enough to be listed.  So far this is the 2nd card she has recognized!

I look forward to seeing your comments!

God Bless you and thanks for stopping by!!

Inky Hugs

~Shawnie Bartron

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Elegant Thank You Card

This card was put together pretty quickly. I actually got an idea from a man's stamping website, yes, that's right I said a man's website - his name is Mike Funke (You should be able to click on his name to visit his website). I was rather intrigued by the thought of men stamping and creating cards, so i clicked on his name in a blog I visit often. His work is beautiful & creative. Once I viewed other mens' creations, I now feel guilty for my pre-conceived notions that men, too are capable of being just as imaginative and creative and expressing that with paper arts as women!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed CASE'ing it. (CASE: In the stamping industry it's acceptable and appreciated to CASE someone elses work. No plagiarism. Copy and Share Everything is the meaning of CASE)