My brother’s birthday required me to veer away from all girly-ness and focus on a making a more masculine card. This is good practice for me! I pulled out my Paper Smooches stamps and found just the right pup from a Christmas stamp set!
I love this little dog and bird and I thought it would be fun to create a distress background on just a small portion of the card. So here’s the sequence: Stamp, mask, tape, distress, remove, color, emboss, adhere, VOILA!
I used inktense pencils on the little characters and a Kelly Purkey stamp set for the “Dude!”
I am going to enter this into the Paper Smooches Anything Goes contest.
So what do you think…more masculine card? I hope so. My brother liked it (right, Jon?!) Ha!
Well, I’m off to make a few more cards! See you next time.
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Paper Smooches “Santa Paws”; Kelly Purkey “Dude”; Simon Says Stamp “Happy”
Distress Inks: Peacock Feathers, Forest Moss, Mowed Lawn
Colored Pencils: Derwent Inktense Pencils
Paper: Neenah Solar White
Embossing Powder: White, Snow
May your days be filled with sunshine, 
Oh, this is so cute! Great card.
Cheers
Karen
Kari, this is a fantastic card! I ADORE the clean and simple design! Great coloring and the embossed numbers at the bottom of the card front is the perfect touch! Thank you for sharing your creation with this week’s Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge!
Super cute card– simple and perfect for just about any guy:) THANKS for joining in the fun and playing along with us over at the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge <3 Hope you join in the fun with our Picture Perfect challenge this week <3