Another Masculine Sepia...

Hello!! :)

I do hope I’m not getting into a colour-rut with male cards as this is another sepia one... I just really like sepia and also think it works very well for male cards!! Hope the recipient will agree!! This is the card I have mentioned, which is one of two I was asked to make by a friend for her brother-in-law’s birthday. The only tricky thing was that he’s had a recent bereavement and so she really didn’t want anything too bright and brash and also wanted to avoid all the standard ‘happy’ type greetings- she told my mum (who the order came via!) pretty much exactly the words she wanted for each card so I just had to try and find an assortment of stamps that would fit the bill and fit those around either a car or pint glass!! :) And this is the first of them which will be from her daughters to their Uncle:

 

I kept it pretty simple, as per the brief as well as my current tastes and energy-levels, and dug out some old stamps for the glass and words along with my much neglected embossing powders and heat tool- it’s nice to use some older stash alongside the newer bits!! :)

I used:

•          SeeDs Boys Toys stamp set for the glass
•          Woodware Clear Magic sets Must Have Retro Words and Franciose Alphabet for the wording
•          Gold embossing powder and heat tool
•          Distress Inks: Vintage Photo and Black Soot to colour glasses (it's supposed to be a Guiness-like colour- hope it's close at least!! :S )
•          Nestie Labels 2 and Antique Linen DI applied through the die
•          One of my digi paper designs
•     Tim Holtz Paper Distresser and  Antique Linen DI on edges of paper
•          Off-cuts of Kraft card previously embossed with C’bug Distressed Stripes Folder and punched with MS Cherish border punch
•          Gold Mirror Card Candy

 And a couple of close-ups :)

So, pretty simple really but I’m quite pleased with how it came together :) I have to say, it’s much easier to come up with a satisfactory male card design with so many more CAS-influenced ideas in my head!! :)

I’d like to enter this in the following challenges: Paper Sundaes - #57 Masculine Colours :) ; PaperPlay – Add Shine (my shiny card candy) :) 

I made the second card for the order on Tuesday so will show you that soon- though I’m hoping I’ll have some more time to play and create something for this week’s Less Is More so that might have to be posted first if I do!! :) Thanks again to all those lovely people who’ve popped by and left comments or become followers!! :)

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