Masculine Birthday Card

Hello and thank you for stopping by my blog post today. I always enjoy participating in the North Carolina Demos Blog Hop. Such a talented group!

I am always learning, and having only been a demonstrator for the past several years, one of the things I learned today is the term “line art”. Thanks Tracie for clarifying. Basically, it is any stamp that you can color in.

I love to color and in my card this month I am coloring with my beautiful Stampin Blends Alcohol Markers.

I am making an effort to make new masculine cards. I naturally gravitate towards all of the wonderful flowering stamps, and I don’t feel comfortable sending males a frilly, flowery card. I guess Im old school that way.

So lets get started. I began my card with the Crafting Forever Stamp Set and my trustee Momento ink pad. Here’s a tip- when using alcohol markers for coloring in an image Momento ink works great and your colors wont bleed into the lines. For my Stamp and Write markers, that I also use for card making,  I use my Stazon ink pad.

As you can see in the above photo I ran the grouping of three pens 3 times horizontaly across the front of my Whisper White Cardstock .

I colored each pen in a different color combination, with my Stampin Blend  Alcohol markers. I added a piece of Tranquil Tide ribbon toward the top of the card. I stamped the phrase Birthday Greetings from the stamp set Birthday Delivery, using the black Momento ink. I punched out the phrase using the Tailored Tag Punch. I lightly sponged the edge with Crumb Cake ink. Dimensionals were used to make the tag “float” above the ribbon.

The Whisper White piece was adhered to a piece of Basic Black cardstock cut at                 5 1/4″ ” X 4″. Then both were adhered to the front of Whisper White Cardstok A2 size card. I did stamp a pen on the inside of the card and one on the envelope. For the sentiment inside the card I used the saying “may all your wishes come true” from the Bright Wishes Stamp set.

This is a simple card and great for coloring.

Again, THANK YOU for stopping by and Happy Stampin!

SueStapp

Here’s the list of other participating Demos…

Toni Campana –
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/tonimariscreations/blog?directBlogUrl=/blog/10706/entry/nc_demos_february_blog_hop

Jo Anne Hewins –
https://luv2create.typepad.com/my_blog/2019/02/nc-demo-blog-hop-for-february-inside-the-lines.html

Tracie Evans Langley –
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/traciesallaboutstamping/blog?directBlogUrl=/blog/86481/entry/nc_demos_february_2019_blog

Sharon Maranich –
https://inkiefinger.blogspot.com/2019/02/blog-hop-keeping-it-in-lines.html

https://stampin-with-sue.blogspot.com/2019/02/nc-su-demos-february-blog-hop-keeping.html

Robbie Rubala – https://creationsinpaper.com/glycerin-colored-serene-garden/

you are here – Sue Stapp – https://suestapp.com/2019/02/23/masculine-birthday-card  

Anita Trippi –
https://www.stampinwithanita.com/2019/02/nc-demos-february-2019-blog-hop.html

Frances Wagner –
https://wagstamps.blogspot.com/2019/02/nc-demos-february-2019-blog-hop.html

And last but not least, here’s what I used to make this card;