Lookin' Good Owl

 

I haven't had a lot of time for crafting the past few days.  It's a busy time for me with Annual, Board and Budget meetings.  And unfortunately it'll be that way until the end of the month.  So I'll just have to squeeze that crafting in as I have time.

 

Today though I do have a card to share.  This one was made using the mustache owl from SVG Cutting Files.  I had this scrap of mustache print paper in my stash and knew it would be perfect as a backdrop for my owl.

 

Add in a red skittle for the center of my bow and a stamped sentiment from the Cardz TV Stamps set titled You're the Man, and viola, my card is complete.

 

 

 

On the inside of my card I used a stamped sentiment from the Jaded Blossom stamp set titled The World (this was a freebie during one of the stamp releases this year).  The mustaches are also from the Cardz TV Stamps set You're the Man.

Smile

I had a few precious minutes to get some crafting done this morning.  Once the guys were awake it was time to get up at the remodeling project that was slated to begin.  After that there would be no crafting today.

 

So in the few moments I had I quickly put together a "masculine" birthday card using this great new file I acquired during the Best Friends blog hop sponsored by SVG Cutting Files, and that Smile sentiment - that's from the Say it Big stamp set over at Craftin' Desert Divas.   The good thing about it is that this particular cut was also pinned on Pintrest which meant I could use it for a Pintrest inspire project for a challenge I wanted to enter.  Man you gotta love it when things come together like that.

 

Here's the Pin from Pintrest:

 

 

 

 

As you can tell I changed it up just a bit.  I wanted more of a cartoony/hero type background.  Granted it's not very "birthday" looking but that's okay.  Remember it's a card for a guy and that means more manly things are needed.  Hopefully they'll love it.

 

In the meantime though I'm off to enter this card in the Pintrest inspired challenge over at Die Cuttin' Divas.  

UPDATE:  My card was chosen as a showcase pick over at Die Cuttin Divas                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Masculine Card for Any Occasion

This morning I have a quick masculine card to share with you.  I don't remember how I came across this cut since I don't own the Sesame Street Seasons cartridge but I'm glad I did because I LOVE it.  This cut is great for a masculine card just combine it with this Hello Handsome sentiment from the Cardz TV stamp set You're the Man, and viola.  It does not get much easier.  Especially in a world where masculine cards can be difficult.

 

Here's the inside of the card with my stamped sentiment.

 

 

 

So now I'm going to go enter this into a couple of challenges:

Die Cuttin Divas - Favorite Color Combo - Ends August 18th

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Freestyle - Ends August 16th

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Keep it Simple Sweetie - Ends August 16th

Lookin' Good Birthday Gift Set

I don't know about where you live, but here in the Panhandle of Florida it's been a crazy, rainy weekend. Needless to say this has left the tourists in town with nothing much to do other than shop so our family decided to stay home rather than fight the traffic.  On a good day this time of year it can take hours to get anyway in town so imagine what it's like on a rainy day.

That's okay though because it gave me a weekend with a lot of crafting time.  And trust me I got a lot of paper crafting done.  Today I have a project I made using files from My Scrap Chick.  I saw this shirt bag set and fell in love with it.  It makes up nice and quick too.

Of course I had no one in mind when I put this set together.  Rather I was thinking about the 3D masculine birthday challenge that's still going on over at Cardz TV.   Speaking of Cardz TV, the birthday sentiments I used on my project are from her stamp set titled Good Times which you can purchase here.

Now I'm off to enter this project in the following challenges:

Cardz TV 3D Masculine Challenge - ends July 24th

Little Scrap Pieces Show it off Saturday - ends July 25th 

Pumpkin Spice Anything Goes - ends July 25th 

Celebrate You

Today I'd like to share a project that I put together for a guy's birthday.  This is one of those themes that I struggle with - adult men.  Give me a male child and tell me what he likes and I'm on it.  But give me an adult and it's like OMG what do I do now?  So when I saw the 3D Masculine Birthday challenge going on over at Cardz TV I said, "challenge accepted".

So for my project I used the vertical nugget box from SVG Cutting Files.  Now they give you this 1" circle as a way to gauge how large to cut your file so once I figured that out I deleted the circle and was left with the card file to cut at 9.69" tall and 7.44" wide.  At first I had difficulty cutting the file because the score lines and the cut out for the nuggets wouldn't line up.  After a couple of cuts it finally hit me to try welding the layers. When that didn't work I noticed the little paperclip that said attach and I clicked on that and viola - it all worked!

My guy on the front of the card is Mr. Noodle from Sesame Street - Elmo's Party.  He was cut at 3 1/2".

The stamped sentiments on the card and my candy nuggets are from three different Cardz TV stamp sets: Good Times, You're the Man and Happy Days.

I'm also entering this in the Anything Goes challenge over at Pumpkin Spice - challenge ends July 25th.

If you want to try your hand at the 3D Masculine Birthday Challenge you have until noon on July 24th to link up.

For the Golfer - Masculine Card

Hiding in My Craft Room has this fun challenge going on this week where you make a project using 3 different designer papers.  This fun card fits that bill to a "tee".  And it makes for a quick and easy masculine card.

This was an easy card to put together because it used only one cut.....the golfer from Sports Mania.  And what golfer is complete without his funny print pants these days?  Well okay so not all of the big names where printed pants like they used to but I couldn't resist when I found this plaid paper with a print small enough to work.

The golf balls; however, are stickers from a Jolee's collection.

And the best thing about this card is that it can be used for a variety of occasions - birthday, get well, retirement, encouragement.  Don't you just love it when things come together quick and easy?

The Measure Of A Man.....

Today I'd like to share another card I using one of the sentiments from the You're the Man stamp set.  The Cardz TV design team featured this stamp set during a two day blog hop this past weekend and if you haven't checked it out yet you really should.  Father's Day is quickly approaching and this set is full of endless possibilities!

 

For this particular card I used the cricut cartridge Handyman.  The background paper is titled Fixer Upper from the Moxie Do It Yourself line.  Isn't it just perfect for this cut and sentiment?

 

The inside sentiment for this card reads:

 

...is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.  ~ Samuel Johnson

 

 

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And for even more fun I'm entering this card in the "Pun" Linky party going on over at Craftin Desert Diva's. You should go check it out.

 

Mr. Fix It, You're the Man...

....and we're having a You're the Man blog hop over at Cardz TV.  Mary has divided our team up into two teams for this fun blog hop so if you missed out on yesterday's hopping around be sure to head over to Cardz TV so you can catch up on the fun you missed.

 

Before you go though I'd like to share with you the card that I made for today's blog hop round.  For this handy dandy little card I used the Handyman cartridge.  After finding this background paper in my stash I knew that a set of tool cuts would be perfect AND to make things even better this wonderful stamped pharse was one of the ones from the You're the Man stamp set that we are showcasing for the hop.  How much better can things get?

 

And now that you've seen my card be sure that you hop around at the other stops we have for you today.  Be sure to check them all out because I understand that there some blog candy to be found somewhere along the way beginning with two sets of stamps that Mary's giving away on her blog.  Just be sure to follow the rules that each blogger has posted for how you can win.

 

That said, your next stop on the hop is Dana.  Or if you'd like to start from the beginning here's our line-up:

 

1. Mary - http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/
2. Janis - http://www.pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/
3. Elaine - http://www.expressionsbyelaine.blogspot.com/
4. Laura - http://www.queenscardcastle.blogspot.com/
5. Jo - http://www.jwscrapshack.blogspot.com/
6. Sarah - http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com/
7. Michelle - http://www.mumoftwoblog.blogspot.com/
8. Shelly - http://www.cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/
9. Candice - http://www.candiedcards.typepad.com/
10. Susan - http://www.itsmesusanp.blogspot.com/
11. Cathy - http://mimi2trentdrew.blogspot.com/
12. DeNetra - http://essentiallyyourswithdenetra.blogspot.com/
13. Barbara http://www.spotofsanity.blogspot.com/
14. Dana - http://www.iwycd.blogspot.com/

15. Melissa - http://www.melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com/

Gone Fishing - Manly Card for any Occasion

I was thumbing through some of my old magazines the other night and came across a "boys" card in an issue of Your Complete Guide to Cardmaking that I really liked.  So this is my interpretation/remake of that card.

I used:

Campin' Critters for the fishing deer cut at 3 1/2".  His main coat was flocked with a MS brown colored flocking powder.

George was used for the block shapes cut at 1" squares and a 3 1/2" rectangle.

Quick, easy and I like that the end results provide me with the ability to use this card for several different "manly" occasions including birthday, Father's Day, get well, and retirement.

June in January CCChallenge #100

Happy Wednesday my fellow bloggers!  Today I'd like to share a card that I created for the June in January Cricut Cardz Challenge #100.  Our directive for this week was to make a card with summer as our theme using any cartridges and colors of our choosing.  Since we're talking summer I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to use my Block Party cartridge for the first time.

Using Block Party I cut my grill master at 5 1/2".  To add a bit of texture to the mix I used my mosaic embossing folder for the apron.  Before running the cut through I smear some orange colored ink to the folder.

The grill was cut at 5 1/4" and while you can't really see it in the picture I added some glossy accents to the handles and wheel hubs.

The cartoon bubble (aka call out) was cut from Graphically Speaking and then pop dotted to add some dimension to the card.

So a man thinks he can cook better on an outdoor grill than what you ask?

............than his wife can on an indoor stove.

And now that you've seen my card be sure to check out the other awesome designs created by the team.  Then create your own, link up and play along with us.

You're Da Man

Here's another quick and easy masculine card that I've put together using Block Party.  The best part is that this card can be used for several "manly" occasions:  birthday, thank you, Father's Day, etc.

So I've been looking at this cartridge since it came out but never could justify buying it at full price.  However, now that Walmart has clearanced everything it was easy to do.  We were concerned as we went through the clearance aisle though because there was so much craft stuff on clearance.  I mean everything scrapbook related was there as well as some of the new fabrics they just brought in.  So when we saw an employee we asked about it.  She assured us that all was well with the craft section and that they were just getting ready for a revamp because they are bringing back the bolts of fabric along with the cutting table.  Seems that they had received a lot of complaints since they did away with it all.

Manly Man Birthday Card

Since I've been homebound today thanks to Tropical Storm Lee and dh being on-call I decided to get a couple of manly cards made up.  This one was so easy to make that it wasn't funny, but I love the way it turned out.  Thanks to this wonderful DCWV paper no hard work was necessary.  lol

For this card I used the Cricut Lite cartridge Billionaire and that's it.  See?  Told you it was easy.....But you know what?  Sometimes, simple is best and I do believe that was the case on this one.

Little Fisherman

Since this is VBS week I won't be getting much crafting done, but I do have a quick card that I wanted to share with you today.  I made this one using my Sizzix - something I need to do more often...especially since I just purchased a bunch of new dies.

I saw this one a while back on clearance and absolutely loved it.  My dad, husband, nephew and second youngest son are all fishers so I knew I'd get use from it.

The face for this boy was created using a free software I found called Create A Face.

For my inside sentiment I chose a wonderful little play on words quote....."Good things come to those who bait."  Author unknown

Frog in my Pocket - Gift Card Holder

I finally got another one of my long awaited assignments completed.  This one I had to change up just a tad bit though.  The original assignment was to make a "card made with the animal kingdom cartridge. Maybe the frog...but have the card attached to or part of a thin box (cut from tags, bags, boxes, and more)for a gift card to go in"

I tried making a matchbox from TBBM but after two attempts I gave up.  I don't know if it was just me or what but it seemed like both matchbox cuts were either for the top or the inside of the box and when used together just didn't match up.  (no pun intended)

After two failed attempts I opted to go for an envelope style holder.   Other than TBBM and Animal Kingdom I also used Old West for the pocket.

For the matching gift tag I used a 2" square punch.

Belated Birthday Robotz - Masculine

I love the way this robot is posed and thought he'd be perfect for a masculine birthday card.  And behind him is a set of gears created with one of the new Tim Holtz Alterations dies from Sizzix. 

I cut the robot at 5", glittered his little antenna dish and pop dotted for a more layered effect.  The gears were distressed (my first attempt) using Tim Holtz distress ink in tea dye and Colorbox black ink.

Another simple card that looks great - at least in my opinion.

The inside sentiment says, "I sent your birthday card late on purpose.  I figured why ruin your special day by reminding you of your age?"

On the suggestion of a fellow blogger I think I'll give this contributer's showcase a try and enter this card into Showcase #4.

Old West Manly Birthday

Okay so I know I'm a day late (and more than a dollar short I'm sure) in posting this but life has been crazy this week......

The Cricut Cardz Challenge for this week was to design a Masculine Birthday card using any cart and color scheme we wanted. Since I really loved the way last week's card turned out using the Old West cartridge I wanted to explore it some more and chose that for my cart.

Once again it was a simple card to put together. Just had to cut the cowboy and girl three times each (once for the flesh, once for the shirt and once for the pants). After that I used inks to color in the boots and hair. The rocks and other items were scaled to sizes that would fit those of the "characters" so that it would look like they were sitting around a campfire singing Happy Birthday to the card recipient.

Oh and my font is one that I downloaded from dafont.com called Alpha Smoke.

Camp Out Masculine Bday - Card Challenge #8

Preoccupied said, ..."I'd love to see some manly cards from the Camp Out cart. My husband loves four wheeling and fishing so that would be great or any other cut..."

For this card I used:

Camp Out for the trees, fishing pole, fish, squirrels and cooler

Graphically Speaking for the pond

PPDU for the man

I'm really pleased with the way that this card turned out. I think it's one of my favorites thus far. But once I'm done with all 30 cards I will let each of you decide which one is your favorite. That's right - there's another contest (of sorts) around the corner........

And in case you haven't noticed by now, for whatever reason I tend to enjoy creating scenery type cards.

You Make My World Go Round

I found these arrow brads in Michael's this weekend and the idea for this card was born. Originally I was only going to glitter up the water portion of the globe but thought that it would look nicer if I glittered the land portion as well. Little did I know that it would all kind of blend in together - until after the fact. I still like the way it turned out and don't know if I'll glitter all of it again or just use a different shade of glitter for the land.

The globe is from Going Places.

Father's Day T-Shirt Card

It's not often that I create a card without using my Cricut, but that's just what I did with this one. I love the versatility of being able to use the T-shirt idea when I need a quick "manly" card and it has come to my rescue on several occassions.

You can find the directions for how to make the T-Shirt by clicking on the following link: http://www.scor-pal.com/projects2/OhSoCuteShirtCard.pdf

The inside sentiment I chose for this card is: My dad – He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.

"Fish"ing you a Happy Birthday

I was playing around with the Animal Kingdom cartridge the other day and noticed that it had cutout for a fishbowl and fish. So I mulled around the idea of cutting them out or not.

Well as you can see I decided to do so and here is what I did with them....

I cut the fishbowl out of white cardstock and inked all the edges in blue. After cutting the fish, "water", and plant I put them all together and inked each piece as well. Once placed in the bowl I realized that something was missing......the little colored pebbles in the bottom of the bowl. So I smeared some glue along the bottom and sprinkled with Martha Stewart glitters in Peridot and Sunstone. Once the glitter was set I then applied a coating of Inkssential Glossy accent so that my fishbowl would have the finished look (and feel) of being a real fish bowl.

Problem is, the photo didn't let it all show through.....