Masculine Birthday

I have to say I love this card! It's so simple too!! It's hard for me to make cards for men....I have way to many 'girly' or 'swirly' stamp sets, ha. That's why I purchased Stampin' Up!'s "Lovely as a Tree" set, it's perfect for masculine cards and sympathy cards too.

I stamped the tree image (it's one stamp) onto Whisper White Cardstock using Basic Black Classic Stamp Pad. I then took sponges with left over ink (Old Olive and Night of Navy) and proceeded to "rub" the cardstock. I just added more ink by dipping the sponge onto the ink pad, to get a shading effect. I stamped "happy birthday" from "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set in Old Olive, and punched it out with the Small Oval punch. I sponged Basic Black on the sentiment and main image. I cut out the photo corners, and added brads. "happy birthday" is popped-up using Stampin' Dimentionals.

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Happy New Year!

Well, it's a new year! Yeah! I'm reallylooking forward to this new year and what is in store!

I had some free time when my daughter was taking a nap, so I made a few birthday cards. You can never have too many of those, ha! This is one of the cards I made. I love the elegence and the simplicity of it. It has an heirloom feel to it and I love that!

I used "Happy Everything" stamp set, Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series paper, Barely Banana and Close to Cocoa cardstock, Close to Cocoa Classic Stamp pad, sponges, and brads.

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