Thursday, December 23, 2010

Happy Birthday/masculine card

Happy day before the day before Christmas Eve.  I was up early this morning, which seems to be a theme for me lately.  I think the reason that I find myself more motivated to make cards early in the morning it is a quite time for me, like my time to get myself going for the day. 
Here in Ohio we are expecting some snow for the Christmas Eve and for Christmas Day, so that is pretty exciting, I think having snow on Christmas is a wonderful thing, even though it can be messy, and hard for others to travel, so everyone be careful and just try to enjoy the weather.
My husbands cousin is celebrating his 50th Birthday on the 26th,  He doesn't know they are having a surprise party for him, so I thought I would make him a card.  As most of you cardmakers know, making masculine cards can be quite a challenge.  We like to embellish our cards with flowers, ribbon, pearls and all things girly, but for men that is a different story.  I tried here to make it as masculine as possible but make it so I like it....:)  This stamp set is a new one which will be on sale in January in Stampin Ups Occasions Mini.  This one is called "Bring on the Cake" it has a lot of cute things in it, almost a must have for Cardmakers.
I used some Wide Brown Ribbon that has a lot of texture, along with a piece of red to make the card pop some.  I used punches for the sentiment layers.  On the inside it was just a bunch of punches making the look it has.

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