My inspiration for both cards today came from the Inkspirational: Challenges blog. You'll see why my first idea wasn't quite right, but I'm happy with both cards, and think they'll be a good addition to my stash of masculine cards. Here's the inspirational photo:
I'm a big fan of black and white cards so this photo called out to me. I also have the relatively new Simon Says "Geometric Builders: Circles" which I haven't used so it seemed like perfect timing. I did not, however, have this photo in front of me when I created the first card.
Although I like the card, it's clearly missing the stripes and there are half circles rather than whole circles. So today I made a second card more in keeping with the photo.
A better representation of the photo inspiration and I like this one, too. Photographing the scored lines, however, turned out to be a challenge, but I finally managed that. I couldn't, however, seem to get consistent, good lighting without shadows this morning. I finally gave up so the card for the challenge could be posted before I leave for the afternoon.
The patterned papers for these cards are all from My Favorite Things. The sentiments on the first card were stamped with Papertrey Ink's "Birthday Bash" set and MFT's "Bitty Birthday Wishes." The sentiment on the second card is from The Stamp Market's "Handwritten Hello."
We've been on the road every day this week going back and forth to the cottage Tracy's family rents every summer on Honeoye Lake. After all the hot, humid days, we've got cool temperatures this week. Yesterday came close to chilly at the lake. The sun's out today, though, so hopefully that will help. We're trying to stay outside as much as possible and masking indoors since we're being extremely vigilant about our behavior having five unvaccinated grandchildren. I must admit, it's frustrating to return to this kind of restrictive behavior after having seen the light at the end of the tunnel earlier this summer. But until the more contagious variants disappear, it's a necessary change.
