Yesterday Tracy was skiing with my granddaughters so after church I had the afternoon to craft away. I needed three masculine card for birthdays at the end of this month. I made two of the first card, and then a separate one since I didn’t want to send the same card to my brother-in-law and his son-in-law. Not that they see one another’s cards, but it also gave me a chance to make a card for the Color Throwdown Challenge.
The first card started from the bottom up—I had pinned a card with these colors a long time ago. It's a technique I don't think I've ever tried. I die cut the dark gray panel and added it to a dark brown card base. Then I pulled out Pinkfresh Studio's Nested Hexagons Blanket Stitch and die cut two. That proved to be the perfect place for a sentiment.
I embossed a gold sentiment from an old Papertrey Ink set: Scene It Celebration. Three gold 3-D stars finished it off. I like this design, and think I'll use it again for masculine cards.
The second card is another CAS design. The Color Throwdown Challenge is to use black, white, and gray. I layered the black panel onto a gray card, and added a strip of patterned paper from My Favorite Things Black and White Basics paper pad.
The sentiment is white embossed and die cut with the Altenew One-Go Birthday Greetings.
Both cards are off to The Just Us Girls Challenge where the call is for masculine cards. And the second one is off to The Color Throwdown Challenge which ends this evening.