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Welcome to the February edition of the Art With Heart Team Creative Showcase. This month we are featuring Masculine themed projects.

I have always found selecting a suitable card for a man hard. I am pleased to say that Stampin’ Up! does have a number of wonderful stamp sets that are perfect for the special men in your lives. Clubhouse is perfect for the golf tragics in your life, By the Dock and Sailing Home have a nautical/boating theme, Best Catch is for the man/boy who likes to fish, A Good Man has beautiful images and sentiments and Rooted in Nature is for the man who likes to spend time outdoors. There are others still, but these are a few of my favourites and the ones I turn to when I need to make a card for a male family member or friend.

I recently had a friend ask me to make a special card for her brother-in-law who would be turning 60 in early March. I quizzed her as to his interests and passions. No he doesn’t play golf or fish and he is not particularly fond of the sea or nature.

Head scratch moment. 🙂

Never fear Stampin’ Up! also has other products that can be used to make the perfect masculine card……

My cards:

All three cards feature a wreath design stamped using a range of foliage from the Rooted in Nature stamp set. Using my Stamparatus to layer different colours onto a design is one of my favourite techniques. It gives a design so much depth. I find it quite remarkable the difference that it makes.

Both cards also include a matt of designer series paper from the Country Club set of designer series paper and a larger matt of cardstock, which had been embossed using the Pinewood Planks embossing folder.

I added a stitched circle to the middle, to which I adhered the number. The numerals were diecut using a now retired set of dies, however, any number of birthday greetings could be stamped onto the stitched circle instead. My colour scheme was taken straight from the designer series paper with the addition of a couple of neutrals in Crumb Cake and Sahara Sand.

Before attaching the numerals I gave my friend the choice of card combinations. Which one do you think she chose? Funny thing!!! It was my favourite too. She obviously has very good taste. 😉

AWH Team Creative Showcase participants:

The Art With Heart Team have a wonderful selection of projects to inspire you to create Masculine Masterpieces.

The next demonstrator to share their Masculine project with you is the very talented…..Caroline Manwaring.

If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:

Christina Barnes

Kate Morgan

Andrea Sargent

Sharon Davern

Tina Gillespie

Vicki Boucher

Catherine Proctor

Rachel Woollard

Rebecca Jacovou

Sujatha Harding

Michele Taylor

Caroline Manwaring

If you would like to purchase any of the products that I used when creating these cards, the links are included below.

If you would like a copy of either the 2019/2020 Annual Catalogue and/or the January – June 2020 Mini Catalogue (including the Sale-A-Bration brochure), please contact me and I will pop one in the post for you.

Thanks Michele.

My list of products: