Over and over again I hear how hard it is to create a guy card – very challenging,people say, not much stuff out there for masculine cards, they say… So when I saw this weeks challenge at Shopping Our Stash – “Happy Birthday Dude” I really thought about what would make a card personal for my husband. We live in a lake house with wood virtually everywhere – wood paneling, wood floors, wood burning stove, 7 cords of wood stacked outside, you get the idea. So, I knew wood had to be featured, and anyways, I really wanted to try the new Tim Holtz wood planks die and 3D embossing folder. Now, my husband has this old flannel shirt that he wears ALL THE TIME, I mean he really loves this shirt (and I love plaid and green) so I decided to recreate the look for a background panel. First I stamped the Altenew Buffalo check background stamp on moss green paper with Bluebird Archival ink, then I used one of the lines from the MFT Plaid Builder stamp set and alternated Prickly Pear and Peat Moss archival inks in between the Buffalo check..a touch of vintage photo distress ink to soften the edges and viola – an old plaid shirt. The letters are die cut from Tim Holtz’ metallic kraft stock with the Sizzix Alphanumeric dies – 3/4″, then sanded roughly and inked with more vintage photo. This was one of those rare times when the card ended up looking exactly like I saw it in my mind!
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~elisabeth
So love this card and all of your current creativity! This is a perfect card for the challenge. It is great guy card for sure. Love the plaid & wood planks!
Wow two perfectly masculine things, plaid and wood. Awesome card, thanks for playing along with us at Shopping Our Stash for Happy Birthday Dude.
Plaid and wood – WOW!! Great card
WOW WOW WOW this is sooooooo awesome!!
How perfect for your hubby!
I love everything about it, the colours, the wood, the plaid…awesome!!!
Thanks for celebrating dudes with the crew from SHOPPING OUR STASH!!
Fabulous way to recreate your hubby’s flannel shirt, love the wood planks with the birthday greeting.
Thank you for playing with us at SHOPPING OUR STASH, hope you play again soon.
XO
It’s perfect! I love it!
You really nailed it with this one. The plaid looks so soft, just like real flannel.
Love!!!
ack! HOW did i not get here last week to say how AWESOME this card is… i might need the buffalo (sabres country!) plaid bc you make it look SOOOOOOO fab. and don’t get me started on those very very real wooden boards! ♥ (btw, you really do consistently make “guy cards” look equally easy to girl cards… very well balanced you are, lol!) thanks for SHOPPING YOUR (birthday dude!) STASH with us! ♥