WSC93, CAS28 Masculine Birthday

Stamps: Botanicals by Scrappy Cat, Tag It by Clear Dollar Stamps
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Certainly Celery, cream
Ink: Certainly Celery, Always Artichoke, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Big Shot, Quick Cutz embossing folder, circle punch
Technique: two-step stamping

Today’s offering is a combination of two recent challenges. The first is Clean and Simple #28 (CAS28) at SCS, which was a challenge to create a simple, uncluttered card with a masculine feel. I was excited for this as we have so few masculine cards in our “stash” and this provided a good excuse to remedy that. Later I stumbled upon the Weekend Sketch Challenge (WSC93) on Beate’s blog and thought I would try to combine that with the first challenge.

Flowers aren’t often associated with masculine things, but I figured leaves are and the Botanicals set I picked up a few weeks ago seemed like a perfect fit for this challenge. The color combo I chose was the first thing that came to mind when I decided to create this card and I’m happy with the result – pretty, but not in a “girly” way! 🙂

Because this is a “Clean and Simple” card, I wanted to stay away from using any true embellishments, but the card still needed some texture to make it more visually appealing. So, I turned to our brand new Big Shot and the embossing folder we picked up for help. Fun! I think it is just what this card needed!

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