For the Guys Class

Today's project is from the "For the Guys" class taught by Jennifer Rzasa. I loved how she showed different ways to think out of the box to create masculine cards.

 I am the only female in our house and I work in a male-dominated industry, so I happen to have lots of masculine crafty items. However, I do not have a lot items from Altenew that would work for a masculine card. The majority of my Altenew crafty stash is floral and quite feminine.

After digging through my stash, I was able to find Altenew's Feeling Dotty stencil and knew this would work for a masculine card.

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I decided to use foil for this card to give it a little pizazz. I used Deco Foil Transfer Gel on the stencil, then once it was dry I used Deco Foil Amber Watercolor foil. This foil has silver, gold and some copper colors in a water-color pattern. It makes a great masculine card.

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I used the Alenew Mega Greetings "Hello" die as my focal point.

I went with a cream colored background as the white was just to stark with the brown. This is a very clean and simple card, yet looks quite masculine. My 15-year old son actually said he would like a card like that, so that is pretty high praise in my humble opinion.

Supplies Used:

Deco Foil Transfer Gel and Amber Watercolor foil

SU' Espresso and Very Vanilla cardstock

Altenew Feeling Dotty Stencil

Altenew Mega Greetings Hello

Easy Ink Blending Techniques

I love the look of ink blending, so this class did not disappoint! Amy does a beautiful job of ink blending and I found a few techniques in her class to help me make my ink blending look smoother and cleaner.

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For my card I decided on a monochromatic look with an accent of Black embossing powder. I started my ink blending with the Ranger blending sponges, then switched to my Clarity Stamp Blending Brushes to smooth out the colors.

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Pink and Black is one of my favorite color combos and I am really pleased with how this card turned out. Very clean and simple.

I used Altenew Baby Pink in for my card base and for the card top I used Altenew Magenta, Fuchsia, and Baby Pink for a dark to light fade. For my sentiment, I used Fuchsia so my sentiment strip would pop out.

KimG/Easy Ink Blending Techniques

Supplies Used:
Ink: VersaMark Ink, Altenew inks in Baby Pink, Fuchsia, and Magenta
Cardstock: Neenah Solar White
Stamps: Altenew Henna Elements
Embossing Powder: Nuvo Jet Black
Tools: Ranger Ink Blending Sponges, Clarity Stamp Ink Blending Brushes, Scallop punch from my stash.