Happy Tuesday! Today is the day I get to wish my awesome husband happy birthday… another trip around the sun! I kept this card as simple & masculine as I could, while using some fun products. Hope you enjoy!
I knew I wanted to use the Darling Deer dies for this masculine card, and I selected two from the set that would fit well together on a mini slimline card (this one is 6.5×3.5″). I recently got the Storyteller 6×8 pad by Vicki Boutin, and I thought this would be a fun project for it- I learned that I am *very* out of practice with using patterned paper!
After cutting both the deer and the awesome sentiment from Kraft Cardstock, I played around with my layout on a 3×6 layer of the patterned paper I selected. The stripes on this piece I selected were a fun way to highlight the sentiment and give a design element without extra layers. I stamped the rest of the sentiment before adhering the die cut word & the deer in place.
I found the top left corner needed a little something more, so I pulled out the text stencil, also from the Storyteller line, and added some subtle brown inking through it. It’s no mistake that I chose the part that says ‘wild soul’ 🙂
I tried several colors of card base before I settled on this teal color- it wasn’t quite right until I added a bit more brown Distress to soften it. I also tied the layers together by stamping some Sketch Greenery branches in a dark blue (the same Versafine Clair Twilight ink I used for the stamped portion of the sentiment) around the edges.
All of this to tell my “deer” hubby how awesome I hope his birthday is!
Inky hugs,
Tara
