A Classic Father with Stampin’ Up!’s Guy Greetings

I know Mother’s Day is just around the corner, but I couldn’t resist making this beautiful, but masculine, Father’s Day card with my stamp group.  Masculine cards can FEEL difficult, but creating them is not the worst thing on Earth.  People who answer their phones in movie theaters – THEY are the worst.  There’s no comparison.  Here’s the card I made with my group:

Guy Greetings, Stampin' Up!, Brian King, Father's Day card

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

  • Beautiful Texture.  When the Occasions Catalog was revealed in January, some people turned their noses up at the papers in the Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper Stack.  With it’s photograph-clear photos of rocks and trees, some didn’t see the connection to card making.  Are you one of those people?  If so, you might be missing out on the gorgeous, masculine patterns that grace the other sides of the photograph-clear photos.  Stripes, plaids and houndstooths (or is it houndsteeth?) – all perfect for gorgeous cards.Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper Stack
  • Punch-then-Stamp or Stamp-then-Punch.  I have always taught my stampers to stamp an image before punching it out.  It’s just the order of things in this world.  Our punches are build to just crop the stamped image perfectly.  In this case, though, I allowed my group to punch the circle before stamping it – if they really wanted to challenge old rules.  Why?  The photopolymer is super-easy to line up (it’s completely see-though), so why not be whimsical and carefree when using them.  Rules?  Out the window – for now.
  • Color Combination.  This is a color combination I’ve used several times before – and I love it!  Early Espress is perfectly brown (typical masculine color), but the blue and yellow from Island Indigo and Crushed Curry help to lighten things up a bit – no all-brown, masculine card from me.  If you like this color combination, too, please feel free to save this:Color Inspiration, Stampin' Up!, Brian King

Stamp Sets:  Guy Greetings  Papers:  Early Espresso, Crushed Curry, Island Indigo, Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper Stack, Whisper White  Inks:  Early Espresso, Island Indigo  Accessories:  2-1/2″ Circle punch, Hexagon punch (for banner tips), Stampin’ Dimensionals

I covered the flap of a Whisper White envelope with another print from the Designer Series Paper stack that coordinates with the color combination I used:

Guy Greetings, Stampin' Up!, Brian King, Father's Day card

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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11 Comments

  1. Amazing, as usual Brian. We gotta look after our dads, uncles and brothers too. Love that stamp from guy greetings!!

  2. Gorgeous colors and card!

  3. Yep !! Brian that’s a Classic, love how you incorporate your colors !! Love …. It !!!
    Tfs, my friend,
    Hugs Frenchie,

  4. I like this card for some more vintage males in the family . I still haven`t gotten this DSP stack ,but it does have quick backgrounds for guy cards .
    Happy Saturday !

  5. Another winner, classic masculine card, love the layers in this pretty colors that frame that awesome vintage looking image very elegantly.
    The sentiment fits perfectly, thank you for sharing.

  6. Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect card for my vintage hubby! LOL I really do think this is a fabulous card for any man, but especially one that literally drools over antique cars! LOL I find it difficult to make the hubs any cards, not only because he is always stepping into my craft room to see what I’m making, but because he has only one hobby – cars. I mean really, how many dang car cards can one make (rhetorical). I positively, absolutely love this wonderfully masculine card Brian. Thanks so much. Hugs. 🙂

  7. Nice card. I may even be inspired to buy that stamp set!

  8. Guys and cars, totally inseparable. A card with that theme, obvious or implied, is perfect. Me and neutrals, I don’t need to go that yet again. Brian you did a great job and I love it.

  9. I love the colors with the houndstooth that you used here!

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