As we officially head into the holiday season, the Dream Team are
challenging all of our followers to be especially "Thankful and
Thoughtful" during the month of November. We hope that you will link
your creations with this theme in mind on the Dream It Up! blog using
the Inlinkz tool. Our "thanks" to you is providing you with the
opportunity to win the stencil of your choice, and a bonus stencil of
our choosing could be yours for using Dreamweaver product(s) in your
artwork. I'm posting this for you today:
Ssssh, don't tell, but I've posted this card before, about three years ago. Since it is appropriate for this month's Thankful and Thoughtful challenge, I thought I'd show it again. Men, too, appreciate receiving a handmade card once in a while, and a bit of thanks is always thoughtful.
The base of this card uses the Dreamweaver Stripes stencil machine embossed in both directions on Core'dination cardstock, and then sanded to reveal the plaid pattern. A large panel was ink-stenciled in brown on kraft cardstock with the Houndstooth design. I love the houndstooth stencil...in fact, all of the menswear-inspired patterns that Dreamweaver carries...Plaid/Stripes, Houndstooth, and Herringbone.
I used small scraps of Mercart copper-colored aluminum, machine-embossed with the Gears background, sanded, and slightly ink-distressed, to wrap around squares of cardboard as a focal point. Finally, I paste-embossed in Copper the sentiment...this "Thanks" has such wonderful font.
By the way, the Dream Team
are very THANKFUL when our followers are THOUGHTFUL enough to leave us a
nice comment on our posts! Here's the "B" team lineup for this week, as
well as our very special guest designer, Linda Neff!
An InLinkz Link-up
The base of this card uses the Dreamweaver Stripes stencil machine embossed in both directions on Core'dination cardstock, and then sanded to reveal the plaid pattern. A large panel was ink-stenciled in brown on kraft cardstock with the Houndstooth design. I love the houndstooth stencil...in fact, all of the menswear-inspired patterns that Dreamweaver carries...Plaid/Stripes, Houndstooth, and Herringbone.
I used small scraps of Mercart copper-colored aluminum, machine-embossed with the Gears background, sanded, and slightly ink-distressed, to wrap around squares of cardboard as a focal point. Finally, I paste-embossed in Copper the sentiment...this "Thanks" has such wonderful font.
An InLinkz Link-up
5 comments:
Beautiful card. Some of my favorite colors and I love the tip for getting the 'plaid' on the paper - those are ideas I just never seem to think of and they're so simple!
Thanks!
really like the gears! GREAT man card
That's funny but my first reaction was how masculine your card is!!!! I don't remember this card, so it was new to me.
A brilliant masculine make. Love the touch of metal.
I love this card! The houndstooth is so pretty!
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