Masculine Star Card

Well another of the projects that the ladies at our World Card Making Event Made was one using all new stamp sets - Word Play, Wonderfully Worn and Elements of Style. It was a CASE from Kristy Brown's, but modified slightly to accommodate new and retiring items. It has a LOT of paper piercing around both the Sahara and the Whisper White card stock pieces, but I think the final effect is worth the effort, don't you?

Stamps: Word Play, Wonderfully Worn & Elements of Style

Ink: Early Expresso, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard & Sahara Sand

Card Stock: More Mustard, Not Quite Navy, Sahara Sand & Whisper White

Accessories: Hemp twine, Paper piercer, Dimensionals, Regal Brads, SNAIL, Star Punch, paper snips & Mat pack

Tool Time Card

Our upline Stampin' Up! group had a swap recently of masculine cards (getting ready for Fathers Day on the 5th of September) and I had to use Totally Tools........I totally LOVE that stamp set - one of my favourites and one I bought before joining as a demonstrator and I'm still using it lots! This is one of my cards from last year using it. The rivets are fake - circle punches with crystal effects & some more crystal effects on the handle of the screwdriver and hammer handle to make the card stock look like a plastic tool handle. 

Stamps: Totally Tools
Card stock: More mustard, chocolate chip, Windsor Knot DSP
Ink: Chocolate chip (ink pad & marker)
Accessories: Stampin' Sponge, Crystal effects, 1/2" circle punch, paper snips
Non SU: standard paper hole punch

Then this was the one I did for the swap using virtually the same materials, but a very different card resulted - funnily enough another of the 8 swap participants chose almost exactly the same colours/DSP/stamp set to make her card with as well - but the result was still different!

Stamps: Totally Tools

Card stock: Old Olive, chocolate chip, Windsor Knot DSP, Whisper White

Ink: Chocolate chip (& Old Olive

Accessories: Silver brads, paper piercer, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch