Masculine Makeover

A friend chose several cards from my gallery, and asked me if I could make them again (using the same sentiments) for a masculine recipient, so I took on the challenge.

This was a case of my card I originally made for Denise’s Spring Fever Challenge.  Rather than stamp on white, I used a sheet of Precious Metal designer paper from We Are Memory Keepers.  I also used An Autumn Leaves flourish from Swirls v.2, since it didn’t have a floral design.

Both the Flourish and the Inque Boutique Quotopia sentiment were stamped in ColorBox Chalk Dark Brown and clear embossed (which makes stamping on DP pop a bit more against the pattern). 

The original version of this card was originally made for the Caardvarks Purple Snurple challenge.

I changed the chalks to teal and silver and trimmed it a bit shorter, so I could feature the entire believe sentiment.  I also embossed with Mirage EP, rather than dazzling diamonds to tone down the bling a bit for the masculine version.  I only did one coat of the EP, so it has a textured finish.

The original card that inspired this creation was for another Caardvarks challenge … to make a card using no designer paper.

To keep the punches even, I lined up the edge of the punch with the previously punched opening.  I changed up the color palette to a light yellow and navy and used a different flourish along the side. 

I really love the clean simplicity of this design.

Finally, I re-made this card for sketch challenge 168 at SCS. 

I used a two-sided piece of We R Memory Keepers DP called Explore-Hubcaps for the design.  I swapped the metal brads for some sentiment brads from K&Company.

All of these cards qualify for last week’s Stamp Simply Take Two challenge to re-make some of your favorite cards.