At the Order of Opus Gluei, the theme this week is to make a manly themed card. I decided to try to make a manly snowflake design, and I think I succeeded. I also incorporated the Wee Memories Challenge to dust off your Patterned Paper. The card uses this week's Card Patterns Sketch, which was perfect for these cool black matte-board Inchies from Inchie Arts.
I started planning my design with some Christmas Rub-ons that were made to go on Great Big Brads. They rubbed onto this Inchies lickity-split. Hero Arts Stunning Snowflakes were stamped in Charcoal ink on Memory Box Designer paper. I added some different size jeweled accents to the centers of the snowflakes on the Inchies and one the background.
I punched a small square, and then turned a larger square punch upside down and centered it over the small square before punching. I trimmed the end-result in half diagonally and made two photo corners. I really love the elegance of the neutral palette with all of the sparkling snowflakes … sort of like the grey cloudy skies we often have here before the inches of white stuff begins to fall.
This is wonderful, Stef! Love the masculine snowflake inchies. Very cool w/ that dp.
great card Steff… .love the blacks and greys and whites. Very inspirational
oooh the same snowflakes! i LOVE those inchies! They are awesome!
I really like this; very elegant and classic. Love the addition of the inchies.
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As soon as I hit post comment I realized I didn’t say how much I like the random jewel centers, that’s a great touch too. Yes, this is reminiscent of the gray stormy look of the sky before the (dreaded) white stuff falls!
Ooooooooh. This is so elegant. And man will like it too. I love the colors you used. And will certainly make my photo corners this way now. Thank you for playing with us at OPUS GLUEI. It’s always such a pleasure to see your creations.
That’s really great! A perfect masculine card! Thanks for playing along with CP this week!
What a great guy card or for anyone-nice work.
Fab card! The color is so nice & rub-ons & inchies are perfect for the design sketch.
i ♥LOVE♥ this card whole-heartedly just for how it LOOKS…but i must admit, even before i saw it, i was already loving the phrase “masculine snowflakes”!!! 🙂 (BRILLIANT use of those rubs, btw…makes me think NOW i know how i will use up the little bits and bobs of rubs that were “too small” for anything else!!!!!!!!!! ♥THANKS♥!)
This is gorgeous! Thanks so much for playing at Wee Memories.
FANTASIC manly card!Love the muted tones and design! Thanks so much for playing Wee Memories Challenge this week!