Sometimes making a card in my studio feels like a big creative adventure … I'm looking for one thing … find something else … and head off in a completely different direction.
I needed to make a masculine birthday card & was searching for some stamps when I stumbled upon some remaining guitar rub-ons. I used this black guitar as the starting point for my design with this week's CPS Sketch.
I pulled out a bin of my Basic Grey papers and pulled out several vintage patterns from the Obscure Collection. I wanted to add some music to the background, but my paper was taller than my Stampi' Up background stamp, so I inked it once and stamped over multiple times to get a grungy music feel.
I added an EAD Designs rub-on & sticker, together with a stamped & embossed sentiment from Stampers Anonymous by Wendy Vecchi. I added some adhesive black pearls to finish the design.


awesome masculine card!!!
Cool card! I love your color scheme and graphic work. Blessings!
Very cool card!! Great masculine theme! Thanks for playing along with CPS sketch 254!!
Rockin’ design! Great job on the sketch and thanks for joining us at CPS this week!
Fun card! Love the rock-n-roll theme!!
Love that sentiment and the ROCK ON! Thanks for sketching with the CPS crew!
Groovy!