Today the My Sweet Petunia Design Team is creating with the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Design Team for lots of creative fun.
By and large, my sympathy cards usually end-up veering toward the feminine (often with flowers), so my goal was to create some masculine sympathy cards by combining Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Texture Tiles 4 with Sympathy Innies (which I turned into Outies).
I started with a box of shimmery card bases in various shades of green and teal and picked out three shades (dark, medium & light) for each of my cards.
I picked a coordinating ink and stamped the Texture Tile and sentiment both on the lightest shade using my MISTI (which makes the tricky stamping on shimmery paper a piece of cake).
Then I used this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch (perfect for those tiles) and finished with some enamel dots, which are also perfect for masculine designs.
My second card used shades of green with another sentiment from the set.
Enjoy hopping along to see all of the fun creations … both Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps & My Sweet Petunia will each be giving away a $50 gift certificate to one lucky commenter.
Love your cards – mine also tend to be on the feminine side – great idea to use the plaid
I love blog hops because they inspire me to create–thank you.
Mono chromatic cards are a lot of fun to create & I think you choose well to achieve a card that has a masculine feel. Thank you for joining AHSC this week.
Oh, these look great. I like the simplicity.
Just what I need right now! Beautiful!
Wonderful cards for a subject for which we hate to make cards. The colors are great.
thanks for sharing
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The Misti is an awesome tool!
Very nice! It is great to learn new ways to use the MISTI.
Fabulous CAS cards.
Great monochromatic cards — now I want those plaid stamps!
Cute cards.
Such a cool way to use the background stamps! Great colors!
Love your cards and the use of the sketch! Sympathy cards can be difficult to make at times.
Your cards are lovely! I really like these background images!
Great cards. I love how you used the background stamps. Thanks for sharing.
I love the simplicity of your cards!
Great masculine feel for the card. I like the texture stamps.
VERY nice! Sympathy cards both CAS and bright. Both are great – I love ♥ the green one!
Thanks for joing us at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week.
Great cards! Love the CAS designs!
Love the stamps and the color scheme. Masculine cards are a stretch for me, too. Thanks for the ideas!
Love those texture tiles!
So lovely! Such a great way to feature backgroud stamps.
I’m enjoying this Blog Hop. You are all showing me some great ideas for cards that I can get made here now that school starts this next week! You are inspiring me to stamp, now that we’ll have more time with summer almost over!
Wow! Precision and matching colored patterns with cardstocks make for quick and easy cardmaking! LOVE your idea of these fabulous CAS cards!
Love that Texture Tiles 4 set! Beautiful sentiments too!
Such pretty plaid tiles!
Oh, those patterns are awesome! Love the great colors and how you coordinated the background, blings, and ink colors… cool!
Never thought about using texture stamps like this. Love the monochromatic look, too. I think you succeeded very well in creating a masculine sympathy card.
Sympathy cards are definitely tricky for me. I think you did a great job with these designs. The beautiful sentiments from SNS are so touching that the recipients will definitely feel your love and concern when they are received.
I like the sketch you used to make these masculine sympathy cards and great tip on using the Misti on this kind of paper.
I love the texture on your cards, great job! Thanks for playing along with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (AHSC).
Brandi R.
DT member AHSC
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I love plaid. These will be on my wish list. Great card design.
LOVELY clean and simple cards. Great job! Thanks for joining us at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week! Good luck!
Jess – DT
http://www.jessicakaiser.blogspot.ca
Such cleverly designed cards! Love the pattern stamping! Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring!
These are great – not something I often create for my stash but it is nice to have them when needed. Wonderful layout and I like the sentiments – they are good “outies”.
Great cards
Very well done for a masculine sympathy card!
Super great idea!!! I love your humor!
Thanks for sharing these fab designs for masculine cards.
Wonderful cards! Love the clean design and fun visual texture from the Texture Tiles stamps.