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This was a case of my card I originally made for Denise's Spring Fever Challenge.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The original version of this card was originally made for the Caardvarks Purple Snurple challenge.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.
These are awesome! My favorite is the last one...it just jumped out at me!!
Posted by: Denise ~ Paper Ponderings | August 23, 2008 at 08:16 PM
GREAT masculine cards!
Posted by: ~amy~ | August 24, 2008 at 03:10 AM
Nice masculine cards Stef!
Posted by: Shelly | August 24, 2008 at 01:22 PM
I LOVE all your make-overs!!! It's so fun to go back and see the original card -- what a great way to re-make cards with a different gender in mind!! All wonderfully done -- so glad you could play, link and share these -- thanks so much!!!
Posted by: Sharon (notimetostamp) | August 24, 2008 at 05:20 PM
DUDE!!!
(that is "man-speak" for: "oh my goodness, i am overwhelmed by your talent and attention to detail with regard to re-making your gorgeous cards in a more masculine style!")
:)
Posted by: lauren | August 30, 2008 at 07:42 AM