This week's Play Date Cafe Color Story is inspired by this row of resting camels. I love the contrast of the camels against the rich brown of the earth. It was a perfect color combination for a masculine birthday card I needed to make.
The card is a group birthday card for a co-worker that needs to be mailed, so I borrowed Bree's HB2U sentiment idea from this weeks Get Sketchy! Sketch for my design.
The papers are from DCWV's Safari Chic Matstack (I'm always on the lookout for great masculine papers, and this is full of them). I used Moss Green foam thickers for my sentiment square & an SRM Sticker along the side.
The Thickers seemed a bit dull after I attached them, so I light bulb went on wondering if I could emboss them. I just ran the entire panel with the stickers attached through the Cuttlebug and got this fabulous textured effect (not to mention flattening the Thickers enough that I will likely not need extra postage).
Here's a close-up of the texture from the Oriental Weave embossing folder:
I finished my design with a few wraps of twine. When I'm planning to wrap horizontally around a card, I usually try to make my fold at the top. However, since this is a larger card base, I used a pre-folded card that folded on the side, so I used my craft knife to cut a slit in the spine of the fold, so I could wrap the twine around.
wonderful Steff... real great male card.
Posted by: Dawn T | August 14, 2010 at 06:14 PM
Before I read the details in your post I wondered how you got the pattern on the letters to match the background so perfectly. What a cool idea to emboss them together! I'll be trying that in the near future. Brava!
Posted by: Jolene Johnston | August 14, 2010 at 08:53 PM
Great idea to emboss the thickers! Love that and will remember it. :) Love your masculine card. Great inspiration! Thanks for playing along with us at the PDCC this week!
Posted by: stampersuzz | August 14, 2010 at 09:25 PM
What a wonderful card using this week's PDCC colors! I love the textures! Thanks so much for playing with us again, Stephanie : )
Posted by: Julie Ranae | August 14, 2010 at 09:46 PM
wow! so army kind of colour palette. gorgeous stamping on the side. i love these new folders that have come out. they took their time didn't they? just spent all my money on the goodies and now they go ahead and introduce more! lol
Posted by: E.T | August 15, 2010 at 04:06 AM
Great card for a teen! I have tried running different layers through a Cuttlebug folder all at one time and love the look. It works big time for your great card! Thanks for sharing Stephanie.
Posted by: Shawna | August 15, 2010 at 09:07 AM
Great masculine card, wonderful texture on your sentiment panel! Thanks for playing at the PDCC.
Posted by: Lisa Somerville | August 15, 2010 at 10:48 AM
Wonderful scrappy card, Stef! Love how you embossed the Thickers! Thanks for playing along with the Play Date Cafe!
Posted by: Stephanie Kraft | August 15, 2010 at 02:09 PM
OH MY Stef!! This is a WONDERFUL card--I love that embossing! Great idea--note to self:: must try that!! LOVE that twine too! Great job all around:) YOU ROCK!! Thanks for playing along and joining in the fun at the PDCC:)
Posted by: Sav O'G | August 15, 2010 at 05:52 PM
Ohhhh, GOODNESS! That embossing work is AMAZING! I love that look! How it all lined up, combined with the EXCELLENT composition!!! Such a fun and "green" birthday card - this is excellent! Thanks for sharing your mighty fine talent with the PDCC! Yee Haw!
Posted by: Elise | August 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM
EMBOSSING THICKERS!!!!!!!!!! that are already ATTACHED!!!!!!!!!!! i bow to you, oh innovative crafty goddess! i bow to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥
Posted by: lauren | August 17, 2010 at 09:15 AM