Men's Cards Can be Pink and Have Lace Too!

Another book card today. This one features the "Victorian Gentleman's Cabinet of Curiosities"! And just to prove that it can be done, this man's card is made with lace and a pink colour scheme :-)

"Front cover"

The map is stamped onto a distress-inked background and covered in Perfect Pearls powders before overstamping in Crimson Archival Ink. The ticket is stamped again onto a separate piece of card, cut out and distressed and a glaze pen used to raise the lettering on "Admit One". The ticket and sentiment were both raised with foam pads for some added dimension, and tiny circular metallic peel-offs added to the image panel to look like rivets on a box. More "rivets" were used to decorate the side and back of the cover.

"Inside"

Both decorative panels inside are decorated with distress inks. The butterfly image on the left is printed from the Graphics Fairy's blog and the butterflies on the right are from a Tim Holtz stamp set. It's amazing how well they match. I'm sure the images on the stamps are taken from a similar source. The closure is provided by Baker's Twine stuck in between the image panels and cover, and all the fabulous lace is from my friend Kathy (thank you again!).

"3-D Butterflies"

The Tim Holtz butterflies are stamped onto the back panel in distress ink and again onto acetate with crimson archival ink. The acetate butterflies are cut out, the wings bent and the centres adhered on top of the background stamping with glossy accents. The "Butterflies and Moths" part of the stamp is printed again on a separate piece of card and adhered over the lace border.

"Graphics Fairy butterflies"

This panel was coloured with distress ink before printing the Graphics Fairy image with an inkjet printer. This saves the printer ink from smudging. The lace at the bottom is glued just around the bottom and side edges, so that it acts as a pocket for the decorative tags.

"Tags"

The tags are coloured with distress inks, the butterflies stamped in archival, and the sentiments stamped in archival and heat embossed in clear. Bits of lace are added to match the card.

Ingredients:

Distress inks: Tattered Rose, Victorian Velvet

Archival Inks: Crimson, Jet Black

Embossing Powder: Clear

Lace

Baker's Twine

image from the Graphics Fairy

Stampers Anonymous stamp set: Papillon

Stampers Anonymous stamp set: Air Travel

Tim Holtz stamp set: Nature's Elements

Tim Holtz stamp set: Curious Possibility

Papermania clear stamp set Hampstead

cardstock: brown 300gsm, white 160gsm

Entered for the following challenges:
Joanna Sheen - It's a Man Thing
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Tim Holtz Technique
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Challenge 23 Ribbon or Twine
Make My Monday - Vintage
Sir Stampalot - Happy Birthday

Men's cards don't have to be Sport or Transport

I won a gorgeous stamp set from Crafty Individuals last month and thought it would make a fantastic man's card when teamed with blues and greens.

"Be like the bird..."

The trees image was stamped twice with distress inks onto inked card and both the images decorated with Perfect Pearls, one in green patina and the other in blue patina. The blue central tree was cut out and mounted on the other image with foam pads to raise it up. The birds were also stamped and dusted, and the sentiment stamped in archival ink. All these stamps are from the same stamp set.

The main panel and a larger piece of blue patterned paper were both matted onto black card. Lace and black Elegant Flourishes were adhered to the larger panel, then the smaller panel glued on top.

"Flower"

Flowers were layered together with a blue brad to make a stylised blue daffodil. You see, even men's cards can be pretty! The men must get so bored with the sport or transport themes that seem to dominate the market; it's nice to try something a bit different.

"Trees"

Ingredients

Sizzix Bigz die - Elegant Flourishes

Crafty Individuals unmounted stamp set - CI-287

Distress Inks

Archival Ink: Jet black

Perfect Pearls - Green Patina, Blue Patina

Cardstock: black 160gsm, white, 160gsm & 300gsm

Patterned paper

Fabric & paper flowers

Blue brad

Entered for the following challenge:
Joanna Sheen - it's a Man's World
Crafty Individuals - Time For Summer