Thursday, March 21, 2019
Mixed Media Masculine Cards
Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today with lots of fun products from the store. Please visit the store for all the fun products I've used today.
I chose an olive green cardstock for this card as it picked up the more muted colors in the background. I also used a stencil with molding paste to add some definition. A scrap of burlap added to the masculine feel.
I also used Tim Holtz Ideaology Mini Gears on both cards, adding a touch of color with Prima Marketing Art Alchemy Metallique Wax to add a bit of color.
I chose to add dark green cardstock to this card as it picked up on the green highlights in the paper. A larger panel of burlap helped set the masculine tone before adding the gears. I created a tag made from another sheet of gel press paper, matted it with cardstock and slipped it behind the burlap.
The phrases are from Poppystamps.
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Masculine cards can at times be difficult to create, but with the right tools, you can create an assortment of masculine cards. For these cards, I started with the Gel Press to create assorted backgrounds.
And while you have the Gel Press out, make a bunch of papers that can be used for future projects. This saves a lot of time, plus it's so much fun to look at the papers you have already created and figure out how you want to work with them!
When creating masculine cards, use burlap (rather than ribbon), gears (rather than flowers) and more subtle/grungy colors like browns, blues, greens. While I have do yellow and red in my backgrounds, you can see with the additional embellishments that they are more masculine.
Cut the background papers to size and mat with cardstock that enhances the paper you created.
I chose an olive green cardstock for this card as it picked up the more muted colors in the background. I also used a stencil with molding paste to add some definition. A scrap of burlap added to the masculine feel.
I also used Tim Holtz Ideaology Mini Gears on both cards, adding a touch of color with Prima Marketing Art Alchemy Metallique Wax to add a bit of color.
I chose to add dark green cardstock to this card as it picked up on the green highlights in the paper. A larger panel of burlap helped set the masculine tone before adding the gears. I created a tag made from another sheet of gel press paper, matted it with cardstock and slipped it behind the burlap.
The phrases are from Poppystamps.
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