My Creative Time - Make it Manly!

 I remember the first time I saw

the Dots, Solids & Stripes paper pad that

goes with LET IT SNOW set.  I knew this paper would also be

my go-to for manly cards.  Today I needed a birthday card for

a male.  I had ordered the Love You Lots stamp & Die set because I love Gnomes!

Today I finally got to use him!

I stamped him and used my Copic markers to color him to coordinate with the paper pad.  With so many colors in this stripe I just knew I could find the perfect combination.

I used a colored cardstock for my base because I think it looks more "manly" - LOL!

I think this Gnome colored up pretty cute all decked out in purple!

I also did a white panel on the inside and stamped another sentiment.

The patterned paper strip at the bottom just gives it a finishing touch.

What a fun card to create!

Just a hint - if you like doing layers - use the Cute Card Dies!  I was looking through my stash and I couldn't believe I've never used these for card layers!  How perfect!

MCT products used:

Cute Card Dies

Celebrate You

Love You Lots

Dots, Solids, & Stripes Paper

Foliage Dies

Thank you for stopping by today!

Enjoy the day creating something!

Cathy

My Creative Time - Make it Manly!

 Hello to everyone stopping by today!

First off, thank you for an amazing release week and blog hop for Emma's 129th Edition.  It was a great fun week and I'm so glad you played along.  If you missed it, fear not!  You can use the "older Post" button at the end of this post and see everything I created and get links to our blog hop!

Now onto our project for today!

I was in the Dollar Tree the other day looking over all the Valentine Candy and I came across these pretzel rods.  I sure hope they are good because I made this project for the hubby on Valentine's Day.

I used:

Tall Popcorn Die

Love you Most (stamps and dies)

Fun Valentine paper pad 

Script, Hearts and Solids

Here's a quick video showing how this project all came together.

Thank you for stopping by today!

No matter what, stay crafty!

Cathy

My Creative Time Make it Manly!

 I'm so excited to show you my manly card for today!

I think fall is the easiest time to create masculine projects because of the color theme and we can be "outdoorsy" by using leaves!

My Creative Time dies to the rescue!

Fall Leaf Dies

If you don't already have this set, get it!  You can do so many things with leaves 

on your projects.  When I'm creating fall designs I always use my scraps along with these leaf dies and have the perfect embellishments for everything!

Add that and Lots of Greetings and a Square Tag Die and your project is done!

Happy Fall Y'all!

MCT Make it Manly!

 I hope you all had a chance to get in some crafting time over the holiday!

I always feel that Labor Day is a "reset" for many of us as we begin to head into fall.

I live in Indiana so our temps have not started to cool off yet, but there are signs of fall coming.

We recently had overnight guests for several days which meant I NEEDED to clean my 

craft space so it wasn't so much a disaster.  Oh wow, does it look good but I knew when I started a new project I would make a mess again, so I challenged myself to use nothing but scraps to make my manly card.  The only full piece of cardstock used was the card base, everything else came from my scrap bin.  How fun!  I would love it if you would join me in this challenge!

MCT products used:

Ribbon End Dies

3 inch Circle Card Dies

Teeny Tag Holidays

The twine came from my stash as well as the black sequins.

I love the gray tones and the pop of blue!  What a great way to use up those never ending strips of paper!

Thank you for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Cathy

My Creative Time - Make it manly!

 We have another fun challenge for you today!  Whenever I need a male inspired card, I reach for my darker, muted tone paper. I recently used the paper pad shown in the picture from Paper Studio to get a total of 73 cards!  I used this paper pad and several sheets of Stampin Up colored card stock for the layers. All cards are a white card base.   I think this is the perfect male card to send when you want to reach out to a friend.   Also I need to share why I use only SU card stock.  First off, I love to layer my cards and I don't want a white core to show on the cut edge.  Second, I want all of my scraps to match!  Black, blue, pink whatever.  I use as much of that scrap paper as I can and that is the reason I can get that many card from one paper pad.  

For the MANLY challenge, I created this:

MCT products used:

Let's Have Coffee

Let's Venti

An example of the rest of the cards:

Such a fun project!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cathy

Make it Manly post featuring My Creative Time!

 I'm making a manly birthday card today for

MY GRANDSON!  How can that be?  It seems like he has grown up

way too fast but he celebrated his 19th birthday a few days ago.

I made this cute donut birthday card for him (I don't care how old you are, you always love donuts).

With prices these days, he asked for a gas card so I added

that inside with the sentiment,

"I love you more than donuts".

I love this birthday set.  Appropriate for either men or women!

Happy Birthday Trent!

Mimi (Cathy)

My Creative Time Make it Manly!

 My guy LOVES treats!

He is often the beneficiary of the treats I make for the Design Team

but I must say, I do like to make them girly with sparkles and jewels.

This time, I decided to make a manly treat!  LOL!

I didn't wrap my nuggets and I didn't use any sparkles.

I just let Emma's designs do the heavy lifting for me.

Nothing says "manly" like woodgrain paper!

I thought it turned out so cute and I know he will love his

little birthday gift.

MCT Products used:

Fancy Topper Die

Happy Easter Dies - Used Happy Die

Teeny Tag Holidays - Just used Birthday

Making treats for any occasion has never been easier than

with Emma's products.

Thank you for stopping in for some fun!

Cathy

Make it Manly! My Creative Time

 I'm not sure about you but

masculine cards are sometimes a challenge for me.

If I get REAL, I honestly believe I overthink the entire process.

For my card today, I layered a white card front onto an A2 

size base.  I kept the colors to a minimum and I didn't

add any gems!  I know!  It's a shock to the system.

However I did use my favorite bottle of Nuevo drops to add

just a little black.

Products used:

Sending Love Sentiments

Wonky Heart Dies

Circle Card Add-on dies

Definitely easy to duplicate without being so girly!

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Cathy