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Tuesday 10 June 2014

Male Card

On the Make My Monday Challenge blog they are asking for a male themed card this week and I've made a collage style one.  There are some great examples on their blog made by the design team so worth popping over to take a look for ideas - often difficult to come up with cards for men.  Because I've mainly used bits and pieces from my 'bits' boxes this one will make a third entry (three in two weeks) for the Pixie Snippets challenge where anyone making three cards gets put into an extra draw.  Apart from the background paper which I printed from  a Funky Hand programme the remaining elements were either just lying around (the snippets of cogs) or were made using scraps of card rather than cutting into new pieces.  I was beginning to think I'd never get this card made though because my printer threw a wobbly and everything I printed came out in weird colours which entailed a lengthy process of checking all the cartridges to find out where the problem was, cleaning everything a couple of times and eventually I managed to get this paper printed in the right colour - everything kept coming out in bright pinky mauve colours which was frustrating to say the least!!


Backing Paper - Funky Hand
Image - Stampin' Up
Embossed panel - Cuttlebug folder with Treasure Gold
Cogs - Sizzix die
Sentiment - computer generated

11 comments:

  1. Morning Val..great male card love your masculine papers too

    Anne

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  2. hi Val, brilliant male themed card..hate doing them, love your great idea..
    pam

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  3. Great collage card Val, love the backing papers they look fab embossed. I'm a sucker for postcard style images and this one is lovely:)
    Val x

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  4. Gorgeous Val, I love it. It's great the way the backingpaper and the embossing folder match.

    Sue xx

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  5. I love your card Val. Fabulous idea. Hugs Rita xx

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  6. A great card, love everything about it. Hugs x ChrisB

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  7. I think your collage style card is great!! I love the cogs! Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday, Joan DT

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  8. Looks great. Glad you got the colours sorted...frustrating i am sure but well worth the effort...Great card.

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  9. Love this collage male card Val and the colours are perfect. Glad you persevered with your printer.....pesky things when they play up eh?

    Karen x

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  10. Great male card Val - as you say, always difficult ones to crack and this is terrific. Well done on making the three over two weeks - you'll be in the shell folder draw!

    Hugs, Di xx

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  11. Fabulous card Val, love the collage effect, great colours and from your bits box! :-)
    Thank you for joining us at MMM
    Suzi B xx

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