I had masses of fun with this one!! Some people say they struggle with boy cards, but I find them quite refreshing to do. Must be channelling my inner tomboy... :P
Here is a card I made for a little school friend of my daughter, turning just 6, but past the teddies and trains stage for sure. I love the "Extreme Elements" set, with the co-ordinating single stamps available, here I have used "Extreme Guitar". The messy background style stamps make it easy to create a masculine look.
I started with a base of Early Espresso cardstock, and used the new "Wonderfully Worn" background stamp with matching ink. After that, I have stamped the smaller backgrounds from the set onto a piece of Marina Mist, again with matching ink. Then I scrunched and distressed it. Just think of a scrap of paper that has been kicking around the base of a kid's school bag for a few weeks. I'm familiar with that look, I have a boy turning TEN this year!!!! This layer was deliberately stuck down skew-whiff. Think pasted in homework sheets there.
To brighten it up, I used the yummy new "Daffodil Delight" yellow - so much of an improvement in the useability stakes than the old bright Yoyo Yellow!! Again, this is stamped with background stamps and torn and distressed.
For the stamped image panel, there is first a layer of Very Vanilla, stamped win Marina Mist ink with the splodgy background stamp, and stamped again with the "Extreme Guitar" bloke in Early Espresso ink. I deliberately smudged the stamp sideways to get an impression of movement - to do this you need to ink the stamp really well, and make a sharp deliberate movement to one side as soon as the stamp hits the cardstock. It helps to practice first on a scrap, as it may be easier to slide in one direction than another. Over this, I inked up the bloke stamp again, this time with daubers to get a patchy tie-dye look. I carefully trimmed around this second image and mounted it over the base smudged image.
To finish and personalise, I used a large star punchie with the distressed crown from the "Extreme Elements" set, with an alphabet monogram from "Just Perfect Alpha" Embellishments can sometimes be tricky for boy cards, but these mini library clips are fabbo!
Hope you like, the recipient did, perhaps not as much as the contents of his parcel though, a Nerf Super Soaker water gun :D
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