Category: Masculine

Masculine, Personal Ramblings, Punch Art

FOR A BIRTHDAY BOY!!!

Jenny Hayward

I wanted to show you a special card today for my gorgeous big boy.  I have probably bored you enough about his Football pursuits BUT well it is his 17th birthday today so I have to show you the card I made for him.  I have had a number of people share this idea with me over the last few months.  Thanks so much my friends.  So I only just remembered to use this idea for his card.  This idea originally came from the blogosphere somewhere (sorry I can’t remember where) but recently it was on Pinterest.

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I used Cherry Cobbler which is close to his club colours since I don’t have Bravo Burgundy anymore.  The ‘Fence’ was created by brayering the inside of the Stripes Embossing Folder with Soft Suede and running Whisper White Card through it.  The card was too wide to fit so I cut it in half before embossing it and then joined it together on my Old Olive Card base.  (See you don’t even notice do you???).  I added a strip of Soft Suede card along the top of the fence.

Punches I used for the Football Dude:

1 3/8″ circle, 1 1/4″ circle, 1″ circle, 3/4″ circle, Word Window and 2-step Owl Punch.  I did a little cutting of some of the circles to adapt them to what I wanted.  The Helmet cage took the most work.  It is not quite right but it is OK, although Glenn and Josh thought it was a cool beard!!!!!?????  The stamp sets I have used are ‘Great Sport’ for the football and ‘Itty Bitty Banners’ for the greeting.

I hope you like my cool dude anyway.

HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY JOSH!!  xx

Here are my gorgeous two this morning.  Love you both xx

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Masculine, My DIgital Studio

MDS CARD FOR THE LITTLE BOYS!!!

Jenny Hayward

Just a quick post today.  I thought I would show you this card I made with ‘My Digital Studio’ last week.  This is a fun card for a young boy.  I am sure I have a few young nephews that would like a card like this.

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This is using ‘On The Go’ Brush Set. I added a digital eyelet to the centre of the wheels.

See the curve ‘Beep! Beep’ Text.  I thought I would tell you how I did that.   This can work with any shape, embellishment or text.  When you click on the shape it comes up with a shape highlighted with dots marking each corner and side points.  If you hover over one of these corner points a directional arrow shows up which enables you to enlarge or shrink the shape.  Notice if you click on a corner there is also a circular arrow that shows up.  If you click or move this shape it will rotate the shape.  You can bend the shape to any angle. I hope I have explained it clearly enough.  One day I will get clever and be able to show pictures to give you a better idea.  It is a really cool application anyway so have a play around yourself.

Thanks for stopping by.  More “Paper” projects next time.

Jenny 

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‘CLOCKWORKS’ – FOR THE BOYS!!

Jenny Hayward

We all have trouble with cards for the Boys, don’t we???? I have a card for you today using the stamp set ‘Clockworks’.   I created this a couple of weeks ago when I was after some samples for class.  I must say I did CASE this from ‘nicepeoplestamp.com’.  I have seen versions of this on Pinterest too.  I changed the colours on my card.

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I have used Gumball Green, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake.  It’s a quick card for those male cards we need to make.  I should play around with this set a bit more.  I really haven’t used this set since I got it at Stampin’ Up! Regionals in September last year.  Just so many toys to play with sometimes!!!

Speaking of Boys, I thought I would give you a quick update on how the boys went last week at the National Gridiron Championships that Josh was playing in.  Just spare me a little “proud Mummy moment” OK 🙂  Last post I mentioned how New South Wales won their first game 36-24 after coming back in the second half to win.  The next game they played they won 69 NIL.  I did feel really sorry for the other team.  With two wins it meant they were through to the Grand Final held last Saturday.  It was a very tough game but NSW dug deep and their Defence was strong.  NSW were named Australian Champions with a win of 7-0.  It was a nail-biting finish though.  Well done NSW.  Well done Josh. Here he is in action in the Grand Final.  He is #28 – on top of the pack in the middle – of course!

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I thought I would just show you a photo of Josh after the game with his prize-winning medal.

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Thanks for indulging me. 🙂

Be back again soon with some card creations!!

Jenny

Masculine, Stampin' Up!

“21ST PIANO”

Jenny Hayward

I can finally show you this card.  It was my nephew’s 21st last week and we only got to see him today.  He is quite the musician so I thought this card was just the thing for him.  I have made this card before quite some time back.

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The card base is cut with the Top Note Die.  Place the fold of the card just inside the side edge on the die so it won’t cut through.  I cut a second piece and cut it smaller to create a layer on the front to slip the Word Window punched “Keys”.  The ’21’ is cut from Silver Glimmer Paper and layered on the Whisper White flagged card strip.  The little black “dots” are Adhesive Rhinestones that I coloured with black permanent Marker.  I think it was well received today.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting me today.  I have been playing “Dress Ups”  today.  No I didn’t dress up in funny clothes.  I will show you shortly!!

Jenny

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END OF SALE-A-BRATION COUNTDOWN – 4

Jenny Hayward

I was playing around with the Sale-A-Bration set ‘Feeling Sentimental’ a few weeks ago and created this card.  Some distressing and inking I think it makes a great “MAN” card.  They are always hard to do, aren’t they???  I have used the Chevron Embossing Folder.  The brads in the centre of the wheel and on each end of the Natural Trim Ribbon are gold brads and I sanded them back slightly to rough them up!!!

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Thanks for stopping by today.  I have another card using this set to show you tomorrow, Day 3 of our Countdown, so stay tuned.

Jenny

cards, Masculine

A MASCULINE 50TH!

Jenny Hayward

Last week I needed to create a 50th Birthday card for my Brother-in-law.  What to do???  Masculine cards are always a dilemma.  I went through my “saved card ideas”.  We all have one (or more) of those files don’t we??  The layout was inspired by this card by Debra Currier.  Of course I couldn’t use Extreme Elements now but ‘Clockworks’ was a good substitute.  A racy red sportscar is a good addition for a 50th.  Unfortunately it wasn’t a real one though! 🙂  The ’50’ was done on the Bigshot with ‘Timeless Type Alphabet’ now retired.  I punched a circle with the large circle on the Owl punch and punched a centre hole with a small hole punch.  I threaded some Linen Thread through it to create a tag.  The edge of the tag was sponged with ink.

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While I was on a roll I created a similar card to use for another Male Birthday.  They can always come in handy.  This time I used the “Wish Big” from ‘Word Play’.

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Here are the 2 together.  I did use Sahara Sand on both these cards but they do look a little different.  Possibly the lighting – or my bad photography!

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Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a good day.  I hope my Aussie friends are surviving the heat.  It has been hot and looks like it will continue all week.  Stay cool 🙂

Come and visit again soon,

Jenny x

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“MEMORABLE MOMENTS 50TH”

Jenny Hayward

Have you checked out the new Catalogues yet???  There is some great things in there, isn’t there?? Oh, what to choose first!  I have put the links to the Catalogues in my sidebar so you can click on there and check it all out Online if you haven’t already had a chance to.  Why not get your very own copy?? Isn’t it nice to lie in bed and drool over that Catalogue?? Although that does effect the sleep as you lie awake dreaming up ideas!  Am I the only one that does that??  If you would like me to send one out to you then drop me a comment and I can get back to you to arrange your very own one to be sent to you.  The Catalogue would cost $12 which includes shipping to anywhere in Australia.

Anyway, you have come here to check out cards not read about my ramblings.  Here is a card I created a couple of weeks ago.

I wanted to play around with the Core’dinations Cardstock.  This is really cool stuff.  I have embossed it with the Woodgrain Embossing Folder and then sanded it lightly with the ‘new’ sanding system.  The paper strips are from the DSP pack ‘Patio Party’.  I have stamped on the leaf image from ‘Just Believe’ in Crumb Cake onto the Card base.  I stamped the Framelit border from ‘Memorable Moments’ and cut it with the Framelits die.  Happy Birthday is stamped in Crumb Cake and the ’50th’ is stamped in the new In-Color Midnight Muse.  I added a Vintage Brad to finish it off.

I think this set ‘Memorable Moments’ will be very useful.  How many times do you need a numbered birthday and this set has the ‘nd’, ‘th’, ‘st’ and ‘rd’ that you quite often need!

I did enjoy making this card and playing around with my new toys.  I have lots to show you.  I have been creating up a storm over the last couple of weeks.  I have my BIG Catalogue Launch and Stamp sale on tomorrow so I will show you these next week.  It is going to be a big day tomorrow with 18 ladies coming along, but it is always fun stamping with friends.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny x