After organizing my Designer Series Paper (DSP) yesterday, my goal today was to make some masculine birthday cards. I found a couple on Pinterest that I wanted to try.
Rustic Argyle
The argyle print is from a color collection several years ago (probably longer than I think) and the banner is from a package of 'sweater' prints. The embossed background card stock is some that my sister, Jane, embossed for me several years ago (again probably longer than I think). A great way to expand your designs. I asked Jane if she had some of the embossing folders that I would like to try and for those she did, I told her which colors I wanted done with which folder. For the most part, I did a color collection per folder - like Regals with this folder. So she took a sheet of card stock in each color in the Regals collection and cut it into 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 pieces and embossed them for me. When she came to visit next, she had a shoebox full of embossed pieces. I replaced the card stock from my supply at that time. I still have about 3/4 of embossed pieces to use up!
Angled DSP
The angled strips interested me on this card design. I have lots of strips in different widths and this would be a way to use up some. At first, I tried to find strips that were all from the same DSP package so they would coordinate, or at least use common colors. I soon decided that would make it too complicated and I would wind up with more scraps that I started if I cut from larger pieces of DSP. So I just started grabbing strips and playing with them. I like the graph paper as the background on this one.
More angles
I came up with so many combination of strips that I made 6 more cards based on that design. Not sure which one I like the best but the upper left corner really catches my eye. I'll have to remember this design. It could be used for ay theme depending on DSP used or colors. I want to try it with baby prints for a New Baby card, or maybe some strips of birthday prints for a birthday card. So many possibilities!
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