Birthday Inspiration – Perfect for any gender!
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! I hope your week is starting off well! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Kelly Rasmussen as a guest on our blog! She has made this card with a masculine recipient in mind but I think it’s wonderfully perfect for all genders! Read on for some great tips and tricks and enjoy!
Hello, crafters! Today I’m sharing an idea for a masculine birthday card. I’m jumping on the buffalo plaid trend by using the Simon Says Stamp Gingham Background as the feature on my card.
To create the card I started by stamping the gingham background with Hero Arts Black Ink on white cardstock. Next, I used the Hero Arts Luggage Tag Alphabet Frame Cuts to die cut the word “happy”. I just used the negative space here, so be sure to save those cute plaid letters for a future project! Then I used the coordinating Hero Arts Luggage Tag Alphabet stamp set to stamp the letters inside the die cuts. To do this, I temporarily adhered the plaid panel to a 4.25”x5.5” piece of white cardstock. Since the stamp letters are slightly smaller than the dies, it works perfectly to just stamp right through the letter window. I used Hero Arts Emerald Green Shadow Ink, which I think looks great with the black and white plaid.
Next, I white heat embossed the word “birthday” from the Hero Arts Birthday Messages set on a strip of black cardstock and adhered it to the panel. I trimmed two strips of colored cardstock, Simon Says Stamp Audrey Blue and Bazzill Jawbreaker, to use above and below the plaid panel. I assembled all the pieces onto the white panel, popping up the plaid panel with foam adhesive. And finally adhered the whole panel to a white card base.
Hope you enjoyed the card! Huge thanks to Simon Says Stamp for having me as a guest today! :)
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Love the black plaid.
Great card for your favorite male.
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Great masculine card…clean and crisp and not fussy at all. Cheers.
Awesome masculine card! It’s always great to have some of those in my stash.
Great card design. Love the gingham. It would be fun to make this as a set in different colours.
Beautiful idea for a masculine card!
Congrats to all the winners!!!
Really like the plaid paper good to use for a masculine card. Looks great with the shades of blue.
Love the plaid design
Beautiful and bold card. I love the colors and the plaid. Also the layering and depth. I like the way the letters are recessed.
Terrific card! Love the plaid design. Congrat’s to the winners!
What a great idea! So versatile!
Very striking! I have 4 sons & 6 grandsons, so masculine cards are always on my agenda.
Great and versatile design!
Love it!!
Such a fabulous design. I’m already thinking of tweaking this design to create some quick Chrismas cards, possibly in pink. ;-)
Super cool looking!! Nicely done.
The black and teal look great together
That’s a lovely design! :)
Gorgeous! The stamping through the die cuts looks great.
Such a pretty color combo.
Awesome card, I can see a pink or purple plaid for a lady!
The bold design is WONDERFUL!!! I like it in black and white
Gotta get that cute gingham background stamp! Great card!
Wonderful card!!!!
Very cool! Love the colors and the fun recessed sentiment!
Great graphic design for a fab card
Always love gender neutral designs! Thanks!
That’s a great masculine card.
I LOVE this. The gingham background stamp is wonderful, especially for masculine cards, which I struggle with. This one is definitely going on my wish list.
Awesome card! I like the colors witb the plaid baCkground stamp!
I just love the plaid pattern; cozy for any gender :) !
Absolutely beautiful and simple card! I loved The black Gingham and I think yhis background stamp is so amazing.
Love the card!! I’m always looking for masculine cards, I think they are the hardest for me to create, not sure why, but I wish more bloggers would share more ideas on masculine card ideas and stamp companies would create more masculine stamps. I love the card and I will pin it to my board since I have 2 grown boys :) . Thanks again for sharing!
This is probably the best masculine card I’ve ever seen in awhile. Love the color combo.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Great masculine card!
Thanks for sharing…
Love this!
This style of card
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Nice card for all birthdays!
Awesome birthday card! :)
Lovely masculine color combo. The gingham background stamp is gorgeous.
Oooh, LOVE the plaid! Beautiful card!
A great card and inspiration for me as I find masculine card ideas more difficult to come up with.
Great design. I like the gingham.
Great card for a guy and I love the big gingham stamp. I already follow by email.
I need to make more neutral cards like this. Thank you for the inspiration.
A great card!
Wonderful card!
This is such a cool card! I love the design. :)
Love the color combinations! Thanks for the inspiration, I’m always on the lookout for cards appropriate for the men in my life.
Wonderful plaid appropriate for male cards.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Love that plaid stamp! That’s the highlight on this card, I think! And a beautiful card it is!