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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I love that gingham background. I could see this in all kinds of colors. Perfect card!
This is a fabulous design, and I agree that it’s totally gender neutral. I love these particular colors, so thanks for the idea!
Great card. Love the gingham background. Perfect card for anyone.
I so love that plaid stamp and BG! Gorgeous teal shades! :) Another great stamp to add to my very long SSS wish list! Ha!
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Great design! It would be fun to make a set in different colours.
I like this layout very much TFS
Super cute guy card! Love the gingham & the great colors!
Always love seeing a design that’s most perfect
for the guys. They are hard to make for.
I love eclipse cards and love it with the gingham paper. A great card!
Fab card design, I love how you did your sentiment!
Lovely card & awesome colors! Thank you for sharing!
I’m always on the lookout for good masculine card ideas. This is a great one.
love love love this inspiration
I love the colors you used with the black and white gingham! I’m always trying to think of ideas for masculine cards for my husband and two sons. Thank you for the inspiration!
Lovely card, perfect for any gender indeed! Thanks for the inspiration!
Great card Kelly, love this one. This is great for all the male friend of us. Thank you so much.
What a lovely versatile design! Just change the colours to personalise it!
Yes, this is a great card for any gender! Always a challenge for me to do cards for males.
What a Fantastic card!!! Very gender neutral.
Hi, What a beautiful card, I really love the colors but what I love the most is that like you said this can be given to a male, that is awesome, it can be so hard to figure out what stamp to use when making a male version card. This was a very awesome post, Thanks!!!
Wonderful card. Love the plaid.
Great card–perfect masculine or for anyone!
Great gingham background!!
Great card!
I love the colours and the inlaid die cut greeting
Kelly this is a fantastic masculine card. I am always looking for ideas for such cards and your design is awesome. I actually have a gingham/plaid stamp so now I have a new idea for using it. TFS!
Thanks to SSS for the blog candy win, I’ll email Reed now.
Congratulations to the other winners!
This is such a great design!
Great card, Kelly. I like the combination of solids and checks. tfs
I have to make a birthday card for my son-in-law and this card has given me some good ideas for his card
Good card for a man. I’ve made a similar one before. x
I love that stamp! Also love the color palette you went with. Great job!
This is really classy. Hugz
Very fun card Kelly. Thanks for sharing with us.
Great card! This would be perfect for my Dad and brother! My Dad loves plaids1.
Great card. Love the gingham background. Perfect card for anyone.
love the design of this card!!
unusual color combination. I love the way HAPPY looks. it has got shadows because of the slightly smaller stamped letters.
I love this card – simple but cool. It is a versatile design can be changed with a different pattern or color and look totally unique all over again. Thank you!
Great card and alphabet stamp set. The card can be used for either gender. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Great card for a guy. So flannel shirt.
Enjoyed seeing your card. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling of Fall and flannel shirts.
Oh my loving the gingham and this color palette, great card !! Happy Fall :)
Oh my loving the gingham ( cool background stamp ) and this color palette, great card !! Happy Fall :)
I really like the plaid and colors chosen. :)
Awesome card – lovely design.