Feeling Masculine...

I haven't spent nearly enough time in my crafty area, but today allowed a little time after everyone went to bed.  I was looking through my stash of cards and noticed there weren't many manly birthday cards.  Normally this would make me cringe since I tend to  have a creative block against this type of card.  But for some reason, as I was looking through my retired stamps, an idea popped in my head. Crazy!!  I had used this stamp set a looooong time ago and can't even remember what the card looked like, but I thought the sand dollar would look good in crumb cake.

The rest of the card just kind of fell into place.  The color combo came from the color coach.  I knew I wanted crumb cake and white, but couldn't decide on the other colors.  I have to say that I would not have put bashful blue with this combo, but I think it turned out OK.  When I saw always artichoke as one of the colors, I immediately thought of the denim jean ribbon that I had NEVER used before!  It is the perfect ribbon for a guy card! I didn't have any artichoke cardstock, but did have this retired DSP with both artichoke and crumb cake!!  Plus, this uses up some of my hoarded DSP that desperately needs to be utilized!

When I finished this card, I had enough inspiration left to make another guy card! But you'll have to wait til my next post for that one!

Card Recipe: Card stock-crumb cake, bashful blue, whisper white, Autumn Traditions DSP (ret), Ink-crumb cake, stazon black, Stamp Sets- Nature's Wonders (ret), Party This Way (sent.), Accessories- always artichoke denim jean ribbon