For the Boys

 

Seems like it is harder to come up with cards for the guys!  This is one of my favorite Edwin's!!!  Cool Edwin!  Decided to give him a Charlie Brownish type shirt!  This card is for the Magnolia-licious and Wee Stamps Challenge.......a Boy card!!!

Used three of the minis from Magnolia-licious:

MINI 103 COOL EDWIN

MINI 424 OLDSMOBILE

MINI 468 TREES IN A ROW

I've colored with Promarkers and added some chalk for the clouds and ground.  The gears are a Sizzlet Die and the word stamp is Stampin' Up.  Added some brads and used a corner shape punch.  Distressed the edges a little on the green card stock too.

You'll find so many other wonderful products to chose from Magnolia-licious and check out the special pricing and credits you also get.  Diana always has something terrific for us!!!

Hope you will join in on the challenge!  Not only will you get a guy card done, you will have a chance at a great prize!  Go HERE for all the details at the Magnolia-licious and Wee Stamps Challenge Blog!

Appreciate you stopping by!  Enjoy every day!
Patti Jo

Did You Moose Me???

Walter the Moose is here in the mini along with the mini hiking background and hiking Edwin!!!  Have to say darn cute and fun images to work with!!!

This latest Autumn Leaves collection has some of the best images in both the regular and the mini size.  You can find this collection plus a vast collection of Magnolia stamps and dies at Magnolia-licious!  Plus some of my other favorite dies too!!!

In case you didn't realize, Magnolia-licious also offers a customer store credit and FREE shipping for US customers for orders of $75 and more and FREE for Canadian orders of $150.00 and more.

Right now Diana has the new Mini Autumn Leaves collection in combinations for a great price!!!

So this is what I used on my card:
MINI 440 WALTER THE MOOSE
MINI 519 HIKING BACKGROUND
MINI 318 HIKING EDWIN

Water colored with Distress Inks and added some eyelets and twine.  Can't see it very well in the photo, but also used my Scor-Buddy to add a double lined frame around the edge too!  Just noticed Diana is having a terrific deal on a bundle with the Scor-Buddy.  Check it out HERE!

Ordinarily I use just a water color card stock with the distress inks, but this time I stamped Walter on Kraft card stock with Stazon-On black ink.  The distress inks surprisingly flow nicely on this too!  I thought it would soak in too fast, but it didn't!

So wanting to use Walter on more cards, I was hoping I could get a little help for some verses to do with "moose", like my title, Did You Moose Me?  If you can you think of anything, please leave a note on the comments by September 4th.  Not required, but would love to have you as a follower too.  I'll randomly pick one of the comments for a prize of the "Moosed" Wonderful Glitter Clean Up Cloth from Diana at Magnolia-licious!  These things are awesome to clean up your work area of little moose droppings like glitter, embossing powder and flocking!!!  :)

Enjoy every day!
Patti Jo

A Manly Card

Some more water coloring with the distress inks.  This is a Northwoods stamp and colored with a variety of the inks:  Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Crushed Olive, Brushed Corduroy, Frayed Burlap, Vintage Photo, Faded Jeans, Broken China, Chipped Sapphire, Tumbled Glass and Fired Brick.  Probably stuck some Dusty Concord in there too!

Used the herringbone embossing folder and cut some triangles for the corners and attached with brads.

Heard from Ruby on the blog candy and oh my, she was excited!!!  I'm sure she will enjoy using the palette.

Enjoy the day!!!
Patti Jo 

Masculine Cards

 

Thought I would share some masculine cards today.  Would love to hear what some of your favorite ideas are for making guy cards.  Attach a link to your comment if you have some on your blog you would like to share.
Deer card was embossed on a printed paper and chalked.
Geese were embossed on paper made by sponging craft inks.