Saturday, March 13, 2010

It's a man thing - Crazy 4 Challenges #28

It's another Crazy 4 Challenges Day! Today, I'm asking everyone to make a masculine card. I have a hard time making masculine cards so this will get me to at least have ONE in my stash, LOL! And I hope it will encourage lots of you to join in the challenge with us.

This week we're again being sponsored by DRS Designs.

For my card, I pulled out this little MFT Love Machine set that had never seen ink. If it's not a masculine image, I don't know what is, LOL. So, I stamped it on a Cream Perfect Paper Panel and colored it with Copic markers. I'm using Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #64, but had to tweak it a bit to accommodate the longer length of this image. Again, I "stained" the twill tape with Distress Inks and laced it through some large grommets and tied it in a knot. LOVE how that turned out--I'll be doing that again. The rest is pretty simple--I stamped the sentiment on DP and cut it out with a Classic Inverted Scallop Nestabilities die and matted it with another to resemble gears. Lastly, I added a few brads for balance and a few baby braddies to the robot's front. I'm liking it :)

NOW, be sure to check out the samples by the rest of my crazy girls...er, I mean the Crazy 4 Challenges team ;-)

Cindy Haffner
Frances Byrne
Jessica Diedrich
Jessie Rone
Joanne Grzelak
Joycelyn Turner
Lori Boyd
Lynda Benden
Mercy Kerin
Robin Willis
Vicki Garrett

THEN, you know what to do--we'd love to have you come along and play with us. Just do your thing with the challenge and link it to Mr. Linky on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Please link directly to your project. And, if you upload to a public gallery, please use the key word C4C28.

Thanks for stopping by today!!!



~Supplies~
Stamps: Love Machine (MFT)
Paper: Sahara Sand, Chocolate Chip (SU!); Cream Perfect Paper Panel (MFT); Homeroom 8 x 8 pad (TCP Studio)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Weathered Wood, Old Paper Distress Inks (Ranger)
Accessories: Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Classic Inverted Circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders); 3M foam squares, grommets, brads (craft store); Copic markers; twill; sewing machine; Crop-o-dile (We R Memory Keepers; medium scallop die (PTI)


14 comments:

  1. What a great layout and design elements -- colors, image, the Nesties for the sentiment -- all perfect for a guy card!

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  2. this is fantastic, barb! love that image, the dp, and the fact that you used my sketch challenge for your layout! LOL! awesome job!

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  3. This is great, Barb...that ribbon detail is AWESOME!!! Thanks for another fun challenge!!!

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  4. Hello Barbara! This card is just perfect! Great colours and composition!

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  5. Oh My Goodness this is awesome! I love the way you did the twill tape (not ribbon on a man card) LOL. It looks so manly.

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  6. You definitely rocked the manly, Barbara! Wonderful design and detialing!

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  7. This looks awesome, Barb. Love all your sewing and the way you threaded the ribbon.

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  8. wow....wow.....I love all the detail work on this masculine masterpiece....and it is fun, too

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  9. I love this Barb, it is PERFECT for any man, young or old!!! Great job!!!

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  10. Oh my gosh! This is fabulous! I love what you did with those big eyelets and the colour combo is perfect!

    Vicki

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