Mad for Plaid

Do any of my fellow cardmakers struggle with creating masculine cards? I’ll be honest here: whenever a birthday comes up for one of my guy friends or a family member, my heart starts to panic. Do I have any cards in the stash that will work? Will they mind if I just buy a card? Will this person care if there’s a bow or glitter on their card?

Recently a friends birthday came up and I needed a card. Stat. I always seem to gravitate to patterned papers for guy cards- probably because I have quite a few that work for these kinds of cards. For this card I found this great plaid paper and it was my starting point for my color scheme. {Love this paper!}

On this card, I used Pile It On from WPlus9 Design Studio. Sadly, I’ve only used it once before, but now that I have successfully created a masculine birthday card with it, I’ll be pulling it out more in the future!

Tomorrow I’ll be skipping my regularly scheduled Thankful Thursday post. In it’s place, I have a post FULL of beautiful things, fun links and a GIVEAWAY!

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See you all tomorrow. Have a fabulous Wednesday!

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5 Comments

  1. You nailed this one Paulina, it’s a perfect masculine birthday card! Great colors and patterns ;)

  2. Oh, I love this! Yes, I call them the dreaded man card! I refer to them a lot on my post! This is awesome! Love the Plaid!

  4. You nailed it!

    Storytime: there was a challenge one time that was for masculine cards & I was struggling because I’d make a card & then show my hubs for the “man approved” seal. I think I had to make about 4 cards before he said, “look, here’s the secret for guy cards…stop putting stuff on it! Guys don’t stare at the card wondering how you made that glittery & oh and ahh over paper. Just put your message on it and call it good”. So, after I rolled my eyes & gave up on his “man approved” stamp I made a really basic card. Like CAS with a bold message, clean edges, nothing fancy, 2 colors. Handed him the card, he said, “perfect”! Gesh! Boys are hard! Ok, here’s the end of the story: spend about 5 min on a guy card, anymore and it’s too much! Now I’m really good at guy cards! I stopped over thinking it!

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