Two Masculine Cards

Happy Monday, peeps, hope you all had a great weekend! And happy June!  I've got two masculine cards today for two friends at church who'll be celebrating birthdays real soon!  The first one uses the FMS sketch; at first I was totally at a loss as to how to use this sketch:

But one of the cards that I needed was for my cousin, who is a carpenter, and I remembered these little Tool Charm dies from MFT, and I went to work:

This is a notecard-sized card; each tool was diecut from Brushed Silver cardstock and diecut again (except for the wrench) with some colorful cardstock, trimmed and adhered:

I added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays, stamped in Call Me Clover, and mounted on a Pinewood Plank-embossed piece of Whisper White, then mounted on a Call Me Clover notecard.  I used a Cornish Heritage Farms sentiment on the inside, along with a stamped image from Totally Tool:

My second card uses the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

The stamps from Rooted in Nature both fit those squares on the sketch so nicely!  

I stamped them in Mossy Meadow, added a strip of DSP from Magnolia Lane, another Pinewood Plank embossed background and another sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays:

To add a little interest to the sentiment, I added a little burlap ribbon behind the Stitched Rectangle:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!  And here's a little more critter action from our back yard:

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays, Totally Tool (ret), Birthday Centers (ret, Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Call Me Clover, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Whisper White
Ink	Call Me Clover, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pinewood Planks EF, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tool Charm Dies (My Favorite Things)

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Itty Bitty Birthdays, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow, Magnolia Lane DSP
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Burlap Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Sponge Dauber

Paper Players #46 Color Challenge

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there---even if your “children” are furry, I think we all have that mothering instinct!  I am going to be a rebel today, because I have  a distinctly masculine card to share!!  Ann has given us a rich color challenge:

so I pulled out a set I haven’t used for a while, Totally Tool, to make a card for my dad:

My dad is quite a tool collector!  He probably has thousands of plumb bobs, planes and other assorted doodads!  I think he’ll get a kick out of this!  I had  lots of fun  making it; I used some “recycled” materials:  a piece of corrugated box as well as scraps from a Nestie punchout; some “heavy metal”: jumbo grommets and vintage trinkets; and I loosely watercolored my images and cut them out.  The Woodgrain background stamp was a perfect choice for my Early Espresso panel.  By the way, this uses  sketch #149 from Create with Connie & Mary:

(Yes, I was a rebel again and turned it on its side!!)   Here are some closeups:

If you need any details, let me know!  I hope that you’ll scoot on over to the Paper Players blog to play with us this week!  Can’t wait to see what you create!

(Insert singing baby voice here!)