Wish Big.

 Hello everyone: As always, I hope you and your families are doing well, keeping each other healthy and safe.

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Masculine cards for adults are hard to create, I remember making cards for my grandsons when they were little, those were fun to make, with trains and little cars, dogs and drums, etc.

I have NO masculine cards around, I always make cards with flowers or cute critters but, for my adult friends and grandsons, those just won't work so, I made a point to start making a good stash of masculine cards, and here is the first one, this set from Stampin' Up! is just perfect for this purpose.

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This is the inside.

And this is what I used.

Stampin' Up! "Zoo Review" (2011-2012)

Flourishes "Pinwheels and Popsicles" (2013)

Power Poppy "Short Stacks" (2015)

I want to play with:

Less is More

Make My Monday

Challenge #173 "Happy Birthday"

Thank you for visiting me today, I love reading your comments so I thank

you for those too.

Stay healthy and safe.

Maria.

At the Zoo.........

Hello everyone: I hope all of you and your families are doing well, staying home and following the safety guidelines, I know it's hard to be indoors, not being able to see family and friends and live our social life like before this pandemic, but this is the reality we're living now so we need to stay put and endure and find something fun to do indoors, like creating cards.

These fabulous wild animals are from the retired SU set called "Zoo Review" (2011-2012), this set is perfect for making masculine cards. 

I realized the other day when I was organizing all the cards I've been making, that my masculine stash has 4 cards only and that is not acceptable so, this one is happily going to that stash.

I stamped the images with Stazon black ink on Strathmore Bristol paper, I created a mask for the lion and the zebra, and colored it with Prismacolor pencils, I found the card base in my "save for later" stash, came in real handy.  I needed a vertical sentiment and sadly, I don't have any so I improvised using the word "Celebrate" was stamped using the MISTI  on a tag die cut.

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This is how the INSIDE of my card looks like.

The sentiment is the other half of the one in the front of the card, the animals are from the Zoo Review set.

I'm playing along with the following challenges.

The Paper Players

Seize the Birthday

Going with both, Birthday and Toppings.

Country View Challenges

April 2020 "Animal Magic"

Alphabet Challenge Blog

"Z is for Zoo Animals"

Thank you for stopping by.

Stay healthy and safe.

XO

Maria.