It’s a challenge to make masculine cards.  Ribbon?  Nah.  Flowers?  Nope.  More is more?  Huh uh.  Less is more.

This is Not My Way.  But I have challenged myself this year to make more cards that are suitable for men.  It’s taking some time, but I’m getting there:

• Oh Hello and Beyond Plaid stamp sets
• Naturals Ivory, RIver Rock and Always Artichoke card stock
• River Rock and Always Artichoke FFIP
• Metallic Brads
• Essentials Paper Piercing Pack and Pokey Doodle (aka paper piercing tool)
• Large oval punch
• Sponge daubers

Did you see those three brads?  There is no way on God’s Green Earth that I would be able to line those up so symetrically without Stampin’ Intervention in the form of the Essentials Paper Piercing Pack.  Some things I can do, and some things I cannot.  Eyeballing straight lines?  I cannot.

That Oh Hello stamp set with the big, blocky font works really well for masculine sentiments.  Stampin’ Up!, we need Happy Birthday in that font, OK?  Imagine it!