Master of his Domain - A Noble Deer

Today I'm sharing a card with you that I recently created for a friend who wanted a Masculine Birthday card for a male friend of hers. I made two cards for her one of which can be found here - She liked both of the cards so much that she bought both of them!

Recently I saw another card using this set over on Leslie Miller's blog and just loved her card too. I realized that I hadn't yet posted my card after I saw her card, which you can see her card here:
For my card I stamped the Buck image (Noble Deer) with Basic Black ink and then colored the image with Prisma Colored Pencils and blended with Gamsol. Now here in the Pacific Northwest where I live we have a type of deer called a, White Tail so I decided to color my deer with the distinctive "white tail" that are found on the deer here in our mountains.
My card base is: Always Artichoke layered with Close To Cocoa and stamped with the new (SU Woodgrain Background) stamp in CTC ink. I stamped the sentiment (SU - It's Your Birthday) with Chocolate Chip ink and added 3 Artichoke brads. I added a strip of the AA cs layered with a piece of the now retired SU Designer Paper, (Parisian Breeze). I stamped and colored the pinecones in the same manner and then layered them with foam tape in the upper left hand corner to complete the card.

BC104 Enjoy Life

Welcome Friends!  It's Friday and by now you all know what that means...Yes it time for the Blogger's Challenge and this week was,  (Manly) cards.  Not necessarily Father's Day cards but a guy type card.   For my card I started with one of my favorite old stamp images this wonderful sailboat by PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange) which is no longer in existance.  I stamped the image with Baja Breeze ink on Whisper White cs twice and embossed one image with a Nestabilities Die and then cut out the Sailboat and layered it over the original image with foam mounting tape.  Then I added 3 brads (Queen and Co.) and layered that to Chocolate Chip cs. 

I used the Cupcake Challenge Sketch from a few weeks ago found here:

The sentiment is from a stamp set by Clear Dollar Stamps called Cute Critters.  I really like this sentiment and felt it was appropriate for a manly card (as well as a general card).  If your husband is anything like mine an extremely hard worker he so rarely takes time for himself so a card like this might remind him to do that even though he doesn't sail.  (He rides a Harley for relaxation, but I'd already used a motorcycle on his Father's Day card that was posted last week).

Other Details:  Card Stock:  Chocolate Chip, Kraft and Parisian Breeze DP.

Ink:  Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip.

Nestabilities Dies, Brads, Distressing Tool, Foam Mounting Tape.

Don't forget to stop by the other members blogs by clicking on the Bloggers Challenge Icon on my sidebar for some really great "manly" card ideas.  -  Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there.