Birthday cards for the Guys

 Happy Sunday Friends and Welcome Back to the Blog!

While hubby was busy watching College Football yesterday, I got busy creating a few masculine birthday cards using a VERY OLD stamp from a company that's been out of business for several years now.  The stamp is from the GM Series - 1955 GMC Truck and the company was Cornish Heritage Farms ... remember them??

Here ya go . . .

 After coloring my image using Tombow markers, I went through various paper pads to find green background panels that I thought looked masculine and came up with these two.

On this second card I felt the background panel also needed a black matting but didn't want the weight of yet another panel so I took a black marker and carefully went around the outside edge.  Viola!  I also used the excess ink that was on one of my green TH ink sponges to add color the the white panel my truck is stamped on.

Here are a couple more in a different color . . .

Once again going through my paper pads and came across these stripes & dots panels which were actually double sided so played around a bit for my background designs.

A few little dots of black Nuvo Crystal Drops was all the added embellishment needed on these two cards.  Guys don't like a whole lot of 'fru fru' on their cards so I've tried to keep these relatively simple in design ... letting the old truck take center stage.

Challenges to share in:

Inkspirational Challenge #250 (ends 10/30) - Boys or Men
Seize the Birthday Challenge #225 (ends 10/26) - ATG Birthday (not using topper)

 2 Sisters on the Blog Challenge #55 (ends 10/31) - Masculine
Creative Sketchy Girls Challenge #65 (ends 11/20) - Masculine

Today's another Football Day so I should be able to get a lot more cards done again today.  My first craft show is Nov. 6th so time is ticking away!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you've liked what I had to share today.

As always . . .