Krafty Chicks challenge #796 - Masculine

Good morning lovely friends, I appreciate you stopping by and I hope you're all doing ok. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 4; as always the theme is 'Masculine' and Lori is our hostess. Now I know that masculine makes are not our favourite but we do need them from time to time so get ahead of the game and be prepared.  We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

So still suffering with my cold I ended up making another clean and simple card, although I think men prefer that anyway so a win-win for me!  I have seen lots of paper strip cards on Instagram recently so I thought I would have a go at recreating the layout using stamps instead of patterned paper.  I think it turned out great but you should have seen my hands at the end, they were so inky!  I went with a blue, grey and black colour combo as it's one of my go-to's for mens cards.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the pattern:

Plus I decorated the inside:

So I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and grabbed some stamp sets from Uniko to create my background.  I used a block and the pad from my Misti so that I would get as good an impression as possible.  I stamped with the lined blue strip first and then worked up from there.  I used 3 blues, 3 greys and 1 black ink pad to create my pattern.  Finally I stamped the happy birthday greeting, lining it up with the angle of the stamping.  I cut a black mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape.  As always I added some scrap white card behind my panel for stability and a little bit of dimension before adhering it to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and created a 'mini' pattern in the bottom right corner and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I adhered the panel onto a black mat layer and then added it to the card base with double sided tape.  I really like how this card turned out and it was a purely SIP card (stamps, inks, paper) which I haven't done for a while.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

* to be updated *

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'masculine' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori. 

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments. 

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Uniko Stamps - background builders: classics stamp

Uniko Stamps - background builders: squared

Uniko Stamps - floral vines stamp (for happy birthday greeting)

Uniko Stamps - organic wishes (for inside greeting)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Gina K Designs* - ink pads - blue raspberry, powder blue, blue sky, slate, stormy sky, soft stone

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Limetree Crafts - 220gsm black card

* I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 
Thank you x