Hello crafty friends. I haven’t used the ‘you’re a star’ dies designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs for a ittle while, so time to share them again. I immediately thought of them when I saw the new sketch over at The Paper Players, and they give me a second offering for Inspire.Create‘s ‘masculine’ theme.
I trimmed a piece of the ‘all weathered’ paper (that Hazel also designed) to fit a 5×7 card blank, and sponged ‘watering can’ Archival ink through the ‘happy birthday’ stencil across the top twi thirds. I then attached the paper to a black card blank.
I heat embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black card and added that. I then cut several of the star dies, including one in the designer paper, and glued them onto the card front.
I finished by adding the little stars that had popped out of the centre of the die cuts (I can’t bear to waste anything!)
Nice and easy – exactly the sort of card I like!
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Great masculine card Deborah – I love the effect of the stencilling on the dsp and the black outline of the stars gives a great clean and graphic feel. Thanks for sharing with us over at The Paper Players this week!
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Fabulous masculine card Deborah, love the colours
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Thank you Annie x
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I love the vintage look to your paper and the big bold black stars really stand out! Thanks for playing with my sketch this week at the Players!
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Deborah, this is fabulous! I love the vintage feel, the fantastic stars and the stenciling! This is a great masculine card! SO happy you joined us at The Paper Players this week!
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I really like this! Great masculine card!
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Wow, such a fabulous card, Deborah! Love the sentiment inked in the background and those stars really pop. An awesome masculine card, all around. Thanks so much for joining us this week over at The Paper Players!
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