Brightly Gleaming Geared Up Garage - A masculine card

The Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper - more than just Christmas!  It's so versatile it can be used for virtually any occasion!

A masculine card, suitable for a birthday, featuring the Geared Up Garage Bundle and Brightly Gleaming paper

This is a very simple card and, although it looks quite different, it's basically the same design as the Christmas card and Fathers' Day cards I shared in this post.

The tool box and greeting are both black heat embossed onto Silver Foil Sheet.  The gears are all cut from Silver Foil Sheet and there's a Silver Foil Sheet edge under the Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper.

The car was stamped onto Whisper White cardstock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then coloured with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers before being cut out with the coordinating die.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase from my online store

Geared Up Garage Cling Bundle

$84.50

Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper

$25.00

Silver Foil Sheets

$8.75

Stitched Rectangle Dies

$61.00

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Versamark Pad

$16.50

Black Stampin' Emboss Powder

$8.75

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

$10.00

Night Of Navy Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

$15.50

Seaside Spray Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

$15.50

All Geared Up Red & Grey

It's my gorgeous son's birthday.  I can't give him a red sportscar but I can adorn his card with one!

A masculine card created with the Geared Up stamp set and coordinating Garage Gears dies

I made the background by stamping Whisper White Craft ink onto Basic Gray cardstock with various images from the Artisan Textures stamp set.  TIP:  Be prepared to give it a long time to dry!

I layered my background onto some Real Red cardstock and then placed it onto the Basic Black base card.

I cut two sets of cogs with the Garage Gears dies, one in Basic Gray and one in Silver Foil Sheet, then adhered them to the card front - slightly offsetting them.

The car from the coordinating stamp set Geared Up is watercoloured with Real Red ink.  I painted the chrome bits with Smokey Slate and then added some of the Frost White Shimmer Paint so that, in the right light, it looks metallic.

The greeting is from the Best Catch stamp set, stamped with Stazon black ink.

Then I added some of the Classic Garage Metal Elements.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All products used in this project are available for purchase from my online store

Geared Up Garage Cling Stamp Set

$37.00

Garage Gears Thinlits Dies

$57.00

Classic Garage Metal Elements

$12.25

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Whisper White Craft Stampin' Ink Refill

$8.00

Artisan Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$30.00

Real Red A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Silver Foil Sheets

$7.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Special Guest: Meg Loven - Classic Garage Suite Sneak Peek

Click on this image to visit Meg's Blog

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters' Blog Hop with our Special Guest stamper, Meg Loven - we are thrilled to have Meg join us this month and so excited to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) any project that has been created by her.

Whether you are starting the blog hop here at my blog, Stephanie Fischer - The Crafty Thinker, or have come from the person before me, be sure to click on the person listed under me further down the page to continue your journey through the blog hop.

Meg is a very talented card maker with a great style, so there's plenty of inspiration in her Blog!  There were quite a few cards in my "short" list but I chose the one above to CASE.

A masculine fun fold card featuring the Classic Garage Suite

My card has none of the subtle and elegant touches that Meg's has but I'm not completely unhappy with it.  If I did it again, I wouldn't use black for the small fold. 

The Basic Gray base card is 9" x 6.25" with the long side scored and folded at 3".

The small black counter-folded card is 9" x 2.5" folded in half at 4.5"

To hold the smaller fold in place, I punched a 1" circle from Basic Black card and added a Smokey Slate cog cut with one of the Garage Gears dies.  It's attached to the card front with a dimensional.

The Classic Garage Suite: paper, stamp set, dies, ribbon, metal embellishments all coordinating!

The Geared Up Bundle (stamp set and Garage Gears Thinlits Dies) will be available from 3rd January in the 2019 Occasions Catalogue.  The bundle and the Classic Garage Designer Series Paper (which measures 6" x 6") are part of the Classic Garage Suite which also includes some great key and spanner shaped elements and some black and silver striped ribbon. 

There's a black space inside the card to hand write a greeting

I'm so excited to have this amazing suite of products in my craft room - it makes it so easy to make a masculine card!

Thanks for following our blog hop.  Remember that currently you are at my blog - Stephanie Fischer - so click on the next name in the list to ensure that you don't miss out on seeing any of the blogs and the amazing inspiration that they contain.

Thanks for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - available from my online store

Geared Up Garage Cling Bundle

$84.50

Classic Garage 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

$19.25

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

$14.75

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

$14.75

1" Circle Punch

$21.00

Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad

$15.75

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

$6.00