Time to Get Thinking About Those Men

Well, here I am with a card for a man.  It was my turn to choose a theme at Artful Times and I decided that even though I don't have a dad to send a card to for Father's Day there are a lot of people out there who do. Those men cards are not always the easiest of things to do so I thought that if we could get some inspiration from others it might help with those special day cards.  Of course, it is not restricted to that day, you might have a brother, son, uncle or someone special you want ideas for with male cards.

I do hope we get lots of entries so that we can build up a portfolio of male oriented cards - here's mine:

I decided to use the image from Art Journey of the two men walking away from the viewer and then wondered how to portray them.  I thought of an open door and as I had just been tidying some stamps up I remembered that I had two that might be suitable.  Both were fine but I chose this one and I am sorry but I have not a clue who it is by - Just know I liked it.

I wanted to use the door and have it open to reveal the men but I didn't like the inside being just plain white so I very carefully (with tongue peeking out of the right hand side of my mouth in anticipation) stamped it open after I had cut into the image.  Don't reckon I did bad if I say so myself.

I also stamped a extra row at the very top of the door to give it a bit more stability when it was stuck down and people were going to open it, and put a row of Spellbinders Fleur de Lis diecut down the side to finish off.  As it is BIL's birthday soon I think this could just be his card.

Thanks for all the wonderful entries again these past two weeks, real beauties and a terrific mix of ideas and techniques.  On behalf of all of us Thank You One and All!

I am also entering this into the Stamp Man Challenge which is making a card for a man - great minds think alike.

It's Raining Men

Alleluia, It's Raining Men!  Amen!

Well, that's kind of how the lyrics go (or went) so I have decided that this is the month we are going to think about men.  Big ones, little ones, tall ones, short ones, fair ones, dark ones ... anything goes as long as they are men.

In my blurb over on JFF I did think about the single people and said it could be for a brother, nephew, cousin, dad, uncle, anyone of the male species and for my first week I chose to use black and white.  I love black and white and find it lends itself to a man's card so easily and so I went along with a postoid stamp and a motorbike for my Design piece.

I did that funny fold I once told you all about but this time I put some black pen where the folds are as when it was scanned in it looked kind of dirty around those edges.

Here's my card

Have loved seeing what Von and Zoe came up with and am looking forward to seeing what you all come up with.  If I don't manage to visit you this week (you can see how busy I have been and, as you can no doubt guess, realise how shattered I am) I will try to visit you at a later date - but please don't shout at me if it's a quick one.