Welcome to my new weekly series Man Card Mondays! Do you struggle with coming up with masculine card ideas? Well, if you said yes, then you are not alone. Last week while I was looking at the analytics on my blog, I noticed quite a few people are looking at my masculine projects. That got me thinking that I should start a weekly series for all masculine ideas. And now we have Man Card Mondays!

For this very first installment on Man Card Monday, I am using the ever so popular Rooted In Nature Stamp Set & Matching Nature’s Roots Dies set from Stampin’ Up!. I started with a Crumb Cake 4 1/4″ x 11″ card base that I scored at 5 1/2″ and folded in half to create a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ cardbase. I added a 4″ x 5 1/4″ Crumb Cake layer that I stamped the leaf pattern using Crumb Cake ink. I then added a 2″ x 5″ Early Espresso Designer Series Paper layer.

I stamped the oak tree in Early Espresso & Old Olive Inks, and die cut it using my Mini Stamping Cut & Emboss Machine.  To create the wooden stump, I used my Stamparatus, Crumb Cake Ink, Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker & Early Espresso Inks, then cut it out using my paper snips. Stamp the sentiment, BE HAPPY, BE YOU, BE STRONG three times, once in Early Espresso, then Crumb Cake, and lastly in Old Olive. Cut each sentiment part using scissors. Once you have all the elements stamped, die-cut, and cut out, then glue down the tree stump. Wrap Linen Thread around the card three times and tie a bow. Add the die-cut oak tree using Stampin Dimensionals, and lastly, add the sentiment using one from each color using Mini Stampin Dimensionals.

To see more detail on how I created this card, you can watch the video tutorial below.

Now don’t forget to decorate the inside of your card and the envelope. I used the same leaf image as I did for the background and stamped it several times using Old Olive ink.  I like to say friends don’t let friends mail necked envelopes, so ALWAYS stamp your envelopes!

I hope you have enjoyed this first episode of Man Card Mondays, don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel so you won’t miss any of my videos. Until next time.

Happy Stamping! 

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