LB Card Creations: masculine

2018/12/06

Retro Birthday Card | Mama Elephant

Hi there! I don't know exactly why but the cute piggy from 'Hogs and Kisses' immediately reminded me of the Pink Ladys from Grease. Maybe because of the combination of the hair ribbon and the pink color of pigs - but who knows ;-) However, this was the time when the idea for this retro card came into my mind.

I started by sketchin a (for me) typical American diner and traced the lines with Copic Fineliner pens. Then I colored in the floor and bar. Then I masked off both and added cracked pistachio Distress Oxide ink to the wall. I also diecut the background with the largest die of the 'dotted details' set.

In order to achieve the retro look I customized some stamp images. The barstools are made with the stamp set 'Tea with Friends' - I just cut off the backrest. The table is also from the same set - again I cut off the parasol and two of the table bases. I added a tile pattern with Copics again and the retro table was ready. I created a Pink Lady jacket for the female pig to round things up and colored everything with Copic markers. The little treats are from the set 'Little Edibles'.

I decided on a black metallic cardbase and adhered the background and images. Last but not least I added the sentiment from 'labeled messages'.

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Thank you for stopping by and have an awesome day!

Lisa

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2016/09/27

Howdy! | Mama Elephant

Hi everyone! I tried to create a masculine birthday card so that I have at least one at stock. It's not so easy for me to choose the images and so on for masculine cards and often I end up with a more female looking one nevertheless :)

I used the Clearly Besotted stamp set 'all in onesies' to stamp the background. Then I chose Gansai Tambi watercolors to color them in. For the brown background color I used distress inks.

While letting the background try, I stamped the rest of the images from 'rowdy raccoons' with Memento tuxedo black and colored them in with Copic markers. I love the coordinating dies because they also cut the details around the lasso. I used a white paper strip to stamp the sentiment with Lawn Fawn walnut ink and diecut a vellum circle to soften the area around the raccoon a bit.