Male Birthday Mail
by Anne Thompson

Today I made more guy cards, this time specifically for birthdays…Male Birthday Mail!

Materials Used

• white notecard
• plaid paper from CHRISTMAS PLAID PP1009
• red cardstock from BERRY RED COLLECTION SP1001
• CREAM WOODGRAIN PAPER SH44002
• TOOLSHED EMBOSSING FOLDER EF1019
• BIRTHDAY MAIL POSH SCRIPT 94531
• VersaFine Clair Pinecone (medium brown) ink

to make this card

• cut the plaid paper to cover the front of the notecard
• cut a smaller piece of red cardstock to use as a mat and add it to the front of the card
• emboss the Toolshed image onto the cream woodgrain paper
• lightly drag the ink pad over the top of the embossed image to add a bit of color to highlight the tools
• trim this embossed image down to fit on the mat, leaving a narrow edge of the red exposed
• cut the Birthday Mail background from a scrap of the red cardstock and the detailed letters from a scrap of the plaid…I found it helpful to add Scor-Tape on the back of the plaid paper to make it easier to place those letters on the background piece.
• adhere the sentiment to the card front and add a tiny gem to dot the i

Here are the three cards I made…one using the cream woodgrain paper (shown above), one using the KRAFT WOODGRAIN PAPER SH44003, and one using the WHITE WOODGRAIN PAPER SH44002.

For the kraft paper card I used a larger piece of the woodgrain paper to cover the card front as well as embossing another piece with the toolshed folder.  I also used a brown cardstock from the EARTH NEUTRAL COLLECTION SP1009 as a mat for the embossed image and for the Birthday Mail background.

I love the texture of the woodgrain papers and the way the woodgrain highlights embossed images especially when I use ink direct-to-paper on the embossing.  Cool! 

Happy Crafting!