Wunder's Crafty World: Masculine Hello Card

Making manly cards is always a challenge for me. It's hard to create a card without some sort of bling or pink! So this morning I stepped out of my box and tried a quick and easy attempt at a masculine card.

I love the look of embossed metal tape and thought that would be perfect for this card. But I wanted something extra on the tape, so I thought about seeing all those cool alcohol ink projects using tin foil/metal tape.

I started out cutting a couple pieces of tape and white cardstock.

I then attached those pieces to the cardstock so it would be a little studier when I embossed it.

Time to get messy! I dropped some alcohol inks in blue, green, yellow, slate and silver around the tape and used my distress tool to blotch it.

Next, I dried my metal tape with my heat gun and ran it through the BigShot in a gear embossing folder.

How fun is this piece to add to this card?!

I knew I was going to use the bold Hello sentiment die from Pink & Main, but I wanted a little something extra that didn't take away from the metal piece or the hello die cut. I chose to use part of one of the sentiments from the Fire Up stamp set from Pink & Main. I covered the word "hey" on the stamp with washi tape, then stamped the rest. Prior to stamping, I did die cut my mini tab so I could get the stamp in the position I liked easier.

I LOVE using these big bold sentiments. The die cuts are amazing!

Now it's time to assemble the card. I laid the card out to get a feel of where I wanted to glue everything in place. I realized at this point, my metal tape was too wide, so I cut that down.