It’s Sunday and time for this week’s The Paper Players challenge. Anne Marie has selected a challenge that I am sure you will all love…Clean and Simple with a Masculine theme. As for my card…it may not look clean…but it doesn’t get much simpler than this! Enjoy today’s Clean And Simple MASculine card…a style which I refer to as “CAS MAS“!
The finished dimensions of this card are 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″.
- Texture! Use Textured Impressions Embossing Folders to add pizzazz to clean and simple cards. With a strong pattern such as the Houndstooth pattern, the second pattern needs to be “cleaner”. Stripes, a featured product in the Sale-A-Bration brochure, works perfectly to elongate the lines of the Sailboat image. Tip: Make those patterns “pop” by brayering on a light layer of ink. I used Crumb Cake ink over Naturals Ivory card stock.
- Bows-a-go-go! Bows can go on a masculine card, especially when crafted from Hemp Twine!
- No boat…no problem! I used the fabulous Sail Away sailboat image, an ala carte stamp from the 2011 Summer Mini catalog. I inked it with Early Espresso Craft Ink and heat embossed it with Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder. What? You don’t have this stamp? Don’t despair! This image is also available for My Digital Studio! How cool is that!
And there you have it! Clean, simple and masculine! What do you think? Won’t you leave me a comment and let me know? Your comments are important to me, and I do read each and every one of them. And remember…if you ever have a question about the cards that I create, or the techniques that I use, I am only an email away! Until next time…
Stamp Set: Sail Away (123013…retired; Sail Away Stamp Brush – Digital Download 126030); Inks: Early Espresso Craft Ink (119719…Neutrals Collection), Crumb Cake (121030); Card Stock: Crumb Cake (120953), Naturals Ivory (101849); Tools: Heat Tool (100005), Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder (109130), Brayer (102395), Big Shot (113439), Houndstooth Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (123134), Stripes Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (123128), Sponge Daubers (102892); Glitz and Glam: Hemp Twine (100982)
A perfectly perfect CAS card, Ann! Love the inking on the embossed background! XOXO
Ann just got home from out of town and finally got to see your card. Love this stamp and of course you always make it look extra special. Love the monochromatic look and the BG embossing is wow. great masculine card indeed. Hugs
Gorgeous natural tones Ann, perfect masculine card and I love the embossed texture too :0)
Jenny x
Love the texture on this CAS card!
Hugs, M
I love that brayered texture. Fabulous clean lines, great card, Ann!
*wow*
What a wonderful masculine card..
Great work..
Greetings
Swaani
Love the term CAS MAS Ann! I really like the texture on your card and the hemp twine is a great touch.
Love this masculine card. I’ve got the herringbone folder, now I need to use it! Thanks for sharing!
I love your CAS MAS card! Very vintage and definitely masculine!
I love the new term you just coined, Ann! And I also love all the texture for this MAS card. Even though it is clean and simple, there’s still lots to appreciate about it. Great job! Hope the twins are well. ๐
Love it Ann! Such a great way to feature this fabulous stamp. Love the monotone palette too!
Well Ann – This is GREAT! What card of yours isn’t??? I just joined pinterest & you are my first Pin! Looks like it worked – Thank you! Love your CAS cards & your timed ones!
Ohhh, this is CAS-MAS-tastic! (Is that a word? It is now!) Love the soft neutrals and all of he distressting that you do so well. Gorgeous s always, Miss Ann! Hope the “Muffinator” had a fun weekend and is catching up on her beauty rest! Hugs! ๐
Ann, I love the sepia look of your card. A great take on a clean and simple masculine card. The embossing folder is the perfect background. Love it.
Hugs
Jaydee
The embossing folders, image, and twine make a fabulous masculine card. Heck, I’d like to receive this card.
WOW is that background sensational! I love the sponging and the direction of the impression on your background. Just gorgeous Ann. xox
I have this stamp and I just love it. Simple treatments really are best for the spartan artwork -love the antique, monochromatic look!
Love this card Ann ~ when I inked my EF, this was the effect that I got as well….so I am okay…thought I was doing something wrong ~ thanks so much for your creativity ~ think I’ll finish my card now! Enjoy your day -:)
Perfect man card Ann!!! Love all the texture.
This is a great card and so simple to do. Thanks for blessing my day.
Hey Brody – don’t you let your mom and dad do this – I think they’ve changed my name to Miss Snuffles! Just cause my nose makes all these awful noises and I sneeze a gazillion times in a row sometimes. They are going to find out tomorrow probably if I can have my name back cause mom is calling the vegetarian tomorrow. Bye Brody – sigh!
Love, love, love the monochromatic color scheme, love the twine bow and really love the layers of embossed cardstock. Stunning!
love this masculine card Ann-I struggle with these as well as cas. I just love what you have done with yours though-the ef’s are a great idea for guy cards
CAS MAS…I like it a lot! And I just ordered the Stripes embossing folder! Thanks for more great ideas!
Gorgeous card for the men.
Really like the textured backgrounds.
Thanks 4 the inspiration
ColleenB.
Great masculine card! Love the texture, the color, the layout … just awesome!
Love the card, Ann; as already commented I love all of the textured and highlighted layers too! They really add body to a card. Another one out of the ballpark! Hope Muffy has had a successful week-end. Hugs
Great masculine card. Love all the embossing. And I, too, love hemp twine for a guy card.
Great card Ann. I had to read everyone’s comments. I assumed your brayered over the card – is that what you did or the folder? I, like Linda, had to go back and check for a pearl that maybe had been touched with brown in the middle of the hemp bow, just because you could do it! I think of a vertical card with the fold at the top when you want the image to appear taller in relation to the background. I never knew if there was any specific rule or reason. CAS MAS meant clean and simple but the MAS to me meant the Spanish word for more – clean and simple and more! I really love all the textures you have on there! Great job!
Chris R. from Iowa
This is so pretty
A very striking man card Ann. All the texture along with the colours you used add to the details. This is great.
It’s a great card! I love it! I have that stamp somewhere. I used it on a project a while ago and now the “spirits” in my house have hidden it somewhere. The case is empty.
Fabulous card Ann, love the houndstooth EF and the way you made it pop with color. Tinting the edges of the layers really sets off everything. I love this sailboat stamp from SU too, it’s so peaceful and relaxing, h’mm wish I were on one now!
This is GORGEOUS! And just perfect for the “manly man” class I’m having in May! Thanks for being so darn awesome! ๐
Thank goodness you explained what CAS MAS was! Haaaa, haaa!! I love it! I LOVE all the different textures you used!!
Great masculine card, Ann! Love those colors and your added techniques and special touches. Kathy in AZ
I really love this! I have such a hard time with masculine cards and this one is so perfect! I love all the texture! I will be case-ing this for sure!
I love it! I’m going to have to case this one after church today!
The card is beautiful as always, love your color combinations. I have some antique car sets & fishing stamp that I can incorporate into your style of card. Thanks for sharing, always look forward to your entries.
I checked this card twice to see if you snuck in a pearl ๐ Great masculine card! Love the texture, the neutrals and that bit of twine!
Ann, this is the perfect example of a masculine card. I LOVE all the texture ๐ My favorite part is the hemp twine – a great substitute for ribbon on the “boy” cards.
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I love the simplicity of it! Consider it cased!
Hi Ann! Oh, this is fantastic! I love how you mixed the emossing folders for texture and brayered them. Can I ask you if you brayer inside the e.f. or after embossed on top of the paper? I’ve never done anything inside the folders and wondered about your technique. Whatever you do, it looks great! The hemp is a perfect touch too. This is a wonderful cas mas!!
Love it!….masculine cards are always a challenge but this one is fantastic! ๐
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Love all the texture! Great Masculine card. I will have to case this one for sure.
This is one terrific masculine card and very clean and simple. I Love all the texture you used it makes this a WOW CAS MAS card.
I love the idea of that card….I always have a hard time trying to find ideas on how to make masuline cards….I just love how easy it is and how clean the card looks….I will definitely use that idea…
Love this card. I was sorry to see SU retire this stamp set. Love how you used so many SU products when you make your cards!
Texture! Lots of texture on this VERY CAS card. I love it! I love mixing the different embossing folders but hardly ever do it for some reason. A really wonderful masculine card. Thanks!
I love creating masculine cards and you’ve done a great job with this one Ann!
Wow, that’s just fantastic in so many ways. I love it. Ann, I noticed some people are making their vertically oriented cards fold at the top instead of the side – is there an advantage to this?