Krafty Chicks Challenge #774: MASCULINE

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Welcome to another great challenge week from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. MASCULINE is the theme this week and good luck to you. I struggle with cards for men. I love flowers and frills so I tend to buy more feminine stamp sets and play with those. I'll have to dig deep for masculine stamp set and dust them off before playing. Here we go!

 #774 MASCULINE

I have owned this stamp set for a really long time. Bought it used online and have never played with it once. Isn't that crazy?? My grandson's birthday is coming up and he's really into cars. Started when he was a toddler by collecting many Cars (the movie) vehicles. He would line them up along the coffee table and he would know the name of each one. I know McQueen and Mater.

 Here's a close up. I used Layout 6 from Stampin' Up!'s Annual Catalogue as a starting point. By Basic Beige at first, I was thinking the card would be muted as it's not part of the layout but then it looked unfinished. You know me and CAS designs: too much white space! Then by adding the blue outline the beige looked like shading and I liked it so I coloured it in with my water pen.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Happiest Birthday, You Are Amazing, Need For Speed (all retired)
• Card Stock: Thick Basic White (159229), Afternoon Azure 9161719)
• Ink Pads: Afternoon Azure (161663), Lemon Lime Twist (147145), Basic Beige (163806)
• Accessories: Watercolour Pen (retired), Stampin' Dimensionals (104403) 

 I kept the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple just by adding the car image and colouring it in. I will go back and add the beige for shading, it'll look so much better. 

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration from the Design Teamfor MASCULINE week . There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog