Sticking with my own rules for a "guy card" can sometimes be tough! I wante to make a congratuatlions card for our soon-to-be Superintendent of Schools. Trumbull Public Schools is losing a wonderful superintendent to a well-deserved retirement. His successor has been Assistant Superintendent for many years and is well prepared and qualified to take the job.
So the basic rules for a Guy Card are:
- Stick to neutral colors
- No flowers
- No pinks or purples
- No ribbon
I think I did a good job sticking to all these requriements, but I still had to add a little flare to the card. Here is what I did:
This is the button – the extra pop! for the card. The button is the larger of the Basic Silver Buttons. It fit nicely on a 1 1/4" circle of Real Red Cardstock. I didn't want the holes of the button just sitting there, so I threaded White Baker's Twine through the holes of the button. I put this all together with Mini Glue Dots just to make sure it would stay just the way I wanted it.
This is the zig-zag line embossed above and below the "Congratulations". I used the Simply Scored Tool and the Borders Scoring Plate. This plate helps you create subtle textures in your cards and scrapbook pages.
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Stamp Sets – Sassy Salutations (clear mount: 126707 , wood mount: 126705 )
Inks – Versamark (102283)
Paper – Whisper White Cardstock (100730), Basic Gray (121044), Basic Black (121045), Real Red (102482)
Accessories – Whisper White Embossing Powder (109132), Basic Silver Button (129325), Whisper White Baker's Twine (124262)
Tools -Simply Scoring Tool (122334), Simply Scoring Borders Plate (126192)
p.s. This is not the post I planned on sharing today, but I am down with a migrane and stomach troubles. I was hoping to rally this afternoon, but no such luck. I will share early afternoon tomorrow those new products and specials I wrote about yesterday.
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