Masculine Birthday Card

I needed to make a masculine birthday card and boy was I drawing a blank. Then I remembered that I had picked up some copper craft metal at J's a few days ago and decided to make that work. I like the way it turned out, lots of texture but very simple, perfect for the recipient. Thanks for taking a look.

No cricut on this one, obviously. All of my paper is from DCWV stacks. I embossed & distressed the brown background paper to look like leather and used the same embossing plate on the copper. Then I popped the copper up on foam tape, added a button, some leather cord with beads, a couple of grommets and a very few doodle dots. I think he is going to love the different textures.

Sympathy Card

I always have such a hard time with sympathy cards, and this was especially hard because it was for a man and I didn't want it to be too lacy flowery, so this is what I came up with. It is very simple, I used a sympathy quote I repeated over and over and printed on my computer for the word background, a couple of distressed flowers cut from tan and brown paper, distressing all over, black ribbons and buttons and a simple sentiment stamped in black. I hope this helps anybody else who has the same block when it comes to sympathy cards.