Handmade Masculine Birthday Card * Emilia Sieradzan *

Masculine cards give some crafter a headache! I do not make them often but when a friend asks for the card is hard to say no :) Today I’ll show you how to create a handmade card for him. Of course I’m not going to argue if the card should have flowers or not, opinions are very different, my inspiration comes with the flowers :D I started by choosing scrapbooking papers. I wanted something a bit darker than I usually use, so dark blue checkered pattern paper was perfect for a 1st layer. I didn’t want to cover that lovely design so decided the second layer of paper will be much smaller. Once I was happy with the choice, I could look for embellishments to go with it. The first place to find matching pieces in the paper collection. Lemoncraft papers always have a lot of elements for fussy cutting. Frames, sentiments, elements, objects etc, the choice is great! I decided to die cut some more elements but I kept everything in the same color scheme. Browns and blues. The edges of the scrapbooking paper I have distr