SF 2020-May Masculine or My Guy Blog Hop

Be sure to hop through all the blogs on the list near the bottom for tons of wonderful inspiration!
 It is a Masculine kind of month - thank you for joining us as we celebrate our Guys!  I decided to work with the retiring Country Road stamp set from Stampin' Up!s last chance list.  I have loved this set - and used it many times for collage stamping - but today did a different take on it.
 

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I ended up making this masculine card and a matching treat box out of one of our half size stamp cases.  For my card - I used the beautiful Copper Metallic paper - as I love the way it looks with rich blues and browns. 

Notice those marks on the Weather Vane image - they were not supposed to be there, but after my card was all finished it tipped over onto the wheel stamp below, that was laying there inked - so instead of starting over - I just tapped it on there a few more times to get kind of a vintagy look to the image - and I liked it!  No one will ever know - right?

And to save waste on that beautiful copper paper - I cut the large scallop square out of the large layer before adding to the front of my card - 

Next I took one of our 1/2 size empty stamp boxes and created a matching liner with Whisper White Card stock -

Then decorated it to coordinate with the card - for a great gift/treat holder.  Haven't filled mine yet - but I'm thinking wrapped Hershey's nuggets and a gift card will go inside.  Of course I had to add a few of those little lines to my weather vane here for consistency.

And remember my tip of saving on the copper paper - well I actually die cut this little scallop layer above out of the center of the larger scalloped square.  It's a great way to extend the use of your fancier more expensive papers.  I actually did a little stamping on the back of the cardstock so it shows on the inside the case too - 

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Once again, thank you for stopping by my blog.   I hope you enjoyed these projects and got some inspiration for creating something wonderful of your own.  I would love it, if you would leave me a comment below and stop back soon.  Don't forget to click through on each name below to see even more amazing Posts with a "My Guy" theme.  See you soon with more ideas!  ~Maureen

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May SF Hoppers - check them all out by clicking on their links for some more great ideas - and please leave comments if you can, to show appreciation for their work :)

1. Jean Bolen Beaulieu

2. Teri Pocock

3. Katja Ettig

4. Steph Jandrow

5. Tiziana Milano

6. Rachael Rife

7. Kim Quade - US

8. Kim Lamos

9. Maureen Rauchfuss - US

10. Anne Marie Hile - US

11. Heidi Collins

12. Melissa Thomas

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