Look at me playing along with Waltzingmouse! Finally….YAY! I’ve been meaning to order some of their stamps for quite some time, and last night I had an idea for this week’s sketch using the Compact Family stamps…

I used A Muse Studio inks along with some washi tape, a MFT border die, Mr. Huey’s spritz, navy blue twine (from RibbonCarousel.com), and other random goodies that have been sitting in one of my crafty drawers. The arrows and the stars are stamps from two different PTI sets, but I thought they added nicely to the mix on the center panel.

I hope you like this - this was a bit of an adventure from the norm for me, but super fun nonetheless!

Happy Weekend!

I’ve got a few projects to share with you today for the latest CAS-ual Fridays Challenge. This week, we’re challenging you to make CAS masculine cards that incorporate designer paper. Our sponsor this week is Gina K. Designs…and she has given the team some of her great Casual Fridays designer paper to work with for this occasion.

For my first card above, the patterned paper made me think of rugged and industrial types of things, which is when I remembered that I have that really cute distressed wrench stamp from A Muse Studio. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to align the images in different ink colors, and added the coordinating sentiment…only to finish it off with the nut (I think that is a nut). I love how that one came out.

Next, I was inspired to emboss the paper using one of my Cuttlebug folders. A card that was designed by Dana Grothaus a few years ago is what I used for the layout inspiration of this next card…though I didn’t use any stamps on this one:

The letters were diecut from oatmeal cardstock from WPlus9 using Sizzix dies that I got from SU!. The ribbon reminded me of a measuring tape, so I deemed it manly and finished the card off with a nice knot using this ribbon from Ribbon Carousel…a bow just didn’t seem manly enough!

Lastly, I wanted to try some paper piecing with Gina’s papers, this time using different images from A Muse Studio:

I used the Vintage Labels 1 dies and stamps from A Muse to create the center panel, and paper pieced the shirt and tie from two different patterns in the set.

Did I go a little man-crazy? Thanks for stopping by! I hope you will play along in this week’s challenge. Please be sure to check out the Facebook page for the rest of this week’s CAS-ual Fridays inspiration!