Karen Farquhar: #maculine

Hello and welcome to another Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge. I am Karen Farquhar from Australia. This week we have been set the theme challenge Masculine.

I chose to use the Racing By Stamp Set for my submission today. I have a couple of nephews that love race cars so I added this set to my collection with them in mind.

I originally started out stamping a sheet of A4 Basic White cardstock with the car images, then stamped the car images in alternating inks of Real Red, Granny Apple Green and Crushed Curry. Originally I had intended to make 4 Stamp-a-Stack cards with the same stamped piece of A4 cardstock. But I thought no I can step things up a bit. So I fussy cut some cars for one card and then trimmed my cardstock for my 3rd card. Giving me 3 different card designs from one sheet of cardstock.

Racing By is a stamp set from the 2024-25 Annual Catalog, page 87. This cute stamp set is perfect for those little (or big) racing enthusiasts and makes great cards for birthdays, congratulations, encouragement, and I can envisage a scrapbook layout in the future!

I hope you like my projects today and I have inspired you to enter the challenge. You can see more inspiration from our talented team over on the Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges blog site.

Please we really would love to see your creations. Note we need your projects submitted here by 10am. Sunday (UK time).

Below are the products I have used for today's project.

If you are an Australian resident and wish to purchase the products I have used for todays project just click on the product thumbnail to take you to my Online Store. To view our beautiful Catalogues click on the catalogue image to the right of this page.

Product List

Racing By Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [163748]	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228]	Real Red A4 Card Stock [106578]	Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock [121680]	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688]
Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [147084]	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095]	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [147087]	Nested Essentials Dies [161597]	Paper Snips [103579]

Hello and welcome to challenge #174 a Theme Challenge.

Our theme challenge for today is 'Men'. You can interpret the topic anyway you would like.

With Father's Day and three men's birthdays next month I thought I would get an early start and chose to create a man's card for this challenge.

I struggle with masculine cards so I purchased the Take to the Sky Suite when this years annual Stampin' Up! catalogue was first released. I fell in love with it and the suite has been beckoning me ever since. So this challenge was a good reason to start playing with it.

I have woven 1.5cm strips of the Night of Navy and the Boho Blue designs from the Take to the Sky Designer Series Papers to create an interesting background for my card. However the papers also contain the colours Copper Clay, Mossy Meadow and Smokey Slate which I think would work well with this design as well.

Thank you for dropping by I hope you are inspired by my project

Do you feel you would like to join our Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge?

We really would love to see your creations. Note we need your projects submitted here by 10am. Sunday (UK time). Below are the products I have used for today's project.

If you are an Australian resident and wish to purchase the products I have used for todays project just click on the product thumbnail to take you to my Online Store. To make your way to our beautiful Annual Catalogue click the catalogue image to the right of this page.

Product List