Grungy Masculine Card

Hello friends!
This is Jaya here. Hope you all are enjoying the current challenge at Lulupu #36- Make It Macho hosted by our very talented DT Deepti. This is the perfect week to jump in and participate in the Lulupu challenge this fortnight as we have for you the Masculine Challenge!
All we want you to do is make a masculine card or a tag and use distress inks as main products in your project.

 

 Here is my card for the challenge. Hope you will like it. It's grungy and distressed with lots and lots of layering and ink splatters!

 

 I have done a lot of layering and distressing in this card to give it the grungy look. I also used distress inks in black soot, vintage photo and walnut stain  to achieve the really vintage/old look to the card did a lot of doodling /free hand sketching on my papers to add details and interest.

 

 

 

 I also did stencilling using Prima Marketing stencil - Crackle , Tim Holtz stencil- Measured and Rangers Walnut stain distress ink. The papers are all Prima marketing, old and new collections. I also used my very favourite and versatile Prima Comfort craft distress tool. This is a must have product. It can distress almost anything in your sight!!

Hope you all like my card and it inspires you to make one yourself. There is still some time left to get your entries in the current challenge so if you haven't yet started it not late! Get you papers and distress inks out and make something Masculine! We love to see your gorgeous creations!

Don't forget to submit your entries Here

 

Vintage Photo Distress Ink Pad	Walnut Stain Distress Ink Pad	Black Soot Distress Ink Pad	Inkssentials Ink Blending Foam 10/Pkg
Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool	We R trim and score board	Crop-A-Dile Hole Punch & Eyelet Setter	Craft Collection 3-D Foam Tabs Assorted Pack

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A Nautical Masculine card !

Hello crafters!

This is Hussena here sharing with you my inspiration post for our current challenge- 'Make it Macho' hosted by out very talented DT member, Deepti. For this challenge, we are asking you to make any card or tag based on a Masculine theme using Distress inks.

Here is what I have created for this challenge!

Like you can see, I have totally gone the nautical route for my masculine card and I kept the sentiment as ' You Anchor me' which could perfectly be fit for a Father's Day or an Anniversary as well just by adding an appropriate sentiment on the inside of the card.

For this card, there are SO many first's for me. It's my first time doing a full fledged masculine card and trying out something beside floral etc :) I have heat-embossed the anchor in the centre of the card using Ranger Super Fine Silver Embossing powder on a MDF base and the four golden brads that you see on the corners are actually plain flat-backed pearls which I first coated in Versamark Ink pad, then completely covered it with Gold UTEE(Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) and heat-set it and voila! you have a gorgeous golden brad-like embellishments and nobody will know the difference! *Winks* :D

Here's a pictorial on how I did it :

The background of the card I have created using a Woodgrain embossing folder. I cut the paper into long strips measuring 3/4 of an inch by 3 inch and embossed it in the embossing folder, then I distressed it using Vintage Photo and Scattered Straw Distress inks and tried to create the wooden plank kind of effect we see on water fronts! I have created the Sailor's knot on the either side of the sentiment banner and added a die-cut 'You' and stamped my sentiment using Lawn Fawn Harol'ds ABC stamp set and finished it off with two Studio Calico Stars Wood Veneers.

Supplies used from www.lupu.com :

World Tour-Smooth Value Pack Cardstock 12"X12"	Fiskars Paper Trimmer Personal SureCut 12"	Martha Stewart Tools Scoring Board 0 Reviews | Write a review	Bricked & Woodgrain Tim Holtz Texture Fades Embossing Folders
Harold's ABCs Clear Stamp Collection 4	Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool	Inkssentials Ink Blending Foam 10/Pkg	Vintage Photo Distress Ink Pad
Scattered Straw Distress Ink Pad	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	Silver Super Fine Embossing Powder 1oz Jar	Tiny Stars -Laser-Cut Wood Veneer Shapes 232/Pkg
Doodle Twine Primary Assortment Pack 60yds	Heat It Craft Tool Europeon Version	Kushgrip Non-Stick Micro Serrated Scissors 7	Imaginisce Score n' Pierce
Terrifically Tacky Tape .25"x5 Yds	Craft Collection 3-D Foam Tabs Assorted Pack

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I hope you enjoyed seeing my inspiration post. Please do leave me your comments/suggestions. :)

Don't forget to play along our current challenge and have a chance to win an awesome prize !

Have a nice day everyone!

Card for Father

Hello Everyone, 

Shilpa here,

Deepti has set a challenge for this fortnight to make cards/ tags for the men in our life....

And when she asks us to use distress inks, it is a perfect combo.

I made a card for my father, whose birthday falls in this month. He is all into machines and mechanisms. With this in my thoughts....I came out with a very grungy, distressed Card

I started off with  white card stock. 

I applied three of my favourite distress ink colors - broken china, vintage photo and black soot. I stamped the edges with Kaisercraft texture stamps and Ranger black Archival inks.  Second layer is, piece of green jute paper also distressed to match the background. I attached stamped clock, one you can see that behind..

For this panel, I took ruled paper from Crate paper pad, stamped text and texture, added distressed washi tape. Gears are die cuts, and Key is a metal charm, colored with distress stains and inks.

I love to use distress inks in my projects. You can find lot of techniques by Tim Holtz with distress inks on you tube and on his blog, he is genius.

Lulupu has got all the colors in distress inks...the new crafters can try Distress Minis.. which has other benefits with basic distress techniques.

Looking forward which of the Tim's Distress Ink technique you use. For Lulupu

Challenge # 36 

Make it Macho

it will remain open till 15th August, 11.59 pm

Supplies used:

Black Soot Distress Ink Pad	Vintage Photo Distress Ink Pad	Broken China Distress Ink Pad	Archival Dye Ink - Jet Black	Heat It Craft Tool Europeon Version
Kushgrip Non-Stick Micro Serrated Scissors 7	We R trim and score board	Coffee Archival Ink	american crafts foam tabs	World Tour-Smooth Value Pack Cardstock 12"X12"
Inkssentials Ink Blending Foam 10/Pkg	Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool

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