Jayne's Type Alphabet - Masculine Valentine

Hi Everyone.

Happy Sunday.  I'm guessing that many of you will either be stamping in your craft room, or watching the Super Bowl!  Me....  well, we are expecting about 8-10 inches of snow and it's gotten cold again.  So, after doing housework, I'm in my craft room hoping to find some inspiration.  I don't know.. but my Mojo seems to have been AWOL recently.  Maybe it went on an early spring break! 

 A quick card for you tonight- using Jayne's Type Alphabet which I have had forever and just never seem to find a use for!  Well, the challenge on ourcreativecorner was to creative a masculine Valentine's card and the color challenge on stampsrus was to use red white and black... so, I decided to combine the two!

Tomorrow I will have for you a photo tutorial on how I made my new wood mount stamps into clear mount stamps!  So remember to check back for that!

Before we see the card, check out the fabulous inspiration cards on both challenge sites - and don't forget to check the submissions. I promise you will find something that inspires you.

So, here's my masculine Valentine.  I ran it past Lou to see whether it fit the bill - and he loved it!  But then, he was probably just being nice to me!  Actually, I'm really lucky that he does provide so much support for my hobby.  He really is a very special man!

 

I wanted a clean and simple line, especially with the black, red and white theme.  I also wanted something that would be quick to replicate and easily changed to more feminine colors.  I also toyed with using a HEART instead of the V, which I think would work perfectly.  In fact, I might make a feminie version of this card doing just that... ok.. so now my mind has gone to stamping!  :-)

Card recipe:

• Basic Black, Real Red and Whisper White card stock
• Real Red classic ink
• Jayne's Type Alphabet (114401)
• the heart-u stamp is from the You and Moi stamp set (111716) - one of the ones available free during SAB
• Two pieces of gingham ribbon, the black and white and the red and white
• I used my 3/4" circle and 1" circle punches.  I used my 1" and 1 1/4" square punches
• I used my polka dot texture folder (117335) for the black
• All that was needed was to pop the LOVE and the heart-u with dimensionals.

Have a Happy Monday everyone.  I'm off to finish up the tutorial for the clear stamps and to try to get some more challenges done!

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Hugs

Jaydee

Comments

[Karen Howard]

Beautiful card! Love the double ribbon and embossed background!

[LaLatty (Patty)]

Perfect CAS Valentine's Day card! Great idea to stamp the letters into each block. Love your sketch and your ribbon treatment is wonderful!

[Linda Coughlin]

Absolutely perfect Valentine for a guy! That color combo is so visually powerful. Wonderful job on the challenge. So happy you could join in the fun with us this week at Our Creative Corner!

[jaydee]

Missy.... I certainly will show the feminine version of this one for you. I'm hoping to get to my stamping space tonight or tomorrow!
hugs
Jaydee

[Angela]

What a nice card to give a man/boy for V-day. I have the toughest time trying to keep it simple on guy cards, I always seem to want to add glitter. hope u dont mind if I use your idea.

[Kelli]

I love the texture on the black paper. I would have never thought to use black as a base of a card. I love the ribbon too...I think I've decided that ribbon is my favorite embellishment.

[Cherie]

PERFECT! AS always you take my breath away--I can't wait to get into my stamping space and get creating again.

[Missy]

I find it so hard to make masculine cards! But I think this one fits the bill perfectly! I love it! Are you going to show the feminine one too? Thanks for sharing your awesome creativity Jaydee!

[Patricia Hoffman]

Really neat masculine card. I like that you added the black and while ribbon as well as the red and white ribbon, it really adds something. I think the card looks just fine with the LOVE on it and the ribbon, but adding the little circle in the corner is really cute. I like that you used the polka dot folder, don't you just love that texture folder. It makes everything you use it on look so professional. Happy Monday to you too.

Trish in Wisconsin

[Adelle]

Lovely!