The Male Room - Make Ribbon Masculine!

Well the theme at The Male Room this time, " Make Ribbon Masculine" was quite a challenge! Eventually I came up with the idea of trying to make a rosette!

I cut a circle of card and backed it with double sided strong adhesive. Originally I was going to use a narrower ribbon in Midnight Muse but couldn't get it to look right until I realised I needed a wider ribbon. This was the most masculine I'd got even though it's Calypso Coral! However I think the wood background made it a bit more male orientated!

 I'm afraid the photo is really, really rubbish- to start with Sunday was so dark I thought I'd wait to photograph it, then Monday was lovely and bright but of course I then got shadows! 

The rest of the DT have some lovely inspiration for you!

Make My Monday - Male theme

Good morning fellow bloggers. It's Monday again so time for a new challenge at Make My Monday and this week it is male themed.  I
decided to use the Hardwood stamp to try and give the effect of barn doors. Not sure if it really works though!

I stamped it in Soft Suede ink onto Crumb Cake cardstock,  after cutting it into two pieces they were mounted onto Chocolate Chip with a small gap between the two, and candy dots added for handles. The tractor is a stamp from my too large collection!!  I'll add a sentiment later when I know what I'm going to use it for.

Hardwood

Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

Neutrals Candy Dots

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Hardwood Than You

We spent a really pleasant weekend in Cheltenham visiting my "almost" step-daughter and her partner. We went so they could take her Dad out for his birthday which was last week. We had a trip out into the Cotswolds for afternoon tea at a teashop in Broadway, then on Saturday had a trip to the National Arboretum at Westonbirt. It was a pity the weather wasn't better as it was a bit grey and damp!

When we got back I rustled up a quick card as a thank you. I used a retired Thank You stamp, the background hardwood stamp which is very popular at the moment and the Petite Petals stamp set and punch. The leaves were punched with the owl builder punch. I used Coastal Cabana and Melon Mambo ink. it looks as though there is rather a lot of white at the top but the panel looked perfectly central in real life! As Dynamic Duos have picked melon mambo and turquoise 

 for their challenge this week I am going to enter this over there even though I have used a different turquoise.