Which leads me, in a very roundabout way, to this fortnight's challenge at The Male Room, which is to use flowers in a masculine way. I decided to go for an industrial look.
First of all I made the background, using some grey textured card. I stamped all over randomly using a wire netting stamp and a scribbled lines and circles stamp - both from a very old Linda Luckin set (dated 2008). Then I distressed the edges and rubbed a little brown and charcoal grey chalk over the surface to bring out the grainy texture of the card here and there.
The sentiment, from Rubber Dance, is stamped on a piece of woodgrain paper and embellished with brads, then layered over some brick-effect paper from my scraps box.
The metallic flowers are cut from patterned metallic effect card and then embossed using a grid effect embossing folder, and finished with eyelets. The newsprint flowers are stamped (using an old magazine freebie stamp from several years ago) on newsprint effect paper, inked, curled a little and finished with screw-headed brads.
I am sharing this with
The Male Room - Make Flowers Masculine
Fab 'n' Funky - Two or more designer papers
Retro Rubber - Brads and Eyelets
Ooh La La - Something Beginning with F (Flowers)
Craft Rocket - Anything Goes
22 comments:
Well that is a sentiment you would never put on a card for a woman, unless you know her exceptionally well! Making this a truly masculine card you clever ?@^{} thing. XOXO
This is just so beautiful Jane, loving the flowers and wonderful mixed media old world feel.
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DesÃre
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What a fun card for anyone, male or female (with a sense of humor)! Love the texture and vintage look. The brads and eyelets add the perfect detail. Thank you so much for playing along with Retro Rubber and hope you will be back in our gallery soon.
Great card. Thanks for joining us at Craft Rocket Challenge.
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Claudia
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Amazing card, love the brads and metallic effect. Brilliant. Thank you for joining in with us at The Male Room.
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Buffy x
A fabulous card, lovely flowers and great sentiment.
Thank you for joining us at Ooh La La Creations.
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Pauline
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Well, you did a great job creating a beautiful grunge flower card that any man would be pleased to receive:-) The love texture, colors and use of the brads for the flower centers as well as the eyelets- perfect for our challenge! Thanks for sharing with us at The Retro Rubber Challenge Blog, hugs and have a blessed week!
Love this! Including flowers on a male card is not an easy task, but you've cracked it with this one. xx
Stunning card, love those brads and the metallic effect. Great job of incorporating the different papers. Thannk you for joining in with us at Fab'n'Funky Challenges.
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Buffy x
Fantastic card! Love the flowers (metal and newsprint) and the sentiment sign details against the rustic background layer. Great texture! Thanks so much for including Retro Rubber in your stamping fun this week. Hope to see you in our gallery often!!
Great make on such a tricky challenge. Cara x
Love your rustic/grunge card! I love the flowers with the brads and eyelets! Thanks for playing along with Retro Rubber.
Love this! Absolutely fabulous.
Thanks for sharing at FabNFunky this week.
Susan
I am really enjoying the texture of this card. Your brick border is perfect along with your distressed background.. Now to the fantastic flowers and yet again your texture is fabulous. The colors you added make it perfectly masculine. Great Job!! thank you so much for joining us at The Male Room.
Cyber Hugs,
shawna DT
I'm blown away by the texture and style of this card, the "grunge" look is perfect for a masculine card, it takes the beautiful flowers from being to feminine and lands them right on the masculine side.
Love your use of this eyelets and screws, this details really make this card perfect for a man.
Thank you for playing along with us at Retro Rubber, hope to see you back in the gallery again soon.
Hugs,
Maria Rodriguez.
Stunning! Talk about detail on this card and you get double points for using brad AND eyelets!! But my favorite part of the post is the title - I read this book and was always fascinated with it! Thank you for joining us at Retro Rubber!
What a great way to use brads and eyelets in a masculine way for flowers. I remember reading Flowers for Algernon as well! Thank you for playing along with us at Retro Rubber.
Great card Jane! I love all the detail and texture! What a great use of brads and eyelets. Thank you so much for joining us at Retro Rubber:)
Thank you for sharing your gorgeous card with us at Ooh La La Creations. Those flowers are fabulous Jane. Michelle x
Wow, great job! The metal flowers are a super touch. Thanks for sharing at Craft Rocket Challenges. Barbara DT
I remember that story very well indeed - it made me cry! I think your industrial style flowers are perfect for a guy! Great sentiment too. Thanks so much for playing along with The Male Room, Deborah, DT. Sorry to be so late commenting!!
yay you are the winner HM on The Male Room congrats Jane
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you really made flower so great for manly card I was not join no idea with flowers and manly card puuh
you are so clever Jane
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