Guy Greetings With A True Gentleman

Hi!

Today I have a card for you that I made using a couple of retiring products. One I will certainly miss is the Guy Greetings stamp set. I particularly like the font - it's a little but fancy, but not too fussy for a masculine card. For this card, I've made the Happy Birthday sentiment the focus, aided by the Tailored Tag punch, a True Gentleman button, and some Linen Thread. All three of those are carrying over. Yay!

I used some of the image stamps in Guy Greetings to create a background for my card. I simply put 4 stamps on one block to allow me to stamp them all in one step. I then just repeated until I covered the card front.

I love the mix of colours in the True Gentleman DSP. For this card I selected patterns that were mostly Night Of Navy, Tranquil Tide and Very Vanilla. Three colours make it easy to get a harmonious colour scheme.

I couldn't resist adding another strip of the DSP to the inside. It's such a cool geometric pattern, and I really like the way it looked as an incomplete section of the pattern.

Bye f or now,

Tina

A True Gentleman Gift

Hi!

I recently found some gift box die cuts while I was sorting through some things in my craft room. I think they were from an Advent Calendar project that I never got around to completing. I decided to use on of the die cuts to make a box using the True Gentleman DSP from the Occasions Catalogue.

This was such a quick and easy box to make. I chose some complementary DSP patterns from the pack, cut them to size, and adhered to the box. I cut the piece for the bag just over an inch longer than the front piece so that I could fold it over to the front to create a flap closure. The tag was simply another piece of DSP that I punched using the Flag punch and adhered two Stitched Shapes Ovals to. The sentiment is from the Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set.

To close the box, I simply punched two holes through all the layers using my Crop-o-Dile. I threaded some Night Of Navy Corduroy Ribbon through the holes and through the hole in the tag before tying in a knot. I love how all of these coordinating products make creating a gift box so easy!

Bye for now,

Tina