Gold and silver trees suitable for mens christmas cards

At the craft fair on Saturday I sold all but two of my christmas cards and now I've realised that I've got a whole bunch more that I need to make to give to friends and family next month, lol. For today's post I've made two similar christmas cards, one silver, one gold. I think that they'll make good men's cards. What do you think? Are they too blingy for men?

Recipe

Stamp set: Scandinavian Season

Cardstock: Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise

Ink: Versamark

Other: Silver EP, Silver Brads, Silver Elastic Cord, Fine Cosmo Glitter, Circle Ice Rhinestone Brad

The tree is stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with silver powder. I used the 2-way glue pen to pick out part of the design and covered with the Turquoise glitter from the Fine Cosmo set. Silver elastic cord was wrapped around the lower portion of the mat for added interest and to balance the layout.

Recipe

Stamp sets: Scandinavian Wheel, Season of Joy

Cardstock: Whisper White

Ink: Not Quite Navy

To provide some white space to write the card, I added an insert to the back page.

Recipe

Stamp set: Scandinavian Season

Cardstock: Basic Black

Ink: Versamark

Other: Gold EP, Gold Brads, Gold Elastic Cord

Punch: Corner Rounder

Non-SU: Gold Mirri Card

The only variation here in addition to the colours is that I left off any glitter and rounded all the corners.

Recipe

Stamp sets: Scandinavian Wheel, Season of Joy

Cardstock: Whisper White

Ink: Versamark

Other: Gold EP

Punch: Corner Rounder

Well, that's another two down but quite a ways to go yet. Are you bored with all the Christmas cards? Let me know if you'd like to see something different for a change.

Sara xx

Scandinavian Season card and box set in navy with silver highlights

This little duo uses the Not Quite Navy DSP that was available in last year's catalogue as part of a Level 1 hostess gift. This paper is no longer available but the set would look equally nice in Night of Navy which is part of this year's Patterns Pack Level 1 hostess gift.

Recipe

Stamp sets: Scandinavian Season, Scandinavian, Season of Joy

Cardstock: Not Quite Navy, Bordering Blue, Whisper White

DSP: Not Quite Navy

Ink: Not Quite Navy, Bordering Blue, Versamark

Narrow Grosgrain ribbon: Whisper White

Brads: Silver, Circle Ice

Other: Silver EP, Dazzling Diamonds, Fine Galaxy Glitter

Punches: Scallop Circle, Corner Rounder, Scallop Oval, Large Oval

All images are stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with Silver EP. For the tree, a swirl was first coloured with Bordering Blue and then Tombow and Dazzling Diamonds added over the top. Dazzling Diamonds allows the Blue to show through. For the star, Fine Silver from the Galaxy Glitter (set of 5) was added. You can see the difference in the effect of these glitters - the silver looks almost molten. The tree was punched in the corners using one petal of the Scallop Circle punch to frame the brads.

For the inside of the card I used the Scandinavian standard wheel with Not Quite Navy ink and used the sentiment from the Season of Joy set.

Thanks for stopping by.

Sara xx