A Masculine Valentine's Card

It's a beautiful Sunday morning here in Colorado. We are finally at temperatures on the plus side of the thermometer. We have had a very cold week but it's nice to see the sun shining again.

I hope you and yours are staying warm in this frigid weather.

Thanks for stopping by, for today's project I wanted to work on a Valentine's Day card for my husband but I didn't want to it to be frilly, girly or full of hearts. I sort of wanted to "Man" it up some. 

It's always tough to do masculine theme cards (at least for me) and I wanted to give you a bit of a tutorial for this one.

I went with a Tim Holtz style for this because I just love the grunge look.

I am entering this card into a few challenges too.

Frilly and Funky - They are challenging us to do a Valentine card with no hearts

Simon Says Stamp Monday's - Love Notes

I used Dark Blue and patterned card stock for my background

I grunted up the cream patterned card stock with my distress tool and edged it with Archival Ink

I then used Tim Holtz movers and shapers die and burgundy card stock to create my globe. I used Tim's warehouse district stamp set (the map) and also archival ink to stamp onto my globe and emboss. I went with Wendy Vecchi's potting soil color. I love, love, love this color

For my background I used stencils and archival ink to decorate

I used Tim's Stampers Anonymous Classic #6 set for the border (stamped and embossed) and colored with distress ink and a water brush

I then cut it out and added it to the top

I cut the XO out of Tim's strip die (Stacked Love) and then stamped onto it and embossed

I also cut the letters out of black card stock and Tim's two strip dies

Vintage Marketplace and Typeset

Here is a photo of my finished card

I added the XO with a brad at the top of the card

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial today

Have a wonderful day! Thanks again for stopping by

Cheers!