Simply Less is More - Week 7 - Masculine Card

Simply Less is More this week is all about the boys.  They want a clean and simple masculine card.  I know lots of people struggle with boys cards but I actually make quite a lot of them.  The design I chose is not as CAS as some of the other cards I've made for these weekly challenges, but I still think its clean enough. 

I used one of my male teddies from Elzybels - I don't normally do teddies but I like this range as they aren't overly cutesy, and coloured him with copic markers (see I said I'd get colour in this week - no black and white from me for a change!).  To break up the plain background I did something I often do on my mens cards, and used up a lot of little strips of paper I keep (yes I'm that sad!) when trimming down matts.  I think these strips work well with most images and just add a little interest without getting prissy and femine.

The sentiment is from an embossing folder which makes a full birthday background, I used a sheet of metal and carefully cut around the letters to get the single sentiment - matted onto black to set it off against the blue card.

Hope you like it.
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