Hello welcome to the May Stamptastic Friends Blog Hop, and we are bringing you Male cards. Lots of us seem to struggle with male cards, I don’t know why this is, but I do too. I am sure that part of it is the simple reason we over think them. I mean any card can be a male card, what is it that makes is male or female? Usually, we think of pretty images and colours being more for a female, but that is not so. Saying this, I have chosen blues for my card today.

My Male card uses the Stylish Shapes and Wanted To Say Dies, plus makes use of those small piece of cardstock that we never want to throw away. We all have them, left over from other projects, and collect them waiting for that one time we need a tiny piece for a sentiment or banner.

Creating a Simple Male Card

Using the longer of the thinner banner dies, die-cut three banners from Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel and Smoky Slate cardstock. This will give you plenty to play around with your pattern.

Trim a piece of Basic White cardstock to 9.5cm x 13.9. Lay your banners down the lefthand side, staggering the edges. When you are happy with the placement, adhere into place and trim off any over hangs.

Cut a Basic Black mat layer measuring 10cm x 14.4cm and adhere to the reverse of your Basic White layer.

Using the Wanted To Say Dies, die-cut one set of stars from each of the banner colours. Snip these into single stars, you may find that not all stars will be usable. Adhere these alongside your banners. From Basic Black cardstock, die-cut ‘Happy Birthday’ and adhere to the bottom of your card front.

Create an A6 card base, measuring 10.5cm x 14.9cm, using Smoky Slate cardstock and adhere your Basic Black mat layer to the front.

I hope I have inspired you to get creative and use up some of those scraps. All products used are listed below and available to purchase from my online shop.

Please do continue to hop round for lots more creativity and inspiration.

Happy Crafting

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Stylish Shapes Dies [159183] £28.00	Wanted To Say Dies [161594] £37.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] £13.00	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] £10.75	Azure Afternoon A4 Cardstock [161728] £10.75
Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock [147007] £10.75	Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock [146991] £10.75	Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate [131291] £10.75	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £5.75	Paper Trimmer [152392] £27.00
Paper Snips [103579] £11.25	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] £62.00	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine Stylish Shapes Collection [160881] £87.00