Wednesday 5 March 2014

Grunge Trees

At The Male Room, a challenge blog for cards for the men in our lives, we have a colour challenge for you this week. Three very traditional male colours too, blue, brown and green. True to my own favourite style I've kept this quite cas and contemporary and I've found yet another use for my Gorgeous Grunge stamp set -earlier in the week I used it for stars, now trees. As you can see, I was having fun with my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig too, when making the fading sentiment (don't know how I lived without this bit of kit!)
I made a couple of these cards, the one with the pale colours was actually my first attempt, but it just wasn't 'man enough' for my liking! The trees are die cut and so add a bit of texture/dimension.  I like the smaller grunge stamp used as fallen leaves or blossom, don't you?




The DT members on this challenge blog all have very different styles, so check them out to see what they did with this colour scheme, I am sure you'll find something you'll like!
I'm going to enter my card in the Anything Goes challenge for Birthday cards at Seize The Birthday too.






8 comments:

  1. Brilliant! I would never have thought of using the grunge set for trees, but it works so well. Love the masculine version of the card, and the softer version is so pretty! Great work. I must have a play with this set!

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  2. Very creative idea! Both versions are beautiful!

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  3. Didn't know this challenge existed and it's just perfect for me having 3 sons & 2 grandsons. Followed your link from CAS Colours & Sketches as your card was so beautiful.

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  4. Very creative. I like how you added the cute little bluebirds to your "grunge" trees. Thanks for sharing at Seize the Birthday.

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  5. I LOVE your grunge trees Louise - what a fab idea!!

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  6. Love those Grunge trees! Very creative indeed! Thanks for sharing this with us over at Seize the Birthday!

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  7. A really fun way to create trees - a great card Louise - Jacqueline xx

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Louise xx