Autumn Leaves, Unbounded Love, Masculine Fall Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a masculine/fall birthday card to share with you. I like to lean towards masculine because of the fall colors and there's no flowers but it could be used for a female birthday card as well. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. You can use a half-sheet of Cajun Craze and a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White on the inside. I just found it used less colored card stock to cut a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece and tape it to the front.  But before that piece was taped I used the leaf vein images from the "Autumn Leaves" bundle and stamped them with Cajun Craze ink. 

After taping the Cajun Craze stamped piece to the front of the card base, I cut a piece of Basic Black card stock that measured 3-1/2" x 4-3/4" and a piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Splendid Autumn" 6" x 5" stack was cut at 3-3/8" x 4-5/8" and taped to the Basic Black piece. Then that was taped to the Cajun Craze piece.

I cut a Garden Green and two Crushed Curry leaf veins using the die from the "Autumn Leaves" bundle. I also cut an oak leaf from the same bundle using the "Oxidized Copper" DSP. 

The words are from the "Unbounded Love" bundle and were stamped using black Memento ink. I cut them using the die from the same bundle. I didn't like that it didn't have a border so I used my Basic Black marker and colored around the edges. This is the part that I'm not thrilled with on this card. It's just too bright looking, plus I didn't to a good job coloring around those edges. But it is what it is.  The word piece was set in place using Dimensionals and the card was done.

If I were to make another one (which I probably will because there's 3 more sheets in the stack) I would do something different with the word piece. Perhaps die cut a Basic Black piece and cut it in half and add each piece to the upper and lower part of the word piece so it looks like it has a layer that is a bit larger than the original one. All I really know is it could use a little work on the word piece.  You can probably come up with something better!

Thank you SO much for taking your time to stop in today and see today's masculine card,
Wanda