Autumn Toile, Masculine Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a masculine birthday card to share with you. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Early Espresso card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left. I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White and taped it to the inside.

On the front I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Autumn Toile" 12" x 12" package. I cut it in half at 2". I taped the tree half on the left side of the card front and the brown side on the right side. 

I also cut another piece of DSP from the same sheet that measures 3" x 2-3/8". The Basic White layer measures 3-1/4" x 2-5/8" and the DSP was taped to it. The Early Espresso layer measures 3-1/2" x 2-7/8" and the other two taped layers were taped to this one and then this was taped to the front of the card. I centered it as much as I could by eying it. It's about 11/16" from each side and 7/8" from the top and 1-1/8" from the bottom.  Eying isn't and exact science but it is close enough. I figure if I think it looks good by eying it, then it looks good. 

Then the words were stamped. They are from the "Simply Said" set and were stamped using Early Espresso ink on a scrap piece of Basic White card stock. I don't even try to get them straight on the paper. I trim them up after and hope for the best. I usually take a ruler or a piece of scrap card stock (depending on the length of the piece I'm working onO) and I make a pencil mark on each end. I put it in the paper trimmer and cut it so it's now straight. My piece measures 3/8" x 2-5/8".  I taped it to a piece of Early Espresso card stock measuring 5/8" x 2-5/8". Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place on top of the focal layer. I lined up the edges of the word piece with the Basic White layer and 1-5/16" from the bottom edge of the card. 

The deer is from the retired "Grassy Grove" bundle and it was cut using the smallest deer die on Early Espresso card stock. I glued it in place on the front of the card. I didn't buy the bundle that this DSP went with so I didn't have the current deer but you can swap them out if you have the bundle.

This was a very fun card to make and I needed to make some masculine cards and this foot the bill.

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