Hello! We have a new sketch challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and I created a masculine birthday card for one of my best friends 🙂

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Here’s our sketch:

One of my best friends celebrated his birthday on Saturday, so naturally I had to make him a birthday card! ❤️ I usually struggle with masculine cards, but the sketch gave me an idea. I decide to rotate it and create a simple vertical design:

For the stripes I used the long halftone strip from Altenew’s Halftone Squares stamp set. It’s a great set for monochromatic designs like this one. (By the way, you can find another example here.)

I stamped the stripes with Soft Stone ink from Gina K. Designs, and added the tall sentiment from the Big Old Birthday stamp set from CZ Design. I used my self-made Black Soot Archival ink pad for this, since I wanted a large ink pad. It’s super easy to make your own ink pad too – simply use the re-inker and the DIY Archival ink pad 🙂

To finish my card, I added a few silver star sequins.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you like this idea for a masculine birthday card.

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Happy Tuesday! ❤️

– Michal

Supplies

Clickable links – simply click on the name of the product you want to see!

• Altenew Halftone Squares Stamp Set
• Gina K. Designs Soft Stone Ink Cube
• CZ Design Big Old Birthday
• Black Soot Distress Archival Ink:
  • Click here for the regular size (part of the Distress Archival Set)
  • Click here for the re-inker, and here for the DIY Archival ink pad
• Accent Opaque White Cardstock