MASCULINE Sympathy Cards

As promised, here are the 2 masculine sympathy cards I made for friends of mine. (see the feminine card here)... One death in their family affected several lives.... 

These two cards were for 2 men whose relationship are uncle & nephew.... one lost his sister... the mother to the other  :(

I used the same card base and patterned papers (list at bottom), but changed them slightly. I cut 1-1/2" squares and rounded the opposite corners of each. Then I had to decide on the arrangements on each card.

For the first card, I tried the design above... but it looked too much like a flower to me, so I played around with the pieces. I finally chose the option below and just added the extra rounded squares and sentiment below it.

For the second card, I decided I wanted a little dimension, so I added smaller matching pieces on top of 2 sections (a little hard to see in photo below, since they're not popped up yet).... but again this shape looked too girly (flower) to me. 

So more playing around with the paper pieces until I was happy!... Added a couple more 1" rounded squares to the mix and came up with this:

With a 90 degree turn, another set mirroring it below, popped up the small rounded layers and the sentiment... finally happy... and Done!

List of supplies:

5x7 card bases with matching envelopes - purchased at Hobby Lobby

CTMH Passages patterned papers (retired)

CTMH Cocoa and Bamboo card stock

Scor Tape and pop dots

sentiment done in MS Word

Anniversary Card for my Hubby!

I made an card for my hubby for our 32nd Anniversary earlier this month.
I saw a card on Pinterest, made by Lisa House using CTMH That's Amore paper (retired). I loved the design and thought it would work well with
CTMH Passages paper (which I love and is also retired). I also made 
my card quite a bit wider than the one I saw here.

Here's my version:

My hubby liked it and loved the buttons!

(CTMH buttons with Colonial White Waxy Flax as the threads)

I used Barn Red cardstock for the base and made

the sentiment in MS Word using the RGB codes

I had to match the Barn Red color. Then I inked all

the edges of all the pieces in Desert Sand

before assembling them together on the card.

A peek inside:

I used the RGB codes to match Olive for the inside print, except

for a big "I Love You", which I kept in Barn Red.

Then I printed it all out on Colonial White cardstock,

and trimmed for the shapes I needed.

After inking the edges of the inside pieces,

I first matted the Colonial White on Olive cardstock

and then on the same striped B&T patterned

paper as the one piece on the front.

But with the camera angle, or maybe a tiny

movement when taking this photo, the stripes

came out a little funny looking in the photo!

Oh well, you get the idea! :)