It’s time for the ICS Blog Hop for May. This month’s theme is It’s a Guy Thing, and we’re making masculine projects. Why do we have so much trouble with guy cards? I think it’s because we aren’t using the right products. Because when you have the right stuff, it’s easy. Like the Guy Greetings stamp set and True Gentleman Designer series Paper. With these two products and some card stock, I created this very simple and oh so masculine birthday card for a classic guy.

After reading my post, I hope you’ll hop to the next stop, Joni Metras of Joni in the Spotlight Stamping. Just scroll down and click on the arrow.

Here’s what I made:

Here’s what I did:

Cut and scored with my Stampin’ Trimmer:

• Chocolate Chip card stock (CS) cut to 4-1/4″ x 11″, then scored in half at 5-1/2″
• Basic Black CS layer cut to 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″
• True Gentleman Designer Series Paper (DSP) layer cut to 4″ x 5-1/4″
• Very Vanilla CS layer cut to 2-3/4″ x 4-5/8″
• Very Vanilla CS cut to 4″ x 5-1/4″ for the inside of the card

Stamped with the Guy Greetings stamp set:

• “Happy Birthday, hats, shoes, and “To a Classic” in Basic Black ink onto the Very Vanilla layer

Assembled the card:

• burnished the fold in the card base with a Bone Folder
• Basic Black CS layer glued onto the front of the card base
• DSP layer glued onto the Basic Black CS layer
• Very Vanilla CS layer glued onto the DSP layer
• Very Vanilla CS glued onto the inside of the card base

Here’s the hop:

Click the arrow to hop to the next blog, Joni Metras of Joni in the Spotlight Stamping:

Here are today’s colors:

You can click on each one to see all the products that come in that color!

Here’s what I used:

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