Guest for Seize the Birthday Challenge

 Hello all, I am excited to be guesting for the Seize the Birthday going live on 11/12/26.  The topping this time is Masculine.  I do not really design much thinking about Masculine or Feminine other than to not add pink, well at least not too much anyway.  I hope I captured the essence of the challenge.  

I used Primarily Altenew Products.  The design was inspired by a Video I saw from Yana Smakula, she used dark cardstock to foil and then emboss.  Honestly, I forgot the technique and once I foiled my "Hooray" and it turned out perfectly I did not want to do it again.  

Hooray and the paint swipes came from a press plate set from Spellbinders called Paint the Town.  I foiled the sentiment in Opaque Black.  Then pressed the paint swooshes in the back ground using Altenew Inks in the colors Valcano Lake, Lagoon, Minty Mint and Buttercream.  Then later I added Blue Horizon for the Its Your Birthday and the Time to Celebrate cut out sentiments.  I pressed the swooshes with the Better Press.  I used Hammermill 100# Cardstock, I also pressed the 2 blue sentiments on a separate piece of Hammermill Cardstock.  I cut those out using the die from the Paint the Town set.  On the main panel I embossed the celebration banners from the Craft Your Life Project Kit from Altenew which includes a 3D embossing folder.  Since I did not use dark cardstock the technique of using embossing ink to bring out the embossing from the folder did not work, so I pivoted  and used some Platinum Pigment Ink from Altenew to drag across the embossing to bring out that embossing.  I felt the Platinum Color was not too much for a Masculine feel.  The fun part was the realize I can emboss a panel after I have foiled it and it does not ruin the foiling.  I placed the two other sentiments on a thin foam to lift it just a little.  The entire panel was cut to 5 1/4 x 4 and then mounted on a piece of Hunter Green Cardstock from Altenew, this piece was A2 size 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 with some thin mounting strips.  The whole idea of this card is making it fairly flat and easy to mail but still giving it depth and dimension.  I think I accomplished that.   

Again, this post is a part of the Seize the Birthday Challenge that goes live on 11/12 at Noon EST.   The topping is Masculine.  Have Fun Everyone!!