CAS Wood Texture Birthday - Stampin' Up! Kiss of Texture

   It just so happens that the timing works out so that I'm sharing a masculine card for Testosterone Tuesday!  We all agree that guy cards can be hard especially if you don't have a stamp set that is geared towards one of their hobbies like golf or video games or woodworking!  I used the somewhat masculine colors from the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge for this masculine birthday card that has some stamped texture along with a few cute birthday candles!

  Excuse the lighting in this photo!  I swear if I miss the small sweet 15 minute window in the afternoon to take card photos in my stamp room they just kind of look off!  But this one is clean and simple and you get the gist!

  I used these colors for another card that ended up being very much not 'Clean and Simple' so I wanted to try again and keep it CAS this time.

  I started with a Basic White thick card base, then using the new Online Exclusive Kiss of Texture stamp set I inked up the solid square stamp in each of my colors then "kissed" the woodgrain stamp to the inked stamp to pull away some of the ink leaving the woodgrain pattern behind which I stamped onto Basic White.  Be sure to clean your stamps after each color! After I had each color stamped I cut the squares out and adhered them down the side of the card front leaving room for the sentiment.

  The sentiment is from the Simply Said stamp set and is stamped in Early Espresso.  I stamped 3 candles from the Choose Happy stamp set in Early Espresso then colored them in with Stampin' Blends markers then fussy cut them out.  I popped them up with dimensionals onto the squares.

  A few adhesive-backed Speckle Dots are added to highlight the sentiment just a little bit.  

  I'm happy with how this one turned out and the Kiss of Texture stamp set shouldn't be overlooked for the fun and easy technique you can do with it for adding texture with a stamped image!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Kiss of Texture (Online Exclusive), Simply Said, Choose Happy

Ink: Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive

Blends: Pumpkin Pie light & dark, Old Olive light & dark, Deep combo pack (SU100), color lifter

Paper: Basic White thick, Basic White

Accessories: dimensionals, Adhesive-backed Speckled Dots (retired)