Smile! It's Your Day!

This card came together quickly. And while masculine card ideas are not in huge supply, I found that by flipping through my Cricut cartridge books, several designs would've worked.

This time, the gift bag was my colour inspiration. Black, silver, gray on their own are a bit drab. Fortunately, I had some high quality card stock from a huge supply I purchased at Costco. These papers are smooth and just the perfect weight for cards.

The card base is silver pearlized. The front background is a print of stars in grays, white and burgundy. The touch of burgundy is what brought life to the scheme.

The camera and "Smile" are from Going Places. I added a very shiny silver metallic piece behind the camera and a small piece for the flash of the camera.

"Smile" is cut at 2-1/2  once from white, twice from black. The camera is cut once at 2 and once at 2, shadowed.

I first glued down the shadow pieces for both "Smile" and camera. I embossed the white "Smile" in argyle. Manly, right? Then I glued the white Smile to the remaining shadow piece. I stuck several pop dots to the back and adhered it to the card over it's shadow.

I also applied pop dots to the back of the camera and stuck it over it's shadow on the card.

"It's Your Day" is from Celebrations cartridge, cut at 2-1/2 and shadowed. For the verse inside, I wanted to keep it very simple. (Most men don't like reading long, wordy cards.) These words are small stamps that can be configured in many ways.

Celebrate everything. Happy Birthday. A balloon in the middle. Simple phrasing that's just enough!

The white frame was cut from Storybook.

Cartridges Used:
Going Places - Camera and "Smile" sentiment
Celebrations - "It's Your Day" sentiment
Storybook - inside white frame