Man O' Man!

It's time for some Manly cards! I have been wanting to get the "Seeing Stars" stamp set from Stampin Up since I saw some funky samples using it on Splitcoast stampers. I knew the set would make cool guy cards (which are always hard to make!) and cos you can get a matching star punch to make it even quicker and easier to make the cards, I was hooked! This set is on the retiring list for the USA catalogue so I imagine it will retire from our catalogue this year too, which sux cos I'm just realising what an awesome set it is and how much fun it is to make cards with! The small stars I still cut out by hand but it's super easy to stamp and punch out the big stars, which makes a real "wow factor" for the cards (can you tell I've been watch "The Block"? They always use the phrase "Wow factor". If I had been watching "Escape to the Country" I'd say "It ticks all the boxes"- thanks for pointing that one our Mum! LOL! Isn't it funny when the hosts get stuck on a particular phrase and always use it!)
So anyway I pulled out my man papers and got to work. I have loved this orange skull paper from Kaisercraft, I think I may be up to the last scraps of it too {frowny}. But I've still got lots of cool manly papers in my stash to use up and I have to keep reminding myself to stop hoarding papers! The brown with green dot paper is "Turf Street" from the Scenic Route collection named after my home town, Grafton, and they even had a paper named after our street (Carr St)! My sister Yvette emailed them to make sure it really was named after our town (cos it's an American brand) and they confirmed it was! How cool is that!!
I was chatting with my sister Alicia, who is a fashion buyer and always is up on the trends and has cool ideas, about themes for man cards and she suggested high rise buildings/city scapes. I immediately remembered this piece of paper I had in my scrapbooking stash with the New York Skyline on it and I paired it up with the Seeing Stars set to create this cool card! I was really pleased with how it turned out, and it doesn't incorporate too many "fussy" details which aren't always a man thing. Yay for Alicia's idea! Thank you!! {hugs}
And then I spied this black star ribbon in my stash and went about incorporating it onto a card using Seeing Stars too. This card is a bit of a Star overload, but really, I like it :) {giggles}
Well, that's it for the man cards, I hope you are having a good week so far!
Oh, and to leave you with a Jaimeson pic, this is a cute Mega close-up I took on my iphone then played around with using the Instagram app. Such a cute little face! LOL! I took this pic at 4am at Mum and Dad's when Jaimeson was full of smiles and A-Goo's! He wanted to play, not sleep!
:) C