Making a masculine birthday card challenges many of us, I think.
For starters, most of the items we find in scrapbook stores are designed to appeal to women. Even if the item is “masculine’ it’s still designed to appeal to the woman who will buy it and use it in her projects.
This effort is going to my grandson, who has the misfortune to be born shortly before Christmas.
I made the card using scrapbook paper that resembles a cardboard box.
The dark brown in the bar along the left and the circle is actually dark brown glitter. The two yellow circles are yellow glitter. The circle is a CD label. I sprinkled glitter on the sticky side, then placed the stickers over that.
I used the “brushed velvet” technique developed at Be Creative, a local scrapbook store in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia. I plan on making a video soon demonstrating the Brushed Velvet technique. It’s really cool.
The tools are silver stickers.
Who knows whether this masculine birthday card will be a winner. Did I crack the code? 
