Greeting!  Today I am SO excited to unveil my Design Team inspiration for the March Card challenge over at Scrap The Boys.  Please grab your favorite beverage and take a few minutes to visit their blog to get some inspiration for this months challenge.  There is a fabulous prize, so please consider joining in on the fun by linking your masculine card that the sketch inspires in you!  Click Here to get there 🙂

I began by stamping one of the images from my Close To My Heart, A Thing Well Done set in Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto kraft cardstock and then die cutting it with my stitched circle die.  I die cut a larger stitched circle in a dark brown to mat the image.  While I had the eBosser going, I die cut some cogs (sorry I do not know the maker of the dies) and the word CONGRATS from Tim Holtz Celebrate Sizzix Thinlet Block Words.  I cut that out of two coordinating Core’dinations Distressed papers that I had in my stash.  I now have the negative of this inlay for another card, BONUS!

I inked the cogs in Walnut and Tea Dye Distress Inks to make them look rusty and well…distressed.  😉  I used Moda Scrap Manly Man paper as the cards background, mounted that onto the same dark brown cardstock I used for the large mat circle and wound some twine around the bottom before adhering it to the cream card base.  I added all the elements, stamped the inside with “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it” a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson.  I thought that was quite appropriate for a retirement card for a friend of the family.

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