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Designer: Helen Chilton

Create Helen’s fun cards for men

 – bound to put a smile on their

faces!

Stamp... Boys’ Toys Card

1Layer up top fold black card with a selection ofthe ‘Get Happy’ papers as shown. Stamp the

words in black along the blue border and the largeword ‘journey’ on the yellow strip.

2Stamp the car scene in black onto five differentcoloured pieces of the ‘Get Happy’ paper and

cut out.3Stamp the same scene five times onto white

card. Cut out just the car and stick to thecoloured pieces.

Quirky Cards 

for Men

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Project: Men's Cards

4Using the patterned paper, concertina fold along strip 6cm wide (2½") – join pieces

together if necessary. Stick the car scenes onto thefive folded pages.

5Cut and fold a strip of black card 22 x 7cm (8¾x 2¾") so front cover is slightly longer. Decorate

book cover with scraps of paper and add text usingBeatnik alphabet.

6Make two circular tabs from covered black card.Fix red tab to concertina. Stick booklet into

cover. Fix other tab to front cover with a snap forextra strength. Cut a slit in main card and insert tab.

This whole project was inspired by myson. Well, his hair, anyway!If you look at the second card, youcan see I was trying to think of a card

to make him for his 19th birthday (it never getseasier!) and decided to add a fun element tothis Paperbag Studios stamp, as at that time hishair was long and curly. The jester’s hat is similar

to one he made at school many years ago,during which he managed to break three of theschool sewing machines and still nevercompleted it!

This led me on to looking at quirky cards formen – cards with an element of surprise or fun.I searched my stamps for men and boys, andeven boys’ toys!

Most of the paper I’ve used for each card comesfrom the ‘Get Happy’ range by Cosmo Cricket. Iabsolutely love this paper – it’s bright, in yourface, sort of urban. It’s based around the colours

red, blue, yellow and green and every sheet,even the single colour paper, has scratch marksand doodling, graffiti and scribbling. I startedout with a few of the double-sided sheets, butthen bought the 8" x 8" pad as well and haveused them again and again. By the time Istarted these cards, I’d already used quite a lotof my stash, so they tend to use up strips andscraps, criss-crossing and overlapping just as Ifelt like. I’ve hoarded every piece remaining,down to the tiniest scrap, and I’ve still got loadsto play with.

I’ve stamped everything in black and used blackcard stock to add more impact. The text comesfrom a variety of sources and quite often I’ve

 just picked out a few of the words from a stamp,either so that it fits onto the space available orbecause it made more sense that way.

MaterialsStamps Helen used...

• Stampers Anonymous by Tim Holtz – The Journey (carstamp, part of quotation); Travelling Friends (‘journey’text)

• Mo’Be Alphabet – Beatnik (or similar)

Other materials...

• StazOn inkpad – Jet Black

• Cosmo Cricket scrapbook paper – Get Happy Collection

• Black card

• Circle punch

• Snap or brad

I don’t think cards for men have to be brown

and blue! Go for bright primary colours and

make them sit up and take notice!”

“

TIPLook at your quotation stamps

then either stamp just the words orphrases you want, or, if the spacing

doesn’t allow this, stamp the whole textand cut out just the words required. You

can even just cut out separate letters

and make completely new words,saving on buying a whole set ofalphabet stamps.

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Tailor Made CardStamp the tailor and hessian edging onto atag made out of the Peyton paper. Stampagain onto yellow paper, tear out bottomleft and top right corner and stick to tag.Stamp the word ‘made’ onto scrap of red,cut out and stick down. Stitch round tag.

Layer up card using patterned paper. Stamptape measure repeatedly. Attach a smallbutton with larger button on top. Cut outpocket shape, fold in edges and stitchround. Add red strip across top and stick tocard round edge only. Add twine to tag,insert in pocket and attach to button.

 Additional materials...

• PaperArtsy Buttons – Plate 6 (tailor, hessian);One Penny – Plate 2 (tape measure); AtHome – Plate 2 (part of quote)

• Studio G Alphabet stamps – Style 10

• Dream Street paper, Remember the MomentsCollection – Peyton

Be Happy CardBuild a background using scraps of the ‘Get Happy’paper. Stamp text in black. Layer onto green cardand black folded card. Add colour to glossy whitecard and over-stamp main image and text in black.Cut hat to fit and stamp over with background textin black. Cut a small band of card to fit under hat.Wrap copper wire lengths round the band leaving alength of wire at each end. Wind this round acocktail stick to make curls. Stick under hat and addbrads to finish.

FURTHER IDEAS

 Additional materials...

• Paperbag Studios – Laugh unmounted theme plate

• PaperArtsy: Pierrot – Plate 2 (Mad as a Hatter);Backgrounds – Plate 6

• Elusive Images Words of Wisdom (Be Happy)

• StazOn inkpad – Teal

• Memories dye inkpad – Yellow

• Glossy white card

• Copper wire

• Brads

PENNY SAVERSFor small letter stamps you can’t beat the Studio G

alphabets which retail at about £1 a set.

TIPI stuck a smaller button underneath the mainbutton to raise it off the surface of the card. As the

twine is quite thick, this enables me to tie itround the button quite easily.