Monday, March 2, 2026

Monday Masculine Vibes

Welcome to another Monday Masculine Vibes - they say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach and my other half is definitely an ice cream lover! 


Today’s card design came together playing with a few fun card challenges.  Over at As You See It they have a colour challenge mood board - I was inspired by the purple! #AYSI367


The Inspired By blog challenge Sweet Caterpillar mood board #IB377 and the accompanying sketch.



Playing another round of Tic Tac Toe with their challenge board #tttc287. I have used the top row circles, pastel and embossing.  


Over at Time Out Challenges photo inspiration with the stripes and polka dots. #TOC307


I’m getting inky with a retired Saleabration set Homeycomb Happiness and paired it with the Dotted Circles & Lovely Stripes embossing folders, Gorgeous Grape ink and blends, Pecan Pie blends and some pearl bling. 


Final “You’re so Sweet” design. I did the direct to paper ink drag across the embossed papers. For my sentiment I used the masking tape trick to create a straight line sentiment vs the stacked style. I used my Gorgeous Grape blends to colour the pearls to match the card. 


I think this would make a wonderful thank you card or birthday card with a gift certificate to an ice cream shop inside! 



Happy Stampin’

Margaret 
Live, Laugh, Love
Be Totallyawake4-life
 

16 comments:

  1. I love how you captured the stripes and the dots from the inspiration photo. Going with a full on purple/lilac and white theme really echoes the inspiration. So glad you shared this with us at Time Out this week
    Jaydee

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    1. Thank you it was a fun challenge to play along with 🫶🏼

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  2. Great use of the colour purple. Those icecreams look delicious. I'm wondering what flavour they are - blackberry? grape? Lovely composition too. I couldn't see anywhere your time for the speed challenge though? Thanks for sharing with us at our Speed Purple Challenge at As You See It. :-)

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    1. Thanks Jan - I missed the posting that it’s was a quick under 10 minutes put together part.

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  3. Margaret, I'm so glad you've shared your beautiful card with us in our gallery! That background is really effective with the embossing and the purple stripes. In fact, you've done the colour purple proud! You may have missed that it was a speed stamping challenge, to make your card in under 10 min., but in case you did, please let us know how long it took you! Thanks for joining us at As You See It Challenges, and please join us again!

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    1. Thanks Heather - I forgot to add the speed part that it was put together in 10 minutes.

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  4. What a creative way to add stripes and polka dots to your card, Margaret. Thanks for sharing it with us at Time Out.

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  5. Wow this is fabulous Margaret! So glad we were able to inspire you with Kim's bag - thanks for playing cards with us this fortnight at Time Out Challenges!
    Hugs, Kate!

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  6. I love your card and how you were inspired by the sketch. Thank you for joining us at Inspired by... Challenge ~Von Marie~

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  7. Fab card Margaret - those icecreams look delicious! You didn't mention how long it took you to make, though? Thanks for joining in with our purple speedy challenge at As You See It

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  8. what a fabulous card! I love all the purple! Thanks so much for playing along at Inspired By!

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