How to Make a Clean and Simple Masculine Birthday Fishing Card

Want to keep things simple and make a clean yet colorful Birthday Card for the avid “fisher” in your life? Check out this “reel” cool design for inspiration!

Masculine cards can be such a challenge for many, including our new designer, Shelly. Today she is showing us that masculine designs don’t have to be as hard as we make them out to be. Shelly said, “I have a simple masculine card that is sure to make any fisherman happy. Especially, if he’s a “reel” cool guy!” We truly love this design and hope you do too.

Start with a marker friendly white cardstock and stamp on the images from the 3004 Fishing #2 stamp set using black ink.
Color images with Copic markers. In this case, Y08, Y38, RV06, RV09, RV29, YG07, YG67, B32, B34, B99, and C5.
Use the 3004D Fishing #2 coordinating dies with the colored images and set aside.
Next, use a piece of white cardstock along with the smallest rectangle die from the 5013D Nested Rectangle Small Stitch die set and die cut the center of cardstock.
Mask off bottom part of die cut panel. (you will have a narrow ‘strip’ rather than the whole rectangle)
Place the masked off die cut panel over a piece of white cardstock.
Put a couple drops of each color from the Color Fuse Set #7 Reinkers in a paint tray.
With a slightly damp paintbrush, dip it into one of the inks and splatter onto the card. Continue with each of the colors, cleaning the paintbrush after each color.
Remove die cut panel and let dry.
Stamp on sentiment from the 3004 Fishing #2 stamp set using black ink.
Die cut cardstock using the largest rectangle from the 5013D Nested Rectangle Small Stitch die set.
Take a small piece of black cardstock and adhere it to the side of the die cut panel.
Add foam tape on the back of the panel and adhere to card base.
Take the colored die cut images (that were set aside) and add foam tape on the back.
Adhere the images to the card.