Masculine card

I need several masculine cards for my co-workers. This is one that I made a couple of evenings ago.

Stamps: Balmy Breezes, Warmest Regards
Paper: River Rock, Night of Navy, True Thyme
Ink: True Thyme
Accessories: brads

IC94 Inspiration Challenge

This is my card for the Inspiration Challenge:http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=287948The center oval was shadowed using the masking technique. The butterfly was stamped with gold pigment ink, colored in, and cut out. It is popped up.I used the flourish stamp from Delight in Life for the corner adornment.

Keywords: IC94 Delight in Life Regal Roses
Stamps: Regal Roses, Delight in Life, butterfly from ACMoore
Paper: elegant eggplant cs, lilac paper
Ink: Craft White, Pigment Gold, Elegant Eggplant, Smokey Plum (CTMH), two pigment greens
Techniques: masking
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 1

Inspiration Challenge

This is my card for today's Inspiration Challenge as seen here on Splitcoaststampers.com:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=286231

To be quite honest, I did not care for the inspiration piece at all and I didn't care for the color scheme either. That's what made this a real challenge for me! So, I decided to use the colors from the piece, Taken with Teal, Wasabi, and Black.

The diamond background stamp is from Beeswax.com; it was stamped with Versamark on the Taken with Teal cardstock. I used Marvy punches for the oval and scalloped oval. The stamp set is SU!'s (retired) Delight in Life, stamped with black Stazon ink. I used SU"s white gel pen for the faux stitching around the oval and in the center of the flower. The ribbon came from Michael's $1.00 bin!