Bear with me

Happy Tuesday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. We have had a couple of sunny days here and it's making it feel like spring. When in actuality it's almost 2 months away. Such a crazy winter we have had here.

We had a great week-end and got to spend time with family so that is always wonderful. My son and daughter-in-law always have us over for the Super Bowl even if the Steelers aren't playing. We had some good food. My daughter-in-law is a great cook. We were rooting for the Giants and happy when they won.

Tonight I am taking a colored pencil class at one of our local craft stores. It's a 3 hour class and will run for 2 weeks. I want to improve my coloring skills so I hope the class is worthwhile. They run it several times a year so I am thinking that it must be well attended. I will keep you posted.

My card for today is one that I made for the color challenge on Splitcoaststampers. I am part of this team and this week was my turn to sample with our hostess, Peggy.

She chose a great trio of colors in soft suede, riding hood red and daffodil delight. I thought these colors would make a great masculine card.

Maybe even one that I could send to my husband when I am being a bear with him (lol)!!

My image and sentiment are from a new set – North American Woods- being released next week by Marks Finest Papers. This entire set will be perfect for masculine cards.

I stamped my bear image in soft suede ink. I used riding hood red, daffodil delight and soft suede designer paper.  I die cut a button in riding hood red and ran some soft suede cardstock through the button holes.

The sentiment is stamped in soft suede ink- used the word window punch- added a brad to complete my card.

The layout is this week's sweet stop sketch #144.  I thought it was so perfect for a masculine card-fairly clean and simple. 

Well that's it for me. So until next time.......God bless.

Some other challenges:
1.  Cards for men has a seeing red challenge. My card base is red along with the patterned paper and the faux button.
2.  The Outlawz greeting card challenge is "anything goes".
3.  Fashionable Stamping Challenge #14 is "make it a guy thing".