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Check out this Stampin’ Up!® card with earth tones and a whiskey theme featuring the Whiskey Business stamp set.

Lots of women drink whiskey (I know I do!) and love the colours in the earth’s palette, so to say my card today is designed for a man would be inaccurate. I don’t think that certain colours or styles are for men and others are for women and I would LOVE to see us move away from that. I have also struggled with saying that something is masculine or feminine – who decides that anyway? That said, it is super challenging to re-train our thinking and our descriptive language out of using these terms. When someone tells me that something looks masculine, I know exactly what they mean – brown, navy, gray, black, green, rust and maybe shades of darker reds and oranges. It often also implies textures like wood, stone, and leather. Themes like cars, sports, hunting, fishing, whisky, beer, and barbecues. Thus being caught between wanting to avoid using “masculine” or “feminine” as descriptive terms and recognizing these as commonly understood descriptives.

My card today is made with rich earth tones and textures, modern lines, and a whiskey theme. You might choose to give it to your dad for Father’s Day, or to your friend along with a bottle of her favourite scotch whiskey for her birthday (yes, please! LOL!).

Here’s the As You See It Challenge that inspired my design:

One of the patterns from the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper looks like granite or cement, which I embossed using the Brick & Mortar 3D Embossing Folder. I lightly sponged it with Crumb Cake ink to highlight the bricks and warm up the gray of the patterned paper. This was adhered to a piece of Basic White and then to the Mossy Meadow card base.

To create a frame, I used two of the Stitched Rectangle Dies with Early Espresso cardstock and adhered it to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The images were stamped on Basic White cardstock with Tuxedo Black Momento ink and coloured with my Stampin’ Blends Markers. I used Light Mango Melody and Light Pumpkin Pie to create the amber liquid. Sparse use of the Light Gray Granite with the Light Mango Melody help to achieve some shading on the decanter and the whiskey tumbler. I stamped the same images on some Window Sheets with Black StazOn ink. I fussy cut tight around all the images and adhered the Window Sheet image to the Basic White image using sparing dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. The decanter is adhered directly to the Early Espresso Stitched Rectangle frame and the tumbler is on Stampin’ Dimensionals over the bottle.

I tied a piece of Mossy Meadow Linen Trim in a loose bow, folded it in half and tucked it under the decanter with a glue dot. The sentiment is stamped on the Basic Black cardstock with Versamark Ink, then powdered with White Embossing powder and heat set to the smooth glossy finish with the Heat Tool. I flagged the ends by hand with my Paper Snips and adhered the sentiment to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals over the frame.

This was my first time to finally use the Whiskey Business stamp set from Stampin’ Up! and I’m so happy with how it turned out!