Masculine cards are usually the most difficult for me and I needed one for my brother\’s birthday. I love dragonflys and thought it would be fun to emboss a series across the page in Nuvo Hot Chocolate Embossing powder.
Last summer I won first place in AAA 4th Birthday CAS Challenge and the prize was a generous gift certificate to Visible Image\’s shop. I did not have any of their stamps and I picked out 4 sets including this one called Live in the Moment.
I colored the wings with Copic markers (Y17, YG01, YG03). I then made an accent strip using Altenew Espresso Crisp Dye Ink and mounted it on a Kraft card.

This is my first time entering this challenge.



Love that embossing powder and the colours of you dragonflies Karen.
Love how you used those VI stamps. Great colouring too.Thanks for sharing with us at The Male Room.Linby xDT
I'm glad you have chosen to join in the fun at Cardz4guyz. Your card is certainly very striking. Love Dawn x
I so love to see masculine cards that are non traditional and this is one of them. I absolutely love it….so creative and a perfect masculine card x.
Your dragnflies are awesome, sadly I agree I too, I wouldn't call them wild animals. I am thrilled you have joined us for the first time and we hope to see you join us again, we have lots and lots of challenges for male persons. Thanks for playing along with us at Cardz 4 Guyz. Caz DT.
Beautiful card :-)) Thanks for playing along with us at The Male Room. Looking forward to seeing your creative projects in the future galleries again.