Manly Monday Moose Masking technique card

My card is featuring a Moose stamp from Stamp N Plus. I thought he was perfect for manly cards. I stamped him on Strathmore watercolor paper using Hero Arts black ink. I colored him in with distress markers and a water pen before making a mask of the moose using masking paper by Inkadinkado. I covered the moose with the mask and made my background using distress inks and an ink blender all from Ranger. I used the colors Broken China and Tumbled Glass for the sky and then Crushed Olive for the grass. I wanted to hide my crafty boo-boo so I stamped a grass stamp also by Stamp N Plus where the sky meets the ground. I think I could do more to make the boo-boo blend into the grass but haven't done it yet.

After I colored in the image and created the sky and the ground, I sprayed it with water mixed with Perfect Pearls. I mounted the image onto brown cardstock and then pieced together the rest of my card with things I had been hoarding for some time now. Who knows why I save things instead of using them. Idk-smh. I do know the sentiment is by The Paper Loft. They have some great outdoor papers and sentiments to go with them.

So I will be looking for manly cards to post upon my return Monday, January 6, 2014. Until then I do have a few manly layouts to share along with some cards. I will be posting in December I just won't have time to postcards made by other crafters. I hope you understand. Thank you.

Please forgive the terrible lateness of this post. I'll say it again-that job thing that I have to go to really puts a cramp in my crafting time-lol. If I didn't have to go there four days a week I think I would be able to get these posts out on time. With that being said, the Christmas holiday is a very busy time for me. I make more than a dozen calendars for family members. My time online will be limited. I think it would be best to postpone Manly Monday until the start of the new year. It's hard to find masculine cards when all the challenge sites are doing Christmas challenges.
Well, here we go...

J Atterbury Creations

Purpleglo Creations

Nicole's Craft Nook

Honey's Cards and Crafts

Challenges:
http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/- Anything goes with stash item anything goes {my stash item is the brown checked paper}
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://paperminutes.blogspot.com/- Birthday card with an animal
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/- Anything goes
http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/- Cute scenes or backgrounds
http://cardsformen.blogspot.com/- Anything goes for a guy
http://www.anonymousstamps.blogspot.co.uk/- No theme
http://tokbobok.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/- Animals
http://cateredcrop.com/- Animals
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/- Anything goes
http://herecometheboysblogchallenge.blogspot.com/- Anything goes for boys
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes
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