Masculine You Say?

Hello dearies and wonderful day to you all! Today starts a new challenge over at Anything But Cute. Our amazeballs hostess is the lovely Cec! She chose the theme for this month and wants to Make It Masculine. "Make a mixed media card, or other project for a fellow in your life. It could be for Father's Day, a birthday, an anniversary, or just because you want him to know how special he is."

I chose to make a display honoring the Veterans and soldiers in my country. This piece will be abandoned at a local Veterans Hospital. Hopefully someone enjoys it! 

I started by dry embossing my tag and then added alcohol inks and copper embossing powder. Once the inks were dry I gave the entire tag a wash of metallic glaze (leftover from a revamp of my bedroom dresser). 

I added the chain die cut after painting it with gold distress paint. I added the tiny tag after using the same alcohol ink and dry embossing with a different EF. The white "sticks" under the small tag are parts of my paintbrush I accidently left in water overnight. Oops, and not the first time that has ever happened. :)

When the tag was finished I figured it need more so I grabbed some paper and went to town using distress inks, a sanding block, distress glaze and my black archival pen to trace around the word "Liberty". 

The black around the word makes it pop off the page. I also added some weathered wood but it didn't work out so well. You can sort of see the cracks in this corner. You can also see some of my stamping here with black archival ink. I wanted to give it a "postage" feel with the rubber stamp.

I then added some ephemera and other tid-bits. The chit chat stickers added the perfect finishing touch to this piece to remember our brave. What is your take on a Masculine project? 

Huge hugz and lots of Happy Crafting this month! Carpe Diem!

~Niki~

I would like to share this project with the following challenges please:

Mixed Media World #3-Vintage

The Artistic Stamper-Summer is on its Way What better way to celebrate summer here in the states than by thanking our brave so close to the 4th! I would rather use this color combo.