Boys Birthday Cards

I have trouble creating masculine cards.  I do not know why, but it is just way easier to come up with cards that have flowers, butterflies, and sparkles on them.  Maybe its because I have A LOT more stamp sets that are more feminine in my collection.  So when it comes to making cards for boys and men it takes me longer to come up with an idea.  I often use Pinterest, when I am stuck or just need some inspiration.  

When autumn rolls around, it means that school is starting, the weather is getting cooler, and it gets dark way earlier.  In the card making part of my life, late summer and autumn means birthday's galore!  Sixteen birthdays fall from mid-August through November!  Many of these birthday's are male birthday's.  I live in a neighborhood, that has kids everywhere!  And of course most of their birthday's are in late summer and autumn.  So this post is for all the male birthday cards during the autumn months.

My Grandpap turned 84 back in July.  So I thought that I would squeeze his card in this post.  My Grandpap LOVES soccer.  He played travel soccer competitively till the age of 50.  

I made a soccer ball card for his birthday.  He loved it.  I used the Stampin Up hexagon embossing folder and paired it with some washi tapes.

Rory turned 8 on August 21st.  I have been seeing lots of cards on Pinterest using a bicycle stamp, that I just love.  I thought this set could be used for either male or female.  I purchased it through a•muse studio.  A•muse studio is a company very similar to Stampin Up.  

To make Rory's Birthday card, I used pattern paper that is from several 6x6 paper pads.  The yellow label is from Stampin Up's Label Love set.  I think it turned out great!  And Rory's mom texted me, how much she and Rory loved the card.  

Cameron turned 8 on September 3rd.  Cameron LOVES Angry Birds.  He has an Angry Birds lunch box, back pack, pencil case, shirts, pencils, erasers...you get it...the kid loves Angry Birds anything!  So I had to make him an Angry Birds birthday card, it seemed to fit!  So I first looked through Pinterest to see if there was a template I could use, but then I found Pink Paper Bakery blog and one of the posts was how to make an Angry Bird using only punches. The post even has step-by-step pictures with detailed measurements, which was very helpful.     I just changed his eye brows because I did not have that particular label punch in my collection, so I improvised with two skinny rectangles.  Below is my Angry Bird.  

In the game of Angry Birds, to complete the levels you have to catapult the birds through the sky to knock down structures and crushing the helmet wearing pigs.  So in order to make the sky, I used the Stampin' Up cloud embossing folder.  

I think this Angry Bird card turned out super cute!!  Can I say cute for a boy's card?  Below is the final card. 

Rory's older brother, Cole turned 10 on September 13th.  Yes, Friday the 13th.  

I made him a bicycle card, similar to his brother's card.  I sprayed the white card with Heidi Swapp's new Color Shine Spray's in Tinsel.  Then I used two patterns of washi tape as a border on the bottom of the card. The bicycle washi tape is from Scotch. The pattern paper is from a 6x6 paper set.  The bicycle is from a•muse studio. (Link is above)  The "let's party" stamp is from { my mind's eye } set Indie Chic .  The red happy birthday banner is from SU and is the Bitty Banners set.